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What's My Intention?: How Male Undergraduate Students Make Sense of Study Abroad
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Silvestri, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The gender gap in American undergraduate students' participation in study-abroad programs is a persistent phenomenon. According to the Institute of International Education (2022a), male students have represented between 32.7% and 36.5% of all American students abroad between the 2007-2008 and 2018-2019 academic years. Research similarly shows that…
Descriptors: Males, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Study Abroad
A Phenomenological Investigation of Academic Momism: Perceptions of Female College Faculty's Role Expectations in High-Stakes STEM Courses
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Cempa-Danziger, Donna – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative phenomenological study looked at how female faculty in higher education who teach high-stakes courses may experience a role of academic momism (AM) and how they negotiate their roles and responses within a patriarchal system. Gender bias and prescriptive stereotyping of women as communal may lead female STEM instructors to be…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, Attitudes, Teacher Role, Expectation
Too Important to Fail: Assessing the Role of a First Year Experience Program in the Persistence of African American Male Students at a Predominantly White University
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Smith, Craig A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Continued research on the first-year experience of African American male students entering institutions of higher learning is necessary and can provide a deeper look at institutional and individual factors that African American male students may encounter, and impact their academic success. Understanding the issues that affect African American…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, African American Students, Males