Event Title
Relationship of the College Assistance Migrant Program Housing Accommodations on Migrant Students GPA and Degree Attainment
Start Date
5-2-2021 11:40 AM
End Date
5-2-2021 1:10 PM
Date of Publication
February 2021
Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Migratory students face many challenges as a direct consequence of being a migrant, such as a lack of a proper education, working in physically demanding jobs, live below the poverty line, lack proper English language skills, and family separation. The purpose of this study will be to examine if housing accommodations impacts grade point average and degree attainment for incoming migrant freshman students in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at a university in south Texas. The participants will include over 450 migrant students who were enrolled as full-time, first-time freshmen during the fall semesters from the years 2012-2019.
Keywords
Housing Accomodations, Migrant students
Description
Achievement, Discussant: Bill Jasper
Persistent Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10950/2898
Relationship of the College Assistance Migrant Program Housing Accommodations on Migrant Students GPA and Degree Attainment
Migratory students face many challenges as a direct consequence of being a migrant, such as a lack of a proper education, working in physically demanding jobs, live below the poverty line, lack proper English language skills, and family separation. The purpose of this study will be to examine if housing accommodations impacts grade point average and degree attainment for incoming migrant freshman students in the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) at a university in south Texas. The participants will include over 450 migrant students who were enrolled as full-time, first-time freshmen during the fall semesters from the years 2012-2019.