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Author:

Allegro, John Anthony

Title:

BLUEprint for self-authorship: A case study exploration of a peer mentoring program

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

higher education
mentoring
student affairs
peer mentoring
case study
self-authorship
student development
BLUEprint
PRCC
learning outcomes
mentor
mentee

File:

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Committee Members:

David Alexander Gamson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mindy L Kornhaber, Committee Member

Author:

Quigley, Kaitlin Angelina

Title:

The Changing World of Student Expression: A Legal Analysis of Online Student Speech Issues

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

Free speech
First Amendment
Cyber-bullying
higher education
free expression
legal
legal analysis
online speech
online education
academic freedom

File:

Download Quigley_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S Guthrie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Karen Paulson, Committee Member
Kyle Peck, Outside Member

Author:

Fedri, Melanie Elizabeth

Title:

A Case Study of Curriculum Entrepreneurship: Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Education into Engineering

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
curriculum
curriculum change
curriculum innovation
curriculum entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship
bricolage
engineering education
social entrepreneurship
social entrepreneurship education
entrepreneurship education
entrepreneurial process

File:

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Committee Members:

Karly Sarita Ford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karly Sarita Ford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David S Guthrie, Committee Member
Gerald K Letendre, Committee Member
Timothy Grant Pollock, Outside Member
Lisa R Lattuca, Special Member

Author:

Moran, Peter L

Title:

The Evolution of the Legal Relationship between Penn State and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
governance
legal

File:

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Committee Members:

Neal Hutchens, Special Member
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fred Loomis, Committee Member
David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Hopsicker, Outside Member

Author:

Hulbert, Azalea Marie

Title:

Inspiring Integrity: An Exploration Of Academic Integrity Behaviors in Undergraduate Business Students

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

academic integrity
academic dishonesty
honor code
grounded theory
ethnography
higher education
academic honesty

File:

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Committee Members:

David S Guthrie, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S Guthrie, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Karen Paulson, Committee Member
Glen Kreiner, Outside Member
Neal Hutchens, Special Member

Author:

Derreth, Robert Tyler

Title:

CREATING COURSE COMMUNITY: COMMUNITY BASED PEDAGOGY AND SOCIAL LEARNING IN A THEATER COURSE

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

community-based learning
higher education
teaching and learning
sociocultural theory

File:

Download Derreth_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dorothy Evensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dorothy Evensen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David S Guthrie, Committee Member
Karly Sarita Ford, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Outside Member

Author:

Smal, Pia Sybilly

Title:

A Narrative Inquiry of Instructors’ Emotional Receptivity in Addressing Students Needs in Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Counselor Education

Keywords:

counselor education
student development
ethics of care
narrative inquiry
thematic analysis
mental health
emotional distress
higher education

File:

Download Instructors_emotional_receptivity.pdf

Committee Members:

JoLynn Carney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
JoLynn Carney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Taylor Herbert, Committee Member
Katie Kostohryz, Committee Member
Mari Haneda, Outside Member

Author:

Barney, Danielle

Title:

Intersections of Athletics and Institutional Identity in Women's College Transitions to Coeducation

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
intercollegiate athletics
coeducation
gender
institutional change
institutional identity

File:

Download Dissertation-Fall_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Roger Geiger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Geiger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Member
Mark Dyreson, Committee Member
Jessica Lynn Schultz, Outside Member

Author:

Olson, Bradley Louis

Title:

Higher Education and Community Development: A Multi-Stakeholder View on the Correlates of Project Participation and Design Preferences

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Extension Education

Keywords:

higher education
community development
participation
engagement
project design
social interaction

File:

Download Brad_Olson_Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark A Brennan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark A Brennan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rama B Radhakrishna, Committee Member
Nicole Sheree Webster, Committee Member
Jacqueline Edmondson, Outside Member
Theodore Roberts Alter, Committee Member

Author:

Thoman, Jennifer

Title:

ACADEMIC ADVISING AT PENN STATE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND POTENTIAL

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy

Keywords:

advising
developmental theory
higher education
academic coaching
career counseling

File:

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Committee Members:

Dana Mitra, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Maryellen Schaub, Committee Member
Kevin Kinser, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Shannon

Title:

THE USABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL AND EMPLOYMENT RECORDS FOR INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

wage records
unemployment insurance
education records
employment records
institutional research
assessment
human capital theory
signaling theory
workforce development
higher education
employment outcomes of education
labor economics
labor research
earnings of college graduates
retention

File:

Download SHANNON_LEE_FINAL_DISSERTATION_10.10.19.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lynn Passmore, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lynn Passmore, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
John Thomas Harwood, Outside Member
David W. Stevens, Special Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kafle, Madhav Prasad

Title:

Negotiating Academic Literacy in Mobility: Undergraduate Refugee Students’ Challenges in US Higher Education

Graduate Program:

Applied Linguistics

Keywords:

academic literacy
Bhutanese refugees
higher education
informal networks
literacy challenges
literacy pedagogy
mobility
negotiation

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Committee Members:

Suresh Canagarajah, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Celeste S Kinginger, Committee Member
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Committee Member
Xiaoye You, Outside Member
Robert William Schrauf, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Marcinkevage, Carrie

Title:

Critical Success Factors of Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) Strategy in a Higher Education Institution

Graduate Program:

Workforce Education and Development

Keywords:

action research
appreciative inquiry
boundary permeability
boundary theory
critical success factors
CRM
constituent relationship management
customer relationship management
higher education
organizational boundaries
action research
appreciative inquiry
boundary permeability
boundary theory
critical success factors
CRM
constituent relationship management
customer relationship management
higher education

File:

Download Higher_Ed_CRM-Marcinkevage.pdf

Committee Members:

William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member
Glen Kreiner, Committee Member
Brian Harold Cameron, Outside Member
Susan Mary Land, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jaffa, Jana Marie

Title:

The Internationalization of Higher Education: A Case Study of the Emergence of Global Programs at The Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
internationalization
student mobility
international programs
organizational culture

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Jaffa_Jana_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David S Guthrie, Committee Member
David Post, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Craig A. Campbell, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miron, Layli

Title:

Reframing Immigration through Religious Advocacy: Rhetoric, Cosmopolitanism, and the Divine

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

migration
immigrant
refugee
asylum
immigration policy
advocacy
activism
religion
Islam
Baha'i Faith
Bahá'í
Catholicism
Jesuit
social media
United States
human rights
cosmopolitan
public communication
comics
faith-based
nonprofit organization
NGO
nativism
xenophobia
nationalism
higher education
pedagogy
Mexico
Iran
globalization
rhetoric and composition
Christianity
Zoroastrianism
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
transnational
undocumented
Islamophobia
women's rights
writing studies
border control
detention
college teaching
social justice
mobility
deportation

File:

Download Miron_ReframingImmigration__c_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xiaoye You, Committee Member
Ana Cooke, Committee Member
Suresh Canagarajah, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shamekhi, Yahya

Title:

Distribution of Higher Education Subsidies in the United States

Graduate Program:

Higher Education

Keywords:

higher education
fiscal policies
public policy
economics of education
subsidy
progressivity
regressivity
education finance
financial aid

File:

Download Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Jesse Cheslock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Jesse Cheslock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Committee Member
David P Baker, Committee Member
Roger Finke, Outside Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Winkler, Stephanie

Title:

Privacy Management for Student Data in Higher Education Learning Analytics Applications

Graduate Program:

Informatics

Keywords:

learning analytics
privacy
higher education

File:

Download SWinklerThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Dongwon Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Susser, Committee Member
S. Shyam Sundar, Committee Member
Aiping Xiong, Committee Member
Mary Beth Rosson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Webb, Ashton Robert

Title:

An Analysis of University Patenting Activity

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

higher education
patenting

File:

Download Webb_Analysis_of_University_Patenting_Activity.pdf

Committee Members:

John Cheslock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kelly Rosinger, Major Field Member
Karen Paulson, Major Field Member
George Lesieutre, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patil, Padmavathi

Title:

Searching for President 'Right': Evaluating a Typology of Research University Leaders

Graduate Program:

Higher Education (PHD)

Keywords:

higher education
presidents
leadership
human capital theory
upper echelons theory
organizational theory
typology
institutional outcomes

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Committee Members:

Kevin Kinser, Program Head/Chair
John Cheslock, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kelly Rosinger, Major Field Member
Donald Hambrick, Minor & Outside Field Member
Aparna Joshi, Outside Unit Member

Author:

Kryst, Erica

Title:

The Role of Higher Education in the Habitus Transformation of Youth from Rural Communities

Graduate Program:

Educational Theory and Policy (PHD)

Keywords:

rural education
higher education
habitus
rural youth and communities
rural out-migration

File:

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Committee Members:

Gerald K Letendre, Program Head/Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Soo-yong Byun, Major & Minor Field Member
Mark Brennan, Outside Unit Member
Kai Schafft, Outside Field Member