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Seventy percent of organizational change initiatives fail. Among organizations where change and adaptation are necessary for survival, the U.S. military stands at the top. The disparity between desired health and fitness behaviors and actual behaviors are a glaring reminder that change is difficult to implement and that current change systems struggle. Merit-based systems offer a solution by rewarding and reinforcing …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Vanessa Gonzalez for the degree of Doctor of Education This phenomenological study sought to examine the perceptions and preferences Generation Z transfer students have for academic advising services, prior to their first semester post-transfer. Considering the phenomenon of both Generation Z as today’s traditional college student population and the increased focus on transfer student success …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationThe Genealogy of Desolate Landscapes looks at loss, sense of place, and how the communities we build keep us going during times of grief. At the heart of the collection is the speaker's relationship with his paternal grandmother and how her death from cancer impacts the speaker's relationship with the family of his absent birth father and ultimately a part of their …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationWhile landing, birds often perform a perching maneuver, which involves pitching their wings upwards while decelerating to a complete stop. The present study is motivated by this perching maneuver and has two major objectives. First, we want to explore how a wing sweep influences perching maneuver; and second, we want to analyze how the ground proximity influences the unsteady dynamics …
Graduate Thesis and DissertationAnnouncing the Final Examination of Christopher C. Odom for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Texts and Technology Through the lens of the justice for Gorge Floyd protests, this dissertation offers a critique, consultation, creation, and contribution to the visual imagery emerging from the digital activism of social movements. Built upon of foundation of counterpublics, critical race counterstory, counter-narratives, the …
Graduate Thesis and Dissertation