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Dead Grass: Foreclosure and the Production of Space in Maricopa County, Arizona

Cutts, Bethany B.; Minn, Michael (Cogitatio, 2018-06-12)

A wide variety of economic, social, political and moral explanations have been given for why the foreclosure crisis of the late 2000s occurred. Yet many of the tensions provoked by the uptick in foreclosure proceedings, ...

The relationship between achievement goals and the academic success of first-generation college students

Perry, Andrew Holmes (2018-06)

Recent research has established that first-generation college students, or those students without a parent with a four-year college degree, tend to underperform academically compared to continuing-generation college students, ...

Never the same iceberg: theories of omission, misinterpretation, and dead metaphors in Hemingway's work

Pennisi, Alex (2018-06)

The intent of this thesis was inspired by the variety of interpretations of Ernest Hemingway’s fiction that have been influenced by words, metaphors, and symbols whose meanings have changed (and continue to change) over ...

Facilitating post traumatic growth in survivors of disasters

Schrufer, Jessica L. (2018-05)

Natural and man-made disasters can be typified by loss and destruction. There is a need for mechanisms to promote positive outcomes to such events. Means aiming towards goals of Posttraumatic Growth can lead to successful ...

Open Scholarship on a Shoestring

Hewitt, Rebecca; Parker, Jennifer; Pritting, Shannon (2018-06)

Grant funding has been central to SUNY Polytechnic’s leadership in the open access (OA) campaign on campus. Partnering with SUNY, regional, and campus associations, our library has won thousands of dollars to support ...

Using Small Grants to Make the Library a Driver of College & Career Access and Affordability

Hewitt, Rebecca; Parker, Jennifer (2018-06)

Since our limited collection budget could not support the purchase of textbooks on an annual basis, we applied for a small grant from our institute’s Auxiliary Services Corporation, and were awarded $5000 for this purpose ...