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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

  • Opinions and characteristics of Portland Community College black students

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    Bonaparte, Lawson Gregg, 1921-
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    The purpose of this study was to analyze and describe the opinions and characteristics of black students enrolled in Portland Community College. Data were obtained through a random sampling of two groups of subjects who were invited to participate in the study as follows: (1) Black subjects were 109 students...
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    Dissertation
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    Portland Community College during the 1970 fall term. The basic areas covered by the Student Information

  • Shades of Color at OAC, 1916-1921: The Untold Story of Palmer Patton

    Creator:
    Landis, Lawrence A.
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    Palmer Patton was a student of color at Oregon Agricultural College (OAC) from 1916-1920. He received bachelors and masters degrees in agriculture. He was African-American but identified as white. This presentation explores Patton's life before, during and after his years at OAC. This presentation was made at OSU's Lonnie B....
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    member at Oregon Agricultural College between 1916 and 1921. This is not an ordinary story, yet one

  • 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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    Masters Thesis
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    individual interviews with six rural adult women students at Southwestern Oregon Community College (SWOCC

  • The decision to pursue education in an Oregon community college : a study of Latino credit and non-credit students

    Creator:
    Daniels, Rachelle E.
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    A historical overview of Latino enrollment in the community college is resented. Thirty Latino occupational, transfer, and non-credit students attending an Oregon college were interviewed, examining educational and familial background, and college services as indicators of their decision to pursue postsecondary studies at the two-year institution. Results are analyzed, supplemented...
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    /GED Latino Student Enrollment 115 THE DECISION TO PURSUE EDUCATION IN AN OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE

  • 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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    Dissertation
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    state of student learning outcomes assessment within their community college student affairs divisions

  • Rate of student participation in college student ratings of instruction

    Creator:
    Frost, Jacquelyn Lee
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    This study was conducted to develop a statistical model of the influence of course characteristics on student ratings of instruction. Unique to this study was the inclusion of the student participation rate as a variable. Other course characteristics studied were: expected grade, attendance, grade point average, sex of students, reason...
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    Participation in College Student Ratings of Instruction by Jacquelyn Lee Frost A THESIS submitted to Oregon