The following research note surveys the most recent literature published in the past two
years on higher education policy and politics in the United States. We identify three …

Most of the models developed to examine student persistence and attainment in
postsecondary education largely fail to account for the influence of institutional factors …

Persistence decisions are considered to be the products of longitudinal processes of varied
lengths in students' lives (Tinto, 1975, 1993) that are influenced by different …

Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), institutions that enroll at least 25% Hispanic students,
are institutionally diverse, including a much wider array of institutional types than other …

In this paper, resource dependence theory (RDT) is used to guide an empirical analysis of
the higher education system in Uzbekistan. Regression analysis is applied to a panel …

Historically, education has played a central role in the lives of Blacks. Although Blacks
continue their penchant for education, Black males have not fared as well in the educational …

Using multi-institutional data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program's (CIRP)
annual survey of entering freshmen, the Higher Education Research Institute's (HERI) …

Using national survey data, multilevel modeling techniques, and descriptive statistics, this
study makes an effort to understand the influence of the financial context of institutions on …

Abstract Both predominantly White institutions (PWIs) and historically Black colleges and
universities (HBCUs) are experiencing low academic persistence rates of Black males …

A feature of the existing literature on minority students' transition to college is the
preponderance of models that have “imagined” what students (and their families) need to …