Theses/Dissertations - Educational Leadership
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Derailed : an interpretivist study of how senior-level higher education administrators experience and navigate job loss.
(2020-11-05)This qualitative study used a multi-frame interpretivist approach to explore academic leaders’ involuntary or unwanted job departures—derailment. Informed by interviews with executive-level college and university administrators ... -
Influences on academic talent development of Black females : systematic review and case study.
(2020-09-24)Although Black females are the majority of the Black population in colleges and universities, Black women are still underrepresented in advanced degree programs. Moreover, Black females are underrepresented in other areas ... -
Do gender and expertise matter? An exploration of athletic product endorsement in China.
(2020-07-15)This study examined the effect of an athlete endorser’s gender-sport fit and expertise in the decision-making process of athlete endorsed product impressions in a Chinese sports market. The result of this study showed that ... -
Thriving through relationships : exploring the influence of interactions on college student success for living-learning community students.
(2020-06-11)College student interactions have long been categorized around academic and social domains of students’ lives. Studies of interactions also often omit how professional campus staff are involved. In addition to including ... -
Effective middle school practices to reduce the frequency with which students share sexually explicit content.
(2020-01-16)The Central Independent School District (CISD) has experienced an uptick in student sexting incidents at the middle school level. It is the opinion of Central ISD and the researcher that additional efforts are required ... -
An examination of leadership development strategies of fast-growth public-school districts in Texas.
(2020-02-05)The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District (LCISD) hires over a dozen campus administrators annually. This has created a repetitive struggle to find internal candidates who are effectively prepared to fill these ... -
The search for a new order : a historical evaluation of community-based accountability in Texas public education.
(2020-02-20)The purpose of this study was to advance understanding of the perceptions of educational leaders promoting community-based accountability systems in Texas. Specifically, this study analyzed the educational intents of ... -
Examining junior high principals’ perceptions of a delayed school start time.
(2020-04-03)The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the perceptions of junior high school principals as they relate to a change in school start time policy in a large suburban school district. Throughout the last two ... -
Principals' perceptions of self-efficacy to administer special education in relation to regional education service center professional learning opportunities.
(2020-03-06)The purpose of this doctoral study was to investigate Texas principals’ perceptions of self-efficacy to administer special education services. An additional focus was the degree to which principals perceived the professional ... -
Factors affecting teacher retention in a local school district.
(2020-04-09)Teacher turnover is high in many school systems throughout the world. However, school systems in a small number of countries consistently present low annual teacher turnover rates. A growing body of research shows that ... -
The influence of engineering identity, harmonious passion, and obsessive passion on grit in engineering students.
(2020-04-22)Research has shown that individuals tend to remain committed to long-term goals when they are passionate about what they are doing and when some part of their self-concept is tied to their goals. This study uses engineering ... -
Race, space, and saving face.
(2020-04-09)Despite diversity on college campuses increasing nationwide, higher education institutions still struggle to promote diversity and inclusion equally. The current literature shows a need to better understand the relationship ... -
The effects of chronic absenteeism in kindergarten on third-grade STAAR scores.
(2020-04-21)This study was an investigation of whether or not kindergarten attendance was associative with and predictive of student performance on the third-grade state of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness for both mathematics ... -
Community college success coaching : a phenomenological exploration.
(2019-07-12)The purpose of this study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the essence of the emerging success coach profession and to understand how these community college student affairs staff members articulate and analyze ... -
Student experiences with wonder through higher education.
(2019-04-23)The purpose of this study is to understand the process by which students engage with wonder through experiences in higher education. Wonder as an emotion and practice has been studied extensively from a theoretical, ... -
Diversity in students’ personal networks : an egocentric network analysis of diversity’s role in student thriving.
(2019-04-23)Racial and ethnic diversity has previously been linked with a multitude of positive benefits in business, K-12 education, higher education, and in communities. Additionally, The Thriving Quotient is a mechanism for better ... -
Structure, culture, and nurture in women’s academic leadership.
(2018-06-27)This qualitative study investigated what role structure, culture, and nurture play in women’s experiences in academic leadership. From personal interviews with 41 women in senior-level roles across Birnbaum’s four ... -
Female community college faculty : perspectives of collegiality and the collegium.
(2018-07-11)Although collegiality is an essential component of faculty work, it is a concept that is universally championed, yet conditionally awarded based upon membership into the collective professorial unit known as the collegium. ... -
Examining the effect of Enneagram competence on empathy in college students.
(2018-04-19)The Enneagram is a personality system that describes nine personality types with distinct underlying motivations that drive behavior. The Enneagram exists to help people understand themselves and others, so the purpose ... -
The creation of an instrument for evaluating residential student staff members.
(2018-04-24)Residential student staff members are a valuable part of housing and residence life teams in colleges and universities; these student leaders are at the forefront of extracurricular education efforts, crisis response, and ...
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