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Writing center use among college students has been associated with higher grade point average as well as increased rates of persistence and graduation, yet students choose to use writing centers for vastly different reasons. While research about writing centers and other tutorin…

This thesis intends to identify the precise prescriptions for social and economic mobility intended by Horatio Alger Jr. and Russell H. Conwell in their works Ragged Dick and “Acres of Diamonds.” Furthermore, to explain why their prescriptions diverge from one another using the …

Quality of life (QOL) is a widely researched construct used to represent wellbeing and wellness within and across pertinent life domains, including the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, social, occupational, and environmental. Despite the large amount of research, conceptu…

This phenomenological study explores lived experiences of part-time adjunct faculty serving part-time, non-traditional students. The participants taught at community colleges for multiple years and relied somewhat or entirely on their income as adjuncts to support themselves fin…

This research study examined how the student affairs division of traditional public universities can adapt their programs to better serve nontraditional students. Through the lenses of andragogy, self-directed learning and experiential learning, this paper explored how tradition…