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Addressing Basic Needs Security At Santa Monica College, Brooke Guelker

Education Policy and Leadership Theses and Dissertations

Basic needs insecurity has gained recognition as a significant barrier to completing a postsecondary credential. Research has shown that students enrolled at community colleges experience basic needs insecurity at rates higher than their four-year counterparts. Given the community college’s expansive mission, it is imperative that these institutions attempt to mitigate basic needs insecurity by identifying innovative solutions tailored to their specific student populations. The original aim of this study was to explore the utility of the planned change framework in understanding how a partnership between a postsecondary institution (Santa Monica College) and a nonprofit organization (Swipe Out Hunger) led to …

177th University Of Notre Dame Commencement Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

The Commencement Program includes

• Schedule of Events
• Graduate School Commencement Ceremony
• Mendoza College of Business
• School of Architecture
• Law School Diploma Ceremony [see pages 43–47]
• University Commencement Exercises
• College of Arts and Letters Diploma Ceremony
• College of Science
• College of Engineering
• Mendoza College of Business
• School of Architecture
• Valedictorian Candidates
• 2022 Emeriti Faculty
• Honor Societies
• Awards and Prizes [Law School pages 89–90]

A Critical Study Of Unaccompanied Homeless Youth In A Local Housing Program, Michael J. Warren

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Housing programs available to youth experiencing homelessness offer varying types of supports and initiatives. However, few programs are created by and with the perspectives of these youth. This qualitative study examines the experiences of unaccompanied homeless youth (UHY) while living in a housing program, identifies specific needs of UHY, and aims to learn of the political role the community and educational institutions play in empowering youth experiencing homelessness.

Implications highlight how critical pedagogy can be used by educational leaders to empower student voice and aims to shift student learning from a “banking” model to democratic participation. This research will advance …

Factors Related To Rural Superintendent Retention And Turnover In North Dakota, Wayne Heckaman

Dissertations, Theses, and Projects

This quantitative exploratory survey research aims to understand the factors or combination of factors that may influence the superintendent's decision to stay or leave a school district, specifically among North Dakota superintendents. This study focuses on the perspectives of North Dakota rural superintendents remaining in their positions or leaving without regard to years of experience. The central question to guide this study is, what are the factors that influence rural superintendents’ decision to stay or leave their school district? The overall goal is to provide information so that school districts and communities have greater success in retaining a superintendent which …

Emotional Injury: The Hidden Cost Of Workplace Violence, Susan Cusack, Meagan Cleary

Nursing

Background Review

Workplace violence (WPV) is a common, increasing experience in healthcare. Verbal violence is the most common type and is typically considered “not that big of a deal” or “minor” (Hahn et al. 2008, Magnavita 2014). However, verbal violence and harassment are extremely destructive to team member morale and productivity, leading to burnout and aggression in the victim (Brophy et al. 2017, Miller 2008, Phillips 2016).

Purpose

The workplace violence committee (WPVC) at a 750+ bed, Level 1 trauma center on the south side of Chicago aimed to quantify the number of verbal incidents and their consequences to inform …

The Use Of Appreciative Inquiry In Identifying Pueblo Core Values, Kristyn N. Yepa

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

This study used appreciative inquiry to identify core values or concepts essential to the Jemez Pueblo community to inform an evaluation framework used by community strength-based programs in Jemez Pueblo. Key informant interviews and a focus group were conducted in Jemez Pueblo with key program staff and tribal leaders. The audio recordings were transcribed and analyzed using inductive reasoning to identify core values. In addition, grounded theory was used to develop a conceptual model from the themes generated from the analysis. The PICOT question was, "Can the Appreciative Inquiry method help uncover core values of a Pueblo community?"

Frameworks For Patient Safety In The Nursing Curriculum, Theresa M. Chenot

Dissertations

Patient safety (i.e., the degree to which patients are free from accidental injury) has received a great deal of media coverage during the past few years. Professional and regulatory agencies have indicated that patient safety education should be provided to healthcare workers to improve health outcomes. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to gain a better understanding of the current status of patient safety awareness among pre-licensure nursing students. To this end, six research questions guided the study:

1. Will interpretable item constructs be identified when responses to the Healthcare Professional Patient Safety Assessment Curriculum Survey (HPPSACS) are …

The “New” Normal: A Mixed Methods Study Of The Effect Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On College Student Sense Of Belonging, Hunter Swanson

Dissertations, 2020-current

This mixed-methods study used the Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) model to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on college student sense of belonging. The purpose of this study was to explore how environmental changes related to the disruptive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic may have altered students’ sense of belonging to their institution. The results revealed a strong relationship between the Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) engagement indicators and sense of belonging. Furthermore, the results suggest that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic altered how students experienced the CECE indicators. The implications for change leaders in higher education …

Walk The Talk: Value Congruence For Social Change In Panhellenic Sororities, Anjelica Cespedes

M.A. in Higher Education Leadership: Action Research Projects

As a result of the ongoing wave of civil unrest in the United States, many university organizations have re-evaluated their current structures and policies to increase emphasis on social justice principles. In particular, the leaders of the University of San Diego Panhellenic Council have verbally expressed an interest in creating a more socially just Panhellenic experience. However, feedback from community members via anonymous reports and social media posts, coupled with observations of the Council reveal leadership has yet to take tangible and sustained action. This project investigated the value congruence of USD Panhellenic leadership to better understand the process between …

Getting Ahead And Getting Along In Entrepreneurial Networks: Network Effects Of The “Dark” And “Light” Sides Of Personality In New Venture Performance, Victoria Antin Yates

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores how dark and light personality traits influence venture performance via mediating effects of social structure. Because entrepreneurship is an inherently social process, theoretical perspectives of social network theory and social comparison theory are used to examine how entrepreneurs’ dark and light personality traits interact with personality traits of socially proximal others to influence venture performance via network structure. These perspectives are drawn together using socioanalytic theory. This dissertation argues that agreeableness and narcissism interact with the personality traits of network others at the group-level to influence structural hole positioning within entrepreneurial networks; in turn, structural holes are …

Diversity Accountability In Higher Education Institutions, Richeleen Ayree Dashield

Theses and Dissertations

This study utilized transformative sequential explanatory mixed methods to analyze diversity characteristics and capabilities in higher education institutions. Faced with environmental pressure, colleges and universities that aspire to become diversity-competent institutions have the potential to understand diversity accountability (evidence building for all) with a critical race theoretical framework. A critical comparative analysis of diversity-competent and peer institutions provided the opportunity challenged past and current ways of understanding diversity by acknowledging the centrality of racism in higher education institutions. This study analyzed data drawn from the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) award recipients to illustrate a way of assessing diversity …

Exploring Restorative Justice As An Adaptable Resolution For Gender-Based Misconduct, Jessica D. Naidu

M.A. in Higher Education Leadership: Action Research Projects

Restorative justice, an approach to harm rooted in Indigenous culture, asks three central questions: 1) What is the harm? 2) Who is impacted? 3) How can we repair it? This is a vastly different approach to most criminal justice procedures that instead seek to determine who broke what rule and how they should be punished. Although a modern resurgence of restorative justice has exploded across college campuses, higher education has been slow to adopt the approach for relationship violence and sexual harm. In this study, victim advocates, conduct professionals, and university administrators at the University of San Diego participated in …

Transformative Partnerships: Expanding Extension’S Capacity To Support Texans With Developmental Disabilities, Andrew B. Crocker, Morgan D. Bradley, Shelby D. Vaughn, Beth Stalvey

Journal of Extension

New partnerships to reach new audiences are key to Extension’s future (Harder, 2019). But partnership is enhanced through shared decision-making, co-creation of content, and leveraging non-overlapping expertise and experience (Bertsch et al., 2020; Israilov & Cho, 2017; Ostrom, 1996). Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service partnering with the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities provides a novel approach to using statewide presence to the benefit of a partner seeking to expand its footprint (Alford, 2014; Ostrom, 1996) and is, itself, an outcome (Voorberg et al., 2015). Additionally, Texans with disabilities benefit through greater access to the education and resources the partnership produces.

Fayetteville State University Spring Commencement 2022, Fayetteville State University

Graduation Exhibit

Fayetteville State University Spring Commencement May 7th 2022

Keynote Speaker: Fayetteville State University Alumnus 2003, Nicholas M. Perkins

Engagement Strategies For Online Students: Use Of Technology To Enhance Learning, Jim Maddox

TFSC Publications and Presentations

Teaching students in an online program requires being intentional with how the course is constructed and how space is created for students to fully engage. Face-to-face courses provide the means of this interaction that creates a challenge for online learning. The following are some innovative and creative ways I am using technology to engage my online students and enhance their learning. I utilize Zoom to hold optional Live Chats via Zoom. These are also recorded for students to watch later as well. I use breakout rooms for small group discussions (pair-and-share, triads, and larger groups), we have Q & A …

Conducting A Root Cause Analysis To Improve Intake Processes And Record Review In Home Health, Christina Guerrero

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Minimization of adverse events, reduction of inpatient admissions, and prevention of polypharmacy within home health are of importance due to the increasing number of Medicare beneficiaries. In 2019, CMS reported 5,266,931 patients were served by home health agencies, accounting for 7,439,849 episodes of care. It is projected that the number of beneficiaries will rise from 54 million to more than 80 million by the year 2030. Medical errors are now the third-leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and stroke. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality identifies a lack of institutional intake processes as the …

Leading With Heart: How Exemplary K-5 Principals Demonstrate Transformational Leadership Through Heart-Based Practices, Teresa Hubbard

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe how exemplary K-5 principals in Southern California lead from the heart using Mark Crowley’s (2011) 4 principles (building a highly engaged team, connecting on a personal level, maximizing employee potential and valuing and honoring achievements) to accomplish extraordinary results in their schools.

Methodology: This study utilized a qualitative phenomenological methodology to study the behaviors of elementary principals. This study, due to current Covid restrictions, included virtual one-on-one interviews that were held via the Zoom online platform. The data collected included audio and video recordings, written transcripts, and artifacts from school …

Faculty Senate Chronicle May 5, 2022, Heather M. Loughney

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Quality Assurance, Meet Quality Appreciation: Using Appreciative Inquiry To Define Faculty Quality Standards, Ann M. Morgan, Rebecca L. Jobe, Juli K. Konopa, Lyda D. Downs

Higher Learning Research Communications

Objectives: This study outlines the journey of an online university to evaluate faculty performance standards, key performance indicators, and systems for quality assurance using an appreciative inquiry summit model. The study reveals the power of quality appreciation as an approach that elicits a shared vision for quality definitions and standards and serves as a historical marker in the higher education shift from data-driven faculty performance approaches to strengths-based, inclusive methods.

Method: The retrospective business case outlines one university’s 2018 Appreciative Inquiry Summit, 5D (define, discover, dream, design, destiny/deliver) approach, resulting deliverables, lessons learned, and conclusions.

Results: The summit and subsequent …

Improving Patient Care Through Effective Nurse Delegation To Assistive Personnel, Toni Hamilton

DNP and Student Works

A pre/post survey design was employed to assess the knowledge and willingness of medical surgical-telemetry nurses to delegate tasks to AP working within a new caregiver model after receiving an educational intervention. Patient falls and HAPI rates were collected pre/post intervention and compared for statistical differences.

Heterogeneous Decision-Making And Market Power: An Application To Eurozone Banks, Levent Kutlu, Robin C. Sickles, Mike G. Tsionas, Emmanuel Mamatzakis

School of Economics and Finance Faculty Publications

We provide a structural model wherein the decision-makers are payoff maximizers in a general game theoretic setting in which heterogeneity is formally factored into the decisions of the players. The decision-makers are allowed to have different groups; and parameters are the same within each group but they differ across group. Using insights from our treatment of heterogeneous and strategic decision-making, we estimate the conducts (market powers) of Eurozone banks for years 2002–2015. We find that Eurozone banks are fairly competitive. However, banks in peripheral countries have more market power compared to the core of Eurozone.

Dnp Final Report: Skilled Nursing Facility Readmissions: An Evidence-Based Telemedicine Innovation Project, Debra B. Graham

DNP Final Reports

Background: Nationally, 20% of patient readmissions occur within the first 48 hours after arrival to a skilled nurse facility (SNF), and 40-68% of these readmissions are potentially avoidable. Since 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid penalized SNFs when their return to hospital (RTH) percentages was above national benchmarks. The four SNFs in this project experienced rising transfer rates and diminished RTH percentages since 2017, despite using in-house providers Monday through Friday. Furthermore, there was no provision to address patients’ changes in conditions after hours.

Purpose: This evidence-based practice (EBP) project aimed to standardize the care provided to …

The Successful Adoption Of Teaching For Transformation: Utilizing Kotter's 8-Stage Process For Leading Change, Marcus Todd

Master of Education Program Theses

To grow and thrive, schools must be able to adapt and change. Educational institutions undergo many procedural, programmatic, and pedagogical changes, motivated by both external and internal forces, which push and pull a school to pivot from its current status quo. One such significant change is the implementation of Teaching for Transformation (TfT), a design framework for the creation of authentic, formational learning experiences rooted in a transformational worldview, with its core practices being employed in over 100 schools worldwide. To determine whether schools who have successfully transitioned to TfT practices have utilized methods from Kotter’s 8-Stage Process model for …

Organizational Change Process Milwaukee - Needs Assessment Summary, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

Exploration of Needs

The Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development (QIC-WD) worked with the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) to conduct a needs assessment. A variety of information was explored to learn about the current workforce and the agency’s workforce practices, including 1) recruitment, hiring, and retention metrics and processes, 2) organizational culture and climate, and 3) other workforce processes and initiatives, such as onboarding, mentoring, supervision, performance management, and employee recognition. More specifically, four major types of information were considered: 1) objective data from various agency databases and reports; 2) subjective perceptions of staff and supervisors, …

Introduction Of Semaglutide As An Effective Option For Obese Patients Motivated To Lose Weight, Crystal Garcia-Martinez

Cohort X

Obesity has become a global crisis with a tremendous impact on patients and costs reaching billions of dollars each year. Prevention and treatment of this condition will be crucial to ongoing efforts to prevent its long-term complications. Health care providers may have the opportunity to educate patients and address weight management issues before serious complications develop. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Heart Association, and many publications in the medical literature focus on methods that might be used to target weight loss with diet and exercise. Unfortunately, many patients have had little to no success …

Thiazide-Like Diuretics As First-Line Treatment To Improve Blood Pressure Management, Raquel Okubo

Cohort X

Background: Thiazide diuretics are currently the first-line treatment for hypertension (HTN). This class of drugs includes hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) and the thiazide-like diuretic, chlorthalidone (CTDN). The quality improvement project began in the fall semester with a 10- day reflective practice log to assess my current practice. A review of the clinical practice log allowed me to evaluate my current practice and identify three opportunities to improve my practice. I developed three potential PICOT questions and selected one for the QI project with the guidance of my Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) chairperson. I performed a literature review to gather the best …

Improving Septic Patient Outcomes Through A Nurse-Led Quality Improvement Project In A Rural, Midwestern Hospital, Allyssa C. Sweers

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Sepsis is a complex and costly problem that continues to afflict hospitals across the globe (Napolitano, 2018). If it is not identified quickly and treated promptly, sepsis will progress to septic shock and create an increased risk of mortality (Napolitano, 2018). The best way to improve patient outcomes is through early detection and precise treatment (Rello, Valenzuela-Sánchez, Ruiz-Rodriguez, & Moyano, 2017). Through staff education and clinical decision tools, such as checklists, septic patients are more likely to have a favorable outcome (Storozuk, MacLeod, Freeman, & Banner, 2019). The purpose of this DNP project was to decrease fluid resuscitation fallouts and …

Addressing Mental Health Of Hospitality Employees: An Exploratory Study, Chase Izell

Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

Exacerbated by a global pandemic, mental health challenges within hospitality professionals are an area of growing prevalence and concern for the industry. Historically unaddressed, these issues are continuing to impact the morale of essential talent which is promoting a culture of turnover that defines the industry today. Aside from the direct costs incurred by voluntary employee termination, the indirect costs to workplace culture and guest satisfaction have furthered the overall financial impact of a largely untreated problem. The objective of this research is to provide evidence of declining mental health in the hospitality industry while illuminating the key contributors to …

A Qualitative Study Of The Collaborative Relationships Between District Leaders And School Principals In High-Performing And Low-Performing Schools Within A Single High-Performing School District, Shaunna Pierrelee

Doctoral Dissertations

Research on effective collaborative relationships between district leaders and school principals have shown to exhibit characteristics that positively impact student achievement. Characteristics such as reciprocal communication, shared decision making, intensive support, and quality professional learning opportunities are repeated in literature. Therefore, this qualitative case study examined whether there are differences in collaborative relationships between district leaders and school principals in high-performing and low-performing schools within a single school district based on those common characteristics. The following research questions guided the current study: (a) What are the differences, if any, in communication between district leaders and principals of high- and low-performing …

A Qualitative Study Identifying Perspectives, Experiences, And Needs Of School Principals And Teachers To Lead A Culture Of Differentiated Teaching And Learning, Natalie Gray Pope

Doctoral Dissertations

Differentiated instruction is defined as providing all students access to the same set of curricula while at the same time providing tasks and instruction tailored to a student’s specific learning style. This expectation has led researchers to study and understand differentiated instruction for embedded applications across all classroom and district experiences, public perceptions, and effective implementation of future trends. However, there is a gap in literature addressed by this study relating to the leadership of differentiated instruction in school settings.

Data for this study were collected from school principals and classroom teachers using both virtual and face-to-face interviews, documented field …