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College Readiness And Persistence Among First-Year Community College Students On A Caribbean Island, Karen Sylvia Josiah
College Readiness And Persistence Among First-Year Community College Students On A Caribbean Island, Karen Sylvia Josiah
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
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Strategies For Reducing Dropout Rates Of First-Generation College Students, Tanya Washington Bostic
Strategies For Reducing Dropout Rates Of First-Generation College Students, Tanya Washington Bostic
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
At a community college in the state of Florida, student retention has become a critical concern because more than half of the first-year first-generation students fail to graduate. That rate is four times higher than for other first-year students. Guided by Tinto’s Student Integration Model as the conceptual framework, this intrinsic qualitative case study was conducted to investigate factors that students, faculty, and staff perceive to contribute to the high dropout rates among first-generation students at the local site. Additionally, this study was conducted to identify strategies to reduce first-year, first-generation college student dropout rates. Data was collected from participants …
Exploring Faculty Members’ Multicultural Competence At A Faith-Based Institution, Stephanie Fenwick
Exploring Faculty Members’ Multicultural Competence At A Faith-Based Institution, Stephanie Fenwick
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This study explored challenges related to issues of diversity for faculty members teaching in nontraditional adult degree completion programs. The problem addressed was an increasing expectation that faculty members facilitate learning to help increase the cultural proficiency of their students without having prior training or needed experience. A critical appreciative inquiry (CAI) case study methodology with a transformative conceptual framework was used to explore the intersection of effective adult learning paradigms and multicultural competence. The primary research question addressed the cultural competence challenges that faculty members confront when teaching in the adult classroom. A purposeful sample of 188 faculty members …