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Student Retention in Higher Education

to minorities or to any particular region of the nation. In relationship to what can be done about this problem there are unders...

California Colleges and Universities

also numerous changes to the accreditation process, some of which have to do with distance education. And, there are special provi...

The Challenges and Experiences of Aboriginal and Islander Tertiary Education Students

any hint of shame mixed in with the pride. In some way Higgins already felt different, otherwise she would not have felt this conf...

Student Posed Questions Answered in a Trio of Essays

When something needs to be done, it is often the consumer who has to do the leg work. Another pet peeve involves people who drive...

Three Events in the History of Higher Education

the fees and students came from "all walks of life," but primarily from the "poorer families of knights, or from among townspeople...

Differences in Memory Retention Between Television and Print Media

This paper provides a proposal for a research study on the topic of learning and memory retention. The author poses the question ...

Retaining Employees

of employees and looking for the best employees to increase the value created, possible to make up for letting some employees go. ...

Assessing Nontraditional Students in a Higher Learning Setting

In fact, that time has been here for decades yet these accommodations are more the rarity than the rule. In their report issued in...

The Difference between Perceived and Real Cultural Understanding

Using a scenario provided by the student where an Australian teacher is tutoring a South African student in a higher education set...

An Identity for Universities

In 2997, Robbins wrote an article about the need for colleges and universities to have a theory and clear identification. She offe...

Evaluating Web-Based Courses

As more and more higher education courses are offered Online the usability of the design and process are essential. This paper dis...

Lone Star College System

Lone Star College, founded in 1973, is the largest higher education institution in the Houston, Texas area. It is also one of the ...

Accreditation & Regulatory Education Agencies

scope of service" (Eaton, 2001, p. 38). As this suggests, a college or university specializing in a specific field of study would ...

Policies of Higher Education in Scotland

This paper addresses the policies and stance of higher education in Scotland. The author also includes future proposals for integ...

Effects of Academic Dishonesty on Higher Education

al., 2008). A 2002 study of nearly 50,000 undergraduate students in various U.S. colleges and universities conducted by Professor...

Financing for Collages and Universities in Seven Countries; A Comparative Study

system is predominantly public system where public universities are deemed superior to private institutions and gain the more qual...

Higher Education in California

in both US and CSU systems (UC Office of the President, 1999). To help with tuition, the state adopted the Cal Grant program to he...

Higher Education and Police Officers' Reentry

In thirty nine pages this paper examines nontraditional higher education students in a research study proposal on the issues assoc...

Changes in Higher Education Due to the Internet

the graduates of these universities and is designed to deliver courses former students can take to "continue their education after...

Tutoring Disabled in Higher Education

This essay discusses and describes what one higher education tutor did with disabled tutees, a blind student and a dyslexic studen...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Early Retention in Education: Does it Improve Student Achievement?

is that before the start of the 20th century, children in schools were not even grouped according to grade levels, but instead bas...

Physical Education and the Inclusion of Disabled Students

This paper considers the importance of including students who are handicapped in physical education in six pages....

1990s American Education Legislation

In order to fully understand how legislation impacts the U.S. educational system, and also to consider the problems that are inher...

Du Bois & Washington on Education

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Parental Issues in Education

home-schooling vary, in general home-schooled children do very well in higher education. This is attributed to the fact that home ...

Governance Considerations for Expansion of a US University into China

The culture and governance in the US and China are very different. The writer looks at the way these may impact on higher educatio...

Higher Education Trend of Attracting the Older Student

30 years of age and 70 percent of all part-time students are 25 or older (Ludden, 1996, p. 2). The number of part-time students ha...

Advantage Learning Systems' Accelerated Reading Program

In this paper consisting of six pages a study of this program's effects is proposed as it relates to middle school students' readi...

Adult Students and Practical Experience

In ten pages this paper examines mature adult students and the role practical experience plays in a higher education environment. ...