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Galvin, Carroll David – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Students, parents, and government leaders continue to question the value of higher education in general and of a liberal arts education in particular (Council of Independent Colleges, 2015; Fischer, 2022; Strauss, 2019). With students enrolling in liberal arts programs in significant numbers, and with the majority of those students now reflecting…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Graduates, Employers, Attitudes
Amy Beth Wagner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The problem addressed in this study was the high attrition rates of teachers in elementary school districts and the unknown role of human, social, structural, and psychological capital determinants needed to retain teachers. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to describe the experiences of veteran K-6 teachers in the South…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Elementary School Teachers, Suburban Schools, Role Theory
Kual Ayai – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There are considerable challenges experienced by female South Sudanese refugees to access post-secondary education in the United States. Although these challenges are many, but little was known about their experiences to access and enroll into US post-secondary education. There has been a significant lack of research on how South Sudanese female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Females, Access to Education
Michael William Mills – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study utilizes the human capital theory to examine the influence of high impact career exploration and career-focused practices in a public, regional four-year institution. Literature shows that graduates who enter well-matched careers earn approximately 30 percent more than graduates who are not closely matched. In addition,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Research Universities, Human Capital, Career Exploration
Ariassa Anna Wilson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how community college women's basketball coaches use their leadership abilities to develop different types of capital in their Black women college athletes on the West Coast of the United States. This study used the Community Cultural Wealth model and Psychological Capital framework…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Human Capital, Cultural Capital, Athletic Coaches
Lowe, Erin M. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This project study focused on the writing and implementation of the transition plan that gives students with disabilities the proper guidelines and tools to help them in life after high school. Guided by the human capital theory in education, the purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of how high school special education teachers…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Program Implementation, Students with Disabilities, Human Capital
Preston Cooper – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Economists have long recognized the importance of human capital in economic growth. In this series of papers, I study how various institutions of human capital formation affected economic development in a variety of contexts prior to 1900. These include both formal institutions of human capital formation such as universities and informal…
Descriptors: Educational History, Human Capital, Economic Development, Universities
Hurla, Laura Ellen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In the spring of 2022, Learning Forward released an updated version of their professional learning standards. The concepts and research highlighted in the 2022 version of the standards are not necessarily new to the field of education. However, orchestrating the standards to create conditions for success and enact transformational processes for…
Descriptors: Standards, Faculty Development, Experienced Teachers, Educational Change
Richard A. Gayle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In 2013, roughly 7% of college graduates under 25 could not find employment, and about 37% were underemployed. Public university tuition costs increased by 42% between 1999 and 2012, and 71% of college graduates have an average of $29,400 in outstanding student debt. Employers for several decades have complained about how higher educational…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, College Graduates, Education Work Relationship
Mary E. Laski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of three papers. In each, I use applied econometric methods and economic theory to study the American teacher workforce. The first paper evaluates a novel policy to address teacher shortages by promoting experienced school staff to be teachers of record. Controlling for demographics and baseline scores, I find that…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Shortage, School Personnel, Educational History
Yunes, Trini – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In the United States, there has been recent attention to mergers involving higher education institutions. The fact is that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are not a novel topic but more common in business. The paper will present the findings of a case study of the merger of two Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in Texas and how leadership…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Organizational Change
Ukpere, Oscar – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Research has shown that links exist between human capital factors (i.e., employee education, training, certification, and work experience) and organizational outcomes such as job performance, competitive advantage, and operational effectiveness. Few studies have examined the role of human capital in the field of information security despite these…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Information Security, Administrators, Educational Attainment
Harber, Zachery Ethan – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to better understand the extent to which a Public Charter High School and a Two-Year Community College leveraged their partnership and committed resources towards expanding access to concurrent credit career and technical education programs. The goal of this partnership was to invest in the human capital of high…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Vocational Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Jennifer Kowalski – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation contains three chapters, each investigating a question in American economic history. The first chapter is co-authored with Ran Abramitzky, Santiago Perez, and Joseph Price. In this work, we conduct a large-scale digitization of historical college registers, encompassing 2.7 million students at 65 elite US universities. We use…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Economics, Student Records
Sooknanan, Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is the ability for a child to manage their emotions and interactions in a way that benefits development (Jones & Doolittle, 2017). The purpose of this research was to explore teachers' knowledge of SEL and gain an understanding of any barriers they may have faced regarding SEL in the classroom. Additionally,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Attitudes