Browsing by Author "Fryar, Alisa"
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A case study of the transitions of veteran students to public university
Crall, Kasie (2022-05-13)College campuses across the nation are recruiting and admitting veteran students more than ever. Through their service, veteran students have earned a military benefit through their military service that will cover most ... -
Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States
Moore, Jonathan (2018-03-27)The popular and academic consensus on the substance of conservative opinion on immigration is that it is universally and overwhelmingly in favor of restrictive policy, but the existence of pro-immigration figures such as ... -
Consolidations in Higher Education: How Collaborative Structures and Processes Impact the Outcomes of Organizational Change
Valentine, Paul (2018-08)Over the past several decades, institutions of higher education have found themselves in a difficult environment. States have reduced funding, total enrollment has either fallen or flattened across several years, and ... -
Examining the Effects of Economic Knowledge
Billings, Dylan (2019)Because of its position as a valence issue, perceptions of the economy are strongly tied to opinions on various issues, presidential and congressional assessments, and even vote choice. Among the chief assumptions made by ... -
Form Factors: Chicano Movement Form and the Factors that Influenced it in Los Angeles and San Antonio
Camarillo, Tyler (2022-07-18)This dissertation has two goals. The first goal is to understand better the Chicano Movement, which is understudied in political science. The second goal is to find which movement theory best explains why movements take ... -
Free College for Whom? How Policy Design and Public Management Shape Program Access and Success
Bell, Elizabeth (2019-07)Drawing on theory from political science, policy process, and policy analysis/evaluation, this project investigates the different streams by which policy design influences the effectiveness of tuition-free college initiatives. ... -
Managerial Perceptions and Demographic Changes Within The Higher Education Landscape at Public Four-Year Institutions
Tapia, Eriech (2023-05-12)Drawing on theory from within public policy, administration, and several types of management this project looks to explore how campus leaders at public four-year higher education institutions have responded to shifts within ... -
Nonprofit Collaboration: Building Relationships Across Sectors
Murphy, Haley (2014-05-09)Discussions about nonprofit organizations often portray a very unique sector with a specific set of values, goals, and norms. And yet, there is a lot of diversity among nonprofit organizations in role, purpose and structure. ... -
On the Existence and Stability of Filiform Nilsolitons
Danser, Jordan (2022-08)This dissertation is concerned with the existence and stability of nilsoliton metrics on filiform Lie algebras. The results are presented in two major components. First, we give new results which preclude the existence of ... -
On the Prescribed Ricci Curvature of Noncompact Homogeneous Spaces with Two Isotropy Summands
Gaskins, Dustin (2023-05-12)The current dissertation works within the setting of noncompact homogeneous spaces 𝐺/𝐻 in which 𝐺 is semi-simple. In particular, we frequently work with a decomposition of the Lie algebra 𝔤, 𝔤 = 𝔥 ⊕ 𝔭'' ⊕ 𝔭', ... -
PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE
Shen, Ivy (2018-07-18)This dissertation examines the diffusion of performance-based funding policy in higher education based on the conceptual framework of policy innovation and diffusion. After examining the two waves of state adoption of ... -
Policy in Action: A Multidimensional Study of the Oklahoma's Promise Scholarship Program
Smith, Kylie (2023-12-15)This dissertation offers a multidimensional examination of the Oklahoma’s Promise scholarship, an early commitment financial aid program aimed at improving college access for Oklahoma students. Oklahoma’s Promise, which ... -
PROMOTING CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN DISASTER MANAGEMENT:MOTIVATIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE PARTICIPATIONIN EMERGENCY SERVICE DELIVERY
Choi, Junghwa (2020-08-18)This dissertation seeks to understand the determinants and motivations of citizens' individual and collective participation in the process of public service delivery through the lens of citizen co-production. While citizen ... -
The Social Network?: The Use and Efficacy of Facebook and Twitter for Nonprofit Reach and User Engagement
Smith, Jamie (2015-05)The political application of social media, particularly social networking sites, has drawn a lot of recent popular and scholarly attention. While scholars have focused on the applications of these media to campaigns, less ... -
WHEN TO FOLLOW, WHEN TO BREAK, WHO TO BLAME: CITIZEN PERCEPTIONS OF STREET-LEVEL SERVICE INTERACTIONS
Wolff, Johnathan (2024-05-10)In this dissertation, I combine insights from public administration with those of political science, public policy, and social psychology to better understand how citizens think about and understand their governments. In ...