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Development Of A Retention Plan For African American Male Students At Midlands Technical College With A Plan For Implementation And Evaluation, Wanda Fernandopulle

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

Procedures for this development study included a review of the literature, establishment of criteria, formative committee review of criteria, summative committee validation of criteria, data collection, statistical analysis of survey and interview results, review of committee feedback, and a distribution of findings and recommendations to committee members.

A development methodology was used to answer 5 research questions: (a) What does the literature reveal about intervention approaches associated with retention for African American male college students? (b) What content should be included in the African American male retention plan as identified by summative and formative committee members? (c) What is the …

The Impact Of Pressure Group Conflict And Micropolitics On Boards Of Education, Kimberly R. Hammond

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

The purpose of this applied dissertation was to investigate the impact of conflict induced by pressure groups on board of education governance, conditions that result in the board capitulating to pressure group demands, and the resulting vulnerability of the superintendent.

Literature used as a framework for this applied dissertation included the relatively new field of micropolitics, the impact of micropolitics on school district leadership, vulnerability of superintendents, board/superintendent relations, the elite theory, why and how interest groups form, power of interest groups, and the dissatisfaction theory of democracy (R. Danis, 1984).

A qualitative approach was utilized for this applied dissertation. …