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Sheena R. Harvey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black college students' social engagement navigation in higher education is met with challenges at many colleges and universities. Students from racial minority backgrounds and low-income families face a disparity in social capital gain during their enrollment at higher education institutions. This reality has led to constant reproduction of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, African American Students, College Students, Low Income Students
Lai, Ijun – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Recently, much public attention has been focused on racial inequalities in who is subjected to exclusionary school disciplinary policies, and consequently, forced to miss hours of instruction. Over the past two decades, researchers have documented the disparate impacts that zero-tolerance policies have had on students of color, low-income…
Descriptors: Suspension, Educational Policy, Student Experience, Racial Bias
Neff, YuWen Eryn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Within this qualitative research, I explore how design pedagogy can be utilized in an art education introductory course to assist pre-service teachers in the construction and awareness of social justice, specifically relating to how students deal with gender image and how it intersects with career choices in the current climate of gender bias in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Design, Preservice Teachers, Art Teachers
Sarah Abdullah Alhoian – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Saudi Arabian women are underrepresented in higher education leadership positions. To take advantage of opportunities and have lasting effects on future generations of women, women must learn to attain leadership positions such as academic deanships. Deans are in a uniquely influential position as they engage in many significant aspects of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Higher Education
Hicks, Timothy Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This action research study examined the impact of the Historical Thinking Method (HTM) on how students interacted with actual and virtual historical sites and museums. From September 2017 to May 2018, students engaged in analysis and evaluation of online exhibits and actual sites in the Washington, DC, and Columbia, South Carolina, areas using the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Museums, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Fiddler, Sarah C. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The problem is the absence of women in leadership roles, particularly women of the Millennial generation, at community colleges. Women of the Millennial generation were surveyed through an anonymous online survey through to determine why they believe they are not considered for leadership roles at community colleges. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Generational Differences, Community Colleges
Parks, Tia – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The Struggle is Real! (A slang term used in the Black Community). Everyone has a story. Everyone has a journey, regardless of race, color, or creed. However, what research and lived experiences of African American women such as myself reveals is that "the struggle" is different for African American women and we encounter more barriers to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Racial Bias, Gender Bias
McCooley, Melissa Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this hermeneutical phenomenological study was to explore the attributes associated with the leadership of women superintendents and how they overcome isolation in a predominantly male-dominated field. Through a feminist lens, I explored the manner in which women serve as superintendents, particularly, the manner in which they…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Leadership Qualities
Jones, Keona Sharie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of the study was to research the personal influences of African American female education leaders that contributed to their success. The research study explored the intersectionality of race and gender while identifying personal influences of successful African American women leaders. Over centuries African American women have taken on…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Leadership Styles, African Americans, Females
Dias, Tammy – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to examine the career pathways experienced by 10 women superintendents in the state of Arizona, the barriers they encountered along the way, and the strategies they used overcome them. To learn about women superintendents' experiences from their perspective, the researcher relied on the feminist…
Descriptors: Career Development, Females, Women Administrators, School Districts
Castaneda, Tania – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Women are an underdeveloped yet quickly growing source of leadership in higher education during an era marked by high turnover and calls for significant organizational change. In order to attract, recruit and retain the necessary executive talent to tackle future challenges, colleges and universities must develop the careers of women leaders and…
Descriptors: Females, Career Change, Reflection, College Administration
Evins, Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Female students in context of dis/ability are an understudied population. The intention of this study was to understand what practices and perceptions worked to empower this population, in hopes of extrapolating these to better serve dis/abled females. This study asserted that teacher beliefs regarding race/ethnicity, gender, socio-economic…
Descriptors: Females, Students with Disabilities, Student Empowerment, Teacher Attitudes
Mary Poffenroth – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Meeting the future demands of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) requires cultivating a diverse workforce. However, historically underrepresented groups--such as Black, Hispanic, and American Indian individuals; first-generation college students; those who are socioeconomically challenged; and women--have struggled to achieve…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Minority Group Students, First Generation College Students, Low Income Students
Fnu Elizarni – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This is a narrative inquiry study that presented types of women's activism during and after the conflict in Aceh, Indonesia (1976-2005). The study sought to explain how divergent women's activism becomes possible against the backdrop of this conflict and how the establishment of peace alters the patterns of their activism. Women's activism here…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Activism, Feminism
Rocío Acevedo-Carranza – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The existing body of literature on Latinas has mostly been focused on the undergraduate student experience (Hernandez, 2002; Hurtado et al., 1996; Kena et al., 2016; Tinto & Goodsell, 1994; Torres, 2004). Additionally, despite the increasing participation of women in graduate education since the 1980s (Walker et al., 2008), Latinas have been…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, Doctoral Students, STEM Education