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Older And Wiser? Relative Age And College Course Failure, P. Wesley Routon, Jay K. Walker
Older And Wiser? Relative Age And College Course Failure, P. Wesley Routon, Jay K. Walker
Economics Faculty Publications
A student's relative age in their schooling cohort has been shown related to several measures of academic and labor market success. Here, we focus on a singular outcome: the probability of college course failure. Even within a sample constrained to students with traditional academic progression and who completed their college degree program, we find evidence relatively younger students were more likely to fail courses. The estimated impact is larger for males, minorities, and those with less academic success before college. Statistical significance remains constant across the parental income distribution. Students within the sample represent over 600 colleges and universities across …
Enacting A Culture Of Access In Our Conference Spaces, Adam Hubrig, Ruth Osorio, Neil Simpkins, Leslie R. Anglesey, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, Margaret Fink, Janine Butler, Tonya Stremlau, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Anonymous, Cody A. Jackson, Christina V. Cedillo
Enacting A Culture Of Access In Our Conference Spaces, Adam Hubrig, Ruth Osorio, Neil Simpkins, Leslie R. Anglesey, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, Margaret Fink, Janine Butler, Tonya Stremlau, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Anonymous, Cody A. Jackson, Christina V. Cedillo
Women's & Gender Studies Faculty Publications
The article offers information on periodical's rhetoric and writing studies conference held in September 2020. Topics discussed include prioritizing access in the service of love, justice, connection and liberation; proposing expansive frameworks for access in designing accessible writing classrooms and professional events; and major principles of definition of access, which reflect access's complexity and liberatory potential such as dynamic, relational and intersectional.