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Dissertations from 2019
Organizational Culture in Community Colleges: Making Connections to Diverse Student Success, Darcy A. Orellana
Dissertations from 2017
An Evolution of Models and Best Practices of Service-Learning at Miami Dade College: A Historical Case Study from 1992-2012, Cathy A. Kaluzny
Dissertations from 2016
The Influence of the TRIO Student Support Services Program on First-Generation Students: An Exploratory Study, Nate Bryant
Boundary Spanning, Networking, and Sensemaking/Sensegiving: How Career Services Directors Enact Mid-Level Leadership, Linda Kent Davis
Dissertations from 2015
The College Young Christian Students in the United States, a Historical Case Study of a Faith-based Social Movement and its National Office, John F. Denning
Dissertations from 2014
Institutional Conditions to Improve the Educational Outcomes of Part-time Community College Students, Rhonda M. Gabovitch
A Comparative Analysis of Transfer Students' and Native Students' Perceptions of their Higher Education Environment at Two Public Four-Year Institutions, Janet M. Gumbris
Pa'lante! Toward The Presidency: Understanding Factors that Facilitate Latino Leadership in Higher Education, Gloria Lopez
The Role of Identity Development in Multiethnic Latino Students' Sense of Belonging in College, Wanda I. Montañez
Transfer Programs at Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Study of Inter-organizational Collaboration, Milton Santiago
State Directors of Adult Education: Leadership in a Changing Policy Environment, Cynthia Keeshan Zafft
Dissertations from 2013
Understanding the Full-time, Non-tenure-track Faculty Appointment, Pandora Grewe Carlucci
College Athletic Participation and Academic Success: How Student-Athletes Compete for Graduation, Heather B. Gilmour
Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Practice Among White College Faculty: A Narrative Study, Susan F. Miller
Journeys to Transformation: South Sudanese Refugees, Andres Ray F. Reyes
College Student Retention: A Self-Determination Perspective, Jules Tetreault
Dissertations from 2012
College Consortia: Engaging in and Sustaining Community Collaboration Efforts, Wildolfo Arvelo
Nontraditional Approaches with Nontraditional Students: Experiences of Learning, Service and Identity Development, Suzanne Marie Buglione
Faculty Sensemaking and Transformative Learning: Working to Advance Community College Student Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Kimberly A. Burns
Spirituality as a Viable Resource in Responding to Racial Microaggressions: An Exploratory Study of Black Males Who Attended a Community College, Lloyd Sheldon Johnson
Noncredit and Credit Divisions in Community Colleges: The Dilemma of Multiple Organizational Identities, Dianne Palter Gill
Exploring How White and Asian American Students Experience Cross-Racial Interactions: A Phenomenological Study, Thomas E. Robinson
The Community College Department Chair and Curriculum Leadership: Managing Learning and Learning to Manage, Kathleen Jennings Sweeney
The Role of Research Centers in Fulfilling the Community Engagement Mission of Public Research Universities, Robin A. Toof
Dissertations from 2011
Massachusetts NCATE and NAEYC Accredited Bachelor Degree Programs: Responding to Teacher Preparation Needs in the Filed of Early Education and Care, Winifred M. Hagan
The Role of Data in Decision Making about Online Distance Education: A Case Study of Three Community Colleges, William Allan Heineman
First-Generation College Students and the Four-Year College Environment: An Exploration of Supplementary and Complementary Fit, Nancy M. Ludwig
An Exploration of the Stories and Perspectives of Three Latino Mothers as They Make Meaning of Their Engagement with the Dedham Public Elementary Schools, Jo-Anne Coffey McCormick
The Individual and Shared Meanings Students Make of their Diverse Interactions with African American Faculty: A Phenomenological Study, Kathleen Marie Neville
Dissertations from 2010
Employee Perspectives of Library and Information Technology Mergers: The Recursiveness of Structure, Culture, and Agency, Sara Bronner Baron
Space and Power in the Ivory Tower: Decision Making in Public Higher Education, Sandra McCoskrie Blanchette
Dissertations from 2008
Collaboration to Institutionalize Service-Learning in Higher Education Organizations: The Relationship Between the Structures of Academic and Student Affairs, Joanne A. Dreher
Dissertations from 2004
Institutionalization of Women's Studies Programs: The Relationship of Program Structure to Long-Term Viability, Ann Froines