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Title: “In the contradiction lies the hope”: White student affairs administrators’ understanding of whiteness
Author: Forester, Rachael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Among white people, there is a pervasive mentality that color-evasiveness (Bonilla-Silva, 2003) is an ideal approach to racial equity, meaning many white student affairs professionals may equate refusing to see race as synonymous with being anti-r...

Title: Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Transfer Experience
Author: Slane, Lauren
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: As the entry point into higher education for over half of the bachelor’s degree earners, (Trapani & Hale, 2019), community colleges are positioned to have a positive impact of bringing a more diverse student group into science, technology, enginee...

Title: WHO I AM IN STEM: BEING AFRICAN AMERICAN, A COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT, AND A STEM MAJOR
Author: Dounebaine, Yolanda
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Science--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: This qualitative research study utilized the stories of ten African American community college STEM transfer students to explore STEM identity formation, the role race played in this identity formation, the educational experiences that influenced ...

Title: Vietnamese American College Students’ Racial/Ethnic Identity Development and Campus Engagement Experiences at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Author: Nguyen, Nhu
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Area studies
Description: Prior studies on student engagement in U.S. higher education focused mainly on the experiences of Black and White students (Meyer, 2014). Southeast Asian American students also face challenges regarding engagement on campus. Due to the influence o...

Title: VALIDITY OF THE 2013 NSSE ENGAGEMENT INDICATOR MODEL FOR PERSISTING TRANSFER STUDENTS: A CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS STUDY
Author: Le, Thanh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
Description: The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (2015) reported that there were 2.4 million student transitions from one institution to another over a six-year period between 2008 and 2014. According to the Student Achievement Measure (SAM, n.d...

Title: Understanding the Complexities of Advising Transfer Students in an Institution-Driven System
Author: Holliday-Millard, Paul
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher, Educational leadership
Description: Nationally, while the majority of community college students indicate a desire to transfer to a four-year college or university, many of them fail to do so (Horn & Skomsvold, 2011; Hossler et al., 2012; Jenkins & Fink, 2015; Shapiro et al., 2013)....

Title: The effect of multiple interventions on freshman college student engagement and retention
Author: Lehmuller, Peter
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...

Title: The Transfer Seminar: Measured Impacts on Transfer Student Outcomes
Author: Swintal, Andrea
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
Description: The volume of transfer students across college and university campuses in the United States continues to rise; however, institutions continue to struggle with identifying and applying best practices that encourage these students to earn their bacc...

Title: The Association of Frequency of Utilizing Student Services with Student Success at a Community College
Author: Kendra-Dill, Zachary
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: As colleges work to meet performance standards, staff have been placed in key service areas to help students be successful. With the majority of the seven million community college students attending part-time, needing developmental education, and...

Title: THE IMPACT OF SENSE OF BELONGING INTERVENTIONS ON SOCIAL INTEGRATION AT A SMALL, PRIVATE INSTITUTION
Author: Perrell, Amber
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Higher education institutions continue to struggle with encouraging retention for first-year students. Prior research has shown that establishing social integration during the first-year of college is a crucial component of a successful transition...

Title: Students' Perceptions of Motivation and Use of Metacognitive Self-regulated Learning Strategies in Remote Asynchronous Elementary Spanish Classes
Author: Esparragoza, Rosalba
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: The purpose of the study was to investigate whether intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, task value, metacognitive self-regulation, self-efficacy for learning, and cumulative GPA predicts academic success among college students enrolled in ...

Title: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION TOOLS IN ONLINE LEARNING: HELPFULNESS AND EFFECTS ON TEACHING, SOCIAL, AND COGNITIVE PRESENCE
Author: Salloum, Sara
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: Distance learning continues to be used in the context of teacher training in special education. Distance learning is experienced through computer-mediated communication (CMC) tools via the Internet, or online learning. Little research has been don...

Title: RENEGOTIATING IDENTITY: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE NEGOTIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENT IDENTITIES
Author: Stamper, Brandy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Literature on community college (CC) students transferring to four-year institutions sufficiently addresses aspects of pre-transfer success indicators, transfer process barriers, and post-transfer outcomes. Yet, research frameworks in post-transfe...

Title: Psychosocial Adjustment and Intentions to Persist for Transfer Students in the Psychology Major at a Four-Year Urban Research Institution
Author: OReilly, Elaine
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Psychology
Description: This study examined factors related to the psychosocial adjustment and intentions to persist of transfer students in the psychology major at a large urban research institution in the southeastern United States. Psychosocial adjustment was operatio...

Title: Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors
Author: Green, Courtney
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Engineering
Description: COURTNEY SUSANNE GREEN. Persistence of Engineering Transfer Students: Identifying Student-Influenced and Institution-Influenced Academic Success Factors. (Under the direction of DRS. SANDRA DIKA AND XIAOXIA NEWTON) This correlational study utilize...

Title: Perception or Reality? A Frame Analysis of Leadership Behavior, Style, and Effectiveness Among Selected Community College Administrators
Author: Little, Susan
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Community colleges--Study and teaching, Education, Higher
Description: ABSTRACTSUSAN DIANNE LITTLE. Perception or reality? A frame analysis of leadership behavior, style, and effectiveness among selected community college administrators. (Under the direction of Dr. JOHN GRETES) The American community college has reac...

Title: PERCEPTIONS OF CLIMATE AND STUDENT-FACULTY INTERACTIONS AMONGST AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSISTERS IN A BUSINESS PROGRAM AT A PREDOMINANTLY-WHITE INSTITUTION
Author: Allen, Monica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Education, Higher
Description: While representation of African American students in freshmen enrollment has improved, degree attainment of African Americans and other minority groups continue to lag behind the White and Asian American populations. Compounding the issue of lower...

Title: NCAA Transfer Student-Athletes, Athletic Identity, and the Impact of COVID-19
Author: Verburg, Mark
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: Transfer students are an increasingly important piece of the college athletics puzzle; however, little is known about the athletic identity of this important population and the effects of COVID on their commitment to sport. The purpose of this stu...

Title: Major Decisions: A Phenomenological Study of the Experiences and Decision Making Processes of Undecided, First-Generation College Students
Author: Siarzynski, Kristen
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: While many students decide to attend college for increased career opportunities, first-generation college students (FGCS) are far more likely than their peers to report attending college for this reason (Bui, 2002; Byrd & MacDonald, 2005; Martinez...

Title: Investigation of the Relationships Among Online Community College Students' Characteristics and Instructional Delivery Model Preferences
Author: Lander, Maria
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Educational technology
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between age, gender, program of study, and number of online courses previously taken and instructional delivery preferences related to students' control of their own learning, interaction,...