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Kavishe, Lulu-Lucy F. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
As graduates have transitioned into the workforce, employers have complained that these younger employees lack the soft skills that are needed to be successful in the workforce. Soft skills are personal traits and skills that employers seek in employees. Internship programs can be used to develop soft skills. Few qualitative studies have looked at…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Soft Skills, College Graduates, Foreign Countries
Luo, Xiaoyu – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The employment problem of college graduates has evoked concern from students to politicians. Since 1999, the Chinese government has promoted an enrollment expansion policy evident in the subsequent data which identified an increased college graduation rate. Furthermore, the English language proficiency of Chinese college students was emphasized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, College Graduates
Andrea Luque Karam – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this critical autoethnographic study concerns the lack of higher education opportunities for musicians in the state of Sonora, Mexico and the ways in which that impacts music educators from the region. In particular, I look at the different paths music teachers take to follow their vocation by critically examining my…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Higher Education
Taylor, Bobby – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Intellectual capital (IC) is a vital to the functionality of information technology (IT) businesses. Many companies recognize that enhancing and maintaining IC is critical to sustainability. The problem is that Fortune 500 IT businesses lack human resources in the United States needed for innovative development, resulting in an overreliance on…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Corporate Education, Qualitative Research, Interviews
Pulcini, Brad T. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Rural students, especially rural Appalachian students, remain underrepresented in higher education (ARC, n.d.). Enrollment declines continue to exist at a majority of institution types across the country as traditional sources of students continue to dry up. Universities and colleges are rediscovering rural areas in order to try to bridge gaps in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Rural Areas, Declining Enrollment, Geographic Regions
Griselda C. Castilla – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between college persistence and family income, parental education level, and type of financial aid for first-time, full-time Hispanic economically disadvantaged students selected from a South Texas Hispanic-serving institution. The dependent variable, college persistence, was measured by…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, Student Financial Aid, Correlation
Catalina Morales Lema – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In this dissertation, I use data from Chile to study the determinants of schooling trajectories. Chapters 1 and 2 focus on higher education, Chapter 3 on secondary education, and Chapter 4 on teachers. Chapter 1 explores the role of a socio-emotional ability, self-efficacy, in understanding why students with comparable qualifications transit…
Descriptors: Economics, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Secondary Education
Sandra Spirovska – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I explore how international migration and environmental pollution shape human capital accumulation and labor market outcomes.The first chapter examines how college enrollment and major choice decisions of young adults in migrant-sending countries are affected by the removal of international migration barriers. My…
Descriptors: Migration, Migration Patterns, Pollution, Human Capital
Maria Patricia Cantu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many international doctoral female students in the sciences in the United States do not obtain a degree despite their large investment in time, effort, and financial resources. The loss of highly prepared and credentialed international female doctoral students, who have a genuine interest in science but who choose not to pursue their studies to…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Females, Sciences, Foreign Students
Saloni Gupta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigates the intersection of economics of innovation and human capital development to understand how to empower individuals and marginalized communities to be directed to innovation and STEM disciplines. The research focuses on three main chapters: Chapter 1 examines the effectiveness of an education program in teaching and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Technological Advancement, Economics, Human Capital
Sheppard, Allison A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study used a case study research design to investigate the knowledge, perceptions, and beliefs of elementary principals regarding whole-grade acceleration for gifted students. The research literature is overwhelmingly positive on student outcomes--academically, socially, and emotionally. However, little research exists on the impact of…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Schools, Knowledge Level, Administrator Attitudes
Solomon Mosisa Gofere – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation addresses three separate questions in human capital and development economics. In the first chapter, I study how college admission concerns drive students' field choices in a field-specific college admission system. To study this question, I leverage a college admission policy reform in Ethiopia that sharply increased the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, STEM Education, State Universities, College Admission
Ni, Xinyu – ProQuest LLC, 2019
As a local education agency, school districts play an important role in providing instructional support for teachers and school leaders, making instructional goals, and allocating financial and human capital resources in a rational way to promote overall students' learning outcomes. Studies on school districts that look to find reasons or…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Objectives, Human Capital, Resource Allocation
Flatt, Candace – ProQuest LLC, 2017
According to the United States Department of Justice (2017), over 10,000 formerly incarcerated individuals are released each week from federal and state prisons. Approximately two-thirds of this population will be re-arrested within three years of release. Although employment has been found to reduce recidivism, the majority of formerly…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Recidivism, Human Capital
Oyeka, Denita Hartfield – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Gulf-War-era-II combat veterans have made professional contributions to the civilian workforce since returning from Iraq and Afghanistan combat operations. Service members in California encounter transition issues related to employment and adjusting their self-identity in the civilian employment culture. These complexities have led to career…
Descriptors: Veterans, Employment, Self Concept, Cognitive Processes
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