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  • Working together for student success: cross-functional collaboration at community colleges

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    Loveday, Joyce E.
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    The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the underlying mechanisms within community colleges that influence cross-functional collaboration. The study also explored the role of community college leadership in fostering internal collaboration. The following questions guided the research: (1) What does cross-functional collaboration look like at a community...
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    ] AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Joyce E. Loveday for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

  • Women, poverty, and educational success : a critical exploration of low-income women's experience in community colleges

    Creator:
    Barry, Kate R.
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    The purpose of this study is to critically explore low-income women's experience as they negotiate post secondary education in community colleges. Three research questions explore the context through which low-income women have entered the college experience, what that experience is like for them, and how the community college experience has...
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    of Higher Education in America” 2003) Poverty is a critical issue for women and education

  • Women's studies : a new program for the community college

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    Goltra, Raylene Denise
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    The purpose of this study was to present the new women's studies program for the community college. The study advocated consciousness raising for females at all levels of public instruction, but this paper was limited to the community college. The program outlined would seek to help women to assume a...
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    Differences in Academic Rank and Salary Among Science Doctorates in Teaching," from the Journal of Human

  • Women engineering transfer students : the community college experience

    Creator:
    Patterson, Susan J.
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    An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not...
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    science discipline were awarded to women (Gibbons, 2010). ―Since 2003 the percentage of women earning

  • With Hardship Comes Ease: Exploring Muslim Identity Development at a Private Predominantly White Institution in the Mid-South through Counterstorytelling

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    Saeed, Faran
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    The dominant narrative of U.S. Muslims in higher education is associated with violent rhetoric, anti-American values, and terrorism. After terrorist attacks took place on September 11th, 2001, this narrative expanded to include a depiction of U.S. Muslims as being oppressed and submissive. Hate crimes, discrimination, and Islamophobic attacks towards Muslims...
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    of mainstream society and their own, and what instances of support or resistance Muslim Americans

  • Wholistic primary education : investigation and development of an integrated curriculum model

    Creator:
    Beyer, Elmira K.
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    A five year longitudinal study was begun in 1976 to find a solution to the problem of early primary children who fail in school and then adopt the failure syndrome. The study was conducted in four elementary schools in Oregon which had distinctly different socio-economic populations. The tests used for...
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    should be ready to learn but the demands of society were not allowing this development to take place

  • Who We Are and Will Be

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    Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-
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    The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...
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    their hips when they walk, even though they are aware of the way society sexualizes them. They came out

  • White racial identity development in transitional space : Discourse and praxis among Christian teacher educators

    Creator:
    Harris, Gennie S.
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    This research examines two questions: 1) What stories do Christian teacher educators tell about their own White racial identity development? and 2) Is there an impact of studying White racial identity development on the praxis of Christian teacher educators? If so, in what ways? The researcher began the project with...
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    learners in an increasingly diverse society. Because of my own growth in cultural competence as a result

  • White principals examine power, privilege, and identity : the challenge of leading for equity

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    McCann, Julie McLaughlin
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    The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experience of white principals in understanding their white identity, privilege, and power as they worked to implement socially-just and culturally proficient schools. The findings offer insights into the following questions: 1) How do white school leaders view white identity and...
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    describes a narrow perception of reality based on miseducation, causing limited views of society and

  • What Do We Mean by "Justice"?: An Examination of How Justice is Conceptualized in K-12 Mathematics Education

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    Brunner, Megan E.
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    Issues of injustice in society (e.g. racism, classism, sexism, ableism) are perpetuated in and through educational opportunities, including mathematics learning (Freire, 1970/2000). Those that are committed to disrupting the interlocking systems that create disparities and oppression in mathematics education are considered to be “pursuing justice.” Pursuit of justice can involve...
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    : _____________________________________________________ Rebekah L. Elliott Issues of injustice in society (e.g. racism, classism, sexism, ableism