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Perceptions Of Factors Leading To Forensics-Drama Coaching Efficacy, Anthony Wooley

Ed.D. Dissertations

Participation in nonacademic activities that focus on creative skill improvement, like forensics‑drama, can increase high school students’ intrinsic desire to learn. Intrinsic motivation to learn resulted in academic success at the secondary and collegiate levels and career success at the professional level because the students felt confident in their abilities. Because the forensics-drama coach was the primary factor affecting students’ forensics-drama abilities, a greater understanding of the sources of forensics-drama coaching efficacy was required to discover how to better serve the students. Ten forensics-drama coaches in the state of Tennessee participated in this qualitative interpretive study in which they were …

Place-Based And Non-Place-Based Performing Arts Experiences And First-Generation, Appalachian College Student Engagement, Rachel Schott

Ed.D. Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the pre-college arts experiences of Appalachian college students who participated in place-based and non-place-based performance arts ensembles and, using a qualitative research approach informed by Kuh et al.’s (2005) study on positive student engagement, understand the influence that participation in these ensembles might have on Appalachian students who are the first in their generation to pursue higher education. In this study, the researcher examined student data from 28 first-generation, Appalachian college students who responded to an online survey, and 11 who volunteered to participate in-depth, personal interviews. All the student participants were …

Splitters 2014, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitters

Table of Contents

Campus Life.................................................................4

Clubs & Organizations...............................................16

Academics.................................................................24

Athletics.....................................................................34

Yearbook Staff...........................................................47

2009 Railsplitter, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitters

Table of Contents

Introduction..................................................................4

Student Portraits..........................................................7

Faculty.......................................................................36

Academic...................................................................46

Student Life................................................................54

Sports........................................................................78

Clubs and Organizations...........................................94

Closing.....................................................................120

2008 Railsplitter, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitters

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Introduction..................................................................4

Class Portraits.............................................................8

Administration............................................................35

Academics.................................................................49

Student Life................................................................56

Sports........................................................................84

Clubs........................................................................202

2007 Railsplitter, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitters

Museum.......................................................................4

People..........................................................................8

Academics.................................................................40

Student Life................................................................48

Sports........................................................................76

Clubs & Organizations...............................................94

2006 Railsplitter, Lincoln Memorial University

Railsplitters

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People..........................................................................4

Sports.........................................................................44

Organizations.............................................................60

Student Life................................................................90