Retention & Recruitment

Educational Policy Studies Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Looks at a program designed to help learners in the community gain education to allow for further training and employment.

Comments on a program designed to help students identify, plan, implement and evaluate a community project.

Comments on the success of the classroom model which has successfully helped a large percentage of participants gain employment in the childcare field.

Looks at an essential skills program that involved a sewing project of the participant's choice.

Discusses the growth of the Council For Aboriginal Business (CCAB) and attributes success to several initiatives including: networking events, recruitment/retention programs, and the hall of fame.

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Focuses on the three week orientation program offered by the Aboriginal Student Centre and how the centre has helped students make a successful transition into the university community.

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Focuses on positive developments in the areas of self-government, organizational capacity, structures of opportunity, and resistance to oppression.

Reports that using an educational counsellor to provide career education and stay-in-school initiatives from K-12 has had a positive effect on students.

Study used data from 1970, 1980, and 1990 census to test the hypotheses that the impact of identification was limited to metropolitan areas and states with a small Native American population.

Highlights chapters from the National Center for Education Statistics of the U.S. Department of Education report on school districts, schools, principals, teachers and students.

Dropout rate due to schools operating on European models which does not take into account cultural differences.

Using narratives, focus group discussions and interviews this study gathers and analyzes qualitative data from 15 Basarwa (San) participants about how they transmit their cultural practices to their children. Results show the San want education that is inclusive of their cultural practices and language; they would like to see San teachers in the schools.

Examines two educational experiments carried out by the University of Chicago at the Sac and Fox Indian settlement in Tama County, Iowa.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Montana State University, 2009.

Growing trend to recruit and retain students through special programs and support structures.

Looks at best practices and suggests the areas to focus on to bring about improved changes.

Comments on a program, the Men's Talking Circle, where participants can talk with each other about problems and challenges that affect enrollment and attendance at college.

Education Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1999.

Explores impact of quota program at the intern and junior doctor levels.

Comments on the principles Canadian universities adopted to improve Indigenous student success.

Suggests there could be large economic gains from further investments to improve Aboriginal education.

Sets forth strategies for school districts both off-reserve and on-reserve to expand practices in successful school districts to other districts.

Presents the details of the crisis relevant to the publicly funded education of Aboriginal students in Ontario.

Discusses conditions and strategies for successfully maintaining change to improve on-reserve education for Aboriginal youth.

Focuses on educational reform for Indigenous children in remote and northern Australia to improve educational outcomes. Feedback from participants provides recommendations.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2004.

Describes a study involving cooperation between a reserve and border community with the goal of improving academic achievement and retention of students at a high school level.

Examines the importance of cultural factors in the success of college students.

Compares reasons for college success through study of social, cultural and aspirational factors.

The scan provides an updated view of how colleges are serving Aboriginal learners and communities by reviewing statistics and research.

Explores teachers' representations of racism and contextualizes the high rates of Aboriginal students who are not completing high school.

Addressing absenteeism in a public school on a Navajo Reservation.

Summarizes findings from group discussions with community members and members of California colleges during the Lighting a Path Forward symposium.

Describes a program offered at Arizona State University that prepares Native American high school students for higher education and leadership roles.

Study found that users were more likely to be housing insecure, female, middle-aged, unemployed, Aboriginal and lack a high school education. Compares results with those from a previous study conducted in Iqaliut, Nunavut.

Looks at developing support systems in elementary schools for at-risk students transitioning to high school.

Study found no significant differences between American Indian and White students in their academic engagement.

Compares attitudes of Swampy Cree students in a remote public school in Teulon, Manitoba, with Plains Cree and Saulteaux students from Peguis First Nation attending a locally controlled school.

Compares on-reserve "registered population" and other Canadians in the areas of education, family, health, employment, income and housing. Based on Census data.

Education Thesis (Ed.D.)--Oklahoma State University, 2008.

Findings indicate that there are strong positive correlations between academic performance and occupational choices.

Looks at the development and implementation of programs at the University of Saskatchewan College of Nursing to encourage Indigenous student success.

Discusses the process used by the American Indian Higher Education Initiative to develop methods to enable institutions to meet better meet student needs.

Examines Native American students' perception of one education model that incorporated traditional Indigenous approaches and discusses how it inspired students to commit to their communities.

Summarizes findings from meetings with elected leaders, elders, community members, and representatives of agencies, government and industry. Makes recommendations in the areas of collaboration, coordination, community, capacity, communication and commitment. Follow-up Report.

Looks at a project that resulted in increased science and math test scores and student retention.

Looks at new approaches to mentoring young people from groups traditionally underrepresented at university.