This applied dissertation focused on understanding the perceptions of orientation professionals of the impact of orientation programming at public historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This study illustrates the effective practices of orientation programming and …
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While the experiences and challenges of principals at Title I schools has been studied, this research builds on those studies with the added dimension of exploring the perspectives of charter school principals who are new to the role and are working in the landscape of Title I s…
Black Greek Letter Organizations [BGLOs] have been dealing with the stigma created by poor media representation. Research into this matter has indicated that these groups often only receive coverage that is stimulated by their entertainment or hazing incidents. This study aims t…
Throughout the world of business, there are a plethora of studies and guides for employee engagement. The research is deep and wide for the causes and effects of an engaged workforce and the skills it takes to rally a work culture. However, in the realm of Christian higher educa…
Free speech movements in U.S. Higher Education are as old as the education system itself (Chemerinsky & Gillman, 2017; Hofstadter, 1970; Sun & McClellan, 2020). However, there has been a dearth of literature regarding the role of student affairs practitioners in managing issues …
The purpose of this multiple case study was to examine the impact of the Jesuit Leadership framework as described by Lowney to confirm if the framework had a positive effect on the schools’ viability and sustainability. Since the first Catholic school opened in 1782, Catholic sc…
There was little research about the experiences of lay teachers working in Jesuit secondary schools from the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus. The purpose of this phenomenological investigation was to understand Jesuit lay secondary school teacher discernment of the Ign…
In an effort to understand the ways in which individual members of social groups brought their lived experience and personal histories to the group, and how after doing so the group co-constructed a new kind of understanding at the communal level, I joined such a group for over …
This interpretative phenomenological study explored the mission and identity integration experiences of nine academic lay leaders of diverse religious affiliations across the three Catholic universities of San Antonio, Texas, United States: Our Lady of the Lake University, St. M…
En Chile, hay esfuerzos para implementar políticas educativas que fomenten la colaboración entre instituciones educativas públicas como factor clave para la mejora escolar, pero se desconocen las experiencias de las instituciones católicas, subvencionadas y privadas. El objetivo…
This research is a qualitative, phenomenological study on higher education board member bequeathing behavior by adding qualitative research to a quantitative research gap in Bartolini’s (2005b) study. Bartolini found the components of the extended theory of planned behavior to c…
The world of leadership is continually evolving and changing with the times. One area of leadership that continues to lag behind is the advancement of women into key leadership positions at the helm of school leadership. The purpose of this basic qualitative study is to understa…
Culture has been discussed and written about at great length from roots in anthropology (e.g., Tylor, 1920; Mead, 1928) to development of the concepts of organizational culture (Schein, 1985, 2010) and school culture (e.g., Bolman & Deal, 2013; Deal & Peterson, 1991, 2009). Soci…
This study investigated the research question: What relationship, if any, exists between servant leadership and employee resilience? Researchers have proposed that the resiliency of employees may be influenced by the environment created by an organization’s leaders. Due to serva…
At both the national and state level, school leadership turnover is at an alarmingly high rate. The role of a Catholic school principal as a spiritual, educational, and managerial leader has led to an ever-increasing workload that has been attributed to increased turnover. This …
The purpose of this study was to explore levels of concerns that teachers have about implementing and executing rapid curriculum changes. Research on teacher concerns has traditionally targeted technology implementation rather than curriculum reform measures. This research was d…
As students work through the K-12 educational system, there is an alarming statistic showing how students lose a sense of connection in school from elementary to high school. It is critically important for high school principals to understand the importance of students feeling c…
The inscription of courageous social justice practice in educational leadership is deeply embedded in the everyday struggle to advance just education and educational spaces. Despite the robust and controversial history of education, there is little research pertaining to the rol…
El propósito de este estudio exploratorio fue generar conocimientos y analizar significados respecto a las acciones que toman los líderes educativos y la comunidad escolar como institución educativa religiosa para crear ambiente de tolerancia a la diversidad de credo dentro de s…