Faculty Commons: Recent Publications by La Verne Faculty

Technology plays a significant role in doctoral leadership studies providing a channel for teaching, learning, research, and administrative processes. Advancing Doctoral Leadership Education Through Technology addresses the growing need for universities to explore, revise, and develop the content and delivery of doctoral leadership education. This book offers valuable information for faculty and administrators responsible for developing and delivering doctoral studies through technology in order to provide access, convenience, enriched learning, and to create new pathways to achieve a doctorate.

Crimes Against Consumers is a multidisciplinary anthology that combines criminal justice and consumer affairs to help readers understand consumer crime and how they can protect themselves against it through education and self-advocacy. The carefully curated readings address aspects of consumer law, white collar crime, corporate and computer crime, and more.

The Dissertation Journey is a comprehensive how-to guide for graduate students faced with the challenge of developing and writing a quality dissertation. This best-selling book covers all aspects of the dissertation or thesis development – from selecting a topic, working with a committee, deciding the appropriate methodology, writing and defending the dissertation, to publishing the results. The 3rd edition has undergone major revisions including new website resources. Faculty who serve as dissertation advisors, committee members, and who teach research will find the book useful in guiding students through successful completion of the process.

Based on research and real-life experience, the book highlights the interplay between public actors and policy tools, details the skills and functions of public administrators in the context of networked relationships, and identifies the reforms and trends in governing that lead to governance networks. This practical text makes complex concepts accessible, so that readers can engage in them, apply them, and deepen their understanding of the dynamics unfolding around them.

Haiku & Other Half-truths… is a collection of poetry reflecting feelings of love, loss and despair among others. The thoughts and emotions expressed in verse within these pages will ignite a spark in your heart and mind, while reminding you that we are all connected through our emotional journey in this life. Many emotions are felt but not expressed; however, some of those are written in haiku and short verse within these pages. Divided into three sections: 1.Love 2.Heartache 3.Other Half-truths; this collection is a quick and enjoyable read.

A light-hearted look at the Trump-Russia scandal, told in coloring book form, and focusing on the lawyers.

The Spin Doctrine is an inspiring toolbox for navigating the contemporary world. At its heart is the aspiration for effective communication, empowering future generations to transcend bias and prejudice. Deeply empathetic in orientation, it offers the means have structured dialogue with people who hold different opinions. Without a political axe to grind, it offers tools rather than prescriptions, enabling readers to become better citizens, consumers, and human beings. The text enables readers to achieve three things: to critically examine one's own ideas, critically examine the ideas of other people, and have a better quality of dialogue between the two.

Higher education technology administrators (HETAs) are facing a very tight labor market, shrinking budgets, challenging enrollment trends, and elevated demand or competent talent (Blankenberger & Phillips, 2016; Gast, Werner, & Kraus, 2017). As leaders, HETAs are also responsible for managing personnel that requires leadership perspectives, skills, and knowledge not generally associated with those responsible for leading technology initiatives. The findings of this study suggest relational leadership as an approach that focuses on the satisfaction, motivation, and well-being of team members resulting in a deeper human connection. By leveraging a relational focus, HETAs, their organizations, and staff will be well poised for the future.

This study examined the impact of resonance expressed by the positive emotional attractor (PEA) and dissonance represented by the negative emotional attractor (NEA) created by medical students during diagnostic encounters with standardized patients (SPs) (laypeople) from the clinical skills exam (CSE). Secondary data were collected from 116 videotaped CSE encounters between SPs and medical students. Associations among the PEA and NEA states, and medical student effectiveness measured by SP, faculty, and differential diagnosis scores using moderated multiple regression analysis were determined. Results suggest that the PEA and NEA are powerful conditions for determining medical student effectiveness in clinical encounters.