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  • University alumni's purchase of university licensed merchandise : exploring the reasoning behind purchase decisions

    Creator:
    Kopczenski, Aleece D.
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    Generating annual revenue of over $4 billion dollars (The Collegiate Licensing Company, n.d.), the collegiate licensing presents a potential market that both apparel companies and universities can benefit from. While the collegiate licensing business is expected to increase financial resources for the participating universities and textiles and apparel companies, little...
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    from the Alumni Association. A total of 189 university alumni of Oregon State University

  • Challenges of creating and maintaining international alumni relations programs

    Creator:
    Read, Lillian S.
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    During the 2006/07 academic year, 582,984 international students studied in the United States (Open Doors Study, 2007). Roughly 430,000 of these international students were pursuing Bachelors or Graduate level degrees. Of the international students that complete degrees, most will return to their home country and will be unable to attend...
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    Schwartz of the Oregon State University Alumni Association, Kate Ryan of the Harvard Alumni Relations

  • Forestry & Communication : A Coos Bay Case Study

    Creator:
    Livingstone, Tasha
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    This thesis combines elements of forestry, interpersonal communication, and rhetoric to describe where residents of Coos Bay and North Bend Oregon obtain information about forests and forest uses, and how they view the credibility of that information. As a qualitative exploratory study, grounded theory methodology was used to develop theme...
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    tribal lands, and another 1% belong to additional public ownerships (Oregon Department of Forestry

  • Comparing the effectiveness of virtual and traditional forestry field tours

    Creator:
    Easley, Elissa C.
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    Virtual tours are among the many new Internet-based tools with potential applications as continuing forestry education programs. While technology exists to create virtual tour websites, little is understood about how well they meet educational objectives and whether they are complementary alternatives to traditional field tours. The Sustainable Forestry Partnership and...
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    completing the evaluation forms • Members of the OSU Sustainable Forestry Partnership, for funding

  • Bird Abundance and Microhabitat Associations with Oak Mistletoe in Willamette Valley Oak Woodlands

    Creator:
    Pritchard, Kyle R.
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    In the last 200 years there have been significant declines in the amount and structural complexity of oak-dominated forests and savannahs in the Pacific Northwest. Restoring oak systems often involves selectively thinning stands of oaks in order to reduce competition for sunlight. In choosing which trees to cut, land managers...
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    by Forestry and Natural Resources Extension, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, James

  • (Re)claiming forestry : a case study of women's empowerment

    Creator:
    Redmore, Lauren E.
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    Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) owners control a significant portion of forestland nationwide. Even though women own or manage NIPF lands, we know very little about how women manage forestland and what barriers women face in forest management. In addition, while there are several forestry organizations available to NIPF owners, few...
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    to women. Women Owning Woodlands network (WOWnet), an OSU Forestry Extension program for women

  • Creating and sustaining a whole community in hierarchical institutions

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    Matheis, Christian G.
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    In this thesis, I examine some of the relationships between hierarchy and community that exist in institutions. Within institutions, individuals are separated from one another and organized hierarchically based on arbitrary inequalities. In general, I discusses inequalities based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc. Institutions organized based...
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    Institutions By Christian G. Matheis A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

  • Developing Tools to Utilize the Oregon State University Woody Plant Collection and Establish a Campus Arboretum

    Creator:
    Blanchard, William D.
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    Oregon State University campus grounds have long been admired for their beauty and the diversity of over 65,000 individual woody plants that grace the 570 acres of campus. The woody plant collection has provided a living learning laboratory for the university and surrounding community for decades. The campus grounds include...
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    - Beaver Eclips. OSU Alumni Association. https://osughost.imodules.com/s/359/16/interior.aspx?pgid=277&gid

  • Oregon's forest sector innovation system : an investigation towards advanced performance

    Creator:
    Orozco, Nadine C.
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    Innovation is a critical component for long term success of an organization. However, being innovative is rarely easy. Successful implementation of any innovation (product, process, or business system) can heavily rely on the functionality of the current innovation system in a given industry. An innovation system is composed of policies,...
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    .................................................................................26 1.Oregon Department of Forestry

  • Youth Recruitment and an Aging Workforce : A Pilot Study of Intergenerational Family Business in Oregon’s Commercial Fishing Industry

    Creator:
    Caracciolo, Deanna E.
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    Commercial fishing is a culturally and economically significant industry on the Oregon coast. The importance of this industry to human communities is often neglected in fisheries research, with economic and ecological data being favored by managers and decision makers. Recent observations in many coastal communities have indicated aging of fishermen...
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    ), Oregon State University (OSU), Newport Fishermen’s Wives (NFW), and Warrenton High Fisheries Inc