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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b>TO: All Graduate Faculty and Doctoral Students<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b>FROM: Vicky Turner<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt"><b> Doctoral Degree Coordinator<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<h2><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">DATE: April 6, 2015<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>RE: Schedule of Proposal Defenses & Final Defenses for April 2015<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tue., Apr. 7, 10:00 am, EDN 107, <b><u>Keith Ellis</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Principal Perceptions in a Large Urban School District in Texas: Year One of a New Teacher Evaluation Instrument<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Art Borgemenke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Matt Wood<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Tue., Apr. 7, 10:30 am, EDN 108, <b><u>Tara Lewis</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Transgender Student Experience: Interactions with Faculty and Peers in the College Classroom<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Joyce Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Stephen Reysen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Fri., Apr. 10, 3:30 pm, Hall of Lang. 134, <b><u>Sara Miller</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Of Planchettes and Pickets: Spiritualism , the New Woman, and Literary Modernism, 1880-1930<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Karen Roggenkamp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Asli Ogunc<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wed., Apr. 15, 10:30 am, EDN 107, <b><u>Kristian Fischer</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>An Assessment of the Alignment of Texas Secondary Education Science Standards and Texas College and Career Readiness Standards in Reference to Reform Initiatives of P-16 Systems in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Charlotte Larkin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Elvira White-Lewis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wed., Apr. 15, 2:00 pm, Hall of Lang 134, <b><u>Billy Joe Lancaster</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>John Steinbeck’s Economics of Behavior: A Social Exchange Reading of In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, and Sweet Thursday<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Karen Roggenkamp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Jiaming Sun<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thur., Apr. 16, 10:00 am, EDN 108, <b><u>Cheryl Urbanovsky</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Examining Administrator Perceptions: Maintaining Sociologically Diverse Gifted and Talented Programs in PK-12 Settings<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Art Borgemenke<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Curt Carlson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tue., Apr. 21, 10:00 am, EDN 108, <b><u>Darlene Waller</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>A Longitudinal Study of the Changing Status of Women Faculty in Public Doctoral Institutions in Texas<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Joyce Scott<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Susan Szabo<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thur., Apr. 23, 10:00 am, EDN 224, <b><u>Shigehito Menjo</u></b>, Proposal Defense<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Development of L2 Prosody in Japanese Learners of English: A Quasi-Longitudinal Study<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Major Advisor: Dr. Lucy Pickering<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Graduate Council Representative: Dr. Susan Szabo<o:p></o:p></p>
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