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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Land-grant university"”.
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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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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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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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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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Teaching and Learning in sustainable agriculture curricula: A case study of faculty work as learning at a land grant university
… sustainable agriculture education curricula at a land grant university. A qualitative research methodology employing a case study approach was utilized. Methods of data collection included semi-structured interviews, participant/observer field notes, and secondary data analysis. This study …
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Two essays in finance: Market response to catastrophic losses on the insurance industry and return on investment of a land grant university
Based on data on publicly traded insurance firms, the first essay examines questions about the effect of large catastrophic events on insurance firms. Rather than looking at a single event, thirty catastrophic events were aggregated into quintiles and the cumulative abnormal returns around these …
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Latino\a Ethnic Identity in the New Diaspora: Perspectives of a Select Group of Latino\a Undergraduates at a Predominantly White Land Grant University
… ethnic group. Unlike previous generations of immigrants, new diaspora "Latinos" seek integration into American society as bilinguals with linguistic command for both Spanish and English and resist abandonment of national identities and culture. These are suggestive of transnational identities that …
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Knowledge, self-esteem, and sexual behavioral practices in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a study of an undergraduate population at a land-grant university
… Introductory Sociology students at a land-grant university. What this research found, was that self-esteem was statistically significantly related to risky behaviors; more specifically, for those sexual behavioral practices which carry the highest risk, such as unprotected anal …
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An historical case study of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in loco parentis
… designed to identify the unique shaping of the university/student relationship through the lens of the in loco parentis concept. The questions asked were to what extent has in loco parentis defined the relationship of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and its students through …
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Ecological literacy in a context of first-year college students
… to a sample of first-year students at a large land grant university. Specifically, a four-point typology of environmentally responsible behaviors for first-year college students was identified that included dimensions related to consumer, disposal, reuse and conservation activities. The results …
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An investigation of academic dishonesty among undergraduates at Kansas State University
… census of undergraduate students at a Midwestern land grant university. There were 2,759 useable responses to a survey using McCabe’s Academic Integrity Scale. The findings found significant differences between age and gender comparisons. Younger women reported the most behavior in academic …
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The Relationship of Social Support, Help-seeking Behaviors, and Hardiness to Academic Performance in RN Upward Mobility Students
… program within a Midwestern comprehensive land grant university. A self-selected convenience sample of RN Upward Mobility Nursing students participated by filling out a paper and pencil survey. The instrument was comprised of demographic data, two questions on help-seeking behavior, two …
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A Case Study of the State University, Extension, and the College of Agriculture as They Explore and Implement a Metro Research and Outreach Initiative
The national Cooperative Extension and Land Grant University Systems have been struggling with their future direction due to the question of relevance related to urban and metropolitan citizens for a great number of years. This system is quite traditional in that it follows the customary rural, …
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More Than a Sum of its Parts: Five Fundamentals for Formative Peer Observation of Classroom Teaching in Higher Education
… Three academic departments at a large land-grant university were identified, via questionnaire, as having programs of peer observation that aligned with attributes of the five fundamentals. These academic departments participated in individual case studies designed to bring-about a …
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Machiavellianism, social insight, and power of department heads
… Statements to this effect were tested in a large land-grant university in the southeastern United States. Results of the study revealed that, in fact, department heads high on manipulative orientation are attributed more role and personal power on power scales relevant to the change agent role, …
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Translingual students' dialogic influence on teacher centric pedagogies
… ESL teacher training program at a Midwestern US land grant university. The data set is triangulated by including pre and post lesson interviews with the teaching assistants using a stimulated-recall method, group interviews with the translingual students from their classes, video and audio …
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Relationship of residence hall environments and student sense of competence and academic achievement
… academic achievement among freshmen at a large, land-grant university in the southeast was examined. Fit scores derived from the University Residence Environment Scale (URES) were used as independent measures. Sense of competence, one's level of interpersonal and intellectual confidence, was …
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Access to Discourse and Professional Identity Development of Doctoral Students in Communities of Practice
… and Extension Education doctoral program at a Land Grant University. The participants had from four to seven years of teaching experience in secondary agriculture programs and were on full graduate assistantship with their academic department at the time of the study. The over arching theme was …
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A methodology to identify success criteria for the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center
… selected members who are from the VT CRC, the university, tenants, and Town of Blacksburg. Their responses will be analyzed to decide whether these outputs are success criteria for the VT CRC and whether a methodology accomplishes its purposes. Furthermore, a background of Virginia Tech and a …
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