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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Academic career."”.
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The Triumvirate Woman: Reconceptualizing Academic Career Messages for African American Women in Engineering
… in engineering by intentionally focusing on academic career messages for African American women who are tenured and tenure-track in engineering through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Black feminist thought, and intersectionality. This study illuminates within-group differences at the …
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Parental Expectations for Asian American Men Who Entered College Early: Influences on their Academic, Career, and Interpersonal Decision-Making
… high expectations for their children to excel academically and professionally. Filial piety and the desire to make their parent(s) proud can motivate these children to achieve but can also place undue pressure upon them. This mixed methods dissertation study investigated the perceived influence …
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An exploratory study of attractors and detractors in Black graduates' choice of an academic career in a South African higher education institution
… the factors that most determine black graduates' career choice and aimed to better understand how these factors impact the career choice/decision to specifically pursue a career in academia in South Africa, bearing in mind that factors that attract and retain are not the same. Based on a total …
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A Study on Nursing Profession and Attitudes Toward Death of Nurses
… there is significant difference in the finally academic career(F=3.84, p=.02). In terms of academic career, the nursing profession was shown to be high in a case of more than a master's degree, and in the post-test that used Tuckey, there was significant difference between graduates from 3-year …
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Academic identity, parental socialization, and teacher support of charter school Latinx adolescents
… continue to lag behind other students in academic achievement across their academic career. One variable that has significantly predicted academic achievement in adolescents is their level of academic identity. The proposed study will measure the relationship between Latinx adolescents’ …
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A Comprehensive Guidance Counseling Program for Jamaican Schools: a Needs Assessment
… with real challenges that are impacting their academic, career, and personal/social development. The major issues identified by stakeholders as having the greatest negative impact on students' success included: death of someone close, fear of contracting STIs, HIV/AIDS, thoughts, of problems at …
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Mexican-American Females and the Bachelor's Degree Challenges and Success Stories
… that graduates had many challenges during their academic career. Mentoring, family support, and personal determination and persistence were key to their success.
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Teachers and Children of our Elementary Schools Need Speech Education
… of school and continuing on through his entire academic career. Third, to establish in my own mind the relative need of speech education in our own geographical area, to see if conditions there are comparable to those reported for the other parts of our nation, and to attempt to determine other …
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Girls in Child Protective Services: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Self-Perceptions, Interpersonal Connections, and Academic Resilience
… study was to advance the understanding of academic resilience among girls in the care of child protective services. Using a developmental framework of resilience this research examined: the academic experiences of girls in care, the capacity of girls in care to form positive self- …
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Academic staff’s career pathway design in English pre-1992 universities: contemporary evolution or systematic de-construction of Homo Academicus?
… in this pressurised environment, the response of academic staff – the most important resource in any institution – is critical. Against this background, there has been an emphasis from policy bodies and Universities on the need to improve the management of human resources. <br/>This research …
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Text Based Analysis in the Undergraduate Classroom
… to promote learning skills transferable to both academic and non-academic career paths. By utilizing “The Story of an Hour”, I explore the uses of this software in order to demonstrate the potential of the digital humanities to fortify students to be active in the creation of their work and …
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“It’s a whole load of not giving up”: individual and organisational factors that contribute to UK based women achieving professor status in STEM
… UK, women are increasingly underrepresented in academic STEM careers. Of all Professors in STEM in the UK, only 22% are women. This thesis conducted an exploratory investigation into the individual and organisational factors that contribute to women’s successful career progression in academic …
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Orthodontic Faculty Recruitment and Retention: Goals and Perceptions
There is a shortage of faculty in academic dentistry and orthodontics in particular. The purpose of this study was to quantify real and perceived differences in income, workload, and satisfaction between full-time academic and private practice orthodontists. Surveys were returned by 119 (70%) …
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Outcomes Associated with Mentorship for Canadian University Students Transitioning to Adulthood
… a mentor and those without were found related to academics (academic/career goals, school importance), life satisfaction, and readiness for adulthood. Mentorship was also found to significantly predict readiness for adulthood in a regression model, after accounting for support from family and …
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A tale of two courses: exploring the relationship between identity, modern language, and career aspirations of undergraduate students in language for specific purposes classrooms
… itself with how identity, modern language, and career aspirations function on a micro-level and macro-level as it pertains to the Trump administration. Through two language for specific purpose (LSP) classrooms, questions explore personal identity, Spanish major and minor connections, and how …
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Telling stories: a thematic narrative analysis of eight women's PhD experiences
… the discipline and wanting to begin or build an academic career. In some cases they were incongruent – being awarded a prestigious scholarship was motivation for one woman to start her degree, but the departmental pressure and expectations that went along with it were de-motivating.
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The Influences on Early Career Academics which Affect Their Career Paths in a Post-1992 University.
This thesis looks at influences on the academic career paths of new lecturers over a period of their first five years of employment in higher education. It is based in one single post-1992 university. An analysis of fifty-three critical incidents articulated by seventeen early career academics …
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The collective biography of professors and adjuncts of the Imperial University of Vilnius (1803–1832) /
… to which the aim is to provide a social and academic analysis of the characteristics of this group (the composition of the group, social and territorial origin, religious affiliation, education and academic duties). The special cases of the group, which allowed the full examination of the …
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A Multivariate Exploration of School Counselor Engagement with Students with Disabilities
… with disabilities are at risk for a myriad of academic and personal/social challenges. School counselors are in a unique position to act as advocates for students with disabilities and their families to ensure that they have the educational and community supports they need for healthy academic, …
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The Little Red Circle Floating above an App Icon: Badge Notifications And The Relation to State and Trait FoMO and Procrastination
… Students face many challenges throughout their academic career, and the fear of missing out (FoMO) is one. FoMO happens when people feel left out or in the dark on a situation. The use of push notifications allows people to be notified instantaneously about events and celebrations, both with …
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