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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Minority college students"”.
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ANALYZING CLINICAL PRESENTATION, SERVICE UTILIZATION, AND CLINICAL OUTCOME OF FEMALE SEXUAL MINORITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
… examining clinically-relevant trends for sexual minority women have found evidence of psychological distress and greater utilization of mental health services compared to heterosexually-identified women. However, the results of many research studies with this population have methodological …
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A Psychometric Evaluation of the PBSS-20 Among Sexual and Non-sexual Minority College Students
… Scale-20 in a large national sample of college students containing sexual minority and non-sexual minority students. Specifically, confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the model fit with this sample, invariance testing was used to compare the model among sexual and …
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Organizational Alienation and Minority Students
… study investigated levels of alienation between minority and non minority college students. Quantitative and qualitative data was collected through a survey instrument and interviews in two different academic contexts, a public state university and a private, Catholic university in …
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The retention of college students with disabilities: what encourages them to stay in college?
This study explored the retention rate of college students with disabilities and the factors that encourage this population of students to successfully persist to graduation. The study explored the current lack of information in regard to the comparison of the retention rates of college students …
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Systemic Racism: Perceptions, Stress, and Coping among African American College Students
College attrition represents a serious and persistent problem for ethnic minority students. Although there has been a plethora of research examining retention rates, most have focused on difficulty paying for college and financial strain. Importantly, past studies suggest that minority stress in …
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Decoding minority student retention: An investigation of student experiences and institutional characteristics
… to the retention of black and Hispanic students from their first year through graduation at colleges and universities in the United States. Other studies have investigated the experiences of minority college students (Massey et al. 2006, Steele 1999, and Bowen and Bok 1998) and have …
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Psychological adjustment of sexual minority youth from rural and non-rural areas
… occurring in one’s environment. Sexual minority adolescents have high rates of depression, suicidality and victimization, and lower levels of self-esteem and social support. Methodological issues, including recruitment and inclusion of only those who are “out”, have potentially inflated …
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Stressors experienced by male minority student nurses while completing a baccalaureate program
… explored the stressors experienced by male minority student nurses while completing a baccalaureate program. The purpose of this study was to explore the major stressors experienced by male baccalaureate nursing students from racial and ethnic minority groups. In addition, coping mechanisms …
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Successful Practices of Micronesian College Students in Hawai‘i: Utilizing Positive Deviants to Develop Strength-Based Student Support Services in Higher Education
… enabling success for twelve Micronesian college students at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo. What emerged from the study were uncommon strategies and attitudinal adjustments about individual academic success, cultural adaptations to communal obligations in a largely individualized …
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Perceived Career Barriers: The Role of Ethnic Identity, Acculturation, and Self-Efficacy Mediators among Latina/o College Students
… American society create different paths in the college-to-work transition. Some individuals can follow their natural calling for a vocation, while others must contend with limited access to occupational opportunities. The emancipatory communitarian (EC) framework advocates for resisting and …
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Why do African American and Latino undergraduate students choose to attend Rowan University?
… African American and Latino undergraduate students to attend Rowan University. Sixty four African American and 56 Latino undergraduate freshmen were used in this study. Each student was given <em>The Rowan Freshman Survey</em> (2004), to obtain the quantitative data for this study about why …
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Leadership for improvement: promoting student learning through an on-campus residential learning community for first-year female, minority, and low income engineering students
… and Learning Community (ELLC) comprised of minority, female, and low-income engineering students and their perceptions of their first-year experience regarding their transition to college, their peer-to-peer and peer-to-faculty relationships, and their connection to campus. This study …
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College faculty and staff perceptions of the transition from high school to college for marginalized learners at an open access online university
… staff regarding the transition of marginalized students at an open access university. The study uses Conley's (2017) 4 keys model to analyze the responses into four categories: Key Content Knowledge, Key Transition Skills, Key Learning Skills, and Key Cognitive Strategies. This qualitative …
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The Educational Opportunity Fund/Maximizing Academic Potential (EOF/MAP) program as viewed by underrepresented freshmen students
… program through the attitudes of freshmen students toward the services provided and their perceptions of the benefits in regards to social skills, academic performance, and attainment in college. The study also investigated students' suggestions to improve the program. This quantitative …
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Unlocking the path to success : exploring Vincent Tinto’s theory of student persistence for the historically underrepresented students in higher education
… to retention of historically underrepresented students at one institution of higher education. This research identified possible ways educators can assist in increasing retention and persistence rates for historically underrepresented students pursuing higher education and how universities can …
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