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Item Bureaucratic access points(2012-05) Sternemann, Daniel Thomas; Jones, Bryan D.; Sparrow, Bartholomew H.This paper studies how organizational mission influences policy implementation. Interagency conflicts and bureaucratic challenges affecting implementation are largely due to different missions and different assessment measures. The focus of this investigation is the relationship between humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR) agencies and associated Department of Defense (DOD) medical components. Access point theory is important to this study, for it helps us understand how successful policy implementation is enabled in the midst of bureaucratic conflicts and challenges. The notion of access points has traditionally involved lobbyists and interest groups accessing elected officials and their staffs. I ask what is the effect of lobbyists and interest groups accessing bureaucrats directly in the policy implementation process and its subsequent evaluation. More importantly, I argue that bureaucrats take advantage of access points to other bureaucrats during policy implementation proceedings. This study offers the novel perspective that access points for HA/DR bureaucrats, to include those in the DOD, are readily available during the punctuating event (i.e., the natural disaster itself) and may be evaluated through the notions of timing, efficiency, and the information and capabilities they possess and can leverage during these punctuations. Simply stated, bureaucratic access points theory helps us understand how policies are successfully implemented in the midst of bureaucratic conflicts and challenges.Item Exploration of models in arts schools movement(2013-08) Tatum, Michael Scott; Worthy, JoThis report explores example models from nine different operational areas found in the arts schools movement, examines the positive and negative impact of each, and attempts to draw cursory conclusions that could be applied to those seeking to evaluate an existing, or establish a new, arts school. The operational areas included in this report are the purpose of the school, size and scope, finances, governance and administration, faculty and staff, facilities, recruitment/auditions/retention, community involvement, and learning and information resources. Over the past four decades, arts-focused primary and secondary schools have been established to provide students with an alternative to traditional campuses across the country using a variety of operational models and tactics for success but there has been limited documentation of their effectiveness. This report seeks to begin the establishment of such documentation.Item You are Hereby Called: An Ethnographic Study of Mormon Missionaries(2014-07-08) Pepper, Kevin PhillipThe purpose of this dissertation is to provide an initial examination into Mormon missionaries from an anthropological, and ethnographic, perspective. Through the use of autoethnography, I provide an emic understanding into this parallel culture inside mainstream Mormonism. Employing surveys and personal interviews with former Mormon missionaries, I seek to more fully develop the understanding of the formation of Mormon missionary identity, how Mormons see their missionary service as a life event, and the use of folklore by Mormon missionaries to adapt the Gospel message to new cultures. The usual demographic indicators?age, sex, ethnicity, or occupation?had no correlation to Mormon missionary identity or how the mission experience is viewed as a life event. However, age was a correlative factor in what type of challenge?cultural or mission?was the most difficult for Mormon missionaries to overcome during their service; the older a returned missionary was the more likely they were to choose a cultural challenge as the most significant problem inside their missionary service. The trainer/first companion is the most influential person in establishing a Mormon missionaries? identity and contributing to their cultural understanding. Contrary to my expectations about missionaries who serve in their native cultures, the mission president is not the most influential person in forming Mormon missionary identity. The least influential persons on the development of Mormon missionary identity were the district/zone leaders. In regards to a life event, former Mormon missionaries did conceptualize their missionary experiences as self-contained time. While aspects of a rite of passage/rite of social intensification were present in the answers missionaries gave, the use of terms that denote the mission as being a completely separate place (bubble, missionary world, dream, different life, etc.) permeated my informant?s responses. Mormon missionaries do not use knowledge of folklore/folk culture to tailor their Gospel message to the cultures they serve in. However, missions that contain areas which are extremely rural or densely urban found missionaries trying new folklore approaches and adapting the message to the people around them suggesting that population density, not culture, drives the incorporation of folklore into missionaries? teaching techniques.