STUDENT DIVERSITY AND HOW IT RELATES TO STUDENT SUCCESS

Michael Conyette

Business Education and Accreditation, 2016, vol. 8, issue 2, 87-97

Abstract: Encouraging contact among students from different economic, social and racial or ethnic backgrounds could help provide the support students deem necessary to succeed at college. Evaluation of a 2011 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) dataset reveals an intriguing relationship between student diversity and students’ feelings of support they need to succeed at college. Analysis of data implies that improving students’ understanding of people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds could help encourage contact among students from different economic, social, and racial or ethnic backgrounds, and this in turn could help university and college students succeed in their studies. Logistic regression analysis shows the strongest predictor of support needed to help students succeed at college is Encouraging contact among students from different economic, social and racial or ethnic backgrounds. Consequently, increasing student diversity, for example, may be an appropriate university or college strategy to help students understand people of other backgrounds. Greater awareness of people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds could promote contact among students with different backgrounds and this could improve the sense of support students think a college could provide them to succeed at school and in the job market

Keywords: Student Engagement; Diversity; CCSSE; Support for Learners; Educational Intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 I23 I24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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