Digital copies of NLU dissertations published starting in 2009 are available here.

Dissertations from 2009

David Jonathan Beer

Global Competency in Hospitality Management Programs: A Perfect Recipe for Community Colleges

Eric John Bohman

Headed for the Heartland: Decision-making Factors for International Students to Attend Rural and Suburban Community College in Illinois

Patricia Ann Braun

The Effects of Reading Nonfiction Aloud on the Vocabulary Acquisition of Middle-School Students

Zalika A. Brown

Synchronicity of the Community College Mission and the Role and Responsibilities of Academic Advisors

Jeannette Collins-Molden

Unlocking Doors for the Locked-Out: How Can Community Colleges Help to Demolish Barriers, Build Bridges, and Transition Male Ex-Offenders into the Workforce

Rosanna S. Diaz

Higher Education and the New Capitalism: Social Enterprise Partnerships and the Opportunity for Community Colleges

Neida Hernandez-Santamaria

Pioneering Spirits: Stories Of Latino Professors In Illinois

Sarah E. Howard

“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” An African Centered Historical Study of the Selfethnic Liberatory Education Nature and Goals of the Poetry of Langston Hughes: the Impact on Adult Education

Jennifer Lara Simka Kushner

Righteous Commitment: Renewing, Repairing, and Restoring the World—Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement

Laura Lee Larson

A Study of Exceptional Mentoring Insights for Adult Education and emerging mentors

Mary N. Lewis

Transformative Learning in the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Community An Ethnographic Study examining how and in what ways transformative learning is realized and lived out among members of an MS community.

Anthony Raymond Miksa

Identifying and Addressing Issues Faced by New Community College Presidents

Rob Morrison

Culturally-Relevant Information Literacy: A Case Study

Tasha S. Williams

Strategic Planning Leadership in Illinois Community Colleges: Who is Leading the Process?

Dissertations from 2007

Tania Giordani

All Children Are Our Children

Orlando Lewis

Navigating Barriers of African American Male Administrators: Manifesting Mechanisms for Career Advancement in Mainstream Institutions of Higher Education

Wendy B. Yanow

Autobiography as Counter-Narrative: An Empirical Study of How Race Enters and Structures the Stories of Our Lives

Dissertations from 2005

Phillip L. Moulden

Hope—Heartbeat of Adult Education: A Phenomenological Inquiry

Dissertations from 2003

Susan Shaver

Organizational Power and Politics: More Than Meets the Eye in Program Planning

Dissertations from 2001

Nadira K. Charaniya and Jane West Walsh

Adult Learning in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue: A Collaborative Research Study Involving Christians, Jews, and Muslims