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LaSondra Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This research study, which was conducted at a large, urban research institution in the Midwestern region of the United States, explored the influence of faculty support on first-time master's student satisfaction in graduate school. Alexander Astin's (1993) Inputs, Environment, Outputs (I-E-O) Model was used to guide the study. Data were collected…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
Gilstrap, Donald L. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
This article presents research on persistence among at-risk students using network analysis following multiple linear regression (MLR). Data on a population of enrolled undergraduate students at an urban-serving university over several years (P = 35,239) is tested using multiple linear regression. Variables interacting at different dimensions of…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Academic Persistence, Enrollment Management, Undergraduate Students
Barker, Sandra B.; Schubert, Christine M.; Barker, Randolph T.; Kuo, Sally I-Chun; Kendler, Kenneth S.; Dick, Danielle M. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
Internalizing symptoms are prevalent in students as they enter and complete college. Considering research suggesting mental health benefits of pet ownership, this study explores the relationship between pet ownership, social support (SS), and internalizing symptoms (IS) in a cohort of students across their 4-year college experience. With no…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Animals, Undergraduate Students, Gender Differences
Namrata Murthy – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Demand is high for engineering students and educators must identify factors affecting persistence and graduation of engineers. Retention and graduation rates remain problematic for many institutions. Higher education research focuses on these two issues as many students head to engineering programs with a wide range of attributes, characteristics,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Predictor Variables, Engineering Education
Drivers of Engagement in Professional Development Activity: A Study of Undergraduate Business Majors
Snell, Corinne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Since college and university students typically vary in their utilization of student services and resources, the variance in undergraduate business student engagement levels in professional development activity was explored by this quantitative study. Professional development is defined as career-related preparation of students for entry into the…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Majors (Students), Business Administration Education, Professional Development
Synco, Tracee M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Tinto, Astin and countless others have researched the retention and attrition of students from college for more than thirty years. However, the six year graduation rate for all first-time full-time freshmen for the 2002 cohort was 57%. This study sought to determine the retention variables that predicted continued enrollment of entering freshmen…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, School Holding Power, Grade Point Average, Supplementary Education
Broughton, Valerie J. – 1986
The relationship between community college transfer students' experiences at an urban, doctoral-granting commuter university and their enrollment intentions was studied using Bean and Metzner's conceptual model of attrition for nontraditional students. Of 300 community college transfer students at a state-supported urban university who were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Transfer Students, Commuter Colleges
Greene, James E.; And Others – 1982
Factors contributing to the academic persistence of college students and those factors that may be amenable to institutional control were studied in 1980 at Georgia State University. The academic career of 4,481 students was studied for a 5-quarter period at this nonresidential, urban university. Multiple regression and multiple discriminant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Students, Commuter Colleges
Brewton, Deborah L.; Hurst, Emily E. – 1984
Academic persistence at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB) was studied from fall 1979 through spring 1983. Attention was directed to the school's graduation rate and correlations between sex, race, major, grade point average (GPA) and persistence. Of the 1,043 students who were beginning freshmen in 1979, the study sample consisted of…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Graduates, College Students, Dropout Research