Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Navigating Institutional Barriers as a Graduate Student with a Criminal Record

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110548
Author(s):  
Terrence S. McTier
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Questionnaire Form ◽  
Mapping Exercise ◽  
Hard Place

Much of the research on college students with criminal records focuses on their undergraduate experiences in traditional higher education settings. In this study, attention is given to graduate students’ experiences. Specifically, I explore how graduate students are navigating through institutional barriers while possessing a criminal record. Through the use of a pre-questionnaire form, a semi-structured interview, and a concept mapping exercise, I was able to collect 10 students’ perspectives to show how they (1) chose to navigate through institutional barriers by proving themselves to others and (2) by choosing if and when to disclose their criminal records. Several implications for practice and research are offered so that graduate programs can use these suggestions to ensure that graduate students with criminal records have access to an equitable education.

scholarly journals Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Lageson ◽  
Elizabeth Webster ◽  
Juan R. Sandoval
Keyword(s):  
Personal Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Public Records ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Court Proceedings ◽  
Public Disclosures

Digitization and the release of public records on the Internet have expanded the reach and uses of criminal record data in the United States. This study analyzes the types and volume of personally identifiable data released on the Internet via two hundred public governmental websites for law enforcement, criminal courts, corrections, and criminal record repositories in each state. We find that public disclosures often include information valuable to the personal data economy, including the full name, birthdate, home address, and physical characteristics of arrestees, detainees, and defendants. Using administrative data, we also estimate the volume of data disclosed online. Our findings highlight the mass dissemination of pre-conviction data: every year, over ten million arrests, 4.5 million mug shots, and 14.7 million criminal court proceedings are digitally released at no cost. Post-conviction, approximately 6.5 million current and former prisoners and 12.5 million people with a felony conviction have a record on the Internet. While justified through public records laws, such broad disclosures reveal an imbalance between the “transparency” of data releases that facilitate monitoring of state action and those that facilitate monitoring individual people. The results show how the criminal legal system increasingly distributes Internet privacy violations and community surveillance as part of contemporary punishment.

A Local Resource for Advising Applicants to Clinical Psychology Graduate Programs

1992 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Todd ◽  
Donald Farinato
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Additional Benefit ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Local Resource ◽  
Informal Information

Undergraduates planning to apply to graduate school in clinical psychology have few resources for identifying suitable programs. Published sources are limited and uneven in their coverage of topics that may be important to applicants. Visits and interviews can be helpful but expensive and difficult to arrange. This article describes a procedure for polling departmental graduate students and faculty who have personal knowledge of programs. This procedure does not obviate the need for other sources of information, but it makes informal information more readily available. As an additional benefit, the survey involves the support of faculty and graduate students for undergraduates.

scholarly journals Racializing Experiences of Foreign-Born and Ethnically Diverse Black Male Engineering Graduate Students: Implications for Student Affairs Practice, Policy, and Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian A. Burt ◽  
Alexander Knight ◽  
Justin Roberson
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Student Affairs ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Domain Specific

Despite a growing body of work on the experiences of Black collegians, the higher education knowledge base lacks scholarship focused on Black men in graduate programs who are foreign-born and/or identify ethnically as other than African American. In this article, we provide a domain-specific investigation (i.e., based on students’ field of study), centering on nine Black men in engineering graduate programs. Three themes emerged regarding students’ racialized experiences and effects of racialization: (1) racialization as a transitional process; (2) cultural identity (dis)integrity; and (3) racialized imposter syndrome. We conclude with implications for developing and implementing promising practices and activities that aid students throughout graduate school. Such targeted efforts might also improve the likelihood of students remaining in the engineering workforce.

scholarly journals Quality indicators for science communication: results from a collaborative concept mapping exercise

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. A06
Author(s):  
Arko Olesk ◽  
Berit Renser ◽  
Laura Bell ◽  
Alessandra Fornetti ◽  
Suzanne Franks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Concept Mapping ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Communication Effectiveness ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Scientific Rigour ◽  
Mapping Exercise

Although the need to improve quality of science communication is often mentioned in public discussions, the science communication literature offers few conceptualizations of quality. We used a concept mapping approach, involving representatives of various science communication stakeholder groups working collaboratively, to propose a framework of quality. The framework organizes individual elements of quality into twelve indicators arranged into three dimensions: trustworthiness and scientific rigour, presentation and style, and connection with society. The framework supports science communicators in reflecting on their current practices and designing new activities, potentially improving communication effectiveness.

Creating Meaningful Research for Graduate Students to Prevent Degree Abandonment

2018 ◽  
pp. 152-171
Author(s):  
Amy L. Sedivy-Benton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Advanced Degrees ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Brick And Mortar ◽  
Meaningful Research

Advanced degrees are becoming more valuable in the workplace. In turn, institutions of higher education are providing multiple venues for students to obtain advanced degrees. These venues tend to reach a population beyond those who would have attended a traditional brick and mortar institution. This reaches students from a variety of backgrounds, and institutions are trying to adjust and accommodate this newly recruited and diverse population. The expectations of graduate programs have not changed; students are to emerge from these programs with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to partake in research on their own. However, these students are limited on the readiness they possess to conduct graduate research. This in turn results in attrition from the program and leaving behind their opportunity for a graduate degree. This chapter provides an overview of the skills and issues of graduate students and a discussion of how those issues affect students finding success in graduate programs. The chapter concludes with suggestions and recommendations for addressing these issues.

Factors Affecting Development of Communities in 3D Immersive Learning Environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry McClannon ◽  
Robert Sanders ◽  
Amy Cheney ◽  
Les Bolt ◽  
Krista Terry
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Survey Research ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
3D Environment ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Immersive Environment ◽  
The Relationship

This study is based on survey research conducted in 2010 and 2011, involving graduate students using a 3D immersive environment for their coursework. Investigators examined students’ perceptions of community and presence via coursework offered in the immersive world. Utilizing the Sense of Community II index and the Communities of Inquiry survey, variables examined include students’ time within their graduate programs, time spent in the 3D environment, and their levels of immersion, as well as the relationship between the two instruments. Analysis showed significant results for each of the research questions for both instruments.

Full-Time Students With Part-Time Benefits: How Being Denied On-Campus Housing Affects College Students With Criminal Records

2020 ◽  
pp. 152102512096066
Author(s):  
Terrence S. McTier ◽  
Chelsea T. Smith ◽  
Gabrielle Smith ◽  
Ariel Hodges ◽  
Samba Bah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Prospective Students ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Campus Housing ◽  
Part Time

There are major assumptions that housing opportunities in higher education are equally accessible and available to all students. However, these accessible housing opportunities are not available to current and prospective students who possess a criminal record. Many college students with criminal records are deemed ineligible for adequate housing opportunities even before their applications are submitted. This study uses a qualitative layered analysis approach to explore how denials from on-campus housing affect college students with criminal records. Using the perspectives of this marginalized and invisible student population, we draw the reader’s attention to how students with criminal records are affected as a result of being denied on-campus housing, and we provide tangible recommendations for future research, housing practices, and housing policies in higher education.

scholarly journals System to outline the graduatestudents

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 413-417
Author(s):  
Alberto Schanaider
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Current System ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Teaching Career ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Academic Assistance ◽  
Current Context

Objective: to evaluate the system to outline the graduate students from the Post-Graduate Programs of CAPES Medicine III area. Method: it was analyzed the book of indicators and the Document of Area of the Post-Graduate Programs of Surgery, also checking the literature about this issue. Results: there was a paucity of data from most of the programs, as regards to the methods for evaluation of graduate students. The current system lacks a standard and an institutional support to outline the graduate students. In the public system there is a concentration of postgraduate students in Medicine; however, they represent a small part of those Brazilians students who finished their graduation courses in Medicine. In the current context, the quest for the post graduate courses and consequently for a research field or even a teaching career, has been replaced by the private sector jobs and the labor market, both in non-academic assistance activities. Conclusion: it is imperative to establish not only science and technology innovation policies but also educational and health policies acting harmoniously and stimulating the qualification and the teaching career, improving the post-graduate courses. It is necessary to develop a single form under the institutional guidance of CAPES with the conception of a National Program for Graduate Student in order to consolidate guidelines to mapping the graduate students of post-graduate programs in surgery, in our country.

Criminal Records, Positive Credentials and Recidivism: Incorporating Evidence of Rehabilitation Into Criminal Background Check Employment Decisions

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Denver
Keyword(s):  
Program Completion ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Employment Decisions ◽  
Criminal Background Checks ◽  
Background Checks ◽  
Background Check ◽  
Criminal Background ◽  
Initial Denial

Decision makers increasingly incorporate “evidence of rehabilitation” into criminal background checks. Positive credentials can decrease criminal record stigma and improve employment outcomes, but we lack research on whether rehabilitative factors used in such assessments are correlated with recidivism. The current study examines more than 1,000 state-mandated criminal background checks in the rapidly growing health care sector. Everyone in the sample received an initial denial and requested reconsideration by submitting evidence of rehabilitation. The findings indicate prior employer recommendations and program completion are positively correlated with clearance to work, but conditional on contesting in the first place, none of the evidence of rehabilitation factors are negatively correlated with recidivism. Persistently pursuing an employment opportunity through a contestation process may, in itself, signal rehabilitation and lower risk.

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