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Women In The Records Of The Virginia Company Of London, Martha Louise Reiner Jan 2023

Women In The Records Of The Virginia Company Of London, Martha Louise Reiner

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My thesis presents women from the Records of the Virginia Company of London, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906, Library of Congress online. During the 1619-1624 years of the records’ Court Book, Lady Lawarr, widow of Virginia’s first governor named by the Company, was important in distributing Virginia Company shares. Lady Lawarr worked, usually with an agent, to transfer shares from Lawarr’s estate to diverse people. Women had surprising agency in dealing with the Company, but there were some limits. There were delays in implementing grants for compensations. Some women worked with agents to get property owed to them. Petitions filed …


Understanding K-12 Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, And Validation, Ke Huang Jan 2023

Understanding K-12 Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, And Validation, Ke Huang

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Teacher emotional intelligence (EI) plays an important role in teachers’ professional lives. After surveying the topic and the gaps in the relevant literature, I conducted three studies to advance our current understanding of teachers’ EI. The first study involved a meta-analysis review that examined the relationship between K-12 teachers’ EI, self-efficacy, and burnout. It found that there is a significant positive relationship between K-12 teachers’ EI and teacher self-efficacy as well as a significant negative relationship between teachers’ EI and teacher burnout. The second study involved developing and testing the Teachers’ Emotional Intelligence Scale (TEIS), which measures teachers’ EI in …


Hybridization As A Tool For Rapid Adaptation To Novel Environments In Virginia Asclepias, Casey Hensen Jan 2023

Hybridization As A Tool For Rapid Adaptation To Novel Environments In Virginia Asclepias, Casey Hensen

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Plants, unlike animals, lack the ability to quickly move to desirable locations, which poses a challenge when faced with climate change. Here, we use anthropogenic forest canopy loss in the eastern United States as a model for understanding the effects of climate change. Removal of the forest canopy significantly alters the abiotic habitat, as does climate change, by increasing the variability of moisture, light, and temperature. One powerful mechanism plants can use to cope with environmental change is hybridization, as it provides novel genetic variation. Hybridization, followed by introgression, makes it possible to pass along adaptive traits between species, which …


Faculty Matter: A Case Study Of Rural Community College Faculty Involvement In Vertical Transfer, Jingjing Liu Jan 2023

Faculty Matter: A Case Study Of Rural Community College Faculty Involvement In Vertical Transfer, Jingjing Liu

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

The community college has one of its missions to provide access for students who intend to transfer to a 4-year university using a vertical transfer pathway. As potential advocates for students in the transfer process, faculty who work in community colleges need to recognize the importance of supporting transfer students and help to improve the transfer pathways. Yet, little is known about the role faculty have in promoting transfer. The purpose of this dissertation study was to investigate the role of community college faculty in the vertical transfer process. The study addressed two research questions: How do community college faculty …


Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’S Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva Jan 2023

Healing Culturally Induced Trauma From Marvin’S Room To The Indian Boarding School, Angie Jocelin Leiva

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This master’s thesis portfolio is analyzing the music of contemporary hip-hop artists and the autobiographical work of 20th-century Indigenous writer and political activist Zitkala-Ša. A close reading methodology is used to analyze all the writing included in this body of work. The purpose is to examine the importance of community building within Black and Indigenous communities in the wake of political and social injustice. This portfolio uses the theoretical work of Audrey Lorde, Sianne Nagi, and Robert Warrior to provide support for the central thesis. All the subjects in this portfolio are writing from a first-person point of view and …