Browsing 2008 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Advisor "Townsend, Barbara K."
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An analysis of transfer student success utilizing an initial college choice-persistence Nexus model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Research on transfer student success is important to institutions interested in retaining transfer students and well as transfer students interested in attaining a baccalaureate. This study on transfer student success is ... -
Institutional influences affecting the college-going decisions of low-income mothers attending a rural midwestern community college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)Education has proven one path out of poverty for low-income single mothers, yet many are not completing and transferring at high rates. Using theories of economic development as the lens for analysis, I sought to study how ...