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  • Making meaning of supporting student spiritual development : perceptions of graduate students in a student affairs program

    Creator:
    Thomson, Amy K.
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    This interpretive, descriptive qualitative study explores how graduate students in a student affairs preparation program make meaning of their role in supporting student spiritual development. Six one-on-one semi-structured interviews with six graduate students were conducted in this single-site study. Five prevalent themes emerged from the data, each playing a role...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Student Affairs Program by Amy K. Thomson A THESIS submitted to Oregon State

  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Words to Deeds, the Bishops state that the appointment of women to church leadership positions is one

  • Leadership in crisis at Meadow View Community College : a case study

    Creator:
    Leinbach, William T.
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    This case study of leadership in crisis at Meadow View Community College (fictitious name) was undertaken to add to the practical and theoretical knowledge and understanding of presidential leadership issues that actually occur in American community colleges. The college under study one of nearly one-third of the community colleges in...
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    Dissertation
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    colleges in a western state that recently experienced conflict, controversy and crisis in leadership. The

  • The heart of leadership : An autoethnographic study of issues that impact educational leadership

    Creator:
    Prince, Erin K.
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    This autoethnography explores issues that impact educational leadership by examining individual reflections, perceptions, and responses developed through the lens of a principal of two elementary schools. The main data source involves journal entries collected over a period of one year. Theories of educational leadership styles and effective school practices form...
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    Dissertation
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    Study of Issues That Impact Educational Leadership. Abstract approved: Karen M

  • The implementation year of shared governance at a Vanguard community college

    Creator:
    Lanning, Patrick M.
    Abstract:
    College governance is a function of structure and of how people act within that structure. Organizational strategies no longer identify administrations as monopolies that possess all of the good ideas. Recent organizational management approaches to governance promote inclusiveness in decision-making and are at odds with the community college's historical structures,...
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    Dissertation
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    foster strong, control-oriented leadership. This study describes and explains perspectives on shared

  • The Necessary Limits of Religious Influence on Public Policy

    Creator:
    Kaltenberg, Shawn M.
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    In this thesis, I argue that Christian fundamentalism is a threat to the traditions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state in US liberal democracy. I support this claim by exploring the writings of men who were instrumental in the foundation of the US, concluding that they...
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    Masters Thesis
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    fundamentalism is a threat to the traditions of religious liberty and the separation of church and state in US

  • Responsible pedagogy : (re)framing contemporary educational theory and American cultural politics

    Creator:
    Rust, Stephen
    Abstract:
    Responsible Pedagogy is examination of contemporary education in the United States. Responsible educators are dedicated to being representative, responsive, and respectful. These three principles guide the best teaching and learning that are taking place in classrooms across the country. Launched in 2003, Shakespeare in American Communities is the most ambitious...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Contemporary Educational Theory and American Cultural Politics Abstract approved: Jon Lewis Responsible

  • Organizational Transformation and Social Construction : How Community College Faculty Make Meaning of the Completion Agenda

    Creator:
    Moore, Sally Widenmann
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    How do organizational members socially construct the shared meaning of a mandated change in the external environment? The opportunity to address this question presented itself when President Barack Obama set forth a goal for American community colleges to increase the number of students completing certificates and degrees by 5 million...
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    Dissertation
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    , 2014b). Once a world leader 8 in educational attainment the United States now ranks