Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
Experiences Of Women Leaders In Secondary Education: Negotiating Gender Scripts In An Age Of Accountability |
2018 |
3399 |
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of the women principals. Specifically, the research explored their understanding of gender scripts that exist in the discourse of secondary education and how these women accept, reject, or n... |
Postsecondary Retention And Persistence: An Inquiry Into Tinto’s Conditions For Success |
2018 |
1492 |
This study evaluated the impact of the Go. Persist. Succeed. 4 Success intervention at a rural community college in western North Carolina. The intervention was designed to provide services under the four conditions suggested by Tinto to promote stud... |
Community College Student Stories Of Lateral Transfer |
2018 |
1036 |
As calls for accountability intensify and funding is increasingly tied to institutional performance, community colleges are shifting focus from access to completion. Additional scrutiny on student outcomes has uncovered surprising findings on studen... |
Resilient African-American Women: Autoethnographic And Narrative Inquiry Of Subjectivity And Agency |
2018 |
1350 |
The question of risk and resilience has been widely debated in the psychology and sociology fields, examining correlations between risk and protective factors related to resilience. The literature shows that the mother is a significant promotive fact... |
Displaced Workers, Continuing The Story: The Experiences Of Displacement, Community College, And The New Work Force |
2016 |
2592 |
The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of the workers who have been displaced, transitioned to community college where they earned a degree, and then joined the new work force. Specifically, the research explored how the particip... |