The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of doctoral student mothers pursuing doctorates in higher education as well as the meanings ascribed to the doctorate. This study was guided by Rich’s (1976) notion of motherhood as experience and as institution held in te…
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This study was conducted to identify both the general and educational uses of the Internet for College of Education Kuwaiti students and to determine whether the Internet is, or can be, an important tool for them. Nine research questions were formulated to pursue the purpose of …
This study was driven by the growing importance of electronic information resources in university libraries. The focus was graduate students' information needs. Conceptual framework was Dervin's sense-making theory, modified by Kari, to clarify research questions and the survey,…
This study looks at professorial expectations of graduate students in two different higher education settings--Malaysia and the United States. These two settings were selected because of the large number of Malaysian students studying in U.S universities. These students are the …
Information technology is constantly changing, and if academic users are to make best use of these resources, they must sustain efficient information-seeking behaviour. This study explores the information-seeking behaviour of graduate students at Kuwait University, and investiga…
This dissertation explores the construction of identity in conversations about literacy with a group of ten Arab graduate students of English, attempting to answer the question: "How do Arab graduate students of English construct their identities through their literacies in Arab…
On the surface, it seems that women are no longer excluded from academia and that the social changes in the last century made women ‘equal among equals’ in the academic institutions. Although it is true that women students today consist of more than half of the undergraduate stu…
The purpose of this study is to explore how graduate students at the College of Education at the University of Toledo view the importance and objectives of human rights education in the development of respect for humanity, and how they reflect this awareness in their attitudes t…
This dissertation explores the identity changes and re-negotiation processes after crossing multiple geographical and cultural borders among twelve female international graduate students at a large West Coast university. Despite the increased number of female international stude…
The difficulties international graduate students experience in classroom interaction due to language proficiency has been documented. However, most such studies look only at behaviors, such as the number of times a student initiates an interaction or asks a question, which gives…
As the number of students studying in the United States (U.S.) has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to multiple aspects of the international student experience. Despite a proliferation of studies generally addressing the topic of international students, few studi…
Astrocytes maintain ion and neurotransmitter homeostasis within the central nervous system. They do so by expressing channels, receptors and transporters such as excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) along their highly ramified arbours. EAATs are well known to be glutamate …
This research explores the experience of Saudi students at RIT who are enrolled in the Hospitality and Tourism Management graduate program. It focuses on investigating the educational needs and expectations of the students for the purpose of program development in regard to the …
The research questions of this study focused around exploring EFL speaking international students' perceptions regarding participation and social presence in face-to-face classroom and web-based forum, and the characteristics of web-based communication that encouraged and discou…
To meet the needs of complex and/or underserved patient populations, health care professionals must possess diverse backgrounds, qualities, and skill sets. Holistic review has been used to diversify student admissions through examination of non-cognitive attributes of health car…
A relational model of spirituality and transformation (Shults & Sandage, 2006); Sandage & Brown, 2018) based on the dialectic experience of differentiation of self (Bowen, 1978; Kerr & Bowen, 1988) and communion with God (Knabb & Wang, 2019) was tested in a sample of Christian g…
Many research studies have examined the relationship among religion/spirituality (R/S), life satisfaction, happiness, and well-being (Ivtzan et al., 2013; Okulicz-Kozaryn, 2010; Lun & Bond, 2013). Additional findings have supported a positive relationship between extreme ends of…
Traumatic childhood events have the potential to shape later life experiences and choices (Layne et al., 2014). Felitti et al. (1998) found that higher numbers of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) correlate to an increase in health risks and risky behaviors in adulthood. Ther…
Black women in college have a long history of real and perceived barriers related to stereotypes, isolation, and marginalization (Hughes & Howard-Hamilton, 2003; Patton & Croom, 2017; Porter & Dean, 2015; Stewart, 2017). However, Black women college students maintain the ability…