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…
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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…
“Building Leaders at Every Level”, an initiative developed at the College Board, was one of several responses to increase racial and ethnic representation in the senior leadership pipeline. Building Leaders at Every Level is a nine-month leadership pilot program that provides pa…
The systemic oppression in the United States can be found when educational institutions expand the divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots.” There is a historical pattern of schools serving the most marginalized communities receiving novice teachers and experiencing high t…
Retention of Called teachers within the Lutheran school system is becoming increasingly more difficult with each passing year. With the retirement of baby-boomer teachers and the limited amount of Called workers already in the field or qualified new graduates, the purpose of thi…
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of school-level factors (physical resources, teachers' and schools' characteristics) and system-level factors (delegation of financial authority to public primary schools through Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs)) on two education…
Members of ethnic- and nationality-based community organizations in the United States support their communities with their membership fees and donations, but they often show little interest in participating in volunteer activities. The purpose of this case study was to examine w…
The trend of feminization in HIV/AIDS cases in Indonesia and the critical role of disclosure for HIV/AIDS intervention programs lead to the importance of conducting research related to HIV disclosure experiences among women and how they influence social support and ART utilizati…
This dissertation addresses the lack of interdisciplinary research and understanding about how opinions regarding war related to service in the United States' all-volunteer Regular Army during the Afghan and Iraq Wars' early and middle years. Why study the relationship between o…
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 …
The study was designed to extend the research base on guided and response cards by investigating if the addition of GN increases the gain in quiz and exam scores beyond the levels produced by RC alone. Twenty-nine students enrolled in a world history class at a large suburban pu…
This study investigated the effectiveness of four vocabulary learning tasks on 104 Saudi EFL learners' retention of ten previously unencountered lexical items. These four tasks were: (1) writing original sentences (WS), (2) writing an original text (i.e. composition) (WT), (3) f…
The aim of the research is to explore the first year experiences of two groups of undergraduate student nurses. The research takes a holistic approach to the investigation of the first year experience. In part, a curriculum change is used as a way to find out about the first yea…
This study empirically examined the pull and push factors that influence the recruitment and retention of physicians and nurses in 14 rural hospitals in Lagos State of Nigeria from 1980-2006.The descriptive statistics indicated that relatively more nurses were recruited and reta…
Despite all efforts of the Nigerian government, corruption and money laundering continue to rise to a level yet unseen in the history of the country. Nigeria is ranked one of the most corrupt nations in the world, after Bangladesh and Haiti. This quantitative study of the signif…
Most of working adults enrolled in distance educational programs do not persist to complete the program. Distance education is experiencing an attrition problem. A quantitative study was conducted to investigate the relationship between effective facilitation and students' reten…
There are many challenges associated with student retention. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) has focused on determining the factors affecting student retention across its campus and distance course delivery formats in order to improve student retention. The purpose in thi…
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 …
This study recognized diversity, equity, and inclusion (CERSE, n.d.; Crutcher, 2018; Equity Literacy Institute, n.d.; U.S. Department of Education, 2016) efforts as essential for small liberal arts college survival. Using a single six-college consortium as the case, interviews o…