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The Correlation Of Social, Financial, And Academic Supports To Military Benefit Recipients' Persistence In College, Bruce Mentzer

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study sought to determine the strength and nature of the relationships between social, academic, and financial support and the intent of military students to persist in higher education at a large private non-profit university. The study also collected data from nonmilitary students to note contrasting relationships and looked at overall results for the two groups combined. Multivariate stepwise models confirmed the emphasis on academic support for persistence towards degree completion with all groups. Financial aid effects varied by military, nonmilitary, and for the overall population; military students were negatively impacted by loans, nonmilitary by university scholarships, and the overall …

Case Study Of Liberty University's Succession Plan From Founder To Second-Generation Leader, Steven Peterson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this case study was to explore the leadership succession and transition that occurred at Liberty University from founder to the second-generation leader in 2007. In order to gather knowledge about the key stakeholders, this qualitative case study was conducted, and this researcher utilized interviews and focus group interviews with individuals who had a firsthand account of the leadership succession. Also, documents related to the succession were analyzed. The information obtained from these data collection methods were analyzed and categorized by themes related to leadership succession. The results from this case study revealed a specific method and process …

The Student Experience: The Effects Of Three College Retention Strategies On First-Generation Student Success Outcomes, Erica Woods-Warrior

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite the growing importance of post-secondary degree attainment, existing research indicates that first-generation students (FGS) at 4-year colleges and universities are twice as likely as their peers to drop-out of school before their second year of study, and a great proportion of these students never return to complete their undergraduate degree. The present study collected and analyzed institutional data to determine the impact of three programmatic strategies on student retention and academic outcomes for FGS. The strategies are: lower/upper-level student integration, faculty mentorship, peer mentorship, and Communities of Learning (CoL). Each was investigated in the context of a student retention …

A Phenomenological Study Into How Students Experience And Understand The University Presidency, Kahler B. Schuemann

Dissertations

Little is known about how college students experience and understand the university presidency. Students are important consumers of the academic experience and by affiliation are constituents of organizational leadership. The social distance between students and university presidents continues to narrow. To address the void in scholarly literature, my study explored how students experience and understand the university presidency.

My investigation utilized phenomenological methodology to form descriptive themes. I interviewed 10 college students who self-identified as being involved with extracurricular activities and having, at minimum, occasional interaction with their president. Participants were selected from two small, public, Midwestern universities where their …

Vietnamese International Student Repatriates: An Exploratory Study, Anh Le

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the experiences of Vietnamese international students who returned to Vietnam after graduation from a U.S. higher education institution (henceforth, the repatriates). Areas to be explored include the transitional period, perceptions of the relevance of the U.S. education to their current life, reflections on their experience in the U.S., and their future plans. The knowledge drawn from this study can serve as useful reference information for current and future recruitment efforts, support services, and courses geared toward Vietnamese international students.

The current study aimed to explore the experiences of the mostly unheard …

A Phenomenological Study Of The Retirement Transition Of K–12 Educational Administrators In The State Of Alabama, Lee A. Hicks

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This phenomenological research study explored the experiences of educational administrators in the transition from their administrative responsibilities into retirement. The study was guided by a grand tour question addressed by three sub-questions. Data collected during the individual interviews with 10 retired educational administrators provided the basic understanding of the issues and lived experiences as they transition into retirement from fulltime employment as educational administrators to retirees from the State of Alabama educational system. An analysis of interview data revealed four themes regarding the perceptions and lived experiences of recently retired K-12 educational administrators from the State of Alabama. These four …

Role Of Superintendent In District Turnaround, James Evans Jr.

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by James Evans, Jr. on March 17, 2014.

An Investigation Of Teacher Candidate Perceptions: Using 21st Century Tools And Clinical Medical Model Practices To Teach Classroom Management Skills, Helen Rader, James Rader, David R. Riel

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Helen J. Rader James P. Rader David R. Riel on March 13, 2014.

From The Co-Editors

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

No abstract provided.

Traumatic Brain Injury: The Efficacy Of A Half-Day Training For School Psychologists, Susan C. Davies, Ashlyn M. Ray

Counselor Education and Human Services Faculty Publications

The incidence rates of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are increasing, yet educators continue to be inadequately trained in assessing and serving students with TBIs. This study examined the efficacy of a half-day TBI training program for school psychologists designed to improve their knowledge and skills. Results of quantitative and qualitative survey analysis indicated there was little increase in knowledge and skills from pre-training to one-year follow-up, although participants did increase in confidence related to their decision-making abilities in working with students with TBI. The data indicate a need for future study of more effective training models.

The Leadership Practices Of Non-Traditional Students Pursuing A Bachelor's Degree: A Predictive Study, Michael Ammons

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This non-experimental, regression study examined the relationship between leadership practices and academic achievement for a non-traditional student population. The study was conducted at a small, four-year private college in Eastern North Carolina. The sample consisted of N=146 (73 male, 73 female) non-traditional students enrolled in an accelerated bachelor's degree program. Volunteer participants completed the survey which consisted of the Leadership Practice Inventory-Self (LPI) (Kouzes & Posner, 1998) assessment and a demographic questionnaire. Kouzes and Posner's (2007) model of Transformational Leadership Theory is used to explain the leadership practices of non-traditional students. The results of the survey were analyzed using hierarchal …

Redefining Pedagogy: Dialogues On Transformative Immersion, Praxis, And Reflection, William Robertson, Judith Munter

Selected Works Temporary Series

This article examines transformative teaching and learning in higher education today, with a focus on faculty member as change agent. Developed from fourteen months of ongoing, critical dialogue, the article describes and deconstructs faculty members’ lived experiences as scholars-practitioners in three nations and their corresponding roles in institutions of higher learning in the U.S. As multi-culturally situated practitioners, each one describes the role of diverse international/intercultural lived experiences, including Fulbright exchanges, community based research, and service-learning in and with diverse communities. The voice of an emerging scholar, (graduate student) as discussant is interspersed throughout the dialogue, connecting faculty members’ experiences …

2014-02-07 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from February 7, 2014.

Educational Leadership Newsletter February 2014, Educational Leadership Department, University Of Southern Maine

Educational Leadership Newsletters

Inside this issue:

• News from the Program Coordinator
• Southern Maine Partnership
• The Savvy Principal: What Streetwise Principals Know
• Early Study-Aspiration Programs
• Thinking About Internship?

Positive Collaboration: Beyond Labor Conflict And Labor Peace, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Institutions of higher education collectively constitute a major economic concentration that ranks—by whatever measure: resources, budgets, endowments, employees, constituencies—among the major industries in the United States. The unionized academic U.S. workforce ranks sixth among organized labor. Yet, when compared to the top-tier manufacturing industries of steel or automobile or to national unions such as the UAW or the Teamsters, both the public institutions of higher education and their academic unions lack national visibility, lack influence on national debates, and, most tellingly, lack major successes in the quest for public monies. Health care, the environment, energy policies, and the current global …

2014-01-24 General Education Council Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., General Education Council.

Faculty Senate Records

General Education Council meeting minutes from January 24, 2014.

An Examination Of Superintendent Salaries And Compensation Packages In Kentucky, Lisa M. Carroll

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A capstone submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education in the College of Education at Morehead State University by Lisa M.Carroll on January 15, 2014.

Parts Of The Whole: Only Connect, Dorothy Wallace

Numeracy

This is the first of several columns that will focus on the mechanisms by which new ideas become accepted by a culture, offering some familiar examples, deriving basic principles from these examples, and applying them to the problem of promoting quantitative literacy in an educational system. In this essay we describe how new concepts become embedded in a culture through their connections to existing ideas, and use this principle to suggest strategies of discourse about numeracy that promote it among various constituencies in the culture.

University Update - March 6, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Enrollment and Operating Budget Update
• Tuition for 2014-15 Update
• Accreditation Update
• Adapted Physical Education Program Approval
• United Way Campaign

University Update - November 25, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Part-Time Faculty Teaching Award
• Enrollment Management Updates
• Third Annual Helping Harvest
• Business Affairs Website Update
• Accreditation Update
• Women In Philanthropy Summit Update
• Ebola Task Force
• Holiday Open House

Survival Strategies: Doctoral Students’ Perceptions Of Challenges And Coping Methods, Shirley H. Dickerson, Valerie Tharp Byers, Rachel N. Smith, Eunjin Hwang, Kay E. Angrove, Jason I. Chandler, Kelsey M. Christian, Leah Mcalistar-Shields, Stephen P. Thompson, Magdalena A. Denhem, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

Librarian and Staff Publications

The purpose of this collective case study was to use a critical dialectical pluralistic (CDP) philosophical lens to investigate select doctoral students’ perceptions about the challenges that they encountered while in a doctorate program and the coping strategies that they found effective in mitigating these challenges. A major goal of CDP is to empower research participants maximally by giving them the role of participant-researchers. Participants were 10 doctoral students enrolled at a Tier-II university in the United States, who were selected via convenience sampling. Each student participated in a face-to-face interview with a member of the research team—consistent with a …

A Program Evaluation Of A Christian College Baccalaureate Program Utilizing Stufflebeam's Cipp Model, Victoria F. Hanchell

Education Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation was a program evaluation of an undergraduate program of study at a Christian institution of higher education. The college had not received a formal evaluation since the institution of their strategic planning in 2008. The program evaluation of this baccalaureate program was reviewed through the lens of the CIPP Evaluation Model (Stufflebeam, 2002). Through the CIPP Evaluation Model, the Context (C), Inputs (I), Processes (P), and Product (P) of this institution were evaluated.

Four research questions were developed to coincide with the four thematic areas of CIPP model. The four research questions were (1) Context: How were the …

University Update - February 5, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• New Program Approval
• Director of Institutional Research Welcome
• New HR Director Named
• J-Term Census Update
• Intellectual Property Policy
• Officer Andrew Kennedy Recognized

University Update - April 7, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Enrollment Update
• Join the Conversation Luncheons
• Comings and Goings
• Summer Hours Announcement

University Update - August 8, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

In this update are:

• Welcome Back Celebration
• August Orientation
• First Flight
• Kyle Memorial 5k Walk
• Fee Payment Policy Reminder
• Whistleblower Policy Reminder
• Student Employment Reminder

University Update - July 2, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included this update are:

• Organizational Structure Changes
• IT Services Update
• Enrollment Update
• Welcome Back Celebration

University Update - October 21, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

Included in this update are:

• Where We Stand Matters Update
• Board of Trustees
• Fall 2015 Application Date
• Systems Engineering Recruitment
• 2015 Budget Update
• Service Request Update
• Habitat for Humanity
• Undergrad Student Outcomes

Educational Leadership Newsletter January 2014, Educational Leadership Department, University Of Southern Maine

Educational Leadership Newsletters

Inside this issue:

• News from the Program Coordinator
• Southern Maine Partnership
• GIFTS: Great Ideas for Teaching Students
• Thinking About Internship?
• Spring 2014 Course Schedule

2014 Letter To The Campus On Official Census Reports, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

No abstract provided.

University Update - September 17, 2014, Academic Affairs

University Updates & Communications from the University President

In this update are:

• Welcome Back Ceremony
• Homecoming
• Ross Leadership Institute
• Payroll Conversion
• Accreditation Update
• University Senate Announcement
• Town Hall Meeting