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Black Paths to White Boards: Black Alumni Service on PWI Governing Boards 

Redd, Tanja (2023-08-03)  ETD File Embargoed
Governing boards of universities are tasked with upholding university principles and promoting university ideals, including those pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, many university governing boards, ...

Brick by Brick: A Narrative Account of Black Undergraduate Men Thriving at Historically White Institutions 

Kirk, Jeremy (2023-08-07)
Black labor at historically white institutions is commonplace without reward. The overwhelming majority of this labor is coming from Black male students who are associated into spaces where they must act on behalf of a ...

Still I Rise: Agency of Black Collegian Women 

Morawo, Stephanie (2023-05-02)
The research and discourse surrounding Black women in college has continued to expand in its scope in recent years. Scholars have written about Black college women in several ways describing the intersections of their ...

Toward a Theory of Black, Rural Praxis 

Slaughter, Kamia (2024-05-02)  ETD File Embargoed
This study explores how outreach-oriented practitioners (OOPs) across the interdisciplinary field of higher education support Black, rural students and communities in Alabama. It asks two questions: (1) How do practitioners’ ...

Uncovering the Social Organization of Women PhD Students' Experiences in Biology: An Institutional Ethnography 

Steele, Ariel (2022-05-01)
Biological science programs enroll and graduate more women than other STEM disciplines; nearly 60% of undergraduate students are women, and women and men enter graduate programs at equal rates. This suggests that the field ...

Walking-On: A Narrative Inquiry of Division II Non-Scholarship Student-Athletes’ Identity Development and Pursuit of Success 

Lester, Wilson (2023-04-13)
Student-athletes have long been a population of interest to researchers regarding identity development and academic success. More specifically, researchers have looked into the identity foreclosure of student-athletes; its ...