This proposed study will explore how university racial composition impacts the relationship between cultural mistrust, campus comfort, and help-seeking attitudes in a sample of African American college students. A moderated hierarchical regression will be conducted to determine if the cultural and contextual variables predict a significant amount of variance in help-seeking attitudes, and to discover if the variables’ interaction with university type significantly increased the amount of explained variance. The results will demonstrate how one’s comfort in the university environment and degree of trust in the majority group can contribute to seeking psychological services. Counseling and university policy implications will be delineated from the results. Limitations will also be discussed. / text

Magistrinio darbo tikslas yra ištirti ir sukurti elektroninių mokėjimų universitetinėje aplinkoje programinę įrangą. Darbo metu buvo atlikta projektavimo ir technologinių sprendimų analizė. Iškelti penki pagrindiniai sistemos realizavimo probleminiai uždaviniai ir pateikti jų galimi sprendimai. Suprojektuotos ir sukurtos programinės įrangos architektūra remiasi trisluoksnio projektavimo principais. Atliekant sistemos kokybės tyrimą ji buvo įvertinta kaip vidutiniška išskiriant tik gana prastai įvertinta sistemos palaikomumo kriterijų. O lyginant sistemos teikiamą naudingumą su alternatyviais sprendimais ji buvo įvertinta kaip naudingiausia. / The objective of this master project was to research and to develop the software for digital cash in the university environment. During the work execution, the analysis of design and technology solutions was performed. Further, five basic goals of system realization were formulated, the potential solutions for which were presented in the thesis. The architecture of the designed and the developed software is based on the principle of three layer design. During the quality analysis of the system, it was evaluated as an average system except that its maintainability rate was rather low. Its comparison with the alternative systems disclosed its superiority over them from the viewpoint of its expediency.

abstract: Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000), the current study examines environmental and person-cognitive variables as predictors of academic performance among a sample of 194 Mexican American undergraduate students. Specifically, this study used multiple regression analysis to test the associations between college self-efficacy (course self-efficacy and social self-efficacy), proximal contextual influences (campus climate and cultural fit), and gender on the academic performance (self reported grade point average, GPA). Results indicated that course self-efficacy was a significant predictor of academic performance for Mexican American undergraduate students. In addition, social self-efficacy, positive perceptions of the campus climate, and cultural fit were associated with high self-efficacy. This study contributes to our knowledge of college student development in general, and academic attainment among Mexican Americans specifically. Practice and research recommendations are discussed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Counseling Psychology 2017

Orientador: Silvia Aparecida Mikami Gonçalves Pina / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-21T07:43:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Garboggini_FlaviaBrito_D.pdf: 279680868 bytes, checksum: d2838e6b670730f95c3a87fbf53ad92f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa lança um olhar sobre os espaços abertos de uso coletivo como articuladores da forma, uso e apropriação da cidade contemporânea, dando continuidade à linha de investigação iniciada na dissertação de mestrado, na qual o conceito da Arquitetura da Fronteira envolveu o redesenho dos espaços que fazem a mediação entre os territórios de domínio público e os de domínio privado. A hipótese da pesquisa é a existência de um potencial inerente aos espaços abertos de uso coletivo para a qualificação socioambiental dos lugares urbanos. O objetivo do trabalho é identificar os potenciais de qualificação socioambiental de partes consolidadas da cidade contemporânea pelo redesenho dos seus espaços abertos, à medida que se desenvolve uma maior sensibilidade na percepção da fronteira público-privada, conjugada à aplicação de estratégias processuais de projeto participativo. A pesquisa teve caráter exploratório e valeu-se de uma pesquisa-ação que se iniciou com um estudo de caso de natureza instrumental. O campo experimental selecionado foi a área central de um espaço universitário - a Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz, campus da Universidade Estadual de Campinas - por ter as características de um fragmento urbano que incorpora uma gama de interesses e conflitos ricos para investigação e estudo do tema proposto. A partir da investigação da área da Praça do Ciclo Básico, espaço aberto de grande representatividade para o campus e ponto referencial do seu traçado urbanístico, foi realizada uma experiência piloto, que teve início no projeto para requalificação desta praça. As diretrizes estabelecidas para aquele projeto se expandiram e foram aplicadas em outros projetos nos campi da Unicamp. A fundamentação teórico-conceitual do trabalho baseou-se no estado da arte das teorias e conceitos do Desenho Urbano e, para a análise ambiental, nos conceitos do Modelo Ecológico do Ambiente Urbano. Na experiência projetual piloto, a abordagem dos espaços abertos como protagonistas do espaço do campus representou uma inversão na cultura da universidade brasileira e da cidade contemporânea, que prioriza as edificações implantadas como objetos autônomos do seu contexto local, relegando o tratamento dos espaços abertos de uso coletivo a planos secundários e residuais. A valorização dos espaços abertos de uso coletivo foi incorporada de forma inédita como uma das prioridades da universidade para melhoria da qualidade de vida da sua comunidade. A metodologia de pesquisa-ação mostrou-se adequada ao processo de projeto urbano, na medida em que viabilizou a interação com a comunidade envolvida e possibilitou também a aproximação da dimensão de pesquisa teórica com a práxis da produção arquitetônica e urbanística. Os resultados obtidos incentivam a realização de outras análises críticas e diagnósticos que embasem propostas projetuais que criem cenários que qualifiquem os espaços abertos de uso coletivo do meio urbano / Abstract: The present work focuses on open spaces for collective use as articulators of the shape, use and appropriation of the contemporary city. It is the continuity of a research that started in the master thesis, where the concept of the Architecture of the Boundary involved the redesign of the territories that mediate the public and the private realms. The hypothesis of this research is the existence of a potential inherent to the collective use open spaces for the social and environmental qualification of the urban places, in the viewpoint of Urban Design. Its aim is to identify the potentials for socioenvironmental qualification of contemporary city's consolidated parts, through the redesign of its open spaces, to the extent that develops greater sensitivity in the perception of public-private boundary, in conjunction to the application of procedural strategies for participatory design. The research took an exploratory character, developing an action research that began with a case study of instrumental nature. It was selected a university space, as an experimental field: the campus of Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in São Paulo State, Brazil, called Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz. The reason for selecting this objet of study is due to its characteristics of an urban fragment that incorporates a range of interests and conflicts rich for the investigation of the proposed subject. Starting from the analysis of the open spaces of that campus, it was held an experiment for the requalification of its central square - Praça do Ciclo Básico, focal point of the campus' urban fabric and social life. The theoretical and conceptual foundation of the work was structured on the state of the art of the theories of Urban Design and the environmental analysis was based on the concepts of the Ecological Model of the Urban Environment. The valuation of open spaces for collective use was incorporated as one priority of the university to improve the quality of life of its community, through the process of participatory design. The action research methodology proved to be suitable for the urban design process, insofar as it enabled the interaction with the community involved. It also brought together the theoretical research dimension and the praxis of urban and architectural production. The results that were reached encourage other critical analysis that may result in design proposals that generate urban scenarios conceptually consistent and that qualify the open spaces of collective use of the urban environment / Doutorado / Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade / Doutora em Arquitetura, Tecnologia e Cidade

The Culturally Responsive Special Education/English as a Second Language (ESL) program was designed to assist students from diverse backgrounds in being academically successful in a large western private university. Utilizing the Cultural Congruity Scale (CCS) and University Environment Scale (UES), this study analyzed the perceptions of 28 students who are ethnically diverse and enrolled in the Culturally Responsive Special Education/ESL Program. The data will be used to evaluate the program's success in addressing the barriers that have historically kept students who are ethnically diverse from succeeding in higher education. Participating students completed CCS and UES surveys questioning their perceptions regarding cultural congruity and how they perceived the university environment. Descriptive data based on responses to survey questions were summarized and examined. Additionally, individual survey items were examined to determine specific areas of student concern. Results from the current sample were compared against the instrument's validating normative sample to find the difference between perceptions of students from a more diverse university setting and this program's ethnically diverse students who are attending a program at a predominately white private institution. Results indicate that the students in the current sample perceive high levels of cultural congruity and positive university environment. Compared with students from a more diverse setting, the current sample perceived similar levels of cultural congruity and significantly greater perceptions of positive university environment.

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Yes / The purpose of this article is To foster entrepreneurship among students and incubate more start-ups for economic prosperity, universities around the globe are required to play a key role in terms of developing an overall conducive eco-system for student fraternity. Some previous studies have analyzed student entrepreneurship and the effect of entrepreneurship courses. However, the role of university as provider and enabler of entrepreneurial environment and its impact on entrepreneurial intent among student has not studied in a cross-cultural context. Considering this, the present study seeks to examine the critical role played by university in fostering entrepreneurial intention among post-graduate students. For the said purpose, researcher has taken the broader framework suggested by Kraaijenbrink et al. (2010) to understand university environment and Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1975) to measure entrepreneurial intention and it’s antecedents among the sample of final year post-graduate management students of India, Malaysia and Singapore. The total sample size is 1097. The data has been analysed with the help of Exploratory Factor analysis, MANOVA and Structural Equation Modeling. Two factors that emerged out of analysis in relation to university environment and support were: a) Targeted cognitive and non-cognitive support and b) General educational support. With the help of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), an attempt was made to find the relationship between these two factors and entrepreneurial intention. It was found that university environment and support has significantly positive relationship with perceived behavioural control. With the help of MANOVA, it was found that there is statistically significant difference between perceived university environment and support factors among the students of India, Singapore and Malaysia. With this, it was also found that for both the factors, the highest mean score was found among the students of Malaysia, followed by the students of Singapore and India. The study has closely examined role played by University environment and support to foster entrepreneurship among young students. The findings of the study can be used by post-graduate educational institute to design pedagogy, create enabling entrepreneurship support system and work towards becoming an entrepreneurial university.

Le champ de recherche en entrepreneuriat est aujourd’hui très répandu mais dans le contexte du Vietnam, il reste encore un domaine de recherche à explorer. Parmi les paradigmes de l’entrepreneuriat, l’approche processuelle, se trouve au coeur de plusieurs recherches récentes. Cette thèse s’intéresse à l’intention qui constitue la première étape du processus entrepreneurial. Elle est consacrée à l’étude des impacts du système éducatif universitaire sur l’intention entrepreneuriale des étudiants vietnamiens. Elle tente de déterminer le rôle de l’« environnement universitaire » dans la formation de l’intention entrepreneuriale chez les étudiants. Le travail est interdisciplinaire entre les sciences de gestion et les sciences de l’information et de la communication. Il consiste à décrire un modèle de facteurs constitutifs de l’environnement universitaire et mesure l’influence de ces facteurs sur l’intention entrepreneuriale. Cette recherche s’appuie sur le modèle d’intention entrepreneuriale de Davidsson (1995) repris par Autio et al. (1997) et la théorie du comportement d’Ajzen (1991). La thèse est effectuée en mobilisant un pluralisme méthodologique combinant approche quantitative par questionnaire et qualitative par entretiens approfondis. Les donnés quantitatives recueillies l’ont été à travers deux enquêtes par questionnaires auprès de 781 étudiants (questionnaire 1) et 220 étudiants (questionnaire 2). Afin de valider les hypothèses de recherche, des tests statistiques ont été conduits : l’indépendant simple T-test, l’analyse de variance Anova ou la régression multiple. Quinze entretiens approfondis auprès de jeunes entrepreneurs qui sont passés par la vie universitaire ont pour but de clarifier le rôle de l’environnement universitaire ainsi que le rôle de la méthodologie pédagogique dans la formation de l’intention entrepreneuriale au sein des établissements universitaires. Le travail de terrain s’est déroulé sur plusieurs mois, auprès de 9 universités vietnamiennes situées au Nord (Hanoï) et du Sud (Ho Chi Minh Ville) du Vietnam. Les résultats de recherche montrent que l’environnement universitaire, dont la méthodologie pédagogique représente un facteur majeur, influence positivement l’intention entrepreneuriale des étudiants vietnamiens. Le rôle de la pédagogie active dans l’enseignement de l’entrepreneuriat est à nouveau confirmé. Les stages en entreprise sont préconisés dans la formation à l’entrepreneuriat. En se basant sur les entretiens approfondis, cette étude ouvre des perspectives nouvelles. Citons notamment le rôle du facteur réseau ainsi que la communication engageante. / The entrepreneurial field is a popular subject in the world, but it is a new and attracting research inVietnam where the private economic part has been more appreciated since 1986 (the most important point that marked the renovation of socio-economic system in Vietnam). In the entrepreneurial paradigms, the processing approach that attracts many attentions of recent researchers is followed by this study. With considering the entrepreneurship as the process, this thesis concentrates in the primary of business process (called the creation of enterprise). It studies the influences of university system on the entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese students, especially the role of university environment in creating the students’ business intention. The most valued aim of this thesis is to describe the factors of university environment and to measure the influences of these factors on entrepreneurial ideas. It is evident that this research is typical combination between management science and information and communication science.This study bases on the entrepreneurial intention paradigm of Davisson (1995) that practiced by Autio etal (1997) and the behavioural theory of Ajzen (1991). The subject is studied by the combination between qualitative and quantitative methods. The two survey questionnaires were conducted with about 1000 completed questionnaires to collect the data for the research. The statistical tests were done such as the independent simple T-test, the analysis of variance ANOVA, the multiple regressions in order to confirm the hypotheses of research. Moreover, the fifteen of deep interview with young entrepreneurs who grow up from university system supplements the deeper understanding about the role of teaching method and university environment in creating entrepreneurial intention. The study is based on six months of fieldwork at nine universities in both the North and the South of Vietnam. The results show that the studying environment and teaching method are two key factors which have high positive influence on entrepreneurial intention of Vietnamese students. They also acknowledge the role of active pedagogic and the close relationship between the literature and the practice by the encouragement to be on probation in enterprises. This research also opens up the new prospect including the role of definition “réseau et communication engageante”.

Cette étude relève du domaine de la didactique des langues et des cultures. Elle a pour objet l'enseignement/apprentissage de la grammaire en milieu universitaire chinois. Elle s’articule autour de trois questions centrales : Qu’est-ce que la contextualisation de la didactique de la grammaire en milieu universitaire chinois ? Quelles sont les activités métalinguistiques dans les cours de grammaire pour les apprenants chinois ? Comment les facteurs culturels, surtout les différences interculturelles, influencent l'acquisition de la grammaire par les étudiants chinois? La méthode d'analyse se fonde sur une approche pluri-méthodologique. Nous avons suivi les étapes suivantes : L'enquête sous forme de questionnaires à distance des étudiants chinois permet de connaitre le contexte local. L’analyse de l’enregistrement des séances de cours à l'Université des études internationales de Xi'an montre les activités métalinguistiques et la culture métalinguistique et éducative du public concerné. L’enquête par entretiens semi-directifs auprès des apprenants nous permet d'exploiter les effets des activités métalinguistiques et des activités interculturelles chez les apprenants. Les résultats obtenus montrent que la prise en compte des réflexions métalinguistique et interculturelle est cruciale, ce qui confirme l’importance de ces perspectives pour améliorer la didactique de la grammaire en Chine. / This study is in the field of the didactics of languages and cultures. Its purpose is to study the teaching and learning of French grammar in a Chinese academic environment. It focuses on three central questions: What is the contextualisation of the didactics of grammar in a Chinese academic environment? What metalinguistic activities are used in grammar courses for Chinese learners? How do cultural factors, especially intercultural differences, influence the acquisition of grammar by Chinese students? The method of analysis is a multi-methodological approach. We apply the following procedure: A survey in the form of a remote questionnaire to Chinese students, to provide a local context. An analysis of teaching sessions, the courses recorded at the University of International Studies in Xi'an, to demonstrate the metalinguistic activities and educational culture of the public concerned. Carrying out semi-directive interviews with learners, to allow us to examine the effects of metalinguistic activities and intercultural activities among learners. The results confirm that the consideration of metalinguistic and intercultural reflections is crucial, therefore it is important that these perspectives to improve the didactics of grammar in China are not overlooked.