Our Husker Scholars are immersed in authentic, real-world research that addresses the most challenging issues and opportunities in PK-12 and higher education. Under the direction of our team of expert faculty, our masters and doctoral level students are tackling these and a host of other issues. Below are a few examples of dissertations and masters theses. All dissertations and masters theses topics can be accessed on the UNL Digital Commons website.
- Why Do They Stay: A Mixed Methods Study of Female Superintendents' Job Satisfaction in Five Midwestern State by Alisha Bollinger, Ph.D.
- Low Socioeconomic Status Men Persisting in College: A Phenomenological Study by Dusten D Crichton, Ph.D.
- Catholic Elementary School Principals: Career Paths and Critical Issues by Peggy L. Croy, Ph.D.
- They Might Be Older, but They Have Less Experience: the Lived Expectations and Experiences of Athletic Training Preceptors in Graduate Athletic Training Student Mentorship by Amanda Kristine Dorsten, Ph.D.
- A Case Study of Undergraduate Muslim American Students’ Sense of Belonging at a Historically Christian University in Southern California by Raid A. Faraj, Ph. D.
- The Effect of Prior Experiences of Poverty on Teacher Retention in High Poverty Schools by Dania Freudenburg, Ed.D.
- The Assimilation of Beginning Teachers into an Established School Improvement Project: A Qualitative Case Study Examining Formats of Job-Embedded Professional Development by Lynn A. Fuller, Ed.D.
- How Principals Support the Instructional Coaching Process: A Collective Case Study from Two Midwestern Elementary Schools by Shanna M. Gannon, Ed.D.
- Factors That Influence Accreditation in Nebraska Public Districts and Schools by David Gibbons, Ed.D.
- The Impact of school counselors on middle school students by Brenda Chaney Leggiadro, Ph.D.
- Sense of belonging in Greek lettered organizations, is it different for first-generation students? by Samantha A. Martens, M.A.
- Principal as Counselor: The Issues Teachers Bring to the Principal's Door by Lisa A. Nelson, Ph.D.
- Examining the Lived Experiences of Native American Students at Predominantly White Institutions by Zachary Palmer, M.A.
- Building a Positive School Climate: What Principals Have Done to Effect Change, an Ethnographic Case Study by Suzanne C. Showers, Ed.D.
- From pre-K to elementary school: Elementary principal leadership and successful transitions by Joshua L. Snyder, Ed.D.
- The Role of the Rural Principal in Fostering Indigenous Parent-School Relationships: Examples from the Yukon by Souhail R. Soujah, Ed.D.
- Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz: Leadership Forged Through Adversity by Christopher B. Stone, Ph.D.
- Career Building Among Asian American Immigrant Community College Students in Nebraska: A Phenomenological Study by Minerva D. Tuliao, Ph.D.