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  • Electric utility pole yard training facility : Designing an effective learning environment

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    Topping, Robert P.
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    The primary responsibility of electric utilities is to supply consistent, dependable, and affordable energy to private customers, businesses, and industries. As with many businesses, electric utilities are experiencing the effects of an aging workforce and expending considerable resources to train their current and replacement workers. Community colleges can partner with...
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    Facility: Designing an Effective Learning Environment by Robert P. Topping A

  • Essays on technology, trade, and welfare

    Creator:
    Ruan, Jun
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    Technology is a key determinant of comparative advantage among nations. As information technology improves and the nations of the world become economically integrated, concern arises over the dissipation of high-income economies’ technological advantage. The three essays in this dissertation explore the trade and technology relationship, which is essential to economic...
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    . Abstract approved: _______________________________________________________ Steven Buccola Munisamy

  • Profiles in courage of community college leaders

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    Kruger, Mari L.
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    The purpose of this study is to explore the lived experience of courage among community college leaders across the United States. The following questions guided the research: (1) What is the courageous experience like for a community college leader? (2) What is the process of courage development? (3) What are...
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    Roper, Dr. Jessica White, Dr. Steven Rubert, and Dr. Pamela Transue for their time and energy which

  • Chunking professional-technical programs to create pathways to degree completion in community colleges

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    Dins, Kate
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    The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of community colleges creating pathways to degree completion in professional-technical programs by breaking degree programs into smaller portions, referred to as "chunks." The purpose or possible advantage of chunking was that it would improve the rate of degree completion among...
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    a great prize, nothing short of a gateway to the American dream” (Kahlenberg, 2004, p. vii