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Saying the Same Thing Differently : Behavioral Jargon's Influence on the Social Acceptability of School-Based Behavioral Interventions
(2025-07)Behavior analysis, which is used by school psychologists, is often criticized for its lack of accessibility to people outside of the field (Critchfield et al., 2017; Leighland, 2002). In schools, teachers and other educators ... -
The Camp Generation : The Hmong Experience in Thailand's Refugee Camps, 1975-1993
(2019-05-15)This research is about the lives of Hmong refugees in Thailand's refugee camps after the takeover of Laos by the communist Pathet Lao Party in 1975. During this time the Hmong and other ethnic minorities who sided with the ... -
Strange Fruit in Duluth : Race Riot, Reputation, and Remembrance of the 1920 Duluth Lynching
(2025-05)On June 15, 1920, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie were lynched by a white Duluth mob over the false claim of rape of a young white woman. After decades of silence, the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial was ... -
Examining Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Students' Perceptions and Preparations for Working in End-of-Life Care
(2025-05)This study examined graduate speech-language pathology students’ perceptions of preparations for delivering end-of-life services as a future professional, as well as exploring their graduate program curricula’s exposure ... -
Character Strengths as a Tool for Holistic Student Recruitment in Speech-Language Pathology
(2025-04-18)The demand for speech-language pathologists is projected to grow by 25% between 2019 and 2029, with a significant shortage already impacting school settings. To address this, recruitment strategies that identify individuals ... -
Racism and Dissent Over Desegregation in the Milwaukee School District, 1960-1968
(2024-12-04)The Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 rendered racial segregation in public education illegal. The obvious solution to racial segregation – desegregation – was widely posited as a way of addressing not only ... -
The 'Evils' of Emma: Resistance to Conformity in Jane Austen's Emma
(1999-05)This thesis identifies and analyzes the ways in which Jane Austen's character of Emma resists social conformity throughout the novel Emma. Her resistance results in her ability to maintain control of her life and destiny ... -
Implementation of a Cultural Competency Learning Module Within an Interprofessional Clinical Experience
(2024-07)The integration of interprofessional collaborative practice with culturally competent practice has the potential to enhance positive outcomes, expand service delivery options, and address systematic racism in applied ... -
Perceived Parental Pressure and Internalizing Symptoms in Young Adults From High-Achieving Schools
(2024-05)Adolescent depression and anxiety rates have been rising over the last decade. One suspected factor underlying these increasing rates is achievement pressure, including the pressures stemming from parental academic ... -
Off the Tracks! : Deadly Railway Accidents, Markets, and Morality, 1850-1893
(2013-12)This thesis explores railway accidents and safety from the 1850s through the Railway Safety Appliance Act of 1893. Historians have shown, through political, economic, and to some extent, legal examination, throughout much ... -
Unfaltering Flame : A Linked Essay Collection
(2021-11)Unfaltering Flame represents Stephanie Nesja's exploration of faith from childhood into adulthood. Along the way, she encounters various forms of grief, including losing a close friend after high school and an aunt in her ... -
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advanced Placement Participation and Performance
(2023-11)The Advanced Placement program is a popular option for students seeking college credit and academic rigor in high school; however, it is an educational program with a history of racial and ethnic inequity. The present study ... -
The Effect of Race Representation on Reading Comprehension
(2023-05)The achievement gap is still prevalent in that racial minority students, particularly Black students, tend to have lower grade point averages and test scores than their White peers. The current study examined the impact ... -
Changing Places
(2023-05-08)This project is an examination, recognition, and celebration of the hard work it is to grow up in today’s world and become one’s own person. This is the first three chapters of a novel consisting of a series of young ... -
Speech-Language Pathology Perspectives Comparing Hippotherapy and Standard Practice Treatment Delivery
(2023-04)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine differences among speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) perspectives who utilize hippotherapy as a tool compared to standard practice treatment therapy. Demographics of ... -
Acceptable Activists, Absence, and Antifeminists : A Feminist Historical Critique of National Statuary Hall
(2023-05)In recent years, debates surrounding monuments and the messages they transmit through public space have exploded. A public, cultural conversation has emerged about monuments, collective memory, systemic racism, and societal ... -
Frances E.W. Harper’s Iola Leroy as a Black Nationalist Text
(2021-05)This work examines the historical context in the later nineteenth century during which Frances E.W. Harper is writing her novel, Iola Leroy. This work argues that Harper is underscoring the ways in which Black men can ... -
The Fledgling Führers : A Comparative Study of Interwar Fascist Movements in Britain and the U.S.
(2023-05)During the interwar period (1918-1939), Italy and Germany were not alone in their experimentation with fascism. In Britain and the United States, two lesser-known groups, the British Union of Fascists and the German American ... -
A Contested Past, a Therapeutic Present : The Italian Hall Memorial and Keweenaw National Historical Park, Calumet, Michigan
(2022-12)This thesis examines the Italian Hall Memorial and Keweenaw National Historical Park as a local commemorative space in Calumet, Michigan, and as a national component to memory studies and twentieth-century labor within the ... -
White Maternity and a Culture of Consumption in Little Fires Everywhere
(2020-05)This article seeks to illuminate the role white suburban mothers play in upholding homeland maternity and neoliberal multiculturalism in the United States. The maintenance of these two organizing power structures hinge on ...
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