The state of college access and completion : improving college success for students from underrepresented groups /

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Despite decades of substantial investments by the federal government, state governments, colleges and universities, and private foundations, students from low-income families as well as racial and ethnic minority groups continue to have substantially lower levels of postsecondary educational attainm...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Perna, Laura W., Jones, Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Temas:
College choice > United States.
Universities and colleges > United States > Admission.
College costs > United States.
Minority college students > United States.
Educational attainment > United States.
Universités > Choix > États-Unis.
Universités > États-Unis > Admission.
Niveau d'instruction > États-Unis.
EDUCATION > Higher.
College choice
College costs
Educational attainment
Minority college students
Universities and colleges > Admission
United States
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Improving postsecondary access, persistence, and completion in the United States: setting the stage / Anthony P. Jones
  • Improving college access and choice / Laura W. Perna and Elizabeth R. Kurban
  • Pathways to college for underserved and nontraditional students: lessons from research, policy, and practice / Debra D. Bragg
  • Proficiency approaches for making more students college and career ready / David T. Conley
  • The role of remedial and developmental courses in access and persistence / Bridget Terry Long and Angela Boatman
  • The role of finances in postsecondary access and success / Donald E. Heller
  • The potential of community colleges to increase bachelor's degree attainment rates / Tatiana Melguizo, Gregory Kienzl, and Holly Kosiewicz
  • Longitudinal pathways to college persistence and completion: student, institutional, and public policy perspectives / Donald Hossler, Afet Dundar, and Douglas T. Shapiro
  • Access, persistence, and completion in the state context / James C. Hearn, Anthony P. Jones, and Elizabeth R. Kurban
  • Nonexperimental designs and causal analyses of college access, persistence, and completion / Stephen L. DesJardins and Allyson Flaster
  • Conclusions: Improving college access, persistence, and completion: lessons learned / Laura W. Perna.

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