University of St. Thomas, Minnesota UST Research Online Education Doctoral Dissertations in Leadership School of Education 2018 How has King Abdullah Scholarship Program Enhanced the Leadership Skills of Saudi Female Beneficiaries? Magied Alsqoor University of St. Thomas,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.stthomas.edu/caps_ed_lead_docdiss Part of the Education Commons Recommended Citation Alsqoor, Magied, "How has King Abdullah Scholarship Program Enhanced the Leadership Skills of Saudi Female Beneficiaries?" (2018). Education Doctoral Dissertations in Leadership. 113. https://ir.stthomas.edu/caps_ed_lead_docdiss/113 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Education at UST Research Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Education Doctoral Dissertations in Leadership by an authorized administrator of UST Research Online. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. i How has King Abdullah Scholarship Program Enhanced the Leadership Skills of Saudi Female Beneficiaries? by Magied Alsqoor IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF EDUCATION 2018 iii ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to learn how King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) enhanced Saudi female students’ leadership skills while they were in the U.S. and after they returned home upon graduation. To gather data relevant to this study, I interviewed twelve Saudi female graduates from King Abdullah Scholarship Program and three male chaperones who lived with them in the U.S. I derived three themes from the Saudi females’ experiences in the U.S.: Saudi females’ pre-KASP leadership experiences, perceptions of leadership in the U.S., and family members as support resources.