The need for institutions of higher education to be more responsive and results oriented has become more acute with each passing year. Erratic enrollment trends, a shrinking base from which to draw potential students, the ...

Cash strapped municipalities have become the new normal in local city governments. This research was conducted to determine if council-manager systems of municipal government have better bond ratings compared to municipalities ...

Education is associated with many individual life advantages; yet disparities in educational outcomes exist for some vulnerable populations. Foster youths are young adults generally age 18-25 who were formerly wards of ...

This study examined the retention of volunteers in religious organizations and focused on the variables within these religious organizations to determine why volunteers stay or leave. The study sought to determine whether ...

The cost of healthcare is rising with the US spending $3.6 trillion, which was 17.7% of the US GDP in 2018 (National Health Expenditure Data, 2019). As a result, healthcare has become a major focus of public administrators, ...

This pilot study examines the relationships between library instruction, first-time, full-time freshmen retention, and first-year cumulative grade point average (GPA). The researcher examined first-time, full-time freshmen ...

This research will discuss the moderating and mitigating effects on employee job satisfaction and employee engagement for employees with public service motivation (PSM) characteristics from the impact of the perceived ...

This plain language study explored whether the average soldier could read and comprehend the Army’s human resources information and whether the average grade level completed for soldiers was the same as the average reading ...

Public distrust and a reduction in police legitimacy have eroded the public’s perception of police officers, thus creating a sparse applicant pool. Representative bureaucracy theory posits that a public organization should ...

The phrase “Right to Die with Dignity” has long been a tag-line for the topic of assisted suicide. This dissertation tackles that topic through a qualitative policy evaluation study that includes a review and analysis of ...