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Louis L. Cook – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation examined factors affecting the college choice of African American male undergraduate students at two private liberal arts colleges in the South. The study explored African American male undergraduate students experiences, perceptions, and attitudes toward the college selection process, using Hossler and Gallagher (1987) College…
Descriptors: African Americans, Undergraduate Students, Males, Student Attitudes
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Teranda Donatto – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: Research shows that family is influential to African Americans in college choice (Chapman "et al.," 2018; Chapman "et al.," 2020; Freeman, 2005; Hines "et al.," 2019; Lowry, 2017; Williams, 2018). However, it often overlooks unique, African-rooted characteristics of African American families and culture. This…
Descriptors: African American Students, Family Influence, Cultural Influences, College Choice
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Nicole R. Bernsen; Mindy S. Crandall; Jessica E. Leahy; Catharine Biddle – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022
Rural communities in forested regions across the United States are in the midst of a transformation driven by a complex mixture of economic, policy, and demographic dynamics. This research examines, through survey results, rural youth educational aspirations in two forest- dependent regions and the role that perceptions of the local school,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Community Influence, Environmental Influences, Rural Areas
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Holliday, Chrissy; Anderson, Sharon – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2022
Enrollment practitioners can learn important lessons from first-generation students who successfully navigated the path to college, lessons that enable them to tailor outreach efforts to this important population. A study by one of the authors (Holliday 2020) explored the identity of first-generation students as the deciders, or the primary…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Experience, College Enrollment, Decision Making
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Turner, Krystle – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2020
This article focuses on rural Australian students' decisions to pursue higher education, and compares metropolitan and rural higher education statistics, using select qualitative narratives to highlight rural subjectivities. By analysing school students' belonging process, this article begins to uncover the depth of the perceived influence of the…
Descriptors: Community Influence, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Decision Making