Date of Degree
2024
Degree Name
Ed.D. (Doctor of Education)
Department
Department of Counseling and Higher Education (CAHE)
Director
Hutchings, Quortne
Committee Members
Ison, Matthew; Mac, Jacqueline
Keywords
Black, Women, Doctoral, Students, Social Supports, Degree, Completion, SistaCircle Methodology
Abstract
This qualitative study investigates the importance and impact of social supports from the Mountain View Community College (Pseudonym) on Black Women employees who have completed doctoral studies, are currently pursuing doctoral degrees and are considering the pursuit of doctoral education as a vehicle to foster degree completion. Six Black Women employed at the college engaged in conversation through SistaCircles to discuss the impact of being a black woman and working professional at the community college on their degree attainment. The impact of social supports within the workplace were also discussed. The findings of the study illuminated the following themes: 1. How (in)validation impacts the actualization of who the black woman is as a working professional, 2. How inspiration is enacted as the assimilation of the black woman working professional at the community college develops as a doctoral student and 3. The ways in which impartation is rendered as the adoption of social supports sustain Black Women working professional doctoral students at the community college. Implications for positive influence on BWDS are distinguished within the study.
Publisher
Northern Illinois University
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Recommended Citation
Huntley, Terrica J., "LEAN ON ME: THE IMPORTANCE OF AN INFORMAL SOCIAL SUPPORT GROUP FROM THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE WORKPLACE FOR BLACK WOMEN DOCTORAL STUDENTS (BWDS) TO FOSTER DEGREE COMPLETION" (2024). Dissertations of Practice. 59.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/allgraduate-disspractice/59
