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Access Barriers To Higher Education For Rural Community College Students, Shanda Carter
Access Barriers To Higher Education For Rural Community College Students, Shanda Carter
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose for conducting the study was to examine factors related to rural low-income, first generation college students' obstacles to community college enrollment. The study examined barriers students overcame to attend college and focused on rural college students from two community colleges in Missouri and Arkansas. The following questions guided the research:
1.What attendance barriers did rural community college students identify as being most difficult for them to overcome?
2.Were there differences between the self-identified attendance barriers based on gender for male and female rural community college students?
3.Were there differences in attendance barriers for rural community college students based …
Effects Of Learning Communities On Community College Students' Success: A Meta-Analysis, Keith Allen Wurtz
Effects Of Learning Communities On Community College Students' Success: A Meta-Analysis, Keith Allen Wurtz
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Low graduation rates are a significant issue for colleges. The majority of higher education institutions in the United States offer learning communities (LCs), which have been found to be effective for improving course success and persisting to the next semester. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding the effectiveness of LCs with different types of populations and different types of LCs. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to identify the most effective types of LCs. Research questions addressed the effects of different types of LCs on different student success outcomes for community colleges. The study was based on …