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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"history of the university"”.
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A history of the University of Illinois British Brass Band, 1981 to the present
On November 15, 1981, the University of Illinois British Brass Band performed its first concert, conducted by University of Illinois Assistant Director of Bands James Curnow. The ensemble’s antecedents lay in the brass bands established in Victorian England that were populated by members of the …
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The history of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate choral music program, 1958–2023
… an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Perspectives of Decision: An Organizational History of the University High School of the University of Illinois
The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of internal organizational factors upon the development of an educational institution. Attention was focused upon the manner in which decision-making structures and processes formalized at the University of Illinois influenced administrative d
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David Kinley, 1861-1944: The Career of The Fifth President of The University of Illinois
This dissertation is not a biography of David Kinley but a historical study of his career as a scholar-administrator within the intellectual, social, economic, and political world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on archival materials, it is a contribution toward the …
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«Digital Portraits»: per uno strumento multimediale sui docenti della Regia Università degli studi di Cagliari (1764-1946)
The research thesis illustrates the process of creating a relational database concerning the professors who taught at the University of Cagliari, from its re-foundation in 1764, up to 1946, the year of the cessation of the Royal University. The objectives of the database are: to promote knowledge …
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Improving the freshman electrical and computer engineering lab
This thesis covers the challenges of creating and maintaining an introductory engineering laboratory. The history of the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering department’s introductory course, ECE 110, is recounted. The current state of the course, as of Fall 2008, is discussed …
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The impressions of New Jersey high school guidance counselors on the quality of education at Rowan University
<p>This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of New Jersey guidance counselors' impressions of Rowan University. Rowan University, a state funded school, is a rapidly improving and growing institution in the state and its region. However, the University is met with much opposition from those …
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Wits imagined: an investigation into Wits University's public roles and responsibilities, 1922 - 1994
This thesis examines the public roles and responsibilities of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the period 1922-1994. It does this through a close investigation of four moments in the history of the University, namely the foundation of Wits (1910s and 1920s); early debates about …
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Eastern Washington University and the Ice Age flood debate: processing the papers of EWU Professor Dale F. Stradling
<p>"Background. The Eastern Washington University-Archives and Special Collections have recently acquired the papers of EWU Professor Emeritus of Geography Dale F. Stradling. Stradling taught at EWU for many years and as well as being of significance to the history of the university,this collection …
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Maori participation in higher education: Tainui graduates from the University of Waikato, 1992 to 1997
This thesis is an examination of what factors contribute to the success of Maori who participate in higher education. The thesis is informed by the experiences of nine Tainui tribal members who received scholarships from the Tainui Maori Trust Board and who graduated from the University of Waikato …
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The Composition of Crisis and the Future of the University: Theory, Pedagogy, and Identity In Rhetoric and Composition Studies
… time been deeply invested in engaging questions of disciplinary identity. Posing questions about what rhetoric and composition studies <em>is</em> has become more than just a routine way of self-reflexively engaging the discipline. For some critics, it suggests that we are in a perpetual state of …