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As colleges and universities transitioned from an era of elite to mass higher education and hyper specialization of disciplines, academic values and cultural identities evolved (Becher & Trowler, 2001). For some faculty members at academic institutions, changes to notions of what constitutes dissertation research followed (Becher & Trowler). Indeed, the idea of the conventional model of a dissertation as a culminating experience of dissertation research has been challenged. While the full force of historically and socially reproduced constructions of dissertation research still tend to dominate U.S. graduate programs and larger disciplinary fields, new approaches to dissertations have emerged across a diverse range of institutions (see Figure 2.2).