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  • Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

    Creator:
    Coslor, Melinda McCormick
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    The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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    ensure that collection development and information literacy instruction meets the needs of students

  • Is Your Community College Technology Ready? An Assessment Instrument to Promote Technology Adoption

    Creator:
    Boehme, Laura A.
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    Background: Calls by presidents and legislators to raise the U.S. college graduation rate to 60% by 2025 have required educational institutions to find ways to increase accessibility and quality while simultaneously reducing costs (Bautsch, 2018; Smith, 2017). Private foundations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation are getting involved...
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    section outlines the two data collection phases, the Delphi method and the survey questionnaire. Both

  • The Experiences of Students Who Complete in a Successful Distance Learning Course

    Creator:
    Smith, Steve
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    Background: Prior research has shown that distance learning courses have higher failure rates at community colleges then equivalent face-to-face to courses. There are a few programs and courses, however, that consistently achieve completion rates as high as or higher than their equivalent face-to-face courses. The research to date has not...
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    ) category 2 strong instructor presence; (c) category 3 strong institutional support Data Collection and

  • Exploring Southeast Asian American Women in Community College Leadership: A Narrative and Life Story Study

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    Vu, Emily P. T.
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    Background: The numbers of Southeast Asian women in higher education, whether within administration, teaching faculty, or counseling and student services are scarce. The specific needs of minority women go largely unnoticed and remain unaddressed and may contribute to the low numbers of minority women in higher education leadership. Purpose: The...
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    development in higher education leadership due to the small sample size. Data Collection and Analysis

  • Successful Learning Rate as an Indicator of Student Success Rates : A Correlational Study

    Creator:
    Ring, Jeffery R.
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    At the intersection of higher education and politics, there is demand for an easily understood measure of student success. Graduation rate is the current measure of choice, but the definition of graduation rate excludes many categories of students and types of success particularly applicable to community colleges. The purpose of...
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    characteristics with SLR and with eventual graduation. Data collection involved gathering historic transcript

  • Case Study : Description of a Corporate University's Operational Factors

    Creator:
    Ewer, Gary
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    Corporate universities (CUs) have been in existence in the United States since the early 1900s. They are increasingly providing educational and developmental opportunities for workers; however, there is little empirical research on these types of organizations. This study examined a specific electrical distributor's CU using a theoretical framework as a...
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    collection, (b) member checking with participants, and (c) external audit with a peer researcher

  • The Impact of Financial Education on Community College Student-Loan Debt

    Creator:
    Garcia, Veronica R.
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    The student-loan market has surpassed 1.3 trillion dollars; rising student-loan cohort default rates are a growing concern among educational institutions. Many colleges are implementing financial-education programs for students to help increase their knowledge, aptitude, and skills so they may become informed consumers. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: The purpose of this...
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    demographics variables, course completion and student-loan indebtedness. Data Collection and Analysis: The

  • Academic libraries at the center of instructional change : Faculty and librarian experience of library leadership in the transformation of teaching and learning

    Creator:
    Gilchrist, Debra L.
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    This phenomenological inquiry explored the experiences of library leaders and discipline faculty members engaging in a collaborative instructional change initiative focused on a process-based learning pedagogy and led by an academic library. The investigation’s purpose was providing insight and understanding concerning the: (a) library’s role in instructional leadership; (b) experience...
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    that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries

  • Mentorship and Student Self-efficacy

    Creator:
    Williams, MaryJean Harris
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    Background: The United States has been under-producing college graduates since at least 1980, with many challenges suppressing students’ self-efficacy. One approach to improving student outcomes is through mentorship. This dissertation applied Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) and Kram’s Mentor Relationship Development Theory (MRD) to discover whether students’ campus mentorship experiences...
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    I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State

  • Experimental analysis of task prioritization training for a group of university flight technology students

    Creator:
    Hoover, Amy L.
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    Task prioritization performance was evaluated for pilots who participated in a concurrent task management (CTM) training course and pilots who did not. CTM is the process by which pilots selectively attend to high priority tasks and shed non-priority tasks. Twenty seven pilots enrolled in a university flight technology program were...
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    will become part of the permanent collection of Oregon State University libraries. My signature below