Multiple factors, including affordability and expected outcomes, have converged to cause unusual pressure on higher education administrators and faculty and prompt the need for change (Kezar, 2009; Selingo, 2013; Zemsky, ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the merits of three conceptual frameworks that emerged from a synthesis of literature related to globalization, mission, and higher education. The first framework, higher education ...

This project arose from the desire to minister in the dominantly multicultural community of Renton, Washington. The project utilized interviews to reveal common factors that would enable gospel communication across several ...

The number of women in doctoral programs is increasing each year and women now comprise the majority of doctoral students in America (U.S. Department of Education, 2015). Previous research has shown the high levels of ...

The pedagogical canons at Christian schools are formed by the systematic interaction of theoretical and pragmatic factors. And although demographics, finances, and parental pressure do affect text selection, the methods ...

Positive psychology provides the theoretical framework for this replication and extension study of Holder, Coleman, and Wallace (2010). Their results indicated that spirituality (especially the domains of communal and ...

Those who develop leaders in manufacturing settings have little data that describe the usefulness of action learning as a method of developing leaders’ abilities to improve results-based leadership attributes or perceptions ...

This dissertation focuses upon the work of the Reverend David J. du Plessis, an individual with deep connections to both denominational Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement in mainline American churches of the 1960s. ...

The first generation of female Pentecostals (approximately 1906-1925) helped spread the gospel and the baptism of the Holy Spirit around the world. This dissertation examines the culture, theology, and praxis of late ...