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Maria L. Ramos – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Despite various initiatives to enhance diversity in STEM disciplines, women and minorities remain underrepresented (Gonzalez et al., 2021, Chapter 5). Higher education institutions can help enhance gender and racial equity in STEM disciplines in the U.S. (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine, 2011). This study's purpose was…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Females, STEM Education, Self Efficacy
Janine M. Bolling – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This quantitative study describes results of cross-sectional demographical research conducted on minority women and Millennial women to address their reported lower levels of financial literacy. This study potentially disrupts the status quo of low financial literacy levels among women and young adults shown in past research by seeking to…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Females, Minority Groups, Age Groups
Michelle Kaput Benedicta – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study explores the experience of Generation X women who play casual video games on mobile devices (e. g., smartphones and tablets), and draws connections to learning and literacy, particularly in the areas of New Literacies, the New Literacy Studies, and semiotic literacy. Data was gathered from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with five…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Handheld Devices, Games, Females
Maureen D. Toler – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this causal-comparative study is to determine the academic outcomes of African American women who were enrolled in developmental mathematics courses, either face-to-face or online at an HBCU located in a mid-Atlantic state. Using the components of the Astin's Input-Environmental-Output (I-E-O) model as the framework, this study…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, College Students, Electronic Learning
Cynthia Jill Gasaway – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Over 85% of working women leaders in higher education state that they work more than 48 hours in the normal work week and almost a quarter of them feel unable to cope with the pressure and stress in their daily jobs. The need to continue working at home after formal work hours may be creating a negative impact on the employees and their families.…
Descriptors: Females, Family Work Relationship, Administrators, Women Administrators
Lee, Terri Suzanne Holston – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Community colleges in the United States are facing what some researchers are calling a "crisis" (Piland & Wolf, 2003; Shults, 2001). The current generation of community college leaders, those born to the birth cohort known as the Baby Boomers, are eligible to retire early in the 21st century. These retirements will leave a…
Descriptors: Faculty Promotion, Females, Age Groups, College Administration