American-Indian and Alaska Native students attending Midwestern Regional University (MRU) are experiencing graduation rates lower than the national average. This dissertation in practice attempts to solve this real-world problem by providing a voice for the indigenous students at MRU so that services and policies can be adjusted to increase the…

As access to higher education for underserved minority (USM) students has consistently increased over the past 20 years, college and university campuses across the United States have observed an achievement gap between USM students and their white counterparts (Brown, 2019; Doan, 2015; Flores, Park & Baker, 2017; Pope, 2002; Ramos; 2019). This…

Technology-mediated communication has become ubiquitous and digital multimodal learning has been increasingly integrated into second language education. Drawing on the concepts of transmediation and interpretant in social semiotic theories, this study explores the potential of digital storytelling (DST) in promoting EFL learners' willingness to…

As the Chinese mainland has transitioned from elite to mass higher education, the race to attend university has escalated to become a race to attend selective universities. This study focuses on rural female university students and explores how they make sense of their higher education admission experiences. We rationalize that the inquiry into…

In recent years an increasing number of Chinese international students have made a decision to attend regional Australian universities rather than following the large city tendency. However, so far little attention has been paid to this trend. This paper proposes a holistic theoretical framework to interpret Chinese students' decision-making in…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of students with Individualized Education Programs who attend regional safe schools of their educational experiences. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandates that students with disabilities be provided a free, appropriate, public education in the least restrictive…

When used in a pedagogically sound manner, interactive whiteboards (IWBs) are a valuable resource for connecting students with their learning. IWBs have been utilised in remote NSW schools for almost ten years, with other regional schools having only recently installed them. Exemplary teacher practice that demonstrated good pedagogy in the use of…

Higher education in Russia is going through a period of large-scale transformation. The new tasks confronting higher education require changes in the administration of this vital link in education. What is the degree of readiness of college and university systems of administration to deal with the transition to the new final outcomes that…

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between student beliefs regarding instructor-imposed activities to encourage student use of course textbooks and Life Orientation (i.e., dispositional optimism or pessimism). A convenience cluster sample (n = 105) was obtained from students taking summer classes at a regional state…

The concept of sanctuary developed by psychiatrist Sandra Bloom is applied to building safe school cultures. In April 1999, when a group of superintendents in southern New Jersey first assembled to discuss the ramifications of Columbine, the authors had no vision of safe schools, little understanding of the complexities of change, and certainly no…

This study examines the economically detrimental attitude of regionalism in a Solomon Islands secondary school and measures changes in regionalism with exposure to school experience that stressed regional integration. Significant decreases in regionalism were recorded. (Available from Plenum Publishing Corporation, 227 West 17 Street, New York, NY…

The study surveyed 433 students and 126 educators to determine if high school students were willing to travel away from their home schools to take vocational courses. Seventy-two percent of the non-traveling students indicated that they would if the course work were related to their needs. (LRA)

The death of Nazareth Diocesan High School on August 31, 1974 and the resurrection of the Nazareth Regional High School on September 1, 1974 came about because of financial difficulties in the first place and community spirit in the second place. This Catholic high school in Brooklyn reflects the impact that parents and students can have in…

A study examined the attitudes of 546 randomly selected 10th- and 11th-grade students attending 14 public high schools serving the Spokane Area Vocational Skills Center to determine who and what influenced students' decisions to enroll in the center. Parents, friends, and counselors were ranked as people who influenced the students' interest and…

THE STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES NEEDED AND THE EXTENT TO WHICH STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES WERE BEING PERFORMED IN GEORGIA'S AREA VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOLS WERE DETERMINED. DATA WERE GATHERED BY THE USE OF (1) CRITERION CHECKSHEETS CONTAINING 167 ITEMS ON WHICH ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL INDICATED THE EXTENT TO WHICH A SERVICE WAS NEEDED AND WAS…