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- Creator:
- Covarrubias, Mariana, Sierra, Alexis, Anderson, Sara, Gracias, John, and Gomez, Luz
- Description:
- Plastic waste, if not disposed of properly, has a major negative effect on the environment. According to our statistics from our survey, we concluded that students are more likely to recycle if given an incentive. As a result, we proposed that California State Polytechnic University Pomona should build a recycling center on campus where students can bring their recyclables and receive a payment in the form of bronco bucks.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Jimenez, Meagan, Pechulis, Katie, Arellano, Monique, Calderon, Carlos, and Zahid, Zheeanna
- Description:
- The purpose of this project was to try to reduce the amount of shelter kittens that are euthanized due to dermatophytosis, commonly known as ringworm, through education of the general public By increasing awareness about this treatable disease we hope to prevent more kittens with ringworm from being euthanized.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Tran, Kayla, Cervantes, Jennifer, Luna, Caitlin, Engly, Brittney, and Vasquez, Richard
- Description:
- Pitbulls are the victims of unfair discrimination based on physical appearance and a long history of myths. As a result, pitbulls are euthanized at a much higher rate than other breeds in shelters. Our goal is to improve LA county’s perceptions of pitbulls and their appearance, so that this breed will no longer be unfairly judged and killed.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Sorensen, Reece, Moline, Kristen, Gaja, Candise, Pineda, Christy, Chen, Winnie, and Richards, Allison
- Description:
- This project focuses on spreading awareness about academic stress in high schoolers by educating teachers on ways they can help their students. A survey was created for high schoolers to fill out where they were asked what affects their stress and if they receive help from the school Teachers also completed the survey from the perspective of a student. Results show that the majority of participants rate exams, college applications, pressure, and homework as a significant stressor. Unfortunately, there was an insufficient amount of participants for the survey.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Kang, Gie, Aldana, Jasmin, Graciano, Leslie, Molina, Linda, and Zamora, Katherine
- Description:
- Honey bees are an important asset for our world. Their importance lies in their ability to pollinate many flowers and agricultural products. According to the article, “Can We Disrupt the Sensing of Honey Bees by the Bee Parasite Varroa destructor?”, by Nurit Eliah, in California the bee colonies have decreased by 19 percent in 2019. The decline of bees is due to various problems like the Varroa Mites and habitat loss. In order to help increase the population, we need to have more bee friendly gardens with flowers that last all year long. This would encourage bees to station and pollinate.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- French, Kristina Lynn
- Description:
- Succession planning is a deliberate and systematic effort to ensure continuity in key personnel positions within an organization. This has been a common practice in the business sector that has not yet been widely utilized in the field of early childhood education. There is a link between personnel consistency and the quality of the program provided to children and families. The purpose of this graduate project is to research literature and study results that are readily available in the business sector, limited information from the k-12 system, and to prepare a detailed outline of a professional development resource book about succession planning that is relevant to the field of early childhood education.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Advanced Educational Studies
- Creator:
- Birch, Dotty
- Description:
- Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a celebrated classic, and it is often the first favorite classic among young women who identify with the heroine and indulge in her fairy-tale romance with Edward Rochester. However, as Jane Eyre is the fairy tale of the Victorian woman’s life, which portrays the heroine happily married to her dour master, Villette is the mimetic portrayal of the Victorian woman and her true quest for love, acceptance, identity, and above all liberation from her masters. It is this story of a spinster set adrift in a male-supremacist society that has captivated critics. Prominent critics, from the nineteenth-century literary critics Susan Gilbert and Susan Gubar to the well-known feminist writer Kate Millett, insist the story of Lucy Snowe is an important psychic drama that portrays the real effects of female deprivation in Victorian society.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Visokey, Andrew David
- Description:
- This thesis incorporates, and attempts to reconcile, both sides of this debate. In doing so, it seeks to accomplish two purposes. First, it explores the possibility that The Scarlet Letter is a novel about sexual slavery for both men and women—on both a societal and personal level—as reflected in Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, and Roger Chillingworth. Second, it analyzes Pearl as the only “free” character of Hawthorne’s story, and how she models Hawthorne’s vision for the future between the sexes.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Salas, Christina Marie
- Description:
- In many organizations the bulk of safety training provided to employees, with the exception of reoccurring “re-fresher” training occurs during initial period of their employment; most commonly through the employee orientation. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is no exception to this norm; providing the majority of safety related training and information upfront in the new employee orientation. The BLM, however, has identified the new employee orientation process as a major issue of concern of its employees through several employee satisfaction surveys (BLM, 2011). Specifically, the inconsistency between various levels and divisions of the agency in the type information provided during the new employee orientation process. This inconsistency is no exception in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office. The inconsistency arises in the Field Office when safety training disseminated by supervisors is not uniform in information. Providing a consistent new employee orientation with regards to safety may aid in the reduction of incidents and therefore of costs, and also ensure the wellbeing of all employees is safe guarded. This study will evaluate three other agencies that are similar to BLM and evaluate their safety orientations. This study will develop a policy and orientation package based upon the best safety orientation package from the other agencies. The orientation will be recommended for implementation in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office. The package will instruct managers and employees on how best to implement the safety orientation to ensure all employees: 1) are familiar with their roles and responsibilities with regard to workplace safety; 2) receive the required training of their position in a timely fashion; 3) are provided the correct information with regard to the processes to follow when reporting an accident/injury; and 4) records of employee safety training/requirements are reported and tracked appropriately.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Public Policy and Administration
- Creator:
- Macias, Pamela
- Description:
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is one of California’s largest organizations with an important purpose-to punish individuals who break the law, and separate them from society to prevent them from committing another crime. CDCR also has one of the largest budgets compared to other organizations in California that are being funded by the state; this why this study is important and will review California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s mission, whether or not CDCR is achieving their mission, and the importance of CDCR achieving their mission.
CDCR has a recidivism rate of 65.1%, this means that 65.1% of prisoners being released will return to prison. This is a significant number and is why the literature regarding crime, deterrence, recidivism, rehabilitation, incapacitation and restorative justice will be reviewed in this study. An analysis of alternatives with critiques and recommendations will also follow. Recommendations will be made for CDCR to assess all of their offenders with the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) assessment tool. Also place the offenders in treatment programs based on their assessment scores and criminogenic needs to rehabilitate them and correct those needs that have caused them to commit crime in the past. Rehabilitation programs that are based off of the COMPAS model have been proven to reduce recidivism rate from 25% and above.
The amount of reduction in recidivism can make an enormous impact on the amount of crime that is committed in California, as well as, reduce the prison population and the cost that comes along with housing the 160,000+ inmates at $47,000 a year per offender.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Public Policy and Administration
- Creator:
- Borrego, Jackie, Rangel, Marisa, Ramirez, Crystal, and Lazaro, Carlos
- Description:
- There has been an increase in the usage of PPE amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Personal protective equipment (PPE) pollution has been increasing throughout the upcoming months with no signs of slowing down. As a group, we have observed the ways PPE is being disposed of and have noticed that many people do not discard of their disposable masks properly. As a result, we have come up withmethods to safely dispose of PPE such as disposable masks.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Gutierrez, Lizbeth, Reyna, Samantha, and Sorea, Gabrielle
- Description:
- Our project focuses on an alternative way of adopting senior dogs through fostering programs. Fostering programs have considerably lower return rates than animal shelters. These fostering programs benefit not only the senior dogs by finding them a forever home but also the shelters and future owners.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Gross, Kathleen, Vargas, Kimberly, Gonzalez, Tomas, and Gomez, Samantha
- Description:
- Cat abundance is likely to vary based on human-ownership patterns, access to food, and veterinary care, avoidance of predators and breeding opportunities” (Flockhart, 2).
“The increasing prevalence of stress, anxiety, and significant mental health concerns among college students—combined with a reduction of college counseling center resources creates a need to develop innovative strategies to help students. Empirical research and practical application of animal-assisted therapy suggests that this is one resources for college counseling centers in meeting the growing demands of services from students” (Kronholz, 2015).
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Fernandez, Imari, Cabrera-Bartolo, Jessica, Juarez, Mayra, and Primavera, Suzy
- Description:
- Every year the United States throws away around 80 billion pounds of food, making us the world's second largest producers of food waste. Not only do individuals throw away tons of food, but so do stores and Restaurants. A great way to reduce food waste is composting, so instead of throwing your food a way you are creating soil to give back to the earth or even use to plant your own food, and only about 30% of Americans do this. Our goal is to educate and encourage people to try out composting.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Tran, Ann, Gonzalez, Lizbeth, Hutchings, Natalie, Vargas, Brenda, and Bugarin, Rebecca
- Description:
- The California Green sea turtles are dying from ingesting plastic bags. We conducted a survey with students at Cal Poly Pomona on the opinions of rewards for using reusable bags. According to the responses, we concluded that students would be more willing to use reusable bags if they are rewarded for doing so.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Gomez, Yosany, Zamarripa, Rashell, Resendiz, Luis, Lopez, Aaliyaho, and Bumanglag, Samantha
- Description:
- How can we get every dog to be spayed and neutered at the age of sexual maturity in order to prevent overpopulation in shelters and decrease euthanizations? We conducted a survey on social media to find out what stands in the way of people fixing their dogs. We found out that most people don’t get their dogs fixed because of financial reasons.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Rodriguez, Sky, Peel, Katherine, MacDonald, Grace, Cardenas, Vanessa, and Valenzuela, Maya
- Description:
- COVID-19 has affected our families in numerous amounts of ways. All communities have been affected financially, including those apart of Cal Poly Pomona. A community garden at CPP would be able to provide relief to those who can’t afford fresh foods. In order to achieve academic success students should not have to worry about how they will get fresh food to their tables. We believe families should not be deprived of a necessity because of their financial status.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth
- Description:
- When examining the literature on the prediction of a child’s acceptance little previous work is found. Previous friendship literature has focused on social competence, intelligence, physical appearance, aggression, ethnicity, personality, and social dominance separately while the current project aims to form a more integrated approach to these variables. Forty-four children representing two different classrooms were interviewed in Bakersfield, California. Parent and teacher questionnaires were administered to gather additional information on children’s social functioning. T-tests and factor analyses found differences in how Caucasian and Hispanic children function socially. The current study found differences between these two ethnic groups, however further study is needed to better understand why differences occur.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Holt, Bonnie K
- Description:
- Self-discovery presents itself in a myriad of forms. One of the forms utilized for this purpose is that of artistic expression. Tattooing as a vehicle of artistic expression has evolved over time and today tattoos are utilized as a mechanism for self-discovery. This study seeks to expand on prior research conducted by Kathryn Irwin (2003) in efforts to classify a new subcategory of tattoo collection, that of the informed tattoo collector. Using Peter Burke’s Identity Theory (1996), this study utilizes the concepts of identity, salience, commitment and self-knowledge to gain insight into the process of becoming an informed tattoo collector. In addition, to determine if any informed tattoo collectors exist on the campus of California State University Bakersfield. Research consists of scholarly journals, books and an on-line survey to gather quantitative and qualitative statistics.
This study concluded that one respondent met all the specified criteria of an informed tattoo collector and that future research is this area is a viable consideration. It would be of great benefit to expand upon this research by conducting surveys and field interviews outside of the California State University campus and compare/contrast the findings.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Bakersfield
- Department:
- Sociology