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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Education, Higher--United States"”.
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Higher education in the ancient Roman Empire and its implications for contemporary higher education in the United States
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A history of the external degree in Britain and the United States
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Undocumented Hispanic students and the postsecondary transition: a narrative perspective
… degree of marginalization, inequity in access to higher education, and constitutional confusion regarding federal and state issues of supremacy and inferiority in immigration, tuition, and financial aid policies. Such students must contend not only with traditional challenges of teenagers in high …
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Raising awareness in study abroad
As a result of globalization, U.S. students need to acquire international knowledge, intercultural communication skills, and a global perspective in order to compete, succeed, and contribute to the interconnected world and global economy of the 21st century (Leask, 2001; Obst, Bhandari, & …
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The policy-formulation process in higher education as an aspect of organizational change.
The current educational reform movement mirrors reform recommendations of the past fifty years. The response of institutions of higher education to these recommendations has been limited. Some attribute this poor record to a variety of factors including a lack of understanding of the process of …
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Program-based organization in colleges of education
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Predicting enrollment in a metropolitan university in southeast Tennessee
Institutions of higher education are tasked with making decisions that will impact their students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders. Many of these decisions are focused on varying aspects of budgeting, and an institution’s sustainability and reputation could be impacted by misallocations of …
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The role of grit in the higher educational experiences of women of African descent
… the experiences of African women as they pursue education, the literature tends to focus on barriers and obstacles. This study uses the psychological framework of grit to allow women of African descent to tell the stories of their educational journeys in a more complete way, considering not only …
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Twenty-five years of Scholarship: A Sociology of The Review of Higher Education Contributors, 1977-2002
Given today's hurried pace of change in higher education and its institutions, it is imperative for the higher education research community to reflect on its current composition and resulting ability to understand and respond to the breadth and rapidity of that change. Accordingly, the purpose of …
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Examining the impact of student involvement and intercultural experiences on perceptions of institutional commitment to diversity
<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of involvement in student organizations as it relates to perceptions of campus climate. The researcher conducted a crosssectional, ex-post facto secondary data analysis of a 2005 institutional survey on diversity at Great Falls State …
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The Effect of Various Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Weighting Schemes on the Medical School Admissions Rates of Under Represented Minorities
This study investigated the cognitive and non-cognitive weighting schemes of the medical school admissions process and the effect they had on the rate of under-represented minority applicants being accepted to medical school. Non-cognitive characteristics were explored to ascertain which …
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Educationally At-risk College Students From Single-parent and Two-parent Households: an Analysis of Differences Employing Cooperative Institutional Research Program Data.
Using factors of low income, parents' levels of education, and family composition as determinants of educationally at-risk status, study investigated differences between first generation, undergraduate college students from families in lowest quintile of income in the U.S, One group consisted of …
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Benchmarks in American Higher Education: Selected Approaches for Distance Education Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies
An evaluation of American higher education distance education programs was conducted to explore how they approach intellectual property, copyright and information sharing/antitrust policy concerns for Internet-based programs. An evaluation of the current status of distance education and …
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The American Community College's Obligation to Democracy
… I address the dichotomy between liberal arts education and terminal vocational training in the American community college. The need is for reform in the community college in relation to philosophical instruction in order to empower citizens, support justice and create more sustainable …
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Senior women leaders in higher education overcoming barriers to success
… it takes for women to succeed as cabinet-level higher education administrators. The findings not only offer a wealth of strategies for career success and for overcoming professional and personal challenges, but also shed new light on critical factors that affect women’ experiences at work.</p> …