A Study of Self-Reported Academic Entitlement Scores on a Senior Military College Campus
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Authors
Jakiel, Andrew James
Issue Date
2020-03
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Dissertation
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en_US
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Dissertations, Academic--United States , Education, Higher , Entitlement attitudes , Military cadets , Postsecondary education , Southern States
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The presence of academic entitlement within post-secondary students poses a significant threat to higher education. Elevated senses of academic entitlement often result in a student’s expectation to achieve academic success without acknowledging the additional rigors associated with post-secondary coursework. Students may outwardly exhibit negative emotional responses when they fail to achieve high marks. This may be coupled with a view that the pursuit of a post-secondary education is a commodity as opposed to an opportunity to expand intellectual horizons. Elevated senses of academic entitlement may result in the disruption of healthy classroom dynamics, place additional strain on post-secondary faculty, and impact promotion and tenure processes. The researcher investigated the currently held self-perceptions of academic entitlement at a Senior Military College in the southeast region of the United States during the 2019 Fall semester.
Key Words: academic entitlement, Senior Military College, post-secondary, student-cadets
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