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Balancing Our Capacity To Serve: A Phenomenological Exploration Of Black Women Navigating Personal, Professional, And Community Leadership Roles, Shemeka K. Brathwaite

Student Theses

This phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of Black women community leaders as they navigate a balance between their professional, personal, and community leadership roles. The research design uses the theoretical frameworks of Black Feminist Intersectionality and Role Theory, specifically addressing the cultural burdens imposed by the Strong Black Woman archetype, which adds additional role strain. The study began with a questionnaire completed by 54 Black women community leaders, followed by 20 in-depth, semi-structured interviews selected from this pool. The study’s key findings are illustrated in a Black Women’s Sustainable Community Leadership Framework. Black women community leaders exude high self-efficacy, …

She Believed She Could, So She Did: A Lifecycle Approach To Understanding Leadership And Self-Efficacy Development In Women Astronauts, Savanah Faith Sellars Bray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines how women leaders develop and sustain self-efficacy, and develop as leaders, throughout their lives. Although decades of research document the barriers women face navigating leadership journeys, including the challenges described in the Women’s Leadership Labyrinth of prejudice, discrimination, and childcare issues, existing literature offers limited insight into how women actively build belief in their capacity to lead and accomplish their goals. Further, research consistently shows that women report lower leadership self-efficacy than men, even with comparable experience, yet the developmental processes that shape this gap, beginning in childhood, remain underexplored. Guided by self-efficacy research and its four …

Becoming The Phoenix: Black Women’S Experiences And Leadership Growth Through Humanized Black Feminist Action Learning, Jovan Keith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the workplace learning experiences of Black women professionals in corporate leadership contexts. Leadership development programs often rely on standardized models that overlook the lived realities shaping Black women’s professional experiences. In response, this study introduced Humanized Black Feminist Action Learning, a leadership development intervention that integrates Black feminist scholarship, humanizing pedagogy, and critical action learning.

Using a qualitative case study design, the research examined a cohort of midcareer Black women professionals who participated in four facilitated learning sessions structured around workplace dilemmas. During these sessions, participants engaged in reflection, dialogue, and action as they examined workplace dynamics …

Social Innovation In The Peacebuilding Sector, Michelle Helman, Phd, Katherine Ronderos, Mariafernanda Burgos-Ariza

Peace and Conflict Studies

Social innovation is an expanding practice in the peacebuilding sector. In this article, three peace scholar-practitioners reflect on our experiences as peacebuilders and consider the utility, tensions, and possibilities for peace and social innovation in theory and in practice. We draw insights gleaned through a focus group workshop with peacebuilding colleagues and highlight three case study examples from Colombia, the Philippines, and Kenya, each demonstrating the challenges and opportunities of social innovation in the peace sector. In doing so, we offer a reimagining of- and recommended action steps to engage innovation through a collaborative, feminist design approach. This article contributes …

Enacting Leadership And Transforming The World: Hannah Arendt, The Private, The Public, And Transfigurations In Between, Xochitl Mendez

Educational Studies Dissertations

In this dissertation I propose a framework that emphasizes transitions between Private and Public. I argue that individuals can consciously reshape and reformulate these transitions to assert themselves in the world. How can the individual’s own internal realities, ventures, projects and selfhood assert themselves in a fraught world as an act of self-affirmation, leadership, and transformation? New approaches to this question can all be revealed by using transitions between Private and Public as actionable strategies. I re-interpret Hannah Arendt’s Private and Public as she presented them in The Human Condition (1958). I turn these into multivalent and multilayered spaces of …

Wendell W. Gunn University Commons, University Of North Alabama

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Naming Ceremony for the Academic Commons Building at UNA

Collaborative Ministry Leadership: A Mixed-Methods Study Into The Application Of Collaborative Leadership In United Pentecostal Churches In The Southeastern United States., Omar A. Williams

Doctor of Ministry (DMin)

This dissertation examines how collaborative leadership, grounded in theological and practical applications, impacts ministry effectiveness in United Pentecostal Churches (UPCI) in the Southeastern United States. It employed a mixed-methods design, with in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with twelve senior UPCI pastors, and quantitative surveys administered to 63 members of their core leadership teams. Although collaborative leadership is a widely held ideal in ministry, a gap often exists between its theory and its practical implementation. The findings reveal a significant convergence in the relational, visionary, and developmental dimensions of collaboration. The pastors are theologically committed to rejecting autocratic models. They are perceived …

State Normal School Lafayette--Dialectical Literary Society Program, State Normal School

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Lafayette--Dialectical Literary Society Program, State Normal School, 1923

Dialectical Society Purchase Receipt-Cherry & Stickle, Cherry & Stickle, Dealers In Staple And Fancy Groceries (H.A. Cherry/J.L. Stickle)

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A purchase receipt for items needed by the Dialectical Society in 1896

State Normal College Joint Anniversary Of The Literary Societies, State Normal College

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1897 Program from the Joint Anniversary of the Literary Societies of State Normal College

Learn And Serve Rotc Spring Quarter Bulletin, Florence Herald

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1951 Florence State Teachers College ROTC Spring Quarter Bulletin

Constitution And Bylaws Of The University Of North Alabama Education Association, University Of North Alabama Education Association

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Constitution and Bylaws of the University of North Alabama Education Association-adopted March 29, 1977

Kappa Pi Constitution, Kappa Pi National Fraternity

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The Kappa Pi Constitution (1930)

Unaea Newsletter, University Of North Alabama Education Association

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UNAEA Newsletter (Vol. 1 No. 1, 1978)

Public Debate By The Lafayette Literary Society At The State Normal College, The Times Job Print, Florence

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1894 State Normal College Public Debate program of the Lafayette Literary Society

Una Rotc Named "Top Program" 2016, While Una Labeled Gold Level School For Military Friendliness, Military & Veteran Affairs University Of North Alabama

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Spring 2017 issue of the UNA Alumni Magazine highlights the UNA ROTC program as "Top Program" in 2016

State Normal School Browning And Dixie Literary Societies, State Normal College

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A 1920 State Normal School program for the Browning and Dixie Literary Societies

Annual Debate Between The Dialectical And Lafayette Societies, Florence Herald Print

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Annual Debate Program --Dialectical and Lafayette Societies, 1905

Present Constitution And Bylaws The Division Of Post-Secondary Education Of The Alabama Education Association, Alabama Education Association

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The Division of Post-Secondary Education of the Alabama Education Association Present Constitution and Bylaws, 1972

University Of North Alabama Fraternity And Sorority Life, University Of North Alabama Fraternity And Sorority Life

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Brochure for the University of North Alabama Fraternity and Sorority Life on campus, 2017

State Normal School Of Florence, Ala. Annual Society Contest, State Normal School

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Annual Society Contest program between the Dialectical/Browning Societies and Lafayette/Dixie Club

University Of North Alabama Military Patriotism, Robert S. Steen ('60), Ltc U.S. Army (Ret.)

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An article published in the UNA Alumni Magazine (Summer 2004) by Florence State College Graduate and Retired LTC, U.S. Army, Robert S. Steen on the history of military service of the university (from the time of LaGrange College through 2004)

Irc Topic Is Fed. Aid To Schools, Juanita Junkins

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Panel Discussion by the IRC on the question of Federal Aid to School

A Covenant Agreement Between The Cooperative Campus Ministry And Alabama Campus Ministry Board, University Of North Alabama

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Agreement between the Cooperative Campus Ministry and the Alabama Campus Board Ministry

Una Student Organizations, Student Engagement Center, University Of North Alabama

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Women Govern Themselves At College Here, Florence Times

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The Women's Self-Government Association was one of the oldest organizations on campus. This newspaper article looks at the ins and outs of life in the W.S.G.A. It also includes a picture of the officers for the 1959-1960 school year.

By-Laws Of The Wesley Foundation At The University Of North Alabama, Wesley Foundation, University Of North Alabama

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The By-Laws of The Wesley Foundation at the University of North Alabama

Live Your History. Campus Life At Una!, Office Of Student Engagement-University Of North Alabama

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Office of Student Engagement Brochure--Guide to Life at UNA, 2012

Irc Pledges Ten New Members Plans Initiation, International Relations Club

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The new members of the International Relations Club and the plans for initiation.

Kappa Alpha Or Kuklos Adelphon Of The Southern States Prior To 1866, Leroy Stafford Boyd

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A chapter, or circle, of this social fraternity was organized at the University of North Carolina in 1812. A chapter (Epsilon) formed at LaGrange College in 1844, lasting until the college moved to Florence. The chapter (Lambda) continued at Florence Wesleyan University until 1861. The organization declined and eventually dissolved.