NU Masters and Dissertations (Restricted)

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This collection contains access-restricted National University student dissertations and master's theses, including work by students who graduated from National University, Northcentral University, and John F. Kennedy University.

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A methodology to asses the effectiveness of private practice career counselors
(2003) Schaefer, Christine
The purpose of this project was to develop a methodology for private practice career counselors to assess on an ongoing basis the effectiveness of the career development services they provide to their clients. The assessment process developed makes use of action research and qualitative analysis to evaluate data collected from the career counselor's clients to provide feedback that the career counselor can use to increase the effectiveness of client services by giving direction to professional and business development. The project focuses on the appraisal of the effectiveness of a single private practice career counselor. Data collection tools and methods were devised and integrated into the counselor's practice between January 1, 2003 to June 15, 2003. The test period provided the researcher and the career counselor with data to assess the effectiveness of both the methodology developed and the career development services provided to clients during this period. The project evaluation is also two-fold and includes: a) an analysis of the effectiveness of the career counselor's services based on the survey data received from clients and b) a review of the effectiveness of the methodology to elicit client feedback useful in determining the career counselor's effectiveness.
A framework for understanding and analyzing nonprofit organizational health
(2019) Belette, Solomon
Nonprofit Organizations make a tremendous contribution to society on a global scale. Their health and vitality is critical and yet there is still a lack of knowledge and understanding about them. This project is an attempt to provide a framework for understanding and analyzing some of the key drivers contributing to nonprofit organizational health. This project tests the diagnostic tools developed by William F. Meehan III and Kim Starkey Jonker from Stanford University on a select number of nonprofits and the results as a proxy of organizational health. This tool combined with my proposed four conditions of organizational health will advance and stimulate more scholarly work.
A cross cultural analysis of women in higher education
(1996) La Throp, Katrina
12 female graduate students of African American, American Indian and Mexican American origins participated in this :3tudy which was designed to analyze the experiences of women of color who represented the first generation in their families to attend college. Interviews were conducted to assess success, differences and similarities, and difficulties of personal and academic experiences. Examination of personal efficacy, support systems and coping skills utilized in their educational pursuits in predominantly White univ3rsities was the basis of this study. The data analyses revealed the barrers and experience of sexism, racism and stereotyping, and limited support faced by all three groups. The difference in coping strategies were evidenced in the way each group utilized support. African American women seemed to be more self reliant and emotionally prepared for the experience of racism. American Indian women drew on an incredible network of communal support on and off campus. Finally, Mexican American women sought more institutional support and less community dependence.
Well being: a process of deepening consciousness development through resonant art models and paradigms
(1983) Stokes, Carolyn Ashe
My hypothesis for this thesis is based on the following concepts: Consciousness, as an art and process of living; well being, as an intuitive process; resonance, as a reverberating or vibrating attract-on; diffuse awareness, a widely focused cognizance; and aesthetic art, defined as deeply reflective art. From a feminine philosophy, grounded in collective consciousness, and rooted in a multicultural identity, my experience is focused through the lens of this reality.
The paradox of consciousness postmodern cosmology, science and and philosophy of mind (healing the mind-body split through radical materialism)
(1995) de Quincey, Christian
It is inconceivable that sentience could ever emerge from wholly insentient matter. Yet here we are! thinking and feeling embodied beings. Can our philosophy and science—based on rationalism and empiricism—account for this? Immediately we have a two-fold problem: First, empiricism works only because we experience the data; second, reason works only because we experience the abstract relations. Both empiricism and rationalism—the very essence of science depend, inevitably, on an experiencer, on consciousness. The paradox of consciousness is this: Nowhere among the data of the senses, nor even among the abstractions of logical relationships, will we ever locate the concrete reality of consciousness as an experience. How, then, could we ever meaningfully talk of philosophy of mind or of developing a true science of consciousness? The thesis developed here proposes that an adequate answer to this question will involve a radical transformation of our current epistemology—beyond the recursive limitations of empiricism and rationalism—and adoption of a radically different fundamental ontology. For centuries, philosophers have grappled with the conundrum of how mind and matter are related. Various solutions have been proposed, falling under three general headings of "dualism", "materialism", and "idealism". None of these has provided a satisfactory solution. The mind-body problem remains as intractable as ever—given the assumptions underlying these three major ontologies. The joint legacy of dualism and materialism is based on a common assumption that has led to profound consequences for the modern world: matter is intrinsically inert and insentient. We must begin, I will argue, with an opposite assumption: that, to its core, matter is sentient. Critiquing the various failed "solutions" to the mind-body problem, the way forward, I propose, is via a fourth ontology—radical materialism. The central assertion of this thesis is that it is inconceivable that subjectivity could ever arise from purely objective matter. We need to adopt a radically different understanding of what matter is if we are ever to come to terms with the mind-body split, or to develop a true science of consciousness.

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