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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"women's college"”.
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Distinguishing a Western Women's College: A History of the Curriculum at Colorado Women's College, 1909–1967
<p>Colorado Women's College (CWC), a private, Baptist college for women in Denver, Colorado, first welcomed students to its campus in 1909, making it one of only a handful of women's colleges in the American West, where coeducation predominated. This dissertation describes and interprets the …
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Students' Lived Experiences in Women's College Classrooms: A Phenomenological Study
… student academic outcomes are associated with women's college attendance, yet little is known about how women's college students make meaning of classroom practices, experiences, and interactions. The purpose of this study, a qualitative research endeavor in the hermeneutic phenomenological …
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Feminisms at the Door: Gender and Sex at a Women's College
… study of early 21st century American female college students' experiences of their gender, sexuality, and racial identities, and of institutional politics as their single-sex college transitioned to co-education. It is an ethnography that utilizes feminist theorizing to understand tensions …
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Development of a Notational Analysis System for Selected Soccer Skills of a Women's College Team
… skills as they relate to success during women's soccer games and to develop a statistical model to weight the importance of each skill on creating scoring opportunities. Sequences of skills in 10 Division I intercollegiate women's soccer games were coded using well defined performance …
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Perceived Impact of Institutional Culture on Advanced Degree Aspirations of Students Attending Two Southern Women's Colleges
Women's college culture has been found to have qualities that promote the success of the women who graduate from these institutions. This research sought to identify aspects of women's college culture that students perceive as having impacted their aspirations for an advanced degree. Fifty-eight …
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Factors influencing the job success of women college graduates
… the effects of personal, job-related, and college characteristics on the job success of women college graduates employed by a major U.S. manufacturing firm. Job success was defined in terms of performance evaluations, wage growth, and promotion rate models. The relative success of graduates …
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Open Gates, Broken Promises: Inclusion Policies and Transgender Student Experiences at Gender-Selective Women's Colleges
Since 2013, over half of all gender-selective women's colleges in the United States have adopted admission policies that outline varying biological, social, and legal criteria for who may apply to their institution. In effect, these policies opened the gates to admission, driven by the goal to be …
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Essays on the economics of education, gender, and public policy
… statewide credit transfer policies on community college enrollment, degree attainment, and transfers into public four-year institutions. Community colleges provide entry points to higher education for 42 percent of undergraduates. To facilitate and encourage transfers, states have enacted …
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Sue Gunter and the Battle for Equity in Women’s Athletics at SFA
<p>From the 1950’s through the 2000’s, women’s college basketball would move from a category of inappropriate activity to selling out large arenas and being broadcast to millions of viewers on national TV. Such a result came largely from federally mandated stipulation contained within Title IX, …