East School is a private, forest schooling program in the Pacific Northwest. This ethnography focuses on student engagement with teacher led efforts to "educate" them within an emergent social system depending on new subjectivities. I ground this premise in a reflexive analytical framework, unpacking an implicit ethnotheory of perception as...
The travel cost method of deriving demand and value of recreation
does not include fixed costs of recreational durable goods purchases
or allow for supply restrictions on the number of suitable
sites available. The omission of these two real-world situations
results in derivation of demand curves which are more inelastic...
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to examine the role a rural community college plays in the development of its community, using a holistic, community-based lens that considered college and community context, interactions and results to answer the question: How does the rural community college impact the development...
In 1990, the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges moved to an
accreditation model based on outcomes, their assessment and deliberative attempts at
institutional change and improvement. No study existed in northwest community colleges
which identified the systematic application of effectiveness indicators for institutional
change and improvement. This study was...
This qualitative study explores and examines the experiences of students at a large, public university in the Pacific Northwest who identify with underrepresented religions. Eight participants were asked to share their experiences individually using semi-structured interview questions and their responses were analyzed utilizing a narrative inquiry approach. Six themes emerged...
This qualitative study examined the experience of White student affairs professionals involved in racial justice work at a predominantly White institution in the Pacific Northwest. This study explored participants' consciousness of their white identity, white privilege, and commitment to end systems of privilege and oppression in regards to White supremacy...
The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the experience of white principals in understanding their white identity, privilege, and power as they worked to implement socially-just and culturally proficient schools. The findings offer insights into the following questions: 1) How do white school leaders view white identity and...
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...