CESS Doctoral Defenses Doctoral Defense Dissertations 01/31/2025 Andrew Conforti: FACTORS AND INFLUENCE OF JOB-RELATED STRESS FOR VERMONT PRINCIPALS: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY (February 14, 2025) School leadership is one of the most important school-related factors that contribute to student... 01/03/2025 Jerome Guarin Budomo: UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENTS THAT RELATE TO SENSE OF BELONGING FOR FIRST-GENERATION ASIAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS Asian Americans are the third largest and one of the fastest-growing racial groups in the U.S.... 11/21/2024 Sarah L. Heath: Evaluating ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Career Interest Group Model: A Study of Engagement, Self-efficacy, and Benefits Career services practitioners at ¶¶Òõ̽̽ (¶¶Òõ̽̽) – and many institutions across... 09/09/2024 Akol Aguek: EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATION AND POST-COLLEGE REALITY: A MIXED METHODS STUDY OF THE LOST BOYS AND GIRLS OF SUDAN’S POST COLLEGE CAREER, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL STATUS OUTCOMES Separated from their families by the Sudanese Civil in 1987, the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan spent... 05/02/2024 Erin Tinti: Exploring the Self-Efficacy Beliefs of a Writing Teacher through the Practice of Student-Centered, Asset-Based Pedagogies: A Participatory Narrative Inquiry Teachers, specifically early career teachers, report that they do not have high self-efficacy... 02/23/2024 Arby M. Ghemari: Asset-Based Frameworks for Highlighting the Brokering Experiences of an Arabic-Speaking Multicultural Liaison in Refugee Education This alternative dissertation explored the multifaceted roles and experiences of multicultural... 02/20/2024 Abijah L. MANGA: Understanding How Families with Refugee Backgrounds Promote Their Community Cultural Wealth in the Transition to a U.S. College Education: A Case Study of a Congolese Family Continuing political conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have pushed many... 02/05/2024 Dolan, C.V.: Nonbinary BIPOC College Students’ Freedom Dreams of Utopia In this critical, hermeneutic phenomenological study (Gadamer, 2012; van Manen, 2016; Weiss et al.,... 01/25/2024 Sonya Stern: Leader Resilience and Leadership Styles of Director-Level Leaders of Sponsored Program Offices: A Mixed Methods Study. The intent of this mixed methods explanatory sequential study was to explore the relationship... 10/31/2023 Katherine Lee: Special Educator Burnout: A Mixed-Method Analysis of Role Stressors, Relationship Quality with Students, and Burnout Researchers have noted that burnout in the United States is a problem among special educators and... 10/26/2023 Deborah Hinchey: High School Nutrition Education In Vermont: An Exploratory Case Study The weight-normative approach posits that weight is a primary determinant of health, that it is an... 06/06/2023 Mary Beth Sellers: Organizational Supports of Rape Culture in Higher Education Rape culture has roots in our gendered history of the United States which manifests itself on... 03/06/2023 Elsa Richter: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTION IN AN ONLINE TEACHER EDUCATION COURSE Peer discourse is a valuable tool for knowledge construction in the higher education classroom... 03/06/2023 Rhiannon Kim: Exploring the Impact of an Embodied Socially Just Healing Pedagogy Of Praxis: A Mixed Methods Study The way we teach (pedagogy) is as important as what we teach (content). Graduate level coursework... 02/17/2023 Ashraf Alamatouri: Research shows that partnerships between families and school professionals can be an important... 02/06/2023 Gabriel T. McGann: PROMOTING FAMILY-PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIPS AMONG REFUGEE FAMILIES THROUGH COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH The purpose of this Community-Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) study was to work with... 01/05/2023 Sarah Griffin: Gender and United States Army Leadership Doctrine: Reserve Officer Training Corps Cadets' Experiences with Leadership This study provides a comparative analysis of femaleand maleReserve Officer Training Corps cadets'... 09/27/2022 Ellen E. Dorsey: Coaching in the Crevices: The Experiences of Instructional Coaches Supporting Teachers During COVID-19 In March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic swept K-12 public schools across the United States and... 09/20/2022 Heather Moore: Inspired to Garden: A Phenomenological Study of Participants’ Experiences in ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Gardening for Health Program The use of gardening as a practice or intervention to create better health has shown promising... 03/29/2022 Hans Cabra Hernandez: Understanding the Relationship Among Durable Goods, Academic Achievement, and School Attendance in Colombia A joint report from the United Nations Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human... 03/22/2022 Eileen G.C. Kristiansen: THE GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE OF FINANCIAL LITERACY IN TODAY’S WORLD. WHAT IS IT AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? MY OWN STORY OF ACQUISITION There is a growing concern in this country that the middle class is disappearing and not in the way... 03/16/2022 Maria-Elena Graffeo Horton: FACTORS INFLUENCING THE IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WITH EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOLS Nationally, there is a mounting interest in better understanding students identified as having an... 03/03/2022 Audrey Richardson: ENVISIONING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO SECONDARY LITERACY LEARNING THROUGH SOCIOCULTURAL AND CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTITIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORTS The acquisition and operationalization of literacy is of critical importance to all learners. The... 03/01/2022 Bly, Tina: HINA HANTA, THE BRIGHT PATH: THE CIRCLE OF METACOGNITION This four-article dissertation is an autobiographical written study, a Scholarly Personal Narrative... 02/02/2022 Nicole LaPointe: Online Cross-Cultural Mentorship In A Health Career Pipeline Program This phenomenological study of cross-cultural mentoring is set in an online health workforce...