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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"program administration"”.
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It Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program Administration
Writing program administrators (WPAs) work in constant negotiation with institutional forces outside of individual control, where the concerns of infrastructure impact writing programs continuously. In periods of transition, where new WPAs are entering a program, or the institution itself is …
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Comparison of the Effects of Two Variations in Program Administration on the Physical Fitness of Ninth Grade Girls
… Air Force XBX Plan with a circuit training program as to their effectiveness in developing physical fitness for girls.
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Student Disability Services Within The 28 Florida Community Colleges
… perceptions and activities of disability support program administrators in Florida community colleges regarding program administration and evaluation. The study further sought to document if any relationships existed between selected organizational and staffing characteristics and the program's …
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Lightning in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996
… in a Bottle: A History of the Syracuse Writing Program, 1986-1996, is directed by Louise Wetherbee Phelps and Collin Gifford Brooke. This historical study of the Syracuse Writing Program's administrative structures for contingent faculty focuses on professional development and evaluation systems …
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An Evaluation of a Service-learning Approach to Assist in Achieving the Goals of a Comprehensive Guidance Program
… of a comprehensive guidance and development program in a junior high school, and (b) to examine the effects of a service-learning class on junior high school students. Thirty students who had been in the service-learning class participated in semi-structured interviews. Parents and teachers …
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An exploratory study of perception of meal and service quality/in the Title III C congregate meals program: a comparison between management and participants
… participant perception of, and attitudes toward, program and service quality in the congregate meals program. Based upon the scarcity of knowledge in this area, managers and participants in the Title III C meals program in Montgomery County, Maryland were surveyed to explore how differences in …
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Improving Commercial Sign Regulations: A Preliminary Framework to Evaluate Commercial Sign Regulations in Texas
… of Effective Control, Societal Implications and Program Administration. These broad categories are sub-divided and operationalized into formulated questions used to evaluate Texas Transportation Code Chapter 391 and associated rules Title 43 Texas Administrative Code Subchapter 21: I (43 TAC 21: …
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Measuring the efficacy and quality of a professional development training on prejudice reduction and reflective practice: transforming the delivery of change through collective insight and informed action
… framework and successfully implemented program. The improvement plan process requires focus on specific priorities to effect real change. The purpose of this action research study was to provide professional training as part of a continuum change initiative. The study analyzed the …
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An Investigation of First-Year Teacher Induction Programs in Jesuit Secondary Schools within the California Province
… the conceptual framework for the study: (a)Program vision, goals, and institutional commitment, (b)Formation of the Ignatian educator, (c)Program administration and communication, (d)Principal engagement, (e)Program assessment, evaluation, and accountability, (f)Assessing first-year teacher …
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An identification of the factors that influence graduate satisfaction with a management development training program
… with a management development training program. In order to fulfill this purpose, data were collected from a respondent population of the United States Department of the Interior graduates of the Women’s Executive Leadership Program. Two surveys were used in this study to identify the …
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Data envelopment analysis models for performance measurement and management of public policy implementation : evidence from delivery of a social economic development program
Public Administration is facing tremendous challenges and it is at the center of political, economic and social developments. In Greece Public Administration presents serious problems, the analysis and elimination of which requires the adoption and implementation of new organizational structures, …
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Exemplary online information literacy courses at selected four-year colleges and universities
… information literacy department head and administration participants employed at institutions recognized by Association of College and Research Libraries for exemplary information literacy best practices: information programs. The questions researched in this dissertation were: How are …
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SHIFTING DREAMS: INTERSECTIONS OF THE RHETORICAL IMAGINATION OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY AND THE WRITING PRACTICES OF DREAMERS
… Finally, I call for a shift in Writing Program Administration (WPA) with a focus on issues of race and ethnicity in WPA work. While avoiding the assimilationist tendencies of this appropriation, by using these genres and rhetorical moves as the basis for programmatic shifts, pedagogy, …
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Student Satisfaction with the Cooperative Education Program at Virginia Tech
… to develop the "Best Cooperative Education" program. The components considered in this process are the employers, the students, the staff, and the University faculty. To determine what the students think of the present program and what they might want from an ideal program, a survey was …
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Writing and the Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: The Roles of Ideology, Administration, and the Institution
… of U.S. Higher Education: The Roles of Ideology, Administration, and the Institution, I examine one private institution, Syracuse University, for how it has approached internationalization (both currently and in historical efforts), how it has dealt with the increased presence of English language …
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SCHOOLED: Hiphop Composition at the Predominantly White University
… hiphop composition in the context of writing program administration, including issues of labor, disciplinarity, and graduate student teaching, retention, and training. Using dialogue with and materials from Nana Adjei-Brenyah, who taught two of the classes studied in chapter 4, this chapter …
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Policy Diffusion in U.S. Hazard Mitigation Planning: An Intergovernmental Perspective
… of FEMA-approved LHMPs, Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) projects and Pre-Disaster Program (PDM) projects at the county level. The Event History Analysis (EHA) Logit Model and Spatial Autocorrelation Models test the hypotheses corresponding to external factors such as the neighboring …
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Negotiating Expertise: The Strategies Writing Program Administrators use to Mediate Disciplinary and Institutional Values
A First Year Writing program is an academic unit that manages the curriculum, budget, teaching faculty, and other aspects of writing classes for first year students as part of a university's general education curriculum. Throughout their daily tasks, the directors of these programs must work with …
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