Filters: Collection:"ir_etd" Publication Type:"dissertation" Department:"Educational Leadership & Policy"
| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | "No one know": untold narratives of Southeast Asian American student success | Coquemont, Kathryn Kay | Educational leadership; Asian American studies; Educational administration | This study explores how Southeast Asian American college students experience success in college despite systemic and institutional barriers. The underrepresentation of Southeast Asian American perspectives in higher education research has created a deficit in understanding this population's experien... | 2018 |
| 2 |  | "What if they fill this position with a man?": a feminist exploration of women outdoor leaders in higher education | Roger, Elizabeth Bond | Gender studies; Recreation; Womens studies | The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women outdoor leaders in higher education. While outdoor education provides many positive learning outcomes for students, it is a field in which women and people of color are underrepresented, particularly in leadership roles. T... | 2018 |
| 3 |  | "You are not who you said you were when you were hired!": an autoethnographical account of a student affairs professional's trans* becoming | Medina-Martinez, C. Kai | Higher education; Social work; Educational administration; LGBTQ studies; Higher education administration | Following the format of autoethnographic vignettes, this study describes the experience of a student affairs educator as they navigate their trans* becoming while working on a university campus. While many higher education institutions include gender identity and gender in their nondiscrimination po... | 2019 |
| 4 |  | "You have no life other than that, so you better like what you're doing": a feminist phenomenology of women in undergraduate engineering majors | Mcdonald, Lori K. | engineering; undergraduate; women | The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of female undergraduate engineering students who either switched their majors or stayed in engineering to graduate. Historically women are underrepresented in undergraduate engineering majors despite deliberate recruitment an... | 2016 |
| 5 |  | A case study of community cultural wealth among "mountain west" chicana/o college students | Valdez, Trina Marisa | Chicana and Chicano; Community cultural wealth; Critical race theory; Cultural capital; Cultural wealth; Latina/o critical race theory | The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify some of the cultural wealth and resources that Chicano/Latino college students, families, and communities hold and share. By using Latino critical race theory (LatCrit) to conceptualize cultural wealth, it was possible to focus this study on an ... | 2015-05 |
| 6 |  | A genealogy of Utah 's H.B. 144 (2002): understanding policy text malleability and interrogating racist nativism and legality blindness in policy enactment | Castrellon, Liliana Estella | Education policy; Higher education; Hispanic American studies; Educational leadership | Immigration and education policies between state and federal levels often push students into a cyclical web of contradictions that replicate systemic injustices and leave many students in a conundrum of uncertainty to their access and continued eligibility to attend higher education. Drawing from Cr... | 2019 |
| 7 |  | A history of the education of the Ute Indians, 1847-1905. | Reid, Leslie Wayne | Ute Indians; Education | The purpose of this study is to record the events in the development of Ute Indian education in Utah between the years 1847 and 1905. What the Mormon Church and the federal government contributed in this respect through educational contributions at different times especially between the years 1847 a... | 1972 |
| 8 |  | A schools and staffing survey analysis of teacher job attitudes and working conditions in native american communities | Stryker, Donald L | Bureau of Indian Education; Native American Alaskan Native; Organizational commitment; Schools and Staffing Survey; Teacher job satisfaction; Teacher pay satisfaction | The United States federal government funds two distinct types of school systems on or near indigenous lands: tribally controlled schools and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-operated schools. This study fills a void in the scholarly research on differences in teacher working conditions and job attit... | 2016 |
| 9 |  | A study of international undergraduate students taking online courses: group and organizational socialization theory and sense of belonging/isolation | Adams, Jacob Lyle | International students; Online education; Socialization theory | Purpose: This study sought to (1) identify and describe the experiences of international students participating in U.S. cohort- and text-based asynchronous online courses and to 2) analyze perceptions of belonging/isolation within online environments through group and organizational socialization th... | 2013-12 |
| 10 |  | The accidental retention agents: how student affairs can influence student retention by understanding how key players (i.e., faculty) perceive their role in student success and retention | Stone, Andrew John | Faculty Involvement; Student Retention; Student Success | Over the past 40 years significant research has attempted to understand what influences student retention and overall student success. As leaders/administrators and student affairs professionals at colleges and universities around the country have searched for new ways to improve retention, underst... | 2015-05 |
| 11 |  | Army ROTC and coping with change : a methodology | Gappa, Joseph A. | United States; Army; Reserve Officers' Training Corps | The purpose of this study was to develop and test a statistical methodology for comparing 52 variables derived from identified problem areas in contemporary Army ROTC programs. An analysis of variance was the first major step in this methodology and served the purpose of comparing successful to subs... | 1976 |
| 12 |  | Assessing how higher education administrators of color navigate spaces of advocacy for social justice | Reyes, Kyle Anthony | Advocacy; critical race theory; higher education; identity; leadership; social justice | This study explores how senior administrators of color in higher education navigate spaces of advocacy for social justice. The low representation of persons of color in administrative positions combined with persisting racial gaps and inequities create a need for greater understanding of leadership ... | 2012-12 |
| 13 |  | Broken silence: adding antidiscrimination protections for sexual orientation and gender at watershed University | Nye, William Barney | antidiscrimination; LGBTQ + community; queer; college/university policymakers | College and university policymakers are often forced to react to incidents of homo- or transphobia on their campuses. This study explores the case of one institution, Watershed University, that endeavored to add protections to the institution's anti-discrimination policy for sexual orientation and g... | 2020 |
| 14 |  | Chinese international undergraduate students at a U.S. university: a mixed methods study of first-year academic experiences and achievement | Ma, Wei | Chinese international undergraduates in the U.S.; first-year academic achievement; first-year academic experiences | The purpose of this study was to explore the first-year academic experiences and achievement of Chinese international undergraduate students in American higher education. To do so, I tracked a cohort of Chinese international undergraduates through their first-year at a public research university in ... | 2014-05 |
| 15 |  | Community college students' perception(s) of the community college and the associate's degree | Nguyen, Tammy | associate's degree; community college; student perception | Millions of students enroll in community colleges each year because of their open enrollment, lower cost of tuition, and flexible class schedules. Once enrolled at a community college, many community college students aspire to transfer their credits to a 4-year institution. One way to transfer credi... | 2021 |
| 16 |  | Educational impacts of discipline policies on Chicano students in Utah: a mixed-method critical race theory and latcrit analysis | Valles, Brenda Guadalupe | Chicano Education; Critical Race Theory; LatCrit; Mixed-Method; School-to-prison Pipeline; Zero-Tolerance | For many years public school discipline policies have been critiqued for their disproportionate racial/ethnic distribution. This study examines zero tolerance discipline policies including suspensions, expulsions, and related practices in two Utah school districts. This research expands on previous ... | 2015 |
| 17 |  | Engagement of adult undergraduates: insights from the national survey of student engagement | Southerland, J. Nathaniel | Adult; Engagement; Persistence; Retention; Student; Undergraduate; Educational psychology; Higher education | Adults are participating in all levels of higher education in increasing numbers due to a variety of societal, cultural, technological, and economic pressures. While many adult students attend 2-year colleges and technical institutions, 4-year colleges and universities are also enrolling substantia... | 2010-08 |
| 18 |  | Exploring community partners' perceptions, motivations, and shaping of service-learning | Yack Hall, Melissa | Collaborations; Community partners; Nonprofits; Partnerships; Service-learning | This multisite case study sought to build a deeper understanding of community partner experiences with service-learning collaborations. The study examined how community partners involved with service-learning collaborations shape and evaluate these collaborations; what their motivations were when t... | 2015-05 |
| 19 |  | Exploring policy connections of student discipline | Kalvesmaki, Andrea Faith | School safety has long been a concern for students, parents, educators, and policymakers. Student discipline policies are often used to promote school safety. Exclusionary discipline policies are one category of student discipline. These discipline policies remove students from educational environme... | 2019 | |
| 20 |  | Factors affecting the fundraising of academic deans | Hunsaker, Robert Carlisle | This research sought to determine whether measures of deans' perceived fundraising self-efficacy and fundraising knowledge/behavior were predictive of the number of new major donors and amount of funds raised by their colleges over a 1-year period. The sample came from a national pool of academic de... | 2019 | |
| 21 |  | Factors that influence graducation efficiency of baccalaureate recipients at Weber State University | Bullock, Casey Dee | Higher Education Administration; Education Policy; Higher education | Policymakers at the state and national levels have identified college completion as a key policy priority. The proportion of adults with a college credential has decreased and the equity gap in college completion is expanding. Given this policy context, there is an interest in the extent to which de... | 2017 |
| 22 |  | Government accountability reports and public education policy: studying political actors' decision-making | Salazar, Timothy Ross | Class-size reduction; Education policy; Government accountability report; Political actors | This study asks how government accountability reports are used to influence public education policy. Government accountability reports, called "audits" in Utah, prove to be useful tools for examining education policy. Using a collective case study design examining Utah's Class Size Reduction (CSR) p... | 2013-08 |
| 23 |  | Grounded theory of adult student persistence | Capps, Rosemary | Adult education | This grounded theory study investigates adult student persistence at a community college. Student persistence in college is a prerequisite for degree achievement, which correlates with higher earnings and overall better quality of life. Persistence rates remain low for adult students, who combine th... | |
| 24 |  | The hijacking of higher education for women in postwelfare America: a study of underserved and invisible low-income mothers on campus | Swaner, Julie | American dream; Gender stratification; Policy construction; Poverty and class issues; Welfare analysis | This research addressed the problem of women in welfare accessing higher education at Salt Lake Community College and the University of Utah. Gendered and entrenched patriarchal systems dominate institutional practice throughout the Department of Workforce Services (DWS), the agency that distributes... | 2011-11 |
| 25 |  | History of the efforts to coordinate higher education in Utah | Hair, Mary Jane Stewart | This historical study identified the efforts made that led to the coordination of higher education in Utah, culminating in the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1969, the creation of the State Board of Higher Education and the appointment of Dr. G. Home r Durham as the first Commissioner of Hig... | 1974 |