Data from 1,243 vocational-technical college freshmen in Taiwan were used to construct a primary persistence model of 8 significant predictors (first-semester grade point average, gender, entrance examination, major, social integration, gym grade, occupational guidance, parent education, academic remediation); a secondary model added…

Integrating Learning Communities into Study Abroad, piloted in Russia, was a joint effort including students, faculty, and community leaders. Participants researched business practices and studied the humanities of Russia in different cities. Future learning communities will focus on business and humanities in Italy, Hungary, and Greece.

Beyond Crossroads addresses many of the challenges facing American higher education and offers members of AMATYC an ideal opportunity to respond energetically and constructively to these challenges. Notwithstanding the many efforts to improve secondary schooling, most students enter postsecondary education well behind where they should be in…

The data for this study was obtained from student records at North Iowa Area Community College and the National Student Clearinghouse. The National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization, is the nation's source for post-secondary and secondary student degree, diploma and enrollment verification. NIACC students from 1996 to 2005 who…

Despite a decade of simplification efforts, students and families are often still baffled by the student aid process and cringe at the sight of financial aid application forms. Contrary to its purpose of helping students to access college, the student aid application process causes families frustration and confusion that has been cited as an…

If distance education was once the wave of the future, it is now here to stay and is improving rapidly. As technology advances--providing more opportunities for people to access material from almost anywhere on various devices in any number of formats--distance education is becoming increasingly complex. While the opportunity for students to take…

Two years in West Virginia, college filing cabinets were stacked high with articulation agreements. College faculty members were traveling to and from area high schools in an effort to develop and finalize articulation agreements; all part of the process. And to what end? Less than 1 percent of students in the state were taking advantage of the…

The goal of this study was to describe what motivates adult women enrolled in a community college to pursue higher education. Utilizing profile analysis and multiple regression analyses, this study investigated the extent to which gender, English as a first language, and age predicted the seven factors of the Education Participation Scale (A-form)…

In 2007-08, approximately 21 million students were enrolled in undergraduate postsecondary education in the United States. These Web Tables provide a comprehensive source of information on financial aid that was awarded to undergraduate students during the 2007-08 academic year. Included are estimates of tuition, price of attendance, and financial…

Launched in 2003, "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count" is a multiyear national initiative designed to improve educational outcomes for community college students, particularly students of color and low-income students. Supported by Lumina Foundation for Education and other funders, the initiative has grown to include 98…

This paper presents a qualitative study that used classroom observations, faculty interviews, and student interviews to investigate the meaning and importance of seven non-cognitive variables to a cohort of developmental writing students at an urban community college. The variables studied included finances, study management, college surroundings,…

This document presents statistics about higher education in Maryland for 2013. The tables in this document are presented according to the following categories: (1) Students; (2) Retention and Graduation; (3) Degrees; (4) Faculty; (5) Revenues & Expenditures; (6) Tuition and Fees; (7) Financial Aid, (8) Private Career Schools, and (9) Distance…

The State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany has worked with the state's community colleges to develop guides for community college students to identify programs and patterns of study which maximize the transfer of credit from the community college courses toward specific SUNY academic programs. This collection of 11 documents provides the…

Each year, students at State University of New York community colleges are surveyed regarding their general characteristics, reasons for attending their college, and perceptions regarding their college. This report provides results from five sections of the spring 1994 survey of Westchester Community College (WCC) students and includes comparisons…

A study was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College, in Florida, to determine the level of satisfaction with college programs and general perceptions of their college experience among students who applied for graduation during 1991-92. Completed questionnaires were received from a total of 3,764 students. Study findings included the following:…