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‘A Healthy Mtu’ A Mixed Methods Baseline Programme Of Research To Empirically Inform A Campus Health Promotion Initiative Within An Irish Higher Education Setting, Andrea Bickerdike

Theses

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been called to lead global health promotion actions, yet there remains a dearth of empirically informed ‘Healthy University’ (HU) initiatives. This thesis constituted a baseline mixed methods needs assessment to inform a settings-based health promotion (HP) initiative (‘A Healthy MTU’) within a multi-campus ‘case’ HEI in Ireland (Cork campuses of MTU, formerly CIT). Specific aims were to (i) investigate student and staff health metrics, and (ii) identify the cultural and environmental determinants of health and wellbeing within the case HEI setting. Using a phased, mixed methodology (QUAN-QUAL), five sequential empirical studies were undertaken. Quantitative data …

Internal Communication At A Liberal Arts College, Rebecca J. Doering

Theses

The purpose for the policy manual is to inform all offices of the college of the administrative and management policies daily. These policies establish a method of communication for requests, coordination, approval, classification and issuance of standard operating procedures of the college.

Faculty, students and administration need guidelines for implementing objectives. The manual provides guidelines for implementing objectives . The manual provides guidelines for management policies and the functioning of the organization. More specifically, the manual is a means of determining how policy is reflected in the organizational structure and in the management practices.

The policy manual is a basic …