Sense of belonging

Black women majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields at predominantly White institutions (PWIs) experience a number of emotions as they navigate spaces and seek their identity. Black women experience greater challenges when striving for their sense of …

Student activists have a long history of causing disruption on American college campuses. They have fought against numerous racial, sexual, and economic injustices in order to provide a more welcoming environment. Research supports that students who have a stronger sense of belo…

He Persisted! is a compilation study about eight Black men who graduated from high school in the Jackson, Mississippi Metropolitan Area after Mississippi began mandatory integration in 1970. All but one of the men graduated during the first iteration of the Elementary and Second…

Immigration, an important component of the population growth of Canada, has resulted in an increasing diversity that has changed the demographic, religious, and linguistic make-up of the country. Two topics, sense of belonging and language, are frequently brought into question i…

With one fifth of the total population being immigrants, Canada has been one of the most attractive countries as a destination for immigration. Normally, immigrants who have greater human capital and better health are invited to migrate. As a result, most immigrants have better …

Apart from the wide-scale media attention that Arabs and Muslims have received in the United States and abroad since 9/11, these two target populations have been largely unexamined at both the two-year and four-year college levels. This dissertation study represents a pioneering…