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  • The Impact of Financial Education on Community College Student-Loan Debt

    Creator:
    Garcia, Veronica R.
    Abstract:
    The student-loan market has surpassed 1.3 trillion dollars; rising student-loan cohort default rates are a growing concern among educational institutions. Many colleges are implementing financial-education programs for students to help increase their knowledge, aptitude, and skills so they may become informed consumers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of this...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    and Population/Participants/Subjects: A community college in Oregon provided the site for this

  • Internationalization in Oregon and Washington community colleges

    Creator:
    Sipe, Deborah M.
    Abstract:
    Research on higher education during the period 1990 to 2013 has suggested that U.S. higher education institutions were significantly impacted by a number of global forces, including an increase in the movement of goods, information, and people across borders. During the same period, a measurable increase occurred in the number...
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    Dissertation
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    Internationalization in Oregon and Washington Community

  • Key motivating factors for rural adult women entering college

    Creator:
    Benoit, Michelle R.
    Abstract:
    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...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    individual interviews with six rural adult women students at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC

  • Exploring definitions of student success throughout community colleges in the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

    Creator:
    McBeth, Scott S.
    Abstract:
    The topic of student success is beginning to grow in popularity throughout the United States. Student success has a wide variety of definitions ranging from a direct definition of graduation to an indirect definition of a student setting a goal of finishing a class successfully. Now there are stakeholders such...
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    Dissertation
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    core themes of student success in Community College institutions in the State of Oregon who are