Recent Alumni Dissertations

• The Academic Library Building in the Digital Age: A Study of Design, Planning, and Use of New Academic Library Space
• Presidential Transitions:  Presidents’ Perspectives on Building the Senior Leadership Team
• Central Banks and University Financial Governance:  How Institutions are Managing Institutional Resources and Creating Monetary Policy for Mission Attainment.
• What are Students’ Perceptions of the Present Cultures and Identities of New York University and Polytechnic University of New York and their Perceived Changes to the Institutions’ Cultures and Identities Should the Universities Merge?
• The Launch of the Big Ten Network: How 11 Universities Created Their Own Television Network and Changed the Landscape of College Sports
• Socialization Theory and the Transition to Graduate School:  Experiences of African American Women in a Historically Black and a Historically White Institution
• The Phenomenon of Stress and Health Promoting Behaviors Among
• College and University Presidents: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
• To The Next Level:  How Drexel University Improved its Fundraising Performance from 1997 to 2007
• Autonomy Policy in U.S. Public Higher Education:  A Comparative Case Study of Oregon and Virginia
• Faculty and Student Perspectives of Curricular Collaboration
• Identifying Leading and Lagging Indicators for Changes in USNWR Undergraduate Collegiate Rankings
• Understanding Latino Students’ Perceptions of the Forces that Promote and Hinder Bachelor’s Degree Attainment
• Serving Many Masters:  A Comparative Analysis of Strategic Planning at Two Small Liberal Arts College
• Partners in Learning: How Millennial Students and Advisors Perceive Advising within the First-Year Seminar
• Eighth Sister” No More: The Evolving Mission of Connecticut College.
• Program Expansion as an Adaptive Strategy: Case Studies of Three Specialized Institutions
• The National Collegiate Athletic Association Self-Study
• Certification Process:  A Waste of Time and Money, A Necessary Evil, or a Worthwhile exercise?
• Inside or Outside:  Succession in Presidential Appointments
• A Study of the Relationship of External Funding to Faculty Success
• The Influence of Campus Internationalization on Local Communities
• A Narrative Journey:  A Study of the Professional and Personal Exploration of Non-Academic Senior Level Female administrators
• Higher Education Collaboration with Industry:  Three Case Studies of Instruction Based Partnerships.
• The Great Comeback:  A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Recovery Actions in Higher Education
• Faculty Governance at the Entrepreneurial Community College