High school counselors potentially hold a key position to help increase the number of US
students receiving post-secondary degrees, particularly to address inequalities that prevent …

" The first edition of Researching Higher Education has been a very helpful resource for
those trying to make sense of the field of higher education. Malcolm Tight has accomplished …

School counselors are the primary facilitators of college transition for many students, yet little
is known about their influence on college-going behavior. Analyzing data from the …

Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways to analyze complex
state policies and offers the tools to examine how policies affect students' access and …

In a modern context of constrained resources and high demands, faculty exert agency to
strategically navigate their careers (Baez 2000a; Neumann et al. 2006). Guided by the …

The purpose of this study is to enhance our understanding of how a Historically Black
College and University (HBCU) is cultivating Black male achievement in STEM. In this in …

Previous studies argued that high school resources play a modest role in students'
postsecondary destinations, but they ignored schools' programmatic resources, which …

Many policies in higher education are intended to improve college access and degree
completion, yet often those policies fall short of their aims by making it difficult for prospective …

Changing placement policy may help to improve developmental education student
outcomes in community colleges, but there is little understanding of the impacts of these …

Students who struggle in pursuit of postsecondary education tend to be Latino, Black, low-
income, or first-generation college students. This article presents the case of a small public …