In light of recent economic and social changes rural communities continue to worry about the future of their young people. Will they be prepared for the challenges that lay ahead as they move into adulthood? The aspirations youth hold set them on a pathway toward achieving goals, beginning post-secondary education,...
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...
Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to make a comparative analysis of
student attitudes and learning in relation to the selected academic
subject of English when it is applied to certain Oregon occupational
clusters. The occupational clusters selected were agriculture,
electricity-electronics, industrial mechanics, and stenographersecretarial
occupations.
Method
The comparisons...
Purpose This study was conducted to investigate the influence
that awards of financial aid have on the educational decisions and
academic achievement of applicants for freshman year financial aid
at Oregon State University. The study was primarily concerned with
the effectiveness of financial aid in assisting students to enroll and...
This study explored the management problems and practices
of 41 Asian graduate students at Oregon State University. The students
were asked to indicate their management problems and
practices of food, clothing, and money, their housing conditions,
their problems in finding recreation and transportation, and their
problems in their academic work...