Many low-income and first-generation community college students face disproportionate challenges in their quest for a college education. They typically balance multiple outside obligations, while being solely responsible for making these decisions without adequate knowledge, guidance, or support (Lyons, 2004). Many students begin college without ever having been responsible for their...
Baccalaureate attainment represents an important goal among educators and policymakers. The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education has stated that affordability and transfer are critical to increasing baccalaureate attainment, and that community colleges have a critical role in this transfer process. On the other hand, some researchers disagree...
Colleges and universities must be continually seeking means to
improve their financial management. One improvement would be to
lessen the amount of monies the state-owned university reverts to
the state at the end of the fiscal year. Such reversion is caused by
numerous departments, each with financial autonomy, incurring
greater...
The objective of the study was to identify and evaluate a methodology
of market segmentation analysis for use in postsecondary education
institution enrollment management. Two approaches to segmentation were
examined: A priori and post hoc., The a priori approach was based on
subject's intent to enroll at one of five...
The two-fold purpose of this study is (1) to determine
differences in perception of counseling and guidance needs
between community college bound high school seniors,
community college counselors, and chief student services
administrators, and (2) to establish the nature and priority
of counseling and guidance needs of community college bound...
The purpose of this study was twofold: First, to establish a means
of assessing the degree of professional status accorded student personnel
workers by constructing an attitude questionnaire, for student
clientele, based upon statements derived from eight criteria for
evaluating professional status; Second, to determine and analyze the
attitudes measured...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which
the readability of accounting textbooks and two-year accounting students'
reading ability were related to academic achievement.
Procedure
This research used two designs. Design one consisted of two
samples from the population of two-year accounting students. One
sample...
