Theses/Dissertations from 2026
Culturally Engaging Campus Environments Model: A Quantitative Evaluation of Governors State University’s Summer Bridge Program, Stacy Amedeo
"Where The Grass Is Greener": Youth Participatory Action Research Examining The Lived Student Experience Through Cross-Campus Shadowing, Justin Matthew Antos
The Veteran-Student Experience: Exploring Transition Dynamics, Brian A. Berchtold
Exploring Saudi Arabian EFL Teachers’ Experiences with the Flipped Classroom, Amal Bin Dlil
What Do They Expect? Understanding Preservice Teachers' Views on a Social Studies Teaching Methodology Course, Jeanine A. Clark Bremer
"You're All Thrown into the Fire At Once and Have to Help Each Other Survive": Teacher Residency Programs As Communities of Practice, Kelli Danielski
Walk to Learn Structured Literacy Model: Teacher Perceptions Using the Lippitt-Knoster Model for Managing Complex Change, Blake A. Hand
Beyond Discipline: Creating Academic Structural Systems to Foster Success for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Richard Jasch
Fiscal Illusion and Property Tax Porportionality, Cathy Lynn Johnson
The Lived Experiences of LGBTQIA+ Community College Students Regarding Their Science Identity and Sense of Belonging, Moria L. Nagy
Preparing Students For What Comes Next: A Qualitative Study of District Approaches to Postsecondary and Career Readiness, Amanda C. Pelsor
Balancing the Mission with the Math: A Phenomenological Study of Financial Decision Making by Chief Financial Officers in Illinois Community Colleges, Colleen M. Rockafellow
Rural Black Church Leadership and Community Development in Midwest Illinois, Derrick Smith
Navigating Digital Crisis Management: A Qualitative Multiple-Site Case Study of Regional Public Universities and Colleges in the United States, Kathleen Stompor
Grades and Grading Practices and Their Associations to Student Motivation, Rob Tesmond III
Moral Distress of the Professional ADN Gatekeeper During Early COVID-19: An Interpretivist Qualitative Study, Kimberly Triche
Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Insect Foraging Behaviors Across Habitat Types in Weddell’s Saddle-Back Tamarins, (Leontocebus Weddelli Weddelli) in Pando, Bolivia, Brianna Nicole Abba
Instructional Strategies for Teachers in Inclusive Classrooms: Implications for Pakistani Classroom Contexts, Rahma Abbasi
Natural Resources and the Role of Political Parties in Perpetuating Authoritarian Regimes in Indonesia and Cambodia, Azriansyah A. Agoes
Core-Shell Electrospun Fibers for Enhanced Tissue Engineering Application, Farid Ahmadpour Esmaeilabadi
Meaningful Legislative Conflict: the Role of Party Competition, Nader Omar Alghoul
Factors Related to Teachers’ Behavioral Intention to Continue Using Digital Game Based Learning to Teach Arabic, Hassan Alhashimalsayed
The Relationship Between Motor Abilities and Cultural Factors in Autistic Children, Lindsey Marie Anderson
Convective Modes Associated with Precipitation Exceeding Postfire Debris Flow Thresholds in the Southwestern United States, Anya M. Aponte Torres
Effect of Universal Health Coverage on Neonatal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa: Addressing missing data in Health Indicators, Elizabeth Nalule Arihoona
Exploring Comparative Media Analysis and its Application to Ghana, Eric Asiedu
Limitations of Scientific Articles and Navigated Future Directions with LLM and RAG, Ibrahim Al Azher
Establishing a Microfiber Recovery Rate in Human Lung Tissue, Kylie Nicole Babin-Howard
X-Ray Standing-Wave Fluorescence Study of the Interaction of an Anti-Microbial Peptide with a Supported Phospholipid Bilayer, Gobind Basnet
Above and Belowground Biomass of a Multidecadal Restored Tallgrass Prairie Chronosequence and Its Influence on Soil Carbon Dynamics, Adam John Bauer
Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening at an Underserved Clinic, Aseiya Begum
Functional and Structural Impacts of Bison Grazing Intensity on Plant Communities, Samantha Lynn Berk
THE WINNING COMBINATION: A STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF BLACK WOMEN HEAD WOMEN BASKETBALL COACHES ON THE DIVISION I LEVEL, Monique Bernoudy
Improving Health Literacy Related to Hypertension in a Minority Faith-Based Population, Kasaundra M. Beverly-Marshall and Kasaundra M. Beverly-Marshall
Human Swarm Interaction Using Non-Verbal Communication, Arunim Bhattacharya
It's Not the Fault of the Parrot, But of the One Who Teaches Him to Talk: Understanding Identities and Relationships of an Educational NGO in Guatemala, Brittany Rebecca Blomquist
Educational Matriarchs and All Other Duties As Assigned: A Narrative Inquiry into Motherhood and Student Affairs Leadership, Allison N. Brady Cullum
Green's Functions and Fixed Points of Quasiregular Maps, Mark Broderius
Rise or Retreat: The Role of Appraisal and Goal Orientations in Leader Engagement, Haleigh Broucher
Internal and External Motivational Factors Affecting High School Students' Career and Technical Education Course Selection, Joseph Bruno
Barriers to Breastfeeding for the Medically Recommended Timeframe: Insurance-Provided Breast Pumps, Shovonna Burcham
The Fiction of Possibility: How Possible Worlds Theory Explains the Impossible Worlds of Science Fiction, Jacob Burlingame
Exploring School Psychologists’ SLD Decisions for Emergent Bilingual Students, Brooke Ann Butcher
SCHOOL LEVEL PATTERNS IN STUDENT ENGAGEMENT IN ILLINOIS’ CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION PATHWAYS: EXPLORING PATTERNS BETWEEN ENROLLMENT AND POSTSECONDARY MATRICULATION IN THREE PATHWAYS, Nikolas C. Butenhoff
Cut It Out and Cut Us In: The Evolution of Chicago’s Militant African-American Youth Activism During the 1950s and 1960s, Sultaan Edward Byrd
Monte Carlo Modeling of Spin Polarized Photoemission from GaAs at Low Temperatures and Positive Electron Affinity Surfaces, John Rison Callahan
Advanced English as a Second Language Writing Students in an Accelerated Cohort: Influence of Peer Support on Motivation, Stacy Cameron
Romantic Relationship Quality, Coparenting, and Parenting: an Actor Partner Interdependence Mediation Model, Jill Caradec
"This College Is Run by Women": The Narratives of Overburdened and Burnt-out Community College Women Faculty, Lindsay Spence Carson
Alumni Perceptions of Success After Attending a Project-Based Alternative School, Cheryl A. Carter
Supporting Effective Instruction: A Multifaceted Approach to Teacher Development and Curriculum Design, Pei Yuan Cheng
Water Quality and Microplastic Contamination in an Urbanizing City Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, Boonyarak Chuanchit
From Marginality to Mattering: A Narrative Inquiry into International Student Involvement in Higher Education, Nehemiah Jiyong Chung
Exploring Motivation in Visual Arts: Middle School Art Teachers' Perspectives, Eva V. Coker
The Roots of Empire and Industry: the Transnational History of the Soviet Rubber Industry, Alexander Hinnov Craver
The Beautiful Struggle: A Counter-Narrative Study of African American Male School Leaders, Jamie Crosen Mr
Characterization of a Large-Scale Electrohydrodynamic Vortex Confinement Flow for Particle Agglomeration, Sanjay Dangi
STORIES OF NAVIGATING HIGHER EDUCATION TOWARD SUCCESS: A NARRATIVE INQUIRY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF THAI AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS, Archawee Dhamavasi
Capturing High-Impact Weather in a Fine-Scale Climate Simulation Using the Model for Prediction Across Scales - Atmosphere (MPAS-A) v 7.0, James George Digilio Jr.
Demographic Response of Breeding Grassland Birds to Keystone Effects of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs, Richard Andrew Dreelin
Spatial Temporal Patterns of US Landslides in Recent Decades and Climate Change, Karissa Duff
Navigating the Way to Colonoscopy Completion: A Quality Improvement Study, Jessica Duncan
Acute Influence of Gum Chewing on Gait and Balance Measures in People with Parkinson's, Pamela Marie Durr
Encouraging Selection of Effective Learning Strategies, Kaya Easley
Exploring Approaches to Address Racial Discrimination, Stigma, and Provider Communication in Sickle Cell Disease Pain Management through Interprofessional Education and Collaboration, Ronisha Edwards-Elliott
The Threat of a Changing Social Hierarchy: Status Threat and Its Effects, Cassandra F. Epping
Building Diversity Pathways from Community College to Law School: A Descriptive Case Study, Marc D. Falkoff
Preparing to Teach: Exploring Perspectives on the Co-Teaching Experience Through the Educator's Lens, Jesus E. Favela
Yoga as a Self-Care Practice for Mental Health Counselors Who Treat Trauma, Kari Michelle Fitzgerald
The Effects of a History of Child Trauma on Breastfeeding Outcomes, Emily Flynn
Reimagining Traditional Education Through Humanizing Models of Personalized Learning: Examining Implementation in the Midwest, Laura R. Garland
Hurts So Good: an Exploration of Benign Masochism and Other Motivations toward Discomfort, Cody T. Gibson
Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Di-Peptide Probes for Stoichiometric Quantitative Analysis of Antibodies, Taylor Gladson
Avoiding the Anxious Self: the Role of Self-Concept Clarity, Alexithymia, and Experiential Avoidance in Social Anxiety, Allison Graham
Race Into the Future: Counselor Educators' Experiences Training with an Antiracist Pedagogy, Darita Rose Grays
Gustatory Behaviors of House Flies: Body Parts Used and Response to Bitter, R M Panchalie Bhagya Gunathunga
Where You Live and How You Die: Social Vulnerability, Geography, and Inequities in Cancer in the United States, Lei Raymond Guo
Methods for Finding High Quality and Optimal Solutions of Binary Quadratic Optimization Problems, James Haas
Geometric Function Theory on Uniformly Quasiconformally Homogeneous Domains, Allyson Mackenzie Hahn
The Long Border: The Politics U.S. Immigration Policy Makes, John Peter Hansberry
Learning Through Following: The Role of Social Foraging in Juvenile Saddleback Tamarin (Leontocebus weddelli weddelli) Development in the Department of Pando, Bolivia, Meghan E.F. Hanson
Cubic Blaschke Products, Alexandra Hill
Exploring the Relationship Between Margin in Life and Preferred Enrollment Status of Adult Learners in Nursing Programs, Katherine Hodur
SCIENCE IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT AMONG MINORITIZED STUDENTS IN PROFESSIONAL STEM STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS: A BASIC QUALITATIVE STUDY, Michaela Friedrichova Holtz
PIV Visualization of a Sinusoidal EHD Confinement Flow Induced by Variation in Ion Density for Electrostatic Particle Agglomeration, Md Eyasin Hossain
Statelessness and the Social Construction of Rohingya’s Citizenship Rights in Myanmar, Md Imamul Hossain
Investigating the Social Effects of Doomscrolling, Sean Daniel Hronek
Point of Care (POC) - Compatible Detection Platform Based on Catalase Activity of DNA G-Quadruplexes, Elzbieta Iwaniuk
Digital Community Policing: Using Social Media to Engage Students and Enhance Campus Safety, Dathan C. Jackson
International Students' Information-Seeking Experiences with a Library Discovery Tool, Kristen Jacobson
Development and In Vitro Evaluation of Novel Near-IR Fluorescent Sensors for EGFR Kinase, Haniyeh Jadidi
Evaluating Role of Household and Individual Characteristics on Femlae Labor Force Participation: Case of MGNREGA, Anisha Jain
A Multiple Case Study on Racial Equity Plan Implementation at Illinois Community Colleges, Jennifer Jennings
