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Career Technical Students And Post-Secondary Education: A Hidden Population In The Massachusetts Education System, Nicolette Haug May 2018

Career Technical Students And Post-Secondary Education: A Hidden Population In The Massachusetts Education System, Nicolette Haug

Honors Projects in History and Social Sciences

This research looks into Career-Technical Education in Massachusetts, and what makes these institutions successful. Five career-technical high schools in Massachusetts are highlighted in this capstone project, including Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School in Upton, MA, as well as all of the public high schools in the regions. By analyzing standardized test scores and demographics, this project seeks to understand the differences in the way each school is performing academically, and recognizes Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School as a positive outlier. The capstone concludes with recommendations of success factors other career-technical high schools can adopt in order …

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Can Students Studying Abroad Use Forward Exchange Rates As A Tool For Better Budgeting Their Semesters?, Emalee Dunbar Apr 2018

Can Students Studying Abroad Use Forward Exchange Rates As A Tool For Better Budgeting Their Semesters?, Emalee Dunbar

Honors Projects in Finance

Traveling abroad requires an immense amount of planning and attention to detail. Budgeting is a difficult task in one’s own country, but when planning across borders, that task becomes even greater. Differences in exchange rates and buying power have the potential to adversely affect the budget set ahead of time, placing more stress on the traveler. Financial tools available in the foreign exchange market, if used strategically, may provide a reliable method to budgeting travel abroad as accurately as possible. There are many individuals, students especially, that plan on traveling or studying abroad yet are on tight budgets. Having a …

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Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 2017 May 2017

Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 20, 2017

Bryant University Commencements

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Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 18, 2017 May 2017

Graduate School Commencement Exercises Program, May 18, 2017

Bryant University Commencements

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Volume 20, No. 2 (April 2017), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University Apr 2017

Volume 20, No. 2 (April 2017), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University

Bryant University Alumni Bulletin (2004-)

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Accounting For Ethics: Emphasis On Ethics Education In Us Collegiate Business Curricula, Sarah Stokowski Apr 2017

Accounting For Ethics: Emphasis On Ethics Education In Us Collegiate Business Curricula, Sarah Stokowski

Honors Projects in Accounting

The accounting field holds a background in ethical understanding to be of great importance. The purpose of this project was to investigate the extent to which ethics education is emphasized and implemented within the business, and specifically accounting, curricula of US collegiate level institutions. Course curricula from a sample of 445 AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) accredited business programs in the US were examined for their emphasis on ethics education. This emphasis was quantified through a novel measurement, the Ethics Education Index, which is an originally constructed weighted measure of the number of stand-alone courses dealing with …

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Volume 19, No. 3 (July 2016), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University Jul 2016

Volume 19, No. 3 (July 2016), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University

Bryant University Alumni Bulletin (2004-)

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Volume 19, No. 2 (April 2016), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University Apr 2016

Volume 19, No. 2 (April 2016), Office Of Alumni Engagement, Bryant University

Bryant University Alumni Bulletin (2004-)

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Multidimensional Resilience In Honors Students At Bryant University, Haley Nicol Apr 2015

Multidimensional Resilience In Honors Students At Bryant University, Haley Nicol

Honors Projects in Applied Psychology

College level honors programs are continuously working towards improvement of their programs and working towards improving the college experience for their students. Apart from recognition and developing a positive reputation for the university, the goals for these selective academic programs include better serving their students from both academic and professional perspectives, as well encouraging and increasing program completion retention rates. There are various ways of testing students to assess their mindset and personal drive as well as gauge the possibility of students graduating with successful completion of their Capstone project or thesis in their senior year. To better understand how …

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Undergraduate Commencement Exercises Program, May 17, 2014 May 2014