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Item Examining equity in university student conduct adjudication: a phenomenological investigation of administrative resolution(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2023) Schuff, Emily Anne; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Bryce HughesUniversity Conduct Administrators independently manage university discipline programs with minimal guidance and oversight from the U.S. Department of Education to ensure compliance with civil rights laws. Informal resolution through administrative agreement typically involves a one-on-one discussion between a conduct administrator and student in which the alleged policy violations are discussed and resolved through mutual agreement. This commonly applied traditional adjudication pathway positions the student as particularly vulnerable to the knowledge, skills, and disposition of the administrator managing their case. The Office of Civil Rights under the U.S. Department of Education has never conducted a postsecondary cross-institutional assessment for disparate discipline practices, despite having published a comparable analysis of disturbing disparities among Black and Hispanic males and students with disabilities within public K-12 institutions. This interpretive phenomenological study examines the experiences of 11 university conduct administrators who resolve university misconduct administratively to better understand the intersection of professional discretion and case context as they relate to decision making and case outcomes. Aligned with the method chosen for this study, the researcher, an in-group member of the study population, offers her pre-understanding and location to the problem of practice as reflective tools used in research design and interpretation of findings. Findings include three hermeneutic statements which are supported by themes extracted through the pursuit of the hermeneutic circle. The findings emerging from this study are bound to the experiences of study participants; it is through the interpretation and curiosity of those reading this paper that value is generated.Item Ego depletion : an economic model of self-control(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2010) Reddinger, Jonathan Lucas; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Robert K. Fleck.Philosophers, writers, and psychologists have studied and commented on the concept of willpower for thousands of years. Recently, behavioral economics has enjoyed a flurry of interest, and many economists have provided research-both theoretical and empirical-to bridge the gap between traditional microeconomics and contemporary evidence. Ego depletion is a relatively new view of self-control, demonstrated by psychologists in an experimental setting, that considers willpower to be a personal, renewable resource that is affected by an agent's actions. This paper proposes a fundamental framework that allows the phenomenon of ego depletion to coexist soundly with the traditional consumer microeconomic model. A formal generalized consumer model is proposed in which willpower is a depletable, renewable, unconstrained resource, and results are derived from specific cases. The conclusions are consistent with the theory of ego depletion, and many of the results illustrate the agent's optimal choices in a way that has not been previously presented.