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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Cultural Commitment and Attitudes Toward Seeking Counseling Services in African-Americans, Jessamine M. Montero
Factors influencing the spatial distribution and natural history of Desmognathus ochrophaeus in West Virginia, Linda D. Ordiway
The muffler mailbox man, J. Amari Roland
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Vascular flora of three watersheds in the Fernow Experimental Forest and factors influencing species composition of the herbaceous layer, Staci Dudash Smith Aulick
The social climate of allied health educational programs as perceived by program directors, Bruce Joseph Brown
Reproductive Biology of the Bowfin, Amia Calva Linnaeus, from the Green Bottom Wildlife Management Area, Cabell County, West Virginia, Katie Lee McGinn Daniels
Gender differences in work and family commitments and their effect on work-family role conflict among administrators in higher education, Maudie Elizabeth Karickhoff
Aspects of the Ecology of the Wood Turtle, Clemmys insculpta (LeConte), in West Virginia, Allan J. Niederberger
The Effects of Wildfire on the Herbaceous Layer of a Southwestern West Virginia Mixed Hardwood Forest, Michael K. Nowlin
Factors Influencing Herbaceous Layer Vegetation of a Central Appalachian Hardwood Forest Ecosystem, Nicole Leigh Turrill
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
An Ecological Study of the Cumberland Plateau Salamander, Plethodon kentucki Mittleman, in West Virginia, Jeffrey E. Bailey
A history of the West Virginia Board of Regents as the governing board for higher education, 1969-1989, Joseph Wayne Corder Jr.
Restructuring in state departments of education: an analysis of structural evolution, Harriet Maxey Deel
A Communication Audit of the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Larry W. Dorsch
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Ecology of the green salamander : Aneides aeneus (Cope and Packard), in West Virginia, Ronald A. Canterbury
Life history, ecology, and morphology of the ravine salamander, Plethodon richmondi, Ronnie D. Jewell
A Survey of Existing and Proposed State Legislation Protecting High School Students' Rights to Free Expression and a Free Press, and a Proposal for such Legislation in West Virginia, Vaughn Gibson Rhudy
Planning for changes: a study of satellite distance learning administrative policy development in higher education, H. Keith Spears
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Home Remedies in West Virginia, Lynne Heidsiek
Hospice: a descriptive analysis of the structure and formation of hospice organization in West Virginia, Rebecca Ann Lowery
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Evaluation of the Utilization of the Home Economics BASE Curriculum in the West Virginia Middle School, Lana J. Hardy
The relationship between school principals' self-perceived brain hemispheric processing modes and their self-perceived leadership styles, Barbara McSwain Kean
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
The relationship between a principal's self-perceived leader style and self-perceived job stress, Paul Harrison Bisher II
Flora and Vegetation of the Meadow River Wetlands, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, Alan Edward Brant
A taxonomic and distributional study of the adult caddisflies of the family leptoceridae (insecta: trichoptera) of West Virginia, James B. Glover
The Bog Forest Community at Cranberry Glades, West Virginia, Amy Casdorph Kokesh
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Leadership style analysis: West Virginia superintendents, Jennie Stanar Bechtold
Reproduction and Early Development of A Hermaphroditic Unionid : Uniomerus tetralasmus (Say, 1831), Joan E. Burton
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Compliance patterns and teacher personalities in private and public school organizations in West Virginia, Raymond Augustine Dunleavy
An analysis of the characteristics of alumni donors and non-donors at Butler University, Freddie Duke Haddad Jr.
The special education administrator role as perceived by principals, superintendents and special education administrators in West Virginia, Michael Edward Sullivan
An appeal for racial justice : the Civic Interest Progressives' confrontation with Huntington, West Virginia and Marshall University, 1963-1965, Bruce A. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Participation in decision making and its effect on job satisfaction and role stress of staff in child development agencies in the United States, Norma Seay Gray
Emerging legal theories of educational malpractice and judicial rejection, Tanya Ruth von Gustedt
The relationship between principal's leadership style and teacher job satisfaction, Pamela Amick Klawitter
The political role of superintendents in state educational decision making as perceived by superintendents and West Virginia legislators, Mark Anthony Manchin
Perceptions of nursing education administrators and nursing service administrators regarding associate degree and baccalaureate nurses in hospitals, Judith Pinson Sortet
Moments of silence in public schools: a breach in the "Wall", Edward D. Talkington
The relationship between sex-role bias and the disproportionate percentage of males in special education classrooms, Melanie Brumfield Vickers
Classicism versus romanticism in the modern, Matthew Clark Wolfe
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Faculty development among organized faculties in U.S. colleges and universities, Roma Lynn Gay Adkins
Regular-classroom teachers' attitudes toward mainstreaming handicapped students: a study of the stated attitude and its relation to selected variables and acceptance behaviors, Alice Crayton Alexander
A Survey of the Aspidogastrean and Hydracarine Parasites of Bivalue Molluscs in Western West Virginia, Donald W. Danford
The importance and performance of superintendents' job functions as perceived by board members and superintendents, Patricia Simms Harrison
Labor violence in the southern West Virginia coal fields, Mingo and Logan counties 1919-1921, Henry Hagon Hodges
The Springfield Baptist Church Cemetery : An Exercise in Historical Demography, Cora P. Teel
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
The Effects of periodic inundation on Corticolous lichens along Big Seven Mile Creek, Cabell County, West Virginia, Stephen Leslie Beckelhimer
Flora and Vegetation of Five Natural Wetlands in the Kanawha and Ohio River Floodplains, Southwestern West Virginia, Bernadine Phillips Brumfield
Predicting student success in college using stepwise multiple regression, Richard Edward Cerullo
The Influence of Habitat Variation on the Morphology and Physiology of Plethodon Wehrlei (Fowler and Dunn) in West Virginia, Sharon Kay Gross
The Contributions of Otto A. "Swede" Gullickson to Marshall University, 1930-1963, Richard Andrew Gullickson
Perception of a university: a study of how parents develop preferences for an institution of higher education, Carl Donald Hadsell
The Relationship Between Selected Socioeconomic Variables and the Third Grade Academic Achievement of Pupils in West Virginia, Orman E. Hall Jr.
A Distributional and Taxonomic Study of the Adults of the Family Hydropsychidae (Trichoptera) in West Virginia, Toni Ann Phillips
An analysis of prison sentence disparity in West Virginia, Deanna J. Shields
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Title IX, sex ratios, and trends in leadership roles in AIAW Division I institutions, Linda Toutant King
A taxonomic study of the Symphitopsyche pictet and Hydropsyche ulmer larvae of West Virginia (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae), Charlene Kay Nugen
Some Aspects of the Life History of the Black Bullhead, Ictalurus melas (Pisces: Ictaluridae), from an Oxbow Pond in Southwestern West Virginia, Joan Catherine Schramm
A Survey of the Mussels (Pelecypoda: Unionoidia: Unionacea) of Twelvepole Creek, West Virginia with a Study of Commensal Algae Found on Selected Mussels, Kevin Joe Smith
The Naiads (Mollusca: Unionidae) From Two Prehistoric Sites Along the Ohio River, Mason County, West Virginia, Beverly Dawn Spurlock
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
The Effects of a Perceptual-motor Physical Education Program on Reading Skill Level of First-grade Students, Melinda Kaye Allen
A post-impoundment investigation of the Beech Fork drainage basin, Twelvepole Creek, Wayne and Cabell Counties, West Virginia, Donald Borda
Grades, grading, and the law, Nicholas George Evans
Hulett C. Smith and his Pursuit of Excellence, Daniel E. Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Law and the press in West Virginia, Helen Coon Carper
Proposed Environmental Impacts of the Gallipolis Locks and Dam Replacement, Ohio River Mile 279.2, on the Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Fishes of Flatfoot Creek, Mason County, West Virginia, William L. Cremeans Jr.
The Life History and Ecology of Ptilostomis Postica (Walker) (Trichoptera: Phryganeidae) in Greenbottom Swamp, Cabell County, West Virginia, Mary Beth Roush
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
An assessment of the training needs of local district school board members in selected states, William C. Fox
The masculine and feminine encounter in song : an analysis of six poems as set by both male and female composers, Catherine Bodo Schoew
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of West Virginia with Emphasis on the Nymphal Stage, Gerald M. Faulkner
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Hand Window Glass Worker in West Virginia: A Study of his Skill, Union Organization and Life Style, Robert L. Lookabill
A study in nondecision: the Human Rights Commission in Huntington, Nancy Potter Matthews
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A survey of the snake-handling cult of West Virginia, Kenneth Paul Ambrose
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Three Physical Measurements of Male White-Tailed Deer in West Virginia Correlated with Soil Fertility and Population Density, Charles C. Coffman
Theses/Dissertations from 1965
West Virginia higher education long-range enrollment and operating budget projections, Billy Gean Dunn
The Developmental history of a social action program, action for Appalachian youth, Kanawha County, West Virginia, Michael E. Kearney
Theses/Dissertations from 1964
Enrichment and reorganization of the Kellogg School Library, Kenneth Adkins
Negro contributions to the political and legal history of the Southern Counties of West Virginia, Charles Edward Easton
Theses/Dissertations from 1963
The potential of a pulp and paper industry in the State of West Virginia, James W. Clay
Theses/Dissertations from 1961
Referral information preferences in the West Virginia vocational rehabilitation program, Donald George Auer
Economic Geography of Lincoln County, Revada F. Dingess
An analysis of the educational program at the West Virginia Forestry Camp for Youthful Male Offenders, Joseph Martin Hickman
Theses/Dissertations from 1952
The History and Development of Cliffside a Summer Camp for the Children of Carbide and Carbon Employees, John E. Goetz
Factors Affecting the Enrollments at Douglass High School from 1932-1951, Joseph Autumn Slash
Theses/Dissertations from 1948
A survey of the school libraries of Mason County, West Virginia, Dorothy Hudson Atkinson
Theses/Dissertations from 1946
Non-attendance and Ways to Improve Attendance in West Virginia, Richard Erwin McCoy
Theses/Dissertations from 1943
Some pupil transportation problems in the public schools of West Virginia, Henry Leonard Clay Jr.
