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Jill Triplett Ellis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to understand the experiences that contributed to the persistence of African American males at a historically Black college. The problem was that the percentage of 18- to 24-year-old African American males enrolled in the nation's colleges and universities over the past two decades has…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Academic Persistence, Black Colleges
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Thompson, Franklin T.; Austin, William P. – Education, 2010
This study utilized a data set of categorical responses measuring the gender role views of students (N = 701) from a prestigious, Midwestern, all-male, Catholic high school. Incongruence between student self-perceptions and the realities of gender role miseducation and the embracement of sexist ideology were readily apparent. Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Catholic Schools, Sex Role, Males
Simms, Edith L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since the 1960s the higher educational system in the United States has steadily lost its single-sex colleges; and as of 2008 only 51 women's and four men's institutions remain (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2008). Many of the previous single-sex schools have admitted members of the opposite sex, giving in to the national trend of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Majors (Students), Extracurricular Activities, Single Sex Colleges