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Engaged scholarship at land-grant institutions: Factors affecting faculty participation
… tenured and tenure-eligible faculty members at land-grant institutions and describes how disciplinary differences influence faculty members' expression of and likelihood to practice engaged scholarship; work with community partners; and how they perceive engaged scholarship is recognized and …
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Incentive Based Budgeting: The Financial Game at Land-grant Institutions
… Budgeting (PIBB) model at Virginia Tech (VT), a land-grant institution. By conducting a mixed-methods approach including semi-structured interviews, document analysis, and a review of political theory, this research examines the differences in perceptions of employees across employee …
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Patterns of Growth in Library Resources in Certain Land-Grant Universities
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Factors influencing the compensat[i]on levels of land grant university extension educators
This study was influenced by the desire to better understand the factors that influence the salary County Extension Agents in Kansas who are employed by K-State Research and Extension. The purpose of the study was to determine factors or the correlation among factors that influence salary …
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The Impact of State Characteristics on College Graduation Rates at Land-Grant Institutions
… characteristics and college completion rates at land-grant institutions and use those findings to create a graduation rate prediction model, inclusive of student, institutional, and state characteristics, that is more accurate than traditional prediction models comprised solely of student and …
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Social adjustment problems of Nigerian students in land-grant universities in the United States
… problems experienced by Nigerian students in land-grant universities in the United States. A second purpose was to predict the severity of these problems with age, sex, marital status, English language proficiency, ownership of transportation, academic status, previous international …
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A Critical Systems Case Study in Agricultural Technology Development at the Land-Grant University
… Ag 4.0 – it is unclear how institutions such as land-grant universities are considering the social implications of their agricultural technology research. The purpose of this study is to explore how land-grant university initiatives focusing on agricultural technology consider the implications of …
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A Case Study to Explore Spirituality Among Service-learning Instructors at a Land Grant University
The purpose of this study is to explore why academic faculty opt to incorporate service-learning into their coursework for students and how individual spirituality at work contributes to SL design in experiences. A qualitative single case study design was used. Publicly available documents, …
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Food for thought: the role of land-grant institutions in local food and small farm education
In 1862, the Morrill Act established land-grant institutions with the mission to serve those working in agriculture and mechanic arts. The following dissertation explores the ways in which the evolution of industrialized agriculture has influenced the mission of these institutions. This qualitative …
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An Examination of the Leadership Practices of University Presidents of Land-Grant Universities in the United States
… leadership practices of university presidents of land-grant universities (LGUs) in the United States. The study examined the leadership practices of presidents of land-grant universities as described by Kouzes and Posner (2002). Moreover, this study aimed to find whether a difference existed among …
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Workplace belonging of student employees in a student affairs department at a public land grant research university
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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A Comparative Examination of Student Satisfaction by Ethnicity at Historically Black and Predominately White Land-Grant Institutions
State systems have begun to implement performance-based policies in higher education that obligate state institutions to demonstrate they are providing quality educational experiences for students in an effective and efficient manner (Hatcher, Kryter, Prus, & Fitzgerald, 1992; Redd, 1998). Quality …
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Self-Reliance and Land-Grant Universities: An Exploration of the Impacts of USAID Policy on Agroecological Possibilities
For land-grant universities (LGUs) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), achieving food security is a longstanding and shared priority. International agricultural development is entangled in competing imaginaries and ideological underpinnings. The coordinated social …
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Design for a student homestead at a land-grant university: integrating vernacular patterns, local systems, and ecological heritage
… to design a contemporary student homestead at a Land-Grant university. The student homestead is to function as a model system for research, education and demonstration. The history of homesteading, historic settlement patterns and the early mission of land grant institutions inform the design. …
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Departmental factors affecting time to degree and completion rates of doctoral students at one land-grant research institution
… or negatively affect these outcomes at one land-grant, research institution. This topic is significant to all aspects of higher education: students, departments, and universities. For students, increased time and lower completion rates diminish their competitiveness in the job market, morale …
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A mixed-methods analysis of best practices for land-grant university mobile applications from a user experience design perspective
… of 30 mobile applications for the largest land-grant universities in the United States was conducted to examine the use of recognized best practices for mobile application development. A total of 49 variables were identified as best practices across five hierarchical categories of user …
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What Factors Support Degree Completion For African American Women Students At A Land-Grant Historically Black College University (HBCU)?
… American women degree completion who attend a land-grant HBCU. This study investigated key factors that assisted 9 African American women and promoted their degree attainment. My research utilized the ethnography framework to observe a specific culture group, language, behaviors beliefs, and …
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