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Guidelines for the development of two-year vocational technical community colleges in Venezuela

Creator:

Villarroel Diaz, Carlos Enrique

Abstract:

This study investigated the design of a new type of postsecondary educational institution for Venezuela that would meet the vocational education and training needs of postsecondary students and the skilled labor demands of the nation. Venezuela's educational system was analyzed to delineate a center for a suitable two-year vocational technical...

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Dissertation

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technical community colleges in Venezuela AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Carlos Enri ue Villarroel Diaz for
The re-discovery of soul and reclamation of spirit anew : the influence of spirituality on the persistence of Mexican American Chicana (o) community college transfer students at a small liberal arts university

Creator:

Rasca-Hidalgo, Leo

Abstract:

Low completion rates have created serious "leakage points" (Astin, 1988) and "severe hemorrhaging" (Lango, 1996) in higher education to a large number of Hispanics. Traditional research on college persistence, which has blamed the students' culture for low performance, is inaccurate. Little research has specifically investigated academic persistence from a cultural...

Resource Type:

Dissertation