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Taylor, Jacqueline Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Known as "invisible faculty," (Gappa & Leslie, 1993), adjunct or part-time, contingent instructors play a vital role in meeting the needs of two-year colleges. Adjunct faculty members teach over half of the United States' historically underserved college students (Center for Community College Student Engagement [CCCSE], 2014), and…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty
Hunter, Iris Renell – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study examines nine African American women educators during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina. Additionally, the study conducts an analogous study of the lifeworks and contributions of Septima Clark, an African American woman educator who made significant community activist contributions during this period. For its…
Descriptors: African Americans, Females, Women Faculty, Minority Group Teachers
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Robertson, Donna Friedman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1998
Describes a qualitative research project examining homelessness's effects on children's schooling, highlighting a South Carolina intervention program's success. Research disclosed an informal homelessness "caste system," the political unpopularity of providing homeless services, homeless kids' high rates of academic failure and problem…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Behavior Problems