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Yücel, Elif; Jabbar, Huriya; Schudde, Lauren – Review of Higher Education, 2022
Student networks play important roles in navigating vertical transfer. This article takes a qualitative approach to ego-network analysis to explore how transfer-intending community college students leverage networks during the transfer process. We use longitudinal data to analyze both the composition of student networks over time and the types of…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Transfer Students, Social Support Groups, Peer Relationship
Duncheon, Julia C.; Relles, Stefani R. – Review of Higher Education, 2020
Dual credit coursework has become a popular strategy to bolster the college completion agenda, yet research on program implementation is scarce. This qualitative interview study uses complexity theory to investigate how 103 teachers enacted dual credit at eight high schools partnered with a community college system in Texas. Findings demonstrate…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Program Implementation, College School Cooperation, High Schools
Sansone, Vanessa A.; Segura, Jennifer S. Tucker – Review of Higher Education, 2020
Using discrete-time hazard models, this exploratory study responds to the need for research on student veterans. Factors predicting persistence and graduation at a public university in Texas, serving a large student veteran population in the state, are examined; student veteran transfers' outcomes are compared to those of non-veteran transfer…
Descriptors: Veterans, College Transfer Students, Academic Persistence, Graduation
Eaton, Paul William; Bustamante, Rebecca McBride; Ates, Burcu; Berg, Helen – Review of Higher Education, 2019
A novel process--"dialogic cartographic narratives"--is introduced as a method for facilitating faculty members' understanding of their own privilege(s) and their complicity in maintaining systemic injustices in higher education institutions. The process involves critical interrogation of life stories and privileged identities over time…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Advantaged, Personal Narratives, Self Concept
Gándara, Denisa – Review of Higher Education, 2019
This paper reports on an analysis, using a comparative case study design, of the degree to which policy actors use evidence in designing performance-funding policies in Colorado and Texas. The analysis reveals that features of demanders of information--including their prior exposure to research, their attitudes toward evidence, and, in the case of…
Descriptors: Design, Evidence, Funding Formulas, Higher Education
Poon, OiYan A.; Segoshi, Megan S. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Few studies have focused on the role of Asian Americans in influencing how race is understood in affirmative action debates. However, accounting for the complicating presence of Asian Americans in the racial politics of affirmative action has become increasingly important. Informed by racial formation theory, this critical discourse analysis of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Affirmative Action, Racial Factors, Ideology
Collins, Christopher S. – Review of Higher Education, 2017
In 2012, the United States Agency for International Development allocated $137 million to fund seven universities to create "development labs" to advance social/economic progress and reduce poverty. International economic development has become a booming field and industry but is also highly contested. The function of the university as a…
Descriptors: Poverty, Qualitative Research, Universities, Economic Development
Flores, Stella M.; Drake, Timothy A. – Review of Higher Education, 2014
Using individual-level longitudinal state administrative data, this analysis examines whether English language learner (ELL) status increases the likelihood of being designated as needing college remediation. We track a cohort of ELL and non-ELL students from first grade to college entry and investigate whether there are differences in students'…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Longitudinal Studies, Cohort Analysis, Racial Differences
Garces, Liliana M. – Review of Higher Education, 2012
This study uses data from the CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees and a methodology that supports causal inference to examine the effects of affirmative action bans in Texas, California, Washington, and Florida on graduate student of color enrollment. The findings show that the bans have reduced by 12.2% the average proportion of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Barriers, Higher Education, Racial Differences
Anderson, Gregory M. – Review of Higher Education, 2012
This article examines the continuing gap between institutional practice and pedagogy, research and scholarship, and policy formation and analysis of equity and diversity in higher education. The article also provides brief summaries of the four major contributions of higher education scholars to this edition concerned with exploring different…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scholarship, Policy Formation, Policy Analysis
Collins, Christopher S. – Review of Higher Education, 2012
Two land-grant institutions, Michigan State University (MSU) and Texas A&M University (TAMU) used funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to partner with the National University of Rwanda (NUR) to support the agriculture faculty in Rwanda following the 1994 genocide. In addition, the three institutions…
Descriptors: Land Grant Universities, Foreign Countries, Death, Partnerships in Education
Dougherty, Kevin J.; Nienhusser, H. Kenny; Vega, Blanca E. – Review of Higher Education, 2010
Every year about 65,000 undocumented students graduate from U.S. high schools. A major obstacle to their attending college is not being eligible for in-state tuition. Today, nine states permit it while four prohibit it. Even if the federal DREAM Act passes, state policy decisions will continue to strongly shape college opportunities for…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, High School Graduates, Barriers, College Attendance
Li, Dai – Review of Higher Education, 2010
This study examines the bachelor's degree attainment among students who first matriculate in four-year institutions but who then transfer to other four-year institutions. It constitutes a contribution to the research that has primarily studied transferring students who start at two-year colleges. This study uses Heckman's two-step model to correct…
Descriptors: Transfer Students, College Attendance, College Transfer Students, Student Mobility
Christakis, Michael N. – Review of Higher Education, 2009
State governors have the potential to impact their states' public higher education systems in a variety of very significant ways. The findings for the 33 governors included in this study suggest a great deal of variation in the extent of their authority and influence. Governors' composite ratings of formal authority and informal influence are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Education, State Officials, Influences
Perry, Andre M. – Review of Higher Education, 2006
This case study/philosophical analysis responds to the primary research question: "Should undocumented immigrants receive financial aid by responding to the sub-question: What does it mean to be a member of society?" The case study organizes and collects empirical evidence from stakeholders involved in Texas House Bill 1403 (2001),…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Student Financial Aid, Case Studies, State Legislation
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