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  • Experiencing service-learning in prison

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    Kopet, Julie G.
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    The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of incarcerated women who participated in a service-learning program to help the homeless. Service-learning is effective pedagogy for involving students in civic engagement, and their involvement has been shown to increase the self-esteem of participating college students....
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    Service-Learning In Prison. Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________

  • Faculty perceptions of organizational climate for innovation at community colleges

    Creator:
    Batazhan, Tatyana
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    Higher education is faced with ever-increasing challenges, which require fundamental changes in order to ensure its relevance in the future. Business leaders and academic scholars urge organizations to continuously reshape and renew through learning and innovation to assure viability and sustainability. Organizational climate serves as a foundation that can promote...
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    , programs, services, and delivery models and methods. Alfred (1996) urged community colleges to challenge

  • Reflections on change : a community-college faculty perspective

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    Zmetana, Katherine
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    This phenomenological research study focused on educational change as perceived by 16 Liberal Arts faculty members at a Pacific Northwest community college. Research data were collected through in-depth dialogic interviews and a follow-up dialogue session with six participants. The principal guiding research questions comprised the following: 1) What is the...
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    , and providing additional other services. All are activities that greatly increase workload and time

  • Exploring college students' understanding of diversity : the effect of experience, interventions, and encapsulation

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    Versluis, Diana Omura
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    This study sought to understand how post-secondary students experience and process issues of diversity, to discover what those views of diversity are, and how those views might change. The two issues that participants felt most strongly about were homosexuality and scholarships for students of color. Their views on homosexuality ranged...
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    rights movement there is a sense among some of the general public that programs such as Affirmative

  • Perceptions about schooling and substance abuse treatment success from court mandated adolescent males

    Creator:
    Mazzotta, Margaret Ann
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    Many youth are able to be successful in the traditional school setting. Large numbers are not successful. Dropout rates are alarming. There is little research that examines the drop out problem from the perspective of the youth. Traditionally programs that are designed to help have been designed by adults. This...
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    Theology 6 The Volunteer for Educational and Social Services (VESS) Era 10 Pathways Era 13

  • Perspectives of teacher leaders in an educational reform environment : finding meaning in their involvement

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    Birky, Virginia Davidhizar
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    The purpose of this qualitative research study was to describe the experiences of secondary teachers who were actively involved in positions of teacher leadership in their schools and to discover the meaning that leadership activities had for them in their work. The informal teacher leaders performed their leadership functions in...
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    - service teachers to be knowledgeable and confident in these activities. In addition, administrators who

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

    Creator:
    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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    Public Technical College. Abstract approved: LeoNora M. Cohen Little

  • Post-colonialist Pathways : Building Potential for Multicultural Service Learning at Community Colleges

    Creator:
    Cate, Rachael
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    Latina/o student enrollments in community colleges in the United States are rapidly growing, yet Latina/o student success rates have not matched this growth. There is a need for community college programs that serve Latina/o student populations more effectively and that incorporate multicultural educational practices into college programs. The purpose of...
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    classroom: A service learning model for discussion. The American Indian Quarterly, 28(3), 604–617. doi

  • Exploring resilience in the lives of women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education

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    Turner, Susan Diane
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    Women leaders in early childhood health, human services, and education face tremendous challenges in their efforts to cultivate resilience amidst a myriad of risk factors including incessant stress, low wages, and limited professional support. Women who foster mental health in young children and high-risk families are vulnerable to secondary traumatic...
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    childcare, public health, mental health, maternal child health, human services, addiction services, Head

  • The experiences of older students' use of web-based student services

    Creator:
    Ho, Katy W.
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    The purpose of this phenomenological case study was to understand the experiences of older students' use of web-based student services in a community college setting. For the purpose of this study the term "older student" was defined as people born between the years 1943 and 1960. This group of people,...
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    services is forcing many colleges to streamline business and service procedures by offering web-based