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Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Author "Laden, Rita"
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A Survey of the Role of a Campus Recreation Center in the Recruitment and Retention of Undergraduate Students
Fitzsimmons, James A. (2012)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine if the interplay of age and gender impact the level of influence a campus based student recreation center exerts on a student's decision to choose and remain at a college or ... -
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Academic Help Seeking Constructs and Group Differences: An Examination of First-Year University Students
Fittrer, Perry R. (2016)Academic help seeking is viewed as a positive and beneficial academic behavior for students. The purpose of this study was to examine group differences in the academic help seeking behaviors of first-year university students ... -
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An Innovation Diffusion and Adoption Model: A Comparative Multiple Case Study Of An Intensive Academic-Orientation Boot Camp Program
Cho, Christina (2017)The purpose of this multiple comparative case study was to examine why and how an intensive academic-orientation innovation was diffused and adopted at five different public research universities. The innovation under study ... -
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Chinese International Students’ Perceptions of Their Intercultural Adaptability
Gu, Wei (2016)The number of students studying in a country other than their own has dramatically increased in recent years. In 2010, over 3.7 million students studied abroad; in 2014, the number had grown to over 4.5 million students. ... -
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Early Adolescents' Understandings of College and Career Readiness Conceptually and in Relation to Their Own Lives
Hill, Kathleen A. (2016)A major focus in the K-12 education system today is preparing students to not only graduate high school, but to enter and succeed in a postsecondary education. As part of this movement, many researchers have attempted to ... -
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How Athletic Training Educators Understand their Practice of Teaching: A Phenomenological Study
Payne, Ellen K. (2012)The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the understandings that select athletic training educators (ATEs) hold about their teaching in the classroom and what factors influenced their selection of teaching ... -
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Leadership Strategies in Managing a Budget Crisis
Bortolin, Greg (2011)Presidents at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) and University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) were forced to cut their budgets by 20% each from 2007 through the start of the 2011 legislative session. State formula funding ... -
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Media Coverage of Crises Faced by Higher Education Institutions
Conrad, Robert A. (2011)The purpose of this dissertation is to examine how different news media covered four higher education crises or controversies: the Ward Churchill academic freedom controversy, the shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute ... -
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Mentoring and Mental Models: Outreach to First-Generation, Low-Income Students
Smith, Matthew Jacob (2012)This qualitative single-case study examined mental models of mentoring held by both program initiators and mentors associated with a specific educational outreach initiative, the Dean's Future Scholars (DFS) program. DFS ... -
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Parental Involvement at the High School Level: Parents' Perspective
Hall, Nancy T. (2012)This study of parental involvement in high school focused on parents' descriptions of their experiences of involvement. The study is best described as a qualitative study. Guided by a phenomenological approach, the researcher ... -
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Perceived Stress, Holistic Wellness, and Leadership Practices of K-12, Public School, Building Level Administrators as Influenced by Selected Variables
Coulter, Walter H. (2011)Increased job complexity, rising standards, and greater demands for accountability have led to increased numbers of administrative vacancies nationwide. Many principals are reporting that the expanded job responsibilities ... -
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Perceptions of Program Coordinators, Program Advisors, and Resident Directors of Study Abroad Regarding Their Professional Responsibilities: A Qualitative Social Constructionist Inquiry
Deyo, Marti E. (2018)Internationalization in institutions of higher education has come in many forms, and an ever-increasing number of university leaders have encouraged their students, especially undergraduates, to participate in study abroad ... -
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Redefining the Collegiate Way: The Rise of State Colleges and the Expanding Conception of the College Experience, 1890-1930
Smith, Timothy P. (2017)For over two hundred years, the college experience in the United States was defined by the traditions of historic eastern college, such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. This model of the college experience came to be seen ... -
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Social Capital and Low-Income, First-Generation Latino Male College Students
Valle, Daniel M. (2017)Low-income, first-generation students face numerous barriers to earn a college degree. Of these students, Latino male students have some of the lowest levels of college enrollment and persistence. This study used a ... -
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The Contribution of Peer-mentorship in a Dental Hygiene Program to Confidence in Initial Professional Practice
Fellman, Melissa (2017)Dental hygienists are an essential constituent of the public health system. Research related to effective components of dental hygiene programs offers an opportunity to improve public oral health-care across the nation by ... -
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The No Child Left Behind Act: Characteristics of Public Elementary Schools and Adequate Yearly Progress
Monteiro, Laura B. (2009)This study evaluated how public elementary schools in the second largest school district in Nevada, with the largest populations of students with special needs, fare under the No Child Left Behind Act. The study also ... -
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The Relationship of Demographic and Academic Characteristics on Student Academic Success Rates When Using Web-Based Delivery Modalities
Gibson, Marie (2015)Online distance education classes and digital learning tools offer substantial advantages to both students and universities. Institutional benefits include the facilitation of student success in large classes, reducing ... -
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The Student Journalist and Student Media Adviser Perspective of Censorship in Student Media at Public Universities across the United States
Moreno, Julia M. (2019)Julia M. Moreno: The Student Journalist and Student Media Adviser Perspective of Censorship in Student Media at Public Universities across the United States (Under the direction of Patrick File and Laura Crosswell) This ...