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  • Key motivating factors for rural adult women entering college

    Creator:
    Benoit, Michelle R.
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    This qualitative study seeks to gain knowledge about the motives and barriers of rural adult women students and how these factors impact their decision to pursue postsecondary education. As more adult women choose to enter or return to higher education, it is important to examine the factors that influence their...
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    Masters Thesis
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    individual interviews with six rural adult women students at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC

  • A study of the factors that influence disadvantaged female community college students' career choices

    Creator:
    Hagan, Jacky May
    Abstract:
    Although the career choice decision for women is recognized as a complex process, there is little understanding about how the influencing factors affect the choices of disadvantaged women returning to community colleges. This study was concerned with understanding how certain factors influenced the career choices of this population. A random...
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    Dissertation
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    College in Roseburg, Oregon. The data were gathered through examining the subjects' college student

  • Women, poverty, and educational success : a critical exploration of low-income women's experience in community colleges

    Creator:
    Barry, Kate R.
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    The purpose of this study is to critically explore low-income women's experience as they negotiate post secondary education in community colleges. Three research questions explore the context through which low-income women have entered the college experience, what that experience is like for them, and how the community college experience has...
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    Dissertation
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    explore the context through which low-income women have entered the college experience, what that

  • Perceptions of Senior Student Affairs Officers on the State of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

    Creator:
    Lang, Heather
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    Institutions of higher education are increasingly being held accountable and experiencing pressure to demonstrate how well their students are achieving intended learning outcomes. External and internal influences fuel this pressure. After decades of rhetoric on student learning outcomes assessment there remains a question of whether the practice has been fully...
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    Dissertation
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    state of student learning outcomes assessment within their community college student affairs divisions

  • Voices to be heard : narrative research of undocumented Latino students in Oregon community colleges

    Creator:
    Ivelisse, Brenda
    Abstract:
    Community colleges have become a practical educational option for undocumented students seeking an associate degree; thus reflecting the community college's very mission and purpose by providing access and affordability for these students. Specifically, undocumented Latino students are known to select community colleges due to their low tuition cost, proximity to...
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    Dissertation
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    calculation of the number of undocumented students who are college eligible and/or are attending Oregon

  • Motivations for reverse transfer at Rogue Community College

    Creator:
    King, Aurora N.
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    As reverse transfer students become a larger part of community college enrollments, it is important to better understand the underlying causes of this nontraditional population’s emergence in the traditional community college system. This quantitative descriptive study found that approximately nine percent of the student body enrolled at Rogue Community College...
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    Masters Thesis
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    college rather than returning to work. As a student and a professional, I began to wonder how many

  • The relationship of selected academic factors to the persistence of general educational development (GED) recipients enrolled in community colleges : an Oregon study

    Creator:
    Sanders, Karen M.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to better understand the relationship between selected academic factors and the persistence of GED recipients in community colleges in the state of Oregon. With this purpose in mind, the study addressed the following research question: Is there a relationship between selected academic variables and...
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    Dissertation
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    nationally and in Oregon 2000-2005...... 24 4. Tinto's student integration model (adapted from Tinto, 1975

  • Defining drug court participant community college success

    Creator:
    Hamilton, Christopher J.
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    Drug courts are collaborative community programs that provide active oversight and compliance monitoring of individuals engaged in the criminal justice continuum. Adult drug court program requirements include alcohol and other drug treatment, community support services, and other ancillary services intended to promote life changes in participants and ultimately, prosocial behaviors....
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    Dissertation
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    Stevenson. Her academic pursuit began in the 1940s at Oregon State Agricultural College but ended before

  • Factors that motivate Latino students to pursue higher education in selected colleges in the state of Oregon

    Creator:
    Meza Discua, José Luis
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    Latinos are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic minority in the United States, and they have the highest dropout rates of any major ethnic group in the country (U.S. Department of Labor, 2003). Latinos' educational attainment is consistently lower than that of other students (Gandara, 2008). The majority of...
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    Dissertation
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    .……………………………………. 22 Motivating Factors for Latino College Students in Oregon ………. 23 Family factors

  • The successful experiences of first generation community college transfer students

    Creator:
    McKenzie, René
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the successes of first generation, community college transfer students served by a TRiO/Student Support Services (TRiO/SSS) program. This study addresses a specific problem in higher education – there are a limited number of first generation transfer students who successfully matriculate...
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    Dissertation
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    program contributed to your successful experience as a community college transfer student? The study