This qualitative case study explores the career and educational aspirations, college choice
process, and college barriers and opportunities of 26 rural, African American high school …

The concept of" student effort" is foundational to such commonly used assessments of
institutional effectiveness as the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and the …

Insufficient student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
careers has been identified as a pressing issue by educators and education policy makers …

This study seeks to update past studies of rural youth by examining college attendance and
choice decisions for students who graduated from rural high schools, while also conducting …

Creating the conditions that foster student success in college has never been more
important. As many as four-fifths of high school graduates need some form of postsecondary …

sponsor college preparation programs (Fenske, Geranios, Keller, & Moore, 1997). These
programs are designed to promote educational attainment among disadvantaged groups of …

This study regressed undergraduate grades on background traits, pre-college variables, and
measures of sociocultural capital for nationally representative samples of African American …

Though research on student attrition is plentiful and debate over theories of student
persistence vigorous, less attention has been paid to the development of a model of …

Summer bridge programs (SBPs) are increasingly popular in higher education as a strategy
for helping students prepare for college, yet empirical studies in this area have remained …

Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are
sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities …