Community college and university degree partnership programs allow students to tailor their educational experiences to fit personal goals and preferences while transitioning back and forth seamlessly between a community college and four-year university. This qualitative research study, telling the stories and lived experiences of six students participating in a community...
An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students
who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university
professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to learn about the perceptions and
experiences of students who graduated with the Associates of Arts/Oregon Transfer
(AA/OT) degree. This study answered the following questions:
1) How did the AA/OT degree attainment assist in the overall achievement
of goals?
2) How did AA/OT...
This qualitative study explores the experiences of Latina/o transfer students from a two-year to a four-year institution. Six Latina/o transfer student from the Pacific Northwest participated in one-on-one semi-structured interviews. The researcher utilized Critical Race Theory, LatCrit, Validation Theory, and Chicana Feminist Epistemology to bring forth the narratives of the...
The purpose of this study was to compare the acceptance of
specified kinds of student behavior of three selected residence hall.
groups at Oregon State University: male elected residence hall
leaders (N = 50), male appointed residence hall judicial board
members (N = 50), and a random sample of men...
This study examined the experience of three secondary
science student teachers from Western Oregon State College
in Monmouth, Oregon during the Spring quarter of 1990. The
question was: What is student teaching like from the point
of view of the student teacher?
The research methodology was qualitative, more
specifically participant...
Research examining disparity between baccalaureate completion among "native" and community college transfer students has gained attention in recent years. Current and prior research has identified important pre-college and demographic characteristics with a positive relationship to baccalaureate completion. Yet few studies have focused on the influence of nonacademic and academic environmental...
Transfer students often experience difficulties in
adjusting to a new institutional environment, and these
difficulties may limit their academic potential. Success
predictors identified in research may not be part of their
experiences. Can an institution create a formal process
which can ameliorate deficiencies within success factors
for transfer students? This...
