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Minoritized Medical Students' Integration Of Professional Identities: A Phenomenological Study, Travis Erickson
Minoritized Medical Students' Integration Of Professional Identities: A Phenomenological Study, Travis Erickson
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This qualitative study fills a gap in the extant literature by exploring how medical students with minoritized identities make meaning about sense of self-definition and emerging professional identities while enrolled in medical school. More specifically, the focus of this study explored how minoritized medical students perceived their sense of self and dimensions of identity were shaped during their medical education, and what perceptions these medical students had about how they manage their professional identity development. Emergent themes included: (a) making connections between self-definition and professional identities, (b) past experience of difference shaping identities, (c) self-definition with complexity, (d) fluidity as …
Community College Chief Academic Officers' Perceptions Of The Pipeline For The Presidency, Jane Ellingwood
Community College Chief Academic Officers' Perceptions Of The Pipeline For The Presidency, Jane Ellingwood
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In response to research pointing to a growing executive leadership crisis in community colleges (CCs), with too few strong candidates entering the leadership pipeline for the presidency, I focused this study on individuals already in that pipeline. My goal was to develop an understanding of their perceptions of their own roles in the pipeline and the potential of faculty to enter the pipeline and ultimately achieve a presidency. Utilizing a qualitative research design, I explored the perceptions of eight individuals who occupy the pivotal position of chief academic officer (CAO) within the leadership pipeline at a CC, all recruited from …