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Title: A CASE STUDY OF THE ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE PROGRAMS OF A NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Author: Harris, Letitia
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: As the United States struggles with issues regarding the rapidly increasing immigrant population, so do public schools struggle with providing the youth of this non-English speaking population a quality education. Because of the requirements and s...

Title: A Study of Leadership Factors, Retention Strategies, and Retention Rates in Associate Degree Nursing Programs
Author: Arthurs, Janet
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Community colleges--Study and teaching, School management and organization
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine transformational leadership practices of Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) directors, the relationship to student retention rates, and retention strategies used. The Leadership Practices Inventory-Self (LPI-Se...

Title: Building the Leaders of the Future: A Communication Perspective on College Student Leadership Programs
Author: De Jesus Cesar Bezerra Alonso, Vanessa
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Communication
Description: While leadership communication has been the focus of interest for communication scholars in the last 20 years, no work has been done to understand the conceptualizations of leadership and its implications for the communication discipline in the hi...

Title: Caught in the Middle: Middle School Principals' Perceptions of Traditional And Standards-based Grading Practices
Author: Nash, Susann
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: The goal of this qualitative study was to understand middle school principals’ perceptions of leading a transition from traditional grading to standards-based grading (SBG). Using a multiple case study approach six middle school principals who wor...

Title: Functions, Practices, and Leadership Responsibilities of High School Athletic Directors in the United States
Author: DeCesare, Tammy
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education
Description: The consistent growth of high school sports has created a noticeable evolution in the athletic director position requiring an increase in competencies in business administration and leadership. However, academic requirements, credentials, and trai...

Title: Gender and Leadership: A Second Order Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Santos, Kristen
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management, Sex role, Management
Description: Given the importance of understanding how gender bias impacts the advancement of women into upper leadership, this second-order meta-analysis attempts to explore and summarize previous developments in the gender and leadership literature in order ...

Title: Inclusive Leader Behavior In A Virtual Context: A Causal Investigation
Author: Utz, Adrienne
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Industrial management
Description: Despite the workforce in the United States becoming more diverse, there is still a lack of understanding of how leaders can create an inclusive work environment. Previous research has provided little evidence of which inclusive leadership behavior...

Title: Internalizing Genderization: Women’s Navigation of Power Dynamics in Senior-level Student Affairs Roles
Author: Wheeler, Emily
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher
Description: While women have attained higher-level roles and greater representation in higher education administrator roles, the concept of the higher, the fewer (Nidiffer, 2002) represents the "gendered prestige hierarchies" (Allan, 2011, p. 58) that limit w...

Title: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT OF FIRST-TIME LEADERS THROUGH COLLEGIATE ADVENTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Author: Coffey, Kristin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Psychology, Industrial
Description: This study examined the relation between level of experience as a collegiate adventure education student leader and leadership skills necessary for effective first-time managers in the workplace. One-hundred and thirty-three college students betwe...

Title: Learning from Testimonios about Equity in Educational Leadership: Experiences of Latinx Public School Administrators in North Carolina
Author: Bryson-Evans, Cassie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: CASSIE BRYSON-EVANS. Learning from Testimonios about Equity in Educational Leadership: Experiences of Latinx Public School Administrators in North Carolina. (Under the direction of DR. WALTER HART). The significance of this study was its ability t...

Title: Potential Barriers to Women's Leadership Self-efficacy
Author: Robinson, Aspen
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Psychology
Description: Many organizations are employing women at a higher rate than seen in previous years, yet women are still underrepresented in leadership roles. In this paper, I examine factors that may influence an individual’s perceived capabilities of being a le...

Title: SHE’S GOT THE “IT” FACTOR: DO FEMALE LEADERS GET CREDIT FOR THEIR CHARISMA?
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Management, Psychology
Description: While recent work has significantly advanced knowledge regarding charismatic leadership as a construct and its relationship to follower performance, substantial gaps in the literature persist. Specifically, the role gender may play as both an ante...

Title: Super-Generators? Exploring the Career Trajectories and Leadership Practices of Women Superintendents
Author: Lockhart, Joyce
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership
Description: ABSTRACTJOYCE Y. LOCKHART. Super-Generators: exploring the career trajectories and leadership practices of women superintendents (Under the direction of DR. LISA G. DRISCOLL) This investigation explored how the personal history, career trajectorie...

Title: The Effect of a Leadership Development Program on Healthcare Leaders
Author: Hipp, Felicia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: This scholarly project evaluates the effect of a leadership development program (LDP) on healthcare leaders. The impact of leadership competence on organizational success has become an important topic. Leadership development programs equip leaders...

Title: The Effectiveness of Charismatic Signaling by Gender: A Prospective Meta-Analytic Review
Author: Hausfeld, Mary
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Management
Description: While charismatic leadership tactics (CLTs) have been validated across a variety of settings and shown to improve leader evaluations and cause follower behaviors, the role gender may play in charismatic leadership has been understudied. The presen...

Title: Where are all of the Black Women? The underrepresentation and experiences of Black women in intercollegiate athletic leadership
Author: Stone, Cynthia
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Educational leadership, Ethnicity--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Sports administration
Description: Higher education leadership demographics contrast sharply with formulaic narratives of college campuses filled with gender and racial diversity, especially in intercollegiate athletics. Black women occupy only 2% of athletic director positions at ...