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Veronica Minaya; Judith Scott-Clayton; Rachel Yang Zhou – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Graduate education is among the fastest growing segments of the U.S. higher educational system. This paper estimates the returns to Master's degrees and examines heterogeneity in the returns by field area, student demographics and initial labor market conditions. We use rich administrative data from Ohio and an individual fixed effects model that…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Outcomes of Education, Income, Salaries
Yoon, So Yoon; Aldridge, Julie L.; Cox, Monica F.; Main, Joyce B.; McGee, Ebony Omotola; Hailu, Meseret F. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Gender disparities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty composition remain a major issue in U.S. higher education. Specifically, the underrepresentation of women of color has been described as a crisis. We developed the Workplace Climate and Persistence Scale (WCPS) for STEM faculty to assess departmental-level…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Work Environment, Teacher Persistence
David A. Cotter; Catherine White Berheide; Megan A. Carpenter – Research in Higher Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic initially placed college and university instruction into an emergency remote mode. The subsequent periods of the pandemic presented new challenges. This paper examines changes in faculty work lives in the immediate aftermath of the onset of the pandemic and reports on results from surveys of faculty at three selective liberal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Stress Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics
Lecy, Natalie; Osteen, Philip – Research in Higher Education, 2022
This study uses the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine the effect of childhood trauma experiences on college graduation rates. A longitudinal mediation path analysis with a binary logistic regression is performed using trauma as a mediator between race, gender, first-generation status and college completion. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Trauma, Child Development, Experience
Elizabeth S. Park; Mike Wilton; Stanley M. Lo; Natascha Buswell; Nicole A. Suarez; Brian K. Sato – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Studies indicate that racial disparities in STEM achievement or equity grade gaps are associated with faculty fixed mindset beliefs; however, whether specific instructional beliefs are linked to student academic achievement remains unclear. We surveyed 216 STEM faculty to assess their mindset and instructional beliefs and linked these to detailed…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Achievement Gap
Bahr, Peter Riley; McNaughtan, Jon; Jackson, Grant R. – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Community colleges serve nearly half of all undergraduates, including a disproportionate share of African American and Hispanic students, and are a key point of access to higher education for students who face socioeconomic disadvantages or other obstacles to participation in higher education. Community colleges stand to play a pivotal role in…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, STEM Education, Academic Persistence
Hu, Xinye; Hu, Shouping – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Developmental education (DE) reform took place among the 28 Florida College System (FCS) institutions in 2014. In this study, we examine how cohort-based passing rates in college-level English and math courses changed at different colleges for pre- and post-policy period and explore what institutional characteristics were related with various…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Developmental Studies Programs, Educational Change, State Legislation
Vandelannote, Isis; Demanet, Jannick – Research in Higher Education, 2021
This study investigates whether the ethnic and socioeconomic composition of the secondary school affect higher education enrollment and program choice (non-university higher education or university) in an educational system using a separation model. School-wide social capital is investigated as an underlying mechanism to explain how school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Institutional Characteristics, Social Capital, Enrollment
Lingo, Mitchell D.; Chen, Wei-Lin – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Using the Wabash National Study on Liberal Arts Education and a latent class analysis of 28 outside-the-classroom activities and behaviors, we developed a typology of outside-the-classroom student engagement during the first year of college. We find ten classes of student involvement: academic artist, party athlete, serious athlete, conventional…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Participation, Extracurricular Activities, Recreational Activities
Chan, Roy Y. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Credit momentum policies, or performance-based financial aid policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers seeking to improve degree completion rates. This paper examines Indiana's 30-credit-hour completion policy on first-time, full-time students who receive the Twenty-First Century Scholars (TFCS) Promise Program. Using…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, State Policy, College Credits, College Students
Wofford, Annie M. – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Given the significant need to increase and diversify graduate enrollments within computing fields, it is vital to understand what shapes students' pathways to computing graduate school. This study examines the predictors of undergraduate students' self-confidence in being admitted to computing graduate school among students who enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Computer Science Education, Predictor Variables, Structural Equation Models
Holzman, Brian; Klasik, Daniel; Baker, Rachel – Research in Higher Education, 2020
A large literature in higher education research has focused on disparities in rates of successful completion of the various steps along the path that leads to college enrollment (e.g. completing a college preparatory curriculum, taking the SAT or ACT, applying to a college) as an important source of inequitable college attainment between groups of…
Descriptors: College Admission, Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Longitudinal Studies
Park, Julie J.; Kim, Young K.; Lue, Kristyn; Parikh, Roshan M. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
We examined key influences on STEM college seniors' postgraduate plans. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen we utilized multilevel modeling to identify variables associated with planning to pursue a STEM-related job or STEM graduate study after graduation. Key findings emphasize the importance of volunteering and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Seniors, Planning, Occupational Aspiration
Durodoye, Raifu; Gumpertz, Marcia; Wilson, Alyson; Griffith, Emily; Ahmad, Seher – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Inclusion and diversity are highly visible priorities at many colleges and universities. Efforts to diversify the professoriate have necessitated a better understanding of career outcomes for current female faculty and faculty of color. We measure risk of leaving without tenure and years to promotion from associate to full professor at four large…
Descriptors: Tenure, Faculty Promotion, Land Grant Universities, Gender Differences
Denner, Jill; Potter, Susan; Anderson, Pamela; Torres, David – Research in Higher Education, 2023
There is persistent underrepresentation of female and ethnic and racial minority students in computing. While community colleges provide a unique opportunity to increase diversity in computing fields, many students do not persist. This study aims to understand the factors that predict students' momentum--completion of a certificate, degree, or…
Descriptors: Disproportionate Representation, Females, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences