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The Me You Can’t See: Stories of Black Male Elementary Teachers’ Experiences and Decisions to Teach, An Endarkened Storywork Study
(2022-12-01)
Black male teachers in PK-12 make up less than 2% of the teacher workforce with an undetermined representation in elementary education. Although there have been efforts to increase their representation in the field, there ...
ENHANCING STUDENT MATHEMATICS SUCCESS THROUGH SERVICE-LEARNING: AN EXAMINATION OF STUDENT MOTIVATION USING THE SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY
(2020-08-04)
The increase in collegiate enrollment, yet bleak graduation rates, poses a significant problem for students and educators alike. Contributing to the high attrition rates, a lack of academic motivation often leads to poor ...
"AND STILL I RISE": EXPLORING BLACK WOMEN'S JOY WHILE ASPIRING TO THE COLLEGE PRESIDENCY
(2022-05-11)
Despite the expansion of literature on Black women college presidents, there is an oversaturation of the struggles Black women experience once in the role that is rooted within the role of racism and sexism. This study ...
Spare the Rod: African American Students’ Experience of Postsecondary Student Conduct Processes
(2022-12-20)
Although African Americans enroll at postsecondary institutions at similar rates as other ethnic groups, consistently, they lag in degree completion. This has led to lower wages, fewer employment opportunities, and higher ...
WHAT’S MENTORING GOT TO DO WITH IT: EXAMINING THE ROLE OF MENTORING IN THE SUCCESS OF HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNVIERSITY (HBCU) PRESIDENTS
(2022-12-19)
Over the years there has been an increase in the turnover of Historically Black College and University (HBCU) presidents. As the turnover rates at HBCUs continues to increase, many higher education researchers have noted ...
Performance-Based Funding in Texas: Sensemaking Experiences of Administrators at Hispanic-Serving Community Colleges
(2022-05-16)
Despite the expansive literature on higher education performance-based funding (PBF) policies, there is an oversaturation of quantitative studies focused on measuring metric performance at the statewide level. These studies ...
The Medicalization of Communication: An Analysis of the Policies and Educational Practices Surrounding Patient and Physician Interaction
(2022-04-15)
This dissertation explores the medicalization domains through three studies to assert that communication exists in all facets of the patient- physician relationship. The first study is a policy analysis that examines the ...
THE HIGH COST OF LEAVING: VETERAN TEACHERS IN ISLAMIC SCHOOLS
(2022-08-08)
Utilizing a traditional qualitative approach, this study explored the experiences of veteran teachers in Islamic private schools and their retention decisions through the lens of the job embeddedness framework, which ...
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AND SATISFACTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HIGH-SCHOOL CHARTER SCHOOLS AND TRADITIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
(2022-05-17)
The purpose of this study is to examine parents’ levels of satisfaction with school choice by comparing charter and traditional public schools at the secondary level. The main assumption of the study is that parental ...
PIPELINE TO POWER: A CREATIVE EXPLORATION OF MY JOURNEY TO BLACK YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
(2022-05-12)
Through an arts-based autoethnography, I explored the influences and experiences that informed my approach to leading Black youth empowerment programming. Although there is a significant amount of scholarship on Black youth ...