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From to College to Career: Making Sense of the Post-Millennial Job Market
(Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2016)
Millennials have taken longer to launch their careers than previous generations, and some have failed to launch their careers altogether, while progress toward equity in education and the labor market has stalled. These ...
Whose Fault is it, Anyway?: Who is to Blame for Limited College Access in the United States? [Special Section]
(College Student Affairs Leadership, 2015)
Access to higher education has been limited for many underrepresented racial minorities (URMs) in the United States. Part of the reason for this has been because of weaknesses in the K-16 pipeline. This article takes a ...
A Crisis in Student Loans? How Changes in the Characteristics of Borrowers and in the Institutions They Attended Contributed to Rising Loan Defaults
(The Brookings Institution, 2015)
In this article, the authors examine the rise in student loan delinquency and default, drawing on newly available U.S. Department of Education administrative data on federal student borrowing linked to earnings records ...
Looking Backward or Looking Forward? Exploring the Private Student Loan Market
(American Enterprise Institute, 2016-06-01)
Although federal loans dominate student lending, a small private student loan market still exists, comprising roughly 9 percent of the student loans disbursed in 2015. With the rise in delinquencies and defaults on federal ...
Retaining Black Female College Students: The Effects of Meritocracy on Their Ideas of Success
(College Student Affairs Leadership, 2017)
The idea of merit-based education has plagued institutions of higher education for a substantial amount of time. The notion that ability, talent, and effort ultimately determine the success of an individual perpetuates the ...
Unauthorized Alien Students, Higher Education, and In-State Tuition Rates: A Legal Analysis
(2010-09-21)
Currently, federal law prohibits states from granting unauthorized aliens certain postsecondary educational benefits on the basis of state residence, unless equal benefits are made available to all U.S. citizens. This ...
Community Colleges and the Equity Agenda: What the Record Shows
(Community College Research Center, 2003-04-01)
This paper presents national data on the economic returns to postsecondary education for African American and Hispanic students and the performance of community colleges and other postsecondary institutions in expanding ...
Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-06-01)
"In this paper the authors estimate the impacts of the “pathways” chosen by community college students—in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the paths—on the ...
The Effect of LGBT Resource Centers on Student Success & Engagement
(St. Cloud State University, 2017-06-01)
This quantitative study was developed to determine whether involvement in a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Resource Center had a measurable impact on the success, engagement, and retention of LGBTQ ...
Experiences and Expectations of International Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Education Sciences, 2019-07-01)
International students are the most important population in the American higher education system, particularly for students from different cultural backgrounds. Besides research-based universities, comprehensive universities, ...