Browse Items (356 total)

The transition from high school to college is challenging for many students, especially first‐generation college students. College courses require disciplinary specific reading, writing, and thinking skills not often taught in high school, such as…

This contribution represents a case example of how mythology and literature from post-conquest sources might be used for framing hypotheses about the meaning of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican iconography, and the problems of this approach. It focuses on…

This study aims to investigate the effect of high insider ownership on firms’ internal controls over financial reporting. In particular, it examines how high insider ownership affects the likelihood of an adverse Sarbanes–Oxley Act Section (SOX…

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of high insider ownership on firms’ internal controls over financial reporting. In particular, it examines how high insider ownership affects the likelihood of an adverse Sarbanes–Oxley Act Section…

Research shows that the industrial development and rapid population increases occurring in resource-based boomtown communities sometimes lead to an increase in crimes, including interpersonal violence (IPV). Interview data from ten survivors of IPV…

Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation…

The L-move for classical braids extends naturally to trivalent braids. We follow the L-move approach to the Markov theorem to prove a one-move Markov-type theorem for trivalent braids. We also reformulate this L-move Markov theorem and prove a more…

Non-profit organizations are increasingly adopting business practices, an institutional phenomenon called managerialization. Sometimes those business practices cause conflict with, or drift from, the non-profit’s mission. We investigate the…

Religious faith is a driving force behind a substantial portion of human behavior. Yet theologically motivated action presents as a paradox: in some instances, reflecting humanistic yearnings for selflessness, giving, and tolerance; and in others,…

In this chapter, we (two scholars of Color) critically reflect on our time teaching diversity required courses to predominantly white pre-service teachers at a predominately white institution (PWI). We frame our reflections using Critical Race Theory…

Without knowing or planning it, saxophonist/composer Benjamin Boone has spent his life preparing for a collaboration with Philip Levine. Long fascinated by the inherent musicality of the spoken word, Boone crossed paths with the Pulitzer…

The present study considered the dualistic nature of passion to examine whether passion toward work predicted hedonic (life satisfaction and subjective happiness) and eudaimonic (sense of purpose) well-being. Faculty members (N = 177)…

This study explored the relationship between high school sophomores’ purpose orientations and their postsecondary completion a decade later by examining the data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Among four types of purpose (career,…

This study explored the relationship between high school sophomores’ purpose orientations and their postsecondary completion a decade later by examining the data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Among four types of purpose (career,…

The focus of this study concerns the intergenerational consequences of the era of mass incarceration and its role in promoting an educational demobilization of primarily marginalized groups. Using the Howard B. Kaplan Multigenerational and…

This study connected the dualistic model of passion and self-determination theory to examine the motivational determinants of student-athlete perceived efforts within- and across- athletic and academic domains. College student-athletes completed…

This study portrays profile uses of technology in the classroom by faculty at a school of education at a university in Central California (N = 47). First, it describes their professional uses of certain technology on a frequency scale. Second, it…

In this work, I examined how variation in sport conduct is allocated across the three different levels (i.e., athlete, team, and sport) in order to consider how the team and sport environment might contribute to athletes' sport conduct. Specifically,…

How do we make a home in spaces not built for us? What does an academic home for Southeast Asian American (SEAA) women look and feel like? This is the story of how a collective of SEAA women came together to create an alternative space in higher…

We employ a Cox proportional hazard model to examine the effect of observed mortgage defaults within a neighborhood on homeowners’ strategic default decisions, using multiple datasets from the Fresno-Clovis metropolitan area in California between…