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Learning to Lead: How Leaders in Higher Education Learn to Lead
(2012)
Learning leadership in higher education has historically not been a structured process. The purpose of this research is to understand how leaders in higher education learn to lead and the influence experience, professional ...
Confronting and Defending Unethical Behavior: Communication and Ethical Sensegiving
(2011)
The purpose of this two-study dissertation was to investigate the role of communication in confronting and defending unethical organizational behavior. Utilizing two language production experimental designs, results reveal ...
Three essays on currency crises.
(2005)
Chapter three empirically tests the effectiveness of interest rate defenses against speculative attacks. It is shown that previous empirical studies on this issue suffer a classic sample selection problem by restricting ...
Dr. Gary Garner, Director of Bands at West Texas A&M University, 1963--2002: His career and teachings.
(2006)
The purpose of this study was to provide insight into the career and teachings of Dr. Gary Garner who served as the Director of Bands at West Texas A&M University from 1963 to 2002. His legacy as a director began after he ...
Perceptions of people, process, and policy on political trust.
(2007)
The qualities of the people serving in government, the processes used, and the policies that result have been put forth in the literature as possible determinants of political trust (Miller and Borrelli 1991; Ulbig 2002; ...
`To Be Of Use': Contemporary American Women's Poetry of Work and Workers
(2009)
In this dissertation, I examine three genres of contemporary women's poetry of work and workers: the historical long poem, the lyric poem, and the hybrid lyric-narrative; identify the poetic devices and imagery which are ...
GROWTH OF WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS USING PULSED ELECTRON BEAM DEPOSITION (PED) PROCESS
(2015)
Wide bandgap materials hold a great potential in solid state lighting, power electronics, and radio frequency (RF) device applications. The cumulative market for all these applications is forecasted to be approximately $75 ...
Open-Mindedness Undergraduate
(2017-04)
Countries, in many ways, are like people: a reputation precedes them. Perhaps no country experiences this as much as Mexico, where beautiful beaches are juxtaposed with thoughts of violence and poverty. These stereotypes ...
Work Status and Gender Ideology: A Cross-Sectional and Panel Analysis
(2017-05-12)
As economic shifts have occurred in the United States (e.g., the type of work available ) it has become more difficult for men to enact the breadwinner or sole-provider role; men might respond to these changes by either ...
Proposal on US Policy toward Daesh Undergraduate
(2017)
The rise of Daesh took the world by surprise, as the group took advantage of discontented Sunni populations and political turmoil to rapidly expand in Iraq and Syria. The group, designated as a terror organization by the ...