The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between participation in a retention program designed to promote academic and social integration and the persistence rates of first generation, low-income college students at an urban, public multiethnic university. Archival data were collected from the university’s Office of Institutional Research and the retention program office and included SAT/ACT scores, GPA, gender, ethnicity, and program participation data. A total of 292 first-generation, low-income students who were admitted to the university in the summer of 1999 were identified for the study. A group of 166 students were selected for the comparison group because they had not participated in the retention program; 126 students had participated in the retention program. Three major research questions guided this study: (a) Are there differences in persistence rates and other academic characteristics of underprepared, low-income, first generation college students who participate and do not participate in the retention program?; (b) Does involvement in the retention program predict student persistence of first generation low-income, underprepared students?, and (c) Can predictors of GPA be identified for students in the retention program using program and descriptive variables? A series of logistic regression analyses were conducted to assess the relationship between various retention services and the persistence and graduation rates of participants. The results showed that there were statistically significant relationships between participation and non-participation in the retention program and having higher GPAs and higher graduation and persistence rates. Of the four program features, participation in tutoring, workshops, and social events were found to be predictors of graduation. College GPA was also found to be a predictor of graduation for all students. The results also showed that women were more likely to graduate than men.

[pt] O trabalho visa levantar hipóteses sobre a convivência de diferentes classes sociais em um mesmo ambiente digital. Para isto o trabalho é divido em duas partes, sendo a primeira o referencial teórico, que busca ilustrar conceitos que serão utilizados no modelo. O estudo se inicia com um detalhamento de redes socias, mostrando sua evolução. Depois são aprofundados os seguintes construtos:a) reatância, que mostra que a perda de uma liberdade tem uma influência negativa para o consumidor; b) de demarketing, conceito que indica que algumas vezes é preciso expulsar o consumidor indesejado, para manter o desejado e por fim c) classes sociais, e a forma como as pessoas se relacionam. Após esta etapa foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com pessoas que utilizam redes sociais frequentemente, e que realizaram a migração do Orkut para o Facebook no período em que a baixa renda começou a utilizar a internet e as redes sociais. Ao resumir as idéias principais das entrevistas chegou-se à hipótese de que as pessoas das classes de renda mais altas têm dificuldade em conviver com outras de classes mais baixas, na mesma rede social. O sucesso das redes sociais, em especial o Facebook, estaria condicionado à sua capacidade de aprimorar as ferramentas de privacidade, criando diferentes redes sociais dentro da mesma rede social. / [en] The work aims to raise hypotheses about the coexistence of different social classes in the same digital environment. The work is divided into two parts, the first part is the references, which illustrate concepts that are used in the model. This study begins with the explanation of social network, showing their evolution. Then, constructs are defined. They are: reactance, which shows that the loss of freedom has a negative influence for the consumer, demarketing which indicates that it is sometimes necessary to chose expel the consumer that you do not want, to maintain the desired one, and finally social classes, and how people relate. After this phase in-depth interviews were carried out with people who frequently use social networks, and that migrated from Orkut to Facebook in the period in which the poor began to use the internet and social networks, in special the Orkut. Once summarize the main ideas of the interviews the result was the hypothesis that people of higher classes have difficulty in beeing in the same social network of the one of the lower class. The success of social networks, especially Facebook, would be conditioned on its ability to enhance the privacy tools, creating different social networks in the same social network.

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This report measures and explains the way that new grocery store development in underserved neighborhoods impact economic development. This study evaluates a new grocery storeÕs economic impact in six critical areas: 1) Job Creation 2) Income Creation 3) Tax Revenue Creation 4) Impact on Surrounding Residential Real Estate ) Impact on Surrounding Commercial Real Estate 6) Lower Food Costs The research shows that when these six effects areas are considered together, the potential economic impact of a new grocery store in a food desert is immense. The most important of these topics is the new stores ability to create jobs, local income, and it effect upon the surrounding real estate. National data shows that a new grocery store can have an employment multiplier of nearly 20, meaning that for every directly created job, 20 more are either created or supported elsewhere in the economy. Furthermore, between 50 and 75 percent of directly created jobs are filled locally, helping to pump income into the local communi . Thirdly, the opening of a new grocery store has an immediate and significant effect upon commercial and residential real estate. Data from the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative indicates that the opening of a new store instantly boosts home values by between four and seven percent and reverses negatively trending home values. While the effect on commercial real estate is less measurable, it is no less significant. The new store acts as an anchor retailer, attracting smaller retailers to the area and helping to reduce community vacancy rates and spur economic development. Lastly, the new store will reduce the cost of food to the local community by providing food at cheaper prices than local convenience stores and by removing many of the unnecessary transportation costs that food desert residents frequently encounter. Illustrating these potential impacts, the proposed development of a new Jack and Jakes Grocery Store on O.C. Ha y Boulevard in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans is a perfect case study. As defined by the USDA, Central City is a low-income food desert. For years it has suffered serious economic decay that has seen its main commercial corridor, O.C. Haley Boulevard, become completely defunct. However, in applying national data and several widely accepted economic theories, this report concludes that the development of a new grocery store in this area is ideal. The new store will help to make community attractive to economic investment and redevelopment once again. By providing jobs and income to the surrounding community, retail demand in the area will be increased. This in turn will make the commercial corridor more attractive to businesses. Furthermore, as an anchor retailer, the new grocery store will further promote economic development by helping to apply downward pressure on community vacancy rates, both residential and commercial. / 0 / SPK / specialcollections@tulane.edu

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First generation and low income college students continue to experience outcome differences despite higher education’s efforts to reduce inequality. Despite abundant research exploring intelligence mindset, there have been few attempts to explore relationships between mindset and scarcity. To reduce this gap in knowledge, and support student success, this study explored relationships between scarcity and beliefs about intelligence – including the intelligence mindset of students and the failure mindset of parents – as well as the connection between scarcity and student demographics. Survey research design was used, and participants were gathered using a census of undergraduate students of a Midwest university in spring 2020 (N = 9,760). Results indicate scarcity continues to be of vital importance to the discussion about inequity in higher education, as found in the direct relationships between perceived scarcity and student demographics, and the indirect relationship of perceived scarcity with intelligence mindset through perceived failure mindset of parents.

There are commercial imperatives for companies to consider low-income markets for expansion. This research study investigated how firms, who traditionally focused on the upper- and middle-income markets, were adapting to operating in dual markets, an ability termed ‘ambidexterity’. While there is abundant research available on ambidexterity, this construct has not been studied in the context of the low-income market.The primary aim of this study was to explore the tensions that existed for firms exploring the low-income market and how firms went about resolving these tensions. A deductive research approach was followed and 23 managers, representing 14 companies across eight commercial sectors, were interviewed using semi-structured interviews and qualitative research methodology. The data was analysed using content, thematic and narrative analysis techniques.A central finding of this research study was that companies needed committed leaders to help resolve tensions for the firm and create the balance between exploring low-income markets and exploiting the traditional markets. Change management was found to be a critical integration technique to help resolve tensions between the “explore” and “exploit” business units.The outcome of this research adds to the theory base of both low-income markets and ambidexterity. It also provides a decision-making framework for firms who are considering the organisational requirements for the exploration of low-income markets. / Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) / unrestricted

The thesis project is intended for the investigation of the global housing crisis and the issues that lay behind it. The beneficiary should be the people living under the minimum local wage. Although the people serving the city has great importance, due to the socio economic imbalance these people are forgotten. To give back what the working class people deserve in a city is the main motto of the thesis.

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Thesis advisor: Gustavo Morello / Given the endless times I have heard “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, the value of social networks became the forefront of this sociological study. Throughout this study I investigate the relationship between social capital and self efficacy. I interviewed ten undergraduate, low income students at medium sized school in the Northeast on their social connections throughout high school and college experience. These same respondents then took a General Self Efficacy scale to measure their perceived self efficacy. The study finds that those with higher measures of social capital also demonstrate higher perceived self efficacy. More importantly, social capital seemed to be more effective in providing resources and building self efficacy when there was a shared identity or experience between the student and the resource. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Sociology.