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A Comparative Case Of The Sense Of Belonging Of Students And Black Neighborhood Stakeholders Utilizing Public Recreational Space Near An Urban College Campus, Briyanna N. Jenkins
A Comparative Case Of The Sense Of Belonging Of Students And Black Neighborhood Stakeholders Utilizing Public Recreational Space Near An Urban College Campus, Briyanna N. Jenkins
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024
At a time when regulation impacting colleges and universities has steadily increased, institutional leaders have explored ways to maximize their educational effectiveness, impact, and public contribution to their surrounding communities. Public colleges and universities often use public-private partnerships to develop institutionally owned or managed spaces on and surrounding their campuses. As a result, institutional stakeholders are infused with existing community neighborhoods, cultures and structures, which often results in permanent change imposed on these neighbors and neighborhoods. Using a comparative case study approach, this exploratory research explored the relationship between campus stakeholders utilizing campus and private recreational spaces and their sense …
No, There Is No Ghost In The Campus Library Stacks, Meg K. Scharf
No, There Is No Ghost In The Campus Library Stacks, Meg K. Scharf
UCF Forum
Toward the end of an old favorite film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), a newspaper reporter tells Jimmy Stewart’s character, “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”
Maybe Colleges Should Take A Lesson From Zoos, Michael Preston
Maybe Colleges Should Take A Lesson From Zoos, Michael Preston
UCF Forum
What would it take to create a more learning-efficient campus? What elements must we have, what culture must we extend to promote a more responsive campus to bolster student success?
My New Goal: Follow Ben Franklin's Rule To Set Aside 1 Hour A Day To Learn, Meg K. Scharf
My New Goal: Follow Ben Franklin's Rule To Set Aside 1 Hour A Day To Learn, Meg K. Scharf
UCF Forum
Benjamin Franklin is famous as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and helping to draft the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Franklin was a Renaissance man. Besides his career as a diplomat, public servant and accomplished printer, he is credited with discoveries about electricity and inventing bifocals, among other things.
A Measurement Of Campus Presence: The Cognitive Link Between Campus Engagement And Positive Outcomes In College Students, Daniel M. Kleiman
A Measurement Of Campus Presence: The Cognitive Link Between Campus Engagement And Positive Outcomes In College Students, Daniel M. Kleiman
Honors Undergraduate Theses
Prior research has shown that positive psychological states and attitudes are known outcomes in students who are engaged on their college campus. Although many studies prove this to be evident, literature lacks examination between these two variables. The purpose of the current study was to find a cognitive link between student engagement and the measured outcomes of self-esteem, college self-efficacy, college affiliation, and levels of optimism/pessimism. The study proposed that there is a process of developing an internal sense of presence on campus, which occurs in those students that are actively engaged in activities outside of the classroom. Individual personality …
Checking Out Things At The Library – Including These Myths, Meg K. Scharf
Checking Out Things At The Library – Including These Myths, Meg K. Scharf
UCF Forum
It is wonderful to work at our university: It’s vibrant, it’s a beautiful place, and people on campus are fascinating.
Want To Make It In This World? Better Learn To Collaborate, Michael Preston
Want To Make It In This World? Better Learn To Collaborate, Michael Preston
UCF Forum
Is there any greater struggle between instructor and student than the dreaded “group assignment”?
Collegiate Concerted Cultivation: The Influence Of Class And Family On Higher Education, Meghan Weyant
Collegiate Concerted Cultivation: The Influence Of Class And Family On Higher Education, Meghan Weyant
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The 1966 Coleman Report and subsequent research identifies social class as an important determinant of educational outcomes, but after decades of research it is still unclear exactly why. This study purports to explore one possible explanation, collegiate concerted cultivation. The focus of this study was to explore the existence of collegiate concerted cultivation as a sociological concept. Collegiate concerted cultivation provides a theoretical framework to more deeply explore the relationships between social class, family factors, and familial support of education in order to better understand differential outcomes in achievement in higher education. Using a mixed method approach, the study examined …
Perceptions Of Education As An Avenue To Life Course Success: A Study Of Millennials, Patrick Smith
Perceptions Of Education As An Avenue To Life Course Success: A Study Of Millennials, Patrick Smith
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
For more than a half a century the role of education and its influence on social mobility and status attainment has been a subject of research. Further more, education has been shown to be an important contributor for success over the life course. Much of the research surrounding status attainment and higher education has dealt with the Baby Boomer cohort. The purpose of the study is to examine education from a perspective that is less talked about to this point. This study uses data gathered by the Pew Research Center and examines a specific age group, current 18-30 year olds …
Unfortunately, 'A Little Birdie Told Me...' Seems To Be Trend Of Online 'Journalists', Tom Cavanagh
Unfortunately, 'A Little Birdie Told Me...' Seems To Be Trend Of Online 'Journalists', Tom Cavanagh
UCF Forum
Most of us have heard the expression “A little birdie told me…”
I'Ll Just Say It, Men: Sexual Attackers Are Arrogant, Insecure, Weak, Mark Routhier
I'Ll Just Say It, Men: Sexual Attackers Are Arrogant, Insecure, Weak, Mark Routhier
UCF Forum
College students most everywhere live in an atmosphere that is sexually supercharged. Young men and women with varying degrees of sexual experience, free from the surveillance of parents, experimenting with social structure, and embracing a knowledge of their sexual power creates an environment rife with possibility.
The Meaning Of Life – Or At Least University Life, Mark Routhier
The Meaning Of Life – Or At Least University Life, Mark Routhier
UCF Forum
The sun will one day burn itself out and all the magnificence and strife that is humankind will be a whisper in a vacuum, a ripple through dark space.
Today's College Degree Should Be As Accessible As A High School Diploma, Richard C. Crepeau
Today's College Degree Should Be As Accessible As A High School Diploma, Richard C. Crepeau
UCF Forum
In his recent State of the Union message, President Obama mentioned the high cost of higher education. This is an issue that he raised a year ago at the same venue, and one that the vice president has been spearheading. For those of us who have been on a college campus for quite some time it is an issue of growing significance.
Moving Beyond Title Ix: An Evaluation Of The Comprehensiveness And Accessibility Of Policies And Procedures For Preventing And Responding To Gender Based Violence, Alyssa Mullins
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The current study examines the gender based violence policies and programs of large, public universities in Florida. Current literature argues that preventing and responding to gender based violence in institutions of higher education requires comprehensive and ecological techniques at the individual, interpersonal, community, and societal level. In recent years, various institutions and agencies have showed increasing administrative commitment to addressing these issues. Futures Without Violence, formerly named Family Violence Prevention Fund, is a private organization that has established a set of guidelines and recommendations to aid IHEs in their response and prevention of gender based violence, intended to exceed federal …
Affirmative Action In Higher Education And The Talented Twenty Program In Florida, Miguel Ubiles
Affirmative Action In Higher Education And The Talented Twenty Program In Florida, Miguel Ubiles
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Affirmative action in higher education is a necessary component for ethnic minorities to be afforded postsecondary educational access and opportunities to improve their socioeconomic status. The ban of affirmative action in undergraduate admissions, wherever instituted, has decreased the undergraduate enrollment of ethnic minorities. The broad objective of this research is to demonstrate how the elimination of affirmative action has lessened postsecondary educational access for minorities, who presently account for the majority or near-majority population in several states and will soon account for a much larger segment of the national population. This study will use two series of multiple regression models …
Assessing Organizational Image Through The College Open House: A Tool For Success, Andrea M. Pampaloni, Andrea Vadaro Tucker
Assessing Organizational Image Through The College Open House: A Tool For Success, Andrea M. Pampaloni, Andrea Vadaro Tucker
Journal of the Association for Communication Administration
This study evaluates how effective colleges and universities are in presenting an accurate and positive organizational image via their open house events. The Open House Assessment for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) © was developed to determine how institutional characteristics identified by potential members as influential to their decision to affiliate with a school were made relevant through the organizational image presented by the school. Open house events at twenty-four colleges and universities were assessed using the tool. Findings indicate that there are overall modifications to open house events that might benefit all schools, suggesting that the tool can be an …
Mediated, College-Level Nontraditional Study Within Florida, Maureen Elizabeth O'Donnell
Mediated, College-Level Nontraditional Study Within Florida, Maureen Elizabeth O'Donnell
Retrospective Theses and Dissertations
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