Dissertations and Theses from 2025
Dissertation: Open Access: Leading Through Crisis: San Diego County Schools' Response to the Social Emotional Needs of All Students, Johana Bielma
Dissertation: Open Access: Black Parents’ Use of Educational Advocates: Disrupting Structural and Systemic Racism in Education, Fredericka R. Butler PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Latinas in Higher Education: Paving & Weaving Wholeheartedly, Ariela M. Canizal
Dissertation: Open Access: Culturally Affirming Independent School Board Governance: Centering the Experiences of Independent School Board Members of Color, Christopher S. Dennis PhD
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring the Experience of Embodiment of Diverse Leaders, Susan Lynn Flaming Yeats
Dissertation: Open Access: Virtual Reality and Nursing Education: A Randomized Control Trial of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality as a Simulation Modality, David R. Haigh
Dissertation: Open Access: Walking the Tightropes: Tensions in High School Religious Education, Nicholas Hurt
Dissertation: Open Access: Restricted Access: Structural Gatekeeping and the Black Student Experience in Accounting Education, Richard W. Hurt III
Dissertation: Open Access: Striking the Balance: The Relationship Between Government Funding and Nonprofit Financial Health, Mehrnoush Jamshidi
Dissertation: Open Access: Ethnic Studies for Secondary Schooling: Collaborative Curricular Insights from a Working Collective, Kelly León
Dissertation: Open Access: Challenging Dominant Mindset Ideologies: Transforming Teaching and Learning That Impact Latinx Students, Francisco Lopez
Dissertation: Open Access: Liberatory Love: Exploring Educators’ Perspectives in Alternative Education, Kamala J. Mallipudi
Dissertation: Open Access: Constructing Portraits of Elementary Teachers of Ethnic Studies: Examining the Narratives of Anti-Racist Educators in an Era of Common Core Curriculum and Instruction, Jennifer S. Manglicmot
Dissertation: Open Access: Famílias Indigenas Entre Mundos: Standing in Pachakuti, Living in Chi’xi Within the Constellation of Their Comunidad de Saberes, Ymasumac Marañón Davis
Dissertation: Open Access: Belonging Is Resistance: Illuminating the Power of Women of Color Mid-Level Administrators in Higher Education, Rachelle Martinez
Dissertation: Open Access: The Lived Experiences of Disabled Students in Inclusive Classrooms, Tanner Mizel
Dissertation: Open Access: Understanding and Engaging in Equity Work: A Phenomenological Action Research Study of Community College ESOL Instructors, Emily E. Packer
Dissertation: Open Access: Anchored Networks: Navigating Formal and Informal Pathways to Access Educational Resources in Transient and Military Families, Lara Ray
Dissertation: Open Access: Reimagining Pedagogies of the Prison Yard: Using Ethnotheatre to Embody Transcarceral Conocimiento, Mabelle Reynoso
Dissertation: Open Access: Exploring a Holistic Conceptualization of Destructive Leadership: Perspectives from the Lived Experiences of Latino Law Enforcement Command Staff Officers, Carmelin Rivera
Dissertation: Open Access: How We Show Up Matters: Transformative Adult Social Emotional Learning to Build Equity-Centered Schools, Samantha L. Rummage-Massey
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Predicting Veteran Entrepreneurial Success with Effectuation, Gilbert A. Saguid Jr
Dissertation: Open Access: Latinas Leading with Latinidad: Incorporating the Latina Identity into Leadership, Donna San Miguel
Dissertation: Open Access: Becoming a Leader “On the Job”: An Exploratory Study Examining How Internal Interim Leaders Build their Leadership Capacity While Nonprofit Executive Directors are on Sabbatical, Michelle Schneider
Dissertation: Open Access: The Integration Struggles of Myanmar/Burmese-Catholic Youth Refugees in the United States, Nant Thazin Shwe
Dissertation: Open Access: Coming Back to Life: Inner Work, Intentional Containers and Feminine Leadership for Social Change — A Phenomenological Case Study of a Social Change-Oriented Organization and the Self, Maria Trias Arraut
Dissertation: Open Access: Examining the Creative Process of Visual Artists: A Phenomenological Study, Filiberto Vargas
Dissertation: USD Users Only: Becoming a Beloved Community: A Restorative Reckoning for a Radical Conversion to Transform Discourse in Higher Education, LaTasha Tomay Varlack-Butler
Dissertation: Open Access: Hire Outcomes: The African American Educator Experience of Equity and Diversity in Education, Myeshia Whigham
Dissertation: Open Access: Advancing Equity in Financial Aid for Black Students: A Document Analysis Study of Student Equity Plans in California Community Colleges, Edwina Williams
Dissertation: Open Access: Post Racial Reckoning: Montessori Instructors' Perspectives on Teaching Through An Antibias Antiracist Lens, Jasmine E. Williams
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: Acquisition of English by Additional Language Learners in Inquiry-Based Classrooms Within International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program Schools, Valerian Goguadze
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