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  • The impact of relationship wellness checkups on LGBTQ couples

    Creator:
    Minten, Mary J.
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    Relationship health has many benefits, from physical and emotional health of the partners to their children’s wellbeing. Early intervention programs protect relationships from decline. These programs represent growing public health initiatives. However, most studies on wellness or early intervention overlook lesbian and gay male couples. Research that assumes lesbian and...
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    these tasks. Intervention research with sexual and gender minority couples also encourages existing

  • 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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    wholesale distributor’s corporate university that has been in continual operations for 27 years. With

  • The Experiences Latinas Encounter While Attending a Remote Rural Two-Year Community College: The Confluence of Identity (ies)

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    Neimann, Theresa
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    Background: Latina students are underrepresented and undereducated in rural community colleges. There are gaps in rural community college research specifically focusing on Latina retention. This research identified the factors detracting from and/or enhancing the college experience for Latinas in rural community colleges. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to...
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    , Haslam, & Ryan, 2000), some must also contend with discrimination within their own culture, because

  • Organizational Integration of Part-Time Faculty Teaching Developmental Mathematics

    Creator:
    Gray, Sylvia
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    This dissertation was a qualitative case study focused on part-time faculty teachingdevelopmental mathematics courses in one large Pacific Northwest community college. Thecollege was selected for its size and maturity; the topic was selected for three related reasons:part-time faculty have been widely relied upon to teach these courses nationwide; students indevelopmental...
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    , allowing me to job shadow, allowing me to interview for various assignments, providing data, and

  • Instructors as learning managers : span of control as a factor of class size in higher education

    Creator:
    McKiel, Carol J.
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    Research suggests that a key factor in student persistence and success is the relationships students form with faculty (Chickering & Gamson, 1991; Kuh et al., 2005; Tinto, 1987). While it appears to be intuitive that small classes would promote these instructor/student relationships, research on class size provides conflicting results, with...
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    students form with faculty (Chickering & Gamson, 1991; Kuh et al., 2005; Tinto, 1987). While it appears

  • Factors impacting intimate partner violence and access to services among women in the occupied Palestinian territories

    Creator:
    Fitzgerald, Meghan R.
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    A study which analyzes the impact of husband's exposure to political violence on intimate partner violence perpetration and identifies factors associated with help-seeking among women in Gaza and the West Bank. Further, a qualitative component examines Gazan women's narratives regarding IPV and help-seeking and barriers faced.
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    assisted with developing the interview instrument; Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei, Dr. Marwan Diab, Rawya Hamam

  • A Feminist Celebrates the Rediscovery of Immanence

    Creator:
    Lockhart, Janet L.
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    I offer a personal and prehistoric exploration of the concept of immanence, the principle of a divine force living, remaining, and operating within living creatures, inherent in the human, including the female; a unifying force that connects humans to each other, to nature, and to the earth. I examine the...
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    23,000 BCE.) (Streep 1994: 26). The content of the audiotape, an interview with the late, great

  • Creative Placemaking as a Composition Pedagogy

    Creator:
    Yerace, Marisa
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    This thesis explores the ways in which creative placemaking, a neighborhood-based practice for building community, can offer community-building and civic action wisdom as a model for composition. This model brings attention to spatial metaphors for rhetoric and teaching that have persisted for millennia; it re-focuses us on community; it encourages...
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    citizenship with creative, collaborative invention. The purpose of this thesis is to offer a preliminary

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

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    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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    relationship with either completion or non-completion of financial-education courses. A regression model was