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Graduate Student Perceptions Of Support Services In Online Degree Programs, Lydia Karakolidis Cross
Graduate Student Perceptions Of Support Services In Online Degree Programs, Lydia Karakolidis Cross
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Increasing enrollments of online students has impacted higher education institutions over the last twenty years. While much of the research related to online learning has focused on instructional design and student persistence variables, the role of student support services is a needed area of research. This study set out to evaluate online graduate students’ perceptions of their satisfaction and importance in three student support service areas: enrollment services, academic services, and student services at one public, four-year institution in southeastern Georgia. Findings from this quantitative study indicated satisfied online graduate students in a majority of the areas, with mean difference …
Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Of Environmental Justice In Higher Education, Marjorie M. Nussbaum
Knowledge, Attitudes And Practices Of Environmental Justice In Higher Education, Marjorie M. Nussbaum
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Research suggests that issues of environmental justice are not being routinely included in the curriculum of the K-12 classroom and that teachers in those grades do not feel prepared to teach it. Likewise, little has been written about the addition of these topics to higher education coursework, leaving the question of inclusion at this level of education as well. This apparent lacuna may point to at least one reason why K-12 teachers are neither knowledgeable about environmental justice nor prepared to teach it. To discover the current state of inclusion in higher education, a mixed methods study was conducted to …