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Dissertations from 2025 2025

Best Practices in Developing Self-Efficacy: A Case Study in Preparing Rural, Predominantly Disadvantaged, High School Students for College and Career Readiness, Rudy Cardona

Exploring Leadership in Physical Therapy: How Clarity, Connection, and Communication Influence Team Engagement, Burnout, and Achieving Organizational Objectives, Jason Collin

Leadership Practices for High-Performance Teams: Insights from Veteran Active-Duty United States Air Force Leaders Using a Conceptual Framework for Team Development, Yves Daos

Personal Disruption in the Career Advancement of Female Executives in Medical Education, Ifeoma Dawodu

Leadership’s Impact on Employees’ Perception of Their Safety Culture in a Public Transportation Organization, Paul Hadley

A Phenomenological Study of Southern California Charter School Leaders’ Perceptions of Creating an Inclusive School Culture, Barbara Hale

Leadership Practices for High-Performing Teams: Insights From Senior Military General Officers and Flag Officers, Kimberly Mitchell

How Directors or Service Coordinators of Veteran Support Services Use Four Servant Leadership Characteristics to Develop High-Performing Teams, Marcus Moore

Emotional Intelligence and Effective Leadership in Times of Global Crisis: A Mixed-Methods Study of Managers at Multilateral Development Institutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bukola Ogunyemi

Returning to School After a Pandemic: Secondary Teacher Perspectives on Students Returning to School in Regard to Academic Achievement, Behavior, Mindset, and Social Connections, Manuel Rodrigues

A Phenomenological Study Exploring Servant Leadership Characteristics for Developing High-Performing Teams as Perceived by Public School District Early Childhood Leaders, Reggi'e Faye Webster

Primal Leadership in Healthcare: A Phenomenological Study of Emergency Medicine Physicians and Their Perspective on Effective Leadership, Zoe Zaidi

Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Contribution of Mindfulness Practice to Supporting Children and Their Families’ Challenges Among School Social Workers: A Qualitative Multicase Study of School Social Workers in California, Catalina Andrade

Benefits of Alternative Discipline Practices in Lieu of Exclusionary Discipline Practices According to Exemplary Public-School Elementary Principals (K-5/6) in Merced County, California, mary andrews

Returning to School After a Pandemic: K-12 School Mental Health Practitioners’ Perspectives Returning to School in Regard to Mindset, Behavior, Performance, and Social Connections, Viridiana Benitez Esparza

From Outputs to Outcomes: A Q Methodology study exploring the perceived factors that influence the adoption of outcome measures in youth-serving nonprofit organizations., david bernal

Qualitative Study: Brain Breaks in Primary School Classroom, Mandeep Biring

Organizational Citizenship Behavior: How Managers in Global Electronic-Based Technology Companies Promote It, Wouter Boudrez

Personal Power Tactics African American Female Superintendents Employ to Overcome Four Identified Self-Sabotaging Behaviors, Angela Brantley

How Elementary School Principals Successfully Led through the Turbulence of the COVID-19 Crisis, Juan Chavez

Cultural Agility Competency of Relationship Management as a Leadership Imperative: A Study of Charter School Administrators, Monica Christensen

Exemplary Leadership: A Mixed Methods Case Study Discovering How Nonprofit Leaders in Human and Family Service Organizations Create Meaning and Make a Difference, Lisa Colarusso

Exemplary Elementary School Principals’ Use of Emotional Intelligence as They Lead Their Organizations in Rural Areas, William Cook

A Phenomenological Study of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Through COVID-19, Maria Iracema da Rocha-Alvarez

Social–Emotional Competence: An Essential Component for Building Self-Help Skills in Elementary Students, Catherine Davis

Phenomenological Study on Adaptive Leadership During Times of Great Change and Opportunity as Perceived by California Public School Superintendents in Los Angeles County School Districts, Darrin DeKnikker

The Organizational Socialization of K–12 Classified Employees, Steven Dunlap

Deficit-Oriented Language Use: Understanding the Effects of Deficit-Oriented Labeling on First-Generation Students, Jeff Foulkes and Jeff Foulkes

Department of Defense Project Management Team Leaders: Team Dynamics and Teamwork Strategies During Complex Construction Projects, Shane Frey

District-Level Instructional Leaders’ Perceptions of Obstacles When Implementing District-Wide Change Initiatives—A Delphi Study, Ashley Fulmer

Help or Hindrance: Latinx College Graduates’ From STEM Majors Perceptions of University Culture Following Vincent Tinto’s Theoretical Framework of Student Persistence, Carmen Gonzalez and Carmen Lucia Gonzalez

Examining Teachers’ Experiences in Fostering Social-Emotional Learning After Returning to In-Person Instruction in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Rosario Grajeda

Life After Emancipation: A Phenomenological Study of Emancipated Foster Youth and Their Lived Experiences, Felecia Gray

The Use of Personal Disruption Strategies by Female Executive Ministry Leaders for Career Advancement, Neko Green

Adaptive Leadership During Times of Great Change and Opportunity: Building Adaptive Capacity as Perceived by Community Emergency Response Team Program Managers, Ramona Gresham

Inclusive Education in Early Childhood: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study of the Successes and Barriers Impacting Successful Early Childhood Inclusive Education, Cynthia Hartshorn

A Phenomenological Study on the Effectiveness of Induction Programs to Prepare Second- and Third-Year Teachers to Meet the Needs of All Students After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mary Henschel

Personal Disruption Strategies Used by Latina Superintendents for Career Advancement, Dina Hernandez

A Phenomenological Study to Determine How Expert AVID Teachers Use Collaboration to Strengthen Student Metacognition and Student Self-Efficacy and Determine When it Occurs, Megan Hernandez

The Meaning-Making of African American Leaders in Technology Organizations, James Hooks

Using Personal Power to Overcome Self-Sabotage, Kelli Jakubik

Improving Diabetes Self-Management Skills among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Through Weekly Education, Carthia Joachim

Software Developers’ Experiences with CALL in the Context of the Four Language Competencies (Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking) and Teacher and Learner Fit: A Qualitative Descriptive Study, Artem Kalyanov

Movin’ On Up: The Lived Experience of Women of Color in Leadership and the Supports that Helped Them Make it to the Top, Rozina Kapadia

Crisis Leadership and Management of Catholic Community Services and Catholic Housing Services of Western Washington Nonprofit CEOs during the 2020-2022 Coronavirus Pandemic, Carmela A. Koon

Special Education Preschool Teachers’ Perspectives, Attitudes, and Self-Efficacy Towards Inclusive Education, Mieke Kramer Tavares

Civil Service Merit and Employment at Will Personnel Systems: The Role of Transformational Change Leadership in Public Sector Recruitment, Hiring, Promotion, Retention, and Succession Planning, Angela Lauria-Gunnink

A Classic Delphi Study: To Identify and Describe How Elementary School Teacher Leaders Create and Foster a School Culture That Supports Social-Emotional Learning, Nicole Lindemuth

A Delphi Study of Strategies that Elementary School Principals Use to Create and Foster a Culture that Supports Social-emotional Learning in Elementary Schools., Elsa Magana

A Phenomenological Study on the Perceived Impact of Bass's Four I's of Transformational Leadership, Yarissa Marn