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TRANSFORMING FAMILY ENGAGEMENT BY DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY OF SCHOOL LEADERS
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-27)
This qualitative study was guided by the Dual-Capacity Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (Mapp & Kuttner, 2013) to explore how elementary principals led family engagement; provided insights into what ...
RACIAL MINORITY LEARNERS: AN EXPLORATION OF PERCEPTIONS AMONG EDUCATORS OF COLOR
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)
Traditionally exclusive to dominant groups (whites/Caucasians), higher education institutions continue to inequitably serve people of color. Therefore, these institutions do not always allow opportunities for racial minority ...
LEADERSHIP EFFICACY AMONG UNDERGRADUATE BLACK SORORITY AND FRATERNITY MEMBERS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN HISTORICALLY WHITE AND HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES
(East Carolina University, 2021-08-16)
This non-experimental quantitative study examined the leadership efficacy of undergraduate students in National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities and fraternities at Historically Black and Historically White Colleges and ...
GOING AGAINST THE GRAIN: REIMAGINING THE ROLE OF HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS AND PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR AS ADAPTIVE LEADERS
(East Carolina University, 2019-04-25)
To create conditions for high school principals and the principal supervisor to successfully lead career-themed pathways, a principal supervisor established a Community of Practice (CoP) and differentiated equity-focused ...
Nontraditional Pathways to the University Presidency: The Lived Experiences of Contemporary Chancellors in the University of North Carolina System
(East Carolina University, 2019-07-16)
Over the last decade, American higher education has been negatively impacted by crisis after crisis. Events such as The Great Recession of 2008 have forced institutions of higher education to do more with less. Due to these ...
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF FIVE HBCU CHANCELLORS IN ONE SOUTHEASTERN STATE
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Founded out of necessity due to overt racism that kept Blacks out of higher education, HBCUs today find themselves in precarious positions to stay relevant in an academic field where PWIs compete for Black students. There ...
THE EXTENT PRINCIPALS EMPLOY THE ESSENTIAL PRACTICES IDENTIFIED BY PREVIOUS RESEARCH AND INTERPRETED BY THE RESEARCHER AS NECESSARY FOR STRONG INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP IN THE USE OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT BY TEACHERS
(East Carolina University, 2015-12-02)
This study examined the extent principals employ the critical skills and practices identified by previous research and interpreted by the researcher, as necessary for effective instructional leadership in the use of formative ...
THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATORS
(East Carolina University, 2015-11-18)
This study explores the lived career experiences of African American university development administrators who work at public higher education institutions. In a society that is growing increasingly ethnically diverse, ...
THE IMPACT OF TUITION, PELL GRANTS, AND STATE APPROPRIATIONS ON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENROLLMENT DURING CHALLENGING ECONOMIC TIMES
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This study presents the results of a quantitative analysis of the headcount enrollment of 97 community colleges in North and South Carolina and Virginia during the period fall 2003 through fall 2012, a period that included ...
EQUITY AND ACCESS : EXAMINING OPPORTUNITIES OF ADVANCED PLACEMENT FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
(East Carolina University, 2014)
This research study used Invitational Education Theory to examine the attitudes and perceptions educators have concerning college-level coursework and the potential impact these attitudes and perceptions had on the ...