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  • Community college faculty-to-faculty influence

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    Marks, Brenda Inglis
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    As community colleges have responded to shifts in funding structures, demands from an aging population, the emergence of for-profit competitors, the development of globalization, and the increasing use of technology, the role of faculty has evolved and new leadership opportunities have emerged. This study examines informal faculty leadership at a...
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    influenced by other faculty. The impact of the influence was difficult to discern because of the wide

  • Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

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    Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
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    The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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    by Robert Dale Hall A DISSERTATION submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

  • Public trust / private interest : practical and philosophical issues for community colleges and their contract education programs

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    Lindstrom, Eric L.
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    Community colleges are being pressured to increase their direct support of the economic development agendas of their communities, their states, and even the nation. These pressures develop both externally and internally, and are exacerbated when increased demands for access to community college education must be met with chronically flat-lined or...
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    . After all, the community college provides a wide range of services to its faculty, staff, and students

  • Designing An Effective Approach to Science Teacher Educator Professional Development : Lessons from the Science Education Faculty Academy

    Creator:
    St. Clair, Tyler L.
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    This dissertation consists of a set of three manuscripts exploring features of effective professional development (PD) for science teacher educators. Literature about context-specific PD for science teacher educators is sparse. The first manuscript, a literature review, outlines theoretical lenses through which PD can be understood, the features of effective PD,...
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    and viability in the context of the Science Education Faculty Academy (SEFA). SEFA was an annual

  • Essays in applied economics

    Creator:
    Nag, Sharmistha
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    My dissertation concerns two separate issues. The first issue is examined in Essay One, and the second issue is examined in Essays Two and Three. The first essay develops an economic model of the determination of the rental rate of leased farmland in the United States. Particular attention is placed...
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    Oregon State University libraries. My signature below authorizes the release of my dissertation to any

  • The supply and demand of university agricultural biotechnology research

    Creator:
    Yang, Hui
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    The objectives and characteristics of university biotechnology research, including its applicability to such industries as agriculture and food processing, arise from formal and informal linkages among university scientists, public and private-nonprofit funding sources, and industry. In the present study I develop, specify, and estimate a model of the supply and...
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    everlasting love and peace of mind when I think of her. This research was supported by the Cooperative State

  • Rocks and reactors : an atomic interpretation of human rights, 1941-1979

    Creator:
    Richards, Linda Marie
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    The atomic age was enacted by many scientists as a way to realize health and human rights. Human rights were conceived in this context as rights to economic development, science education, and nuclear medicine. The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) acted hand in hand with UN agencies and educators...
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    (later Oregon State University), this chapter describes the hold on science and scientists that was

  • An identification of the mission of the Community College of the Air Force and an assessment of the extent to which the mission has been fulfilled

    Creator:
    Parnell, Dale, 1928-
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    The Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) was created in 1972 by the Air Force to serve Air Force enlisted personnel with educational opportunity. No study exists identifying and assessing the mission of this college. Various mission sources iterate the different goals of CCAF. These sources and other indicators...
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    submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor

  • Breaking silos : interdisciplinary research in kinesiology

    Creator:
    Schary, David P.
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    With the growing popularity of kinesiology at the undergraduate level, one would expect the field to be influential. Kinesiology, however, appears to be in a paradox. The undergraduate popularity is not reflected in the rest of academia, or even the general public, many of whom feel kinesiology is not a...
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    Graduate Scholarship), Oregon State University, College of Public Health and Human Sciences (Ruth E

  • Boundaries of research : civilian leadership, military funding, and the international network surrounding the development of numerical weather prediction in the United States

    Creator:
    Harper, Kristine C.
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    American meteorology was synonymous with subjective weather forecasting in the early twentieth century. Controlled by the Weather Bureau and with no academic programs of its own, the few hundred extant meteorologists had no standing in the scientific community. Until the American Meteorological Society was founded in 1919, meteorologists had no...
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    Anders Caisson. Financial support was provided by the State of Oregon through the Oregon State