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Positive Communication Across The Lifespan: Early Childhood Aces To Vias, Adam Pyecha
Positive Communication Across The Lifespan: Early Childhood Aces To Vias, Adam Pyecha
College of Arts and Letters Posters
Felitti et al., (1985; 1998) developed Adverse Childhood Experiences test (ACEs), after researching adults suffering from obesity and addictive overeating. Positive correlations were linked with traumatic childhood experiences, such as severe physical, sexual and mental abuse with those participants struggling with obesity. ACEs is widely accepted in the field of psychology, proving individuals with higher ACEs scores indicate higher probability for mental illness and high risk deviant like substance abuse and felony crime. Identifying students with high ACEs before entering grade school may give educators and institutions the ability positively alter character and behavior outcomes of these victimized children. Nicholson, …
Faculty As Global Learners: Off-Campus Study At Liberal Arts Colleges, J. Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, D. Gross
Faculty As Global Learners: Off-Campus Study At Liberal Arts Colleges, J. Gillespie, Lisa Jasinski, D. Gross
Faculty Authored and Edited Books & CDs
This co-authored collection offers valuable insights about the impact of leading off-campus study on faculty leaders’ teaching, research, service, and overall well-being. Recognizing that faculty leaders are themselves global learners, the book addresses ways that liberal arts colleges can more effectively achieve their strategic goals for students' global learning by intentionally anticipating and supporting the needs of faculty leaders, as they grow and change. Faculty as Global Learners offers key findings and recommendations to stimulate conversations among administrators, faculty, and staff about concrete actions they can explore and steps they can take on their campuses to both support faculty leaders …