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  • Immigrant lives and presidential dreams : exploring the experiences of Latino community college presidents

    Creator:
    Rodríguez, Francisco C.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences, events, and circumstances that provided Latino educators the opportunity for ascendancy to the presidency of a California community college. This study aimed to recapture the individual experiences of current Latino community college presidents from working class, immigrant family backgrounds as...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Strengthening Oregon's communities : Latino community leadership training

    Creator:
    Curiel, Sara
    Abstract:
    Latinos are less likely to be civically involved in their community than any other minority group, despite the fact that they are the biggest minority in the United States. A great concern exists over ways to effectively promote and improve this group’s participation in their community’s decision-making process [or civic...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    done in California on Mexican-American youth, researchers found that respondents were not interested

  • Examining the Latino experience in California agricultural education : a parallel mixed methods multiple case study

    Creator:
    Elliott, Kristopher Michael
    Abstract:
    Latino students are among the fastest growing demographic groups in the nation, particularly in California, Texas, Florida, and New York. Within California in 2014, over 70,000 students are involved in Agricultural Education programs, and Latino students now account for over 50% of the total enrollment - and the percentage of...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Education mirrors the total percentage of Hispanic students in California secondary education. Less than

  • Latina student perceptions of learning communities

    Creator:
    Yaqub, Samia
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this study is to examine the learning that occurs in Latina students who enroll in learning communities designed for underprepared community college students. The research question guiding this study is: What are the experiences of Latina students enrolled in developmental learning community courses which have the greatest...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Hispanic to refer to people of Central and South American, Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Spanish

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
    Abstract:
    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    -American women’s leadership (Méndez-Negrete, 2002). Most studies about leadership and Mexican