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Download full textIllinois Community College Board, 2018
Community colleges report opening Spring term enrollment figures to the Illinois Community College Board using a brief web based survey. These figures reflect student enrollments as of the end of registration for the Spring 2016 semester B usually the 10th day of the term. Overall, compared to the same term one year ago, statewide Spring 2016…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment, Full Time Students, Two Year College Students
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Direct linkAndreas Hartung; Katarina Weßling – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Approximately 25% of vocational education and training (VET) applicants in Germany hold a university entrance diploma ("Abitur"). These students enter VET even though they could enter higher education (HE); the latter typically yields higher incomes and better career prospects. We extend research on the question of why students choose…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Foreign Countries, Career Pathways, Academic Aspiration
Alex Fronduto; Heidi Bishop – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2025
This study delves into the changing landscape of graduate enrollment in education programs post-COVID-19 and the "Great Resignation." Despite an overall increase in graduate enrollment, education programs experienced a decline. Using methodology merging institutional data with tuition benefits from other institutions, this research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Recruitment
Julie J. Park; Brian Heseung Kim; Nancy Wong; Jia Zheng; Stephanie Breen; Pearl Lo; Dominique J. Baker; Kelly Rosinger; Mike Hoa Nguyen; OiYan A. Poon – American Educational Research Journal, 2025
For years, discussions on inequality in college admissions have addressed standardized tests, but less is known about inequality in nonstandardized components of applications. We analyzed extracurricular activity descriptions in 6,054,104 applications submitted through the Common Application using natural language processing methods. Overall,…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Joanne Moore; Anna Mountford-Zimdars – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Access to higher education is often competitive, and much attention has been placed on the question of admission decision-making in such high stakes situations. We identify various approaches to distributive justice and consider these under the framework developed by Pike distinguishes between 'egalitaria' (everyone gets the same); 'necessitia'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Educational Background, Enrollment Management
Angela Crema; John D. Singleton – Program on Education Policy and Governance, 2025
We estimate the spillover impacts of charter schools on public schools and public school students. We leverage administrative data and quasi-random assignment of charter school openings in Texas using application scores from the State Board of Education. This design capitalizes on the discontinuous increase in approval likelihood for charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Competition, Academic Achievement
Miriam Marguerita Gomez Witmer; Anjila Karki – Arts Education Partnership, 2025
The Future Educator Pathway is a comprehensive "Grow Your Own" program designed to recruit, motivate and mentor students of color so they can attend college and become future educators. The Future Educator Pathway is a collaboration between Millersville University and local school districts, and it consists of the following four unique…
Descriptors: Career Pathways, Minority Group Students, Teacher Education, Middle School Students
Federick Ngo; Tatiana Melguizo – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2025
AB705 is a landmark higher education policy that has changed approaches to developmental/remedial education in the California Community College system. We study one district that implemented reforms by placing most students in transfer-level math/English courses and encouraging enrollment in support courses based on multiple measures of academic…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Remedial Instruction, Educational Change, College Mathematics
Nicholas Pitas; Godfred Antwi; Scott Haines; Priya Banerjee – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2025
The goal of this study is to contribute to the significant body of research focused on student retention in higher education, specifically by integrating the theory of planned behavior (TPB) with measures of campus place attachment and campus social capital. Using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling to analyze survey data…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Theories
Becky 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
Rachel Yang Zhou; Olga Rodriguez; Eric Assan; Daniel Payares-Montoya – Public Policy Institute of California, 2025
Dual enrollment is expanding in California. Participation in dual enrollment varies across demographic groups and regions. A growing number of high school students are earning associate degrees via dual enrollment. Dual enrollment outcomes vary across demographic groups and geographic regions.California continues to invest in dual enrollment. This…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, High School Students, College Credits, Associate Degrees
Shuiyun Liu; Bin Zhao; Xi Yang – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2025
This paper focuses on the education of international students (EIS) in China to explore the "high quantity and relatively low quality" outcomes of EIS by reference to the microlevel actions of organizations. Semistructured interviews were conducted with different organizational actors. These interviews showed how organizational actions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, College Students, Higher Education
Danielle Sanderson Edwards; Kaitlin P. Anderson – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2025
Inter-district choice has the potential to exacerbate or alleviate between-district segregation--an increasingly pervasive form of U.S. school segregation--by allowing students to attend schools in districts where they do not reside. Prior research concentrates on the effects of charter schooling on segregation within districts and counties. We…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Charter Schools
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, 2025
This year, The Institute for College Access & Success is focused on understanding how specific communities in Michigan experience the K-12 to higher education to workforce pipeline to help advocates and policymakers better support their specific needs. This fact sheet focuses on how Michigan's Black students and families are accessing,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, African American Students, Labor Force Development, Access to Education
