The sociological implications of studying campus communities can lead to breakthroughs not only in teaching and improving learning environments, but provide unique and helpful programs to aid diversity, promote unity, and decrease social inequality on campus and in American society. This study applied Boyer's campus community model to assess the campus communities of a private liberal arts college and a public state research university in the Mid-Atlantic. Using a modified version of the College and University Community Inventory (CUCI) administered through a web-based survey software, data on student perceptions of the different aspects of campus community identified by Boyer were collected and analyzed using factor analysis and regression analysis. The factor analysis led the researcher to propose modifications to the survey instrument. The regression analysis found several significant characteristics of undergraduate students and their institutions that can influence their perceptions of the campus community. A discussion of the findings and the implications of the study are presented. The results reported in this study have lead to several recommendations to be developed to enhance and improve the study of the campus community and environment in higher education using the CUCI. / Master of Science

This research is conducted within a postmodern and social construction discourse and in context of narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy. It has been influenced by the voices of five contextual theologies: a participatory approach to practical theology, narrative, contextual, feminist and liberation theologies. The participatory action research seeks to highlight how narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy with children at Mary Ward Children’s Home, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe creates an inclusive and caring community. It argues that though residential childcare facilities/children’s homes are considered the last resort in the childcare system, we are witnessing not their demise but their development due to the increased numbers of AIDS-orphans and other vulnerable children in our society. The research aims were:  To develop inclusive narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices at the home.  To co-create narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices that respect the knowledges of the children involved.  To develop an eco-spirituality as participatory pastoral care and therapy practice.  To explore and co-author creative practices of doing narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices which will help the participants integrate into the Home and society. In conclusion, suggestions are made for a narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practice that is inclusive and caring. In terms of the experience of children living with disability and experiencing loss, as well as those children who have been abused, it is specifically described as therapeutic, empowering and life-giving. Therefore, home managers, caregivers and pastoral therapists are invited into an ethical and passionate practice of pastoral care and therapy that has the potential to transform the lives of children in a residential child care facility. / Thesis (D. Th. (Practical Theology))

This research is conducted within a postmodern and social construction discourse and in context of narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy. It has been influenced by the voices of five contextual theologies: a participatory approach to practical theology, narrative, contextual, feminist and liberation theologies. The participatory action research seeks to highlight how narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy with children at Mary Ward Children’s Home, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe creates an inclusive and caring community. It argues that though residential childcare facilities/children’s homes are considered the last resort in the childcare system, we are witnessing not their demise but their development due to the increased numbers of AIDS-orphans and other vulnerable children in our society. The research aims were:  To develop inclusive narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices at the home.  To co-create narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices that respect the knowledges of the children involved.  To develop an eco-spirituality as participatory pastoral care and therapy practice.  To explore and co-author creative practices of doing narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practices which will help the participants integrate into the Home and society. In conclusion, suggestions are made for a narrative and participatory pastoral care and therapy practice that is inclusive and caring. In terms of the experience of children living with disability and experiencing loss, as well as those children who have been abused, it is specifically described as therapeutic, empowering and life-giving. Therefore, home managers, caregivers and pastoral therapists are invited into an ethical and passionate practice of pastoral care and therapy that has the potential to transform the lives of children in a residential child care facility. / Thesis (D. Th. (Practical Theology))

在高齡少子化的浪潮下，家庭照顧機能與國家公共長照服務體系之界限逐漸浮現，不論是採稅收制或是社會保險制的國家，均紛紛發動改革，發展新型的照顧服務體系，更有效率地結合社會中各種資源，並且透過報酬支付制度的設計，回應長期照顧需求的多元性，以達成充實長期照顧服務量能、發展創新並符合在地需求之照顧服務。本文以日本介護保險制度自2000年創設以來，在服務供給體系與支付制度上之轉變作為比較對象，觀察其社會價值理念的變遷如何反應到法制設計層面，同時報酬支付制度是如何回應社會現實的需求與政策方向；擬自日本介護保險經驗中萃取值得我國參考借鑑之處，減少台灣長期照顧體系發展過程中可能產生的試誤成本。 本文首先對我國長期照顧服務提供體系之法制發展進行分析，包括釐清長照服務提供之法律關係、長照服務供給體系之構造，以及在長照十年計畫下，政府與民間服務提供者合作模式之建構等；並具體地以數份國內地方政府公布之服務提供契約範本為例，嘗試勾勒出台灣長照服務體系公私協力法律關係之圖像，同時探討我國長照服務提供體系與報酬支付制度現存之問題。 在日本介護保險制度部分，本文歸整介護保險法之制定和改革歷程及其基本構造、初探日本介護保險制度與其他社會保障制度之連動性，並集中分析其服務提供者指定制度之法制設計與問題。接著本文將對比台灣長照體系之發展軌跡與挑戰，分析台日兩國公共長照服務供給體系的幾個議題，包括：總體面的公共長照體系理念變遷、國家資源的公平分配、服務品質之管理等。最末於結論歸納日本介護保險經驗值得我國借鏡或反思之處，並簡評目前我國長期照顧服務法修正，以及長期照顧十年計畫2.0之內涵，是否足以回應社會中的長期照顧需求，並有助於實現在地老化之理想。