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Download full textBecky Smith – Maine Community College System, 2025
The Maine Community College System provides this letter in accordance with 20-A MRSA §10013. This law requires the Maine Community College System (MCCS), University of Maine System (UMS), and Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) to provide the following information about first-generation college students: (1) Data regarding enrollment of first-generation…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Associate Degrees, Enrollment
Cyrette Saunier; Susan Scrivener; Austin Slaughter; Noor Amanullah; Sukanya Barman; Cynthia Miller; Colleen Sommo; Erick Alonzo, Contributor; Osvaldo Avila, Contributor; Katie Beal, Contributor; Parker Cellura, Contributor; Ben Cohen, Contributor; Stanley Dai, Contributor; Hannah Dalporto, Contributor; Claudia Escobar, Contributor; Colin Hill, Contributor; Marco Lepe, Contributor; Tiffany Morton, Contributor; Rebekah O’Donoghue, Contributor; Vivianna Plancarte, Contributor; Alyssa Ratledge, Contributor; Elena Serna-Wallender, Contributor; Andrea Vasquez, Contributor; Rae Walker, Contributor; Michelle Ware, Contributor; Kayla Warner, Contributor; Melissa Wavelet, Contributor; Michael Weiss, Contributor; Diane Wren, Contributor – MDRC, 2025
Community colleges and broad-access universities (those with minimally selective admissions policies) provide an opportunity for students across the United States to attain postsecondary degrees and achieve economic mobility. However, graduation rates from such colleges are often low and there are many obstacles that can be difficult to…
Descriptors: Intervention, Academic Persistence, Program Development, Costs
Institute for College Access & Success, 2021
TICAS' [The Institute for College Access & Success'] latest fact sheet provides five proven examples of evidence-based college completion programs at four-year public institutions that increase persistence, graduation rates, and student earnings upon graduation for low-income, first-generation, and students of color.
Descriptors: College Programs, Graduation, Evidence Based Practice, Public Colleges
Direct linkWentworth, Matthew T. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study examines whether Superintendent-Principal Partnership Longevity has a relationship with student Annual Graduation Rates in New York State from 2009 to 2018. Previous research has explored the role of individual school leadership longevity (superintendent or principal) on student achievement. Superintendent-Principal Partnership…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Principals, Interprofessional Relationship, Graduation Rate
Ohio Department of Education, 2020
Despite the unprecedented challenges Ohio's education community faced at the end of the 2019-2020 school year, Ohio remains committed to using evidence, data and feedback from the Ohio School Report Cards to guide our continuous improvement journey toward excellence in education. This year, the Ohio School Report Cards will not feature overall…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduation Rate, Graduation Requirements
Peer reviewedHordósy, Rita – Research Papers in Education, 2023
Drawing on a longitudinal research project that followed the undergraduate entrants of 2013 into, and through their university time, this paper provides a novel conceptualisation of transformative transitions via looking at the four dimensions of non-linearity, multiplicity, diversity and structure. To do so, it builds on Archer's (2000, 2003,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Student Experience, Student Adjustment
Carrier, Jonathan W.; Perkins, Mark Andrew; DeDiego, Amanda C. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Community colleges are trending toward a decrease in full-time faculty and an increase in adjunct faculty. Using 2019-2020 IPEDS data from 853 community colleges, researchers explored the relationship between full-time faculty and community college student retention, and combined graduation and transfer rate. Results demonstrated that proportion…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community College Students, Academic Achievement, Adjunct Faculty
Zheng, Yunzheng; Gao, Xingyuan; Shen, Jianping; Johnson, Megan Russell; Y. Krenn, Huilan – NASSP Bulletin, 2023
On-time high school graduation is an important topic in educational research, policy, and practice. However, no comprehensive meta-analyses had been conducted on this topic. The current meta-analysis reviewed 47 articles published from 1985 to April 2022 and aggregated the effect in four dimensions: student background, family support, school…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Educational Environment
Addressing Social Determinants of Mental Health to Improve College Access, Retention, and Completion
Rumbidzai Mushunje; Natese Dockery; Mickey Lin; Kaprea Johnson; Kristen Toole; Sarah Henry; Alexandra Gantt-Howrey – Journal of College Access, 2023
Addressing non-medical factors that adversely impact mental health, wellness, and academic persistence is important to increasing access to college for vulnerable college students. This systematic review synthesized 63 articles on interventions to address college student SDOMH challenges. Researchers found that SDOMH themes were addressed in…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Access to Education, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence
Jillian Noel Morn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation measures and describes the factors that impact doctoral student persistence. Using a mixed methods cases study design, I analyzed institutional student record data, survey data on caregiving responsibilities, and data from semi-structured interviews with PhD students at a STEM-focused, public research university in the American…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate, Student Responsibility
Angie Reay – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study evaluated the relationship between female sophomore students' participation in campus recreational sports, retention at the university, and graduation rates. The purpose is to identify the potential influence of participation in recreational activities on persistence toward graduation. Alexander Astin's Theory of Student Involvement and…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Physical Recreation Programs, School Holding Power
Caitlyn A. Bukaty; Clare Papay – Institute for Community Inclusion, 2023
Completing a program of study and earning a credential is a mark of student perseverance and success. Student completion rates can tell us how well colleges and universities support students in completing an educational program. A research study by the US Department of Education reported students who completed non-degree certificate programs had…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Postsecondary Education, Students with Disabilities
Barbara Harmon-Francis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
For decades, universities, colleges, researchers, policymakers, foundations, and think tanks have been trying to solve the issue of getting more students to persist to graduation. Research shows that the problem of increasing the number of students who graduate in four years with a college degree still exists. Black female students continue to…
Descriptors: Graduation, African American Students, Females, Academic Persistence
McManus, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Military students face many challenges in the transition from military life to higher education. From psychological, mental health issues, career changes, and difficulties interacting and building relationships, many obstacles can delay or stop a military student's path to degree attainment. This study sought to determine if military students are…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Military Personnel, Academic Achievement, Veterans
Rausch, Philip D. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem at the southeastern university study site is that adult nontraditional learners taking classes on campus are graduating at a low rate, which may indicate a lack of needed support services. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore the learning support needs of adult nontraditional learners and institutional support…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Nontraditional Students, College Students, Graduation Rate
