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Gallagher, Sean R. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Across the last decade, master's degree attainment has grown dramatically in the United States, as bachelor's degrees have become more common and economic growth has been driven by knowledge industries. A significant value and purpose of degrees is their use as qualifications for jobs. Despite the prominence of degrees in the hiring process, why…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Role, Personnel Selection, Qualitative Research
Sagyndykova, Galiya – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Education today is inseparable from the accumulation of human capital. "The New York Times" called human capital the most important asset in our portfolio. In my dissertation, I analyze the effectiveness of different educational policies and programs in Mexico and the United States. In the first chapter of my dissertation I study the…
Descriptors: Microeconomics, Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Educational Policy
Goode, Francis K. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Higher education institutions in Ghana are challenged in providing access to affordable education to accommodate all qualified students for postsecondary education. Most Ghanaian students seek skills and knowledge to prepare them for a global workforce. The study's purpose was to investigate the adaptation of the U.S. community college's 2-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Community Colleges
Mosley Linhardt, Heather LeAnn – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to identify and explore how human resources are managed, what human resource management can look like, and what organizational issues, tensions, and ambiguities are likely to surface as a district central office moves toward being more strategic with their human resources. The research design was an exploratory case…
Descriptors: Personnel Management, Human Resources, School Districts, Case Studies
Garrison, Elena – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Diminishing state support for higher education threatens human capital development. This quantitative study undertook to determine the state factors that influence higher education funding and to what degree they do so, what level of funding is required to satisfy higher education expenditure need, and what can help to ensure that those funding…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Statistical Analysis, State Aid, Educational Finance
Herrmann, Adelheid C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine fishery degree programs at colleges and universities associated with the Sea Grant program in the Pacific region of the United States and to describe how each addresses protecting, rebuilding, and maintaining healthy oceans. Methodology: The study was a qualitative institutional case study that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colleges, Conservation (Environment), Marine Education
Welch, Andrea D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The link between women in poverty and higher education is important because it reflects inequities in access and resources that exist in the Mid-Atlantic Appalachian region. Two main questions guided the research of women in poverty in regard to postsecondary access and attainment. First, what are the experiences of Mid-Atlantic Appalachian-born…
Descriptors: Females, Poverty, Access to Education, Higher Education
Tang, Hui-Hsuan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation is comprised of two essays that broadly consider the role human capital plays in the matching process between individuals and institutions and builds on prior education literature that has found growing evidence that economic choices and opportunities are inextricably linked to human capital investment. The essays in this…
Descriptors: Economics, Higher Education, Human Capital, College Students
Nguyen, Dominic – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the dispersion of human capital resources within one school district in southern California and compare the use of personnel at each school to the desired allocation informed by the district's strategies and staffing formula. The district's resource distribution was also compared to that of the Evidence…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Resources, Elementary Schools, School Districts
Yuen, Faye Sui Yee – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Tightening fiscal budgets and the growing emphasis on accountability has created a need to assess the value that programmatic accreditation provides. For degrees in engineering, ABET is the only organization recognized in the U.S. responsible for the programmatic accreditation. This research examines the costs and benefits of ABET accreditation to…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Accreditation (Institutions), Engineering Education, Bachelors Degrees
Appiah-Yeboah, Shirley Afua – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The circumstances that characterize poor, rural communities in Malawi suggest that children's health-wealth gradient can vary from other settings. This dissertation begins with a description of the methods used to create a household wealth variable using assets data in the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health project. By using a fixed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Human Capital, Social Capital
Grandson, Charles A., IV – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This single case study examines how stakeholders of a local education agency (LEA) understand and implement state turnaround policy for its chronically underperforming schools. While there is ample research on how to improve chronically underperforming schools, a research gap exists specifically around addressing implementation of mandated…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Superintendents, Administrator Attitudes, Program Implementation
Barrett, Shermaine Ann Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative case study was to demonstrate how adult education enabled the process of economic and social change, and national development in Jamaica through a critical review of two cases of adult education provisions in Jamaica since the country gained independence in 1962. Content analysis of various documents from primary…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Frank, Jennifer Vest – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study uses benefit-cost analysis to compare three alternative scenarios for implementing the Associate of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree in Maryland community colleges. The first policy scenario is that community colleges retain their traditional role in K-12 teacher preparation by providing lower-division transfer courses and programs for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Associate Degrees, College Role
Batman, Renee F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Access to higher education has been and remains a critical issue, yet research typically focuses on students and programs which may overlook the role of the faculty. Through an in-depth case study, the perspectives of tenured and tenure-track faculty at a predominately White, Midwestern land-grant, research institution are described as they relate…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Case Studies, College Faculty
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