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....
Purpose of the Study
The basic purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes and
opinions of community college personnel toward faculty involvement
in policy formulation.
Procedures
The statistical and subjective data for this study were obtained
from two major sources. (1) A statistical questionnaire was
developed to identify...
This study documents three cases of protracted conflict in an
institution of higher education. Work groups in conflict were studied for
one year in order to create cases and to describe factors influencing
conflict escalation. From these cases, autistic conflict as a descriptive
construct was developed to illustrate one phase...
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects
of providing behavioral objectives prior to instruction on
the achievement of students in a one-semester college
general chemistry course and to determine the effect of
providing behavioral objectives of selected chemistry
experiments in the acquisition of achievement associated
with laboratory...
Portland Public School District and in particular Jefferson High School are examined in a functionalist framework to determine
the extent to which they meet community needs. B. Malinowski's functionalist theory is employed to analyze desegregation and integration policies and actions of the Portland Public School District and Jefferson High School,...
The uses of computer technology in the fields of art
and graphic design in Thailand were investigated for the
purpose of identifying levels of current computer use from
280 responses to a specifically designed questionnaire
among: 1) full-time graphic design educators, 2) art and
design students, and 3) graphic design...
Pottery manufacture analysis, an aspect of experimental
archeology, is developed and used to compare and test through
experimental reconstruction, data on pottery from the Altamont
region (southern Alberta, Canada and northcentral Montana,
U.S.). The analysis uses major variables of (1) manufacturing
process and (2) product characteristics to formulate
models of...
A great deal of responsibility accompanies the
person who becomes an academic department chairperson.
However, the new department chairperson is often a temporary
occupant of the chair and will return to a
teaching faculty role within a relatively short period
of time. In addition, there are few training programs
in...
To determine whether there were differences between foreign (Arab) and American student attitudes toward academic dishonesty in Oregon State University, a seventy-eight item questionnaire designed by Kirk, (1970) was adapted and administered to two hundred and eighty Arab and American graduate and undergraduate students. Three aspects of academic dishonesty were...
This study employed ethnographic methodology to investigate and record the post-camp, pre-assimilation period of Laotian refugees.The primary goal was to document the special problems and experiences of the Laotian population as they attempted to adjust to new roles and expectations within mainstream North American society.Oral histories and biographical statements focused...