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Professionals, Not Laborers: Historical Contingencies Impacting Faculty Prestige And Unionization, Camden M. Webb
Professionals, Not Laborers: Historical Contingencies Impacting Faculty Prestige And Unionization, Camden M. Webb
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Some higher education faculty believe that unionization is beneath their status, despite lacking ownership of the means of production. While higher education experienced increasing importance in the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, faculty unionization saw periods of both growth and decline. From a macro-level framework in social structures of accumulation (SSA) theory, with additions from Marx, the Ehrenreichs, Bourdieu, and Simmel, my research develops a theory to explain the impact of changing social structures on status reproduction and faculty unionization. SSA theory explores the historical contingencies that impact relationships between institutions and capital accumulation. Marx’s class relationships, …
“Who Runs The World? Girls!” A Case Study On The Role That Stacey Abrams Has Played In Changing The African American Political Voice And American Political Realm As A Whole, Kyler Wiltz
2022 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents
Stacey Abrams is one of the most prominent up-and-coming politicians in America. From her controversial gubernatorial race in 2018 to her post-election voting rights efforts, she is consistently at the forefront of many political discussions and debates. Nonetheless, with all this notoriety, there has not been much research on her life and impact relative to her peers or predecessors. What makes Stacey Abrams as popular and accepted as she is to the public? How is she the same as other American politicians, both male, and female? Who is Stacey Abrams? This study focuses on answering these questions through a case …
Gosnell, Katherine - Covid-19 Journal, Katherine Gosnell
Gosnell, Katherine - Covid-19 Journal, Katherine Gosnell
Personal Journals
No abstract provided.
Cemeteries As Wildlife Habitats: Conservation And Management Issues, William Edward Lovekamp, Gary S. Foster
Cemeteries As Wildlife Habitats: Conservation And Management Issues, William Edward Lovekamp, Gary S. Foster
All Faculty Scholarship
For reasons we make apparent, management of cemeteries should be expanded to include wildlife issues and experts, just as they have botanists, arborists, and horticulturists. As cemeteries grow in number and size, they become habitats inviting wildlife, an interface for encounters between people and an increasing diversity of nature. It casts cemeteries as manufactured nature that is convincing and persuasive to wilderness inhabitants.
Parillo, Sophia - Covid-19 Journal, Sophia Parillo
Parillo, Sophia - Covid-19 Journal, Sophia Parillo
Personal Journals
Personal diary of EIU college student and junior Elementary Education major with a minor in orchestra. Her journal documents the holiday season of 2020 and includes documentation that illustrates life during the pandemic.
Arguelles, Ceci - Covid-19 Journal, Ceci Arguelles
Arguelles, Ceci - Covid-19 Journal, Ceci Arguelles
Personal Journals
Personal diary of EIU student Ceci Arguelles documenting her early experience with the Covid-19 pandemic. Submission includes photos and a description of the images.
Tagtmeier, Daniel - Covid-19 Journal, Daniel Tagtmeier
Tagtmeier, Daniel - Covid-19 Journal, Daniel Tagtmeier
Personal Journals
EIU student, Daniel Tagtmeier writes about the effect of the pandemic on his learning and homelife, particularly his relationship with his grandmother and the inability to see her in the early stages of the pandemic.
Elliott, Santasia - Covid-19 Journal, Santasia Elliott
Elliott, Santasia - Covid-19 Journal, Santasia Elliott
Personal Journals
Personal journal of Santasia Elliot that includes images of business signs a snippets of social life in the Fall of 2020 as it relates to the effect of the pandemic on communities. In this instance, the documentation is from Danville, IL.
Stutzman, Kelsi - Covid-19 Journal, Kelsi Stutzman
Stutzman, Kelsi - Covid-19 Journal, Kelsi Stutzman
Personal Journals
Personal journal of Kelsi Stutzman, a student in Dr. Laughlin-Schultz's HIS3810 History of Illinois course during Fall, 2020
Messer, Braden - Covid-19 Journal, Braden Messer
Messer, Braden - Covid-19 Journal, Braden Messer
Personal Journals
EIU student Braden Messer recounts the transition from Spring Break to online classes. He talks of quarantine life at home, and his stepmother's role as an attorney working with forced quarantine orders.
Osborne, Ethan - Covid-19 Journal, Ethan Osborne
Osborne, Ethan - Covid-19 Journal, Ethan Osborne
Personal Journals
EIU student Ethan Osborne recounts in detail the experience and frustration of living at home and working on his family farm in the early months of the pandemic, March-May 2020. He also details his observations of and feelings about the news coverage of the pandemic as well as the disregard (particularly by young people) for shelter in place mandates.
Drake, Benjamin - Covid-19 Journal, Benjamin Drake
Drake, Benjamin - Covid-19 Journal, Benjamin Drake
Personal Journals
EIU student Benjamin Drake (freshman at the time of his journal writing in Spring, 2020), and History of Illinois (HIS 3810) student, reflects on the early months of the pandemic. He discusses the frustrations of the disruption of social life, not being on campus with friends, and also experiences with activities like playing virtual Dungeons and Dragons.
Zamora, Celeste - Covid-19 Journal, Celeste Zamora
Zamora, Celeste - Covid-19 Journal, Celeste Zamora
Personal Journals
EIU student Celeste Zamora recounts life while quarantining in Charleston, IL while maintaining her studies and also working at a local hotel. She details Covid policies as they develop, including hotel practices such as the constant wearing of gloves, putting in place a new glass window, and no admittance of out of state people.
Mchale, Marguerite - Covid-19 Journal, Marguerite Mchale
Mchale, Marguerite - Covid-19 Journal, Marguerite Mchale
Personal Journals
Marguerite McHale, and EIU student in Professor Mark Dries' HIS 1595 class maintains an upbeat journal documenting the challenges of the pandemic. Of particular note, she describes the growing divide between those supportive of the social distancing and masking initiatives, as well as the impact on high school students who she maintains friendships with as one who graduated a year early from high school. She includes a number of pieces of high school student commentary as well as memes related to the pandemic, and links to news stories. She also describes her home life, and finding ways to keep busy …
Klepzig, Logan - Covid-19 Journal, Logan Klepzig
Klepzig, Logan - Covid-19 Journal, Logan Klepzig
Personal Journals
EIU student Logan Klepzig documents travel from Charleston, IL to Mohomet, IL (approximately 1 hour) to deliver groceries to, and visit his grandparents. He also describes the difficulty of not being able to celebrate birthdays, and see family. His journal also includes a number of links to regional and national news stories from the months of March and April of 2020, as well as images documenting pandemic restrictions around the EIU campus.
Spencer, Julia - Covid-19 Journal, Julia Spencer
Spencer, Julia - Covid-19 Journal, Julia Spencer
Personal Journals
EIU student Julia Spencer describes the challenges adjusting to the new normal of the pandemic as it sets in. In particular she writes about struggles staying motivated to keep up with her studies, and the oddity of having classes on zoom. Her experience is compounded by health scares involving her mother and a friend.
Cleveland, Alex - Covid-19 Journal, Alex Cleveland
Cleveland, Alex - Covid-19 Journal, Alex Cleveland
Personal Journals
In this journal, EIU student Alex Cleveland in the Spring 2020 History of Illinois (HIS 3810) documents the beginning period of the pandemic, including initial reactions to the shelter in place order.
Arjun Kukreja - Covid-19 Journal, Arjun Kukreja
Arjun Kukreja - Covid-19 Journal, Arjun Kukreja
Personal Journals
EIU History of Illinois (HIS 3810) student outlines personal impressions of the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Book Review: The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, And Post-Soviet Migration To The United States, By Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Tim Engles
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Social Status And The Effects Of Legal Concealed Firearms On College Campuses, Shane Soboroff, William Lovekamp, Robert Jenkot
Social Status And The Effects Of Legal Concealed Firearms On College Campuses, Shane Soboroff, William Lovekamp, Robert Jenkot
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Research consistently shows that students and faculty are generally against expanding access to firearms on campus, and many stakeholders worry about the effects of campus carry laws on student violence, civility, and feelings of safety. We contribute to this literature by investigating how potential changes to campus carry policies affect students’ reported commitment to campus activities. Theories explaining fear of crime and social commitment led to hypotheses that predict members of socially disadvantaged groups—specifically women and minority students—would report less favorable attitudes toward gun possession on campus, greater feelings of vulnerability to victimization, and less commitment to the college environment …
Foreword, William Lovekamp
Foreword, William Lovekamp
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Curricular Innovations In Hazards And Disaster Studies, Timothy Haney, William Lovekamp
Curricular Innovations In Hazards And Disaster Studies, Timothy Haney, William Lovekamp
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Special Issue Editorship
The Impact Of Stereotype Threat On Object Location Memory, Samantha A. Boomgarden
The Impact Of Stereotype Threat On Object Location Memory, Samantha A. Boomgarden
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Gender differences have been identified in many tasks, and the male advantage in spatial skills has been well studied and is thought to be robust, especially on mental rotation and spatial perception tasks (e.g., Doyle & Voyer, 2016; Linn & Petersen, 2016; Pansu et al., 2016; Thompson & Voyer, 2014). However, women have been found to do better on tasks that require memorization of where objects are located in the environment (i.e., object location memory tasks; Voyer, Postma, Brake, & lmperato-McGinley, 2007). The purpose of this study was to examine how stereotype threat, elicited in women, would affect their performance …
Identity Denied: Gravestones As Collectibles., Gary Foster, William Lovekamp
Identity Denied: Gravestones As Collectibles., Gary Foster, William Lovekamp
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Teaching And Learning As A Core Concern Of Disaster Scholarship, William Lovekamp
Teaching And Learning As A Core Concern Of Disaster Scholarship, William Lovekamp
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
No abstract provided.
Innovative Teaching Techniques And Practices In Hazards And Disaster Studies, Timothy Haney, William Lovekamp
Innovative Teaching Techniques And Practices In Hazards And Disaster Studies, Timothy Haney, William Lovekamp
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Special issue Editorship
Development Of Well-Being In Children Raised By Grandparents, Shamah Md-Yunus
Development Of Well-Being In Children Raised By Grandparents, Shamah Md-Yunus
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
This article discusses the development of well-being in children raised by grandparents in the U.S. First, it briefly describes the grandparents’ variables. Second, it explains the development of children’s well-being from the aspects of psychological, emotional, behavior, academic performance, and physical health. The paper concludes with some suggestions to the grandparents on how to help grandchildren achieve better development in their well-being.
Social Support And Well-Being In Lgbt Adults, Jessica D. Brown
Social Support And Well-Being In Lgbt Adults, Jessica D. Brown
Undergraduate Honors Theses
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among positive mental health, well-being, and perceived social support in individuals who identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). The participants included 251 individuals from a rural area in the Midwest who completed an online survey; 47 of these individuals identified as LGBT. Well-Being was measured using the Warwick- Edinburg Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS; Stewart-Brown et al., 2002), and perceived social support was evaluated using the Multidimensional Scale for Perceived Social Support (MSPSS; Zimet, Dahlem, Zimet & Farley, 1988). Scores were compared between LGBT and Non-LGBT participants. At an …
African American Students’ Attitudes And Beliefs About Ethnic And Racial Diversity At A Predominantly White Public University In The Mid-West, James Ochwa-Echel, Krishna Thomas
African American Students’ Attitudes And Beliefs About Ethnic And Racial Diversity At A Predominantly White Public University In The Mid-West, James Ochwa-Echel, Krishna Thomas
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Following an incident which involved gunshots and fighting at a private party in a Mid-Western city, where a predominantly white public university is located, several discussions were held at various fora on campus on the issue of race. During the discussions, many African American students complained that they were not being treated fairly at the university. The purpose of this study was to assess the cultural attitudes and climate at the Mid-Western University (abbreviated in this paper as MWU). The research question examined is: What are the attitudes and beliefs of African American students about racial and ethnic diversity at …
Mapping Cades Cove Cemeteries, William Lovekamp, Steven Di Naso, Gary Foster
Mapping Cades Cove Cemeteries, William Lovekamp, Steven Di Naso, Gary Foster
Faculty Research and Creative Activity
Investigator’s Scientific Study Final Research Report #3