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SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENT EMPLOYEES IN A LEADERSHIP POSITION WITHIN A UNIVERSITY RECREATION PROGRAM THROUGH A THEORETICAL AND APPLIED PERSPECTIVE
(2021-04-26)The purpose of this study is to understand the professional skill development of student employees in a leadership position through a theoretical lens and applied lens. Research suggests that a deficit of professional ... -
The Purity Problem: Analyzing American Women's Literature and Sex Expression of the Nineteenth Century
(2021-04-26)This thesis examines the nineteenth-century notion of purity as an origin for contemporary purity culture. Focusing on American women’s literature as a site for change, the following chapters explore the work of Ann Stephens, ... -
A STUDY OF A ONE WORLD EVERYBODY EATS CAFÉ AND HOW IT AFFECTS FOOD INSECURITY AND A SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS
(2021-04-22)For more than a decade, food insecurity rates among college students at all kinds of institutions have been higher than that of the general population of the United States. Far from simply being hungry, food insecure ... -
FEDERAL LEGISLATION & CHARITABLE GIVING TO HIGHER EDUCATION: THE INFLUENCE OF THE TAX CUT AND JOBS ACT OF 2017
(2021-04-20)Charitable giving has been a critical resource for higher education dating back to the Academy of Socrates and Plato. It continued through the establishment of Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale, and in 2020, American ... -
DECREASED BETA DESYNCHRONIZATION IN BROCA’S AREA DURING PSEUDOWORD REPETITION IN CHILDREN WITH CHILDHOOD APRAXIA OF SPEECH
(2021-04-21)Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological motor speech disorder characterized by impaired motor planning in the presence of intact neuromuscular processes. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine event-related ... -
Effectiveness of an Online Intervention to Improve Understanding, Well-Being, and Connection in Adoptive Families
(2021-04-19)Most post-adoption interventions focus on meeting the trauma-related needs of adopted children through intervening with the child and/or training the adoptive parent in attachment-based caregiving. The emphasis on the ... -
THE DOUBLE BASS IN THE CHINESE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND THE NATIONAL ORCHESTRA
(2021-04-15)This study provides information on how the double bass was introduced to China as well as the development of the double bass in Chinese national orchestras and Western-style symphony orchestras in China. The cultural ... -
The Effects of Literacy Parent Training via Telecommunication for Parents of Children with Reading Difficulties
(2021-04-13)This study aimed to determine the functional relation between the parent training program implemented through telepractice and parents’ use of reading feedback strategies. A single-case, multiple baseline across behavior ... -
A Survey of Knowledge About Trauma-Informed Care and Speech-Language Pathologists
(2021-04-13)The purpose of this study is to evaluate the extent to which practicing speech-language pathologists are trauma-informed. It is hypothesized that speech-language pathologists have a limited understanding and knowledge of ... -
CORPORATE UNIVERSITY SUCCESS DRIVERS: TESTING THE MALCOLM BALDRIGE FRAMEWORK IN THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT
(2021-04-11)The Corporate University (CU) phenomenon has rapidly proliferated within the field of adult education. Despite this growth in investment, the CU has yet to receive appropriate academic attention as critical component of ... -
Creating a Culture of Inclusion: Professional Development for Contingent Writing Faculty
(2021-04-07)Half of adjuncts, according to the Coalition on the Academic Workforce’s (CAW) 2012 report, “A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members,” make less than $35,000 a year. Two-thirds of adjuncts make less than $45,000 (14). As ... -
Stories of Hope: Interventions of the Church in Ecojustice Challenges and the Path to Address the Toa Alta Landfill Environmental Crisis
(2021-04-06)Ecojustice and ecotheology call us to take care for creation as a serious responsibility that God has entrusted us towards nature and humans. The intent of this project is to explore the different ways in which some specific ... -
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FACULTY JOB SATISFACTION: LOOKING BEYOND THE AGGREGATE
(2021-04-12)This study considers the job satisfaction of faculty at a private, four-year, large university. As faculty are forward-facing, customer-serving, grant-receiving employees who directly impact the bottom line, monitoring ... -
C*-Algebras of Orbit-Closures, Then Decomposition of Nuclear Maps
(2021-03)This dissertation is split into two parts. In the first part we expand upon work by G\'abor Elek on C*-algebras of Uniformly Recurrent Subgroups. We construct a dynamical system from the set of subgroups of a finitely-generated ... -
Algorithmic Identification: Predictive Technology, Agency, and Inequality
(2021-03)This dissertation develops a digital cultural rhetorics critique of predictive algorithms that reproduce and reinforce existing inequalities, ultimately calling on academics, activists, and the public to organize for ... -
Moral Identity, Implicit Theory, and Moral Behavior: Untangling the Web of Connected Characteristics in Student Conduct
(2021-03)Student misconduct continues to trouble institutions, negatively affecting institutional mission fulfillment. Although student codes of conduct and related processes exist to establish standards and address behavioral ... -
The Rousing of Ogma: Developing Functional Methodologies for the Production of Multimodal Scholarship
(2021-03)In The Rousing of Ogma: Developing Functional Methodologies for the Production of Multimodal Scholarship, Nicholas Alexander Brown interrogates the reception of non-linguistic scholarly forms within the context of rhetoric ... -
Navigating the Waters of Politics and Faith: The Issue of Immigration in Local Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Congregations in Texas
(2021-03)In the United States, there is a familiar adage relating to proper conversation etiquette: do not talk about religion and do not talk about politics. The phrase “do not get political” is common in the U.S. American (henceforth ... -
THE RHETORIC OF MALCOLM X’S LEGACY: BY ANY (AVAILABLE) MEANS (OF PERSUASION) NECESSARY
(2021-02)This dissertation examines the cultural practices of the 2018 Malcolm X Festival, hosted by the Pan-African Connection: Bookstore, Art Gallery, and Resource Center on May 19, 2018. Analyzing literacy practices, rhetorical ... -
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Understanding the Need for a Supplemental Trauma Component
(2020)Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) has been endorsed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as a trauma-informed approach despite lacking trauma components in the standard PCIT protocol. The current study ...
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