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Sandra Kay Cash – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigated the predictive relationship between grit and its components (perseverance of effort and consistency of interest) on GPA among students at a small Midwestern private college. Using archival data from 234 participants and drawing upon the grit theory and Tinto's integration Model, the research aimed to determine these effects…
Descriptors: Integrity, Grade Point Average, Correlation, First Generation College Students
Jameka A. Windham – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study is to highlight the characteristics that first-time, first-year students at a small, private, faith-based university in South Florida perceive as part of quality advising, what qualities of advising this group of students perceive as most important for their retention, and whether the advisors…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Persistence, School Holding Power, Academic Advising
Zachary T. Irish – ProQuest LLC, 2024
As higher education tries to reimagine its value in the post-pandemic world, professional live-in staff members are fleeing from their positions at a higher rate than new professionals are entering the field. These professionals are expected to work through challenging issues, with minimal training, experiencing secondary trauma, while working in…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Universities, Professional Personnel, Family Work Relationship
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Lauren R. Paulson; Caitlyn Davis – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
This mixed-methods study delves into rural community service-learning (CSL) partnerships, shedding light on the complexities and dynamics of collaboration between colleges and rural communities. Through quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, the research amplifies the voices of rural community partners, emphasizing the crucial role of…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship, Rural Areas, Service Learning
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Carmen Shurtleff – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2024
Research consistently describes the large percentage of community college students who struggle to meet their basic needs such as food and housing. These challenges may be exacerbated for students in rural communities. At the same time, we are also learning more about the connection between addressing students' basic needs and improving their…
Descriptors: Food Service, Rural Colleges, Community College Students, Hunger
Marcy, Mary B. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2020
With costs rising, traditional college student populations shrinking, and pundits predicting that huge numbers of colleges will close in the next few decades, small colleges cannot afford to pretend that business-as-usual can sustain them. This book offers five emerging models for how small colleges can hope to survive and thrive in these very…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Sustainability, Models, Educational Innovation
Ashley Allen Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2022
A workforce with highly developed communication skills, also known as career and life skills (CLS), is critical to America's ability to compete in the technologically advanced global and capricious economy. Although the number of college graduates entering the workforce is rising, there remains a perceptible gap in their communication skills,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, 21st Century Skills, Communication Skills, Student Attitudes
Müürisepp, Erik – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined the experiences of undergraduate student leaders at a small, private institution of higher education in the New England region and specifically how those undergraduate students made sense of their experiences as student leaders and the impact that had on their career readiness based on the competencies identified by the…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Career Readiness, Undergraduate Students, Private Colleges
C. Regina Simmons – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Small, private colleges provide an essential element to the landscape of higher education, offering intimate class sizes and high touch experiences for traditional college populations. Led by an institutional president, who sets strategic initiatives, while working with senior-level staff and faculty to accomplish mission, the president of a…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Presidents
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Laura Lohman – Educational Technology & Society, 2024
What do you do when employees want sustained, in-person, dialogic learning opportunities, but the realities of their work prevent participation in such learning events? Microlearning can offer an important solution to this conundrum but also requires careful navigation between design recommendations, learner preferences, learning objectives tied…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Instructional Design, Workplace Learning, Inclusion
Bridget Loland Coddou – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem with retention has led researchers to study the causes of attrition and ways to improve successful outcomes. Students define having positive faculty-student relationships that are therapeutic as a way to enhance successful academic outcomes. The problem that was addressed in this study is that there is a limited understanding of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Therapy
Karen E. Crist – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Beginning at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education experienced a sea of change in reduced enrollment, altered course delivery models, and increased need for student support. While observing staff's actual impact on the student experience during this time, this study will address the question, "How do professional staff in small…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Private Colleges, Professional Personnel, School Personnel
Wendy A. Colsen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to understand the development of teacher preparation at small denominational colleges. Hope College, a college in the Midwest, was used as an illustrative case study to examine this question. A qualitative organizational analysis using case study methodology was used for this research and followed an interpretive…
Descriptors: Religious Colleges, Teacher Education Programs, Small Colleges, College Programs
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Fowler, David S. – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2022
The focus of this paper is to promote the awareness of higher-education administration and faculty of the opportunities presented by developing and implementing lean operational models in their institutions. The paper provides a brief account of the author's observations of small liberal arts colleges that are operating in non-efficient models. It…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Liberal Arts, College Administration
Harmon, Jason M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to explore the factors that lead to the disproportionality of the graduation rates of African American and Latinx students at College X. This qualitative case study utilized interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators, document analysis, and site observations to study a small Midwestern college, College X.…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Racial Differences, African American Students
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