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An Attack on Education: How South Carolina independent schools ensure campus safety and security in theface of potential violence
(2020-07)
This project was an investigation into safety and security measures implemented by Heads of
School within the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA). Interviews and an
open-ended survey were conducted with ...
Alma Mater Matters: Designing Meaningful and Impactful Alumni Engagement within Independent School Communities
(2020-07)
Independent schools' alumni engagement programming often lacks creative strategy and valid measures of engagement beyond dollars donated and attendance at alumni events. Despite the fact that independent school alumni are ...
A Moment Defined: Corporate Board Composition and Intersectionality, the Broadening Conceptualization of Gender-only to Gender and Race
(2020-08)
This study explores the experiences of African-American females (AA/Fs) who serve as corporate board directors of public and private corporations in the United States. Questions that guided this research attempted to offer ...
How Do First American Tribes Define and Achieve Success in Tourism?
(2020-09)
Since the early 2000s, First American tribes in Oklahoma began establishing tribal tourism departments within their sovereign government structures to promote tribal businesses and tribal territories as travel and tourism ...
From Training to Learning in Workforce Development: A Critical Discourse Analysis
(2020-08)
Although labor market dynamics are highly complex, workforce development programs typically attempt to remediate unemployed or underemployed individuals through trainings focused on “soft skills,” or nontechnical skills ...
Parent Engagement in an Independent School Setting
(2020-09)
Many independent schools today struggle to engage parents in ways that meet parents’ needs, particularly as these critical stakeholders have become more demanding and involved in recent years. Parents assume multiple roles. ...
Leading the Occupational Therapy Profession Towards Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
(2020-12)
Like many national professional organizations, the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) membership does not reflect the national demographics in terms of diversity. Throughout the years, the AOTA has published ...
Catalyzing Transformation: Reconceptualizing Climate Resiliency Planning through Participatory, Community-Engaged Practices
(2020-12)
The compounding effects of inequitable decisions, policies, and investments within urban areas has functioned to exclude, dispossess, and remove residents of low-income communities and communities of color. As a result of ...
Governing in Crisis: Sensemaking and Sensegiving in Virginia School Districts During COVID-19
(2020-12)
COVID-19 caused the entire world to shut down. School systems especially were significantly impacted. On March 23rd, the governor of Virginia ordered schools to close for the rest of the year. Suddenly, school leaders in ...