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Matthew S. Hebbard – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was conducted to examine the impact of spirituality and religion on a student's College experience at a large Hispanic-serving community college in South Texas. The problem is that in the realm of higher education literature and research, there is scant information regarding spirituality and religion as factors in a student's motivation…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Religious Factors, Minority Serving Institutions
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Doran, Erin – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
The Board of Regents appointed President Thomas to the helm of Nuestra University, a large and urban Hispanic-Serving University. In the first years of his presidency, Nuestra achieved important milestone in its quest to better serve and graduate students from underrepresented populations. However, Thomas's hiring and presidency has faced critical…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Institutional Characteristics, Urban Universities, College Administration
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Oblad, Timothy Phoenix; Oblad, McKinsie Kay – International Journal on Social and Education Sciences, 2020
Recently, an NPR piece (Rosin, 2019) entitled: "The End of Empathy" discussed the dramatic decrease in empathy over recent decades and how today, a lack of understanding or feeling the plight of another human being is a largely forgotten value. As reviewed in the current study, two types of empathy are affective empathy (sympathy,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Coping
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Sarker, Amber L.; Paulson, Eric J. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2023
The purpose of this study was to better understand the perceptions and experiences of students in a learning community that incorporated culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) into its curriculum. The field site of this instrumental case study was a community college learning community situated in a Hispanic Serving Institution in Texas. Data from…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Attitudes, Culturally Relevant Education, Communities of Practice
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Morris, Nicole; Bain, Stephanie – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2023
Higher education students are attending online classes more now than ever in history. Many institutions have temporarily converted their traditional face-to-face to online classroom settings. This raises many challenges as it relates to having to rely on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). A virtual learning survey was sent out to all First…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Virtual Classrooms, College Students
Glenn R. Gray – ProQuest LLC, 2023
College students at a large south Texas university have proven consistently that they have a higher-than-average Body Mass Index (BMI), spend less time per week engaged in physical activity, and in general feel that they are less healthy than students in a national cross-sectional survey of college students by the American College Health…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Motivation
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Sanchez, Delida; Serrata, Josephine V.; Adams, Whitney; Arango, Sarah; Hamilton, Emma – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
Adolescence is a period of exploration of sexuality and of its integration into personality. Existing research on Latina adolescents, however, has been largely limited to disease and pregnancy prevention, ignoring the integration of sexual well-being with other aspects of health. Accordingly, this paper presents findings from a photovoice project…
Descriptors: Photography, Research Methodology, Sexuality, Hispanic Americans
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Manlove, Jennifer; Welti, Kate; Whitfield, Brooke; Faccio, Bianca; Finocharo, Jane; Ciaravino, Samantha – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Latinx adolescents are at increased risk of teen pregnancy. This study evaluates the impact of Re:MIX, a comprehensive sexuality education program cofacilitated by professional health educators paired with young parent educators implemented with primarily Latinx youth in Texas. Methods: A cluster randomized trial was conducted with…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Prevention, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
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Schmitz, Rachel M.; Tabler, Jennifer – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2021
LGBTQ + young people of color manage societal marginalization related to their LGBTQ + and racial/ethnic identities, which can shape health challenges. Despite their elevated need for responsive health services, cultural competence among service providers has largely focused on race/ethnicity, rather than LGBTQ + status, resulting in a lack of…
Descriptors: Health Services, LGBTQ People, Hispanic Americans, Young Adults
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Donato, Rubén; Hanson, Jarrod – SUNY Press, 2021
In "The Other American Dilemma," Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in their schools and communities between 1912 and 1953. Drawing from the Mexican Archives located in Mexico City and by venturing outside of the Southwest, their examinations of specific…
Descriptors: United States History, Immigrants, Mexican Americans, Hispanic Americans
Murano, Dana; Daley, Nola; Casillas, Alex – ACT, Inc., 2021
Starting in the 2019-2020 school year, NewSchools Venture Fund awarded a research grant to ACT to better understand factors related to social and emotional learning (SEL). SEL lessons were implemented in schools serving students who were 96% Latinx, 85% economically disadvantaged, and 38% English learners during the 2019-2020 school year. The…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Program Implementation, Hispanic American Students, Grade 8
Cantú, Danira Vanessa – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative collective case study examines how pre-collegiate literacy practices affect Latino/a student college success. Conducted at a South Texas border-region University, this study utilized a sample of six Latino/a students enrolled in a freshman level composition course. A focus group was used to explore how academic and social literacy…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Hispanic American Students, Freshman Composition, College Readiness
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Martinez, Melissa A.; Rivera, Marialena; Marquez, Jocabed – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2020
Purpose: With the rise of the Latinx student population in the United States and the urgency to meet the needs of this diverse community, there has been an increased concern and interest in preparing more Latinx educators and school leaders. This study contributes to this knowledge base by centering the voices and experiences of four Latina school…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Women Administrators, Females, Instructional Leadership
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Maria de Lourdes Viloria – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This article evaluates data from a case study involving five third-generation Mexican American teachers who work in an urban school district in Central Texas. The study analyzes their social capital and their culturally responsive connections with immigrant, first-, second-, and third-generation Mexican American students' in and out-of-school…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Urban Schools, Social Capital
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Mary Elizabeth Lockhart; Oi-Man Kwok; Myeongsun Yoon – International Journal of Science Education, 2024
The construct of science identity has been gaining attention across various domains in the educational arena. To date, however, no studies have used a person-centered quantitative approach within science identity research that is based upon traditional identity theory. Hence, there is an absence of a theoretical underpinning of the number of…
Descriptors: Sciences, Self Concept, Classification, Rural Schools
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