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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"institutional commitment"”.
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Institutional commitment to widening participation: mission, rhetoric and framing
… institutions (HEIs) and their ‘framing’ of commitment to widening participation. Using elements of Fairclough’s (1995) critical discourse analysis, the thesis analyses the discursive strategies that the HEIs used to position their widening participation work in marketing literature and open …
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Faculty Perceptions of Institutional Commitment to the Scholarship of Engagement
… position in relation to fulfillment of their institutional mission. Boyer (1996) introduced to the higher education community an alternative approach to scholarship to address this shift from original mission. While Boyer (1990) examined institutions of higher education as a whole, the …
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Examining the impact of student involvement and intercultural experiences on perceptions of institutional commitment to diversity
… ex-post facto secondary data analysis of a 2005 institutional survey on diversity at Great Falls State University. The researcher utilized a Chi Square Test for Independence, as well as a Forward Thinking Logistic Regression Model to analyze the data. Although the main emphasis of the research …
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The impact of participation in a curricular learning community on academic success, academic and social integration, institutional commitment, and persistence of first-year students at Missouri State University
… success, academic and social integration, institutional commitment, and persistence of first-year students at Missouri State University (MSU), a Midwest, public, four-year university. The researcher utilized a modified version of Pascarella and Terenzini's (1980) Institutional Integration …
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The Effects of Encouraging Student-Faculty Interaction on Academic Success, Identity Development, and Student Retention in the First Year of College
… treatment on one key outcome variable: level of institutional commitment. Students who received the advice to interact with faculty reported higher institutional commitment than the other groups, and in turn, institutional commitment was the only predictor of intent to withdraw. Academic …
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ACADEMIC AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF NONTRADITIONAL STUDENTS: THE ROLE OF ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES AND SENSE OF BELONGING IN INTEGRATION AND PERSISTENCE
… with Tinto's model, factors including initial institutional commitment, initial goal commitment, and subsequent institutional commitment were also analyzed. Multiple regression analysis of data obtained from a 38-question survey (n=299) revealed one common predictor of persistence among the …
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CULTURE COUNTS: IMPROVING NON-COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT FOR PREDICTING RETENTION AND ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN A SAMPLE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS
… of non-cognitive variables in predicting GPA, institutional commitment, and retention in a sample of African American college students. Specifically, the researcher examined the validity in measuring and utilizing culture specific factors in identifying and intervening with first-year college …
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First-Generation College Student Baccalaureate Attainment: Investigation of a Psychological Model of College Student Retention
… residential, research university. Data came from institutional records and a student survey. An exploratory factor analysis accounted for most of the survey item variation. Path models demonstrated good fit to the data. Campus experiences impacted psychological outcomes, which—along with …
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The recruitment and retention of African American faculty in predominantly white faith-based colleges and universities
… diverse relationships requires personal and institutional commitment.5. God's Connections - Connections and relationships with external and internal sources are needed to increase recruitment.Faculty recommendations were categorized as following (listed Appendix D):1. Demonstrate …
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A Conceptual Model on the Impact of Mattering, Sense of Belonging, Engagement/Involvement, and Socio-Academic Integrative Experiences on Community College Students’ Intent to Persist
… students and the institution, and students and institutional agents are taking place, with the aim of identifying institutional practices that deleteriously or positively impact degree completion and thus guide colleges to develop action plans to improve conditions for student success.</p> …
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Extensions of the Tripartite Integration Model of Social Influence (TIMSI): Using Explicit and Implicit Measures to Examine Ethnic Minority and Majority Student Academic Achievement
… differences in predictive models for GPA and institutional commitment based on race/ethnicity. Results of this study suggest there are significant differences based on race/ethnic groups in predicting GPA. For all groups, GPA was significantly predicted by Academic Self-concept, however, for …
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Investigating the structural and cultural conditions that reproduce coloniality and inhibit decolonisation at a private higher education institution in South Africa
… The study established that the absence of institutional commitment to decolonisation informed the lecturers' peripheral influence in executing a decolonisation agenda. It was also established that the lecturers' perceptions of decolonisation did not progress beyond intellectual and academic …
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College students and grit: The lived experience of well-being and retention
… development training program will require institutional commitment, time, and resources. However, the results of this study emphasize the importance of developing grit behavior. Developing gritty college students may positively impact college persistence, and student well-being. A student …
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Decolonizing Institutional Practices: Supporting Aboriginal College Student Success
… role of faculty relationships and the need for institutional commitment in creating an environment that acknowledges and includes Aboriginal worldviews, traditions and cultures. This qualitative study explores the experiences of seventeen students. The outcomes of the study provides guidance to …
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Dual Enrollment And Its Impact on College Freshman Persistence: A Modification of Tinto's Model of Student Departure
… survey questionnaires, four focus groups, and institutional data collected by the college. The subjects that participated in the study were first-year freshman. The class survey questionnaires were administered to 172 students (37% of the total freshman class). Five indices were created: dual …
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Extending our Understanding of Social Belonging: College Students' Use of Technology, Psychosocial Well-Being, and Sense of Community in University Life
… both Spady (1970) and Tinto (1975, 1993) linked institutional commitment and persistence to the quality of students' integration into the social environment of the campus, with social integration referring to students' peer relationships and interactions with faculty. Social and academic …
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Developing an Indigenous Tourism Course: Indigenizing Curriculum through Participatory Action Research
… that Indigenizing curriculum requires sustained institutional commitment, increased Indigenous faculty representation, and accountability for long-term collaboration with Indigenous communities and businesses. By documenting this process, the research contributes to scholarship on Indigenous …
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An Investigation of First-Year Teacher Induction Programs in Jesuit Secondary Schools within the California Province
… for the study: (a)Program vision, goals, and institutional commitment, (b)Formation of the Ignatian educator, (c)Program administration and communication, (d)Principal engagement, (e)Program assessment, evaluation, and accountability, (f)Assessing first-year teacher practice, (g)First-year …
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Faculty training and professional development programs designed to impact Web-based instruction in higher education: A faculty perspective.
… were asked about their perceived level of institutional commitment and current initiatives for teaching Web-based courses.
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INITIATIVE AT THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA: CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED
… The study has demonstrated that, given the institutional commitment at OUT and the critical role that OER will play in the university, it was feasible to produce five (5) initial drafts of the modules of the OER course on Academic Digital Fluency within the shortest time possible. All …
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