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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Faculty advisors"”.
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Cross-race advising relationships: the role of race in advising relationships between Black doctoral student protégés and their White faculty advisors
… cross-race advising relationships between White faculty advisors and their Black doctoral student protégés. I examined the racial context of doctoral education experiences and relationships between doctoral students and faculty. Blacks with doctoral degrees comprise only 0.3% of those 18 years …
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Perceptions of Shared Responsibility in Academic Advising: A Qualitative Case Study of Students and Faculty Advisors at a Midwestern Liberal Arts University
… At the University of Northwestern, students and faculty advisors experienced academic advising differently. In this qualitative phenomenological case study, interviews were conducted with students majoring in psychology and psychology faculty advisors to understand their perspectives on shared …
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DOCTORAL FACULTY ADVISOR-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP: A MULTI-CASE STUDY OF THREE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
… relationship between doctoral students and their faculty advisors is crucial for the students’ academic and professional development. While previous research has emphasised the role of faculty in providing guidance and supervising dissertations, our understanding of the dynamics and boundaries of …
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An Exploration of the Relationship between International Students and Their Advisors in U.S. Higher Education Institution
… students work very closely with their academic advisors to solve a definite problem. Dependence on the academic advisor is much more when the advisee is international. Keeping these points in mind, one of the factors that might impact academic environment for an international student is the …
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Student-Run Agencies: A Guideline for Agency Survival
… and how leadership roles of students and advisors influence the agency. This project built upon past studies of student-run agencies and expanded on the topic using the evolutionary theory of a firm by analyzing factors that determine whether it appears that a student-run agency might …
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A collaborative filtering prediction algorithm for ClassRank subject recommendations
… selecting subjects: course specific evaluations, faculty advisors, and peers. While these resources have distinct advantages, they are all limited in scope. The ClassRank web application has been developed to bridge the gap between these resources by providing a simple institute-wide system for …
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The Impact of Intrusive Advising on Academic Self Efficacy Beliefs in First-Year Students in Higher Education
… of the first term of enrollment. The support of faculty, advisors, and other students contributed to the confidence levels of students to earn a degree at the university. The role of advisors in providing structure and organization to help keep students on track to graduation was perceived to be …
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Expansion of Motivation Models of Engineering Doctoral Student Populations
… for academic careers, such as tenure track faculty positions, despite nearly 75% of students being interested in non-academic careers. Through quantitative and qualitative methods, I found that students' development toward future careers is driven by student-specific (e.g., student future …
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An Evaluation of a Secondary Student Advisement Program
… framework to conduct a study of the Teachers-As-Advisors (TAA) Program in a rural high school in Georgia. Surveys were administered to 205 students, 40 parents, and 17 advisors. Two district administrators, three school administrators, and two counselors were interviewed. In addition, focus group …
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Social Support during the Academic Transition of International Students in Ph.D. Programs
… on how to navigate the university system. Faculty advisors were supportive because they understood the needs of international students while providing opportunities for socialization away from the university setting. Relationships were not occurring with the host culture because cultural …
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Online doctoral student retention : a qualitative study exploring eight students' intrinsic motivation.
… among their cohort members, peers, professors, faculty advisors, peer working groups, family, or colleagues and this aided in their retention. Contrarily, several participants encountered issues with at least one instructor, and this demotivated them at times. Regarding autonomy, students …
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The Work Life of the Professional Academic Advisor: A Qualitative Study.
<p>Professional advisors are bearing the burdens of a) helping students make a connection to their institution; b) being largely responsible for the efforts to retain these students; and c) providing a multitude of services to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body. While a great …
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Managing academic and personal life in graduate studies : an interactive qualitative analysis of graduate student persistence and transformation
… incorporating student-identified factors: Faculty Impact, Life Management, Relationships, Playing the Game, Growth/Transformation, Emotions, and Reward/Purpose. Stage I: Orientation and Socialization Stage II: Adjustment and Transition Stage III: Navigation and Transformation Stage IV: …
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Stress, Coping, Social Support, and Psychological Distress Among MSW Students
… overall score. This study has implications for faculty, advisors, and staff of MSW programs, and other graduate departments, who can use this research to increase their awareness of student stressors, coping patterns, social supports, and levels of psychological distress.</p>
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An exploration of the impact of a performance management system on employee motivation at an academic advisory centre in Pinetown
Submitted in Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Management Science: Human Resources Management, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2018.
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Faculty Advisement and Helpfulness and the Retention of First-Semester Associate Degree Nursing Students
… empowered to reach their full potential. Nursing faculty advisement and helpfulness are essential components of nursing student retention. Guided by the Jeffreys Nursing Universal Retention and Success (NURS) conceptual model, this quantitative descriptive multi-site research study appraised …
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The impact of Focused Advising on retention and completion in the community college setting
The purpose of the study was to investigate and describe the impact of Focused Advising on retention and completion in the community college setting. This study examined one initiative known as Academic Foci or sometimes referred to as Guided Pathways as a viable tool for increasing the number of …
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Engineering Students at Typically Invisible Transition Points: A Focus on Admissions and the Sophomore Year
… engaged in their learning and less engaged with faculty and advisors. Sophomore engineering women were much more likely than men to be involved in engineering peer mentoring or leadership programs. Multiple regression analysis indicated that the most significant predictor of student satisfaction …
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