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Kaiser, Sara R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this historical case study dissertation is to discover the story of Dr. Katharine Rea in her role as dean of women and later faculty member in the higher education and student personnel program at the University of Mississippi. As the dean of women in the 1960s Rea was responsible for the well-being and quality of the educational…
Descriptors: Educational History, Case Studies, Feminism, Activism
Thomas, Reuben J.; McFarland, Daniel A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2010
Adolescent voluntary associations are particularly well positioned in the life course to encourage voting as youth become full citizens. Extracurriculars socialize students into voting by habituating them to civic engagement and by connecting them to politically engaged cultures. We establish this argument by testing the effects of high school…
Descriptors: Voting, Ideology, Young Adults, Adolescents