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Whitcomb, Kyle M.; Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – AERA Open, 2021
An analysis of institutional data to understand the outcome of obstacles faced by students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds is important in order to work toward promoting equity and inclusion. We use 10 years of institutional data at a large public research university to investigate the grades earned by students categorized on four…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Minority Group Students, Grade Point Average
Tyner, Adam – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2023
The SAT and ACT have held a controversial place in American education for generations. The conventional wisdom has come to suggest that these college entrance tests are harmful to educational equity because they discriminate against students from low-income families and other students whose backgrounds may put them at a disadvantage, such as…
Descriptors: Barriers, Equal Education, Minority Group Students, College Admission
Zhao, Kai – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
Rural students' academic performance is of critical importance for college success and later life outcomes. Prior literature on the rural-urban gap in academic performance has produced mixed results. Drawing on data from students at a highly selective university in Beijing, this study compares the differences in academic performance between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Academic Achievement
Warming up or Cooling Out? Educational Desire and Higher Education Participation in an Asian Context
Tang, Hei-hang Hayes; Dang, Beatrice Yan-yan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
Concerns of equity with respect to the community college model in East Asia persist in educational research. In this study, we described and analysed students' "lived experience" in community colleges in Hong Kong in terms of the "warming up" or "cooling out" of their educational desire. Semistructured interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Community Colleges, Community College Students
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Grantee Submission, 2022
Bolstering low-income students' postsecondary participation is important to remediate these students' disadvantages and to improve society's overall level of education. Recent research has demonstrated that secondary schools vary considerably in their tendencies to send students to postsecondary education, but existing research has not…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Attendance, High School Students, Equal Education
Christian Michael Smith; Noah Hirschl – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2022
Bolstering low-income students' postsecondary participation is important to remediate these students' disadvantages and to improve society's overall level of education. Recent research has demonstrated that secondary schools vary considerably in their tendencies to send students to postsecondary education, but existing research has not…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, College Attendance, High School Students, Equal Education
Estefan, Michel; Selbin, Jesse Cordes; Macdonald, Sarah – Teaching Sociology, 2023
Current approaches to building inclusive classrooms for first-generation and working-class students tend to emphasize communicative strategies: receiving students with welcoming messages that acknowledge and value their life experience and promoting a growth mindset. These methods are important, but they do little to address structural sources of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Instructional Design, Assignments
Li, Yumei; White, Cameron; Zou, Yali – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
Drawing on a broader study that focused on understanding rural college students for equity and personal growth in higher education, this paper presents Ying's story of learning and living as a female college student from rural China. Adopting the thinking tools of habitus and reflexivity, the paper aims to understand the constraints Ying has gone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, College Students, Higher Education
Lillehagen, Mats; Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth – Journal of Education and Work, 2022
Each year, students graduate from schools, colleges and universities. Some find a job quickly -- others do not. Delays in the transition from education to work have been associated with scarring effects and detrimental effects on later employment and career progression. Increasing numbers of graduates from universities and colleges are descendants…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Equal Education, College Graduates, Employment Potential
Hidden Stories: Uncovering Racial Disparities in Colleges' and Universities' Student Conduct Systems
Marisol Velazquez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
While racially minoritized students are gaining access and enrolling in post-secondary institutions at higher rates, institutionalized oppression and exclusionary practices impact students' experience and success. Colleges and universities have an obligation to create environments that are welcoming, just, and fair for all students who choose to…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Minority Group Students, College Students, Ethics
Lombardi, Allison R.; Rifenbark, Graham G.; Hicks, Tyler; Taconet, Ashley; Challenger, Clewiston – Exceptional Children, 2022
In this study, we examined college and career readiness (CCR) support for students with and without disabilities using data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study 2012. We selected variables relevant to CCR and focused on the interaction of disability, race and ethnicity, and household income across a range of disability categories,…
Descriptors: Special Education, Transitional Programs, Students with Disabilities, College Readiness
Sabharwal, Nidhi S. – International Journal for Research on Extended Education, 2020
The paper seeks to expand our knowledge on the importance of public academic support programmes (ASPs) in higher education (HE) in India, which extend supplementary instruction with the aim to improve academic performance and support academic efforts of students from the socially and economically disadvantaged groups (SEDGs). This paper shows that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, College Students, Rural Areas
Mabel, Zachary; Hurwitz, Michael D.; Howell, Jessica; Perfetto, Greg – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Many selective colleges consider the backgrounds of applicants to improve equity in admissions. However, this information is usually not available for all applicants. We examine whether the chances of admission and enrollment changed after 43 colleges gained access to a new tool that standardizes information on educational disadvantage for all…
Descriptors: College Applicants, College Admission, Disadvantaged, Equal Education
Gore, Oliver Tafadzwa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Universities in South Africa seem to be struggling to create inclusive conditions for black students to succeed in their studies. The persistence of inequality in universities could be partly blamed on the use of the term 'historically disadvantaged', which is not defined in policy documents, and this has resulted in universities being unclear on…
Descriptors: Universities, Stakeholders, Disadvantaged, College Students
O'Shea, Sarah; Koshy, Paul; Drane, Catherine – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has both widened and exacerbated student equity issues in Australian higher education, just as it has increased economic and social disadvantage in the general population. This article identifies the immediate impacts of the pandemic on existing equity structures, mapping potential areas for research analysis and policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pandemics, COVID-19, Equal Education