University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, Educational Administration, Department of and Student Research 5-2015 Examining Cross-Cultural Communication Among First-Year Students at a Large, Four-Year, Research University Haley French-Sloan University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsedaddiss Part of the Educational Administration and Supervision Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the International and Comparative Education Commons French-Sloan, Haley, "Examining Cross-Cultural Communication Among First-Year Students at a Large, Four-Year, Research University" (2015). Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research. 238. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cehsedaddiss/238 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Educational Administration, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Educational Administration: Theses, Dissertations, and Student Research by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. EXAMINING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT A LARGE, FOUR-YEAR, RESEARCH UNIVERSITY by Haley Mae French-Sloan A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Major: Educational Administration Under the Supervision of Professor Elizabeth Niehaus Lincoln, Nebraska May, 2015 EXAMINING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION AMONG FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT A LARGE, FOUR-YEAR, RESEARCH UNIVERSITY Haley M. French-Sloan, M.A. University of Nebraska, 2015 Advisor: Elizabeth Niehaus This qualitative case study examines and explores cross-cultural communication among first-year international and domestic students at Great Plains University, a large, four-year, research university located in the Midwestern United States.