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Ghazzawi, Dina; Pattison, Donna Lynn; Horn, Catherine; Hardy, John; Brown, Beverly – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study examines the impact of participation in a STEM Enrichment Summer Bridge Program, funded by the NSF Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, on undergraduate student success outcomes, particularly for under-represented students. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses propensity score matching and logistic…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, STEM Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Disproportionate Representation
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Seary, Karen; Smith, Alice; Toth, Gabriela; Flanders, Margaret – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
The development of a student identity as it relates to the transition of commencing students to higher education has long been identified in the literature as essential to success. As importantly, the existence of a sense of belonging has been considered key to transition and success and the formation of a student identity. Less prominent in the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Disproportionate Representation
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P. Abena Anyidoho; Dorinda J. Gallant – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2025
Benefits of summer bridge and early arrival experiences include the academic and social integration of incoming first-year students into their chosen institutions. The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic created opportunities to re-imagine delivery of activities and engagement of incoming first-year students in summer bridge and early…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, STEM Education, Minority Group Students
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Lyon, Louise Ann; Schatz, Colin; Toyama, Yukie; Torres, David – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
As open-access institutions serving diverse student populations, community colleges are perfect settings for broadening participation in computing efforts in higher education. The very nature of open access, however, places students with a wide variety of previous experience in the same introductory computer science classroom, intimidating the…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Programming, Novices, Computer Science Education
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Anneka Anderson; Elana Curtis; Melaney Tkatch; Belinda Loring; Sue Reddy; Kanewa Stokes; Wills Nepia; Tracey Winter; Papaarangi Reid – Discover Education, 2024
Hikitia te Ora (Certificate in Health Sciences) is a 1 year Indigenous bridging foundation programme at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The programme aims to increase Maori and Pacific health workforce representation. This qualitative study applied a Kaupapa Maori positioning to elucidate the strengths, challenges, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Secondary School Students
Kelly Lack; Hannah Acheson-Field; Tamara Linkow; Raquel Gonzalez – Abt Associates, 2023
Starting with the high school graduating Class of 2009, Success Boston has provided transition coaching to Boston Public Schools (BPS) high school graduates, many of whom are from groups traditionally underrepresented in college. In the first few years of Success Boston Coaching (SBC), the program served approximately 300 students per year. In…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Postsecondary Education
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Lane, Tonisha B.; Morgan, Kali; Lopez, Megan M. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2020
Underserved students express a high interest in earning a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) degree. However, their ACT benchmark indicators tend to be much lower than their peers, especially for students who report more than one underserved attribute. There are a number of STEM intervention programs (SIPs) that are designed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, College Readiness
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Hermann, John R.; Tynes, Sheryl; Apfel, Wendy – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2020
Recognizing the changing demographics of students applying to college coupled with Trinity University's responsibility to help our students succeed, we have created a Summer Bridge program that focuses on first-generation, underrepresented students (FGUS). Trinity's Summer Bridge program has been a success--both in terms of student performance and…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Transitional Programs, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen
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Preuss, Michael D.; Merriweather, Samuel P.; Walton, Shannon D.; Butler-Purry, Karen L. – International Journal of Technology in Education and Science, 2020
The Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) project in 1991 as one of the six initial awardees. As part of these efforts and upon reaching eligibility, the TAMUS LSAMP applied for and received additional funding to support a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Doctoral Programs, Minority Group Students, Student Participation
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Kitchen, Joseph Allen; Cole, Darnell; Rivera, Gwendelyn; Hallett, Ronald – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2021
This study proposes an empirically grounded, non-deficit oriented, college transition program proactive advising model, called "mid-semester grade checks," to promote academic self-efficacy among first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minoritized students. The grade checks model was developed based on data comprised of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Transitional Programs, Academic Advising, Intervention
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Mbano, Nellie; Nolan, Kathleen – Science Education International, 2017
In Malawi, in spite of a number of gender equity policies and initiatives that encourage females to pursue careers within the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), research indicates that they are under-represented in these fields. One initiative recommended to address the factors contributing to this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Females, Womens Education
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2020
"Success Boston Coaching" is a coaching intervention for students who are traditionally underrepresented in college to help them transition from high school to college and progress in college. Students are paired with a dedicated coach starting as early as the spring of their senior year of high school and receive coaching through their…
Descriptors: Intervention, Coaching (Performance), At Risk Students, Transitional Programs
Linkow, Tamara; Bumgarner, Erin; Lack, Kelly; Nichols, Austin – Abt Associates, 2019
The Success Boston initiative was launched in 2008 specifically to improve Boston public high school graduates' access to and success in college, particularly for members of groups traditionally underrepresented in college degree attainment. Higher college graduation rates, in turn, are expected to increase students' access to employment in such…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Effectiveness, Student Participation, Partnerships in Education
Tamara Linkow; Erin Bumgarner; Hayley Didriksen; Kelly Lack; Austin Nichols; Emily Dastrup; Samuel Dastrup; Beth Gamse – Abt Associates, 2019
Access to middle class jobs increasingly requires a college degree or credential. Individuals with postsecondary education have competitive advantage in the labor market: even when a job does not explicitly require a degree, a candidate with a degree will tend to be hired over an equally qualified candidate without one. Low-income students, in…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Effectiveness, Student Participation, Partnerships in Education
Tamara Linkow; Hayley Didriksen; Beth Gamse; Erin Bumgarner; Melissa Velez; Samuel Dastrup; Sarah Ballinger; Samantha Burke; Michael Meneses; R. J. de la Cruz – Abt Associates, 2017
This report represents the first of three that will be released over the course of the study. It answers two primary questions: (1) How has Boston Coaching for Completion (BosC4C) been implemented? and (2) What was the cost to implement the program? Over the 2015-16 academic year, the study collected data, including by conducting intensive…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Program Effectiveness, Interviews, Online Surveys
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