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Understanding the Development of Honors Students' Connections with Faculty
(National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019)Nearly 40% of full-time students enrolled at four-year institutions depart within the first year. Previous research has shown college students are more likely to graduate if they have meaningful interactions with faculty. ... -
Collaborative Efforts: Raising Students’ Multicultural Consciousness through Academic Affairs and Student Affairs Partnerships
(Georgia College Personnel Association, 2014)This article presents the need to shift language around multicultural competence to multicultural consciousness in the context of college students’ learning and development. Engaging in collaboration between academic and ... -
Different Perspectives on Higher Education: From Germany to the United States
(Journal of International Students, 2019)After visiting four higher education institutions within Germany, reflections on the similarities and differences among the student services counterparts in Europe – both at institutional and federal levels are discussed. ... -
Assessing Online Viewing Practices Among College Students
(National Association for Media Literacy Education, 2019)This article focuses on media literacy education for college students. First, we conducted psychometric analyses to verify the properties of the Critical Evaluation and Analysis of Media (CEAM) scale. CEAM measures college ... -
Learning from the Experiences and Development of Latina School Leaders
(SAGE, 2019-08)Purpose: With the rise of the Latinx student population in the United States and the urgency to meet the needs of this diverse community, there has been an increased concern and interest in preparing more Latinx ...
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(Re)considering the Role Familismo Plays in Latina/o High School Students’ College Choices
(University of North Carolina Press, 2013)This qualitative study examines the role familismo (Marín & Marín, 1991) played in 20 Latina/o high school seniors’ college choices. Familismo is the tendency to hold the wants and needs of family in higher regard than ... -
Ternura y Tenacidad: Testimonios of Latina School Leaders
(Association of Mexican American Educators, 2016)This study utilized testimonio as method to unearth the voices of four Latina school leaders from the southern region of the U.S. to shed light on their experiences, including triumphs and struggles, in navigating their ... -
Wealth, Stereotypes, and Issues of Prestige: The College Choice Experience of Mexican American Students Within Their Community Context
(Elsevier, 2011-12)Utilizing the notion of community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005), this study focuses on the various forms of capital that Mexican American students from the South Texas Border draw upon within their community to navigate ... -
Engaging Aspiring Educational Leaders in Self-reflection Regarding Race and Privilege
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-11)Self-reflection is a vital tool that can be used in the preparation of aspiring school leaders to ensure they can equitably serve the increasingly racially, culturally, linguistically and economically diverse students in ... -
Fostering a College-going Culture for Historically Underserved Students: One Principal’s Role
(SAGE Publications, 2017-03)Current scholarship focused on a college-going culture and college readiness in schools often underestimates or gives little attention to the role of the school leader. This study draws on qualitative data from a larger ... -
Helping Latina/o Students Navigate the College Choice Process: Considerations for Secondary School Counselors
(Montana State University, 2013)This qualitative study utilized interviews with 20 Latina/o high school seniors and five secondary school counselors in South Texas to further understand how counselors help Latina/o students navigate their college choice ... -
College Access for Undocumented Students and Law
(New Prairie Press, 2019)There are over 32 million undocumented immigrants in the United States and of this population, over 1.5 million are children (Palmer & Davidson, 2011). These children grow up in the US, achieve primary and secondary ... -
Network Alterations in Comorbid Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction: An Exploratory Approach
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019)The comorbidity of chronic pain and opioid addiction is a serious problem that has been growing with the practice of prescribing opioids for chronic pain. Neuroimaging research has shown that chronic pain and opioid ... -
A Novel Medical Device that Relieves Anxiety, Depression and Pain While Improving Sleep in a Population of Teachers
(Longdom, 2019)Objectives: This study was conducted to confirm the benefits of Alpha-Stim ® cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES) technology as an effective non-drug treatment for anxiety, mood, sleep, and pain ...
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A Novel Method for Expediting the Development of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures and an Evaluation Across Several Populations.
(Sage, 2016)Item response theory (IRT) models provide an appropriate alternative to the classical ordinal confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) during the development of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). Current literature has ... -
Bilingüismo en Inmigrantes Adultos: Conceptos Fundamentales y Experiencias Pedagógicas
(Editorial Kinesis, 2018-12-28)This book presents an overview of theoretical issues, foundational concepts, and pedagogical experiences fostering the bilingual education of adult immigrants within the context of the United States, more specifically South ... -
Teaching for America Across Two Hemispheres: Comparing the Ideological Appeal of the Teach for All Teacher Education Model in the United States and Brazil
(Sage, 2019-04-29)The last several decades have seen significant growth among private options in alternative teacher education and certification. In this article, I draw on two parallel ethnographic studies of the experiences of participants ... -
Who Joins Teach For America and Why? Insights into the “Typical” Recruit in an Urban School District
(Sage, 2014-07-13)Building upon previous research on how personal and demographic characteristics of teachers are correlated with larger issues in teacher recruitment and retention, this study contributes unique insight into the personal ... -
“They wouldn’t go to our School”: Unpacking the Racialization of Latinx Children through a Civil Rights Lesson in a New South Classroom
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-09)The purpose of this article, drawing on ethnographic data from several years of observation of Latinx children in schools throughout North Georgia, is to explore the racialization of Latinx EL children in a North Georgia ... -
Trying to Build a Classless Utopia in the Land of Racial Democracy: The Lack of Racial Discussion Within the Educational Materials of the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers’ Movement
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)The hegemonic ideology of racial democracy and rural cultural norms of racial silence continue to inform racial identities and national racial discourse in Brazil, in this case within the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement ...
