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  • Reflections on change : a community-college faculty perspective

    Creator:
    Zmetana, Katherine
    Abstract:
    This phenomenological research study focused on educational change as perceived by 16 Liberal Arts faculty members at a Pacific Northwest community college. Research data were collected through in-depth dialogic interviews and a follow-up dialogue session with six participants. The principal guiding research questions comprised the following: 1) What is the...
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    focused on educational change as perceived by 16 Liberal Arts faculty members at a Pacific Northwest

  • Hepatitis A and B vaccination in matriculating college students : knowledge, self-perceived risk, health risk behaviors, and theory of planned behavior constructs

    Creator:
    Koski, James R.
    Abstract:
    At a state university in the Pacific Northwest, the authors surveyed 477 matriculating college students about their immunization status, knowledge, self-perceived risk, and health risk behaviors for hepatitis A and B vaccinations. Review of immunization records revealed that 10% of these students were completely immunized for hepatitis A and 58.8%...
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    Masters Thesis
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    in the Pacific Northwest, the authors surveyed 477 matriculating college students about their

  • Faculty perspectives on diversity curriculum

    Creator:
    Ayala, Javier Ivan
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    This research addresses how instructors move from surface levels of diversity understanding to deep levels. The focus was higher education instructors who taught in a general education program, primarily teaching freshman students. The case location is at a public institution on the West coast. Using the literature on diversity and...
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    the College of Education Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation

  • Graduate teaching assistant (GTA) development in the college classroom

    Creator:
    Meitl, Jennifer L.
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    The graduate student population has been traditionally overlooked within higher education. However, within recent decades, much research has been devoted to addressing the multiple facets of the graduate student experience, including that of the graduate teaching assistant (GTA) position. This thesis seeks to explore in depth the experiences of GTAs...
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    Masters Thesis
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    solicited from 758 graduate students at a public land grant institution located in the Pacific Northwest

  • Exploring college students' understanding of diversity : the effect of experience, interventions, and encapsulation

    Creator:
    Versluis, Diana Omura
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    This study sought to understand how post-secondary students experience and process issues of diversity, to discover what those views of diversity are, and how those views might change. The two issues that participants felt most strongly about were homosexuality and scholarships for students of color. Their views on homosexuality ranged...
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    . Thirty-one undergraduates at a small, liberal arts university in the Pacific Northwest were interviewed