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FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Title
FROM ROOTS TO STAR TREK: A CASE STUDY ON SUCCESSFUL PERSISTENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE ENGINEERING MAJORS
Author
McGee, Marquis
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Engineering, Education, Higher, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
Title
HOW PERCEPTIONS OF INCLUSION RELATE TO WORK GROUP ATTRACTION
Author
Scheaf, David
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Psychology
Description
Identification—the perceived oneness and/or belongingness—with a group has been found to be related to a host of individual and group outcomes. However, it remains unclear how group perceptions and outcomes are affected when an individual perceive...
The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
Title
The Bloody Ground: The Chickamauga Wars and Trans-Appalachian Expansion, 1776-1794.
Author
Kane, Sean
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
History, Indigenous peoples, North America, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Despite the plethora of works on the American Revolution and the Cherokee, few scholars have placed the Cherokee within the context of the Revolution. This thesis explores the often overlooked history of the Cherokee during last quarter of the eig...
The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
Title
The Effects of Stereotype Threat on Mixed-Gender Conversation
Author
Chauncey, Kevin
Date Created
2018
Subjects--Topical
Social psychology, Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Description
The present study examined some effects of Stereotype Threat priming on participants in a two-person prompted discussion. Four pairs of participants (one man, one woman) each discussed three workplace scenarios and were prompted to give suggestion...