The challenge of replacing the baby-boomer generation of employees is beginning in government agencies as they face a "tsunami" of retirements. This generation forms the core of middle managers or supervisors that are essential to providing the continuity in government organizations that serve the needs of citizens on a daily basis, or most critically in times of crisis. This same generation of government employees worked through decades of change in public administration. The 80s private ...
Dale L Ferguson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuffner-Hirt, Mary J. Committee members: David Chambers; Wade Seibert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Coping with a significant loss is an issue that many college students will encounter while in an environment not conducive to the mourning process. As an institution that plays a large role in students academic and personal growth, universities need to be made aware of the unique challenges bereaved students face. This study was designed to assess university faculty response to and awareness of loss in college students. Types of loss assessed were the death of a family member, the death of a ...
Sarah E Dietz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thornton, Gordon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Local universities and their surrounding school districts have much to offer one another. How universities and school districts work together to create programmatic change in career decision-making for the high school adolescent is unclear. Utilizing a case study approach, this study examined the relationship that exists between a university and two high schools. This was studied through the lens of career development with regard to high school students. This qualitative case study utilize...
Rodney R Troutman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George; Lare, Douglas Committee members: Kathleen Foster.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

A review of recent psychology and medical literature reveals that the term 'unwanted sex' has become commonly used in journals. Despite this, no universally held definition for the term could be found. Uses ranged from consensual, yet undesirable sexual intercourse, to rape. It was hypothesized that the term 'unwanted sex' may have different connotations than the word rape and impact perceptions of what occurred. It was also hypothesized that using the term 'unwanted sex' instead of rape woul...
Charity Wilkinson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Husenits, Kimberly J. Committee members: Krystof Kaniasty; Elizabeth Kincade.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

A gap in the extant criticism of Emily Dickinson requires further discussion of the significance of her poetry. This study utilizes a theory of New Historicism to analyze Emily Dickinson's biography and body of work; it draws upon Dickinson's own poems and letters as well as critical, historical, social, political, and scientific sources. The study shows that the poet deliberately structured her lifestyle in a triangular configuration: she resided in her father's house; she developed her auth...
Sandra L McChesney.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dandurand, Karen Committee members: Susan Gatti; Ronald Shafer.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2007.
English

The purpose of this study is to examine sources of leader attributes and values of U.S. Army officers and to ascertain which attributes and values commissioned officers find most applicable to modern combat. The study compares the theoretical attributes taught in Army officer education programs with the attributes and values practiced by four commissioned officers in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. In narrative case study form, it presents a phenomenological exploration of the philoso...
Robert D Gibson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This four-part study of Willa Cather's journalistic and fiction writing examines the interplay between the two and argues that Cather applied the methods and characteristics of literary journalism or "New Journalism," a form of journalism that merges fact-based reportage with narrative style, decades before the terms were defined in the 1960s and 1970s. This long overdue stylistic study analyzes and historicizes the author's early professional newspaper and magazine writing and fiction w...
Laurie S Miller.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Gatti, Susan I. Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English