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This dissertation examined the relationship between student engagement in college and subsequent employment status and early career earnings in a public university. This study sought to understand whether or not student academic and...
Online graduate education accounts for the fastest rising portion of new graduate students in the United States (Allum & Okahana, 2015). Yet, their experiences are missing from the literature, and we know little about what drives their...
Intercollegiate athletics has become a business enterprise which exists and thrives on higher education campuses. As the growth of intercollegiate sport has continued, women have been noticeably absent from leadership roles in this...
This quantitative study examines the current status of Black women higher education administrators in comparison to other higher education administrators of another race and/or gender. Specifically, years of service, social support, ...
Research on college student leadership is evolving, with more scholars studying the influence of social identities on the development of student leaders. Gaps exist in the literature on how race influences leadership identity development...
Exploring Grade Retention Policy: A Case Study of How Elementary School Administrators and Teachers Make Sense of School District Grade Retention Policy
Grade retention has long been at the center of education debates (Rothstein, 1998). Despite the overwhelming evidence of the negative effect of retention on student's self-esteem (Holmes and Matthews, 1984), attitude towards school ...
This three article mixed methods dissertation is titled "Three Studies on the Leadership Behaviors of Academic Deans in Higher Education." Each of the three articles offers a distinct thesis regarding administration in academic...
Research has recognized that a student's culture plays a role in how they experience an online learning environment, and many higher education institutions are challenged by retaining and graduating historically underserved students...
This dissertation examines the distinct motivational variables that impact philanthropic contributions among millennial graduates of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU). This study focuses on examining the philanthropic...
It is well documented that with a growing demographic mismatch between a largely white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student body, teacher-student relationships are often impacted by a lack of educator understanding around...
Attrition among Emotional/Behavioral Disorder (EBD) teachers in El County School District (ECSD) has been a problem. This study aimed to identify the leading causes of EBD teacher attrition within ESCD. Two research questions were...
Students do not learn from experience but from reflection upon experiences. Reflection is a significant component of experiential learning including leadership learning. Leadership educators utilize reflection to enhance students'...
While there are several definitions of service learning in the literature, in this study service learning is defined as an academic course based on credit that involves participating in service and reflecting on that service to gain a...
This qualitative research study examined how junior-level undergraduate students clarify their values in the environment of a leadership course. Previous research indicated the concept of values clarification is a dynamic process in...
Healthcare professions are faced with a problem, a shortage of underrepresented minorities (URM) who resemble the racial, ethnic, and gender structure of the community that they will one day serve. Further impacting this problem is the...
This dissertation investigated teachers' perception and use of culturally relevant teaching by exploring how teachers define and incorporate it into their classrooms. Many researchers in education have explored the benefits of using...
There is an emerging body of research on the leadership learning of college students, but studies that examine the influence of racial or ethnic identity are minimal. Studies on the leadership learning of Black students and, more...
Institutions are constantly seeking ways to facilitate and improve student-faculty interaction, especially in the first year of college, a time when students are facing a transition to a new academic environment. One approach...
Community colleges struggle with enrollment and student success challenges to enhance student experiences and improve completion through various initiatives. Despite efforts, many lack long-term sustainability efforts, leaving colleges...
Lord, Why Did You Make Me a Black Woman?: Examining the Intersection of Race and Gender for Black Women Senior-Level Leaders at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Historically White Institutions
The representation of Black women in senior leadership positions within higher education hovers at a dismal 5.8% (Wilder et al., 2013). Though Black women's degree attainment has increased substantially in comparison to other racial...
An estimated 60 to 80 percent of the undergraduate population work on and/or off campus. The student employment literature has primarily focused on two themes, which are the impact of work on both academic outcomes (grade point average, ...
The Child Care Apprenticeship Program of Pinellas (CCAP) was created by an advisory committee made up of local childcare facility directors, in 1989, in response to the need for better training in the community. CCAP is a two-year...
Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice students' awareness of cultural diversity during a required Introduction to Education course that includes a service learning component. As college students majoring in...
The increasing shift for higher education institutions to recognize career readiness as an institutional priority (Cruzvergara et al., 2018) is leading the need to identify ways to scale student engagement in at least one high-impact...
The goal of this study was to provide insight into the experiences of first-generation students by learning how the participating group of first-generation students viewed their leadership identity development and what factors had the...
The purpose of this dissertation in practice was to understand how women faculty and mentors influenced black women's career pathways in technology. The setting for this study was graduates from a 4-year public, mid-level university in...
In teaching leadership and leader identity development to Latina undergraduate women, it is imperative their salient identities are addressed and acknowledged. The teaching of standardized forms of leadership and the deconstruction of...
Research on leadership pedagogy has predominately presented the how in the practice of teaching, focused on the application of leadership theories without regard for social location, power, or considerations to disrupt the status quo....
Black and Brown college students with autism are missing in the higher education research surrounding the college experience and college readiness. This is important because understanding the college experience and college readiness for...
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the body of knowledge on social justice learning outcomes in higher education and address the gap in the literature on students' perceptions of their own learning. Specifically, it explored...
In 2011, President Obama called upon the education system to prepare students to be competitive in today's global workforce in order to regain the United States' position as the international leader in business, politics, and education....
Over the past century, career development centers across the nation have evolved from the vocational and placement centers of the 1920s towards an interdisciplinary operational model of today (Herr, 2013). The interdisciplinary model...
A number of studies, including a 2010 study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), have documented persistence gaps between the educational attainment of White males and that of Black males and Hispanic males among other...
A Black Curriculum for a Black School: A Case-Study Exploring Black Students' Attitudes Towards Culturally Sensitive Curriculum and Its Impact on Black Student Engagement
Predominantly Black schools may struggle with ways to keep their students engaged. When Black students are not engaged in class, it could lead to low academic performance, which may reflect the lack of culturally relevant content in the...
This dissertation explored the current perceptions and preferences for residence hall construction lifespan standards among campus master planners and housing administrators in higher education. Historically, universities have built...
This qualitative study aims to explore the experiences of undocumented college students enrolled at public institutions of higher education in the state of Florida who engage in the phenomena of activism. The research will explore...
Postsecondary institutions are viewed as spaces where students can become exposed to different ways of thinking and being beyond their own subjective experiences (Gortmaker & Brown, 2006). Research has suggested that college-going queer...
Indigenous people around the world maintain worldviews that emphasize the interconnection between living and non-living entities and the spiritual and physical worlds. Healers in these communities believe that imbalance occurs when these...
Self-efficacy is defined as "one's perceived capabilities for learning or performing actions at designated levels" (Schunk & Mullen, 2012, p. 220), and has been shown to account for up to 25 percent of the variance in academic...
Working Dragon Mothers: Motherhood and Labor Market Participation of Women Faculty with Leadership Positions in an Adult Higher Education Institution in Liaoning Dalian in China
From the foundation of the People's Republic of China (in 1949) until now, Chinese women's social status has been improved and their identities have been shifted with the changes in the social system. However, in the new century, they...
The increasing pressure to increase research productivity in higher education institutions (HEIs) has led many universities to regulate faculty research activities through various accountability and incentive policies around the globe....
Diversity in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce is in continual demand among underrepresented minorities and women. Of particular concern is the disproportionality low rates of Black women in STEM in...
There is an issue occurring in public schools that is not often addressed and that is the Black-White disparity in exclusionary discipline. The conversation often centers around the "achievement gap" or more recently the "opportunity gap...
Examining Two Doors to the Community College Presidency: Can Certain Departing President and Trustee Characteristics Predict Who New Community College Presidents Will Be?
Previous research studies explain how the presidential selection process at community colleges works and identify competencies that community college trustees look for in community college presidential candidates. However, few scholars...
Staff members in institutions of higher education who are not faculty, such as those who work in student affairs, information technology, student business services, and other areas, may feel invisible and unappreciated. This sense of...
Get It How I Live: An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of How Black First-Generation Low-Income Students Learn about Money through Community Cultural Wealth
Grounded in critical race theory, Yosso’s (2005) Community Cultural Wealth Model aims to capture unique ways that help students of color succeed in predominantly White institutions, and in society. This case study explores how Black...
How Latinas experience their racial identity is unique when viewed through the Black and white racial dichotomy that exists in the United States. In Latin America, race is understood to be phenotypical and determined based off the color...
As first-generation college students continue to make up sizable populations on college campuses (RTI International, 2021a), a better understanding of their unique experiences is needed. As research has shown the effectiveness of...
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