Personal and Parental Influences on College Attendance: Some Negro-White Differences

A Qualitative Analysis of Family Support and Interaction among Black College Students at an Ivy League University

“…Many authors suggest that high achievement and high aspirations for children and family members are components of a strong Black family system (Allen, 1978;Cosby, 1971;Harris, 1970;Pearson, 2001). Yet, the family interactions of Black college students has been virtually ignored in the literature.…”

Educational and Vocational Aspirations of Minority and Female Students: A Longitudinal Study

“…Our finding that academic proficiency is related to educational and occupational aspirations is also consistent with other studies. In fact, researchers (Farrell & Pollard, 1987;Harris, 1970) have suggested that those variables related to school performance have the greatest effect on high school students' aspirations. Noteworthy is that academic proficiency seemed to contribute the least to the prediction model when other school variables were considered.…”

“…Variables related to school performance (Farrell & Pollard, 1987;Harris, 1970) seem to have had a substantial effect on high school students' educational and occupational aspirations. Specific measures of these variables have included grade point average (Mau, 1995); change in grade point average over 2 years (Shepard, 1992); reading, science, and mathematics proficiency (Mau, 1995); and eighth-grade mathematics ability (Braddock & Dawkins, 1993).…”