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James N. Magarian; Warren P. Seering – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Given its ongoing struggles at attaining demographic diversity and its key role in nations' economies, the engineering workforce receives considerable attention from researchers and policymakers. Yet, prior studies and STEM recruitment initiatives have often underemphasized the variety among available engineering jobs and careers. It therefore…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Private Colleges, STEM Education, Engineering
Alana R. Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and beliefs of selected faculty members about parental involvement during students' academic experiences at a private, baccalaureate college. The study asked a single research question, "How do faculty members experience and understand parental involvement in their students' academic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, Private Colleges
Amanda Potter – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Situation awareness (SA) is linked with actionable decision-making and clinical judgment in nursing practice. The cognitive processes used in developing SA, outlined in Endsley's (1995) model, is the framework underpinning this study and are interwoven into the National Council of State Boards of Nursing Clinical Judgment Measurement Model…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Thinking Skills, Nursing Education, Bachelors Degrees
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Khalida Rauf; Naveed Iqbal – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2024
This study was conducted to find the relationship of test-anxiety, emotional intelligence and academic performance of public private sector university students. A sample of 388 students, 194 male and 194 females was drawn through convenient sampling from the Public and Private universities of Karachi in Pakistan, using a cross sectional design.…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Emotional Intelligence, Academic Achievement, College Students
Christopher Good – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Higher education institutions are facing a challenging operating environment as enrollment declines pressure revenue, inflation pressures budgets, endowment earnings remain volatile, and concerns that fewer Americans see the value of post-secondary education threaten institutions' financial viability. Policymakers and Boards rely on financial…
Descriptors: Declining Enrollment, Private Colleges, Nonprofit Organizations, Financial Problems
Julius W. Moore II – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how ten student veterans persist after entering private, 4-year institutions of higher education during or following their military service. The study's conceptual framework, drawing from Vacchi's Model of Student Veteran Support (2011, 2013), employs a narrative approach to spotlight the…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Private Colleges, Military Service, Intersectionality
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Katherine Picho-Kiroga; Marcela Valencia Serrano; Noel Bourne; Jerriel Hall – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
Stereotype threat (ST) is implicated as a contributory factor to attrition in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) fi elds. One of the mechanisms by which ST degrades performance is by impairing metacognitive monitoring (Schmader et al. 2008), which is positively related to learning and performance (Hadwin et al., 2017; Winne &…
Descriptors: Performance, African American Students, Engineering Education, Stereotypes
Natalie Wagner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many people struggle to consistently access enough food for an active and healthy life (United States Department of Agriculture, 2020). Research has shown that college students experience food insecurity at rates higher than the general population while also facing negative academic, mental, physical, and social consequences (Baker-Smith et al.,…
Descriptors: Hunger, College Students, Private Colleges, College Role
Brown, Donita Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how graduate students describe self-care deficits and to understand how self-care deficits contribute to burnout, exhaustion, and stress at a private university in the Southeast. During semi-structured interviews and post-interview reflections, ten graduate students from private…
Descriptors: Self Management, Caring, Private Colleges, Graduate Students
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Miles, Jeffrey A.; Naumann, Stefanie E. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
Spirituality is associated with a variety of positive life outcomes, and the university experience has long been regarded as a critical period of spiritual identity development. A key explanation for why gender differences exist in the importance of integrating spirituality in one's life may be that civic engagement is intervening in the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Religious Factors, Self Concept, Gender Differences
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Tsivinskaya, Angelika – Higher Education Quarterly, 2023
Is the ideal of a one-size-fits-all university model--where universities are capable of successfully performing all competencies simultaneously--ever achievable? Has the balance between teaching and research activities grown even more fragile or is such a balance unfeasible? In this paper, we review studies of institutional diversity in higher…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Diversity (Institutional), State Universities, Institutional Characteristics
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Gilbert, Corynn Marcum – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2023
American universities rely on donations from alumni to balance their budgets, yet alumni giving rates and amounts have been in persistent decline despite consistently increasing numbers of college graduates. This study asked: how strongly do new alumni identify with their alma mater and the alumni role, how much do they understand about alumni…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Religious Schools, Alumni, College Graduates
Allison J. LaFave – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation examines the post-college career choices of no-loan program alumni at Harvard College. Using a conceptual framework informed by elements of social cognitive career theory (Lent et al., 1994) and Perna's (2006) model of college choice, it identifies "what" careers alumni chose after college and "how" and…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Selective Admission, Paying for College, Student Loan Programs
Draper, Rachael V. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
An increasing number of all undergraduate students are attending more than one university in their path toward earning a four-year college degree. With a national push toward free and accessible community college and the rising cost of higher education in general, more and more students are transferring between institutions. As a result, four-year…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Private Colleges, School Personnel, College Admission
Stephanie Dionne Connolly – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Data scientists in educational research utilize learning analytics to investigate predictors of adult learner performance or final grades in closed online courses, blended or hybrid courses, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to investigate if and to what extent a predictive…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Adult Students, Private Colleges, Learner Controlled Instruction
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