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Closing The Gap In Higher Education: African American Male College Students Perceptions Of Advising At A Two Year College
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2011-07-14)The attrition of minority students is fast becoming a salient issue in higher education. Academic advising has long been viewed as a determinant of participation, persistence and success. Persistence focuses on retention. ... -
Collaboration Among Federal Managers: Administrative Conjunction In Faith Based And Community Initiatives
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2009-09-16)The role of government is less clear than ever in an increasingly complex world. As a result, working in government has also become more challenging. In this information driven society, government workers are asked to ... -
Communihood: Being a planning activist in the twenty-first century
(2014-09-17)Introducing communihood as a hybrid concept and defining planning activism as a planners' role outside the dominant planning power structure are two main contributions of this dissertation in scholarly debates among planning ... -
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Funding and other Area Community Development Targeting Approaches As Public Policy to Reduce Poverty and Improve Social Mobility, Social Integration and Cultural Assimilation of Minority Population:
(2017-01-30)This research is an expansion of previous research to study and provide empirical evidence on the influence that Community Block Grant (CDBG) funding has on the improvement of social mobility for low-income minority ... -
A Comparative Study Of Performance Measurement In Korean Local Governments Using Data Envelopment Analysis And Stochastic Frontier Analysis
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2008-04-22)This study examines efficiency as a key component of performance, applies new performance measurement techniques to the measurement of local government performance, and verifies theoretical debates on economic, financial, ... -
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THE DYNAMICS INFLUENCING URBAN AND ECONOMIC LAND DEVELOPMENT SURROUNDING DALLAS-FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND DALLAS LOVE FIELD AIRPORT
(2019-12-02)With the surrounding layout of both Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) International Airport and Dallas Love Field (DAL) Airport being shaped by and through differing contributing influences, one intriguing question for this diverse ... -
A Comparison Of Economic Development Between Texas Cities Using The Economic Development Tax 4A/4B And Texas Cities Not Using The Tax
(Public Administration, 2012-07-25)Over the last three decades, economic development has been a major policy issue in the State of Texas. But after the amendment of the Development Corporation Act of 1979 and subsequent amendments, municipalities are using ... -
Creative Collaboration in Rural Texas Communities
(2022-12-12)The body of research investigating collaboration has grown exponentially in recent years with the realization of its potential in generating innovative solutions to complex problems. Even though an abundance of literature ... -
Crisis In Police Recruitment: Public Service Motivation And Changes In Generational Preferences
(Public Administration, 2012-04-11)The purpose of this research project was to determine if a downward trend exists in the number of people who are motivated to become police officers and to explore whether there has been a shift in motivational factors ... -
DECODING THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT: AN ANALYSIS OF GREEN GENTRIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF RAILS-TO-TRAILS POLICY
(2019-05-07)Recent urban public policies and planning initiatives have resulted in increased efforts to improve stewardship of our limited natural resources (sustainability), increase defenses against natural stressors (resiliency), ... -
DESIGNING THE CIVIC COMMONS: HOW DESIGN CAN FOSTER SOCIAL CAPITAL IN CIVIC SPACES IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN SPRAWL
(2020-06-05)In modern America, people gather in civic public spaces for many reasons: to celebrate family, gather as a community, engage in commerce, or protest injustices. The design of these spaces is critical to their ability to ... -
DEVELOPING HOUSING FINANCE FRAMEWORK AS AN APPROACH TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE FINANCE MECHANISMS FOR MIDDLE INCOME CITIZENS AND HOUSING DEVELOPERS IN SAUDI ARABIA
(2016-05-04)With high economic growth rate, population rate, increased employment, and income opportunities, the demand for housing has increased, along with the lack of affordable finance mechanisms. A main concern of the housing ... -
DIFFERENCES IN DISCIPLINE: ANALYSIS OF TEXAS SCHOOL DISCIPLINE ACTIONS FOR BLACK FEMALES
(2021-04-29)The purpose of this study was to examine disproportionate disciplinary rates among Black girls and whether the disproportionality impacts reading achievement in comparison to White girls in Texas urban and suburban public ... -
Diffusion Of Locally Developed Applications Across The United States Judiciary
Current literature suggests that networks impact the diffusion of innovations. This dissertation seeks to uncover the reasons behind diffusion patterns of locally developed applications (LDAs) across the United States ... -
EFFECTS OF ASSESSMENT AND ASSIGNMENT REGIMES ON CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPANTS IN HOUSING PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE EMERGING FROM HOMELESSNESS
(2021-04-06)Homelessness response systems evolved over the last 20 years into institutional regimes that assess and assign homeless people to a limited set of housing programs based on individual characteristics and experiences of ... -
EFFECTS OF ETHNIC NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIOECONOMIC-PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND INDIVIDUAL ATTRIBUTES ON IMMIGRANTS’ TRAVEL MODE CHOICE IN NORTH TEXAS
(2020-09-08)Previous studies of immigrants’ travel behavior have been conducted mostly in California and the United States as a whole. Even though immigrant population and the share of immigrants have rapidly increased in Texas, only ... -
EFFECTS OF LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE ON DISTANCE TO WORK IN INDIVIDUAL CAR RIDERS
(2021-06-07)Studying travel behavior has become a means of addressing car dependency, greenhouse gas emission, and environmental protection. Many studies have examined the effects of socioeconomic and built environmental factors on ... -
The Emergence Of Women City Managers In Texas In The Late 20th Century And The Early 21st Century
(Urban & Public Affairs, 2014-03-10)The first generation of women city managers in the late 20th Century and early 21st Century have one thing in common: all were initially mentored and promoted by men. Like survivors of a Texas tornado that huddle in the ... -
Emerging Grassroots Energy Communities: An Assemblage Theory Analysis
(2018-07-09)In context of the federal leadership vacuum in the United States on climate action and sustainable energy development and consequent subnational policy and regulatory variations, the rise of citizen-led grassroots energy ... -
Engaging Over-age Participants In Urban Learning And Work Environments: An Empirical Demonstration Of Macro-level Efficiency Through Effective At-risk Student And Teacher Recovery
(Public Administration, 2011-10-11)This study reviews data-driven appraisals of No Child Left Behind (2001) as well as the nation's at-risk student- and teacher dropout problems. Little, if any, evidence is found that troubled, over-age teens or struggling, ...