Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Financial Retrenchment: a Phenomenological Study of Two Public School Districts in One Community, John Andrew Asplund
The Effects of Manipulating Problem Completion Rates on Assignment Choice and Preference Consistency, Kiley Bliss
Personal Characteristics and Learning Preference in End-of-Life Decision Making of Chronically Ill Community Dwelling Elders, Leigh Ann Bonney
Further Development of a Model of Environmental Commitment, Shane Boyd
Preliminary Findings of the Long Term Effects of the Death of a Peer while in High School, Jenny M. Bradley
Understanding Turnover Propensity via Affective Beliefs, Adam Bradshaw
Tight Void, Brooke Burns
Punch-Drunk, Ian T. Carey
Factors Affecting Student Satisfaction in Different Learning Deliveries, Kuang-yu Chang
Implementing Nclb: a Case Study in Local Urban School Leadership and School Improvement, Michael James Chinino
Maternity, Activism, and the Creation of a New Identity: the Characters of Las Madres De La Plaza De Mayo for the English-Speaking Scholar Derived from Scholarship, Video, and Film, Gloria Diane Clark
Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, and the Monster, Ryan Landry Clark
Does a Weak Social Fabric Fuel the Predatory Lending Industry? The Link Between Payday Lending Activity and Community Trust, Alyssa H. Curran
Gender Transformation at the Grassroots: A Gender and Development Program from the Practitioners' Perspective, Tyler Curtis
The Essential Value of Lgbt Resource Centers, Matthew Raymond Damschroder
The Role of Children in a Mixed-Socioeconomic Community Development Model: A Quantitative Study of Grand Rapids, Michigan Housing Projects, Phillip R. Dawson
Perception of Maximum Stepping and Leaping Ability, Brian Michael Day
An Examination of Student Perceptions of Regional Safe School and Public School Services, Elizabeth Degruy
Student Internet Speech: Where Does the Schoolyard End in the Cyberworld?, Thomas D. Denny
Leadership for Equity in Education: Perceptions of Disability Studies Concepts by Directors of Special Education, Andrea P. Dinaro
Tattoo Stigma and Job Discrimination, Phil Drazewski
An Archaeological and Historical Search for German Ethnicity at the Janis-Ziegler Site ( 23 Sg 272 ), Lisa Marie Dretske
The Effects of an Undergraduate Algebra Course on Prospective Middle School Teachers' Understanding of Functions, Especially Quadratic Functions, Jonathan Taniola Duarte
Eagerly Patient, Erin Elizabeth
Α-Hydroxyhippuric Acid Derivatives: Ph-dependent Aqueous Kinetics and Buffer Catalysis., Kati Feken
Hydrogeologic Implications of Surficial Geologic Mapping and Three-Dimensional Modeling of Glacial Outwash Deposits within the Woodstock, Il 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Stephen Flaherty
An Uncommon Splice: Seeking Mutations in the Life-Writing and Short Fiction of Mary Butts and Djuna Barnes, Susan George
Agency at Hacienda Pancota: Early Colonial Daily Consumption of a Contested Age and Material Culture, Collin Roderick Gillenwater
Framing Eve: Contemporary Retellings of Biblical Women for Young People, Elizabeth Gillhouse
Examining the Perceived Effects of Incarceration on Children: a Racial Comparison of Women's Experiences, Vance V. GodBold
Illinois Secondary Agriculture Teachers' Perception of Critical Development of Undergraduate Experiences, Alicia Jo Gullidge
The Contribution of Physical Education and Structured Recess to 6th Grade Students' Overall Daily Phyiscal Activity, Ashley Aileen Gutierrez
The Ethos of Excellence in an Effective School: a Study of an Exemplary Urban School, Karen Danita Gyenfie
Iffy the Crumbsnatcher, Craig Steven Halle Jr.
Why Do Teachers Hate Ai N't? Eighteenth-Century Ideologies and Attitudes in Twenty-First-Century Classrooms, Robin Elise Halsey
Self-Expansion Motivation and Romantic Liking in Relationship Initiation, Nicole Melissa Hilaire
"Take a Sad Song and Make It Better": Exploring Rewards Related to Liking Unfamiliar Sad Music, John Hogue
Discursive Tactical Negotiations within and across Literacy Coaching Interactions, Carolyn S. Hunt
Zuzu's Petals, Jeffrey James Jarot
Exploring Factors That Influence the Choice To Retire from Driving in Older Adults, Debra J. Jenkins
The Effect of Media Selection on the Membrane Characteristics and Fatty Acid Composition of Staphylococcus Aureus, Seth Russell Johnson
Perceptions of Educational Administration Pre-service Training by Former Illinois Superintendents Currently Serving as University Professors, Douglas Raymond Kaufman
The Effects of Planting Techniques on Maize Grain Yield and Silage Production, Tyler D. Kaufman
Improving the Efficiency of Fall Applied N with Cover Crops, Corey Lacey
Relationships between Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Mindsets, Attributions, and Learning Strategies: an Exploratory Study, Christopher Lackey
Validity of Four Activity Monitors during Controlled and Free-Living Conditions, Joey Lee
Who Do You Play for? : Naming, Difference and the Creation of Scandal in Literature, Tristan Lipe
Nursing Faculty Retention in Private Not-For-profit Colleges and Universities: a Qualitative Study, Sharon Lyons Marquard
The Function of a Middle Woodland Site in the Central Illinois Valley: a Ceramic Study of Ogden-Fettie, Montana L. Martin
An Examination of the Role of Fundraising in Divisions of Student Affairs at Seven Four-Year Public Universities in the Midwest, Danielle Nicole Miller-Schuster
Citizens without a Nation: the Construction of Haitian Illegality and Deportability in the Dominican Republic, Sasha Miranda
Effortful Control, Intervention Dosage, and Children's Responsiveness to a Primary Prevention Program, Nicole Ashley Moore
Application of Ambient Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Emerging Organic and Inorganic Environmental Contaminants, Jamie Nizzia
Correlation of Shoulder and Elbow Kinetics with Ball Velocity in College Baseball Pitchers, Eric Post
Second Screen: a Qualitative Exploration of New Television Multitasking Behaviors, Erica Roehm
Good Hair, Bad Hair, Dominican Hair, Haitian Hair, Katie E. Saunders
Secondary Education Teacher Preparation Programs Should Differentiate Curriculum and Instruction for Traditional and Nontraditional Preservice Teachers, Cynthia Jane Schairer-Kessler
Metergoline, the Basolateral Amygdala and the Ventral Pallidum: Implications for Panic Disorder, Douglas Ryan Schuweiler
Videoconferencing Intervention for Depressive Symptoms and Loneliness in Nursing Home Elders, Theresa Marie Schwindenhammer
Examining Middle School Students' Statistical Thinking while Working in a Technological Environment, Melissa Arnold Scranton
Social Capital And Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust And Social Support In Azerbaijan, Dustin Samuel Stoltz
Disparity of Principal Accountability, Mary Kathryn Taylor
Understanding the Support Needs of People with Intellectual and Related Developmental Disabilities through Cluster Analysis and Factor Analysis of Statewide Data, Yuwadee Viriyangkura
An Examination of Dietary Differences between French and British Households of Post-conquest Canada, Kristen Walczesky
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Reading Error Correction Procedures on the Reading Accuracy, Reading Fluency, and Reading Comprehension of Fourth Grade Students, Jennifer Wallace
Innovation in Academic Libraries during a Time of Crisis, Dane Michael Ward
Always Faithful: Photographic Works by Marissa Webb, Marissa K. Webb
Identifying with the Help: an Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Gender on a Post-colonial French Houselot, Erin Nicole Whitson
Beliefs and Instructional Practices of Four Community College Remedial Mathematics Instructors, Robin Marie Wucherer
Mark Twain and Critical Thinking in the Secondary Classroom, Daniel Zehr
Immune Strategy of a Long-Lived Ectotherm, the Red- Eared Slider Turtle, Trachmys Scripta, Laura M. Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Traumatic Infidelities: Translating the Literature of the Armenian Genocide, Shushan Avagyan
Uplift and Blame: Minority Parents in the Discourse of Professional Educators, Katie Mitchell
Ethnic Diversity And Poverty: A Dynamic Panel Study Of Illinois Counties, Ambuj Neupane
Closures and Consolidation: Schools, Farms, and Population Decline in Rural Illinois, Eric Porter
Submissions from 2011
The Effect of Economic Freedom on Workers' Remittances to Labor Sending Countries, Lloyd Banwart
Catching a Cold: A Look at the Expected Contagion Effect of Neighboring Income Inequality, Jared Dellinger
Health and Disease on Hiwassee Island: A Study of Late-Mississippian Human Remains, Cassandra Pardo
Married and Cohabiting Men's Extra-Dyadic Relationships in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing Two Health Behavior Models, Jared L. Ulschmid
Strong Ties and Strong Influences: Social Networks and HIV Prevention, Nicole M. Wengerd
Darle El Pecho: A Qualitative Exploration of Mexican Immigrant Mothers' Experience With Breastfeeding, Tessa Zevallos
Submissions from 2010
Economic Growth and Social Development, Janelle Jones
Submissions from 2009
Making Partnerships Count: A Case Study: The Role of Social Capital in the 2009 Homeless Count in Suburban Cook County, Jessica Aleksy
Impact of Microfinance and Remittances on the Livelihood of Nepali People, Bishal B. Kasu
Local Food Systems in Central Illinois: An Economic Impact Analysis, Joseph Lauchlan and Viktor Schrader
The Role of Language and Politics: A Look at National-Identity Formation in Eastern Ukraine, Andrew Maxwell
Submissions from 2008
Mainstream and Alternative News in Seattle: A Comparative Media Frame Analysis of WTO Protest Coverage, Richard Feffer S.
The Other Side of Metamorphosis: An Exploratory Study of How Partners of Transsexuals Experience Transition, Kara Harvey
Differences Lead to Differences: Diversity and Income Inequality Across Countries, Michael Hotard
Submissions from 2007
Income Growth in U.S. States: Is it Pro-Poor?, Brandon Curtis
Financial Liberalization and Money Demand in Mauritius, Rebecca Hodel
The Impact of HIV on Economic Development, Kate Jones-Smith
An Analysis of the Application of Club Good Models to Determine Carrying Capacity of National Parks, Rachel Smith
Minimum Wage as a Poverty Reducing Measure, Kevin Souza
An Analysis of the Economic Impact of Biodiesel Production in Illinois, Kelly Uphoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Where the Green Money Grows: Assessing the Prospects of Ecotourism in Gabon, Daniel Chand
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Friends of the Oppressed: an Investigation of the Kane County Anti-slavery Society, Jeanne Schultz Angel