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The Preparation of Academic Library Administrators

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine the preparation methods experienced by academic library deans and which methods they perceived to be most valuable. Rosser, Johnsrud, and Heck (2000, 2003) defined the theoretical constructs of effective academic leadership upon which this study is based. The instrument—a modified version of Greicar's (2009) Professional Preparation of Academic Deans Questionnaire—was administered online. The population was the chief administrators of acad… more

Date: December 2012

Creator: Hoffman, Starr

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Transfer Rates of Texas Hispanic Community College Students to 4-Year Institutions: Selected Institutional Factors

The purpose of this non-experimental, quantitative study was to determine how well selected institutional characteristics explain the variance in Hispanic community college students’ transfer rates to 4-year institutions. Due to the rapidly growing Texas Hispanic population, understanding challenges to their educational attainment has become critical. Hispanic community college enrollment in Texas continues to rise, yet these students are not transferring to 4-year institutions at the same rate… more

Date: August 2012

Creator: Klement, Emily Conrady

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Differences in Experiences and Outcomes of Transfer and Native Students in an Elementary Education Program: an Exploratory Study

This research targeted elementary education graduates of a large Southwestern university who were transfer students, and compared them to native students on selected variables. These variables included retention in teaching, and perception of supports and obstacles at the university. The sample consisted of 143 respondents: 73 native and 70 transfer students. Data were collected through submission of online surveys and through postal mail. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were used to an… more

Date: August 2012

Creator: Tucker, Tami L.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Personalities and Pipelines: Exploring the Role of Personality in Student Self-selection Into Stem Majors

Despite all the national efforts to increase STEM enrollment in the United States, the gap between the U.S. and other developed countries in terms of STEM graduates has widened over the last 20 years. Researchers have studied factors such as gender, race, high school GPA, and the student’s socioeconomic status for their impact on STEM enrollment. This study offers another possible explanation of why students might choose, or not choose, to enroll in STEM majors by examining the relationship bet… more

Date: May 2012

Creator: Simpson, Patricia

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Perceived Effects of a Mid-length Study Abroad Program

The focus of the study was the University of Dallas’ Rome Program, a mid-length study abroad program on the university’s campus in Rome, Italy. The program is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to encounter firsthand Western tradition by integrating the core curriculum through classroom teachings and class excursions, thus solidifying the foundation of the participants’ undergraduate education. Beyond this purpose, the Rome Program does not operate from established goals and … more

Date: May 2012

Creator: Corbin, Jill K.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Establishing Junior-level Colleges in Developing Nations: a Site Selection Process Using Data From Uganda

This research synthesizes data and presents it using mapping software to help to identify potential site locations for community-centered higher education alternatives and more traditional junior-level colleges in Uganda. What factors can be used to quantify one site over another for the location of such an institution and if these factors can be isolated; why should they be used by local authorities? the variables are secured from the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educa… more

Date: May 2012

Creator: Iaeger, Paula Irene

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Understanding the Motivation of Vietnamese International Students and Their Higher Education Experiences in the United States

This research describes what motivates Vietnamese students to come to the U.S. to study for a degree, what outcomes they expect, and what they experience academically and culturally while studying in the U.S. Currently the surge of international students from Vietnam has reached an all time high of 13,112 students to the U.S. This moves the relatively small South East Asian nation to the ranking of ninth among all nations for the number of international students sent to the U.S. in depth int… more

Date: May 2012

Creator: Miller, Randy Scott

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Comparative Analysis Of 105 Higher Education Doctoral Programs In The United States

The mission types of 105 current doctoral programs in higher education and the extent to which their missions have changed since a similar study was conducted by Dressel and Mayhew in 1974 was studied. The curricula offerings of these programs by degree type (e.g., Ed.D. & Ph.D.) were compared with Fife’s 1991 findings. Finally, the study examined the various modes of instruction (e.g., classroom, online, cohort, blended) these programs utilize. The population was the 131 U.S. higher educati… more

Date: December 2011

Creator: Valerin, Marcus P.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Early Predictors of Early Freshman Year Attrition in Female Hispanic Students

The Texas Hispanic population is projected to grow to 18.8 million, almost tripling its number within the state, in only 30 years. This rapid growth is a concern for Texas higher education because this group has traditionally been under-represented in colleges and universities. Also, according to national, state, and local data, Hispanic students are retained at a lower rate than are other ethnic groups. Because of lower retention rates for Hispanic students and because the majority of Hispan… more

Date: August 2011

Creator: Speed, Heather Faye

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Quantitative Study of the Presidential Search Process and Position Longevity in Community Colleges

A great deal of time, money, and effort can be expended on hiring community college presidents without any assurance that they will remain in their new positions a substantial amount of time. Building on decades of literature reporting the continuing decrease of presidential longevity, this study examined the methods most successful in selecting presidents with relatively greater longevity and what relationship exists between the type of presidential search used and the length of tenure. An o… more

Date: December 2011

Creator: Howells, Constance L.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Influence of Classroom Community and Self-Directed Learning Readiness on Community College Student Successful Course Completion in Online Courses

The relationships between community college students’ sense of community, student self-directed learning readiness, and successful completion of online courses were investigated using a correlational research design. Rovai’s Classroom Community Scale was used to measure classroom community, and the Fisher Self-directed Learning Readiness Scale was used to measure self-directed learning readiness, including three subscales of self-management, desire for learning, and self-control. The study part… more

Date: August 2011

Creator: Cervantez, Vera Ann

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Aerospace and Defense Industries Online Recruiting of College and University Graduates: Strategies Toward Defining a Comprehensive Informational Benchmark

This qualitative, inductive study analyzed online recruiting information posted at the websites of five major aerospace and defense corporations to recruit college juniors, seniors, and recent graduates. Recruitment of this group is critical to staff the personnel for the scientific, technical, and management needs of aerospace and defense industries. The study sought: (1) to determine the use of multiple recruitment factors inferred from the literature and recommended for successful recruitmen… more

Date: August 2011

Creator: Holland, Marcia Annette

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Discretion, Delegation, and Professionalism: A Study of Outcome Measures in Upward Bound Programs

In our society, American citizens expect public policies to result in programs that address social problems in ways that are both efficient and effective. In order to judge if these two values are being achieved, public programs are often scrutinized through program monitoring and evaluation. Evaluation of public programs often is a responsibility delegated to local-level managers. The resulting discretion has to be balanced with the need for accountability that is also inherent in public progr… more

Date: August 2011

Creator: Holt, Amy C.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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An Essential Academic Program: A Case Study of the General Studies Program at Louisiana State University in Shreveport

The purpose of this study was to provide a historical overview of the development of the General Studies (GS) program at LSU Shreveport from its inception in 1967 until 2007. Sources of data were primary, secondary, and archival documents, student information accessed through the university mainframe, alumni information obtained from a university-sponsored directory, and an interview with the former vice-chancellor of academic affairs. All data were analyzed and placed in a chronological framew… more

Date: August 2011

Creator: McCray, Lonnie

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Does Campus Type Really Matter? National Patterns of Alumni Giving in the 2008 Voluntary Support of Education Study

This quantitative study utilized secondary data furnished by 652 institutions of higher education which participated in the 2008 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) national study managed by the Council for Aid to Education. This study investigated the relationships among private and public status across baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degree typologies and total alumni giving, restricted giving and unrestricted giving per full time equivalent (FTE) for the 2007/08 academic year. The ind… more

Date: May 2011

Creator: Simon, Jason Foster

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Transformative Learning in Online Theological Education: A Case Study of an Online Program at a Theological Seminary

Using Mezirow's (1991) transformative learning theory as a framework, this qualitative case study investigated conditions conducive to transformative learning experiences among theological students in an online program at a seminary. Learning Activities Survey developed by King in 1998, a Community of Inquiry framework proposed by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer in 2000, and semi-structured interviews were employed. Emails were sent to 85 students (81 current In-Ministry M.Div. students and four… more

Date: May 2011

Creator: Tran, Nghi

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Critical Analysis of Ph.D. and Ed.D. Dissertation Abstracts Published during 2009 and 2010

The completion of the dissertation certifies the completion of the academic rigors of the doctoral degree and verifies the candidate's achievement of independent scholarship. The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate was a 5-year effort to define the distinct purpose of the Ph.D. and Ed.D. in education. The Carnegie Project sought to ensure that the academy moved forward on two fronts: rethinking and reclaiming the research doctorate, the Ph.D., and developing the distinct professional pr… more

Date: May 2011

Creator: Newsom, Thomas W.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Relationship Between Supplemental Instruction Leader Learning Style and Study Session Design

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the learning styles of supplemental instruction leaders at a large, public university during the fall 2010 semester and determine whether or not their personal learning styles influenced the way they designed and developed out-of-class study sessions. The total population of supplemental instruction leaders was 37, of which 24 were eligible to participate in the study. Of the 24 eligible supplemental instruction leaders, 20 completed the en… more

Date: May 2011

Creator: Adams, Joshua

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship of a Non-traditional New Student Orientation in an Urban Community College with Student Retention and Grade Point Average Among Ethnic Groups

This quantitative study examined relationships of attending a new student orientation program related to student retention and academic success. A research group of 464 students of Tarrant County College Northwest, a community college campus in Fort Worth, Texas, who voluntarily attended a 2-hour pre-semester new student orientation program was compared to a group of 464 students on the same campus who did not attend the program. Comparisons were made with regard to retention and GPA. Ethnic ra… more

Date: December 2010

Creator: Martinez, Vesta Wheatley

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Relationship of Service-Learning and Campus Involvement: A Multivariate Look at the Profile of Today's College Student

Service-learning continues to gain in popularity across the higher education landscape and can be found in most educational institutions. Although more often found in student affairs programming, it is also viewed as a viable pedagogy. Most studies show that service-learning impacts students in various ways: academically, socially and vocationally. The research study employed quantitative methods. It analyzed prediction of participation in community service/service-learning with students' self-… more

Date: December 2010

Creator: Kittle, Kris J.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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A Study of African American Students' Completion of an Accounting Degree at a Private University

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify factors that may have influenced the choice of major and the persistence to graduation of six African American accounting majors who attended and graduated from a private, predominantly white university from the academic years 2003 through 2009. A set of indicators based on several retention studies was selected for the purpose of identifying pre-college, off-campus, and on-campus factors that influenced students' choice of major and persist… more

Date: December 2010

Creator: Eddington, Alicia F.

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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College Success for all Students: An Investigation of Early Warning Indicators of College Readiness

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine early warning indicators of college readiness among early college high school students at selected Texas institutions of higher education. Participants in this study included 134 of the class of 2010 from two early college high schools. The graduates were 86% Hispanic, 8% African American, 3% White, 2% Asian, 1% American Indian and 72% economically disadvantaged. A causal-comparative research design using multiple regression analysis of th… more

Date: December 2010

Creator: Davis, Denise

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Correlates of Number of Minority Faculty, Minority Student Organizations, Diversity Course Offerings, and Geographic Location to Minority Student Enrollment in Texas Colleges

This study examined the correlates between the dependent variables African-American and Hispanic student enrollment in Texas public higher education to the independent variables institution type, education region, faculty demographics, curricular offerings and student organizations. Data for African-American (n = 124,000) and Hispanic enrollment (n = 314,000) in all Texas public higher education institutions (n = 109) for the 2008 academic year were examined. Significant results, using a statis… more

Date: August 2010

Creator: Kraus, Charles

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Baptist Pastoral Leadership: An Analysis for Curriculum Development

Through a qualitative study utilizing in-depth interviews, practitioner opinion was gathered regarding how Christian institutions of higher education, primarily Baptist seminaries, may better utilize formal and continuing education to prepare clergy for pastoral leadership. The sample of ten subjects for this study, drawn from the 550 active senior pastors in the Dallas Baptist Association and the Kauf-Van Baptist Association, was selected based on a maximum variation sampling method. The inten… more

Date: August 2010

Creator: Christine, David Wayne

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries