Theses & Dissertations Digitization Project

William & Mary Libraries worked for two years on a project to digitize and catalog W&M dissertations and theses going back to 1920 and up until 2015.  The project helps to accomplish many goals:

  • share the developments and research conducted here with scholars around the world
  • preserve the scholarly record
  • increase the impact of theses and dissertations
  • raise the profile of graduate students
  • grow the reputation of William & Mary
  • demonstrate the institution’s impact on local and global communities

As of October 22, 2018, you are now able to view the dissertations and theses included in this retrospective project as well as those which have been submitted electronically since 2016 in W&M ScholarWorks, the university's open access institutional repository.

Below, please find a list of W&M theses and dissertations which have been digitized as part of this retrospective conversion project . The information includes the authors associated with the project, along with their degree-granting department and year of completion. If you wrote a thesis and/or dissertation between 1920 and 2015 would like to opt-out of the project by restricting access to your work to on-campus access only, then you will need to contact scholarworks@wm.edu with your name, date of graduation and thesis or dissertation title. Theses and dissertations will continue to be made available through interlibrary loan (ILL) to other libraries, as they were when they were available in print. If you are a copyright holder for one of these works, and would like to provide additional information about a work, or discuss rights and access to the work, please contact us at scholarworks@wm.edu.

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Title Author Department Year Degree
Academic freedom and faculty careers : a case study of four Nobel prize laureate exiles 1930-1940 Norton, Timothy Dale, 1955- Education 1995 Doctor of Education
State controlled higher education in Virginia and the budgeting process 1950-1972 : a move toward formal methods Kellogg, Richard Allan, 1925- Education 1974 Doctor of Education
Hurricane Katrina families : social class and the family in trauma recovery Godwin, Emilie E. Education 2009 Doctor of Education
The personal need systems of college students : an analysis of the poorly adjusted freshman Saad, Kenneth Michael, 1953- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
Staff development practices used in Virginia's public schools : a comparative analysis of personnel perceptions from rural and other districts Cox, Herbert O., 1943- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
Saga, strategy and the marketing mix : a case study of Lynchburg College Hunnius, Howard Ray, 1941- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
The rating of nonverbal counseling techniques by reluctant adolescent clients Forrester, James Ernest, 1947- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
The effects of word processing on the writing of selected fifth- grade students Woolley, Walter C. Education 1985 Doctor of Education
Helping first-year college students climb the academic ladder : report of a national survey of freshman seminar programming in American higher education Barefoot, Betsy O. 1944- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Children serve too : an investigation of the impacts of military family life on adult relationships Heyward, Karena. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
The relationships between socioeconomic status, sex, self-concept, academic achievement, and course selection of urban black tenth-grade students Chappell, Earl Birges, 1944- Education 1979 Doctor of Education
An analysis of state and local alignment of teacher evaluations in Maryland Peterson, Serene N., 1981-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
An investigation of the motivational-study skills-self-regulatory skills model for improving academic competence in community college students Evans, Okey Rex, 1949- Education 1984 Doctor of Education
Impact of the Bologna process and German higher education reforms on professorial work and role definition at the University of Potsdam : a case study Hairston, Christen Cullum, 1979-, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
Conceptual and moral development of substance abuse counselors : the relationship to counselor level of education, experience and recovery status Sias, Shari McClung. Education 2002 Doctor of Education
An evaluation of personality-environmental factors related to job satisfaction of secondary school natural science teachers DeShazo, G. Newton, 1943- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Anxiety and the disabled Villeneuve, Wayne P. Education 1980 Doctor of Education
A critical examination of practices and perceptions of current performance evaluation models for theatre arts teachers in Virginia Nowacek, Shelley L. Education 2008 Doctor of Education
The impact of live supervision on the family therapist's level of immediacy, anxiety, responsiveness, and genuineness Bistline, John L. Education 1982 Doctor of Education
The politics of choice : an analysis of the presidential search and selection process Kelly, Michael Thomas, 1961- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
The effectiveness on problem resolution of three different treatment modalities : client-centered, rational emotive therapy and paradoxical directives Gombatz, Michael Wagner, 1949- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
A study of the congruence between the transition planning process and first-year outcomes for students with learning disabilities Sabel, Donna Marie. Education 2000 Doctor of Education
The relationship between college freshmen resident students' levels of maturity and the attribution of causality for a stimulus person's behavior Cox, Terry Bradford, 1949- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
The relationship between a locality's fiscal capacity and its per pupil expenditure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a result of the 1988 funding formula change Mehaffey, Mary Messer, 1948- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
Pupil productivity in elementary school mathematics as related to principal and teacher leadership style Forster, Beverly Roane, 1938- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
What predicts alumni satisfaction? : the impact of investment, involvement, and post-college outcomes Barnes, Amy Catherine, 1976- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Effects of sexual guilt upon affective responses to subliminal sexual stimuli Magri, Michael Barton, 1946- Education 1979 Doctor of Education
Evaluating a school-based day treatment program for students with challenging behaviors Hickman, Antoine Lewis, 1970-, Education 2014 Doctor of Education
Food for thought : the collegiate way of living Charlton, David Holland, 1951- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
Horace Mann : a comparison of a traditional and a revisionist biography Whiting, George C., 1944- Education 1989 Doctor of Education
The effectiveness of cognitive restructuring and paradoxical directives counseling interventions of adolescent self-esteem : a comparative study Hall, David Alvin, 1947- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
A study of the differential effects of three career counseling techniques on career-related activities and attitudes of black college freshmen Burke, Judith Glenn, 1939- Education 1978 Doctor of Education
An experiment comparing the effects of two techniques that elicit the relaxation response on stress reduction and cognitive functioning in first year law students at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Siddall, Yvonne Robena, 1946- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
Racial issues in white dyads : an investigation of Helms's interaction model Ochs, Nancy G., 1939- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Continuous improvement monitoring : an analysis of state special education compliance procedures Blake, Barbara Richmond. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
A correlational study of female national certified counselors and their attitudes toward homosexuals Kennedy, Jelane A., 1961- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
The effects of covert modeling and progressive relaxation on the locus of control orientation and drinking behavior of inpatient alcohol abusers Goodman, Ronald Willis, 1981- Education 1981 Doctor of Education
A study of the effects of the Downing parent group education program upon parental self-concept, parental manifest anxiety, and the behavior of offspring in an alternative education environment Cox, William Dale, 1946- Education 1976 Doctor of Education
An analysis of the National War College Terwilliger, Thom H., 1958- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
A paradigm shift in progress : the impact of work hour reform on the operative volume of surgical residents Mendoza, Kathryn A., 1965- Education 2004 Doctor of Education
The differential effects of three life career development courses on the self-concept and career maturity of college underclassmen Huntington-Meath, James Stewart, 1948- Education 1981 Doctor of Education
The relationship of organizational health and school safety to student achievement Jaworowski, Harriet Ling, 1957- Education 2003 Doctor of Education
A study of the relation of organizational climate to individually guided education programs in selected elementary schools in an eastern Virginia city school division Forte, Theodore L. Education 1981 Doctor of Education
An investigation of Virginia school leaders' knowledge and perceptions regarding the impact of the discipline provisions of the Individuals with disabilities education act on school safety and professional development Worley, Charlotte Hardison. Education 2006 Doctor of Education
The relationship of codependence to career choice Barnett, Karen H., 1949- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
An analysis of the relationship between race and gender and national student placement in programs for the educable mentally retarded, learning disabled, and seriously emotionally disturbed from 1976 through 1984 Richardson, Robert F. Education 1989 Doctor of Education
A validity study of the control/nurture dimensions of the Sale-Hendrin model of structural family therapy Mahan, Robert George, 1949- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
The impact of organizational culture on the academic success of historically Black college and university athletes : a case study Charlton, Ralph. Education 2009 Doctor of Education
A study of paid faculty consulting and the policies of higher educational institutions in Virginia Stem, Albert F., 1943- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
Alternate methods of changing nursing home staff attitudes toward sexual behavior in the aged Aja, Anne Marie, 1947- Education 1982 Doctor of Education