A Dream Deferred?: Examining the Degree Aspirations of African American and White College StudentsUniversity of Michigan, 1997 - 213 pages |
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... Peer Contact - significantly affects African American students ' degree plans . Students who interact with their peers frequently tend to have higher degree plans than their peers who have less interaction . Neither the Faculty Contact ...
... Peer Contact - significantly affects African American students ' degree plans . Students who interact with their peers frequently tend to have higher degree plans than their peers who have less interaction . Neither the Faculty Contact ...
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... Peer contact is a positive predictor of African American students ' degree plans ( .18 ) . This finding confirms to the ... peers facilitates the academic development and degree planning of African American students . None of the other ...
... Peer contact is a positive predictor of African American students ' degree plans ( .18 ) . This finding confirms to the ... peers facilitates the academic development and degree planning of African American students . None of the other ...
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... peers , institutional structures , and administrative procedures that diminish higher degree goals may be supported by this study . Institutions with higher percentages of African Americans positively affect the expectations of African ...
... peers , institutional structures , and administrative procedures that diminish higher degree goals may be supported by this study . Institutions with higher percentages of African Americans positively affect the expectations of African ...
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academic academic degree affect students African American students American and White analyses Astin Bachelor's degree base regression model BPS and CIRP BPS dataset BPS students campus choice institution CIRP dataset CIRP sample CIRP students coefficients college students constrained correlation degree aspirations degree goals dependent variable differences educational aspirations educational expectations educational plans effects ethnic expectations and plans expected to earn Faculty Contact Father's Educational Attainment financial aid measures full regression model grade point average HBCUs high scholarship higher degree expectations higher education institutional characteristics Intellectual Self-Confidence Kerckhoff levels lower measurement of aspirations meritocracy Mother's Educational Operational Definitions parent income Pascarella planned to earn postsecondary institutions pre-college characteristics predictor of African predictor of degree racial/ethnic group relationship scholarship aid Sewell significant predictor significantly socioeconomic status sponsored mobility students attending students degree students in BPS students in CIRP studies of aspirations Table White African White and African White students