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Claudia Janel Acosta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
How Latinas experience their racial identity is unique when viewed through the Black and white racial dichotomy that exists in the United States. In Latin America, race is understood to be phenotypical and determined based off the color of your skin, whereas in the United States, race is often understood to be genotypical (Darity et. al, 2005),…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Racial Identification, Race, Whites
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Adcock, Trey; Lasher, Rebecca – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2022
This article seeks to extend our understanding of how American Indian college students' success is crafted from their lived experiences and ancestral understanding to create community on a college campus. Using a methodology of portraiture, the Cherokee concept of gadugi is explored as a formidable concept to indigenize spaces on a primarily white…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Success, Cultural Influences
Devon Marie Washington – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this study, Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994; 2000) was the theoretical framework to understand Black Women college students' career development process that included cultural (person and contextual factors). Due to Black Women embodying two historically oppressed and marginalized identities (gender and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Career Development, Cultural Influences
Derek James Bradley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Black males in higher education continue to face persistent challenges due to overt and covert racism, hindering their progress towards graduation, particularly within Historically White Institutions (HWIs). This study examines the factors contributing to the invisibility and barriers faced by Black males, including engagement, academic…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racism, Barriers, Predominantly White Institutions
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Garcia, Crystal E.; Duran, Antonio – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2022
Culturally based sororities emerged on college campuses in order to combat the race-based discrimination faced in historically white sororities. Despite their historic mission to attend to racial issues, questions remain of how culturally based sororities attend to other identities and forms of oppression in these spaces. Centering the stories of…
Descriptors: Sororities, Females, College Students, LGBTQ People
Bailey B. Smolarek; Matthew Wolfgram; Chundou Her; Lena Lee; Stacey J. Lee; Geboli Long; Payeng Moua; Kong Pheng Pha; Ariana Thao; Mai See Thao; Mai Neng Vang; Susan Vang; Chee Meng Xiong; Choua Xiong; Edward Xiong; Odyssey Xiong; Pa Kou Xiong; Ying Yang Youa Xiong; Kayeng Yang; Lisa Yang; Mai Chong Yang; Scy Yang; Steven Yang – Wisconsin Center for Education Research, 2024
Asian Americans as a group are overrepresented among STEM college graduates and have the highest average college enrollment rate of any racial or ethnic category. Thus, Asian Americans are typically excluded from educational interventions directed at improving STEM education for Students of Color because they are not considered to be…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, STEM Education, Student Needs, Social Influences
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Stahl, Garth; Smith, James A.; Harvey, Andrew; Hill, Braden; Gupta, Himanshu; Moore, Sam; Wang, Jianing – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
As Australian higher education grapples with its colonial history, there has been significant attention to recruiting Indigenous students. However, while we have seen increases in Indigenous participation, males lag significantly behind. Very few Indigenous males enter university and even fewer enter the upper echelons of the stratified higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Males, College Students
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Okello, Wilson Kwamogi – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2023
Using the chokehold as a theoretical framework to analyze the gendered and sexualized vulnerabilities of Black males, I place historical records in conversation with the temporal moment, particularly the allegations of sexual violence committed against Black males at the University of Michigan. In doing so, I conducted a critical discourse…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Sexual Abuse, Violence
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Latifa Sebti; Faten Baroudi – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
Arab international students are considered an integral part of American universities bringing cultural and academic perspectives that enrich campus diversity. Grounded in Bronfenbrenner's (1977) ecological theory of development, we seek to understand the mutual interactions of ecological factors contributing to Arab international students' campus…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Arabs, Student Participation, Student Attitudes
Edwards, Domonique Alexis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Black students represent about 13% of the students who enroll in higher education and only 27% graduate within four years (NCES, 2021). Given national enrollment rates are declining, (NCES, 2022) higher education leaders face rising pressures to ensure the students who do enroll continue to matriculate toward graduation. Guided by a proposed…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
Tongaonevai, Ulysses – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For this research, I employed a qualitative research design using a critical paradigm to explore the racialized experiences of current and former Polynesian college football players at a university in the Intermountain West region of the United States. Participants were identified using a purposeful sampling technique. I specifically sought to…
Descriptors: Team Sports, College Athletics, Student Athletes, College Students
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Chikkatur, Anita; Valle, Stephanie – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This study examines data from a participatory research action study on the experiences of underrepresented students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields at a small liberal arts college in the United States. Our analysis aims to move away from the framework that students needed to be taught how to cope with and…
Descriptors: College Students, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education, Student Diversity
Rosemarie Garcia-Hills – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The research conducted for this study explored the experiences of eight Latina college students and their stories of struggle and persistence in higher education Borderlands. This research was framed by LatCrit theory and the work of Chicana Feminist Epistemologists who investigated raced and gendered experiences and their relationship to power,…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, College Students, Academic Persistence
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Chad J. Sloss – Peabody Journal of Education, 2024
There is constant debate over the contributing factors that produce disproportionate outcomes in higher education between Black and White students. This study utilizes a symbolic interactionist theoretical framework and a qualitative phenomenological approach that pulls from the individualized and collective experiences of faculty, administrators,…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Teachers, College Students, College Faculty
Patrick D. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This qualitative study explored the experiences of African American college junior and senior science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) majors attending three historically White institutions (HWIs) in the Midwest using theoretical frameworks of social learning theory (Bandura, 1977), social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994), and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Seniors, College Students, STEM Education
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