The purpose of this case study is to understand higher education administrators’ perceptions of New York State’s tuition-free initiative, the Excelsior Scholarship. A comprehensive literature review offers insights into a select history of higher education policy, as well as the…
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Retaining underserved students through completion is a key priority in American higher education. Academic advising is regarded as an important student support service that can positively influence student persistence and reduce attrition. The purpose of this qualitative phenome…
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…
This study explored factors that influenced persistence in expatriate academic assignments in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Specifically, the problem that was addressed was an investigation of the reasons why some expatriate academics declared their intent to leave an academic…
Effective policymaking requires understanding the causal effects of competing proposals. Relevant causal quantities include proposals' expected effect on different groups of recipients, the impact of policies over time, the potential trade-offs between competing objectives, and,…
For decades after independence many African nations have invested a significant portion of their national budget into education development. Global enrollment rates however, are still low in many Sub-Saharan countries. Moreover, the enrollment rate hides gender disparity and con…
The Egyptian vulture sign has, long over a century, been ambiguously presumed by most egyptologists as Hebrew aleph (ℵ) or laryngeal (?) with the conventional pronunciation as the vowel /a/. While there is no question regarding the occurrence of lateral /L/ in Coptic, a direct d…
The Late Bronze-Iron Age horizon in southern Syria-Palestine is marked by profound changes in the cultural and socio-political fabric of the region. Because of its association with biblical Israel, the highlands have been the focus of considerable investigative effort into the h…
This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatial…
This dissertation analyzes the dynamics of modern empires. It asks why some empires were able to maintain control of their territories for long periods of time, while others were not. Why was the Communist Party able to restore and even expand the former Russian Empire, whereas …
Continuous surveillance of influenza becomes important considering the economic, epidemic and pandemic implications of influenza infections. This study details phylogenetic & molecular analysis of the genes of four swine influenza viruses isolated from humans in Alma-Ata, Kazakh…
The influx of approximately two million veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and the prediction that many will utilize veteran education benefits, has created a need to identify persistence motivators for this student population. The purpose of this study was to identify…
Purpose. This case study sought to investigate the structure, pedagogy and culture of an introductory-level, high school computer science class and to examine the experiences of the girls and boys in the class to understand why so few girls enroll in the advanced computer scienc…
With an active war ongoing for nearly thirteen years, the nation has been experiencing hundreds of thousands of returning solders as a result of the military drawdown of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. The intent of this research study was to understand the effectiveness of un…
This qualitative study examined the experiences of 20 African American men who graduated from predominately White institutions in one mid-Atlantic state between the years of 2001 and 2011 with doctoral degrees in Education or in a Humanities and Sciences field. Interviews were c…
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 …
As we known, infectious diseases can be transmitted from one region to another due to extensive travel and migration. Meanwhile, different regions have different demographic and epidemiological characteristics. To capture these features, multi-patch epidemic models have been dev…
Mexican American men have the lowest college completion rate of any ethnic group in the United States. Mexican American men lag behind Asian and White students academically and slightly higher than Black and Pacific Islander college graduates. The study attempts to understand th…
The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the perceptions of a group of legacy students regarding their experiences at a public, more selective institution. Selective institutions have a long history of providing preferential admission review of legacy stud…