This research explores the impacts of a federal-local partnership called the 287(g) program on the processes of integration of Hispanics in Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North C[...]

ABSTRACTTITILOLA OLUWATOSIN ADEWALE. Integration and persistence of international students in a U.S. private 4-year institution: A qualitative case study. (Under the dire[...]

Community receptivity expresses the degree of openness within a place to someone or something new. Receptivity is shaped by multiple components, institutions, and structu[...]

"Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The[...]

Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent o[...]

State-of-the-art conversational agents have advanced significantly in conjunction with the use of large transformer-based language models. However, even with these rapid [...]

Higher education institutions continue to struggle with encouraging retention for first-year students. Prior research has shown that establishing social integration duri[...]

In recent years, student centered approaches to learning has gained interest especially STEM based learning. It has led to educational policy and standards reforms includ[...]

In this dissertation, we consider the approximation of unknown or intractable integrals using quadrature, especially when the evaluation of these integrals is considered [...]

There are more refugees globally now than at any time since WWII. I use Phillimore’s opportunity structures from the refugee studies literature with popular ideas from th[...]