Dissertations and Theses from 2025
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study, Filiberto Vargas
Dissertations and Theses from 2024
Dissertation: Open Access: Measuring Inclusive Leadership in Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations, Thomas Abruzzo
Dissertation: Open Access: Islamophobia in Public Schools: A Mixed Methods Look at the Effectiveness of Parental Ethnic-Racial Strategies in Promoting Resilience Among Muslim Children, Lallia Allali
Dissertation: Open Access: Aren't Only Girls Secretaries…?”: Leadership Lessons From Women U.S. Secretaries of State, Lindsay Allen
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Black Genius: An Achievement Distortion, Brenda Burgo
Dissertation: Open Access: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogical Practices in Early Literacy Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study of Two Kindergarten Classrooms, Elizabeth Carlton PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Nonprofit Leader Experiences in Sector-bending After Lean Six Sigma Training: Tension, Concepts, and Changed Behaviors, Beverly Codallos
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Cultivating Genius: A Narrative Journey of At-Promise Youth at a P-TECH Early College High School, Michelle Latrese Coleman
Dissertation: Open Access: “A Real Man . . .”: Deconstructing Machismo Heteronormative Standards with K–12 Latino Male Educators through Dialogic Spaces, Mario Echeverria
Dissertation: Open Access: Why Not the School-to-Scholar Pipeline? Changing the Narrative Through School Leadership, Marne Renee Foster
Dissertation: Open Access: Towards a Servingness Advising Approach: From the Advisors’ Perspective at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, Salvador Gomez-Pantoja
Dissertation: Open Access: Vital Voices from the Digital Divide: Testimonies of African American Women Leadership Across Tech, VinSche' Gray
Dissertation: Open Access: Who We Are Is How We Lead: Storytelling as an Intervention in a Manager Development Program, Brittany Grieb
Dissertation: Open Access: How Do LGBT Employees Assess Their Firm’s Organizational Culture Regarding LGBT Leadership?, Philippe Honore
Dissertation: Open Access: The Rhythms and Rituals of a Sacred Epistolary: Expressing my Experiences in Holistic and Embodied Ways, Khalia Ii
Dissertation: Open Access: Ennobling Each Other Through Collaborative Inquiry: Exploring Music as a Provocation for Leadership Development, Ihan Ip
Dissertation: Open Access: Embracing Messiness: Life and Leadership After Prison, Llewelyn T. Labio
Dissertation: Open Access: Building Agency Through Sensemaking: The Transformational Journey and Identity Development Process of Working Mother Leaders During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lynn Levis
Dissertation: Open Access: "There is Power in Being Out": A Three Article Approach Celebrating the Experiences of Queer University Leaders, Andrew R. E. Lorenzana
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining systemic and dispositional factors impacting historically disenfranchised schools across North Carolina, Raketa Ouedraogo-Thomas
Dissertation: Open Access: An Autoethnography of a Social Justice-Minded Teacher in Corrections, Graciela Rubalcaba-Munoz
Dissertation: Open Access: From Injustice to Social Justice Education: The Journey of Formerly Incarcerated Women of Color in Community College, Hossna Sadat Ahadi
Dissertation: Open Access: Navigating the Bow Wave of Change: The Felt Experience of Belonging to the United States Naval Academy's First Gender-Integrated Class, Peter Shaner
Dissertation: Open Access: Representation of Alaskan Native People in Nonprofit Leadership, Vanessa Smith
Dissertation: Open Access: The Cultural Dimension of Structural School Reforms: The Case of Schedule Changes, Maylen Sullivan
Dissertation: Open Access: California School Psychologists’ Assessment Practices with CLD Students: A Phenomenological Study, Hector Manuel Teran Jr.
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Impact of a Leadership Development Program on Participants’ Practice: A Case Study of the Development Dynamics Course Organized by Caritas India, Lenin Raj Thankaraj
Dissertation: Open Access: Convergence and Divergence: Comparative Analysis of Procedural Rule Changes of the Hong Kong and Singapore International Arbitration Centers within the Framework of Neo-Institutional Theory, Phillip Hoang Tran
Dissertation: Open Access: Borderland Voices: Exploring the Educational Journey of Transfronterizx Students, Families, and Educators for Enhanced Engagement and Empowerment, Sobeida Velazquez
Dissertation: Open Access: Ripple of Hope: Understanding the Lived Experience and Academic Achievement of Latinx Students at Arrupe College and Dougherty Family College: A Case Study, Richard P. Virgin
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding Ethical Leadership in Intelligence: Themes in Accountability, Self-Development, and Communication Among CIA Leaders, Caroline Walsh
Dissertation: Open Access: From Counterspaces to Community:A Qualitative Case Study Analysis of Black Community Making at a PWI, Charles Watkins
Dissertation: Open Access: Developing an Instrument to Measure Group Dynamics Awareness: A Mixed Methods Study, John Weng
Dissertation: Open Access: Black School Leader Truth: How Black School Leader Epistemology Influences Liberatory Mindset Development in Their Staff, Orpheus Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership and Teacher Agency for Inclusive Classrooms: Insights about Integrating Students with Disabilities into Inclusive Classrooms from Teachers and School Leaders in Three International Schools, Chad Wood
Dissertation: Open Access: Intercultural Perspectives on Managing Organizational Change in Response to Government Policy Reform: A Case Study on the Leadership of New Oriental Education, Yihe Yang
Dissertations and Theses from 2023
Dissertation: Open Access: BECOMING RESTORATIVE: DISCOMFORT, PRAXIS, AND ECSTASY AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RESTORATIVE PRACTICES AND TEACHER IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT, Gwynn Alexander
Dissertation: Open Access: Online Education: Benefits and Challenges for Refugee Students, Roza Badritdinova
Dissertation: Open Access: Audacious Corazón: a Nuanced Art of Care, Dianne Bermudez Torres
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Toward Understanding the Language Reclassification Experiences of Latino/a Learners with Disabilities: An Intersectional Approach, Christie Bostic
Dissertation: Open Access: Special Education: Inclusion and Exclusion in the K-12 U.S. Educational System, Erik Brault
Dissertation: Open Access: LOCAL LABOR MARKETS EXPOSURE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Greg Call
Dissertation: Open Access: The Development of the Holistic Pastoral Wellbeing Assessment: A Mixed Methods Study, Timothy Captain
Dissertation: Open Access: Analysis of One Secondary School's Support Systems for Aspiring First-Generation Latinx College Students: A Case Study, Tiffany Cunningham
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Resistencia Indocumentada: Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Higher Education Undocumented Students In The San Diego-Tijuana Border Region, Adan Escobedo Sanchez
Dissertation: Open Access: Safeguarding from Scrutiny: Toward a Critical Consciousness of Organizational Culture in Humanitarian NGOs, Andrew Henck
Dissertation: Open Access: A Leadership Laboratory: Exploring the Use of Case-in-Point Pedagogy to Develop Complex Thinking in Leaders, Erica Corley Jackson
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
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
Dissertation: Open Access: The Journeys of Women in Local Elected Office: From Community Engagement to Making Meaningful Contributions, Andrea Marr
Dissertation: Open Access: Racism without Race: The Racialization of Middle Eastern and North African Students at U.S. Colleges, Hannah Mesouani
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Being Multicultural in the Workplace, Fiorella Morales
Dissertation: Open Access: Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego, Gabriel Nunez-Soria
Dissertation: Open Access: Utilizing new technologies to measure therapy effectiveness for mental and physical health, Jonathan Ossie
Dissertation: Open Access: Advocating for Social Change: How A Human Service Nonprofit Organization Makes Sense of Its Advocacy Successes and Failures, Megan Pontes
Dissertation: Open Access: Experiences of Tenured Hispanic Faculty in Community College Hispanic Serving Institutions, Barbara Resultan
Dissertation: Open Access: Talking Back to the ELPAC: Resilient Resistance and (Re)Imagining Through YPARt, Zulema Reynoso
Dissertation: Open Access: Queering Healthcare Equity: Exploring How Two Community Health Centers That Specialize in LGBTQ Healthcare Frame Cultural Competence, Tommy Royston
Dissertation: Open Access: Equalizing Postsecondary Transition for At-Promise Youth Receiving Special Education Services: A Chance to Succeed, Karla R. Sanchez
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
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
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
Dissertation: Open Access: HELMETS OFF: AN EXPLORATORY INVESTIGATION INTO THE PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITY OF BLACK NFL PLAYERS, Eugena Anderson
Dissertation: Open Access: The Mitigation of In-Group and Outgroup Biases: Understanding the Perceptions of Educators on the Contact Approach Theory, Brigitte Blazys
Dissertation: Open Access: Leaders of Change: An Exploration of Relationships Between International School Administrators’ Mindsets and Their Preferred Leadership Styles, Joe Brogan
Dissertation: Open Access: Unconscious Bias in United States Marine Corps Leadership Doctrine: Examining Microaggressions Through Document Analysis, Patrick Butler
Dissertation: Open Access: EXECUTIVE PEER ADVISORY GROUPS: WHO THEY ARE? WHAT ARE THEIR BENEFITS? WHY DO MEMBERS JOIN AND STAY?, Andrew Feghali
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
Dissertation: Open Access: When "First, Do No Harm" Fails: A Restorative Justice Approach to Workgroup Harms in Healthcare, Pedro L. Flores
Dissertation: Open Access: Academic Library Succession Planning in the University of California (UC) System, Crystal Goldman
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
Dissertation: Open Access: The Pontem Path: A Case Study of a Catholic Bridge Program Focusing on College Readiness, Sean Green
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding Food Waste Behavior and Ways To Influence Positive Change and Waste Reduction, David Hubinger
Dissertation: Open Access: Breaking Boundaries: Investigating the experiences of Racially Diverse Low Socioeconomic Status Students through a Narrative Inquiry Approach, Ryan Jumamil
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Benefits of Latino Giving Circles: An Emancipatory Research Study, Adriana Loson-Ceballos
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
Dissertation: Open Access: A STUDY OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY STUDENTS WHO IDENTIFY AS REFUGEES WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED INTERRUPTED EDUCATION AND TRAUMA, Merdin Mohammed
Dissertation: Open Access: Improving the Retention of United States (U.S.) Government Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Employees, Jeffrey Myers
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Latinidad and Agency of Voice: Latina Leader Identity Development, Cristina Padilla
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Technology as a Leadership Context: An Examination of Technostress and Group Performance, Sanket Patel
Dissertation: Open Access: School Administrator Preparation in Special Education: A Cross-Case Analysis, Emily Ruiz
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
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Impact of an Online Leadership Course on Japanese Undergraduates' Conceptions of Leadership, Ryosuke Watanabe
Dissertations and Theses from 2021
Dissertation: USD Users Only: The Strengthening of Civil Society: Nonprofit Capacity Building in The City of San Diego, Lyn Corbett
Dissertation: Open Access: Espoused Versus Operationalized Organizational Values: A Case Study of Values Integration, Erik Dees
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Expanding Consciousness Across Disruptions: Developmental Leadership Coaches Growing Together Through Action Inquiry, Ilaria Distefano
Dissertation: Open Access: Leadership Development in Saudi Arabia’s Private Sector: A Mixed Methods Approach, Khaled Hanaky
Dissertation: Open Access: Does Winning Matter? An Examination of the Impact of Success on Former Student-Athlete Philanthropic Giving, Zach Harris
Dissertation: Open Access: Grassroots Talent Development at La Maestra: Understanding the Perceptions of Leaders and Staff, Gorn Huvanandana
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding the Benefits of Experiential Learning for Executive Leader Development: A Mixed Methods Approach, Bruce Loveless
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
Dissertation: Open Access: Using Visual Storytelling to Design Solutions-Based Approaches to Homelessness, Peggy Peattie
Dissertation: Open Access: An Explanatory Sequential Study of Cadet Commitment at the United States Air Force Academy, Justin Pendry
Dissertation: Open Access: Oneida College Lacrosse Players’ Perspectives of the Sacred Game of Lacrosse, Thomas Reed
Dissertation: Open Access: An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America, Nick Santos