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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Graduate School Experiences"”.
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American Indian Professionals: Educational Decision-Making and Persistence
<p>American Indian graduate students are experiencing a higher matriculation rate in higher education today; however, those rates are still lower than other underrepresented minority groups’ rates. The purpose of this study is to conduct exploratory research to investigate the decision-making …
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The Object of My Abduction
… part is a personal narrative examining the many graduate school experiences that have helped shape me into the writer I am today. Together, these three parts are presented in such a way as to showcase both my mastery of writing and my understanding of the various literary models necessary to …
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An Exploratory Study of Goal Commitment Among Graduate Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields
… identify the entry-level goal commitment in STEM graduate students at the beginning of an academic year and identify change in commitment at the end of an academic year. The other was to identify factors and types of experiences and their impact on commitment in this context. Data came from a …
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The Impact of Gender Bias in Student Evaluations of Teaching
… consisted of questions relating to biased experiences in academia as well as biased reports in SETs, especially reports having to do with the faculty's gender. Topics I will discuss include gender bias in evaluations, the language between professors and students, gender and queerness, …
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Negotiating Power, Identity and Mutuality: Graduate Students in Relation with Faculty, Administrators and Each Other
… less is known about the collaborative experiences of graduate students. The purpose of this qualitative study was to (a) describe and systematically analyze the collaborative and shared experiences of four graduate students who worked together for two and one-half years as part of a …
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Career Paths of Female Chief Academic Officers in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
… information; her early, adolescent, college, and graduate school experiences; early vocational experiences; the effect of marriage and motherhood on her career; critical factors she identified as important in achieving her current position; and the importance of spiritual convictions or Christian …
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Exploring the Academic and Social Transititon Experiences of Ethnic Minority Graduate Students
… Fewer numbers of minorities at the undergraduate level translates into fewer minority students eligible to pursue graduate and professional degrees. As such, institutions of higher education have begun to recognize the importance of not only ensuring that minority students earn bachelor's …