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- Title
- "And the North Carolina MORONS LIVED | HAPPILY EVER AFTER": The Human Betterment League of North Carolina, 1947-1988
- Author
- Wilds, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- Following World War II, eugenics became associated with Nazis abuses, leading many States to end their eugenics programs. North Carolina was a rare exception to this trend. Between 1929 and 1974, North Carolina sterilized over 7,600 people, the ma...
- Title
- "Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
- Author
- Ervin, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
- Title
- 'The Court Devoured Him': The History of the North Carolina Juvenile Court Statute of 1919
- Author
- Brown, Savannah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- For over a century, North Carolina has continued to treat sixteen year olds as adults in the criminal justice system. The Juvenile Court Statute of 1919 mandated sixteen as the upper age of criminality, cementing that age for all juvenile offender...
- Title
- ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
- Author
- Barnes, Emma
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...
- Title
- Dissolved Organic Carbon and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon along an Urbanization Gradient in Charlotte, North Carolina
- Author
- Kiker, Taylor
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Hydrology
- Description
- Streams and rivers are an integral component of the freshwater carbon cycle as they provide the lateral transport of carbon from terrestrial environments to the ocean. Urbanization is one of the fastest growing land uses and it has major impacts o...
- Title
- EVALUATING CORROSIVE SITE PERFORMANCE AND POLICY WITH CONCRETE ADMIXTURES
- Author
- Violette, Keith
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Civil engineering
- Description
- The coastline of North Carolina (NC) is home to a large number of state-owned concrete structures such as bridges that can be adversely affected by the aggressive, chloride-rich environments in which they are constructed. To delay the corrosion-re...
- Title
- ExperiencED Success: Does Mentoring Beginning Teachers Impact the Mentor?
- Author
- Dooley-Kennedy, Torrieann
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Education, Elementary
- Description
- While available research supports the impact mentoring has on beginning teachers, little has been written about the impact the role of mentoring has on the experienced teacher serving as a mentor. Mentor teachers are experienced teachers in school...
- Title
- FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE BOARD MEMBERS IN THE SELECTION OF AN ARCHITECTURAL FIRM FOR NEW SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AND/OR RENOVATION PROJECTS IN NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- BLOUNT, STUART
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership, Architecture, School management and organization
- Description
- This research study examined the factors that influence board members in the selection of an architectural firm for new school construction and/or renovation projects in North Carolina. School board members completed a survey which allowed the res...
- Title
- How school leaders prioritize and allocate resources to improve teacher quality through teacher professional development: A multiple case study in suburban North Carolina
- Author
- Tyson, Deonte
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
- Description
- This multiple case study examined the methods by which school leaders determined and planned teacher professional development, as well as what teachers perceived as their professional development needs and how they believe school leaders take thos...
- Title
- Learning from Testimonios about Equity in Educational Leadership: Experiences of Latinx Public School Administrators in North Carolina
- Author
- Bryson-Evans, Cassie
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Educational leadership
- Description
- CASSIE BRYSON-EVANS. Learning from Testimonios about Equity in Educational Leadership: Experiences of Latinx Public School Administrators in North Carolina. (Under the direction of DR. WALTER HART). The significance of this study was its ability t...
- Title
- Museums in Peril: An Exploration of the Effects of Neoliberalism on History Museums in North Carolina, 1980-2020
- Author
- Dains, Shelby
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Museums--Study and teaching
- Description
- Museums in the United States first witnessed the effects of neoliberalism during Ronald Reagan’s presidency, when he worked with Congress to impose unprecedented budget cuts on the NEH. However, these economic practices have since trickled down to...
- Title
- NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
- Author
- Baisley, Richard
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- History--Religious aspects, History
- Description
- The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...
- Title
- PERSECUTION AND PERSEVERANCE: BLACK-WHITE INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN PIEDMONT, NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- Moore, Casey
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- Although black-white interracial marriage has been legal across the United States since 1967, its rate of growth has historically been slow, accounting for less than eight percent of all interracial marriages in the country by 2010. This slow rate...
- Title
- Response of Foraminifera to a Reverse Osmosis Briny Discharge
- Author
- Small, Richard
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Planetary science, Human ecology--Study and teaching
- Description
- Reverse osmosis water treatment plants are becoming the preferred means of generating potable water for many eastern North Carolina communities. At these facilities, reject brine solutions—sometimes containing up to 10 times the initial concentrat...
- Title
- Strange Business for a Lady: Single Women’s Work in Mecklenburg County, NC, 1774-1860
- Author
- Moore, Kate
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, History
- Description
- An anonymous author in 1837 lamented that "if the world were just" the term Old Maid, instead of a pejorative, would "be a synonyme(sp) of useful virtue." While scholars have examined the domestic and beneficent contributions of single women, this...
- Title
- TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN PRODUCTION FROM WAVE ENERGY: A CASE STUDY FOR NORTH CAROLINA
- Author
- RAUT, GAGEE
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Power resources
- Description
- The energy requirements of the world are increasing at alarming rate. The available fossil fuels and other conventional resources are not sufficient to keep up the pace with ever-increasing energy demand. Also, the use of fossil fuels causes the n...
- Title
- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HYDROLOGIC AND MACROINVERTEBRATE METRICS ALONG AN URBANIZATION GRADIENT IN PIEDMONT HEADWATER STREAMS
- Author
- Black, Rebecca
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Environmental sciences, Ecology, Hydrology
- Description
- Urban streams are characterized by altered hydrographs, increased nutrient concentrations, altered geomorphology, and decreased biodiversity. This study asked how the hydrologic flow regime impacts stream macroinvertebrates in Piedmont headwater s...
- Title
- Teaching Literature of War From Multiple Perspectives Within The North Carolina Standard Course of Study
- Author
- Landers, Michael
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Education, Literature, Education, Secondary
- Description
- This thesis offers a rationale for a set of teaching strategies and lesson plans for teaching the literature and film of war to North Carolina high school students within the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. The purposes and challenges of ...
- Title
- The Association between Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration: Results from the 2007-2009 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
- Author
- Krupakar, Sangamithra
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Public health
- Description
- Hypertensive disorders are the most commonly reported medical disorder among pregnant women, and an important cause of adverse birth outcomes as well as maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. One important step to reduce these adverse eff...
- Title
- The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
- Author
- Holt, Bradley
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...