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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"elite universities"”.
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Degrees of success?: MPA's and MBA's from elite universities and career success in the federal government
… managers holding the MPA or MBA from selected universities. A variety of statistical procedures in SPSS were used to analyze the data. Analysis of the data indicates that few significant differences exist between MPA's and MBA's in career success, as measured in the short term. Possible …
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An Examination of the Factors that Contribute to Undergraduate Persistence and Graduate Degree Aspirations for First-Generation College Students Attending Elite Universities
… of Freshmen (NLSF) from students attending 28 elite U.S. institutions and was guided by a number of research questions exploring the roles of student background characteristics and on&ndash and off&ndash campus environments in student outcomes. The original research design for this study was …
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The Ideological Divide: The Influence of Ideology and Group Identity on the Relationship constructed between Elite Universities and Students from Underrepresented Backgrounds
… has two aims: firstly, to better understand elite US universities; specifically, what distinguishes them – in terms of their group identity and ideological underpinnings – from other highly selective US universities, and secondly, how a distinct group identity – which this research found to …
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A factorial survey experiment to examine how the class background and perceived gender of job applicants influences shortlisting decisions for entry‐level academic posts in higher education in England
… important, considering the increasing focus on universities as engines of social mobility. Using Bourdieu as the theoretical framework, this study examined the effect of applicants’ class background, gender, and their intersection on entry to the academic profession in elite and non‐ elite …
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Social Class and Elite University Education: A Bourdieusian Analysis
… a substantial reduction to class inequalities at elite universities, where the admissions process is growing even more selective. In his classic studies of French education and society, Pierre Bourdieu explains how schools can contribute to the maintenance and reproduction of class inequalities. …
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Contemporary British Literary Culture, Higher Education, and the Diversity Scandal
… are white, independently wealthy graduates of elite universities. Scholars have said little about how the literary field responds to, manifests, and perpetuates this escalating - and racialized - inequality, whose ramifications are evident in everything from Brexit to the emboldening of the …
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Asymmetric network ties to elite American universities create differential access to venture capital in Africa
… end up in a few countries. Because ties with elite universities are the primary way in which African startup founders build social capital with U.S. VC firms, which are the largest purveyors of venture funds on the African continent, I advance a novel network theory. It is predicated on a new …
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Using experiential education to explore changes in students' perceptions toward those experiencing poverty and food insecurity
… of poverty and the incidence of FI at a private elite university in Texas and further determine if there was a relationship between the UPPTS and demographics, financial aid status, and food security status within the target population. Subjects included a convenience and snowball sampling of …
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University-industry collaboration, innovation and firms’ performance: the context of China.
… economic growth. As such, the importance of universities as innovation partners for industrial firms has increasingly been recognised. However, the understanding of how UIC contributes to innovation and firms’ performance remains limited, particularly in terms of the informal UIC and the …
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'Dark' side of the MOOC: Shedding light on the construction, culture and consequences of an emerging social movement
… courses – offered by some of the most elite universities in the world – claim they can democratise higher education. Critics suggest that if MOOCs were to be a disruptive force in higher education, they would surely be its demise. Buried amid this pro- and anti-MOOC discourse is talk of …
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'Dark' side of the MOOC: Shedding light on the construction, culture and consequences of an emerging social movement
… courses – offered by some of the most elite universities in the world – claim they can democratise higher education. Critics suggest that if MOOCs were to be a disruptive force in higher education, they would surely be its demise. Buried amid this pro- and anti-MOOC discourse is talk of …
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Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge
… was given to the experiences of Black women at elite universities. Media and publications exploring the experiences of Black women at Oxbridge have since emphasised the process of taking up space, which often entails occupying spaces Black women have been historically discounted from or silenced …
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An Item Response Theory Approach to the Maintenance of Standards in Public Examinations in England
… with high grades; admissions officers from the elite universities report their struggle with the decrease in discrimination in grades achieved; and academics debate what it means to compare standards from one year to the next. The debate cannot be easily resolved because examination results are …