Browsing by Subject "college"
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)The Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association (TICUA) asked us to explore why adult students, individuals age 25 and over, in Tennessee choose to enroll in private nonprofit institutions like their ...
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(2015-07-06)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesIn this dissertation, I examine the variation in 1992-1993 four-year college graduates’ ten year post-graduation earnings as a function of their parents’ socioeconomic status and college’s rank. I also compare variation ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-05)In attempts to understand and then maximize its student success rates, Birmingham Southern College (BSC) has asked a team of Vanderbilt doctoral candidates to conduct a study of retention on its campus. The Vanderbilt team ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-05)On average, more than a quarter of all entering first-time, full-time students do not return to their institution for a second year. One in five fail to persist at all. Yet, “of the 45 percent of students who start college ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014-05-05)
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(2013-08-07)Department: PsychologyThere are two main type of coping: accommodative coping and problem-focused coping. Accommodative coping occurs when a person changes their beliefs, values, and goals to become more congruent with a stressful situation. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010)Abstract: What tangible benefit do universities who participate in major televised sports achieve from their commitment? The essay reviews the evidence on the gains in public funding, attraction of philanthropy, increases ...
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(2020-06-14)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesA substantive body of literature has documented how students from historically marginalized populations often have less access to human, financial, cultural, and social capital, which leads students to have fewer educational ...