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Dissertations from 2022 2022.

The UWC Breakthrough and Ascent: Factors and Transitions , Abdulrhman Ahmad Althgafei

International Faculty – Chair Relationship: Job Satisfaction Relative to Leadership and Communication Quality , Nina Barudzic

White Senior-level Student Affairs Professionals' Experiences with Social Justice, Inclusion, and Whiteness , Brittany House Conrad

Dissertations from 2021 2021

A Case Study Exploring the Influence of Fraternity and Sorority Membership on Gender Identity Development , Megan M. Arnold

Need for Cognition in Resident Assistants , Bryan Austin

The Relationship Between Adolescents' Self-Reported Mental Health Characteristics and College Enrollment Behaviors , Emily Thatcher Creamer

From Memos to TikToks: A Qualitative Study of Multigenerational Student Affairs Workplace Expectations , Meredith Dixon

A Grounded Theory Study of the Self-Authorship Development of Art and Design Students , Andrea M. Hauser

A Quantitative Investigation of Job Demands, Job Resources, and Exposure to Trauma on Burnout in Certain Student Affairs Professionals , Jody Ann Kunk-Czaplicki

A Phenomenological Study of the Recruitment Experiences of Women Student-Athletes and the Factors that Influence College Choice , Breanna Chanel Robinson

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Narratives of Undergraduate Men about Masculinity and Men's Violence , Keenan Yul Colquitt Jr.

A Top Fashion Program and the Traditional College Experience: A Narrative Study of Fashion Merchandising Students’ College Choice , Heather A. Golden

A Phenomenology of Peer Interaction and Community in Accelerated Online Learning , Kristen Brooke Hidinger

Predicting Student Veteran Persistence , Sue Ann Sandusky

Follower Perception of Leadership Communication and Leadership Style Significantly Predicting Follower Job Satisfaction Among Ohio Community College Employees , David W. Seeger

Death, Transition, and Resilience: A Narrative Study of the Academic Persistence of Bereaved College Students , Cari Ann Urabe

Housing Partnerships: Understanding Organizational Culture Elements and Building and Maintenance Strategies Between University Professionals and Private Corporate Developers , Mark Andrew Zeno

Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Grounded Theory of Chinese College Students' Self-Authorship Development , Yifei Li

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Standing On Shoulders: A Narrative Inquiry Examining the Faculty Mentoring Experiences of Black Women in a Doctoral Program , Krystal N. Allen

Hidden, Supported, and Stressful: A Phenomenological Study of Midlevel Student Affairs Professionals' Entry-Level Experiences with a Mental Health Condition , Kerry Lee Belvill Klima

Do All Asian Americans Feel Alike? Exploring Asian American College Students' Sense of Belonging on Campuses , Yihui Li

Identity Meaning-Making Among Polyamorous Students in Postsecondary Educational Contexts: A Constructivist Queer Theory Case Study , Liane D. Ortis

The Council of Student Personnel Associations in Higher Education: A Historical Analysis of Inter-Association Collaboration in Student Affairs , Jared T. Tuberty

Dissertations from 2017 2017

An Examination of Bias Incident Response at Postsecondary Institutions , Howard A. Gonyer

A Study of the Inter-rater Reliability of University Application Readers in a Holistic Admissions Review Process , Blaire L. Moody Rideout

Examining the Influence of Perceptions of a Supervisor's Leadership Style on Levels of Psychological Ownership Among Entry Level Professionals , Reggie Lee Shouse

Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Demographics and Utilization of Transformational Leadership Practices by Potential Community College Presidents , Matthew A. Cooney

"The other side": A narrative study of south African community members' experiences with an international service-learning program , Jeremy R. Doughty

The Experiences of Refugee Students in United States Postsecondary Education , Vivienne R. Felix

Opposites or Perfect Partners: Student Affairs and Libraries in Collaboration to Advance Student Learning , Beth A. Hoag

Managing Student Death at Small College Campuses: Experiences of Senior Student Affairs Administrators , Lisa Maureen Kirchner

The Relationship Between Experiences with Microaggression and the Leadership Practices of Mid-Level Student Affairs Professionals , LaDonna R. Moore

Understanding the College Choice Process of Students Enrolled in an Early College High School , Rebecca J. Mosely

Queering Academia: Queer Faculty Mothers and Work-Family Enrichment , Katherine Newman Stygles

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Behaviors, Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge for Senior Student Affairs Officers: Perceptions of Leadership Success , Jo Campbell

Social Capital for LGBTQ+ Student Leaders of LGBTQ+ Identity-based Student Groups , Kelly Jo M. Larsen

Funding Faithful Felons: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Higher Education Transitions of Ex-Offender Scholarship Recipients , Judith A. Leary

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Campus Friends, Gender, and College Student Success , Ryan Bronkema

Studying Abroad: An Opportunity for Growth in Spirituality , Jacob Clemens

An Examination of Mentoring Relationships and Leadership Capacity in Resident Assistants , Sherry Early

Engaging Differences of Religious Belief: Student Experiences with an Intergroup Dialogue Course , Sara Hoefle

Senior Student Affairs Officers' Perceptions Of Critical Professional Competencies , Kristen Lindsay

Changing Places: Narratives of Spiritual Conversion during the First College Year , Keith O'Neill

The Experiences of High-Achieving, Undergraduate Students Who Departed from Bowling Green State University in the First Year: A Case Study , Matthew Rygg

Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Experience of Senior Student Affairs Administrators Making Parental Notification Decisions About Disturbed and Disturbed/Disturbing Students , Holly Asimou

A Case Study Exploring Urban African-Centered Charter School Personnel's Development and Support of a College-Going Ethos , Christina Fields

Comparison of Organizational Cultures among Arts and Sciences Faculty at Ohio Public Universities , Christine Onasch

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Faculty Perceptions of the Natonal Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Evaluation at Regular Higher Education Institutions From 2003 TO 2008 in China , Jumei An

Institutional Practices that Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Postsecondary Educational Setting , Kirsten Brown

The Nature of Spiritual Questioning Among Select Undergraduates at a Midwestern University: Constructions, Conditions, and Consequences , Michael Brown

Collaborative Leadership Practices Among Ohio's Early College High School Prinicpals and Their Post-Secondary Partners , Allia Carter

Private Higher Education in Jamaica: Expanding Access in Pursuit of Vision 2030 , Chad Coates

Exploring the Perceptions of Study Abroad Among Black Undergraduates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities , Nykia Gaines

Voices Unheard: Using Intersectionality to Understand Identity Among Sexually Marginalized Undergraduate Students of Color , Elizabeth Russell

Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Experiences of Latina Students at a Predominantly White University , Mary Begley

A Comparison of Academic Administrators and Enrollment Managers' Perceptions of Undergraduate Enrollment Management Functions at a Subset of Four-Year Public Institutions , Lisa Cesarini

Development and fundraising practices in divisions of student affairs at 4-year, public universities , Peggy Crowe

A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes Associated with Ohio's Postsecondary Enrollment Options Program , Mary Geise

Collaborative Relationships Between Faculty and Student Affairs Professionals: A Case Study , Michelle Rodems

Resident Advisor Selection: Is a Broad Measure of Personality a Good Predictor of Resident Advisor Performance? , Andrew Sadouskas

A Study of Motherhood and Perceived Career Satisfaction of Women in Student Affairs , Kacee Snyder

Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Gendered Nature of Student Affairs: Issues of Gender Equity in Student Affairs Professional Associations , Evelyn Ashley

Examining Factors of Acculturative Stress on International Students as They Affect Utilization of Campus-Based Health and Counseling Services at Four-Year Public Universities in Ohio , Paul Hofmann

What is Hawaiian?: Explorations and Understandings of Native Hawaiian College Women's Identities , V. Leilani Kupo

Institutional Resource Allocation, Student Engagement, and Student Satisfaction at Ontario Universities , Alana Malik

The Use Of Storytelling In Nursing Education , Susan Sochacki

Employment Recruiters’ Differentiation of Candidate Characteristics: Does Study Abroad Make a Difference? , Jessica Turos

Dissertations from 2009 2009

A Qualitative Exploration of the Experiences of College Students in a Skill-Building Course for First-Year Students , Renita Clark

Melvene Draheim Hardee: Music Maker and Dreamer of Dreams , Sally Click

Those Who Just Said “NO!”: Career-Life Decisions of Middle Management Women in Student Affairs Administration , Kathleen Collins

The Relationship Between Parental Notification and Recidivism and Retention of Students Who Violated the University Alcohol Policy , Christie Cruise

National Job Satisfaction of Enty- and Mid-level Student Affairs Professionals , Denise Davidson

Preparing Students to Work in a Globally Diverse World: The Relationship of College Students' Backgrounds and College Experiences to Their Orientation Toward Diversity , Cynthia Fulford

A Ten-Year Study of the Conditional Effects on Student Success in the First Year of College , Brady Gaskins

New Professionals' Perspectives of Supervision in Student Affairs , Jeffrey Kegolis

A Phenomenological Study of the Experience of Respondents in Campus-Based Restorative Justice Programs , Peter Meagher

Being Interim: Leading in a Transitional Appointment , Gina Ondercin

The Effect of Faculty-Student Interactions on Student Engagement at Community Colleges , Angie Williams-Chehmani

Dissertations from 2008 2008

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn: The Lived Experience of International Teaching Assistants at a Midwestern University , V. Lynne Bates Holland

The First Amendment and Academic Freedom: Faculty as Employees and Citizens , Louis Benedict

Riding Out the Waves: Community College Transfers Graduating with Bachelor's Degrees , Tamara Rice

Academic and Disciplinary Outcomes Following Adjudication of Academic Dishonesty , Casey Sacks

An Exploration of the Effects of Student Characteristics and Engagement Practices on Academic Success for Low-Income Students , Julie Snyder

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Learning Disabilities and Success in Post-Secondary Education: How Students Make Sense of Their Experiences at a Canadian University , Carla Abreu-Ellis

Study Behavior of Nursing Students , Lori Doll-Speck

The Relationship of Work Experience to Clinical Performance in a Master of Physical Therapy Program , Deborah George

An Analysis of Leadership Styles and Practices of University Women in Administrative Vice Presidencies , Aparajita Maitra

Beyond the First “Click:” Women Graduate Students in Computer Science , Jennifer Sader

Assessing the Factors that Affect the Persistence and Graduation Rates of Native American Students in Postsecondary Education , Paul White

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Latino and Latina First Year College Students: Factors Important to Their Persistence , Laura Gonzales

Examining the Personal Finance Attitudes, Behaviors, and Knowledge Levels of First-Year and Senior Students at Baptist Universities in the State of Texas , Brent Marsh

Madwoman, Queen, and Alien-Being: The Experiences of First-Time Women Presidents at Small Private Colleges , Korine Steinke

Student Wellness: Tracking Demographic Characteristics, Health Risk Traits, and Health Information of Students Over a 16 Year Period , Catherine Swick

Dissertations from 2005 2005

The Transfer of Cultural Assumptions About American Higher Education in a Global Society: Perceptions of Visiting Russian Scholars , Gary Anderson

The Impact of Residential Learning Communities at Four-Year, Public, Midwest Universities on Students’ Self-Reported Levels of Civic Engagement , Suhua Dong

Mid-Level Student Affairs Professionals’ Perceptions of Spirituality: A Phenomenological Study , Keith Hansen

Membership and the First Year of College: A Comparison of the Academic Achievements of Social Sorority and Fraternity Members Who Joined During Their First Year of College and Students Who Never Joined , William Lake

Faculty Perceptions of Undergraduate Academic Dishonesty , Marie Saddlemire

Dissertations from 2004 2004

A History of the Conferences of Deans of Women, 1903-1922 , Janice Gerda

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LaTeX templates for theses and dissertations at Bowling Green State University See https://www.bgsu.edu/graduate/thesis-and-dissertations/thesis-dissertation-handbook.html for the requirements.

Nate Iverson created the first version of this template. Ying-Ju Chen, John Haman, and Maria Rizzo also made contributions. Dr. Rizzo also maintains a version of the template, see https://github.com/mariarizzo/BGthesis

The file dissertation.tex is the central file that you would run with LaTeX. There are separate files for the abstract, chapters, appendix, references, and other things. The file BGSU.cls contains pretty much all of the BGSU-specific formatting commands. Hopefully you will not need to edit it very much. If you are writing a thesis, change line 57 of BGSU.cls to \def@doctype{Thesis}. You may also want to rename dissertation.tex to be thesis.tex.

Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor, and the current version works well with Overleaf. From the Overleaf main menu, click New Project, Import from GitHub, and navigate to https://github.com/clzirbel/BGSU-LaTeX-Templates

Note that when you read the PDF produced by PDF LaTeX, you can use the hyperlinks to navigate within the documents, and use Left Alt-Left arrow to go back to where you were.

Note that when you include images from outside sources, you will need to request copyright permission to include those in your dissertation, since it will be published online. To do this, you will need to send a message to the copyright holder, get their permission, and then include those messages as an appendix in your dissertation. That will be time consuming and difficult. It may be better to always make your own images, or just refer to images in other publications without showing them.

After finishing your dissertation or thesis (congratulations!) and producing a PDF, you will need to use Adobe Acrobat to set document properties and other things before you submit to BGSU. Some specific steps:

• In Adobe Acrobat: File, Properties, Description, remove any double quotation marks from the Keywords
• In Adobe Acrobat: File, Properties, Initial View, Show, Document Title to get the title bar to show the title of the work instead of the filename
• In Adobe Acrobat: File, Properties, Advanced, Language, English
• Follow the instructions at http://www.bgsu.edu/graduate/thesis-and-dissertations/converting-your-document-to-pdf.html to embed fonts
• Follow the instructions at the link above to check accessibility; instead of Full Check it may be called Accessibility Check. Work through all of the red x's to fix them. A very important thing to note is that you do NOT want to autotag the document. BGSU will work with you regarding this, but the office has stated in the past that this is the one red x you want to avoid. You can also read this page about the Accessibility Check: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html
• One step in the Accessibility Check is to set alternate text for each figure (image) and table. Do this last, after Acrobat has tagged the document. If you follow the instructions above, add alt text only in Step 9, which are steps for LaTeX users. That way, you will only have to add alt text once. Follow the instructions at the link above concerning number of characters and content of the alternate text. I don't know how to add alt text in the LaTeX source code, so I would recommend keeping a separate file with alt text for each image, which you can copy and paste in one step at the end. (I tried the accessibility package but was not able to get it to work.) If you figure out how to add alt text for each image directly in LaTeX, please let me know.
• The link above explains how to check the reading order on each page of your document. Level 1 headings need to be marked. Essentially you need to scroll through your document, drag a box around the heading at the beginning of each chapter, and click Heading 1. Also do this for the Abstract, Table of Contents, List of Figures, Chapters, Bibliography, Appendices. It should also be done for the headings of Acknowledgments, List of Tables, Preface, but these may be recognized as tables and so cannot be marked as Heading 1. You do not need to mark section headings (Section 1.1, 1.2, etc.) or subsection headings. You can see what type each element is by checking Structure types. Also look for any text that is not in a gray box or is not in order on the page.

A problem with LaTeX documents is that hyperlinks within the document are not tagged as being hyperlinks, so a visually impaired person might not know that they are hyperlinks. Hopefully we will find a good way to deal with this, but for now:

• The only method that is known to work as of 2/20/2022 is this: remove all hyperlinks using Adobe Acrobat following these steps: Print Production, Preflight, Flatten annotations and form field. It may be easiest to do this before checking for accessibility, as hyperlinks are one of the aspects of the document which are checked. This wipes the hyperlinks that LaTeX provided, making the document compliant. You can submit the "flat" version to OhioLink as the official dissertation and the version with hyperlinks as a Supplemental File for OhioLink.

Overleaf has a helpful article about tagging PDFs, see https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/An_introduction_to_tagged_PDF_files%3A_internals_and_the_challenges_of_accessibility Hopefully over time Overleaf and the LaTeX community will develop better tools for making accessible PDFs.

When you submit to OhioLink, you need to copy and paste the abstract. If you have LaTeX symbols in the abstract, OhioLink won't understand those, but you can submit HTML codes for the special symbols, and then Preview to see that it is working correctly. One way to get HTML codes is to use ChatGPT. The following prompt worked pretty well:

Save the HTML version in a file called abstract.html and make sure the file starts with <html> . Double click abstract.html to preview the HTML version and edit until it looks correct. Don't just trust ChatGPT!

Notes for possible future use

It is important that equations can be read out loud with a screen reader. As of 2/20/2022, pdfLaTeX produced a version that could be read by the Adobe Reader Read Out Loud feature. To hear what it sounds like, follow these steps.

• Open Adobe Reader, then Edit, Preferences, Security (Enhanced), uncheck Enable Protected Mode at startup. Re-start Adobe Reader and open your PDF and do: View, Read Out Loud, Activate Read Out Loud, View, Read Out Loud, Read This Page Only.

The LaTeX axessibility package is designed to produce text for typeset mathematics that can be read by a screen reader, but it did not work as well as what was produced without the axessibility pacakge. For now, the recommendation is to not use the axessibility package. Hopefully the axessibility package will improve over time. In case this changes in the future, here is how to use the axessibility package. Process your document with LuaLaTeX. If you are running LaTeX on your own computer, this may require installing several packages. On Overleaf, upload the project, then click the Menu and set the compiler to LuaLaTeX. Code in dissertation.tex and BGSU.cls will detect that you are using LuaLaTeX and will load the axessibility package and other packages.

Another important note is regarding accessibility. The LaTeX project (who officially maintain LaTeX) has announced a multi-year project in order to fix accessibility (primarily focused on tagging) for LaTeX documents . It is important to note that this has caused some accessibility packages (but not axessibility) to be in a form of maintainance mode, that is one with minimal updates due to the expectation they will be obsolete in a couple years. It appears as if the eventual goal of the project will be to integrate accessibility at a fundamental level with LaTeX, although this will take some time.

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Theses and Dissertations in Ohio

• OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Full text doctoral dissertations, masters' theses and undergraduate honors theses from Ohio colleges and universities going back to 2000, including Bowling Green State University.

To search for theses and dissertations published by students from BGSU, browse by Institution and Department below the search box.

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• Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) Index to more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses written from 1861 to the present for universities all over the world, with full text access to most.

Many of the dissertations in this database are available full-text. If you come across one that is NOT full-text, fill out an Interlibrary Loan request before selecting the purchase option. 

Submitting Your Own Thesis or Dissertation

All graduate students at BGSU are required by the Graduate College to upload their Master's thesis or Doctoral dissertation to the OhioLINK ETD. The only exception to this is for the Creative Writing program. For assistance with this process, make an appointment with the staff in the CollabLab located on the first floor of Jerome Library.  

Plan ahead and give yourself time to complete this process. 

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