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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"minority student"”.
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An evaluation of a university minority student retention program
… State University (VPI&SU) in 1984 to help Black students adjust academically to the university. This project focused on five categories of criteria according to which strengths and weaknesses of this program were evaluated. These included: (1) Effort, (2) Performance, (3) Adequacy of Performance, …
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Decoding minority student retention: An investigation of student experiences and institutional characteristics
… to the retention of black and Hispanic students from their first year through graduation at colleges and universities in the United States. Other studies have investigated the experiences of minority college students (Massey et al. 2006, Steele 1999, and Bowen and Bok 1998) and have …
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Stressors experienced by male minority student nurses while completing a baccalaureate program
… explored the stressors experienced by male minority student nurses while completing a baccalaureate program. The purpose of this study was to explore the major stressors experienced by male baccalaureate nursing students from racial and ethnic minority groups. In addition, coping mechanisms …
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Examining Educational Initiatives to Increase Minority Student Enrollment in Advanced Placement Program Courses
… educational issue in our country today is the minority achievement gap. One specific program that has been developed and implemented over the last several years in an effort to provide strong academic curriculum and to raise student achievement, including minority student achievement, is the …
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Encouraging Underrepresented Minority Student Participation in the STEM Pipeline Through Authentic STEM Learning Experiences
… (STEM) programs among underrepresented minority (URM) groups at the collegiate level. However, K–12 institutions have an obligation to address the inequity also. To address the inequity that exists in STEM participation at the high school level, the Texas Education Agency created …
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Access for Whom? Examining Poor and Ethnic-minority Student Access at the Public Flagships
… organizational support, poor and ethnic-minority students are finding it increasingly difficult to attend large public research universities. To investigate the potential relationship that exists between market-oriented practices in higher education and access for poor and ethnic-minority …
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An analysis of the perceptions of the minority/student affairs personnel regarding methods of black student retention
… a list of support elements for black student retention deemed important from a study of the literature) the support elements present at 400 predominantly white colleges as perceived by the directors of their minority affairs/student affairs departments. The population for the study was …
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Growth mindset matters : an explanatory sequential study on the underrepresented minority student experience in a community college introductory science classroom.
… fields face challenges with underrepresented minority (URM) student achievement and retention. White students earned 59% of bachelor's degrees in science and engineering, while LatinX and African American students earned 16% and 9% respectively (National Center for Science and Engineering …
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Equity in Opportunity: Minority Student Enrollment in Advanced, Advanced Placement, and International Baccalaureate English and Mathematics Courses in Virginia Public High Schools
… sufficient regarding academic success for all students (Atchison et al., 2017; Glynn and Wassell, 2018). Previous research indicates that despite efforts to impart significant reforms in public education within the United States, few gains have been made regarding equity among students (Glynn …
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Understanding Baccalaureate Completion Rate Increases of Underrepresented Minority Students in Science and Engineering: Three Case Studies
… financial resources did contribute to improving minority student completion rates at the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. However, federal resources did little to encourage or improve minority student completion rates at the University of …
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Evaluating the Impact of State Funding Vehicles of Appropriations and Financial Aid on Graduation Rates at Public Institutions: A Multilevel Analysis
… the correlation between funding vehicles and minority student graduation rates as well as determined if funding vehicles impact institutions with greater percentages of minority students differently than those with a less diverse student population. The present study extended the existing …
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Separate but equal? A look at Michigan public school districts
… Decades later, there are still schools whose student bodies are comprised of over 90% minority students. The following study aimed to understand the relationship between minority segregated schools and their graduation rates, as well as the relationship between student poverty rates and the …
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Minority stress and depression among Black college students: investigating the protective contributions of faculty support and coping
Black college students face increased risk for depressive symptoms due to chronic exposure to systemic and interpersonal stressors. In addition to stressors typical of the college transition (e.g., academic pressures, homesickness, psychological well-being, peer relationships), Black students must …
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Factors affecting Institutional Choice of Minority Students admitted to Institutions in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
<p>The study examined the factors that affected minority students' choice to enroll at private faith-based 4-year institutions in the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) in the United States. These factors included: minority students' demographic and background characteristics, …
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Mitigating delinquency through academic intervention: an empirical test of social control theory
… school and program records for 236 ninth grade students involved in the GEAR UP program, a partial test of Hirschi’s social control theory (1969) was conducted to investigate the effect of academic performance and social bonds on problem behavior. Rarely tested in at-risk, minority student …
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The recruitment and retention of African American students in vocational teacher education
… recruitment and retention of African American students into vocational teacher education indicated that there was a need for institutions of higher education to take a more serious look at these efforts. This admonition was due to the continuous decline of African Americans in the teaching …
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