The purpose of this study was to examine the influential effects various factors had on the recruitment and the retention of African American undergraduates at Texas A&M University, as perceived by those African Americans who had successfully completed their plans of study and received baccalaureate degrees between May 1998 and December 2003. Data were acquired through e-mail surveys in which three massive e-mailings were broadcast from the collected files of The Association of Former Students of Texas A&M. In this survey, the questionnaire contained closed-ended questions with five-part Likert-type responses. Additionally, the African American alumni were provided the opportunity to recommend additional practices for future recruitment and retention of African American undergraduates at A&M. An extensive review of the literature that supports this record of study regarding recruitment and retention of African American undergraduate students was made, and in the review, family involvement in education and home/school/campus characteristics revealed numerous studies that support the positive relationship between family involvement in education and success. There is, however, evidence of barriers, frustration, and discouragement experienced by these African American undergraduate stakeholders in their campus relationships. Research findings of this study included: 1. The research showed that for this population, the academic standing of A&M is the most influential recruitment practice. Recruitment efforts should concentrate on the most effective recruitment strategies by developing materials that highlight and focus on academic standing as reported by leading publications indicating how A&M is ranked against colleges and universities across the nation. 2. The research showed that the available curriculum at A&M is also an influential recruitment practice. From data discovered in this research, engineering, computer technology, psychology, and journalism were the most popular curriculum attraction to African American students. Implications from the research include: 1. One significant difference was the finding that the African American females looked more favorably on an institution of higher learning that had a larger enrollment. 2. The other significant difference was the finding that African American males looked more favorably at institutions of higher learning that held higher national ranking in sports in which they were interested.

Teacher attrition is a major topic of discussion and concern in this country. With the growth in the school-age population, the need to attract and retain quality teachers will become even greater. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore factors that influenced teachers’ decisions to remain in an urban school. A qualitative research design was used by conducting one interview with 13 teachers in an intermediate school (5th & 6th grades) in an urban school district near Houston, Texas. The participants’ years of experience in this study ranged from 5-33 years. They presented a diverse range of age, career experiences, and cultural/ethnic backgrounds. Data were collected through audio-taped interviews that lasted 45-90 minutes conducted in their classrooms before or after school. Additional follow-up questions and clarification statements were obtained from the participants where it was warranted. The transcribed interviews and the follow-up questions were analyzed using the Labov method of structuring narratives into stories. This method was used in order to compare participants’ narratives to identify emergentthemes among the rich stories that the participants shared with me. The findings are presented as three emerging themes on why teachers choose to remain in an urban school. These themes were recurrent and dominant throughout the narratives. Participants generally felt that there were three main reasons why they remained to teach in this urban school. Those three reasons manifested themselves in the form of themes. Those three dominant themes were: (a) making a difference in the lives of young people, (b) having no reason to leave, and (c) having administrative support, which was the leading factor that influenced teachers to remain in an urban school. Each theme had several supporting themes that were explored also. Implications for practice and recommendations for further study were also discussed.

The effect of employee retention to corporate, it can be easily reflected by lower the rate of turnover. The higher turnover rate will cause the damage of corporate, so how to retain employee properly becomes the important topic for corporate. Some employees will choose to leave the damage company but some will choose to stay. The study is focus on the employees of damage company, according to the promotion and advanced study opportunity divided into four types: Own promotion & Own advanced study opportunity, No promotion & No advanced study opportunity, Own promotion & No advanced study opportunity, No promotion & Own advanced study opportunity. By using the interview method to discuss the main retention reasons of employees. The result finds out the prefer ranking of the four types are:Own promotion & No advanced study , No promotion & No advanced study ,Own promotion & Own advanced study , No promotion & Own advanced study. The two types within the four categories are needed to deeply discuss, the reason conclude as below: 1.Own promotion & No advanced study:(1)Has good communication with supervisor (2)Excellent of work performance (3)Already owned high education background (ex. Master). 2.No promotion & Own advanced study:(1)The major has no relation with work (2) No promotion vacancy (3)Bad communication with supervisor (4)Worse of work performance (5)No convinced from colleagues.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-50). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

There have been significant advances in the research of nanoparticle technologies for formation evaluation and reservoir engineering operations. The target applications require a variety of different retention characteristics ranging from nanoparticles that adsorb near the wellbore to nanoparticles that can travel significant distances within the porous medium with little or no retention on the grain substrate. A detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms that cause nanoparticle retention is necessary to design these applications. In this thesis, experiments were conducted to quantify nanoparticle retention in unconsolidated columns packed with crushed Boise sandstone and kaolinite clay. Experimental parameters such as flow rate, injected concentration and sandpack composition were varied in a controlled fashion to test hypotheses concerning retention mechanisms and enable development and validation of a mathematical model of nanoparticle transport. Results indicate nanoparticle retention, defined as the concentration of nanoparticles remaining attached to grains in the porous medium after a volume of nanoparticle dispersion is injected through the medium and then displaced with brine, is a function of injected fluid velocity with higher injected velocities leading to lower retention. In many cases nanoparticle retention increased nonlinearly with increasing concentration of nanoparticles in the injected dispersion. Nanoparticle retention concentration was found to exhibit an upper bound beyond which no further adsorption from the nanoparticle dispersion to the grain substrate occurred. Kaolinite clay was shown to exhibit lower retention concentration [mg/m2] than Boise sandstone suggesting DLVO interactions do not significantly influence nanoparticle retention in high salinity dynamic flow environments. / text

Policies are increasing the pressure for students to gain grade-level mastery. For example, federal legislation mandates that all children are able to read by third grade. This increased demand on teachers and schools has lead to more students being retained, especially in the early grades. Researchers have studied the effectiveness of retention, in the early elementary grades, in order to establish the immediate and later effects on academics, behavior development, and special education participation. Through an extensive search and analysis it was determined that retention has a largely negligible impact on student performance and has been unsuccessful in closing the achievement gap. Implications, limitations, and future research are discussed. / text

The aim of this phenomenological study was to examine the lived experience of choosing professional nursing as a career and to explore the impact that public perception of nursing had on this choice for purposes of informing effective recruitment and retention strategies. Semi-structured interviews of 10 nurses who had been practicing between 11 months and two years were conducted. Five themes emerged from the data: Up Close and Personal/Exposure and Connection, The Image of Nursing, The Conflict Inherent in Nursing, Recruitment and Retention and the Work Environment. From these themes a description of the lived experience of choosing a career in nursing was formed. For these participants, the choice of nursing as a career bespoke a passion that had been affected—but not yet eclipsed—by conflict, compromised fulfillment, and the internalization of nursing and gendered stereotypes directly influenced by the image of nursing. Recommendations involved proposals for the support and preservation of the passion for the profession newer nurses demonstrate as well as health policy initiatives for programs, including a new ad campaign for nursing, that would expose the public to the value of a career in nursing and educate them about the significance and complexities of nursing practice. / text

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