Minority graduate educational persistence: A study of CIC Fellows
Abstract
This dissertation was an exploration of factors affecting graduate educational persistence of U.S. minorities who have received pre-doctoral fellowships from 1978 to 1993 from the fourteen predominantly White universities which comprise the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). The three major objectives were (1) to test the impact of some of the constructs proposed by Tinto (1991, 1993) on graduate educational persistence; (2) to incorporate structural factors into a model of graduate educational persistence based on the Tinto model; and (3) to investigate the validity of a model of graduate educational persistence based on Tinto's doctoral model for minority fellowship beneficiaries in the predominantly White CIC university setting. Data for this study were collected in a survey of CIC Fellows in 1993. Major findings from the study indicated that graduate educational persistence was a dynamic process, and how Fellows felt about their experiences in the process depended on a "fit" or a "lack of fit" between what they expected and what the larger institutional and environmental setting provided to them.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Perrucci, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Educational sociology|Minority & ethnic groups|Sociology|Higher education
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