EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF WORK-BASED LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FROM THE STUDENT PERSPECTIVE: THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER PATHWAYS, WORKFORCE EXPECTATIONS, AND THE TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL CAPITAL

Understanding the practical implications of work-based learning opportunities (WBLOs) is complex. Although WBLOs are not new learning environments, understanding and clearly defining them is increasingly necessary. In Kentucky, WBLOs are part of the political discourse in post-secondary education. The Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) and local/regional economic and workforce development agencies have incorporated strengthening and growing WBLOs into their strategic plans. By interviewing students that have completed WBLOs at three colleges in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS), this study intended to explore student perspectives of WBLOs by asking the following research questions: 1) What role do WBLOs play in transmitting dominant workplace cultural capital and how has that transmission impacted student career pathway decisions? 2) What impact do WBLOs have in developing workplace expectations post-graduation? The dissertation is produced in three manuscripts, including a companion piece written in collaboration with Lauren McCrary, examining faculty perspectives of WBLOs in Kentucky. The second manuscript is an essay addressing the concept of workforce mis-alignment between the skills possessed by post-secondary graduates and the need of industry. The third manuscript is a review of the research, which was conducted to explore student perspectives of WBLOs in relation to the research questions

Senior Recital: Robert Boone, percussion

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Boone studies percussion with Justin Chesarek.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1476/thumbnail.jp

Development of Nuclear UnderGround Engineered Test Surrogates for Technical Nuclear Forensics Exploitation

A method for formulation and production of Nuclear UnderGround Engineered Test Surrogates (NUGETS) based on notional improvised nuclear device (IND) detonations in an underground environment analogous to the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) is presented. Extensive statistical analyses of precursory geochemical and geophysical characteristics are combined with an augmented surrogate debris cooling technique and predictive IND contributions from the ORIGEN Fallout Analysis Tool. Precursory and resultant elemental compositions, cooling curve calculations, and visual comparison of NUGETS to genuine underground debris are reported. Application of NUGETS methodology to future studies in urban, underground post-detonation technical nuclear forensic (TNF) analysis is suggested

Senior Recital: Brandon Boone, jazz bass

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Boone studies jazz bass with Marc Miller.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1924/thumbnail.jp

Another New South: Patterns of Continuity in the Southern Naval Stores Industry.

Analysis of southern naval stores production, an industry in many respects more representative of southern economic development than cotton textiles, reveals a pattern of continuity between the antebellum and post-war South. Naval stores manufacturing began in the colonial era but languished as a marginally-profitable business until the 1830s when new uses for spirits of turpentine resulted in increased demand and higher prices. Large turpentine operations developed almost exclusively in eastern North Carolina and the slaves, who performed most of the work, experienced distinct work patterns. By the 1850s, destructive gum-harvesting methods led to the depletion of North Carolina\u27s longleaf pine forests; producers determined to continue in the business moved their operations and slaves into fresh pine tracts in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. The antebellum industry\u27s trends---large-scale production, primitive harvesting methods that wounded the trees, and reliance on forced labor---continued after the Civil War. Producers continued moving into the deep South and solved the problem of labor shortages with convict leasing and peonage. Intensive work routines and difficult conditions in isolated forest camps also persisted, despite attacks on the industry\u27s labor practices in the early twentieth century. Moreover, producers continued to migrate through the South as gum collection devastated pine stands. Progressive-era initiatives did bring moderately successful efforts to introduce less destructive harvesting methods than those in use since the 1700s. However, two new problems plagued the industry in the first half of the century: the rapid rise of production costs and competition from both foreign gum naval stores producers and the rapidly growing wood naval stores industry. These rivals, combined with the economic and social changes that affected the South in the 1930s and 1940s, brought the gum naval stores industry to virtual collapse, despite federal assistance through New Deal farm programs. The wood naval stores industry, which relied on heavy mechanization and a small number of well-trained technicians, made gains at the expense of the gum industry. That naval stores production did not modernize until World War II, demonstrates that a significant portion of post-Civil War southern development represented a continuation of antebellum patterns

KSU Percussion Ensemble with Special Guests, Roswell High School Percussion Ensemble

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Percussion Ensemble with special guests, Roswell High School Percussion Ensemble.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1431/thumbnail.jp

Dialing for Foreign Telecommunications Market Access: Is The United States Getting a Busy Signal from Japan?

Japan is one country that appears to be following United States policies. On April 1, 1985, the Japanese Government converted Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) from a government-run, publicly-held corporation into a private entity. Japan adopted the Electric Telecommunication Business Act in December 1984 to create an environment in which private entities can compete. The full extent to which the Japanese Government intends to open its market to non-Japanese firms remains unclear. This Note will discuss the development of Japanese telecommunications policy and the current United States tele-communications policy with respect to market access. The Note then will analyze the new Japanese legislation generally and issues relating to United States-Japan trade relations specifically. Finally, this Note will comment on United States legislative responses to the trade deficit with Japan and the future of United States-Japan telecommunications trade relations

Senior Recital: Anthony Mancini, jazz guitar

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Mancini studies jazz guitar with Trey Wright.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1326/thumbnail.jp

Senior Recital: Andrew Lastrapes, jazz guitar

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Lastrapes studies jazz guitar with Trey Wright.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1520/thumbnail.jp

Senior Recital: Chris Otts, saxophone

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance. Mr. Otts studies saxophone with Sam Skelton.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1526/thumbnail.jp