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Pathways to Thriving: First- and Continuing Generation College Student Experiences at Two Elite Universities
(2016-10-12)
In this longitudinal interview-based study, I explore the self-assessed preparation, academic experiences, and social experiences of one ninety-one first-generation and thirty-five continuing generation (those with at least ...
Uses of Complex Thinking in Higher Education Adaptive Leadership Practice: A Multiple-Case Study
(2016-05-13)
Research and theories of leadership development link the capacity for complex thinking to effectiveness at leading adaptive change. However, few empirical studies examine how this link operates in natural work settings, ...
Looking for Development in Leadership Development: Impacts of Experiential and Constructivist Methods on Graduate Students and Graduate Schools
(2016-05-17)
Nearly every graduate school, especially professional schools, claims to train, educate, and develop leaders. However, the leader-development literature offers little evidence of how a graduate level leader-development ...
The Causal Impact of Attending High Tech High’s High Schools on Postsecondary Enrollment
(2015-10-22)
In recent years, a small but growing number of empirical studies have examined the causal impact of attending charter schools on academic achievement (Betts and Tang, 2011). In assessing achievement, researchers have ...
College Competition: The Effects of the Expansion of For-Profit Colleges on Student Enrollments and Outcomes at Public Community Colleges
(2016-02-19)
Community colleges enrolled 37 percent of students attending Title IV-eligible, degree-granting institutions in 2000, but by 2012, this had dropped to 33 percent (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 2013). ...
Shaping the DREAM: Law as Policy Defining Undocumented Students’ Educational Attainment
(2016-05-17)
In this two-paper dissertation, I examine U.S. Census data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotating Groups to understand how undocumented-student high-school-diploma, college-enrollment, associate’s-degree, ...
“Finding the Balance”: Motivating Factors Behind Arts Faculty’s Choices Regarding Massive Open Online Courses
(2016-05-10)
If we were to believe all the rhetoric around massive open online courses (MOOCs) just a few years ago, we were witnessing the revolution in higher education. David Brooks of the New York Times described the arrival of ...
Mentoring as a Tool for Connecting Disconnected Youth to Education & Employment
(2015-05-04)
Too many young people are not on meaningful college or career pathways at a time when the workforce increasingly demands a higher level of education and skills. While a lack of education is a major barrier to employment, ...
Teasing Out the Complex Relationship Between Part-Time Faculty and Quality: A Qualitative Case Study Comparing Departments at a Large, Public University
(2016-05-12)
During the last 40 years, institutions of higher education in the United States have dramatically increased their reliance on part-time faculty. Today, fully half of all faculty members hold part-time appointments. How, ...
The Practical or the Purposeful: A Study of Academic Decision-Making Among College Students in an Elite Institutional Context
(2014-10-22)
In this dissertation, I investigate how thirty-nine undergraduates at Harvard College make one of their first consequential, academic decisions in the context of a powerful cultural narrative about the economic purpose of ...