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Committed Seventh-Day Adventist Students At Secular Institutions Of Higher Education, Lashonda R. Anthony
Committed Seventh-Day Adventist Students At Secular Institutions Of Higher Education, Lashonda R. Anthony
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The experiences of Seventh-day Adventist students at secular universities was examined. Seven women and two men attending universities in Michigan and New York were interviewed. The researcher employed a heuristically guided phenomenological method to get rich descriptions of the participants’ experiences in the secular university setting. Open-ended interviews were used to gather data regarding the student experience.
From an analysis of the data six themes arose detailing the experiences of Seventh-day Adventist students in secular environments. The themes were (a) challenges encountered in the secular environment led to a need for self-advocacy in the academic and work environment regarding maintaining …