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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"higher education experience"”.
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Veterans in higher education : an ethnographic study of veterans' higher education experience
This ethnographic study examined the higher education experience of six Global War on Terrorism combat Veterans, using two research questions: 1) How does a Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Veteran student perceive his/her educational experiences at a four year university? 2) What are the …
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Investigating how Black women faculty in higher education experience and cope with work burnout : a narrative case study.
Black women faculty in higher education face unique challenges in the workplace that lead to work burnout. Black women in the labor force have had a centuries-long history marred with issues that stemmed from their once-enslaved status. These challenges manifest as microaggressions, tokenism, lack …
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An Exploration Of How Millenial Financial Aid Administrators In Higher Education Experience Leadership Through Their Attitudes, Beliefs, And Values
… research literature about millennial leaders in higher education. Currently, higher education leadership research typically focuses on executive roles although providing access, helping students persist, and getting them graduated thrive in offices like financial aid. The purpose of this study …
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Faculty perceptions of the effects of collective bargaining agreements on their professional roles: The New England public higher education experience
<p>This study, a combination of quantitative and artifact analysis, examined how New England public college and university faculty perceived their professional concerns were affected by working under a collective bargaining agreement. The professional concerns, derived from the pertinent …
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Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution
This study explores the experiences of mature adults returning to study at a higher education institution. The aims of the research focus on the complicated and complex ways in which dispositions of class, embodied in the habitus, shape opportunities, choices and experiences of a group of mature …
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Empowering Achievement: Investigating Leadership, Agency, and Access for First-Generation College Students
… when they can be open to new spaces, people, and experiences and have access to robust support systems and the necessary resources to build solid personal self-efficacy. The intentionality behind this research is grounded in students finding their agency and self- efficacy to become strong and …
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"""I am not beneath you because I am from a different continent, I am also like you!"": Nigerian college students make meaning of racial and ethnic identity at a predominantly white institution"
… and social issues play a huge role in their higher education experience. This experience is exceptionally complicated for diverse Black populations, who often have to negotiate their complex racial and ethnic space in the United States. My research investigates underrepresented cultures from …
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A Study of Academic Service Quality and Instructional Quality in a Midwestern Higher Education Environment
… service quality and instructional quality in a higher education environment. Academic service was defined as service that is not directly related to the classroom activity. This included adaptations of Parasuraman et al. (1988) constructs of tangibles (i.e. classroom facility) and relationships …
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Getting there: aspects of the experiences of students prior to entry into higher education
… the extent to which growth and change in higher education has been accompanied by diversification of student characteristics and experiences prior to entry to higher education. Exploration of these issues developed further into a consideration of factors influencing entry to higher …
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Experiencing Higher Education in Louisiana through a Native American Lens
… students who attend Louisiana institutions of higher education. Native Americans are the least represented minority in colleges. More have entered college in recent years, yet they continue to leave college at a high rate. It is important to understand what motivates Native students to attend …
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Motivating factors of academic advisors supporting undocumented students in higher education
… a deeper understanding of how they view their experience, specifically as it relates to personal, institutional, and political factors. Advisors work directly with students throughout college, and are one of the most important aspects of the student experience, serving a key role towards …
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Fostering Inclusion; Challenging the Illusion Critically Reflective Educational Stories: Facilitated by students and graduates with different learning abilities on a Fully Inclusive Higher Education Initiative in Ireland.
This thesis is about how students experience and facilitate inclusive higher education. It will be represented as a story using the metaphoric path to sign post the research journey. This metaphor is of personal significance to the contributors in this study. The creative outputs of the research …
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Embracing Green Chile: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of Community Cultural Wealth
<p>Higher education trends marginalize Students of Color by promoting assimilation into a dominant culture. Faculty and practitioners in higher education deepen cultural dissociation by dismissing the cultural knowledge that many Students of Color hold from family and community. Following in the …
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An SEL Needs Analysis: Sustaining and Improving Students’ Adaptability to Change Through The Inclusion of Social and Emotional Learning into Higher Education. Case Study: The University of Oran 2, “Mohamed Ben Ahmed”
… interviews were designed to explore the Algerian higher education experience from the teachers’ perspective. Fifth, a reflective research diary was added as a research method, and a source of data to reflect on my journey and include myself as a subject for research.<br/><br/>The contributions of …
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Inclusive Instructional Design in the Learning Experiences of Omani Preservice Teachers: Student Perspective
… is an area of needed attention in Omani higher education, particularly in teacher preparation programs. Inclusive instructional design (IID) provides a framework for designing learning experiences that are accessible to all learners through the provision of strategic flexibility in areas …
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Validity Evidence For the Use of Holland's Vocational Personality Types In College Student Populations
<p>Higher education in the United States is replete with inventories and instruments designed to help administrators to identify students who are more likely to succeed in college and to tailor the higher education experience to foster this success. One area of research involves the Holland …