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Have You Tried Breaking Up?... We Did And This Is What We Found, Phillip Joe Fitzsimmons

Faculty Articles & Research

Abstract: This presentation is targeted primarily toward new repository administrators. During early projects on the Digital Commons platform in 2016 we uploaded full-issue PDFs for some titles. Soon we uploaded the Administrative Issues Journal and Mythlore with links to each article of the issue homepage. The difference in usage numbers of journals with full-issue PDFs to those that are broken down to the article level is huge. The result is that we returned to break up the full-issue items down.

In this presentation Phillip Fitzsimmons will show usage reports showing the low numbers of items presented as full-issue PDFs with …

Student Perceptions Of How Faculty Advising Supports The Academic Persistence Of Students Of Color At One Predominantly White Institution, Wendy Yoder

Faculty Articles & Research

Racial disparity exists in the rates of persistence and degree attainment within American higher education. Some racial minority groups experience high rates of college attrition, resulting in lower lifetime wages and higher rates of both unemployment and incarceration than people who earn a bachelor degree. Although many studies have researched the causes of minority student attrition, less is known about factors leading to the academic success of students of color. Academic advising is well-defined in the literature as related to student satisfaction and retention.

Guest Recital, Richard Tirk, Suzanne Tirk, Karen Bauman Schlabaugh

Faculty Articles & Research

Flyer for the Plymouth Fine Arts Series in Wichita, Kansas on April 6th, 2019.

Featured Dr. Richard Tirk playing the trumpet, Dr. Suzanne Tirk playing the clarinet, and Dr. Karen Bauman Schlabaugh playing the piano.