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Research Alert Yearbook--Hicks Cited In The Research Alert Yearbook, Terence Hicks Aug 2006

Research Alert Yearbook--Hicks Cited In The Research Alert Yearbook, Terence Hicks

Terence Hicks, Ph.D., Ed.D.

No abstract provided.


College Life Styles, Life Stressors And Health Status: Differences Along Gender Lines, Terence Hicks, Eboni Miller May 2006

College Life Styles, Life Stressors And Health Status: Differences Along Gender Lines, Terence Hicks, Eboni Miller

Terence Hicks, Ph.D., Ed.D.

The ability of students' social supports, such as friends from high school and family, to effectively lessen stress often wanes during students' transitions to postsecondary institutions (Ensel and Lin, 1991; Moss, 1973; Schutt, Tatjana and Rierdan, 1994; Thoits, 1995). It's easy to intuit why this happens-During this major life change, most students add miles between themselves and people they have relied on for 18 years, break up with their significant others and promise to email the best friends they were used to seeing after school each day. College, most often the best years of a student's life, at its first …


My First D.A.S.U.M.: A Perspective On The Directors Of Admissions At State Universities In Michigan, Christopher W. Tremblay, Ed.D Dec 2005

My First D.A.S.U.M.: A Perspective On The Directors Of Admissions At State Universities In Michigan, Christopher W. Tremblay, Ed.D

Christopher W Tremblay, Ed.D

No abstract provided.


Transitions Within The Community College: Pathways To Access And Inclusion., Linda S. Hagedorn, George M. Prather Dec 2005

Transitions Within The Community College: Pathways To Access And Inclusion., Linda S. Hagedorn, George M. Prather

Linda Serra Hagedorn

Community colleges are often criticized for the low numbers of students who ostensibly appear successful. This article takes a unique look a the pathways many community college students take and redefines success as transition. Using the full population of the Los Angeles Community College District, this article examines the intra-institutional transitions of 1) remedial to college level, 2) English as a second language to traditional college courses, and 3) lower to higher academic goals. Analyses revealed that: 1) those students at the lowest levels of developmental English and Math were much less likely to transition than those who began their …


What's Right With You: Helping Students Find And Use Their Personal Strengths, Frank Shushok Jr. Dec 2005

What's Right With You: Helping Students Find And Use Their Personal Strengths, Frank Shushok Jr.

Frank Shushok Jr.

Fixing what's wrong--with students, institutions, and cultures--is the most prevalent approach to change. Frank Shushok and Eileen Hulme offer the discovery and exploitation of what's right as a powerful alternative.


The Transition From Practitioner To Professor: The Struggle Of New Faculty To Find Their Place In The World Of Academia, Gary Kinsey, J. Craig Coleman, Effie Christie, Mary Culver, Deborah Erickson, John P. Hunt, Frankie Williams, Samuel J. Smith, Janet Tareilo Dec 2005

The Transition From Practitioner To Professor: The Struggle Of New Faculty To Find Their Place In The World Of Academia, Gary Kinsey, J. Craig Coleman, Effie Christie, Mary Culver, Deborah Erickson, John P. Hunt, Frankie Williams, Samuel J. Smith, Janet Tareilo

Samuel James Smith

Becoming a college professor brings both the feeling of self-accomplishment and discernment regarding this prestigious achievement. Most doctoral candidates are practitioners in the #28;eld of public education and will hopefully transition from a principalship to the o#30;ce of a college professor. While this journey is #28;lled with personal attainment, some of the doctoral graduates experience a variety of struggles along the way to their positions in higher education. This study examined this journey for some of those who have made the move. The questions posed to the participants centered on the benefits, disadvantages, and suggestions on ways to assist fellow …


Perceptions: All-Star Experience Is A Baptism In Dust, Maureen E. Schlangen Dec 2005

Perceptions: All-Star Experience Is A Baptism In Dust, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A parent's first impression of all-star baseball, Patterson Park Little League, Dayton, Ohio.