Doctoral Candidate Brochures
College of Education and Human Services Doctoral Candidate Brochures | Fall 2026
Updated: 9/10/2026
Updated: 9/10/2026
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鈥�: Bourdieu, Identity, and Ideology for Rural Regional Students Experiencing a Cultural Competence Immersion at the Pine Ridge Reservation
This dissertation鈥檚 interpretive qualitative study looks at how nursing students from 天天吃瓜鈥檚 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鈥� stories might reveal about their identities-in-progress. Read more.