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Ben-Michael, Eli; Feller, Avi; Rothstein, Jesse – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
In a pilot program during the 2016-17 admissions cycle, the University of California, Berkeley invited many applicants for freshman admission to submit letters of recommendation. This proved controversial within the university, with concerns that this change would further disadvantage applicants from disadvantaged groups. To inform this debate, we…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Letters (Correspondence), Disadvantaged Youth
Noemí Katzkowicz; Victor Lavy; Martina Querejeta; Tatiana Rosá – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Poor post-secondary education infrastructure and opportunities partly explain the low higher education rates in developing countries. This paper estimates the effect of a program that improved post-secondary education infrastructure by building many university campuses across Uruguay. Leveraging temporal and geographic variation in program…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Postsecondary Education, Access to Education, Proximity
Annie Everett; Kelly Rosinger; Dominique J. Baker; Hyung-Jung Kim; Robert Kelchen; Justin C. Ortagus – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Administrative burden, or the frictions individuals experience in accessing public programs, has implications for whether and which eligible individuals receive aid. While prior research documents barriers to accessing federal financial aid, less is known about the extent to which state aid programs impose administrative burden, how administrative…
Descriptors: Financial Aid Applicants, Tuition, Federal Programs, Technical Education
Çimen, Ismail – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
It is widely accepted that effective teachers can make the most significant difference to student learning, particularly for disadvantaged students. On the other hand, teacher education has a critical role in effective teaching. However, can preservice education in Turkey sustain its role in social justice, especially for disadvantaged students?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Role of Education, Social Justice
Karen Lux Gaudreault; Denis Schulz; Victoria N. Shiver; Theresa Allgaier – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Grounded in occupational socialization theory, the purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of mentoring underserved youth on the socialization of preservice teachers within a community-engaged after-school program. Methods: Data consisted of semistructured interviews, critical incident accounts, and field notes. All…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Persons, Socialization, Preservice Teachers
Adria Steinberg – Jobs for the Future, 2023
This brief shares learnings from the community of Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) organizations and partners as they continue to deepen their practices to enhance the positive impact and durability of programming while also scaling to reach greater numbers of young people in similar situations. After a brief description of the national…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, Guided Pathways, Disadvantaged Youth
Stephanie Ivey; James T. Campbell; Aaron Robinson; Craig O. Stewart; David Russomanno; Karen Alfrey; Jeffrey Watt; Tony Chase; Maryam Darbeheshti; Miriam Howland Cummings; Katherine Goodman – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2023
The?"Urban STEM Collaboratory" is a five-year project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that addresses challenges to student success in STEM disciplines through a multi-institutional collaboration via?the?University of Memphis (UofM), University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver), and Indiana University-Purdue University…
Descriptors: College Students, Economically Disadvantaged, STEM Education, Urban Schools
Jennifer Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Positive mentoring experiences are crucial for retaining and advancing those who hold marginalized identities in STEM, as they foster a greater sense of belonging and self-efficacy that encourage these students to persist in their fields. Marginalized identities in STEM include, but are not limited to, women, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Doctoral Students, Engineering Education, Females
Dawn Reid – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advocates for marginalized students have worked to understand the equity implications of public policy and its application on educational performance gaps. This study investigated equity policies in a southern California community college intervention program: the Extended Opportunity Programs and Services (EOPS). EOPS is an equity program created…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Tim Barshinger – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The Keystone Education Yields Success (KEYS) program is a welfare-to-work program in Pennsylvania meant to promote financial independence through education. Across the community colleges in the state of Pennsylvania, the KEYS program has often allowed financially disadvantaged students to succeed on par with - and often surpass - their non-KEYS…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged, Program Effectiveness, Student Attitudes
Deus, Newsoul – College and University, 2023
This article looks at the effects of culture on the success of disadvantaged students in higher education, and in turn, the success or effectiveness of college bridge programs. McBay (1995) contends that there is no program that completely addresses the needs of disadvantaged students, but there are lessons to be learned. With this in mind, one…
Descriptors: Integrity, College Programs, Transitional Programs, Program Effectiveness
Sherri Martinie; Tuan Nguyen; Tegan Nusser; Craig Spencer; Rekha Natarajan – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2023
One potential avenue to address the STEM teacher shortages reported internationally is to offer scholarships paired with targeted preparation experiences for high-performing STEM majors and professionals to become K-12 teachers. In the study reported in this paper, the influence of the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program on the recruitment…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Mathematics Teachers, Scholarships
Davis, Charmaine; Green, Jonathan H. – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
For efficient and effective learning, intensive-mode programs have increasingly focused on threshold concepts -- transformative, often-troublesome, moments in learning that represent the development of key knowledge. Threshold concept theory has support in the context of content-based, disciplinary domains, but questions remain about its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Disadvantaged
Gwendolyn R. Svenson; Olivia Arnold; Patricia Vigil; Naomi Nishi; Christianne Magee – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
The Veterinary Perspectives Institute (VPI) was designed to address the challenges faced by underrepresented youth who are interested in veterinary medicine. This study examines the VPI, a tuition-free program that introduces students from under-resourced high schools to veterinary medicine and One Health through a hands-on, transdisciplinary…
Descriptors: High School Students, Disadvantaged, Veterinary Medicine, Biomedicine
Lisa Baines; Debbie Gooch; Terry Ng-Knight – Educational Review, 2024
University participation gaps between free school meals (FSM) and non-FSM students have remained largely stable in the UK since 2006. The efficacy of UK widening participation (WP) interventions in changing attitudes towards university and increasing participation of disadvantaged students is uncertain. Some approaches have shown to be effective…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Student Participation