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Author:: Freeman, Amy Louise
Title:: Money, Math and Engineering: The Relationships Between Community Economics, Math Preparation and the Graduation of Racially Underrepresented Engineers
Graduate Program:: Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:: prediction
recruitment
math programs
minority engineering program
STEM
poverty
race
retention
money
precollege
underrepresented
minority engineering
minority
math preparation
summer bridge
high school funding
MEP
diversity
graduation
engineering
multicultural
funding
high school
engineering shortage
Penn State
File:: Download Final_Document2.pdf
Committee Members:: William J Rothwell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Ann Kolb, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Kenneth Carter Gray, Committee Member

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Author:: Spokus, Diane M
Title:: Factors Influencing Older Worker Quality of Life and Intent to Continue to Work
Graduate Program:: Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:: quality of life
human resource management
supervisory support
nursing
retention
older workers
exhaustion
corporate fit
healthcare management
File:: Download Spokus-wjrcomments_June_4_08__pdf_Format_Changes_LC1.pdf
Committee Members:: William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Edgar I Farmer Sr., Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member

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Author:: DeOnna, Janetta
Title:: Developing and Validating an Instrument to Measure the Perceived Job Competencies Linked to Performance and Staff Retention of First-Line Nurse Managers Employed in a Hospital Setting
Graduate Program:: Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:: nurse manager
competencies
retention
instrument
NMCI
File:: Download DeOnna_Dissertation_7-25-06.pdf
Committee Members:: William J Rothwell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Wesley Edward Donahue, Committee Member

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Author:: Mordan, Benjamin Ray
Title:: Retention and professional mentoring of beginning career and technical education teachers
Graduate Program:: Workforce Education and Development
Keywords:: professional mentoring
retention
career and technical education
beginning teachers
File:: Download Dissertation_Final_Submission.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert W Clark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert W Clark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cynthia Pellock, Committee Member
Richard Allen Walter, Committee Member
Edgar Paul Yoder, Committee Member

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