The purpose of this study was to examine transformational leadership practices of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) directors, the relationship to student retention rates, and retention strategies used. The Leadership Practices Inventory-Self (LPI-Se...
ABSTRACTFor years, educators from colleges and universities across the country have searched for ways to improve student engagement and increase retention. Changing demographics, decreasing enrollments and greater public demands have created uniqu...
As urbanization increases, Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used to reduce pollutants otherwise released to streams. Rain gardens are a type of BMPs that are vegetated depressions with highly permeable soil to treat urban runoff. These structu...
While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...
This study explored the factor structure of a 22-item survey developed to measure employee satisfaction in a healthcare setting. The purpose was to determine if a homegrown survey possessed factors known to measure employee satisfaction. First an ...
The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
The United States is competing on a global level for jobs in the STEM fields but retention and graduation rates in the engineering disciplines are lower than desired. African American males make up 5 % of the population of American colleges and un...
ABSTRACT Balancing the demands of heavy academics with everyday adult responsibilities often proves overwhelming for nontraditional nursing students in a community college nursing program. Too often, nontraditional students elect to leave school a...
ABSTRACT Balancing the demands of heavy academics with everyday adult responsibilities often proves overwhelming for nontraditional nursing students in a community college nursing program. Too often, nontraditional students elect to leave school a...
The purpose of this correlational study was to examine the effects of a residential learning community and enrollment in an introductory engineering course to engineering students' perceptions of the freshman year experience, academic performance,...
College student retention has been widely studied in the past twenty five years, and institutions have developed numerous interventions aimed at improving student retention and persistence-to-degree. A number of theories have been promulgated to e...