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Archived Member Dissertations
December 2004
Organization and Leadership
Ernest Brown | Ethnographic Conversation on Literacy with Second-Year African
American Students in an Urban University Setting
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Mitchell
Derek Ivan Truesdale | Profiles of Residency Program Directors and Their Perceptions
of Physician Leaders in Academic Emergency Medicine: A Participatory Study
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Mitchell
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May 2004
Organization and Leadership
Ingrid Coco Williams | Perceptions of the Adequacy of Two California Community
College Counseling and Advising Programs for African-American Students with
Transfer Goals
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Mitchell
Monica Green | No Teacher Wants to be Left Behind: A Hermeneutic Analysis of
Technology Professional Development in Honduran Public Education
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ellen Herda
Thienhuong Hoang | The Hues of Viewpoint, Textual Connection, Interpretation,
and Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Their Effects on the Art of Composing Meaning
in Literature
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Mitchell
Daniel Mehring | Reclaiming their Garden: Care, Mimesis, Legitimation, and
Just Institutions within the Socieconomic Development Efforts of the Cofan of
Ecuador.
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ellen Herda
Maureen White | A Celebration of Community, Conversation and Change: Tranformative
and Communal Narrative Identity of Classified (Support) Staff in Higher Education
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Larry Johnson
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December 2002
Catholic Educational Leadership
Louise M. Alcott-Lutz | The Perceptions of Administrators and Teachers Regarding
Student Achievement and Motivation in Catholic Elementary Schools with Year-Round
Education
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Sr. Jeanette Hagelskamp, S.P.
Timothy E. Eden | Seasons of Change: Catholic Higher Education from the End
of the Second World War to the Decade Following the Second Vatican Council
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Sr. Mary Peter Traviss, O.P.
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Counseling Psychology
Edgar Albaro Callo | Effectiveness of the Multicultural Counseling and Therapy
Model on Counselor Trainee Cross-Cultural Competence
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Brian Gerrard
Nancy Sue Rosenbledt | A Support Group Intervention to Develop Self-Esteem,
Authenticity in Relationships, and Resiliency in Early Adolescent Girls at Risk
for School Failure
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Joan Avis
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International and Multicultural Education
William L. Carpenter | A Comparative and Contrastive Analysis of the Concept
of Racism in the Works of Cornel West and Paul Gilroy
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Fr. Denis Collins, S.J.
Helen Louise Goff Hanna | Persistent and Steadfast: Suber wa Sumood; Voice
of Community Among Christian Palestinian-American Women
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Dorothy Messerschmitt
Bo Vang Lee | Hmong High School Students’ Critical Reflections on Heritage
Language and Academic Success
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Rosita Galang
Sharon Rene Willey | Reflection and Action: A Participatory Study Exploring
White College Administrators’ Understanding of Whiteness and Racism
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Alma Flor Ada
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Learning and Instruction
John William Whiting | Personal Teacher Efficacy and Correctional Educators:
A Study of Teacher Training, Special Education, Classroom Management and Teacher
Transition Choices
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Robert Burns
Kathleen Mary Fletcher | An Outcome Study of Graduate Degree Programs in the
Field of Non-Profit Management Education
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Busk
Margaret M. Hansen-Maag | The Effectiveness of an Interactive Multimedia Learning
Explanation on Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Mathematical Achievement
and Self-Efficacy
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Mathew Mitchell
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Organization and Leadership
Paulos Welday Mesmer | Curriculum Praxis as Understood and Experienced by the
Educational Community at Christ the Teacher Institute for Education in Nairobi,
Kenya
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Mary Abascal-Hildebrand
Lorraine Christine Trollinger | The Imaginative Capacities of High School Special
Education Students
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Deborah Bloch
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May 1999
Counseling Psychology
Gilbert Chavez | The Relationship Between the Motive to Avoid Success and Biculturalism
in Mexican American Community College Students
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Brian Gerrard
Kathyrn A. Hayner | Perceived and Actual Use of Psychological Interventions
By Occupational Therapists Evaluating and Treating Patients with physical Disabilities
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Terrence Patterson
Norma E. Laine | The Relationship of Job Satisfaction, Burnout, and Coping
Practices Among Manager-Care and Non-Managed-care Doctors of Dentistry
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Larry Palmatier
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International & Multicultural Education
Thomas C. Alibrandi | Inspiring Substance Abusing Youth to Succeed in School
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Dorothy Messerschmitt
Dorothy Elaine Bryant | Impact of Language and Culture on Health Care
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Alma Flor Ada
Svetlana Curcic | Schooling for Citizenship
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Rosita Galang
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Learning & Instruction
Keith L. Felton | An Investigation of Teacher Roles at a Magnet Middle School
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia Busk
Samar G. Malouf | The Effects of Integrating Polya's with Wheatley's Models
on 9th Grade Students
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Matthew Mitchell
Dianthe Spencer | Differences in Motivational Determinants of Traditional and
Non-Traditional Undergraduates Enrolled in a G. E. Course
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Susan Evans
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Organization & Leadership
Harley E. Baker | Attachment Style and Career Exploration Among Late Adolescents
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Deborah P. Bloch
Judy Castro | Healing as a Hermeneutic Process Through Adult Learning
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ellen A. Herda
Mary F. Fortune | A Comparison of the Perceptions of the Role of Advisors by
Student Leaders to Student Affairs Professionals in California community Colleges
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Patricia A. Mitchell
Karin Mae Williams | An Assessment of Corporate Leaders and Their Commitment
to Pre-College Education
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Allen Calvin
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Catholic Educational Leadership
Sr. Marie de Montfort Breaux | The Charisma of the Sisters of the Holy Family
as Perceived by Pastors, Principals, Faculty, Staff and Parents
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Sr. Mary Peter Traviss, O.P.
Lillian Kathleen Matan | The Relationship Between Select Personality Factors
of Principals and Successful Management of Inner City Schools
Dissertation Committee Chairperson: Dr. Virginia Shimabukuro
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