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Soobrayen Veerasamy, P. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Situated within the context of globalization, the purpose of this historical policy analysis study was to identify and describe the ways in which multiple actors shaped national higher education internationalization policy within the U.S., and to capture the emerging direction in higher education internationalization policy at the national level…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Higher Education
Lynch, John Kenneth – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using an exploratory model of the 9/11 terrorists, this research investigates the linkages between Event Driven Business Process Management (edBPM) and decision making. Although the literature on the role of technology in efficient and effective decision making is extensive, research has yet to quantify the benefit of using edBPM to aid the…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Decision Making, Travel, Information Technology
King, Steven Gray – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Geographic information systems (GIS) reveal relationships and patterns from large quantities of diverse data in the form of maps and reports. The United States spends billions of dollars to use GIS to improve decisions made during responses to natural disasters and terrorist attacks, but precisely how GIS improves or impairs decision making is not…
Descriptors: Information Security, Federal Government, Public Agencies, National Security
Oh, Onook – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Flexible, mobile, and distributive social web technologies afforded online users with unprecedented opportunities to connect previously disconnected groups of people at a distance surrounding shared interests or common issues. Reflecting the opportunities opened by social web technologies, recent extreme events have exposed both positive and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Telecommunications, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
Bellows, Mary Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers and children who were in schools on September 11, 2001 harbor unique, personal, and accessible memories of the events that occurred that Tuesday morning. Educational research has attended to this (inter)national crisis in a multitude of ways, yet there exists a gap in the literature that attends to how today's preservice teachers remember…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Citizenship, Case Studies, Elementary School Teachers