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Patterns of Growth in Library Resources in Certain Land-Grant Universities
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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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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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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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An Exploration of Emerging Collaborative Conservation Strategies to Support Sustainable Development in the United States
… development as practiced by conservation land trusts and community landcare groups, as well as by faculty and staff at land grant universities. The first paper included in this dissertation explores "Conservation 2.0" strategies being developed and employed by land trust across the US to …
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… (such as farmers, consumers, laws, neighbors, land grant universities, capital investments, government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, medicine, and transportation technologies). All of these …
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Preservice Agricultural Education Teachers and Secondary Education Teachers’ Self-Efficacy and Professional Identity
… Hillison, 1996; Hillison, 1986). The majority of land-grant universities and colleges have continued to prepare agricultural education preservice teachers within the college of agriculture, separate from other secondary education preservice teachers in the college of education (Myers & Dyer, …
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Rethinking the STEM Fields: The Importance of Definitions in Examining Women's Participation and Success in the Sciences
… data of undergraduate students from five public land-grant universities to better understand undergraduate students' persistence in and switching of majors, with particular attention given to women's participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Specifically, …
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Diversity and Opportunity: A New Paradigm for Elite Public Universities
… within elite public institutions, namely land grant universities. In keeping with the land grant tradition of expanding access and promoting the public good, a land grant standard for achieving diversity is proposed.
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Higher education collaboration Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance: selected policy analysis
… Education Alliance is a consortium of mostly land grant universities in the Great Plains region of the United States. The human sciences colleges of these institutions collaborated to offer courses that the individual members did not have the resources to support with the goal of offering …
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University Comprehensive Internationalization (CI): Faculty Meaning-Making, Motivations, and Perceptions for Engaging Globally
American universities have been internationalizing for decades, and their leaders often contend they must engage globally to stay relevant and prepare students adequately for a rapidly changing work environment. Faculty members, as keepers of the curricula and pivotal university actors, are …
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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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Cooperative fishery and wildlife research units program outputs
… earlier with establishment of wildlife units at land grant universities in Virginia, Oregon, and Iowa. Each unit, of which there are 50 today, functions under a cooperative agreement involving the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state conservation agency, the university where the unit is …
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A comparison of university faculty men's and women's aspirations for administrative positions
… has been the administrative hierarchies of universities throughout the United States. Within these institutions of higher education, women continue to hold a low proportion of the top-level administrative positions. Their low representation is often justified on the basis that women have …
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Factors Influencing the Enrollment of Minorities in Agricultural Science Programs at Virginia Tech
… are underrepresented in academic departments at land-grant universities, professional roles in agricultural industries, and in governmental agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The data collection in this study was through a survey developed by the researcher. The …
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Non-formal Educator Use of Evaluation Findings: Factors of Influence
… offering non-formal educational programs through land grant universities. Many Extension services require non-formal educational program evaluations be conducted by its locally-based educators. Research on evaluation practice has focused primarily on the evaluation efforts of professional, …
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Educational technology tools used by extension professionals: a North Central Region survey
… use of ETt in undergraduate teaching programs at land-grant universities.</p>
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A proposed model of an interstate metropolitan extension service authority for metropolitan Washington
… region that included Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia. This region is one of 38 such regions in the United States. The three extension services in metropolitan Washington appear to be failing to meet the need for nutrition education, consumer education, urban horticulture, street …
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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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