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Sarah Ann Stokes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) are digital and non-digital resources for teaching, learning, and research that are available for no cost and licensed with various open licenses, permitting their widespread modification and use. While these resources afford benefits to post-secondary students in terms of reduced cost, ease of access, and…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Barriers
Morin, Melody Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this qualitative narrative analysis was to understand how individual and environmental factors shape women's interest in seeking higher-level leadership positions within Canada. A need to understand the individual and environmental barriers that influence female academic physicians' lack of advancement beyond middle management was…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Leadership Role, College Faculty
Wonuola Yomi-Odedeyi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The term glass ceiling refers to existing artificial barriers to entry into leadership positions (Wilson, 2014, Booth, 2007). The quest for equity and social justice in educational leadership positions by racialized women, defined in this study as non-white, non-First Nations women, is the focus of this comparative case study. The key source of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Females, Instructional Leadership, Women Administrators
Tara-Jean Wenc – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although the last few decades have seen an improvement in postsecondary opportunities for students with invisible disabilities in Alberta, service providers at postsecondary institutions continue to struggle to ensure they provide reasonable accommodations in a timely manner. Research questions explored the current practices and challenges of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Justice, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Civil Rights
Tieszen, Pamela K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This phenomenological qualitative research study investigated Mennonite women with experience leading Mennonite high schools across the United States and Canada during their first year serving in the role of principal. This study gives voice to 12 Mennonite women leaders who felt God's "call" to lead. Women leaders encountered bias due…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Education