This non-experimental, mixed methods study was completed to determine the effects of Persist Nashville on college students’ self-reported persistence as well as their perceptions of the effectiveness of the services that the participants used. The purpose of this study was to al…
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A perennial problem for many first-year composition (FYC) instructors is deciding what curricular materials to use to teach their students about rhetoric and composition and how to use those resources to enable their students to practice and hone their writing skills. This disse…
Over two million veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq may be coming to American colleges and universities as a result of the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Veterans have education benefits available to them, such as the Montgomery GI Bill, Post-9/11 GI Bill and, if they joined from …
This study explores the ways in which North Carolina community college leaders inspire first-generation African American college students (FGAACS) to graduate. Over the last couple of decades, there has been an influx in the number of FGAACS enrolling into college. Although the …
This qualitative phenomenological study was designed to investigate the transition of military veterans who served overseas during the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns into community college by discerning the situational factors, personal qualities, academic and social services, a…
This dissertation attempts two related tasks. It studies the effect of schooling costs on educational attainment. Then, given endogenous schooling, it uses measures of such costs to identify the causal effect of schooling on labor market outcomes. The particular outcome studied …
The post-Civil Rights era has been characterized by numerous challenges to traditional understandings of race. The dismantling of legalized segregation and discrimination, ongoing immigration from Asia and Latin America, increasing acceptance of interracial contact and relations…
In the current context of fiscal austerity as well as neo-colonial criticisms, the discipline of religious studies has been challenged to critically assess its teaching methods as well as articulate its relevance in the modern university setting. Responding to these needs, this …
The aim of this study is to examine the use of formative evaluation using a process-based model as a way of conceptualizing the parameters of an evaluation study. In particular, it examines the question of "Does formative program evaluation provide useful data for an ESP program…
Afghanistan and Iraq war student-veterans have increased in population on college campuses in the United States (U.S.) as a result of using the Post 9/11 GI Bill. Healthy Campus 2020 (American College Health Association, 2012) highlighted the importance of college student wellbe…
This study investigated academic advising and retention in a Gulf-Arab university. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered in order to understand how academic advising could have potentially contributed to the improvement of student retention. The focus of the study was …
During a time when most institutions of higher education are in search of underrepresented student participation, Georgia State University (GSU), a majority White institution, has observed a lack of involvement of White students in co-curricular activities. The purpose of the re…
This study examined the associations amongst religiosity, exercise self-efficacy, and physical activity in female Muslim college students 18-35 years old attending Southern Universities in the United States. Religiosity was measured using the Psychological Measure of Islamic Rel…
This study investigated whether professors perceived there is a relationship between student excessive drinking and academic performance. The quantitative method was used to analyze the responses to a survey by anonymous participants that included professors, faculty members, an…
After a student’s high school graduation, he or she will more likely leave the church than stay. Not only will the student leave, he or she will more likely remain out of the church than come back before they turn thirty years old. In order to retain students after graduation, c…
This study explores the experiences of multi-barriered mature students in Ontario’s colleges, specifically female students that have been out of school for at least 10 years attending post-secondary education (PSE) through the Government of Ontario’s Second Career program. Havin…
Today's college students are seeking campus counseling services more often than any other generation in the modern history of the United States, with anxiety and stress reported as the most common presenting concerns on intake during the last consecutive seven years (Center for …
Religion and spirituality are two distinct concepts that have been linked to positive outcomes (King & Boyatzis, 2015) and identity development (King & Furrow, 2004) in youth. Participation in religious and spiritual contexts has been associated with youth thriving (King et al.,…
This project sought to empower college students to pursue freedom from pornography at Breakaway Ministries in College Station, Texas. Chapter 1 introduces the ministry context of Breakaway Ministries along with the rationale, purpose, goals, research methodologies, definitions, …