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Dissertations from 2019

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Organizational Culture in Community Colleges: Making Connections to Diverse Student Success, Darcy A. Orellana

Dissertations from 2017

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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

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The Influence of the TRIO Student Support Services Program on First-Generation Students: An Exploratory Study, Nate Bryant

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Boundary Spanning, Networking, and Sensemaking/Sensegiving: How Career Services Directors Enact Mid-Level Leadership, Linda Kent Davis

Dissertations from 2015

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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

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Institutional Conditions to Improve the Educational Outcomes of Part-time Community College Students, Rhonda M. Gabovitch

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A Comparative Analysis of Transfer Students' and Native Students' Perceptions of their Higher Education Environment at Two Public Four-Year Institutions, Janet M. Gumbris

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Pa'lante! Toward The Presidency: Understanding Factors that Facilitate Latino Leadership in Higher Education, Gloria Lopez

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The Role of Identity Development in Multiethnic Latino Students' Sense of Belonging in College, Wanda I. Montañez

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Transfer Programs at Hispanic Serving Institutions: A Study of Inter-organizational Collaboration, Milton Santiago

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State Directors of Adult Education: Leadership in a Changing Policy Environment, Cynthia Keeshan Zafft

Dissertations from 2013

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Understanding the Full-time, Non-tenure-track Faculty Appointment, Pandora Grewe Carlucci

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College Athletic Participation and Academic Success: How Student-Athletes Compete for Graduation, Heather B. Gilmour

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Culturally Relevant Pedagogical Practice Among White College Faculty: A Narrative Study, Susan F. Miller

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Journeys to Transformation: South Sudanese Refugees, Andres Ray F. Reyes

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College Student Retention: A Self-Determination Perspective, Jules Tetreault

Dissertations from 2012

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College Consortia: Engaging in and Sustaining Community Collaboration Efforts, Wildolfo Arvelo

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Nontraditional Approaches with Nontraditional Students: Experiences of Learning, Service and Identity Development, Suzanne Marie Buglione

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Faculty Sensemaking and Transformative Learning: Working to Advance Community College Student Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Kimberly A. Burns

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Spirituality as a Viable Resource in Responding to Racial Microaggressions: An Exploratory Study of Black Males Who Attended a Community College, Lloyd Sheldon Johnson

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Noncredit and Credit Divisions in Community Colleges: The Dilemma of Multiple Organizational Identities, Dianne Palter Gill

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Being a (Good) Student: Conceptions of Identity of Adult Basic Education Participants Transitioning to College, Mina Reddy

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Exploring How White and Asian American Students Experience Cross-Racial Interactions: A Phenomenological Study, Thomas E. Robinson

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College Access Programs and the Formation of Social Capital: Understanding the Impact of Upward Bound On the College Decision Process, David Rogers

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The Community College Department Chair and Curriculum Leadership: Managing Learning and Learning to Manage, Kathleen Jennings Sweeney

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The Role of Research Centers in Fulfilling the Community Engagement Mission of Public Research Universities, Robin A. Toof

Dissertations from 2011

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The Role of Situated Learning in Experiential Education: An Ethnographic Study of the Knowledge-Construction Process of Pharmacy Students during Their Clinical Rotations, Paul DiFrancesco

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Career Change Experiences of Former Full-Time Dental Hygiene Clinicians to the Community College Full-Time Faculty Role: A Phenomenological Study, Andrea Gancarz

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Massachusetts NCATE and NAEYC Accredited Bachelor Degree Programs: Responding to Teacher Preparation Needs in the Filed of Early Education and Care, Winifred M. Hagan

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The Role of Data in Decision Making about Online Distance Education: A Case Study of Three Community Colleges, William Allan Heineman

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First-Generation College Students and the Four-Year College Environment: An Exploration of Supplementary and Complementary Fit, Nancy M. Ludwig

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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

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The Individual and Shared Meanings Students Make of their Diverse Interactions with African American Faculty: A Phenomenological Study, Kathleen Marie Neville

Dissertations from 2010

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Employee Perspectives of Library and Information Technology Mergers: The Recursiveness of Structure, Culture, and Agency, Sara Bronner Baron

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Space and Power in the Ivory Tower: Decision Making in Public Higher Education, Sandra McCoskrie Blanchette

Dissertations from 2008

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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

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Institutionalization of Women's Studies Programs: The Relationship of Program Structure to Long-Term Viability, Ann Froines