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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"liberal arts college"”.
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Achieving intercultural knowledge through global awareness programming at liberal arts college
… tool for increasing intercultural knowledge at a liberal arts college. The study asked the following question: do internationally themed campus-wide events increase student interest in, and appreciation of, difference?</p> <p>Students in this study were involved in two activities: a semester-long …
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The Construction of a Classical Curriculum for a Liberal Arts College
… is not conducive to the cultivation of the fine arts. Since development began on the Eastern Seaboard and was extended westward only after the lapse of many years, education was on a fairly high plane in the East when the Middle West was being settled. The classical languages gained a firm …
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Criteria for an optimum home economics curriculum for a small liberal arts college
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"We're all Horacians": Listening to international students at an American liberal arts college
… dimensions of internationals' lives at Horace College, a Midwestern liberal arts college, by mapping and analyzing the self-reported stories and the perceptions of my informants. Based on nine months of fieldwork, I explore the particular contours of internationalization, international student …
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A conceptualization of social responsibility among faculty of a private liberal arts college
… of 15 faculty members at a Midwestern private liberal arts college. Key findings indicated that social responsibility at the college was found in the collective focus on how best to develop students’ (graduates’, citizens’) cognitive and moral understandings and their subsequent propensities to …
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Examining the climate of academic integrity at a small middle Atlantic liberal arts college
… two form the basis for positive learning at the college level (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991, 2005). It is also clear from preexisting literature that a person experiences significant moral development during traditional college years (Kohlberg & Hersh, 1977; Perry, 1981; Gilligan, 1982; …
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Participative leadership: A study of faculty and administrators in a Lutheran liberal arts college
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Constantly vulnerable yet persistently strong: A study of the financial condition of the liberal arts college
… the income and expenditure patterns at three Liberal Arts I colleges in the Midwest from 1979-89. It combines from hard data from HEGIS/IPEDS financial reports and interviews with campus administrators to examine the effects the 1980s had on the institutions and makes a judgment about the …
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The impact of undergraduate internships on graduate underemployment: A quantitative analysis of data from a small liberal arts college
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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A study of the relationship between time and task priority for continuing education administrators in private liberal arts college
… education is changing in some private four-year colleges. Among several variables contributing to this change is increased emphasis on expanding continuing education efforts. Yet additional resources for accommodating this growth has not been forthcoming, due in part to limited financial …
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To Write or Not to Write: A Look at Faculty Use of Writing at a Small Liberal Arts College
… it does happen. Some students are actually suing colleges and universities because they do not believe they have been taught the skills necessary to succeed in the area of written communication. This deficiency reflects poorly on universities, and even small liberal arts colleges are not exempt …
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The deconstruction of ambition: Campus climate, stereotype threat, and the motivational goals of African American students at a selective small liberal arts college
… academic performance among African American college students. Yet, the exact nature of how stereotype threat affects academic performance is less understood.</p><p>One purpose of this study is to investigate more deeply the motivational orientations of African American college students and to …
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Student perceptions of academic advising and influence on retention : a study of first-semester, first-generation and continuing-generation college students at a liberal arts college
… examined a full cohort of first-time, full-time college students to better understand perceptions, preferences, and satisfaction with academic advising and influence of these factors on intent to persist. Early in the transition to college, students are at risk for departure; more so for those …
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NARRATIVES OF FIT: UNDERSTANDING WOMEN FACULTY STORIES OF MAKING SENSE AND FINDING PLACE IN GENDERED ORGANIZATIONS
… centers women’s experiences of fit at a small liberal arts college by exploring how their sensemaking about themselves and their experiences in the organization have shaped their choices. Employing narrative and institutional ethnography research methods, the organizational experiences of seven …
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The Use of Academic Performance as a Predictor of Success of the National Council Licensing Examination
… 1982 and 1983 from a small private baccalaureate liberal arts college located in the Midwest. An Ex Post Facto research design, using twenty independent variables that relate to academic performance (ACT, CPA, and NLN scores), and one dependent variable (NCLEX-RN), was utilized. Statistical …
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