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  • The Transfer Student Experience : Sense of Belonging at Four-Year Institutions

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    Lee, Melissa A.
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    This study examines the ways in which community college transfer students develop a sense of belonging at the four-year institution. This inquiry was guided by a constructivist epistemology and qualitative methodology. Data was collected through conducting one-on-one interviews and focus groups to gather information on how transfer students develop a...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Melissa A. Lee for the degree of Master of Science in College Student

  • Supporting Student Success: A Study of the Effects of Tutoring on Timely Associate’s Degree Completion at Rural Community Colleges in Oregon

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    Buell, Honora
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between student involvement in tutoring and timely completion of an associate’s degree among first-time, full-time students attending Oregon rural community colleges. Timely completion was defined as earning an associate’s degree within three years. Propensity score matching was used to control...
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    Dissertation
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    colleges in Oregon. According to Goldrick-Rab (2010), selection bias is a problem plaguing higher

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

    Creator:
    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    Dissertation
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    ,” (Paulsen & St. John, 2002, p. 191). Goldrick-Rab and Kendall (2014) agree and argue 15 that a free

  • Boosting Intracellular Delivery of mRNA Therapeutics

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    Patel, Siddharth D.
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    Intracellular delivery of mRNA holds great potential for vaccine and therapeutic discovery and development. This is realized by the preeminent role mRNA is playing in the record-breaking pace of SARS-CoV-19 vaccine development. Recent advances in chemical modifications of mRNA have enabled high-efficiency gene expression with superior spatiotemporal control while eliminating...
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    Dissertation
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    ..................................................................................... 39 2.1 Late endosomes are essential for mRNA transfection. (a) Schematic representation of Rab

  • Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

    Creator:
    Devan-Song, E. Anne
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    Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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    Dissertation
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    provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to

  • The hazards-housing nexus : adaptive capacity wheel analysis of coastal planning institutions

    Creator:
    Patterson, Trisha
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    The Oregon coast faces complex environmental and social challenges, such as the threat of a regionally disastrous Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake and tsunami. Researchers are united in their assertion that the CSZ is new, the region is due for a quake, and to mitigate this hazard society must collaborate...
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    Capstone Project
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    faces complex environmental and social challenges, such as the threat of a regionally disastrous