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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Academe"”.
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Gender Inequities in Academe and Faculty Perceptions of Family-Friendly Policies
This study explored faculty members' perceived importance of family-friendly policies in academia, the extent to which faculty perceive academic institutions as having a social responsibility to make the academy more family-friendly, participants' endorsement of gender-biased norms, and whether the …
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Navigating Power and Politics: Women of Color Senior Leaders in Academe
… women of color who are at the senior level of academe continue to advance while navigating and maneuvering through power and politics encountered in the organizational system. Although we know that there are few women of color at the senior level of administration, this qualitative study …
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Wresting and Arresting Sense in Academe: The Complicated Discursive Structures of Female Assistant Professors
Women in academe often become entangled in an intricate equation of sensemaking as they work to balance the professional demands of teaching, research, and service, while at the same time learning the political and moral meanings of being a scholar. Structuration theory offers avenues for closely …
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Guerrillas in the mi(d)st: a study of discreet dissension among administrators in academe /
… of discreet dissension in the administration of academe through literature review and the focused reflections of retired, senior administrators of postsecondary institutions in Ontario. Discretionary decision making is a large component of senior administrative positions. At times, senior …
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Becoming a Member of the Research Community in Academe: Determinants of Postbaccalaureate Success for Traditionally Underrepresented Students
The broad question that this study addressed is the following: Among students of color, what individual attributes, along with key educational experiences, contribute to their success in securing graduate degrees? More specifically, the research asked the following questions about Students of Color …
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Blackness in a predominantly white academe : a case of the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Health Sciences
This study examined the lived experience of black registrars (medical residents) in a predominantly white academic medical milieu using the case of the University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa. It foregrounded this experience by demonstrating how it is circumscribed by …
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Employing the English Major
… easily employable nor highly profitable outside academe without careful planning early in a program of study. Besides internships and diversification of course work, the results also recommend departmental and institutional programs for assisting majors toward toward career possibilities outside …
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Understanding the Socialization Experiences of New Technical Faculty: A Transition from Industry to the Technical College
… faculty members transitioned from industry to academe. Data analysis revealed that participants in the study experienced a similar transitional process into the technical college as twoyear and four-year faculty into community colleges and universities. Like their two-year and four-year …
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Institutional Factors Contributing to the Under-representation of African American Women in Higher Education: Perceptions of Women in Leadership Positions
… and experiences of African American women in academe. The qualitative data from this study yielded the concepts of leadership preparation, perception of race and gender, institutional challenges, and personal strategies for success. Ultimately, this study will further discussions regarding how …
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Crosslinked conventional size and nanoparticle size acrylic latexes and their blends: Investigation of the effects of crosslinking, particle size and distribution, glass transition temperature and blending on film formation, properties and morphology
… years, researchers in industry as well as in academe have been exploring various strategies to improve performance of acrylic latexes mainly to replace traditionally used solvent borne coatings due to increasing environmental concerns and strict governmental regulations. The main goal of the …
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Sexuality demographics and the college admissions process: Implications of asking applicants to reveal their sexual orientation
… this trend at their own institutions and within academe in general. Coded assessment of the qualitative responses revealed numerous beneficial and detrimental concerns associated with a sexual-orientation demographic.
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PUBLISH AND PERISH: ACADEMIC CANCEL CULTURES, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND NETWORKED ACADEMICS
… of the social media practices of contemporary academe. Drawing from thousands of posts and interactions, as well as blogposts and institutional guidelines, this research uses these data points to reconstruct chronological narratives of its primary case studies – the controversies surrounding …
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José Rafael Moneo Vallés: 1965-1985
… MWrida (1980-86) and into the highest ranks of academe when he assumed the chairmanship of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1985-1990). Moneo's work falls into three distinct periods: the pre-Harvard Spanish years (1965-85), the five Harvard …
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Long-distance mother-daughter communication: Identifying changes and maintenance behaviors when daughters leave home
… add to the wealth of knowledge in the world of academe but also can be applied and implemented in everyday life.
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Martyrs at the Hearth: The Social-Religious Roles of Resistance Women During Nazi Germany
… to Nazi oppression existed within the ranks of academe, the military, the working classes, and the established churches. The Catholic Church, under the leadership of Pope Pius XI, entered into a non-interference agreement with Hitler, but the Evangelical Church experienced a severe split. From …
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Transgressngroove: an exploration of black girlhood, the body, and education
… trends. Venturing into three community spaces—academe, Blackgirls, and my family—that reveal a feminist, body-centered praxis, transgressngroove. As a process-oriented investigation this study’s contributions highlight Black feminist (and Black girl) ways of knowing (in education), expands the …
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Choosing your engagements: tenure and work life at state comprehensive universities
… of studies on the occupational culture of academe. Findings are presented in two chapters, with the first exploring institutional considerations, including how tenure is conceptualized and how the expectations for tenure were understood and negotiated, and the second focusing on how the …
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The child care conundrum : the costs and consequences of unmet early child care needs among parents working at academic institutions across the United States
… tackle the child care conundrum is the American academe. I use the results of an original online survey of parents working, teaching, researching, or studying in academia with a child under the age of five to develop a deterministic model that quantifies the total cost of unmet child care needs …
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Self-Care and the Female Nurse Eductor: a Feminist Perspective
Nurse educators play an important role in the academe of developing competent nurses.Students moving from pre-requisite courses to a professional program can be challenging. at the same time, navigating the new milieu of academia can place stress on the novice educator, causing a decrease in …
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