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Adjustments and challenges experienced by adult Hispanic students in a public technical college

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Suchite, Jose M.

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Little research has been done in the area of adult Hispanics' transition to college, a complex and challenging process which marks a critical period in their lives. Research suggests adaptation difficulty may cause them to drop out of school usually before completion of the first terms. There is a lack...

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Dissertation

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Hispanic students score lower on their standardized assessments in comparison to Euro- American students
Hispanic community college student empowerment : developmental English participants describe their educational experiences

Creator:

Lawrenson, Lisa Aguilera

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The purpose of this study was to learn about the experiences of Generation 1.5 Hispanics in developmental English in community college. A qualitative comparative case study design was used for this social critical study. The key findings fell into three categories: road blocks, motivators, and actions. The road blocks included:...

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Dissertation

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American educated Hispanic students. Further, it diminishes the incredible accomplishments of ESL
Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

Creator:

Morales-Warming, Melissa

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White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...

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Masters Thesis

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need for more research to be done regarding this population. The term Hispanic originated in the