A PERSISTENCE MODEL FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE URBAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
A PERSISTENCE MODEL FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE URBAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
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非裔美国男性城市社区大学生的持久模型
DOI:
10.1080/1066892980220804
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
1
通讯作者:
Harold P. Mason
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作者:
Harold P. Mason
A considerable amount of effort is expended encouraging students to enroll in higher education programs. It is, therefore, disappointing to all concerned when students fail to complete their programs. It is even more distressing when one particular group of enrollees is identified as failing to persist with their studies at a disproportionately high rate. This was the issue faced by Kennedy‐King College during the early 1990s. The African American male, nontraditional student (either more than 24 years old, or part‐time enrollee, or live off campus), was identified in this category with the withdrawal/departure behavior becoming a serious and increasing problem. Kennedy‐King College is a non‐residential, two‐year community college located in a neighborhood of Chicago that is predominantly African American (97%), low income (70% below the poverty level), with a comparatively high crime rate and a public school system that has been described as “somewhat ineffective.” More than 30% of the students are resid...
DOI:
10.2307/2295455
发表时间:
1988-01
期刊:
Journal of Negro Education
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作者:
Bernard C. Watson;W. Wilson
通讯作者:
Bernard C. Watson;W. Wilson