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<div align="center"><b> Graduate School of Education<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
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<div align="center">Invites you to attend a Colloquium by:<br>
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<div align="center">Mr. Ryan Wells<br>
<i>Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies<br>
University of Iowa<br>
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</i></b>Speaking on:<br>
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“Expectations for postsecondary education:<br>
Exploring issues of immigrant status, gender, race/ethnicity, and high
school composition”<br>
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</i>Past literature has shown that high expectations are a necessary,
though insufficient, step toward higher education enrollment and degree
attainment. However, the models used in past research do not adequately
represent the expectation-formation process for all students. For
example, children of immigrants have higher average expectations for
college than nonimmigrants, but have less overall success in higher
education. Since a major portion of students' socialization experiences
in the U.S. take place in the schools they attend, I present research
which examines the ways that school composition affects immigrant
students' educational expectations. Educational expectations and
expectation-formation also differ by gender and race/ethnicity. I present
additional research that examines the gender-gap in educational
expectations as well as the relationship of race/ethnicity with this gap.
This research lays the groundwork for future studies of enrollment,
“unrealized expectations,” persistence, and attainment for
sub-populations of students at both community colleges and four-year
institutions.<br>
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Monday, December 10, 2007<br>
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm <br>
1215 Sproul Hall<br><br>
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<font face="Garamond" size=4 color="#000080"><b>Leslie Bushong<br>
</b></font><font color="#000080">Director, California
Teach-Science/Mathematics Initiative (CaTEACH-SMI) <br>
1104 Pierce Hall<br>
University of California, Riverside<br>
voice: (951) 827-4970<br>
fax: (951) 827-4971<br>
website:
<a href="http://smi.ucr.edu/" eudora="autourl">http://smi.ucr.edu<br><br>
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