This study explores the changing mission statements of the University of Toledo and how those changes impacted the social contract between the University and city of Toledo. Specially, the study engages in historical and documental analysis and investigates three major moments i…
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Johnson's Island prison was located three miles from Sandusky and acted as the primary holding facility for captured Confederate officers throughout the Civil War. During its four years of operation, more than 10,000 rebel prisoners were held there. Unlike other northern prisons…
This final project was implemented to train laity and ordained ministers of the South Lebanon Church of the Nazarene for a Biblical approach to Christian leadership to solve the problem of a plateau church because of ineffective church leadership. The contextual associates, thus…
This study assessed nutrition education wants/needs of older adults living in Medina County, Ohio, to find gaps between what was being offered and what was wanted/needed by older adults. Phase I involved interviews of 140 gatekeepers of organizations that addressed older adult s…
In 1846 Virginia courts freed 383 slaves of Roanoke plantation by ruling which will of John Randolph of Roanoke's was valid. Sent to found a free black colony in Mercer County, Ohio, these "Randolph Slaves" were refused entry by a mob of Mercer County whites. The freed people in…
During the Progressive Era, a number of reform mayors assumed office in cities throughout America. Three Midwestern cities, Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, were particularly blessed in this regard. Hazen S. Pingree of Detroit, elected in 1889, challenged priva…
There are several Community Art Programs in the United States. These art programs often provide after-school and weekend art activities, for youngsters living within the neighborhoods where they are located. This dissertation discusses how a Community Art Program influences the …
Margaret Willis made her significant impact on education during her tenure as a secondary teacher at the Ohio State University School. She taught social studies at the experimental school from the time it opened in 1932 to the time it closed its doors on the final graduating cla…
The goal of this dissertation is to inform policy focused on the cost of education, the potential of district size as a cost-cutting tool for schools and districts, and the appropriate way to incorporate costs into state school aid formulas. Pursuing this goal has involved takin…
Since the mid-1990s, Somali refugees have been resettling in Columbus, Ohio, which is a large city in the Midwest of the United States. In 1990, there were less than 100 Somalis living in the Columbus metropolitan area, while the current estimate is that between 40,000 and 60,00…
The concept of food desert is becoming important in the United States and other developed countries. Academics, policy makers, and community groups use this term to identify populated urban and rural areas where residents do not have access to healthy diets. Issues concerning ho…
This study examines the impact of time cost and socio-psychological factors on the changes in slope and intercepts of the traditional Travel Cost Recreation Demand Models. The value of human time for recreation, and consumer's surplus measures are also calculated. The technology…
Infant Mortality Rate is a statistic representing deaths occurring among newborns in the first year of life (i.e., Neonatal Mortality Rate = deaths in the first month and Post-neonatal Mortality = deaths in second through 12 months) in the United States (i.e., Ohio and Mississip…
The current disparities within Ohio’s mental healthcare system stem from a long history of barriers to access as well as racist diagnostic and treatment methods. Despite the impetus to provide care for Ohio’s mentally ill during the asylum movement of the early nineteenth centur…
People in the twenty-first century search for authentic relationships and a place to belong. While the surrounding culture and social media provide options that seem to offer solutions to these challenges, often people find them ultimately lacking. However, the Church not only p…
Jonathan Ralston Kennedy, along with several of his siblings, came to the Wakarusa Valley of Eastern Kansas in 1855 to farm and settle the territory as a “free state.” Several members of the family fought and served dutifully during the “bleeding Kansas” era and the Civil War. O…
In a State of Access is a historical study about the way public higher education in Ohio became both generally accessible to nearly every citizen while also offering elite undergraduate and graduate programs. This project grapples with the question of how national, state and reg…
This thesis is a case study in a Social Gospel approach to nature, human health and environmental politics. Human health and non-human nature were mutually constitutive in Washington Gladden’s vision of health. In sermons from 1869 to 1910, Gladden argued that human health was c…
Community colleges are mission-driven workplaces with diverse and complex multigenerational employee constituencies. The multigenerational workplace presents community college leaders with significant challenges, including managing employees with varying communications styles an…