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Retention Of First-Generation College Students At A Four-Year Regional Public Institution, Matthew Andrew Schumacher
Retention Of First-Generation College Students At A Four-Year Regional Public Institution, Matthew Andrew Schumacher
Theses and Dissertations--Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
Every year a significant number of college students stop out of college and fail to persist and complete their degree. First-generation college students are more likely to exit college without a degree than continuing-generation students. The purpose of this quantitative, archival, nonexperimental study was to explore how first-generation college student demographic, academic background, college academic, and student engagement factors were related to and predict first-year to second-year retention at a mid-sized, public regional university. The factors explored were gender, age, race/ethnicity, income status, high school GPA, ACT, cumulative GPA, first term attempted hours, housing, participation in a Living Learning Community, …