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  • 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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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Darlene F. Russ-Eft

  • Early Math Enrollment in Washington State Community Colleges

    Creator:
    Harri, Ed J.
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    More than half of students in Washington state community colleges enroll in developmental mathematics, but a relatively small percentage of these students persist to the second year. Many students place into these courses and never enroll; others enroll at some point after the first academic term, even when faced with...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Darlene F. Russ-Eft More than half of students in Washington state community colleges

  • Private forests, public policy : oak conservation on family forests in Oregon’s Willamette Valley

    Creator:
    Fischer, Alexandra Paige
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    In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts occur on private lands. This is especially true in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon where the hallmark habitat type, Oregon white oak woodland and savanna, is imperiled. Almost exclusively found on private land, Oregon white oak is threatened...
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    : _____________________________________________________________________ Dr. John C. Bliss In the United States, many of the thorniest natural resource conflicts

  • An Exploration of Used Fuel Sharing in Multi-Reactor Power Plants

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    Lilley, Benjamin C.
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    Nuclear fuel management is an optimization problem on many levels. Finding “viable” solutions for the core reload design problem is difficult without expert knowledge and software automation. Small modular reactors with a shared used fuel pool demonstrate a novel opportunity for fuel cycle optimization. A Python package was developed and...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Benjamin C

  • Predicting the Relationships between High School Characteristics and High School Community College Enrollment Rate Using the Oregon Promise.

    Creator:
    Murray-Jensen, Julie
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    Background: Legislators, policy-makers, and leaders in higher education and within communities, are increasingly turning to place-based scholarships, or “promise programs”, to encourage college enrollment and address growing public concerns regarding college affordability. One such program, the Oregon Promise, was implemented across the state of Oregon in the fall of 2016....
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    application rate, (b) high school socio-economic status, (c) high school racial demographics, (d) high

  • Seed quality and plant establishment studies of seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum Sw.)

    Creator:
    Baker, Stanley D.
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    Seashore paspalum (Paspalum vaginatum Sw.) is an important warm-season perennial turfgrass, known for its tolerance to salinity. Turfgrass is used for homes, municipalities, sod farms, resorts, and sports fields. Seashore paspalum has historically been planted in sub-tropical and tropical climates because of its heat tolerance. Seashore paspalum could become an...
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    associated with the plants for planting pathway. In: C. F. I. Agency, editor Government of Canada, http

  • Institutionalizing sustainability in community colleges : the role of the college president

    Creator:
    Williams, Peter G.
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    The purpose of this research study was to describe and improve understanding of the meaning of institutionalized sustainability and the role that a college president plays in institutionalizing sustainability on a community college campus. The following questions guided the research: (a) What does it mean to have sustainability “institutionalized” at...
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    colleges? (c) What role has the college president played in addressing influences to institutionalizing

  • Assessing Mercury Levels, Health Metrics, and Immune Function in Non-stranded Male California and Steller Sea Lions in Oregon

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    Rae, Samantha N.
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    California and Steller sea lions (Zalophus californianus, Eumetopias jubatus, respectively) are considered sentinel species because they have long life spans, are long-term coastal residents, feed at high trophic levels, and have large blubber stores that serve as depots for anthropogenic toxicants. There are few studies on sea lion health and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Steller sea lions had higher weight, length, albumin, c-glutamyltransferase, alanine aminotransferase

  • Merging missions : a historical analysis of the University of Alaska Anchorage, 1984–2009

    Creator:
    Strom, Stephen L.
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    Literature on the evolution of the American higher education system includes a historical and consistent debate over the definition of the higher education mission in the country. Recent debate focuses on mission differentiation between the university and the community college. Acknowledging systemic changes in higher education historically occurred within regions...
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    Dissertation
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    leadership (board of regents and presidents), (c) professional external reviews and reports of the

  • Investigating Factors that Influence an Ecological Attitude- Behavior Gap among Oregonians

    Creator:
    Schultz, Sayard
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    This study examines the determinants of food consumption behaviors, such as purchasing less meat products, paying attention to how and where food is produced, and reducing food waste within the household. Food consumption is particularly important given that it can often comprise between 10% to 30% of the total household...
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    Capstone Project
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    Appendix C: Summary Statistics for Subsample ...................................................... 47