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The Accessible Foodscape: Vulnerable Populations, Policy, and Navigating Complex Strategies

Creator:: Caplan, Shannon
Abstract:: The act of accessing food is embedded within various systems of power. This dissertation problematizes our understanding of food access for vulnerable populations by making explicit ways that social constructions, including power, affect food access for vulnerable populations. This is accomplished across three manuscripts. The first manuscript presents textual analysis...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Abstract approved: _____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Creator:: Visconti, Lauren A.
Abstract:: Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ________________________________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger Projected to reach one million people next year, international

Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

Creator:: Byrd, Janette
Abstract:: The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been examined from multiple perspectives and disciplines in an attempt to improve child nutrition outcomes, to support local and national agriculture, and increase sustainability practices. There is little qualitative research on the role, needs, and experiences of school food service...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Nancy R. Rosenberger The products, processes, and tools of school feeding programs have been

Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

Creator:: Kubein, Adele M.
Abstract:: This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee communities and particularly their businesses to gentrification and community vitality in a neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The data indicates that gentrification is not a linear process of displacement of African Americans by Whites seeking affordable housing and new frontiers, but rather is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This research analyzes the relations of ethnic refugee

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Creator:: Montañez, Morgan
Abstract:: The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low-income families of urban and rural Oregon reclaim moral, social and cultural capital that is lost in the act of being poor in America. Rather than participating solely in government safety nets, these people reject “hand-outs” in favor of exchanging...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger The Linn and Benton County Gleaner network has helped the low

Academic women : individual considerations and structural forces in navigating academic organizations

Creator:: Almquist, Jennifer M.
Abstract:: This dissertation is situated as the third work in a series on academic women. In 1964, Jessie Bernard published Academic Women, which provided a comprehensive assessment of the status of women in academia. Two decades later, in 1987, Angela Simeone offered insight into attempts to achieve equity for women in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : _____________________________________________________ Nancy R. Rosenberger This dissertation is situated as the third work in a series on academic

Changing Mother-Daughter Relationships in Isan Rural Culture in the Context of Women’s Migration

Creator:: Ramwong, Patsarin
Abstract:: This thesis explores the changes in mother-daughter relations in Northeast Thailand over the last three generations in relation to migration out of this region. Qualitative interviews were done with ten families in two villages; the interviews focused on representatives of three generations of women in each family. In recent decades,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________ Nancy Rosenberger This thesis

Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

Creator:: McGonagall, Odhran Mason
Abstract:: This thesis explores the relationships that income and housing space limitations have with regard to food security in full-time recreational vehicle (RV) households. This research used a scaled survey tool and a subset questionnaire to gather information on RV dwellers' housing and kitchen spaces along with participants' food shopping, storage,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Oregon State University. Thanks also to Dr. Nancy Rosenberger for helping me to understand theory and

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

Creator:: Finneran, Kathleen B.
Abstract:: This thesis explores the use of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon Farmers' Markets and its role in food access for SNAP participants. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach combining a farmers' market survey and household interviews, the study investigated who uses SNAP at the farmers'...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: challenging me. To Dr. Nancy Rosenberger, for support and instruction throughout my research project. To Dr

California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

Creator:: Oliveira, Kristine Yvonne
Abstract:: The diversity of attitudes held by California community college faculty about Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) was studied. In twelve semi-structured interviews, faculty informants explained how their work has changed as a result of increased standardization and accountability measures, how they value those changes, and how they expect the profession to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

ScholarsArchive@OSU

The Accessible Foodscape: Vulnerable Populations, Policy, and Navigating Complex Strategies

International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

Serving Amid Institutional Camouflage : The Invisibility of School Food Service Workers

Portlandia's Other Children : Refugee Communities in Urban Life

A Hand Up, Not a Hand Out : Negotiations of Poverty and Class Among Low-Income Oregonians

Academic women : individual considerations and structural forces in navigating academic organizations

Changing Mother-Daughter Relationships in Isan Rural Culture in the Context of Women’s Migration

Exploring Income, Housing Space, and Cultural Perceptions in Relationship to Food Security in Full-time RV Households

Farmers' markets and food access : Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) use at the Corvallis and Albany, Oregon farmers' markets

California Community College Faculty Perceptions of Their Work within a Postmodern Market Economy

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