In an effort to challenge the dominant discourses of college access and highlight nondominant discourses of college access such as geographic racism and segregation, I employ a Critical Geographic College Access (CGCA) framework. This framework consists of critical geographic theories such as power-geometry and spatial mismatch. Using Geographic…

Students commonly hold erroneous notions of a "post-racial" world and individualistic worldviews that discount the role of structure in social outcomes. Jointly, these two preconceived beliefs can be powerful barriers to effective teaching of racial segregation: Students may be skeptical that racial segregation continues to exist, and…

This article explores the changing attitudes towards student accommodation in higher education in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War. In the first part of this period there was a firm assumption, in universities and teacher training colleges, that the accommodation of students in or close to their university or college,…

Worrisome trends in achievement have been identified for students of color in high minority, high poverty (HMHP) high schools, as they are less likely to attend college and encounter greater challenges in accessing higher education than peers in wealthier schools. To address this inequity, this article presents descriptions of how these school…

This report was prepared to provide a comprehensive summary of permanent residence and place of class attendance statistics for calendar year 1998 for Nova Southeastern University, Florida. Data were gained from the Universitys Student Information System. In 1998, 73% of all students were permanent residents of Florida, and 42% were permanent…

This document presents the results of a survey designed to determine the living arrangements of college students in 1971. The 1971 data are compared with data elicited by a similar survey in 1966, and some comparisons are made with 1958 data. Highlights of the survey findings include: (1) College students were fairly evenly divided in their living…

The Maryland Higher Education Commission has prepared a set of reports containing information about Maryland colleges and universities attended by residents of the state. There are separate reports for the entire state and for each of the 12 "service delivery" areas (counties or groups of counties). This report contains data for the…

This study was designed to discover the attitudes that distinguish apartment-dwelling students from dormitory residents at Indiana University. The study appears to support the following conclusions. Apartment dwellers see independence as a major factor in their choice of residence. They also believe that apartments are more convenient than…

Studied the effects of a university education on people's choice of residence in Iceland using data from a variety of official sources and interviews with 20 graduates in nursing and business administration from 2 universities. Results show that a university education influences various aspects of regional settlement, including choice of place and…

Two graduate follow-up studies were analyzed for factors predicting likelihood that a graduate would stay in-state or migrate out-of-state. Slightly more than half of the bachelor's degree recipients from the class of 1993-1994 were included in the first sample, and responses were received from 522 graduates. In the second survey, 717 graduates…

Whether information technology (IT) graduates of Illinois colleges exit the state in greater percentages than do other graduates was studied using data from alumni surveys conducted by the public 4-year colleges and universities in Illinois. Data were added from a survey of 575 IT seniors in the 2000-2001 class. Survey data do suggest that IT…

The Situational Attitude Scale - Commuters (SAS-C) was employed to measure attitudes of student affairs professionals toward commuting students at the University of Maryland, College Park. Two forms of the SAS-C were randomly assigned. Both contained the same 10 situations and bipolar responses, except a term equivalent to…

This report uses data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study (B&B) to describe the residence and migration patterns of students who earned their baccalaureate degree in the 1992-1993 academic year. These students were interviewed in 1993 and again in 1994 and 1997. States were identified by level of attraction, with high…

Institutional research on enrollment at New Mexico State University looks at enrollment status, geographic origin, legal residence, minority background, and level of students. Data is submitted by each institution to the Board of Educational Finance each fall. The statistics are taken from summary data. (Author/KE)

This report presents the results of the annual survey of the geographic origins or permanent residences of all credit course students attending institutions of the State University of New York during the fall 1972 term. The tables of this report are formated to provide geographic origin information on numbers of graduate and undergraduate students…