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- Title
- INTEGRATION AND PERSISTENCE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN A U.S. PRIVATE FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION: A QUALITATIVE CASE STUDY
- Author
- ADEWALE, TITILOLA
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Multicultural education, Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher
- Description
- ABSTRACTTITILOLA OLUWATOSIN ADEWALE. Integration and persistence of international students in a U.S. private 4-year institution: A qualitative case study. (Under the direction of DR. MARK D’AMICO)Globalization has resulted in the rapid mobility of...
- 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
- Access to the Baccalaureate: A Multilevel Model of Baccalaureate Completion for Associate in Applied Science Transfers
- Author
- Atwell, Adam
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- This study used multilevel modeling to examine the extent to which student, academic, institutional, and community-level characteristics impact the baccalaureate attainment of students who transferred with the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) de...
- Title
- Depression, Anxiety, and Perceived Stress During a Pandemic: An Understanding of the Psychological Impact of COVID-19 on a University Community
- Author
- Bello-Ogunu, Faustina
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health, Mental health, Education, Higher
- Description
- COVID-19 is a viral infectious disease that first occurred in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and by March 2020, it was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Mental health – especially as it relates to physical distancing, loneliness...
- Title
- Mathematics Readiness of Entering College Students
- Author
- Blat, Catherine
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mathematics--Study and teaching, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this descriptive research study was to identify key mathematics competencies first-time college students need to succeed in entry-level college mathematics courses. The study was conducted at a large, urban public, research universi...
- Title
- Exploring Sense of Belonging Among First-Generation College, Second-Generation Immigrant Students
- Author
- Brais, Sayde
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of four-year university and college students identifying as first-generation in college (FGC) and second-generation immigrant (SGI) in the United States., with a focus on a sense of be...
- Title
- Black HBCU Students’ Perceptions Of A Short-Term Heritage-Seeking Immersive Study Abroad Program: Journey To The First Black Republic
- Author
- Brown, Sabrina
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- Study abroad is a high-impact practice in the college and university setting that can lead to increased student engagement and student success. While study-abroad participation has increased, it is not a common practice across ethnic demographics ...
- Title
- Examination of Sleep Quality and ADHD Symptomatology on College Students' Academic Performance
- Author
- Chen, Michelle
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Medical sciences, Education, Higher, Psychology
- Description
- College students frequently struggle to obtain a sufficient amount and quality of sleep. National Sleep Foundation (NSF) guidelines recommend that young adults aged 18 to 25 obtain 7 to 9 hours of sleep per night – a goal that less than 50% of stu...
- Title
- LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST-TIME LEADERS THROUGH COLLEGIATE ADVENTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
- Author
- Coffey, Kristin
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Psychology, Industrial
- Description
- This study examined the relation between level of experience as a collegiate adventure education student leader and leadership skills necessary for effective first-time managers in the workplace. One-hundred and thirty-three college students betwe...
- Title
- First Year Residential Tradtional-aged College Students' First Semester Experience and it's impact on Social Identity
- Author
- Douglas, Niesha
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Higher
- Description
- ABSTRACTNIESHA CHARISSE DOUGLAS. First year residential traditional aged college students' first semester experience and its impact on their social identity. (Under the direction of DR. LISA R. MERRIWEATHER)The needs of our society are not met whe...
- 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
- A Study of the Attitudes of University of North Carolina Education Faculty Toward the Use of Computer-Based Simulation in Pre-service Teacher Education Methods Courses
- Author
- Englebert, Mary
- Date Created
- 2010
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of, Educational technology
- Description
- ABSTRACTMARY F. ENGLEBERT: A study of the attitudes of University of North Carolina education faculty toward the use of computer-based simulation in pre-service teacher education methods courses. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN GRETES) The use of...
- 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
- Challenges Faced by African International Students at a Metropolitan Research University: A Phenomenological Case Study
- Author
- Evivie, Loretta
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, History
- Description
- The number of international students coming to the United States has increased from 48,486 in 1959-1960 to 623,805 in the 2007-2008 academic years (Open Doors, 2008). These students contributed $15.5 billion to the United States economy, making ed...
- 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
- HIGHER EDUCATION ACCESS GAP: LOTTERY-BASED MODEL FOR MITIGATING POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION ACCESS-GAP IN NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Gamble, Eric
- Date Created
- 2011
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Education and state, Education--Finance
- Description
- The rising cost of obtaining tertiary education threatens the educational dreams of thousands of North Carolina students and creates an educational access-gap between low- and high-income students. Although there are various needs-based state and ...
- Title
- DACA Recipients Narratives: Pursuing Noncredit Occupational Training
- Author
- Gardner, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher
- Description
- This adapted in-depth qualitative interview study explored and documented the lived experiences of four DACA recipients that pursued noncredit occupational training opportunities at a community college in North Carolina. The purpose was to underst...
- 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
- "Sorry, but I Suck at Writing": A Study of Writing Self-efficacy in First-Year College Students
- Author
- Greene, Mary-Elizabeth
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Higher, Adult education, Social sciences--Research
- Description
- In this study, current research on writing self-efficacy—"confidence that one can perform successfully in a particular domain" (Bruning 25)—and data from a local survey of first-year college students, or freshmen, is used to examine dispositions t...
- Title
- The Community College: Access to Opportunity or Barrier to Success
- Author
- Grubbs, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Government policy, Education, Higher
- Description
- The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate some of the contradictory outcomes for community college students. I investigated whether community colleges lower their students’ aspirations and make students less likely to be socially involve...