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Why Teachers Don't Look Like Us: Critical Race Theory and Social Capital in Education
(2020-07)
The K-12 teaching career is a field that is heavily dominated by a white female demographic, with a large underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic educators. There are more than 50 million students in the public school-age ...
Exploring How Pilgrimage Experiences Affect Identity: Place, Religion, Culture, Community, and Individuality
(2020-08)
This study uses a pilgrimage experience in Israel as one example to inform the process through which identification with Judaism and Israel is formed. Participants expressed their identification in response to events and ...
The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools: An Investigation of Essential Skills and Diverse Student Enrollment
(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2020-05)
The Innovation Center of St. Vrain Valley Schools provides STEM-based educational experiences to students in a 50,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in Longmont, Colorado. Several local business and industry partners ...
Thriving Online: Retention Factors for Students in a Graduate Online Nursing Program
(2020-08)
This study examines the relationship between retention and student satisfaction within a graduate nursing program offered fully online by a large, private university in the northeast region of the United States. Relying ...
An Attack on Education: How South Carolina independent schools ensure campus safety and security in theface of potential violence
(2020-07)
This project was an investigation into safety and security measures implemented by Heads of
School within the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA). Interviews and an
open-ended survey were conducted with ...
Admissions, Enrollment & Pre-College Preparation: A Foundation Year Program In The Arabian Gulf
(2020-08)
Knowing more about student enrollment at preparatory programs is particularly significant to the field of international admissions and recruitment. Struggling to meet aggressive admissions targets, and the inability to ...
Removing the Lens of Bias: Promoting Self-Efficacy of Black Female Leaders in Turnaround Schools through Organizational Systems
(2020-07)
This is a study of how organizations support the self-efficacy of Black female principals leading turnaround schools. Semi-structured interviews were conducted of Black female principals who currently lead or have lead ...
Alma Mater Matters: Designing Meaningful and Impactful Alumni Engagement within Independent School Communities
(2020-07)
Independent schools' alumni engagement programming often lacks creative strategy and valid measures of engagement beyond dollars donated and attendance at alumni events. Despite the fact that independent school alumni are ...
A Moment Defined: Corporate Board Composition and Intersectionality, the Broadening Conceptualization of Gender-only to Gender and Race
(2020-08)
This study explores the experiences of African-American females (AA/Fs) who serve as corporate board directors of public and private corporations in the United States. Questions that guided this research attempted to offer ...