For more than 3 decades, scholars and practitioners have speculated on the extent to which
financial aid increases the odds of students completing their degrees. While the impact of …

Background Higher education researchers have much to say about the transition to college.
This field focuses primarily on inequities in college participation and completion, the relative …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

BackgroundAlthough mental disorders are significant predictors of educational attainment
throughout the entire educational career, most research on mental disorders among …

This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a
conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering …

Using Tinto's (1993) longitudinal model of institutional departure, this study examined
demographic variables, family characteristics, precollege and college academic …

In this chapter, the author makes the case for a new theory of college success among
racially diverse student populations. He analyzes Tinto's theory of student departure and …

Research has suggested that achievement is not solely based on the cognitive abilities of
the learner, but rather on the combination of cognitive ability and personality traits. This …

About 40% of Blacks and 50% of Hispanics entering college will earn a degree. However,
many of these successfully matriculating students may experience a sense of intellectual …

In this book, the authors bring together in one place essential information about college
students in the US in the 21st century. Synthesizing existing research and theory, they …