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Dissertations and Theses from 2024

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Dissertation: Open Access: “A Real Man . . .”: Deconstructing Machismo Heteronormative Standards with K–12 Latino Male Educators through Dialogic Spaces, Mario Echeverria

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Dissertation: Open Access: Towards a Servingness Advising Approach: From the Advisors’ Perspective at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, Salvador Gomez-Pantoja

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Dissertation: Open Access: Examining systemic and dispositional factors impacting historically disenfranchised schools across North Carolina, Raketa Ouedraogo-Thomas

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Cultural Dimension of Structural School Reforms: The Case of Schedule Changes, Maylen Sullivan

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Dissertation: Open Access: Developing an Instrument to Measure Group Dynamics Awareness: A Mixed Methods Study, John Weng

Dissertations and Theses from 2023

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Dissertation: Open Access: BECOMING RESTORATIVE: DISCOMFORT, PRAXIS, AND ECSTASY AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RESTORATIVE PRACTICES AND TEACHER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, Gwynn Alexander

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Dissertation: Open Access: Online Education: Benefits and Challenges for Refugee Students, Roza Badritdinova

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Dissertation: Open Access: Audacious Corazón: a Nuanced Art of Care, Dianne Bermudez Torres

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Toward Understanding the Language Reclassification Experiences of Latino/a Learners with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach, Christie Bostic

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Dissertation: Open Access: Special Education: Inclusion and Exclusion in the K-12 U.S. Educational System, Erik Brault

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Dissertation: Open Access: LOCAL LABOR MARKETS EXPOSURE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Greg Call

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Development of the Holistic Pastoral Wellbeing Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study, Timothy Captain

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Dissertation: Open Access: Analysis of One Secondary School's Support Systems for Aspiring First-Generation Latinx College Students: A Case Study, Tiffany Cunningham

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Dissertation: Open Access: Advocacy on Facebook: A Content Analysis of How Small Los Angeles- Based NPOs Use Social Media to Engage Audiences, Wen Chen Denq

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Dissertation: Open Access: Resistencia Indocumentada: Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Higher Education Undocumented Students In The San Diego-Tijuana Border Region, Adan Escobedo Sanchez

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Dissertation: Open Access: Safeguarding from Scrutiny: Toward a Critical Consciousness of Organizational Culture in Humanitarian NGOs, Andrew Henck

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Dissertation: Open Access: A Leadership Laboratory: Exploring the Use of Case-in-Point Pedagogy to Develop Complex Thinking in Leaders, Erica Corley Jackson

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Questioning and Disrupting Narratives of Motherhood and Leadership: The Experiences of Deans, Presidents, and Other California Community College Mother-Leaders, Stefanie Johnson Shipman

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: UTILIZING GLORIA ANZALDUA’S CONOCIMIENTO TO SURVIVE: UNDERSTANDING HOW WOMEN FACULTY OF COLOR OVERCOME RACIAL BIAS & DISCRIMINATION IN ACADEMIA, Gladys Fernanda Leyva Peñuelas

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions, Andrea Marr

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Dissertation: Open Access: Racism without Race: The Racialization of Middle Eastern and North African Students at U.S. Colleges, Hannah Mesouani

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Gated Entry and Code: A Critical Feminist Inquiry Into English as Gendered Symbolic Power Amongst Multilingual Indian Women, Kelly Metz-Matthews

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Dissertation: Open Access: Being Multicultural in the Workplace, Fiorella Morales

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Dissertation: Open Access: Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego, Gabriel Nunez-Soria

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Dissertation: Open Access: Utilizing new technologies to measure therapy effectiveness for mental and physical health, Jonathan Ossie

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Dissertation: Open Access: Advocating for Social Change: How A Human Service Nonprofit Organization Makes Sense of Its Advocacy Successes and Failures, Megan Pontes

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Dissertation: Open Access: Experiences of Tenured Hispanic Faculty in Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions, Barbara Resultan

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Dissertation: Open Access: Talking Back to the ELPAC: Resilient Resistance and (Re)Imagining Through YPARt, Zulema Reynoso

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Dissertation: Open Access: Queering Healthcare Equity: Exploring How Two Community Health Centers That Specialize in LGBTQ Healthcare Frame Cultural Competence, Tommy Royston

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Dissertation: Open Access: Equalizing Postsecondary Transition for At-Promise Youth Receiving Special Education Services: A Chance to Succeed, Karla R. Sanchez

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Dissertation: Open Access: An Exploratory Case Study Of Leadership Practices That Enable International Schools To Become Highly Effective and Learning Progressive Environments, Santha Kumar Sankara Narayanan

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Dissertation: Open Access: A Student Induction Program’s Impact on Young “Techies’” Purpose In Life and its Effects on Their Well-Being: A Case Study of Telangana, India, Ankit Shah

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Dissertation: Open Access: By Chameleonic Means; "Trust Based" Philanthropic Relationships, "The Business of Yes," As Experienced By Black Fundraisers, Novien Yarber

Dissertations and Theses from 2022

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Dissertation: Open Access: HELMETS OFF: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION INTO THE PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITY OF BLACK NFL PLAYERS, Eugena Anderson

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Mitigation of In-Group and Outgroup Biases: Understanding the Perceptions of Educators on the Contact Approach Theory, Brigitte Blazys

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Dissertation: Open Access: Leaders of Change: An Exploration of Relationships Between International School Administrators’ Mindsets and Their Preferred Leadership Styles, Joe Brogan

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Dissertation: Open Access: Unconscious Bias in United States Marine Corps Leadership Doctrine: Examining Microaggressions Through Document Analysis, Patrick Butler

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Dissertation: Open Access: EXECUTIVE PEER ADVISORY GROUPS: WHO THEY ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR BENEFITS? WHY DO MEMBERS JOIN AND STAY?, Andrew Feghali

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Dissertation: Open Access: Teacher Sensemaking in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Teaching of High School Ethnic Studies Classes During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Protests, Kay Flewelling

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Dissertation: Open Access: When "First, Do No Harm" Fails: A Restorative Justice Approach to Workgroup Harms in Healthcare, Pedro L. Flores

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Dissertation: Open Access: Academic Library Succession Planning in the University of California (UC) System, Crystal Goldman

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Dissertation: Open Access: EXAMINING THE CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES ENGAGED IN DEVELOPING INDIGENOUS LEADERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY, Craig W. Goodman

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Pontem Path: A Case Study of a Catholic Bridge Program Focusing on College Readiness, Sean Green

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Dissertation: Open Access: BLACK BEYOND MEASURE: AN ANTIDEFICIT EXPLORATION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL WITHIN A NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS (NSBE) CHAPTER AT A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE INSTITUTION (PWI), Rhonda Harley

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Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding Food Waste Behavior and Ways To Influence Positive Change and Waste Reduction, David Hubinger

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Dissertation: Open Access: Breaking Boundaries: Investigating the experiences of Racially Diverse Low Socioeconomic Status Students through a Narrative Inquiry Approach, Ryan Jumamil

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Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Benefits of Latino Giving Circles: An Emancipatory Research Study, Adriana Loson-Ceballos

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Dissertation: Open Access: Reaching for the Stars: A Constructivist Investigation of Astrology as a Tool for Self-Discovery in a New Age of Leadership, Cameron Martin

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Dissertation: Open Access: A STUDY OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY STUDENTS WHO IDENTIFY AS REFUGEES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED INTERRUPTED EDUCATION AND TRAUMA, Merdin Mohammed

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Dissertation: Open Access: Improving the Retention of United States (U.S.) Government Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Employees, Jeffrey Myers

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Latinidad and Agency of Voice: Latina Leader Identity Development, Cristina Padilla

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Technology as a Leadership Context: An Examination of Technostress and Group Performance, Sanket Patel

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Dissertation: Open Access: School Administrator Preparation in Special Education: A Cross-Case Analysis, Emily Ruiz

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Dissertation: Open Access: Critical Mass of Women on Biotech Corporate Boards and Its Implication For Firm Performance: A Mixed Method Explanatory Sequential Study, Shesh Sharma

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Towards a Network Theory of Developmental Team Coaching: A Social Network Analysis of the Relational Influence Process of Team Coaching, Derek Taylor

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Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Impact of an Online Leadership Course on Japanese Undergraduates' Conceptions of Leadership, Ryosuke Watanabe

Dissertations and Theses from 2021

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Strengthening of Civil Society: Nonprofit Capacity Building in The City of San Diego, Lyn Corbett

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Dissertation: Open Access: Espoused Versus Operationalized Organizational Values: A Case Study of Values Integration, Erik Dees

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Dissertation: Open Access: Personal Data Privacy and Protective Federal Legislation: An Exploration of Constituent Position on the Need for Legislation to Control Data Reliant Organizations Collecting and Monetizing Internet-Obtained Personal Data, Giovanni De Meo

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Dissertation: Open Access: Expanding Consciousness Across Disruptions: Developmental Leadership Coaches Growing Together Through Action Inquiry, Ilaria Distefano

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Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia’s Private Sector: A Mixed Methods Approach, Khaled Hanaky

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Dissertation: Open Access: Does Winning Matter? An Examination of the Impact of Success on Former Student-Athlete Philanthropic Giving, Zach Harris

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Dissertation: Open Access: Grassroots Talent Development at La Maestra: Understanding the Perceptions of Leaders and Staff, Gorn Huvanandana

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Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Benefits of Experiential Learning for Executive Leader Development: A Mixed Methods Approach, Bruce Loveless

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Dissertation: Open Access: Reproducing the Status Quo in the Middle School English Classroom: A Critical Examination of Literacy Learning Via Personalized Learning Technology, Michele McConnell

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Dissertation: Open Access: Using Visual Storytelling to Design Solutions-Based Approaches to Homelessness, Peggy Peattie

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Dissertation: Open Access: An Explanatory Sequential Study of Cadet Commitment at the United States Air Force Academy, Justin Pendry

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Dissertation: Open Access: Oneida College Lacrosse Players’ Perspectives of the Sacred Game of Lacrosse, Thomas Reed

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Dissertation: Open Access: An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America, Nick Santos

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Pause; Pivot; Position: A Case Study about Higher Education Communication Strategies and Decision-Making Processes during Two Concurrent Crises, Kristin Scialabba

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Dissertation: Open Access: Community Foundations as Community Leaders, Colton Strawser

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Dissertation: Open Access: Doing More with Less: A Quantitative Analysis of Mindfulness, Meditation, Sustainable Consumption Awareness and Practice among University Undergraduates, Teresa Van Horn

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Dissertation: Open Access: Head of School Retention in Independent Schools, Kevin Yaley

Dissertations and Theses from 2020

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Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring Intergenerational Value Changes across Three Generations of Emirati Women Using Focused Ethnography, Ebtesam Ali Alteneiji

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Dissertation: Open Access: Institutional Logics and the Double Bottom Line: A Study of Chikum Microfinance Bank Limited, Daniel Anyanwu

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Dissertation: USD Users Only: Conocimiento in Community College Leadership: How Latina/Chicana Administrators Reclaim Agency in Contested Terrain Along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Briseida Elenes

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Dissertation: Open Access: Do we all agree? A mixed-methods study of the impact of climate strength on psychological safety, team learning, and team performance, Taylor Harrell

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Glass Ceiling: Exploring the Leadership Journey of Men and Women in High-Tech, Shelia Faye Krueger

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Dissertation: Open Access: An Examination of Gaming Environments in Dungeons and Dragons Groups, Joe Lasley

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Dissertation: Open Access: La Maestra’s Circle of Care: Studying the Impact of an Integrated Service Model on the Health and Well-Being of Vulnerable Populations, Zara Marselian

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Dissertation: Open Access: Navy SEALS - Crossing Cultures: Cross-Cultural Competence and Decision Styles, Robert Newson

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Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership Adapted: Towards an Understanding of How Western-Developed Leadership Theories are Translated and Practiced in the Modern Arab Middle East, Derek R. Olson

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Construction of Student Mathematical Identity and its Relationship to Academic Achievement, Ann Trescott

Dissertations and Theses from 2019

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Dissertation: Open Access: How Navy and Marine Corps Veterans Make Meaning of the College Choice Process in the Post-9/11 GI Bill Era, Derek Abbey

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Dissertation: Open Access: Discursive Leadership: Exploring the "Black Box" Challenge in Transcultural Leadership Studies, Christopher Patrick Brown

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Development of Local Government Leaders: The Use of Competencies and Methods in a City Context, Dominika Bukalova

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Dissertation: Open Access: Employee Engagement and Burnout: A Quantitative Study of their Correlations with Job/Organizational Satisfaction, Sarah Burnett

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Dissertation: Open Access: Making The Invisible Visible: Capturing the Multidimensional Value of Volunteerism to Nonprofit Organizations, Sue Carter Kahl

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Dissertation: Open Access: Seeking Mirrors: Representation and Identity at Asian Pacific Islander Film Festivals, Yang Jiang

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Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring, Examining, and Explaining How Participatory Governance Adds Value to Saudi Foundations’ Philanthropic Strategy, Afnan E. Koshak

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Dissertation: Open Access: Game Types, Game-Related Behaviors and Resilience: Creating a Roadmap for Effective Gamification Design in Higher Education, Patrick Marino

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Dissertation: Open Access: A Tale of Two Influences: An Exploration of Downward Accountability in World Vision International, Elena McCollim

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Dissertation: Open Access: Examining Inter-Relationships Between Supervisor Full-Range Leadership, Organizational Climate Strength, and Employee Job Satisfaction Using Multi-Level Modeling, Bharat Mohan

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Dissertation: Open Access: Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership, Alma C. Ortega

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Dissertation: Open Access: The Replication of the GLOBE Study in Turkey: Understanding the Effects of Social, Economical, and Political Changes on Cultural Dimensions and Leadership Ideals: A Mixed Methods Study, Zeki Pagda

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Dissertation: Open Access: Social Innovators and Developmental Stages, Juan Carlos Rivas Espinosa

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Dissertation: Open Access: Legal Accountability and Nonprofit Governance: An Exploratory Quantitative Study of Board Member and Executive Knowledge of Fiduciary Duties, Crystal Trull

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Dissertation: Open Access: Truth or Myth? Millennial Stereotypes, Self-Image, and Engagement in the Workplace, Stephanie Van Dellen

Dissertations and Theses from 2018

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Dissertation: Open Access: In Pursuit of Transformative Learning: Exploring the Stimulation of Curiosity Through Critical Reflection in the College Classroom, Bo Y. Bae

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Dissertation: Open Access: Career Decision-Making of Higher Education Professionals of Philippine Descent: The Untold Stories of an Asian Pacific Islander Community, Grace Abenoja Bagunu