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  • 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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    able to enter college and improve their economic situation while receiving AFDC. Single Parent

  • Supporting the Families of International Graduate Students with Accompanying Dependents

    Creator:
    Rains, Shalece L.
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    Research universities in the United States recognize the importance of attracting graduate students from around the world to make global collaborations possible and to take advantage of the worldwide demand for higher education. Educational research has developed a large body of literature on the specialized supports that improve successful outcomes...
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    of Master of Science in College Student Services Administration presented on May 14, 2015. Title

  • Motivations for reverse transfer at Rogue Community College

    Creator:
    King, Aurora N.
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    As reverse transfer students become a larger part of community college enrollments, it is important to better understand the underlying causes of this nontraditional population’s emergence in the traditional community college system. This quantitative descriptive study found that approximately nine percent of the student body enrolled at Rogue Community College...
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    college rather than returning to work. As a student and a professional, I began to wonder how many

  • Key motivating factors for rural adult women entering college

    Creator:
    Benoit, Michelle R.
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    This qualitative study seeks to gain knowledge about the motives and barriers of rural adult women students and how these factors impact their decision to pursue postsecondary education. As more adult women choose to enter or return to higher education, it is important to examine the factors that influence their...
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    individual interviews with six rural adult women students at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC

  • The illicit use of prescription stimulants on college campuses : a theoretical examination

    Creator:
    Bavarian, Niloofar
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    The illicit use of prescription stimulants (IUPS) is a critical Public Health problem in the college population that represents a unique form of substance use. Namely, the primary motives for IUPS by college students are academic in nature (e.g., Teter, McCabe, LaGrange, Cranford, & Boyd, 2006), which may explain why...
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    Dissertation
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    20 classrooms, eligible student response rate = 96.30%). The prevalence of IUPS during college

  • Perceptions of Senior Student Affairs Officers on the State of Student Learning Outcomes Assessment

    Creator:
    Lang, Heather
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    Institutions of higher education are increasingly being held accountable and experiencing pressure to demonstrate how well their students are achieving intended learning outcomes. External and internal influences fuel this pressure. After decades of rhetoric on student learning outcomes assessment there remains a question of whether the practice has been fully...
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    state of student learning outcomes assessment within their community college student affairs divisions

  • Perceptions and experiences of students who graduate with the Associate of Arts/Oregon Transfer (AA/OT) Degree

    Creator:
    Scott, Patricia Marie
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    The purpose of this qualitative study was to learn about the perceptions and experiences of students who graduated with the Associates of Arts/Oregon Transfer (AA/OT) degree. This study answered the following questions: 1) How did the AA/OT degree attainment assist in the overall achievement of goals? 2) How did AA/OT...
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    degree at an urban community college in Oregon. Data analysis occurred through the creation of profiles

  • The role of a Filipino American student association at a predominantly white institution : a critical ethnography

    Creator:
    Oliveros, Claire
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the role of a Filipino American college student organization at a Predominantly White Institution, and uncover elements of the organization that influence or limit the development of critical consciousness of its members. This study focuses on the aspect of critical consciousness that...
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    The purpose of this study is to examine the role of a Filipino American college student organization

  • The successful experiences of first generation community college transfer students

    Creator:
    McKenzie, René
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    The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the successes of first generation, community college transfer students served by a TRiO/Student Support Services (TRiO/SSS) program. This study addresses a specific problem in higher education – there are a limited number of first generation transfer students who successfully matriculate...
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    Dissertation
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    program contributed to your successful experience as a community college transfer student? The study

  • Understanding health behavior influences of undergraduate students during college transition

    Creator:
    Hart, Kerry A.
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    As college students transition to life away from their parental home, the need to make independent decisions regarding their eating and exercise behaviors is evident. This life transition may be a critical period for establishment of long term behavior patterns with potential impact on health, disease and weight balance. This...
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    prepared for college life and its impact upon eating and exercise behaviors. Student responses suggest