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Olszewski, Carol A.; Znamenak, Kyle A.; Paoletta, Toni M.; Hansman, Catherine A.; Selker, Matthew L.; Coffman, Karie A.; Pontikos, Keli B. – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2020
The purpose of this research study was to explore how a multigenerational community of practice (CoP) at a public urban university may provide doctoral students the space and the support needed to explore and develop their professional identities and find their scholarly voices. The second aim of this study was to examine how the entity of the CoP…
Descriptors: Program Development, Doctoral Programs, Communities of Practice, Urban Universities
Borden, Victor M. H. – 1994
A market segmentation analysis was conducted on students at a large midwestern urban university using two forms of hierarchical cluster analysis on student characteristics: an agglomerative procedure using a matching-type association measure and a divisive chi-square based automatic interaction detection (CHAID) procedure. Data were extracted from…
Descriptors: Chi Square, Cluster Analysis, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Thompson, Carol Lynn – 1998
At the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR), an urban university, students drop out of college on a regular basis. Developing a community of linked courses appears to be an effective way of reaching the university's goal of helping students stay in school past the critical first semester when many of them tend to leave. Seeking to help…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Freshmen, Educational Planning, Evaluation Methods
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. Urban College and University Network. – 1980
In this newsletter focusing on helping college students succeed, an introductory essay by David Shroyer examines experiences with developmental studies at the University of New Orleans and issues in serving underprepared students, especially problems of attitude on campus. Suggestions for success include: an informal support network, a team…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, College Environment, Compensatory Education