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  • International Student Perceptions of Campus Services

    Creator:
    Kuan, Jennifer S.
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    International students are a growing population at many institutions of higher education in the United States, and they face unique challenges in navigating both higher education and the United States as a whole. Though there is significant research about international students, few studies have examined how international students perceive student...
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    or enhance their experience at OSU. Any resource outside of academic classes was considered a

  • The Online Learning Community: Friend or Faux?

    Creator:
    Nolan, Mary and Kellar, Brenda
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    Everyone involved in online education talks about community – what is it, how is it created, do students really want it? Most researchers now agree that online education is enhanced through a greater sense of community within the online classroom; however, the factors that make for a substantive and quality...
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    classes compared to the on- campus undergraduate course withdrawal average of 3.4% (2016-2017 data

  • "I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

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    Koch, Elizabeth C.
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    Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
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    pretty”: The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women Abstract approved

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

    Creator:
    Montañez, Morgan
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    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...
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    can also hold one back. For the middle and upper classes, their accumulation of capital means a

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

    Creator:
    Almquist, Jennifer M.
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    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...
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    relationships in ensuring productivity (Baba 2009; Jordan 2003). Yet, the popularity of the human relations

  • Sexual Violence Prevention and the College Campus : An Exploration of Student Experiences with Haven at Oregon State University

    Creator:
    Leibel, Katherine E.
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    For decades, sexual violence has been a persistent crisis and challenge for universities and colleges across the United States. In order to address this problem and adhere to the strict legal obligations that require post-secondary institutions to prevent sexual violence on their campuses, universities and colleges have implemented a range...
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    and how it manifests in their campus community. Fourth, students may feel disconnected from some of

  • Making the Shift: Narratives of Transfer from Planned Home Birth to the Hospital in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Houtman, Leah S.
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    About 1% of U.S. births each year are planned home births (Vital Statistics Reports 2017). Of these, roughly 10% transfer to a higher level of care during labor (Melissa Cheyney et al. 2014), yet their experiences are rarely heard. Storytelling has long been used not only as entertainment, but as...
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    hospital to a history of precipitous birth (Boucher et al. 2009). Midwife and clinical medical

  • The Yellow House: Stories of Place, Space and Community

    Creator:
    Gann, Tamara S.
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    This thesis is an IRB-exempt oral history focused on the non-profit Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) in Corvallis, Oregon. The CMLC, formerly on 9th Street, was known to many community members as the Yellow House. The Yellow House was a dedicated community-based space where people of all cultures could come...
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    Foundation and Altrusa International Club of Corvallis, for supporting non-traditional students. I hope

  • Boredom, Buttons, and Booze: The Lifeways of an Enlisted Soldier Stationed at Fort Hoskins (35BE15), Oregon

    Creator:
    James, Shane P.
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    In 1976-77 and 2010, Oregon State University (OSU) excavated portions of the enlisted men’s barracks and privy at Fort Hoskins, a Civil War-era fort. In operation from 1856 to 1865, this fort served as part of a security network to protect and monitor the recently created Coast Indian Reservation. The...
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    David R. Brauner In 1976-77 and 2010, Oregon State University (OSU) excavated portions of the

  • Experiences of Students who Identify with Underrepresented Religions

    Creator:
    Prisbrey, Weston B.
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    This qualitative study explores and examines the experiences of students at a large, public university in the Pacific Northwest who identify with underrepresented religions. Eight participants were asked to share their experiences individually using semi-structured interview questions and their responses were analyzed utilizing a narrative inquiry approach. Six themes emerged...
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    in the way students view the religious acceptance climate on campus, (4) the curriculum of the