Doctoral Candidate Brochures

An Examination of Community College Students' Intrinsic Motivation, Sense of Belonging, and Perception of Presence in Online First-Year Composition Courses 

Online courses have grown in popularity, and higher education continues to diversify. Black students continue to have lower graduation rates and lower success rates in classes, that is more pronounced in online courses, than their White peers. Read more.

"Not Everyone Will Get There”: Bourdieu, Identity, and Ideology for Rural Regional Students Experiencing a Cultural Competence Immersion at the Pine Ridge Reservation

This dissertation’s interpretive qualitative study looks at how nursing students from Kent State University’s Salem rural regional campus narrated their experiences of a ten-day cultural competence immersion at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and at what this immersion and participants’ stories might reveal about their identities-in-progress.  Read more.