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Dynarski, Susan; Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; Scott-Clayton, Judith – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
Non-financial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic, racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic literature documents policy efforts to understand and address these barriers. We review this literature on non-financial interventions for improving college access and success…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Barriers, Access to Education, Intervention
Brian P. Hurley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study is to assess whether there is a relationship between neighborhood inequality in which underrepresented minorities (URMs) with STEM degrees reside and their employment in STEM fields. The current study deploys an Intersectional Theory (IT) research framework and Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to identify the influence of…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Minority Groups, STEM Education, Academic Degrees
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Joya Misra; Ethel L. Mickey; Ember Skye Kanelee; Laurel Smith-Doerr – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Climate studies that measure equity and inclusion among faculty reveal widespread gender and race disparities in higher education. The chilly departmental climate that women and faculty of color experience is typically measured through university-wide surveys. Although inclusion plays out at the department level, research rarely focuses on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Departments, STEM Education, Educational Environment
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Frye, Joanna R.; Fulton, Amy P. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2020
This chapter presents a descriptive analysis of the growth of managerial and professional staff from Fall 1993 to Fall 2011 across institution types and sectors, and a detailed snapshot of the demographic composition of these staff in Fall 2016. Our results indicate tremendous growth in the population of non-faculty staff over time, and reveal key…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Personnel, Administrators, Professional Personnel
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2022
In one of the most diverse states in the nation, it is not surprising that public college students in California are incredibly diverse--71% of the student body is racially/ethnically diverse, with nearly half (45%) of students identifying as Latinx and only about one in four (23%) identifying as white. Unfortunately, that diverse representation…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Higher Education, Governing Boards, Racial Differences
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LaTanya L. Dixon; Suzanne M. Dugger; Hsien-Yuan Hsu – Educational Forum, 2024
This study employed design-based logistic regression to examine the extent to which attending a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) magnet high school, school demographics, and student-level factors explain a student's intent to declare a STEM major in the first semester of college. The results show only student-level factors…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, High School Students, Intention, Majors (Students)
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Moira Ozias; Z. Nicolazzo – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2025
Gender is gaining more attention as a category of analysis in educational scholarship; however, much misunderstanding of gender remains, especially in how sex and gender are often treated as synonymous analytics. Additionally, gender and race are often treated as wholly separate despite their ongoing entwined epistemic and ontological genealogies.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Whites, Racial Attitudes, Racial Differences
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Richardson, John T. E.; Mittelmeier, Jenna; Rienties, Bart – Oxford Review of Education, 2020
A literature review published in 2008 outlined known relationships between gender, ethnicity, and academic attainment in UK higher education. In the period since this publication, many changes to the higher education sector have occurred, including raising tuition fees, an increased focus on widening participation, and an increasing interest in…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Social Class, Ethnicity, Educational Attainment
Rebecca Montacute; Carl Cullinane – Sutton Trust, 2023
This report looks at trends since 1997, uniquely combining several data sources to give the most comprehensive view available on how patterns in access to higher education have changed in the years between 1997 and 2022. A major study of higher education trends over the past 25 years reveals persistent access gaps for disadvantaged students,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Trend Analysis, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Goastellec, Gaële – European Journal of Education, 2022
The massification of higher education has been an important development across education systems in Europe over the second half of the 20th century. Nurtured by political, economic and social goals, including the improvement of social justice in education and beyond, massification has been associated with inclusion as a goal of higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, European History, Access to Education
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Direito, Inês; Chance, Shannon; Malik, Manish – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Research on the role of grit -- defined as both perseverance and passion for long-term goals -- on human performance has been conducted for the past decade. It has been suggested that this non-cognitive factor is a better predictor of students' retention than traditional academic measures. These findings hold relevance for engineering education…
Descriptors: Persistence, Engineering Education, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
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McNamee, Chase D.; Drezner, Noah D. – Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Institutions of higher education are relying on philanthropy and fundraising at a greater level than ever before seen. This increased focus has led scholars to investigate various predictors regarding which alumni are likely to give and which are likely to give the most. To date, however, scholars have not yet examined the role of timing and when…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Alumni, Donors, Higher Education
Carey Schroyer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Low persistence and high attrition rates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are major challenges in higher education, particularly among underrepresented students. Therefore, it is important to identify barriers and examine strategies aimed at improving persistence, retention, and student completion in STEM courses and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Higher Education, Barriers, Academic Persistence
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Lavigne, Eric – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This article reports on a study of 384 decanal appointments and reappointments and examines Canadian university deans' demographics and career paths. The study focused on four variables: gender, race, experience, and provenance; and analyzed variations across faculty and university types. The findings show that the great majority of Canadian…
Descriptors: Deans, Administrator Characteristics, Career Development, Gender Differences
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Joseph R. Cimpian; Jo R. King – Grantee Submission, 2024
Men significantly outnumber women in physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) majors, with a recent male-to-female ratio of approximately 4:1, a stark contrast to the near parity in other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines (1). This gender disparity in PECS carries wide-reaching implications for equity,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Physics, Engineering Education, Computer Science Education
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