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Manpower Implications of Illinois College Degrees: A Preliminary Supply Model
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Race, Class, and Tracking: What Keeps African American Males from Pursuing College Degrees?
… chosen curriculum; 2 participants represented a college preparatory curriculum, and represented a technical preparatory curriculum. Stories were collected via individual and focus group interviews in a predominantly Black high school in middle Georgia. Additional methods included school …
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(Re)Envisioning Factors Contributing to Black Men’s College Success: An Ecological and Critical Reflection Using Photovoice
… the voices of Black men who have completed college degrees. The study explores the question: What factors contribute to college completion for Black men? Using a qualitative approach and the Ethos platform to collect images, photo captions, and critical reflection data from a purposive …
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The relationship between parental attitudes and children's academic readiness for first-grade entry
… by their mothers' attitudes. For mothers with college degrees, the relationship to their children’s quantitative readiness was negative. Fathers with college degrees possessed attitudes which favorably influenced their children's pre-reading readiness. No definite trend was found when …
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Closing the Gap: A First Year Student Retention Strategy for Historically Black Colleges and Universities in South Carolina
… between majority and minority populations with college degrees. African Americans are the largest minority population with college degrees and the largest minority population currently enrolled in baccalaureate degree programs in the state. Forty-four percent of these African American college …
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Factors That Contribute to the Educational Success of Haitian-American Women
… For this study, 213 Haitian-American women with college degrees completed the Inventory of College Success for Haitian-American Women. One descriptive analysis was conducted and 10 hypotheses were tested by one-way ANOVA.</p> <p><em>Results.</em> This study examined 16 dependent variables and 10 …
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Education and its effects on police officer job performance: the perceived views from both Chattanooga police officers and society
… hypothesized that police officers with college degrees were perceived to perform their duties better than officer's without any college experience. In order to test this hypothesis, the researcher conducted a survey questionnaire which was administered to numerous police officers who …
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Examining the Indigenous Relationship Between Education and the United States' Military from 2001-2009
… the benefits earned in the military to complete college degrees. Most of the participants recommended higher education as a first option after high school completion and entrance as an officer if the military was a desired destination.
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Student loan debt influence on graduate degree attainment
… are accruing more debt than ever to pay for college degrees, and recent trends in higher education report a raise in cost of tuition. Current statistics reveal over 1.2 trillion dollars in outstanding student loan debt from over 40 million borrowers, however, students are still being …
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First Not Last: A Not-So-Modest Proposal to Support First-Generation, Low-Income Students at the University of Pennsylvania
… These ambitious scholars arrive at community colleges and four-year public and private university campuses with characteristics that set them apart from middle-class and affluent classmates whose parents earned college degrees. These differences exacerbate at elite institutions historically …
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Something Like a Phenomenon: High Achieving Women of Color and Experiences of Mental Health Resource Utilization
… American women (AAW) with a minimum of two college degrees and a minimum of at least 2 years working in their chosen fields. Data were analyzed using methods outlined by Moustakas’ (1994) data analysis procedures. </p>
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A Mixed Method Descriptive Study of High School Graduates' Dual Enrollment Experiences and the Influence on College Readiness
… and how their participation influenced their college readiness. Dual enrollment programs have become prominent nationwide. Several studies show positive outcomes including increased high school completion, improved postsecondary persistence, and higher college degree completion. This study …
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Do Teacher Characteristics Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from a Rural State
… licensure exam scores, experience, graduate degrees, and in some cases college degrees. I conclude with policy recommendations.</p>
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Public relations 'tech'niques: vocational school recruitment
… of high school graduates pursue four-year college degrees when there are not enough professional jobs that require four-year degrees but rather require workers to have job-specific skills. These skills are taught by vocational schools at both the high school and the post-secondary levels. …
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Educating Saudi Women through Communicative Language Teaching: A Bi-literacy Narrative and An Autoethnography of a Saudi English Teacher
… her six children—all of whom have earned college degrees. In the autoethnography, she traces her growth as a teacher and her interest in applying Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) to the education of women in Saudi Arabia, focusing on creating materials that reinforce Islamic values. …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
… Though Latinx students have been enrolling in colleges and universities in larger numbers, they also have the largest cohort who do not complete college degrees. As the ubiquitous First-Year Writing course in American education, many Latinx students are excluded from later college courses …
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Academic Advisors’ Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills Necessary to Support Undocumented Students at Nonurban Community Colleges in New York State
… can support these students as they pursue their college degrees. This hermeneutic phenomenological study used the Undocumented/ DACAmented Status Competency (UDSC) tripartite framework to learn about the awareness, knowledge, and skills of academic advisors supporting undocumented students at …
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Investigating the economic returns from college graduation for re-entry women
… concerned with whether or not returning to college and acquiring a degree will result in increased earnings. While sufficient evidence exists to show that earnings increase as years of education increase, this study concluded that this may not hold true for re-entry women. As a result of …
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Experiences of African-American teenage mothers in pursuit of higher education
… instrumental role in helping them attain their college degrees; 2. There was representative thematic continuity of resilience within all of the five women’s ability to overcome many adversities; 3. Determination served as a protective factor for all of the participants in attaining their …
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Effects of a Self-Advocacy Intervention on Latino Male College Students' Ability to Request Academic Accommodations
… While the number of Latino males graduating with college degrees is declining (Sáenz & Ponjuan, 2009), Hurtado, Sáenz, Santos, and Cabrera (2008) have identified an upward trend among Latino males' self-rated academic abilities and desire to achieve. Due to Latino males avoidance of help-seeking …
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