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Kelly Lack; Hannah Acheson-Field – Research in Higher Education, 2025
Many students who enter college do not finish, reflecting numerous academic, financial, and social barriers to postsecondary completion. Success Boston Coaching (SBC) provides students in the Greater Boston area with coaching during their first 2 years of college to help them overcome barriers to postsecondary completion and connect them to…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), College Students, Graduation, Graduation Rate
Jon Hatzfeld; Angela M. Kelly; Robert Krakehl – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
This cross-sectional, observational study examined how school-level academic performance and enrollment in the physical sciences (Earth science, chemistry, and physics) mediate the predictive value of socioeconomic status on graduation rate in U.S. high schools. Data were collected from N = 555 schools (475,539 students) that reported enrollment…
Descriptors: Physical Sciences, Enrollment, Science Achievement, Poverty
Elizabeth Glennie; Ben Dalton; Roger Studley; Erich Lauff – Educational Policy, 2025
Dropping out of high school creates barriers to economic self-sufficiency. Career and technical education (CTE) may help students engage with school by showing the connection between school and work. Prior research has shown that high school CTE participation promotes positive academic outcomes including high school graduation. This paper uses a…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Certification, High School Students, Graduation
John M. Krieg; Darius D. Martin; Adam C. Wright – Education Economics, 2024
We combine administrative data from a regional public university with a novel revealed-preference indicator of student friendships to show that socially connected first-year university students are more likely to be retained into their second year. The impact of friends on retention is statistically and economically significant: each friend raises…
Descriptors: Friendship, College Freshmen, School Holding Power, Graduation Rate
Derick Uriel Montano Soto – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study investigated the perspectives of university students who self-identified as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) regarding the academic support systems they received and/or required to graduate on time. The study's primary objective was to discover support mechanisms that supported DACA recipients…
Descriptors: College Students, Undocumented Immigrants, Identification, Student Attitudes
Robin Clausen – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2024
Policy research established that it is possible to predict a student will drop out of school based on academic, attendance, behavior indicators. Little is known about the processes that put Early Warning Systems (EWS) in place. This case study of the Montana EWS describes the characteristics of a statewide implementation, the efficiency of the EWS…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, High School Students, Graduation, Graduation Rate
Stacia Dillin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High school graduation represents a pivotal milestone with far-reaching implications for an individual's future in social, economic, professional, and personal spheres. Despite its significance, only approximately 85.5% of students in the United States successfully earn their diploma each year, with groups such as black, Hispanic, American…
Descriptors: School Choice, High School Students, Graduation, Public Schools
Matthew P. Ison – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2024
The rising cost of higher education has led to increased tuition costs for students and their families, forcing more students to secure larger amounts of debt to finance their educational pursuits. Although scholars have explored how student loan debt accumulation influences higher education persistence and graduation, an unexplored area of higher…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Tuition, Debt (Financial), Educational Finance
Peter Riley Bahr; Claire A. Boeck; Yiran Chen; Paula Clasing-Manquian – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Do older community college students build momentum toward graduation differently than their younger peers? One-third of students in community colleges are 25 years of age or older, and these students tend to have lower rates of graduation than their younger peers. Yet, we know little about how the factors that influence college graduation differ…
Descriptors: Age, Gender Differences, Differences, Time to Degree
Kelly B. Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this non-experimental, correlational quantitative study was to compare the graduation rates of first-time, full-time students with disabilities to those of first-time, full-time students in the general population at the participating university. The sample used for analysis was full-time, first-time students entering between 2015…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Students with Disabilities, Full Time Students, Gender Differences
Mirta Rodriguez-Chavez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the growing population of Latina/o students in the United States, those who are entering college are not graduating at the same rate as their white counterparts. The six-year Hispanic student graduation rate was 8% lower than that of white students (U.S. Census Bureau, 2020). The Latina/o educational attainment gap still exists and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Graduation Rate, Religion, Religious Factors
Joan Sotero Alvarez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There has been a notable increase in the number of first-generation students pursuing a college degree. However, there is a mismatch between the number of first-generation students entering college and the number of them continuing their mission through college. Given the college completion disparity for first-generation students, it is essential…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, Learner Engagement
Jan Amcoff; Andreas Alm Fjellborg; Neil Sang; Erik Skarback; Helena Lundin Kleberg – Educational Planning, 2025
People's quality of life and opportunities for activity are influenced by their surrounding environments. A substantial body of literature on the positive effects of nature and greenery has emerged during the last 50 years. Additional research has focused on other types of environmental qualities. While some Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Environment, Environmental Influences
Matthew J. Capaldi – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
This study explores the association between having a transit stop within walking distance of campus and Pell Grant recipient completion rates at US commuter institutions, using a novel dataset on transit stop locations and institutional level data. The findings indicate that there is a positive association between transit access and Pell…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Proximity, Commuter Colleges
Julie Eberhard Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the effect a computer intervention program has on student proficiency in the Algebra 1 End of Course (EOC) examination. This study utilized the intervention math program IXL Math, a computerized program that targets individual students' skill practice and supports students' need to accelerate mastery of Algebra 1 skills in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Intervention