This page serves as a listing of the Graduates of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program with each dissertation title and, when available, a link to the ScholarWorks listing for the dissertation.

Gabull Alhadhrami, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Latinx prenursing: The dripping pipeline una pipa con gotas

Bena Arao, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Invisible Labor: examining the black staff engagement with the institution’s budgeting ecosystem

Khanh Dinh, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Racial diversity leadership index: A model for employee retention

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John Eick, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Examining the role of leadership in preparing school climate for disruptive change

Sandra Fowler, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Practices associated with California Community Colleges' Latinx career education completion rates

Position: Dean of CTE & Workforce Development, Woodland Community College

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Meredith Galloway, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Teacher Push Out: Lower Wages, Longer Hours, and State Freeriding on Teachers

Michel Jair Kiwan Gómez, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
THE BIGSPEARS: A Novel Method for Differentiating Instruction in History and the Social Sciences for Middle School Multilingual Learners

Margaret Hwang, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Weaving a tapestry of wisdom: A phenomenological inquiry of retired Asian American university presidents

Vasa Lokteff, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Reflection, action, transformation: The pathway to culturally responsive teaching in k-12 education

Ashleigh Pane, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Fear, Funding, and Frame of Reference: What Teachers Say Matters in their Approach to Deconstructing the Canon

David Shackleford, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Emotional labor in teaching: Across socioeconomic bounds and through crises

Sonya R. Stinsolotti, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
A Mixed-Methods Exploration of Informal Educational Leaders and their Impact on School Climate

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Kristen Tudor, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Communication and trust in higher education: how leadership communication shapes faculty trust in administrators

Ann Veu, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Systematic Integration of a Holistic Teaching Framework through a Social, Emotional and Cultural Lens: An Organizational Readiness Study

J.R. Walker, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Opportunity gaps: exposing the unequal starting line for kindergarteners

Lisa Ziska-Marchand, Ed.D.

Dissertation:
Portraits of White Women Managers Reflecting Upon Racism, Classism, and Equity in Higher Education