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A Dream In Limbo: The Challenge Among Undocumented Latino College Students, Liset Salcedo, Aleena Maria Vargas Jan 2013

A Dream In Limbo: The Challenge Among Undocumented Latino College Students, Liset Salcedo, Aleena Maria Vargas

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to examine the proposed Dream Act legislation and gain awareness into the challenges among undocumented Latino college students. Undocumented college students are foreign nationals who illegally arrived in the United States and continue to reside in the United States without legal documentation. The undocumented status of Latino students continues to be an ongoing political debate in America.


Influences Concerning Faculty Use Of Technology To Teach Distance Education, Helena Joyce Johnson Jan 2010

Influences Concerning Faculty Use Of Technology To Teach Distance Education, Helena Joyce Johnson

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to examine pedagogical and professional beliefs that might illuminate influences to higher education faculty decisions to teach distance education using technology.


Shifting The Literacy Paradigm In Indonesian Higher Education, Isnarti Isnarti Jan 2010

Shifting The Literacy Paradigm In Indonesian Higher Education, Isnarti Isnarti

Theses Digitization Project

The focus of this thesis was in postsecondary literacy in Indonesia, and how it might be improved by borrowing and applying philosophies and pedagogical practices such as the role of the writing process in the education of basic writers, the importance of acquiring academic discourse, the benefits of teacher feedback, and the role that a writing center can play in helping basic writers to become proficient writers.


Factors Affecting College Student Athletes' Academic Success In The Classroom, Alicia Ann Berber Jan 2008

Factors Affecting College Student Athletes' Academic Success In The Classroom, Alicia Ann Berber

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to examine and critically synthesize the factors affecting the success of student athletes in the classroom. An important part of this project was a critical examination of the support services such as mentoring, tutoring, counseling, and task orientation and other services that still need to be developed and implemented for those student athletes at the college level. A review of literature was used to examine factors affecting the academic success of college student athletes in the classroom.


Obstacles And Aspirations Amongst Hispanics And African Americans In Pursuing A College Education, Monica Avina Jan 2008

Obstacles And Aspirations Amongst Hispanics And African Americans In Pursuing A College Education, Monica Avina

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to identify the obstacles faced by African American and Hispanic students as well as the motivations that help them thrive in today's society through a college education. This is important for social workers who work with ethnic minorities because by learning about ways in which these two groups are still being oppressed, they can find ways of empowering them to overcome barriers to accessing higher education. 85 students from Hispanic and African American descent at California State University San Bernardino were surveyed.


Foster Care Adolescents And Higher Education, Mary Ann Holmes Jan 2006

Foster Care Adolescents And Higher Education, Mary Ann Holmes

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Independent Living Program in San Bernardino and Riverside counties to transition foster care youth to independence of the social services system. The study provided a compilation of services and resources available through Cameron Hill Aftercare Services in San Bernardino for emancipated foster youth to assist with the successful transition toward independence as well as access to higher education and stability in housing and employment.


Proposed Marketing And Advertising Campaign For The United Negro College Fund, Rashida Patrice Hamm Jan 2005

Proposed Marketing And Advertising Campaign For The United Negro College Fund, Rashida Patrice Hamm

Theses Digitization Project

This project seeks to develop a marketing and advertising campaign for the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The proposed California campaign is designed to reach an underserved target market in the state of California and to increase donations to the UNCF by one million dollars a year.


Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka Jan 2005

Facilitating An Online Community Among Community College Peer Tutor Trainees, Matthew Robert Ruzicka

Theses Digitization Project

The project presents a web-based component for a tutor training program at College of the Desert, Palm Desert, California. The application is designed to be responsive and adaptable to the tutor's needs. It also addresses the logistic and pedagogical problems that plague many community college tutor trainers and helps to mitigate this through an online instructional system that facilitates communication among the tutors so that learning can occur in a situated context.


College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton Jan 2005

College-Level Reading And Writing: Considering Curriculum From A Postmodern Perspective, Brenda Jean Littleton

Theses Digitization Project

This project presents qualitative investigations into the relation of science systems to education systems, and suggests post modern constructs as models of systemic change, with application toward reading and writing literacy for the college-level adult learning.


An Empirical Study: Usage Of The Unified Modeling Language In The Bachelor Of Science And Master Of Science Degree Programs At California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar Jan 2005

An Empirical Study: Usage Of The Unified Modeling Language In The Bachelor Of Science And Master Of Science Degree Programs At California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar

Theses Digitization Project

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) became part of the curriculum in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) in September 1997. The intent was to integrate the object-oriented paradigm in the undergraduate courses. Subsequently, this use has shifted to the graduate level. The purpose of this thesis is: 1) to determine what the students know about UML, 2) to reveal if the students were using UML, 3) to clarify how students use the UML.


Advising Module: Graduate Application System For The Computer Science Graduate Program, Yen-Hsi Chiang Jan 2005

Advising Module: Graduate Application System For The Computer Science Graduate Program, Yen-Hsi Chiang

Theses Digitization Project

The Advising Module: Graduate Application System is a Web-based application system that provides quality advice on coursework for prospective as well as continuing graduate students. It also serves as an improved tracking system for the graduate coordinator. Authorized parties may obtain access to status evaluations, master's options, and permitted course waivers, course listings, personal data, various advisement forms, application usage statistics, and automatic data updating process reports.


The Effects Of Mexican Americans, Chicanos Parental Involvement On Schooling, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez Jan 2005

The Effects Of Mexican Americans, Chicanos Parental Involvement On Schooling, Maria Guadalupe Ramirez

Theses Digitization Project

This project examines the impact factors such as parent involvement and teacher support have on Mexican American students' decisions about higher education.


The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian Jan 2003

The Knowledge And Skills Of Freshman Writers, Aram Paul Sarkisian

Theses Digitization Project

This research identifies what proficient writers know and do by the end of their freshman year in college and raises the kind of questions that improve the articulation of English instruction.


Instructors' Communicator Style In The College Classroom: Perceptions Of African American And European American Students, Angela Adair Jan 2002

Instructors' Communicator Style In The College Classroom: Perceptions Of African American And European American Students, Angela Adair

Theses Digitization Project

This project concerns instructors' perceived communicator style in the college classroom with African American and European American students.


Developing A Culminating Assessment For Psychology Undergraduate Students, Tammy Louise Reichley Jan 2002

Developing A Culminating Assessment For Psychology Undergraduate Students, Tammy Louise Reichley

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to create a comprehensive exam for a California State University to measure student learning in Psychology within a multi-matrix method Outcomes Assessment process.


Distance Instruction In Medical Terminology For Occupational Therapy Students In Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, Diana Steed Medal Jan 2001

Distance Instruction In Medical Terminology For Occupational Therapy Students In Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, Diana Steed Medal

Theses Digitization Project

This project is a plan for using a special web-based learning project to teach medical terminology through distance education between University of Loma Linda and Humanatec Rehabilitation College.


Variation In Research Assignments Across The Community College Curriculum, Patricia Ann Hadjibabaie Jan 2001

Variation In Research Assignments Across The Community College Curriculum, Patricia Ann Hadjibabaie

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis aims to show ways in which research assignments vary, despite the oft-held assumption that these assignments are fundamentally the same, regardless of discipline. for this purpose, research assignments were collected from insructors at one community college. These assignments were analyzed in terms of the following six dimensions: assignment title; topic selection; purpose; approach; format; and source requirements. The assignments were then examined for patterns in their variations across the disciplines, and across instructors within the same discipline. The findings reveal variation along each of the six dimensions. Assignment titles were perhaps the most variable; in fact, in many …


Higher Education: An Elixir For The Retiree Thus A Tonic To Society, Nancy Joan Spillman Jan 2000

Higher Education: An Elixir For The Retiree Thus A Tonic To Society, Nancy Joan Spillman

Theses Digitization Project

This project is to encourage citizens over 60 years of age, active and in relatively good health to continue in higher education. Academic classes in universities, colleges, and elevating classes in vocational and technical schools and elderhostel programs are available.


The Financial Reality Of College Sports Programs, Robert Alan Lowe Jan 1994

The Financial Reality Of College Sports Programs, Robert Alan Lowe

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


The Cognitive Connection: Contextual Learning Through The Integration Of Community College Vocational And Academic Curricula, Richard Betancourt Jan 1994

The Cognitive Connection: Contextual Learning Through The Integration Of Community College Vocational And Academic Curricula, Richard Betancourt

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


A Comprehensive Model Of Black Student Retention For Predominantly White Universities: Addressing The Problem, Paula Jovon Snyder Jan 1993

A Comprehensive Model Of Black Student Retention For Predominantly White Universities: Addressing The Problem, Paula Jovon Snyder

Theses Digitization Project

Retention, attrition, persistence, dropout literature.


A Comparison Of Perceived Credibility Of Evaluation Sources In University Organizations, Justina Diaz Cruz Jan 1990

A Comparison Of Perceived Credibility Of Evaluation Sources In University Organizations, Justina Diaz Cruz

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.