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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"racial and ethnic diversity"”.
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Diversity in students' personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity's role in student thriving.
Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better understanding student success and wellbeing from a psychological perspective. …
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Evaluating the Midwest Police Academy's ability to prepare recruits to police in a diverse multicultural society
This study evaluated the current training and practices implemented at the Midwest Police Academy to prepare recruits to police in racially and ethnically diverse communities. In this study, I adopted a critical race theory lens, which considered White privilege, dominant White male ideology, and …
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Decentering and Dismantling white Prominence in Music Education: Portraits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
As racial and ethnic diversity increases in a multicultural pluralistic society, professional music education institutions like orchestras and higher education institutions strive to incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into their programming, missions, and values. …
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Multiculturalism and planning : lessons from Vancouver
Today, the city planning and development professions face a changing landscape. The politics of difference, and the corresponding socio-cultural processes from which it emerged (migration, post- colonialism, and the rise of civil society), are urban manifestations that bear important implications …
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Teaching police cultural diversity: using action research to improve the Midwest Police Academy's preparation of recruits to police in a diverse society
… (a pseudonym) prepared recruits to work in racially and ethnically diverse communities. This study took Schlosser’s recommendations and developed an Action Research project to attempt to improve the cultural diversity training at the Midwest Police Academy (MPA). One of the recommendations …
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Culturally Proficient Preservice Teachers: A Quantitative Analysis of a Teacher Education Program’s Influence on Preservice Teachers’ Culturally Responsive Teaching and Classroom Management Efficacy
… a quantitative survey research design tounderstand the impact of the teacher education program (TEP) at Nebraska Wesleyan University (NWU) on preservice teachers’ cultural proficiency growth. This research is important because the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation’s public school student …
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A Novel Cognitive Stress Test for the Detection of Early Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans
… a major demographic transition, with increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the older adult population. As the growing population of older adults advances in age, memory complaints are projected to increase in prevalence particularly among African Americans and present a challenge to …
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Challenging Mental Health Concerns among Black Caribbean Immigrants
The racial and ethnic diversity of the United States continues to evolve due to increases in immigration from nearly all parts of the globe, including the Caribbean region. Like the U.S., this region can also be considered a melting pot of cultures, with the Afro-Caribbean population widely …
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Men in public relations: saving an endangered species
… be employed to make the field more diverse and balanced from a gender perspective? Now that PR is comprised of more than 80% women, and nearly 9 in 10 PR students are women, how does this affect salary, status, and scope? This research surveyed students, and interviewed students, agency …
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Self-as-context moderation of relationship fusion: A comparison of intimate and familial relationship impact on weight concern
… relationships relates to weight concern and whether these effects are moderated by self-as-context perspectives and racial and ethnic background. Grounded in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and relational frame theory (RFT), eight models were constructed to evaluate influence of …
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Underrepresented: The Experiences of Black People Who Pursued Careers in Minnesota Law Enforcement
… overrepresented in Minnesota police shootings and officer-involved fatalities, they are underrepresented in Minnesota law enforcement. The reasons are complex, interconnected, grounded in historical racial barriers and racist practices, and reinforced by current obstacles such as career …
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The Ties That Do Not Bind: Social Capital, Minority Female Representation, and Social Inequality in the United States
… comprised of three studies on how social capital and the representation of members of traditionally under-represented groups affect health inequality in the US. A consequence of racial and ethnic diversity in America has been increased social inequality. Social inequality in health exists along …
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Identifying Barriers and Solutions to Psychotherapy in Adults with Depression
… with depression face a variety of intrinsic and extrinsic barriers to psychotherapy, which results in low initiation rates for psychotherapy. These barriers have been characterized in some detail, but to our knowledge, there has been no previous examination of how adults with depression …
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Equitable responsiveness : a multiple case study on preservice teachers’ developing understanding of culturally responsive teaching after engaging with equity literacy focused instruction.
The past and present efforts to address the negative impacts of schools’ sociopolitical nature have relied on practices such as culturally responsive teaching (CRT). While CRT is widely used and considered practical, teacher preparation programs (TPPs) often overlook its political dimensions. …
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Intersectionality in corporate South Africa: the experiences of African black female leaders
… that women have minimal leadership potential); and (2) agentic penalty (a backlash against counter-stereotypical behaviour from certain women). There has generally been an assumption that the stereotypes upon which these biases are based are comparable for women across racial groups. South …
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Participatory Planning and the Global South: A Case Study of Local Planning and Development in Vrygrond
… levels of poverty, socio-spatial inequality, and informality. Mainstream planning theories have tended to originate from the North, responding to a context that differs greatly from that of cities of the South where theories have been uncritically adopted and imposed. State planning systems in …
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Does Diversity Matter?: Evidence from the Relationship Between an Institution's Diversity and the Salaries of its Graduates
… college graduates who have been exposed to more diversity and then empirically explores the benefits to graduates who attend more racially and ethnically diverse institutions. It posits a parabolic empirical relationship between an institution's racial and ethnic diversity and the salaries of its …
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THINK ENTREPRENEUR – THINK MALE: UNFOLDING THE GENDERED CHARACTERIZATION OF REQUISITE MANAGERIAL, LEADERSHIP, AND ENTREPRENEURIAL TRAITS
Are men and women equally likely to be perceived by people to possess similar requisite characteristics in comparable yet diverse occupations within management, leadership, and entrepreneurship? Because modern workplaces continue to be impacted by the persistence of varying perceptions of men and …
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The Simultaneous Spatial Autoregressive Model and Its Application in the Housing and Pharmaceutical Markets
… the unknown parameters in both the main system and the covariance matrix. These estimators achieve the efficiency of MLE.As an empirical application of the model, I investigate the price competition between two major pharmaceutical chains in the state of New York in a second paper. The prices of …
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