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A discrete time Markov Chain is used to model enrollment at a regional university. A preliminary analysis is conducted on the data set in order to determine the classes for the Markov chain model. The semester, yearly, and long term results of the model are examined thoroughly. A sensitivity analysis of the probability matrix entries is then conducted to determine the overall greatest influence on graduation rates.

“Technology and the Police” primarily seeks to underline the importance of the role technology plays when it comes to law enforcement. As agents of law enforcement, police are needed to protect and defend society. From the use of DNA to video surveillance and tracking tools, technology helps police officers achieve their goal. Furthermore, technology may also serve as a means of control to make sure police are doing their job effectively. Another purpose of “Technology and the Police” is to show that unlike popular belief, the study of history does not start and ends in the past. It is a continuous process from which many lessons can be learnt and understood, it is timeless. Hence, this thesis also attempts to challenge ideas that history and technology cannot blend together because one represents the past and the other represents the present and the future.

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This study investigated the claim that some of the academically best evangelical colleges are in the process of secularizing. An instrument was developed which differentiated between evangelical and more liberal positions on religious, social, and political issues. Faculty attitudes were measured as representative of a particular college's position.;In Phase I, the DISCRIMINANT Program of the SPSS produced a predictor equation based on those questionnaire items which best discriminated between a stratified, random sample of faculty at known evangelical colleges and a similar sample at known secularized, church-related institutions. Validity of the instrument was shown as 94.59% of the evangelical professors were correctly pre-classified, as were 93.94% of their counterparts.;In Phase II, the predictor equation was applied to the responses of faculty at each of 15 colleges qualifying as the best evangelical institutions. Accordingly, 9 of these colleges were declared to be consistent with their evangelical claim and 5 were classified as secularized. One college was eliminated from the study due to a low response rate. A comparison for significant difference at the .05 level from the national evangelical mean of Phase I was made on those colleges declared by the predictor equation to be evangelical. Each of the 9 passed this test. Thus, since 35.71% of those colleges claiming to be evangelical were shown to be more alike the attitudes held by faculty at secularized, church-related institutions, it was concluded that the claim of secularization among the academically best evangelical colleges had empirical support. The variable of one's attitude toward the Bible proved to be a watershed issue in this analysis of secularization.;It was recommended that the evangelical community hold their colleges accountable, lest the trend eventually impact the larger evangelical movement. In addition, policy-makers at evangelical colleges were encouraged to continue hiring the best qualified evangelical faculty candidate, and to place greater emphasis upon the faculty members' continued spiritual growth. In short, the claim of evangelical colleges to center on God and the integration of faith and learning needs to be more actively pursued.

This study examines the progressive leadership of President J. A. C. Chandler in hiring the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary and explains the relationship between his presidency and his twenty-year career in education prior to 1919. During the early heyday of hiring women faculty in higher education, Chandler employed women educators at levels equal to national rates and surpassing regional standards. He did so in conjunction with his efforts to establish full coeducation at William and Mary. Chandler led a crusade to transform the College from a tiny, mostly male college into a vibrant coeducational state college. He expanded the student body by more than tenfold, made the student body gender equal, built a new campus, and created a utilitarian curriculum for vocational training.;Chandler also took dynamic steps to hire women faculty at a time when most southern women educators taught in women's colleges. He hired women to teach in a wide range of disciplines, sought them nationally, and treated them equitably. His willingness to hire women came from twenty years of experience working with women teachers in Richmond. Chandler made the College a model in the employment of women faculty. Through his dream to transform the College, Chandler opened the College's doors to women faculty as well as to women students.

The purpose of this study was to develop an Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale for the California Psychological Inventory. This scale was designed to differentiate between effective and ineffective parish pastors in the Church of the Brethren.;The procedure involved the identification of two groups of parish clergy in the Church of the Brethren. These groups were formulated using a Pastoral Effectivenes Rating Form, (PERF). A list containing 160 items was circulated among a group of experts in ministry in the Church of the Brethren for their appraisal. The experts rated each item according to its efficacy in discriminating between effective and ineffective parish pastors. Forty-two items were selected for PERF. The PERF was then tested in a pilot study and was submitted to district executives within the denomination. The district executives used the PERF to rate the pastors in their respective districts. The accumulated ratings were rank-ordered, and the 80 pastors who received the highest ratings and the 80 with the lowest ratings were selected as subject for the study. These 160 subjects were contacted and were asked to complete the California Psychological Inventory. Ninety-three agreed to participate and were divided into the two criterion groups for the development of the Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale.;The hypothesis for the study was that a valid Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale could be developed for the California Psychological Inventory that would discriminate between effective and ineffective Church of the Brethren Parish Clergy. Although validation samples were unavailable, a scale was produced using a 2 x 2 contingency chi-square analysis. The new scale consisted of 45 items which reached statistical significance. A oneway ANOVA was used to compare the two criterion groups on the 18 standard CPI scales. Significant differences were obtained on eight scales which included Capacity for Status, Sociability, Social Presence, Self-acceptance, Tolerance, Achievement via Conformance, Achievement via Independence, and Intellectual Efficiency. With each of these scales the scores received by the most effective criterion group exceeded those obtained by the least effective group.

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