This study concerns the role of admissions officers in the marketing activities of Texas Colleges and universities. The purposes of this study are to identify the marketing activities of Texas colleges and universities for admissions and recruiting, to determine if these marketing activities vary according to identified characteristics of the colleges and universities, to determine the role of admissions officers in marketing activities, and to determine the organizational structure for marketing activities in Texas colleges and universities.

Research has demonstrated that the general public accepts many rape myths and that rape attitudes are strongly connected to other deeply held and pervasive attitudes. However, it has not been clear whether police officers reflected similar attitudes. This research attempted to ascertain if police share the same antecedents of rape myth acceptance as the general public. Using officers from two police departments, it was demonstrated that attidudes regarding sex role stereotyping, sexual conservatism, acceptance of interpersonal violence, and adversarial sexual beliefs were significantly correlated with acceptance of rape myths. However, police were more pro-victim (p < .01) in their attitudes as compared to the general public. Officers who received specialized rape-related training were not significantly different in rape attitudes from those officers who had not received training.

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Thesis advisor: Karen D. Arnold / The purpose of this research was to identify the primary duties and responsibilities of mission officers in Catholic higher education and develop an accompanying set of core competencies for professional development purposes. Mission officers first appeared in Catholic colleges and universities in the 1980s, in response to declining numbers of priests and religious on campuses, increased secularization of the academe, and reduced course requirements in the liberal arts, particularly philosophy and theology. These changes as well as others within higher education, American society, and the Catholic Church raised concerns about the distinctive Catholic identity and mission of Catholic colleges and universities. Although 80% of Catholic colleges and universities have appointed a mission officer to galvanize campus-wide efforts to strengthen the religious character of these institutions (Gilroy, Sloma-Williams, & Galligan-Stierle, 2014), as of yet there are no established educational qualifications, professional norms, or set of competencies to guide the professional practice and development of current and future mission officers. Thirty-seven experienced mission officers participated in four rounds of data collection using a modified Delphi research method. Seventy-four percent of the 27 duties and over eighty percent of the 32 competencies identified, refined, and prioritized in this study reached consensus as critically important or very important by more than three-quarters of the study participants. The study findings indicate that mission officers interact on a regular basis with many groups and individuals at both senior and lower levels within the institution. Many mission officer duties involve efforts to galvanize the campus community, particularly faculty and student affairs professionals, in order to integrate the mission across the institution. Effective mission leadership requires both a top-down and bottom-up approach to mission integration along with leadership skills, knowledge of the Catholic intellectual tradition, collaboration and communication skills, and a demonstrated commitment to the Catholic identity and mission of the university. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Lynch School of Education. / Discipline: Educational Leadership and Higher Education.

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Orientador: José Sterza Justo / Banca: Eurípedes Costa do Nascimento / Banca: Alcides José Sanches Vergara / Resumo: A atenção dispensada pelos agentes públicos aos trecheiros e pessoas em situação de rua é cada vez mais crescente subsidiada por um arsenal de normas, orientações, estratégias, instituições, profissionais, políticas, para dar conta das várias facetas da vida nômade e citadina. Por esse motivo, a pesquisa teve como objetivo principal investigar a maneira como esses agentes encarregados dos serviços públicos de assistência social lidavam com trecheiros e pessoas em situação de rua e concebiam esse modo de vida. Interessou, sobretudo, identificar práticas e intervenções no modo de vida de trecheiros e pessoas em situação de rua que procuravam desqualificar a nomadismo ou que o tomava como um modo de vida condenável ou que gerava sofrimentos e que, portanto, precisava ser evitado. Interessou, ainda, compreender como, pelo olhar dos profissionais da assistência social, se produz a figura do "indesejável", do estrangeiro, que precisa ser deslocado para outros espaços por meio de políticas públicas de assistência. A pesquisa ocorreu em uma cidade com aproximadamente cem mil habitantes na região oeste do Estado de São Paulo. Essa cidade está localizada num importante corredor de circulação de trecheiros, formado pelo cruzamento de rodovias tronco que ligam o norte do Estado ao Paraná e a região oeste do Estado à região leste, na qual está situada capital. A metodologia empregada foi a etnografia em Psicologia com observação participante. Acompanhamos o trabalho da equipe do município, constituída por assistentes sociais, psicólogos e funcionários de nível médio, lotada no Centro de Referência Especializada de Assistência Social (CREAS) e na Unidade de Assistência ao Migrante (UAM), bem como de outros profissionais que participaram do Grupo de Trabalho de População de Rua ou que estavam envolvidos com a questão da atenção do nomadismo, além de citadinos... / Abstract: The state officials attention given to roamers and people on the streets is becoming increasingly subsidized by an arsenal of standards, guidelines, strategies, institutions, professional, political, to account for the various facets of nomadic and city life. For this reason, the research aimed to investigate how these officials responsible for public welfare office dealt with roamers and people on the streets and conceived this way of life. Imported mainly identify practices and interventions in roamers way of life and people on the streets seeking to disqualify the nomadism that took as a reprehensible way of life or that generated suffering and therefore, needed to be avoided. Interested also understand how, by the look of professional social work, produces the figure of the "undesirable" from abroad, that needs to be moved to other spaces through public assistance policies. The research took place in a city of approximately one hundred thousand inhabitants in the western region of São Paulo. This city is located in an important roamers circulation corridor formed by the intersection of trunk roads linking the north of the state to the Paraná and the west of the State to the eastern region, which is the capital. The methodology used was ethnography in Psychology with participant observation. We follow the work of the city's team, made up of social workers, psychologists and mid-level employees, crowded in Social Reference Center of Specialized Assistance (CREAS) and the Migrant Assistance Unit (UAM), and other professionals who participated the Working Group on Homelessness or who were involved with the issue of care of nomadism, and townspeople who were present and participated directly and indirectly in the search, allowing observe the practices and discourses that are construct for roamers who come in town and people on the streets who insist on staying in the squares. The program took place... / Mestre

La première partie présente les adaptations nécessaires de l’Ecole Nationale de la France d’Outre-Mer (ENFOM) pendant la décennie qui suit sa réouverture en 1944-1945. La création de l’Union française oblige le ministère de la FOM et la direction de l’ENFOM à réformer l’école pour recycler les formations dispensées. Ces évolutions cherchent à définir le nouveau profil de l’élève et de l’administrateur idéaux. Ces profils sont à la fois empreints des traditions colonialistes de l’entre-deux-guerres et des nouveaux enjeux insufflés depuis la conférence de Brazzaville. L’étude statistique des circulations des administrateurs de la FOM entre la France et ses différentes possessions outre-mer établit les principaux flux et leur accélération. La deuxième partie étudie l’évolution de l’ENFOM et de ses élèves de 1956 à 1963. L’ENFOM entre en tensions l’année de la promulgation de la loi-cadre, de l’africanisation de son recrutement et de la publication du manifeste Bleu d’outre-mer. L’esprit de corps est affaibli car des divisions générationnelles et idéologiques apparaissent. Les administrateurs de la FOM commencent à être reclassés. Le cadre législatif leur est particulièrement favorable et facilite leur intégration au sein de carrières publiques métropolitaines et/ou africaines. Les organismes de la coopération y occupent une place importante comme le montre l’analyse statistique de l’ensemble de ces reclassements. L’ENFOM disparaît en 1958-1959 pour immédiatement renaître sous les traits de l’Institut des Hautes Etudes d’Outre-Mer (IHEOM) chargé, dans l’urgence, de former à Paris les cadres africains nécessaires au fonctionnement des nouveaux Etats et ainsi confirmer la domination de l’ancienne métropole. / The first part presents the required adaptations of the ENFOM during the decade after its reopening in 1944-1945. The creation of the Union française forces the french ministry for the overseas territories and the school administration to reform the ENFOM to retrain the courses. These adaptations try to define the new profile of the perfect student and the perfect officer. These profiles are filled with colonialist traditions of the inter-war period and with new issues inspired by Brazzaville Conference. The statistical study of colonial officers’ movements between France and overseas territories determine the main flows and their acceleration. The second part considers the ENFOM and students’ evolution from 1956 to 1963. The ENFOM comes under stress the year the framework law is promulgated, the recruitment is africanised and the Bleu outre-mer manifesto is published. The esprit de corps is weakened by a generational and an ideological opposition. Colonial officers start then to be reclassified. The legislative framework, which is to their advantage, facilitates their integration in the french and/or African public service. The statistical study of reclassifications as a whole proves the importance of cooperation agencies. ENFOM closes in 1958-1959 and immediatly replaced by the IHEOM. This institute is created to train african officers in Paris as quickly as possible for them to operate in the new states. The former mainland thus confirms its domination. Thanks to a great statistical study, the last part lists all the reclassifications of present or volontary absent colonial officers, judges and labour inspectors on the whole from Africa at the time of independence. These careers and movements last from 1964 to the beginning of the 21st century and rely on ENFOM networks. The statistical study takes into accountall the metropolitan officers and the 106 african officers of the last three promotions. Proud of their colonial and post-colonial careers, former colonial officers set up memorial strategies (novel, political responsibilities, publications of former student association destined for historian) for posterity and sometimes to defend their record. This research ends with bases for an analysis of the private career which often followed their public one.

Morality has been a focus in criminal justice with recent events involving officers. This quantitative study offered research in the criminal justice field regarding the moral awareness of corrections officers. The main research question investigated the relationship between the security level of the prison unit in which a corrections officer works and his or her level of morality awareness. The study surveyed corrections officers of prison units in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections and focused on morality awareness of corrections officers. The independent variable was the security level of the prison unit worked in. The dependent variables were the correlational scores of the Defining Issues Test-2nd edition and the Corrections Officer Perception Survey. The security level of the prison unit was analyzed with a multiple regression analysis and concluded the significant difference of the security level. A paired sample t test and general linear multivariate analysis was conducted to determine the relation of variables. The results showed there was a correlation of general morality and morality in the workplace, but there was no significant difference between these two areas nor was there any significant difference in morality between the security levels of the prison units worked in. The lack of understanding and knowledge surrounding morality awareness of corrections officers involving sexual misconduct and other unethical acts has left the criminal justice field in a vulnerable position. This study contributes to social change by incorporating morality awareness of corrections officers that could be checked in preemployment screening in the future. These findings could also assist in reducing future lawsuits inviting all criminal justice employees to participate in future studies of morality awareness to assist in the same preventions.

The prison officer is central to prison life, yet understandings of this role are limited. This thesis argues that the two overarching (and often competitive)conceptualisations of prison officers' work as custodial work or human services work are limited. Eight conceptualisations of prison officers' work from the correctional literature are identified - Para-military officer, Security Officer, Warehouser of prisoners, Public Servant /bureaucrat, Professional, Manager of Prisoners , Therapist and Case Manager. These conceptualisations are defined and related to one another by examining their construction through discourses of prison purpose and prison process (Adler and Longhurst 1994). The thesis develops the analysis of du Gay (1996) that organisations use discourse as a means of constructing work identities for their employees and the work of Halford and Leonard (1999) who argue that workers are active agents in this process and do not always take on the identity the organisation is seeking to promote. The thesis addresses three research questions How has the role of the prison officer been conceptualised by the South Australian Department for Correctional Services over time? How is the role of the prison officer currently conceptualised by personnel working within South Australian prisons, what influences the way the role is conceptualised and what purposes do these conceptualisations serve? To what extent have the new conceptualisations of the role of the prison officer, articulated by the Department for Correctional Services in the last ten years, been adopted by staff within prisons and what determines the influence of these new conceptualisations? These questions are addressed using qualitative research techniques of document analysis and semi-structured interviews. The thesis identifies that in recent decades the Department has emphasised conceptualisations of the role constructed from normalisation and rehabilitative discourses. Interviewees, forty-four working in three South Australian prisons, (both departmental and privately managed), conceptualised the work of a prison officer as complex and unique and identified three influential audiences for the performance of prison officers' work – prisoners, officers and their colleagues, and the Departmental hierarchy. Interviewees constructed the role of the prison officer in terms that would earn respect for the work from each of these audiences and manage the vulnerability of the officer as a worker and a prison officer. Half of those interviewed conceptualised the prison officer based on a Manager of Prisoners. Other interviewees, critical of the role within their prison, described it as a Warehouser and saw the competition between custodial and human services roles as irreconcilable. The thesis argues that Departmental discourse can be seen to have a significant influence on the conceptualisation of the prison officer’s role by those working within prisons, but that it competes for influence with the discourse of the other powerful audiences for the performance of prison officers' work – prisoners and other staff.

In a wide range of counselling situations, including those involving offenders, researchers have bemoaned the lack of consensus about outcome. Some researchers have argued that a lack of consensus is due to the fact that the different sources retain unique points of view, which can never be amalgamated into a common outcome. The current paper argues that, while sources will have their own unique perspective, it is possible to develop a meaningful consensus, if it is done very carefully. The factors which need to be taken into consideration are: measuring different outcomes; the different interpretation of the question by each source; and bias. An important outcome in correctional settings is an offender's current level of criminality, or likelihood of reoffending. It was hypothesised that the 12 Probation and Parole Officers' predictions about the likelihood of recidivism of 368 offenders would correlate with fresh charges recorded within 12 months by the Magistrates Court. This hypothesis was supported. It was also hypothesised that the Level of Service Inventory - Revised (LSI-R) would also correlate with fresh charges and that the former correlation would be different to the latter. While the LSI-R did correlate significantly with fresh charges, the predictions of the Probation and Parole Officers were not significantly different. The use of correlation coefficients to assess predictive validity has been criticised as they are affected by base rates of offending and selection ratios of offenders to high and low risk categories. However when a more appropriate statistical tool, the area under the Receiver Operating Characteristic curve (ROC) was employed, the results were not substantially different. The predictive abilities of offenders was also tested against the same criterion and Intersource Agreement on the Prediction Recidivism were found sorely wanting, failing to correlate with fresh charges or any of the other predictive measures. It is argued that the offenders failed to predict accurately because of bias and/or poor ability to predict their own behaviour. The ability of the Probation and Parole Officers to predict reoffending to a much greater level than usually recorded in the criminological literature was ascribed to the higher level of information about their own predictive abilities, through a natural feedback mechanism which does not usually apply to professionals making clinical predictions about recidivism, and to training in predictors of reoffending which they received when they were trained in the administration of the LSI-R. It was also found that the ability of the LSI-R to predict recidivism was improved by incorporating offender age through linear regression. Suggestions were made for improving consensus among sources in counselling outcome studies. In particular, it was noted that sources do not necessarily interpret the question in the manner the researcher desires and it may be necessary to test the subjects' ability to distinguish between similar questions when this distinction is important.