The students of EGL 102 section 006 would like to present their research project.

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Welcome!

• The students of EGL 102 section 006 would like to
  present their research project.
• Lets start with Defining the Problem

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Defining the Problem

• The community college transfer student
• who seeks the bachelors degree but fails,
• negatively affects many
• Self
• Family
• Community college
• Four year college
• Society
• World

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Explaining the Goal

• What would cause the community college transfer
  student to fail?
• We brainstormed for these possible factors.
• We came up with 8 hypotheses and formed 8
  research teams.

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Hypotheses 1-4

• Lack of Time Management Skills may play a
  significant role in failing to attain the
  bachelors degree
• High Cost of Tuition may play a significant role
  in failing to attain the bachelors degree
• Part-time or Full-time Employment may play a role
  in failing to attain the bachelors degree
• Poor Academic Readiness may play a role in
  failing to attain the bachelors degree

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Hypotheses 5-8

• Excessive Partying may play a significant role in
  failing to attain the bachelors degree
• Poor Mental and Physical Health may play a
  significant role in failing to attain the
  bachelors degree
• Lack of Academic Engagement may play a
  significant role in failing to attain the
  bachelors degree
• Race, Religion, or Sex Orientation Differences
  may play a significant role in failing to attain
  the bachelors degree

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Literature ReviewLack of Time Management Skills

• Kathleen Byrd and Ginger Macdonald. (2007)
  Defining College Readiness from the Inside out
  First-Generation College Student Perspectives.
• Speaker Nadine Dakhoul
• Frankie Santos Laanan. (2007) Studying Transfer
  Students Part II Dimensions of transfer
  Students Adjustment .
• Speaker Faria Zafar
• D. Thompson. (2007) Examining Student's
  Perceptions of their First-Semester Experience at
  a Major Land-Grant Institution
• Speaker Jebin Ponnan

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Literature ReviewHigh Cost of Tuition

• Sandra Gardner. (2004) Stemming At-Riskers
  College Crises in a Recession.
• Speaker Avani Patel
• No Author. (2006) The Importance of Price in
  College Attendance A Pennsylvania Conundrum.
• Speaker Chablis Scornavacco
• Kevin OKelly. (2003) College may become more
  and more unaffordable.
• Speaker Kate Bershadskaia

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Literature ReviewPart-time or Full-time
Employment

• Marie-Pierre Moreau, Carole Leathwood. (2006)
  Balancing paid work and studies working class
  students in higher education.
• Speaker Margaret Komorek
• Ali Berker, Laura Horn, and Dennis Carroll.
  (2003) Work First, Study Second Adult
  Undergraduates Who Combine Employment and
  Postsecondary Enrollment. Postsecondary
  Educational Descriptive Analysis Reports.
• Speaker Billy Houma
• Sarath A. Nonis and Gail I. Hudson. (2006)
  Academic Performance of College Students
  Influence of Time Spent Studying and Working.
• Speaker Roxanne Tabamo

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Literature ReviewLack of Academic Readiness

• Francesca B. Purcell. (2006) Smooth Transfer A
  Once Mundane Administrative Issue Re-emerges a
  Key Tool for Equity.
• Speaker Malgorzata Kolodziej
• Carol Kozeracki and Dean Gerdeman. (2000)
  Southern California Community College Transfer
  Readiness Research Project Focus Group Findings.
• Speaker Raguez Taha

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Literature ReviewExcessive Partying

• Bruce dePyssler. (2003) Alcohol Consumption and
  Positive Study Practices among African American
  College Students.
• Speaker Justin Ward
• Alan Reifman, PhD Wendy K. Watson. (2003) Binge
  Drinking during the First Semester of college
  Continuation and Desistance from High School
  Patterns.
• Speaker Bensen Mattathil
• Mary E. Pritchard. (2003) Using Emotional and
  Social Factors to Predict Student Success.
• Speaker Vishal Gandhi

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Literature ReviewPoor Mental or Physical Health

• Carma L. Bylund, Rebecca S. Imes, Leslie A.
  Baxter. (2005) Accuracy of parents perceptions
  of their college student children's health and
  health risk behavior.
• Speaker Carrie Smigiel
• Robert B. Smith and Dana L. Fleming. (2007)
  Student Suicide and Colleges Liability.
• Speaker Andrey Liokumovich
• Emilia H. Koumans, MD. et al. (2005) Sexually
  Transmitted Disease Services at US Colleges and
  Universities.
• Speaker Stephanie Sampra

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Literature ReviewLack of Academic Engagement

• Ibtesan Halaway. (2006) The Effect of
  Motivation, Family Environment, and Student
  Characteristics on Academic Achievement .
• Speaker Maria Alfajora
• Stephen J. Handel. (2007) Second Chance, Not
  Second Class A Blueprint for Community-College
  Transfer.
• Speaker Edgar Frazier
• Pamela Sherer. (2004) Academic Engagement at
  Community Colleges.
• Speaker Nicole Lopez

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Literature ReviewRace, Religion, Sex Orientation
Differences

• Po Yang. (2003) Do Institutional
  Characteristics Matter in Two to Four-year
  Transfer.
• Speaker Mareen Mathew
• Irwin E. Solomon. (2001) Articulation, College
  Transfer, and Academic Success Northern Virginia
  Community College Transfer Students and
  Post-Transfer Success at George Mason
  University.
• Speaker Arslan Ahmed
• Stephen Wessler and Margaret Moss. (2001) Hate
  Crimes on Campus The Problems and Efforts to
  Confront it.
• Speaker Josie Boston

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Were our hypotheses valid?

• Time management Yes
• High Cost of Tuition Yes
• Part-time or Full-time Employment Mixed
• Lack of Academic Readiness Yes

• Excessive Partying Yes
• Poor Mental or Physical Health Yes
• Lack of Academic Engagement Yes
• Race, Religious, or Sex Orientation Differences
  Mixed

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What are our solutions?

• Time management Take a study skills class in
  high school college advisors can help
• High Cost of Tuition seek scholarships colleges
  offer more scholarships demand federal govt.
  help college students
• Part-time or Full-time Employment Take class on
  time management make a schedule more financial
  aid
• Lack of Academic Readiness know articulation
  agreement have online transfer credit
  conversion better inform the counselors higher
  quality instructions

• Excessive Partying No fraternities, no dorm
  parties find something else to do control peer
  pressure
• Poor Mental or Physical Health vaccinations
  before coming to school more health services
  offered on campus having dorms and other
  residences inspected for health problems
• Lack of Academic Engagement students should stay
  involved in their academic environment in order
  to succeed join a club build a support system
• Race, Religious, or Sex Orientation Differences
  College should hold cultural events students
  should join clubs or organization orientation is
  good place to inform students of differences

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Thank you for coming!

• Do you have any questions?