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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"City College"”.
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
Young people go to college not merely to equip themselves for competition in the workplace, but also to construct new identities and find a home in the world. This dissertation shows how, in the midst of wrenching social change, communities, too, use colleges in their struggle to reinvent and …
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Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
… Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from Chicago's Woodrow Wilson Junior College (WWJC). …
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A study of graduates from the Master of Arts in Adult Education program at Federal City College
… master's program in adult education at Federal City College without the undergraduate degree were compared with graduates who entered the program with the undergraduate degree to determine why the students entered the program, what the students brought to the program, how the students performed …
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Fulfilling the college promise: moving from access to completion for second-year promise students at Long Beach City College
… existed between participation in the college promise program and student persistence, success, and completions at Long Beach City College (LBCC) through a Completion by Design framework. Participants for this study included college promise program students from cohort years 2013, 2014, …
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An investigation into employee job satisfaction and its impact on organizational effectiveness : a case study of the Buffalo City College
Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Management Sciences: Human Resources Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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The Contested Space of Community Colleges in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Case of City College of San Francisco Through the Accreditation Crisis of 2012-2017
… a case study concerning a California community college with a long history of working to be an open access, working class institution, despite the California policy structures pressuring and asserting community colleges to become more efficient and business like. For the state, the main focus is …
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Data-Driven Analysis and Visualization of Energy Consumption Patterns In Academic Buildings Via Development of Matlab Gui Tool: A Case Study at The City College of New York From 2018-2022
… and peak periods within various buildings in the City College of New York (CCNY), aiming to foster the development of effective energy management strategies. The research develops a simple MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) tool, designed to simplify the future replication of similar analyses …
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A Convenient Myopia: SEEK, Shaughnessy, and the Rise of High-Stakes Testing at CUNY
… great struggle for racial justice was fought at City College and CUNY from 1964 to 1978. In this archival history, supplemented with thirteen oral histories of students and teachers, and grounded in the larger context of racial segregation and exclusion within American public education and …
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RUNNING FOR INTEGRATION: CCNY AND THE PROMISE OF INTERRACIAL COOPERATION THROUGH BASKETBALL
<p>In 1951, an investigation of gambling in college basketball by New York district attorney, Frank Hogan, ultimately led to the arrest of more than 30 players from seven schools, including six players from the City College of New York (CCNY). Just a year earlier in 1950, CCNY became the first …
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The prevalence of depression as measured by the Beck Inventory and the characteristics associated with depression among students in three Illinois public community colleges: The College of DuPage, Truman College, and McHenry County College
… students at three Illinois public community colleges. As this was the first study of depression in this population, the colleges were selected to represent different types: (a) the College of DuPage is a large suburban college in a wealthy district; (b) Truman College is an ethnically …
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Technetium: Productivity Tracking for Version Control Systems
<p>In recent years, the City College of New York has seen its Computer Science program grow immensely, to the point of overcrowding. This has negative implications for both students and professors, particularly in introductory computer science courses in which constant feedback, iteration and …
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Political Power at the City University of New York: A Case Study of Meritocracy vs. Democracy – Open Admissions and the Imposition of Tuition, 1969–1976
… of struggle at CUNY: the take over of parts of City College, leading to the Open Admissions policy in 1969; and the fiscal crisis of New York City, leading to the imposition of tuition for undergraduate students in 1975-76. Both policies illustrate the fundamental contradiction between …
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Factors Which Prolong Civil Conflict in Africa: The Case of Angola, Liberia and Sierra Leone
… the patience.</p> <p>I remain grateful to the City University of New York, City College, for extending this opportunity to me.</p> <p>God remains great.</p>
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Mindfulness as a Moderator of the Relation Between Acculturative Stress and Body Dissatisfaction/Eating Disorder Symptoms in Latinx Students
… Latinx students were recruited from The City College of New York, CUNY, through the web-based survey participation pool SONA. Participants answered questions assessing their levels of acculturative stress, mindfulness, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms. The results of the …
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Does Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Moderate the Association Between ADHD and Overweight/Obesity?
… part- time or full-time students attending the City College of New York. They were recruited through an online platform and participated in the study in exchange for course credit. Eligible participants were required to self-report their height, weight, from which body mass index (BMI) was …
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Perceived Discrimination and Depression as it Relates to Nativity Status of students from Immigrant Backgrounds
… were collected from classes in Psychology at City College. Results. Results showed that native born respondents reported significantly higher levels of perceived discrimination than foreign born. Among Latinos, native born respondents reported significantly higher levels of depression than …
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Plastic Surgery Resident Perceptions of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's 2011 Duty Hour Regulation Changes: Are Patients at Risk?
The death of Libby Zion, a New York City college student, in 1984 was blamed in part on fatigued and under-supervised residents. Her death brought about a grand jury investigation and eventually prompted the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to create and enforce multiple …
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
… held segregationist views until attending City College of New York. Born and raised in Canada, Perry Nussbaum developed a different understanding of race and inequality. Although each rabbi attempted to make Mississippi home, they faced backlash regarding their stances on equality due to …
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Mentalization: How Parental Reflective Function on the Parent Development Interview relates to Child Mentalization on the Thematic Apperception Test
… Center, a community mental health clinic at the City College of New York. The sample consisted of 15 parent-child dyads. Data was collected as part of the intake process for children beginning treatment at The Psychological Center. The children in this clinical population ranged in age from 4.5 …
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