Running head: DOCTORAL PERSISTENCE 1 DOCTORAL PERSISTENCE 2 Qualitative Research Name of Student Professor’s name Date Qualitative research Universities have been focusing much on undergraduate level without giving distinct objectives on providing future scholars with the right resources to pursue doctoral degree. It is imperative for universities to focus attention the factors affecting persistence of doctoral students. Doctoral students are defined as adults which makes them have obligations including families, work and loan payments (Greene, 2015). The increase of doctoral student’s population continues to widen the gap of obtaining finances to accomplish this degree. This makes many doctoral students pass through hurdles which they must defeat and without the universities or relevant bodies help, some of them might find themselves dropping out. The introduction of online doctoral courses also faces many challenges. Doctoral students rely on the collective support of stakeholders involved to develop positive social change through persistence (Rockinson-Szapkiw et al., 2014). Students retention especially for the Doctoral students, is becoming an important issue because of the decrease in university enrollment. Research Question: what factors affect the persistence of doctoral students in achieving their degree focus? I intend to interview the freshly graduated doctoral students and doctoral students who did not manage to graduate in their final year. The freshly graduated doctoral students will be able to focus and give the challenges they faced while taking their doctoral education. The factors which rendered them successfully will be important in answering the research question. The doctoral students who did not graduate will be asked to give their input on why they feel they did not manage to graduate in their final year of study. The freshly graduated students may attribute their success to cooperative teachers, sources of finances and family support. The ungraduated doctoral students many view lacks teachers support, cooperative loans grands and increased family responsibilities as the factors leading to their failure. Five interview questions: · What do you attribute your success to? · What factor do you think increases or reduces doctoral students persistence? · Do you think doctoral students educators plays a role in student’s persistence? · What do you attribute failure of most doctoral students from graduating to? · Do you think the universities can do anything to increase doctoral students persistence? The research question focusses on establishing the factors that contribute or affect doctoral student’s persistence in their bid to achieving doctoral degrees. Doctoral persistence faces many challenges which needs to be researched. The interview questions are designed to allow the interviewee to focus on their experiences to exclusively quantify the factors that allowed them to be successful or fail. The information th.

1. Running head: DOCTORAL PERSISTENCE
1
DOCTORAL PERSISTENCE
2
Qualitative Research
Name of Student
Professor’s name
Date
Qualitative research
Universities have been focusing much on undergraduate level
without giving distinct objectives on providing future scholars
with the right resources to pursue doctoral degree. It is
imperative for universities to focus attention the factors
affecting persistence of doctoral students. Doctoral students are
defined as adults which makes them have obligations including
families, work and loan payments (Greene, 2015). The increase
of doctoral student’s population continues to widen the gap of
obtaining finances to accomplish this degree. This makes many
doctoral students pass through hurdles which they must defeat
and without the universities or relevant bodies help, some of
them might find themselves dropping out. The introduction of
online doctoral courses also faces many challenges. Doctoral
students rely on the collective support of stakeholders involved
to develop positive social change through persistence
(Rockinson-Szapkiw et al., 2014). Students retention especially
for the Doctoral students, is becoming an important issue
because of the decrease in university enrollment.
Research Question: what factors affect the persistence of

2. doctoral students in achieving their degree focus?
I intend to interview the freshly graduated doctoral students and
doctoral students who did not manage to graduate in their final
year. The freshly graduated doctoral students will be able to
focus and give the challenges they faced while taking their
doctoral education. The factors which rendered them
successfully will be important in answering the research
question. The doctoral students who did not graduate will be
asked to give their input on why they feel they did not manage
to graduate in their final year of study. The freshly graduated
students may attribute their success to cooperative teachers,
sources of finances and family support. The ungraduated
doctoral students many view lacks teachers support, cooperative
loans grands and increased family responsibilities as the factors
leading to their failure.
Five interview questions:
· What do you attribute your success to?
· What factor do you think increases or reduces doctoral
students persistence?
· Do you think doctoral students educators plays a role in
student’s persistence?
· What do you attribute failure of most doctoral students from
graduating to?
· Do you think the universities can do anything to increase
doctoral students persistence?
The research question focusses on establishing the factors that
contribute or affect doctoral student’s persistence in their bid to
achieving doctoral degrees. Doctoral persistence faces many
challenges which needs to be researched. The interview
questions are designed to allow the interviewee to focus on their
experiences to exclusively quantify the factors that allowed

3. them to be successful or fail. The information that will be
obtained will help in carrying out a research analysis on various
strategies to allow doctoral students increase persistence and be
successful in attaining their doctoral degrees. If one of the
factors is doctoral educators, it will be imperative for
universities to establish better curriculum which enhance
teacher-student interaction to facilitate easy learning. Personal
experience reflection from the students provides the best avenue
of obtaining primary information for the research analysis. The
information will require consent from the students especially
those who did not successfully graduate.
Reference
Greene, M. (2015). Come hell or high water: Doctoral students’
perceptions on support services and persistence. International
Journal of Doctoral Studies, 10(1), 501-518.
Rockinson-Szapkiw, A. J., Spaulding, L. S., & Bade, B. (2014).
Completion of educational doctorates: How universities can
foster persistence. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 9,
293-308.
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Business Case Scenario: CloudCrushers
CloudCrushers provides their customers software consulting
services, from strategy to support. They partner with some of
the world leaders in the Cloud Computing space, and provide
experts to their partners’ customers to support implementation

4. of Enterprise Software tools.
CloudCrushers, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a
global consulting organization with five offices. Two offices
are located within the United States and three offices are
located outside of the U.S.:
Location
Employees
In-office
Remote/Telecommute
San Francisco, CA
100
X
X
Austin, TX
200
X
X
Remote (USA)
200
X
India
300
X
Japan
10
X
England
50
X
X

5. At company headquarters in San Francisco, California, the
workforce of 100 employees work from the office as well as
telecommute. On most days, roughly half the staff will be
working from the office. In addition to headquarters, Cloud
Crushers has additional offices and work populations:
· Austin, Texas, with 200 employees, most of whom work from
the office with some that telecommute.
· Remote workers - there are approximately 200 employees who
live in various locations across the United States and
telecommute full-time. These employees also travel to client
sites frequently.
· Global staff and offices in:
· India has 300 employees who all work from the office and
rarely travel.
· Japan has 10 employees who rarely travel.
· England houses 50 employees who both telecommute and work
in the office.
All employees are very mobile. While many have workspace at
their offices and many employees are mobile within their
offices and/or work remote. Employees that work from home
supply their own networking services, but are required to have
access to high-speed internet when travelling. They are
provided with a MacBook, a MiFi device for Internet access
when traveling, and a 24” monitor and docking station for
home. Mobile phones are not provided by CloudCrushers, but
employees are expected to provide their own and the company
reimburses employees for their use.
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Liberty University
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