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Outcomes of the UAMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Increase Diversity in Research and Health Professions
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Prince, Latrina Y.; Williams, Tremaine B.; Allen, Antino R.; McGehee, Robert E., Jr.; Thomas, Billy R. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2023
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) aims to increase diversity in research and health-related careers. The SURP provides underrepresented minority (URM) and disadvantaged students with research, mentoring, and networking experiences; real-life surgical observations; and simulated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Summer Programs, Diversity
From Classrooms to Careers: A Descriptive Examination of High School Students' Interest in Teaching Professions
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Ashley Ellison; Thomas Smith – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: School districts across the United States face persistent difficulties recruiting and retaining teachers (García & Weiss, 2019; Schmitt & deCourcy, 2022). Over the last decade, every state in the south has faced a growing teacher shortage, with some facing shortages in all grades and subjects (U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment
An Analysis of Post-Secondary Agricultural Education Students' Choice to Teach
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Lawver, Rebecca G.; Torres, Robert M. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify and describe factors that influence senior agricultural education students' choice to become a secondary agricultural education teacher. The study focused on the extent to which students' beliefs and attitude about teaching influenced their intent to select teaching secondary agricultural education as a…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Student Attitudes, Agricultural Education, Agriculture
Career Status of Secondary Principals in Small Schools in the Southwest. A Research Report.
Seifert, Edward H. – 1982
A 24-item questionnaire was mailed to 559 randomly selected secondary principals in Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma to determine the career status of secondary principals working in buildings with student populations of 400 or fewer. The greatest single factor influencing the decision to become a principal was need for increased…
Descriptors: Age, Career Choice, Contracts, Employment Experience
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (80th, Chicago, Illinois, July 30-August 2, 1997): Scholastic Journalism.
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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1997
The Scholastic Journalism section of the Proceedings contains the following five papers: Implementation and Effects of the Arkansas Student Publications Act" (Bruce L. Plopper and William D. Downs, Jr.); "Choosing a Media Career: Factors Influencing the College Student's Decision-Making Process" (Carolyn H. Ringer and Julie E.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Case Studies, Decision Making, Freedom of Speech
A Study of the Educational and Career Goals of Freshman Students from the Arkansas Ozarks. SAIR Conference Paper.
Fagg, Jane; And Others – 1982
The background, career and educational aspirations, and attitudes of 148 female freshmen in the Arkansas Ozarks were studied to determine reasons for underachievement and lack of commitment among females of this region. Comparisons were also made to responses of 54 male students. All respondents were residents of 29 hill counties and attended…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, College Freshmen, Females