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Shirley, Maurice – Review of Higher Education, 2021
Research on college completion for students who work during their undergraduate education often approaches the topic from a financial perspective focused on aid and income status. This study takes a different approach by exploring the intersectionality of student employment and race, in relation to six-year bachelor's degree attainment. Based on a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Employment, Educational Attainment, Race
Schudde, Lauren T.; Ryu, Wonsun; Brown, Raymond Stanley – Review of Higher Education, 2020
Evidence of inefficient course-taking patterns at community colleges has spurred policy conversations about how to ensure effective course sequences. Structural reforms, like guided pathways, seek to reduce major switching as a means to streamline student course taking and eliminate unnecessary credits. By placing students into broad fields of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Intellectual Disciplines, Course Selection (Students), Community Colleges
Garvey, Jason C.; Hart, Jeni; Metcalfe, Amy Scott; Fellabaum-Toston, Jennifer – Review of Higher Education, 2019
We examine the American landscape of higher education quantitative research concerning how gender and sex demographic information is collected. We use a directed content analysis to examine the prevalence and operationalization of gender and sex among widely used higher education survey instruments. Our findings illuminate a seemingly haphazard…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Educational Research, Higher Education, Data Collection
Lee, You-Geon; Ferrare, Joseph J. – Review of Higher Education, 2019
The following paper estimates the impact of initially declaring and then departing from a STEM major on college dropout and degree completion rates for students in the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. The results show that students who initially declared a STEM major and switched to a "non-STEM" area of study were…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Crisp, Gloria; Nuñez, Anne-Marie – Review of Higher Education, 2014
This study models student-and institutional-level factors that influence vertical transfer among a national sample of White and underrepresented minority (URM) community college students. Results indicate that the predictors of transfer are different in many ways for White and URM students. Most notably, findings suggest that enrolling in…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, White Students, Two Year College Students, Disproportionate Representation