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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions . OATD currently indexes 7,241,108 theses and dissertations.

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• NDLTD , the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. NDLTD provides information and a search engine for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), whether they are open access or not.
• Proquest Theses and Dissertations (PQDT), a database of dissertations and theses, whether they were published electronically or in print, and mostly available for purchase. Access to PQDT may be limited; consult your local library for access information.

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EBSCO Open Dissertations makes electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) more accessible to researchers worldwide. The free portal is designed to benefit universities and their students and make ETDs more discoverable. 

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EBSCO Open Dissertations is a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs to increase traffic and discoverability of ETD research. You can join the movement and add your theses and dissertations to the database, making them freely available to researchers everywhere while increasing traffic to your institutional repository. 

EBSCO Open Dissertations extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

How Does EBSCO Open Dissertations Work?

Your ETD metadata is harvested via OAI and integrated into EBSCO’s platform, where pointers send traffic to your IR.

EBSCO integrates this data into their current subscriber environments and makes the data available on the open web via opendissertations.org .

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Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

OATD.org provides open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,654,285 theses and dissertations.

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Why search this literature?

It is crucial for graduate students to search the thesis and dissertation literature to make sure that an idea or hypothesis has not already been tested, explored, and published.  An additional reason to search this literature is that it is rich with ideas and information not found elsewhere.  If graduate students do not continue on as academics or if students that came after them in their programs did not continue their research, this literature may be the end of the line for scholarship on a topic.

ProQuest has published dissertation e-learning modules covering the usefulness of using dissertations as a research source.  See link below:

• Dissertation eLearning resources from ProQuest Uncover the value of dissertations.

Library Databases

All graduate students should, at minimum, search the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global database (PQDT) to see if the research they are proposing to do has already been done by a student at another institution/university.  RIT dissertations and theses have been included in PQDT since approximately 2006.

• Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Identifies Ph.D. dissertations from U.S. & Canadian universities since 1861. Abstracts from 1980. Master's theses from 1988. Many with full-text.

RIT Digital Institutional Repository

• Digital Institutional Repository The digital institutional repository for the Rochester Institute of Technology, managed by RIT Libraries.
• ProQuest - Most Accessed Dissertations/Theses

Each month ProQuest updates this list of the top 25 Most-Accessed Dissertations and Theses across all subjects, based upon total PDF downloads. Find out what is trending.

The web sites below should also be consulted as appropriate to perform a full and thorough review of the dissertation and thesis literature beyond your introductory search of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.  Consider whether a particular country or part of the world would have an interest in your potential research topic.

Only large-scale repositories of dissertations and theses are included here. You may also need to search individual university repositories directly.

• Ebsco Open Dissertations Search thousands of open dissertations and theses from over 50 participating libraries.
• EThOS (from the British Library) EThOS offers a 'single point of access' where researchers the world over can access ALL theses produced by UK Higher Education.
• Indian Institute of Science Dissertations and theses from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
• Indian Theses and Dissertations (Shodhganga) Over 130 participating Indian universities and over 8800 ETD documents.
• National ETD Portal (South Africa) South African theses and dissertations.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The NDLTD Union Catalog contains more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations. Search the Union Catalog from here: http://thumper.vtls.com:6090/?theme=NDLTD
• OhioLINK ETD Center Electronic theses and dissertations from colleges and universities in the state of Ohio.
• Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 600 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes over 1.5 million theses and dissertations. RIT is included.
• Theses Canada Canadian universities voluntarily participate by submitting approved theses and dissertation to Theses Canada. Click on "Search Theses Canada" under the Introduction on the left hand side of the page to begin your search.
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With EBSCO Open Dissertations, institutions and students are offered an innovative approach to driving additional traffic to ETDs in institutional repositories. Our goal is to help make their students’ theses and dissertations as widely visible and cited as possible.

This approach extends the work started in 2014, when EBSCO and the H.W. Wilson Foundation created American Doctoral Dissertations which contained indexing from the H.W. Wilson print publication, Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities, 1933-1955. In 2015, the H.W. Wilson Foundation agreed to support the expansion of the scope of the American Doctoral Dissertations database to include records for dissertations and theses from 1955 to the present.

Get involved in the EBSCO Open Dissertations project and make your electronic theses and dissertations freely available to researchers everywhere. Please contact Margaret Richter for more information.

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More Dissertations & Theses on the Web

More colleges and universities such as the University of Minnesota are setting up digital repositories to make theses and dissertations freely available on the Internet. Try searching for keywords , author , title , or academic institution in Google Scholar , to check for full-text availability.

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Why use a dissertation or a thesis.

A dissertation is the final large research paper, based on original research, for many disciplines to be able to complete a PhD degree. The thesis is the same idea but for a masters degree.

They are often considered scholarly sources since they are closely supervised by a committee, are directed at an academic audience, are extensively researched, follow research methodology, and are cited in other scholarly work. Often the research is newer or answering questions that are more recent, and can help push scholarship in new directions. 

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Locating dissertations and theses.

The Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global database includes doctoral dissertations and selected masters theses from major universities worldwide.

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• More information about full text access and requesting through Interlibrary Loan

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations provides free online access to a over a million theses and dissertations from all over the world.

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses searches library catalogs from across the U.S. and worldwide.

Locating University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses

Use  Libraries search  and search by title or author and add the word "thesis" in the search box. Write down the library and call number and find it on the shelf. They can be checked out.

Check the  University Digital Conservancy  for online access to dissertations and theses from 2007 to present as well as historic, scanned theses from 1887-1923.

Other Sources for Dissertations and Theses

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• DART-Europe E-Thesis Portal
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• Australasian Digital Theses in Trove
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• List of libraries worldwide - to search for a thesis when you know the institution and cannot find in the larger collections

University of Minnesota Dissertations and Theses FAQs

What dissertations and theses are available.

With minor exceptions, all doctoral dissertations and all "Plan A" master's theses accepted by the University of Minnesota are available in the University Libraries system. In some cases (see below) only a non-circulating copy in University Archives exists, but for doctoral dissertations from 1940 to date, and for master's theses from 1925 to date, a circulating copy should almost always be available.

"Plan B" papers, accepted in the place of a thesis in many master's degree programs, are not received by the University Libraries and are generally not available. (The only real exceptions are a number of old library school Plan B papers on publishing history, which have been separately cataloged.) In a few cases individual departments may have maintained files of such papers.

In what libraries are U of M dissertations and theses located?

Circulating copies of doctoral dissertations:.

• Use Libraries Search to look for the author or title of the work desired to determine location and call number of a specific dissertation. Circulating copies of U of M doctoral dissertations can be in one of several locations in the library system, depending upon the date and the department for which the dissertation was done. The following are the general rules:
• Dissertations prior to 1940 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations prior to 1940 do not exist (with rare exceptions): for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available. Also, most dissertations prior to 1940 are not cataloged in MNCAT and can only be identified by the departmental listings described below.  
• Dissertations from 1940-1979 Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1940 to 1979 will in most cases be held within the Elmer L. Andersen Library, with three major classes of exceptions: dissertations accepted by biological, medical, and related departments are housed in the Health Science Library; science/engineering dissertations from 1970 to date will be located in the Science and Engineering Library (in Walter); and dissertations accepted by agricultural and related departments are available at the Magrath Library or one of the other libraries on the St. Paul campus (the Magrath Library maintains records of locations for such dissertations).  
• Dissertations from 1980-date Circulating copies of U of M dissertations from 1980 to date at present may be located either in Wilson Library (see below) or in storage; consult Libraries Search for location of specific items. Again, exceptions noted above apply here also; dissertations in their respective departments will instead be in Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.

Circulating copies of master's theses:

• Theses prior to 1925 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses prior to 1925 do not exist (with rare exceptions); for these, only the archival copy (see below) is available.  
• Theses from 1925-1996 Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1925 to 1996 may be held in storage; consult Libraries search in specific instances. Once again, there are exceptions and theses in their respective departments will be housed in the Health Science Library or in one of the St. Paul campus libraries.  
• Theses from 1997-date Circulating copies of U of M master's theses from 1997 to date will be located in Wilson Library (see below), except for the same exceptions for Health Science  and St. Paul theses. There is also an exception to the exception: MHA (Masters in Health Administration) theses through 1998 are in the Health Science Library, but those from 1999 on are in Wilson Library.

Archival copies (non-circulating)

Archival (non-circulating) copies of virtually all U of M doctoral dissertations from 1888-1952, and of U of M master's theses from all years up to the present, are maintained by University Archives (located in the Elmer L. Andersen Library). These copies must be consulted on the premises, and it is highly recommended for the present that users make an appointment in advance to ensure that the desired works can be retrieved for them from storage. For dissertations accepted prior to 1940 and for master's theses accepted prior to 1925, University Archives is generally the only option (e.g., there usually will be no circulating copy). Archival copies of U of M doctoral dissertations from 1953 to the present are maintained by Bell and Howell Corporation (formerly University Microfilms Inc.), which produces print or filmed copies from our originals upon request. (There are a very few post-1952 U of M dissertations not available from Bell and Howell; these include such things as music manuscripts and works with color illustrations or extremely large pages that will not photocopy well; in these few cases, our archival copy is retained in University Archives.)

Where is a specific dissertation of thesis located?

To locate a specific dissertation or thesis it is necessary to have its call number. Use Libraries Search for the author or title of the item, just as you would for any other book. Depending on date of acceptance and cataloging, a typical call number for such materials should look something like one of the following:

Dissertations: Plan"A" Theses MnU-D or 378.7M66 MnU-M or 378.7M66 78-342 ODR7617 83-67 OL6156 Libraries Search will also tell the library location (MLAC, Health Science Library, Magrath or another St. Paul campus library, Science and Engineering, Business Reference, Wilson Annex or Wilson Library). Those doctoral dissertations still in Wilson Library (which in all cases should be 1980 or later and will have "MnU-D" numbers) are located in the central section of the third floor. Those master's theses in Wilson (which in all cases will be 1997 or later and will have "MnU-M" numbers) are also located in the central section of the third floor. Both dissertations and theses circulate and can be checked out, like any other books, at the Wilson Circulation desk on the first floor.

How can dissertations and theses accepted by a specific department be located?

Wilson Library contains a series of bound and loose-leaf notebooks, arranged by department and within each department by date, listing dissertations and theses. Information given for each entry includes name of author, title, and date (but not call number, which must be looked up individually). These notebooks are no longer current, but they do cover listings by department from the nineteenth century up to approximately 1992. Many pre-1940 U of M dissertations and pre-1925 U of M master's theses are not cataloged (and exist only as archival copies). Such dissertations can be identified only with these volumes. The books and notebooks are shelved in the general collection under these call numbers: Wilson Ref LD3337 .A5 and Wilson Ref quarto LD3337 .U9x. Major departments of individual degree candidates are also listed under their names in the GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT programs of the U of M, available in University Archives and (for recent years) also in Wilson stacks (LD3361 .U55x).

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OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions . OATD currently indexes 4,678,222 theses and dissertations.

Ebsco open dissertations.

EBSCO Open Dissertations now includes the content from  American Doctoral Dissertations.  It is freely available to researchers everywhere with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

CAMP Thes es

Collection of theses and other research created by the academic community of CAMP. Researchers can only use all theses and other research submitted by CAMP students, faculty, and staff within the library's premises.

Accessibility of each CAMP Thesis depends on the access permission and limitations authors have assigned to their studies as stated on their study's Public Access Information Page.

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Theses and Dissertations

Check Cornell’s library catalog , which lists the dissertations available in our library collection.

The print thesis collection in Uris Library is currently shelved on Level 3B before the Q to QA regular-sized volumes. Check with the library staff for the thesis shelving locations in other libraries (Mann, Catherwood, Fine Arts, etc.).

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

According to ProQuest, coverage begins with 1637. With more than 2.4 million entries,  ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global  is the starting point for finding citations to doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master’s theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI also offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. The full text of more than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download. Use  Interlibrary Loan  for the titles not available as full text online.

Foreign Dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries

To search for titles and verify holdings of dissertations at the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), use the CRL catalog . CRL seeks to provide comprehensive access to doctoral dissertations submitted to institutions outside the U. S. and Canada (currently more than 750,000 titles). One hundred European universities maintain exchange or deposit agreements with CRL. Russian dissertation abstracts in the social sciences are obtained on microfiche from INION.  More detailed information about CRL’s dissertation holdings .

Please see our resource guide on dissertations and theses for additional resources and support.

Harvard University Theses, Dissertations, and Prize Papers

The Harvard University Archives ’ collection of theses, dissertations, and prize papers document the wide range of academic research undertaken by Harvard students over the course of the University’s history.

Beyond their value as pieces of original research, these collections document the history of American higher education, chronicling both the growth of Harvard as a major research institution as well as the development of numerous academic fields. They are also an important source of biographical information, offering insight into the academic careers of the authors.

Spanning from the ‘theses and quaestiones’ of the 17th and 18th centuries to the current yearly output of student research, they include both the first Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (by William Byerly, Ph.D . 1873) and the dissertation of the first woman to earn a doctorate from Harvard ( Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson , Ed.D. 1922).

Other highlights include:

• The collection of Mathematical theses, 1782-1839
• The 1895 Ph.D. dissertation of W.E.B. Du Bois, The suppression of the African slave trade in the United States, 1638-1871
• Ph.D. dissertations of astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Ph.D. 1925) and physicist John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (Ph.D. 1922)
• Undergraduate honors theses of novelist John Updike (A.B. 1954), filmmaker Terrence Malick (A.B. 1966),  and U.S. poet laureate Tracy Smith (A.B. 1994)
• Undergraduate prize papers and dissertations of philosophers Ralph Waldo Emerson (A.B. 1821), George Santayana (Ph.D. 1889), and W.V. Quine (Ph.D. 1932)
• Undergraduate honors theses of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (A.B. 1940) and Chief Justice John Roberts (A.B. 1976)

What does a prize-winning thesis look like?

If you're a Harvard undergraduate writing your own thesis, it can be helpful to review recent prize-winning theses. The Harvard University Archives has made available for digital lending all of the Thomas Hoopes Prize winners from the 2019-2021 academic years.

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UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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This collection contains University of Texas at Austin electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The collection includes ETDs primarily from 2001 to the present. Some pre-2001 theses and dissertations have been digitized and added to this collection, but those are uncommon. The library catalog is the most comprehensive list of UT Austin theses and dissertations.

Since 2010, the Office of Graduate Studies at UT Austin has required all theses and dissertations to be made publicly available in Texas ScholarWorks; however, authors are able to request an embargo of up to seven years. Embargoed ETDs will not show up in this collection. Most of the ETDs in this collection are freely accessible to all users, but some pre-2010 works require a current UT EID at point of use. Please see the FAQs for more information. If you have a question about the availability of a specific ETD, please contact [email protected].

Some items in this collection may contain offensive images or text. The University of Texas Libraries is committed to maintaining an accurate and authentic scholarly and historic record. An authentic record is essential for understanding our past and informing the present. In order to preserve the authenticity of the historical record we will not honor requests to redact content, correct errors, or otherwise remove content, except in cases where there are legal concerns (e.g. potential copyright infringement, inclusion of HIPAA/FERPA protected information or Social Security Numbers) or evidence of a clear and imminent threat to personal safety or well-being.

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Search for OU theses in the Library Search . To see only print theses click 'In the Walton Hall library' and refine your results to resource type 'Thesis'.

OU staff and research students can  borrow a consultation copy of a thesis (if available). Please contact the Library helpdesk giving the author and title of the thesis.

UK theses and dissertations from EThOS

The Electronic Theses Online System (EThOS) offers free access to the full text of UK theses.

• EThOS offers a one stop online shop providing free access to UK theses
• EThOS digitizes theses on request into PDF format, this may require payment
• EThOS is managed by the British Library in partnership with a number of UK universities
• EThOS is open to all categories of library user

What does this mean to you as a library user?

When you need to access a PhD thesis from another UK based HE institution you should check EThOS to either download a thesis which has already been digitised or to request that a UK thesis be supplied to you.

• For all UK theses EThOS will be the first point of delivery. You can use the online ordering and tracking system direct from EThOS to manage your requests for UK PhD theses, including checking the status of your requests
• As readers you will deal directly with EThOS so will not need to fill in a document delivery request
• OU staff and research students will still be entitled to access non-UK based PhD theses by filling in a document delivery request
• In some cases where EThOS is unable to supply a UK thesis OU staff and research students will be able to access it by filling in a conventional document delivery request. The thesis will be supplied through direct loan
• The EThOS system is both faster and cheaper than the previous British Theses service which was based on microfilm
• The British Library no longer arranges interlibrary loans for UK PhD theses
• Interlibrary Loan procedures for other types of request from the British Library (articles and books for example) will remain the same

If you have any queries about using EThOS contact the Document Delivery Team ( [email protected] or the Library Helpdesk ).

Note 13/03/2024: The British Library is continuing to experience a major technology outage affecting its websites and other online systems, due to a Cyber attack. as a result access to ETHOS might not be possible until the issue is fixed. 

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• This research explores how travel media brands and related companies should distribute their content on off-site, organically owned channels to better meet their millennial audiences’ needs and desires. Editors and industry professionals from leading travel publications and brands were interviewed to better understand their off-site, organic content distribution strategies, audience engagement tactics, and more for a millennial audience. The major theme that emerged in the research is that content needs to have an individual’s point of view and be authentic to be successful. The research produced a best-practice guide for travel brands to better understand their millennial audience and a toolkit to help them produce engaging content on organic platforms other than their owned website.
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2024 honors theses presentations.

Three Education Studies concentrators were awarded Honors after completing a senior thesis and presenting their work to faculty, peers, family, and other members of the campus community in a conference-style event hosted by the Department of Education.

L-R: Graduating seniors and Honors awardees Jada Wooten, Serena Levin, and Sophie Forstner.

Congratulations to graduating seniors Jada Wooten ,  Serena Levin , and Sophie Forstner on successfully meeting the requirements for Honors in the Education Studies concentration! Learn more about their research below, and learn more about the department's criteria for graduating with honors  here .

Jada Wooten, "The Pedagogy, Practices, and Problems of Inclusive Arts Education in Out-of-School Settings" (Advisor: Andrea Flores)

My senior thesis explores the question: how do educators in precariously-funded out-of-school spaces design inclusive arts education for their public, which includes those with marginalized identities? To answer this question, I collected ethnographic data, including fieldnotes from participant observation and semi-structured interviews. I also draw from two frameworks in educational literature: inclusive arts pedagogies and the structural inequalities of educational spaces. My primary and secondary research has led to findings on the pedagogy, practices, and problems with inclusive arts education in out-of-school spaces. Firstly, by painting ethnographic portraits of an apprentice, seasoned, and master teaching artist, I reveal that, pedagogically, radical love is central to arts education that centers equity, participants’ needs, flexibility, and connections. Secondly, by considering a participant’s declaration that “Art is LIFE,” in light of ethnographic data and the literature, I point to how pedagogical practices centered in radical love foster expression, which is key to the definition of the arts; develop storytelling for healing and change; create opportunities for societal, physical, and emotional healing; build connections within and across communities; and advance social change in the field of education and beyond. Thirdly, I articulate participants’ experiences with non-profit jobs, grant funding, advocacy, community partnerships, and organizational structures to highlight the problems that impede access to the above practices and benefits of arts education. I conclude by considering the implications of the pedagogy, practice, and problems of arts organizations in the field of arts education learning, research, policy and advocacy, and community building.

Serena Levin, "The Privilege of the PTA: Middle-Class Latinx Parents' Perspectives on Parental Involvement Post-Uvalde" (Advisor: David Rangel)

The present study answers the following questions: post-COVID and in an era of mass shootings, how do middle-class Latinx parents understand the role of Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) within their middle-class Latinx schools, and how does that understanding impact their school-based involvement? The present research illuminates parents’ perceptions of the parent-teacher organization, the perceived benefits associated with participation, and the perceived accessibility of these groups in a post-COVID and post-Uvalde era of schooling. Utilizing 19 semi-structured interviews with middle-class Latinx parents in San Antonio, Texas, this study finds that the role of the PTA has expanded beyond typical PTA responsibilities in a post-Uvalde and pandemic context. According to participants, the PTA had jurisdiction over and privileged attendance to non-PTA events. PTA parents received privileged access to schools, capped events, and sign-up sheets, putting non-PTA members at a disadvantage. Parents had to be involved in the PTA to access their child's school. However, parents' racialized perceptions of the organization made the PTA feel inaccessible, associating the organization with white parenting practices, even when their socioeconomic class provided them with access to these groups. Therefore, the parents in this study who opted not to be involved in the PTA could not access the benefits of PTA involvement for their children. Thus, despite many parents’ desire to be involved in their children’s school, the perceived jurisdiction and inaccessibility of the PTA, a partial product of school safety measures, has made involvement less accessible for nonmember parents. The information from this study provides valuable insights into how schools should address perceived power structures and inequalities that school safety measures have exacerbated. 

Sophie Forstner, "Excellence in Brown Athletics: Revised" (Advisor: Lindsay Page)

In 2020, Brown University transitioned several sports teams from varsity to club status in the “Excellence in Brown Athletics Initiative.” The initiative stripped the teams of their ability to recruit and provide preferential admissions for their athletes. The stated goal of these cuts was to increase competitiveness of Brown sports while keeping levels of diversity in athletics the same. This study compares the demographics of Brown  student athletes’ high schools, with and without the cut sports, to show the limited effects of the initiative on socioeconomic and racial diversity among Brown’s varsity athletes. By comparing the demographics of each team, I determine how Brown could have cut the same number of athletes while creating a greater, but not momentous shift in diversity. Next, I looked at how student and alumni opinions may have influenced Brown’s decision. The findings of this study suggest that transformative change in diversifying college admissions will not be driven by cutting select groups of varsity sports but rather by reforming the athletic recruitment process and the youth sports pipeline.

On Stage and Canvas: Barnard’s 2024 Senior Theses

Take a look at graduating seniors’ projects from the departments of Art History and Dance.

For more than a century, Barnard has fostered a rich legacy of artistic expression in the arts, humanities, and sciences. One of the most successful ways it prepares students for their academic and professional pursuits is through the senior thesis , an opportunity for soon-to-be graduates to perform in-depth research and showcase their ideas under the guidance of a faculty mentor.

Learn how students in the Department of Dance and the Art History Department ’s visual arts program presented their end-of-year projects.

East Asian studies and dance double-major Tobi Lee ’24 took to the stage on March 26 and presented her self-choreographed dance inspired by her final project for " Music for Dance ," taught by dance music director, Robert Boston .

“I wanted the audience to "see" the music, where sound and body map onto one another,” said Lee. “The piece was less narrative and thematically centered around the use of sound and breath to guide the quality of movement."

The work of the Class of 2024 culminated in 18 thesis projects that blended humor, virtuosity, and spectacle. Colleen Thomas-Young , professor of professional practice in dance, advised each student through the premiere performances of their work, which were presented on March 25 and 26.

“The entire department was deeply inspired and immensely proud of the class. Each student delved into their own personal journey, exploring vulnerability and tackling challenges unique to their artistic evolution,” said Thomas-Young. “The evening, which was accompanied by captivating live music, demonstrated the talent and dedication of these seniors to their craft. Their meticulous attention to detail, unwavering commitment, and passion for dance was evident in each performance.”

Tobi Lee '24

Carolyn Bakich GS ’24

Filip Przybycien CC ’24

Barnard’s showcase included performances of students from Columbia College and Columbia’s School of General Studies . Filip Przybycien CC ’24 — a musical theatre-trained dancer — collaborated with guest choreographers ​ James Kinney and Alex Nordin from Broadway. “My senior thesis epitomizes my quest for artistic self-discovery, driven by the imperative of finding my unique voice in dance and performance. It is an exploration of individualism and resilience, sparked by the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 era, ultimately shaping a new, more robust artistic persona.”

Dance major Carolyn Bakich GS ’24 said, “I’m incredibly indebted to the support of Barnard’s Dance Department during the senior thesis process. Just like my piece, the departmental faculty was there to assist in recalibrating beside me, whether that looked like sparking ideas if I was stumped, commentary on what I had created, or reaching out to costumers. We had the Dance Department behind us throughout preparations and then in front of us — watching from the audience in our final bows.”

Visual Arts

The exhibition, “Alters/Altars,” ran from April 18 through 25 and featured 10 seniors from the visual arts program. The show, which was themed around “different approaches to reinventing, rehearsing, or reimagining oneself” was curated by arts editor and adjunct associate professor of photography Mira Dayal , with professors Joan Snitzer , John Miller , and Irena Haiduk acting as advisors.

For art history major Christine Wong ’24, the senior thesis was an opportunity to tap into her imagination. Her piece, which was presented as an emaki — a Japanese scroll painting — was inspired by the essay “ The Hōjōki ,” which can be loosely translated into “Account of the 10-Foot Square Hut.” It was written in the 13th century by Japanese author Kamo no Chōmei, who explored the idea of impermanence through various accounts of disaster and hardship.

“Instead of using historical references for the illustrations [of my scroll painting], I based the illustrations that I have created from what I remembered the most from the text and how it translated in my imagination,” said Wong. “While not historically accurate in its style or in its calligraphy, I hoped that my piece was able to portray the fleeting feeling I experienced when I read the essay for the first time in class.”

“It was through the guidance of the visual arts advisors that I was able to make great strides in my artistic process that I previously thought were unachievable. Without them, I would not have been able to experiment with previously unfamiliar mediums and concepts for a fulfilling final project,” said art history major Jubilee Park ’24, whose project was made up of a three separate works: a book ( Rise, Tantalus! ), a double-sided instrument wood sculpture (“BEST LOOK”), and a composition of Himalayan salt blocks and sheer-latex tights (“TKO”).

“BEST LOOK,” a woodworking piece, made an abstracted reference to the structure and musculature of the body’s spine and back with one side being strung with metal and nylon and the other side with red thread. The suspended salt blocks of “TKO” were held up by the strength of one pair of sheer-latex stockings, with residual salt piled on the floor. Park handmade Rise, Tantalus!, which is a vellum and thread-bound piece of an original illustrated story — drawn and printed in red ink.

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