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Title: An invisible population speaks: exploring college decision-making processes of undocumented undergraduates at a California State University campus

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

ISBN: 9781339191096

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Abstract: Approximately 65,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from American high schools annually, among them valedictorians and salutatorians. Only about 6,500 of these prospective future leaders go on to college. There are 50 different state-level immigrant-tuition policies, most of which severely limit undocumented students’ college/university and financial aid options. This study is situated in the state of California, whose Master Plan for Higher Education aims to grant college access to all Californians and whose favorable immigrant-tuition policies work toward that end; it could serve as a model for U.S. states with restrictive or neutral immigrant-tuition policies. To date, there is limited discussion of undocumented student college choice in the higher education literature. To explore how undocumented students navigate college decision-making in the U.S., this study uses the conceptual constructs of Perna’s (2006) contextual college choice model, Hossler and Gallagher’s (1987) foundational choice model, and single-element models (chain enrollment and proximity). These frameworks and Dervin’s Sense-making Theory (1999-2014) helped me retrospectively explore the . . .

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Authors: McWhorter, Elizabeth Beeler

Institution: Indiana University

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Pages: 240

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Other

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