Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2008. / "Department of Agribusiness Economics." Keywords: Agriculture students, Recruitment. Includes bibliographical references (p. 52). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2008. / "Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education." Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-68). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Secondary Education. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 131-133.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Southern Illinois University, Dept. of Secondary Education. / Bibliography: l. 131-133. Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

This thesis explores the intersection of framing, crisis communication, marketing, and reputation 2004-2012 at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. In measuring reputation as a function of key performance indicators, this case study showed crisis framing didn't affect key performance indicators as predicted by Situational Crisis Communication Theory. Thus, research shows crisis nature is a better indicator of proper response than the SCCT response grid. Further research is needed to explore the multifaceted nature of university reputation, with a focus on enrollment's importance and the factors that impact reputation in a university's secondary markets / Department of Journalism

BRYCE DALE ALLEN, for the Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater, presented on March 30, 2010, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: MANAGING THE MAGIC: TECHNICAL DIRECTION OF THE SECRET GARDEN MAJOR PROFESSOR: Robert Holcombe This project, Managing the Magic: Technical Direction of The Secret Garden, is a detailed description of the process I used as the technical director to help produce the Department of Theater's production of The Secret Garden at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in April 2009. This work is also a study of the artistic collaboration that took place between the design team and me during the execution of the production. Through this project I was able to polish skills that I had learned through careful goal setting and evaluation. Working on The Secret Garden also gave me the opportunity to broaden my experience and develop my strengths as a technical director.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) is a site of linguistic diversity where speakers of three major dialects of American English--Northern, Midland, and Southern--are brought into contact with one another. The speech of undergraduates at SIUC is subject to the processes of dialect contact and accommodation; as a result, regional speech features are lost in favor of an overarching SIUC dialect norm or koiné. The linguistic contact that takes place at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is unique. Previous studies of dialect contact involve situations created by migrations of large populations of settlers moving to a new area. These --migrants‖ settle permanently in the new area and become isolated from their original anchor dialects. The dialect mixture that arises from countless single instances of interpersonal accommodation will, under many circumstances, lead to koinéization or new dialect formation. However, the dialect contact situation at SIUC is different from these previous studies. First, the contact situation at SIUC is made up of fluid populations of highly mobile individuals--undergraduates. While the groups in contact remain consistent, individual students comprising the populations of these groups come and go every year. Additionally, rather than permanently relocating, the contact between the different groups at SIUC is interrupted by students leaving for three months of summer break and one month of winter break every year, thereby preventing speakers of the displaced dialects from becoming isolated from their original anchor dialects. The presence of these factors at SIUC provides a way to test and expand our existing models of language use and language attitudes in regards to dialect contact, accommodation, self- and group- categorization, and individual- and community-level notions of linguistic variation and language change. / text