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Selected California State University Cybersecurity Readiness Policies And Related Guidance For Staff: A Qualitative Document Analysis, Andrew Hung-Nguyen

Dissertations

This study examines the cybersecurity and data privacy policy guiding the staff in the following four California State University campuses: Long Beach, San Bernardino, Chico, and Northridge. The purpose is to evaluate how institutional policies communicate expectations for staff and support cybersecurity readiness. Using a qualitative document analysis approach, the study analyzes publicly available policy documents as primary data sources. The analysis is guided by three frameworks, as follows: Weidman’s framework (2018), which assesses the presence of key policy elements; Karakoç’s framework (2022), which evaluates the depth of policy content; and the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level formulas …

Security-Oriented Voice Authentication Using Machine Learning, Ifeoluwa Stella Elegbe

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This study develops and evaluates a machine learning and deep learning-based voice authentication system for secure identity verification. As traditional authentication methods such as passwords, PINs, and security tokens continue to face challenges, including identity theft, forgetting, and unauthorized access, voice biometrics offers a more secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative, especially for remote, hands-free, and accessibility-focused applications. The study adopts a closed-set speaker identification framework, where the system determines the most likely speaker from a predefined group of enrolled users. A structured methodology is implemented, beginning with audio preprocessing and feature extraction. Key acoustic features, including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), …

A Systematic Review Of Corporate Ethics Program Training Strategies To Improve Ethical Workplace Cultures, Robin Raye Altice

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

The demand for corporations to practice more ethically responsible conduct and decision making is growing with every news report of another corporate scandal, lawsuit, fine, or high-visibility C-suite firing. To develop an ethical workplace culture, organizations should implement a comprehensive ethics program that fosters and encourages ethical decision making, especially among current and future leaders. However, there is little research and few guidelines for how ethics program administrators should design corporate ethics training to effectively practice and master the skill of ethical decision-making in efforts to continually grow a more ethical work environment. This study aims to identify corporate ethics …

Systematic Review Of Elementary Cybersecurity Education: Curriculum, Pedagogy, And Barriers, Na Liu, Siyu Long, Florence Martin

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Abstract -As children increasingly engage with digital platforms, the need for effective cybersecurity education has become urgent. This systematic review synthesizes 81 studies published between 2017 and 2024 to examine global curricula research focus and topics, pedagogical approaches and assessment methods, and key challenges in elementary cybersecurity education. The findings reveal six major thematic categories: student awareness, parental mediation, teacher engagement, curriculum design, community and policy support, and pedagogical innovation. Among instructional strategies, game-based learning and narrative storytelling emerge as the most frequently explored. Despite this growth, major gaps remain in curriculum consistency, teacher preparation, assessment rigor, and stakeholder coordination. …

Using Gamification To Teach Cybersecurity In A Social Science Course: An Experience Paper, Roderick Graham, Medina Williams

Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Meta-reviews of gamification suggest that gamifying course instruction can positively impact learners' behaviors and attitudes, leading to improved learning outcomes. However, there is a lack of literature relaying concrete experiences with developing and deploying gamified content. This experience paper contributes to filling that gap by describing the deployment of gamified instruction to students enrolled in a mid-level university social science course. These experiences are organized around four more or less chronological questions the project team needed to answer: (1) why gamify – or what is the rationale for undertaking such an endeavor, (2) what content should be gamified, (3) what …

How Can We Improve Our Security Measures To Safeguard Against Cyber Threats?, Mattea Trotter-Hicks

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

Many people face the issue of having their information stolen without their knowledge of what is happening. I understand that some people don’t pay attention to everything when it comes to making sure their information is being secured properly. There must be set stages for those who don’t know technology as well and will need help with knowing what to do. There are many stories of people going through issues with getting hacked or scammed out of their money or important information. We are going to dive into finding ways to fix the outcome of others knowing what to do …

The Influence Of Trustee Orientation On Endowment Performance, Seth Walker

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the relationship between trustee orientation and endowment performance at higher education institutions (HEIs) in the United States. Trustees play a vital fiduciary role in managing institutional endowments, which have become increasingly essential due to declining public funding and rising operational costs. Despite trustees’ critical responsibilities, limited research exists on how orientation practices may influence their effectiveness in endowment oversight. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to develop an instrument to assess the scope and quality of trustee orientation processes and then to compare the results of that scale to ratings on the 2022 NACUBO-TIAA Study of …

The Effectiveness Of Using Machine Learning Techniques To Improve Online Education Advantages, Challenges, And Barrier, M. Samir Abou El-Seoud

Computer Science

In this paper, we are going to analyze the effectiveness of using machine learning (ML) techniques to improve online education. Nowadays, numerous universities and online education providers have expanded their offerings. For the uninitiated, we can simply refer to online education as distance learning facilitated through the Internet and a computer. Online education, as a component of distance learning, is gaining popularity due to its offerings. In recent years, online education has become an important part of contemporary education. It's important because it allows students to learn or get access to study materials without attending a conventional class at a …

An Analysis Of Security Risks Posed By Text-Based Generative Ai And Corporate Security Weaknesses Leading To Data Leaks, Tashya Rakshana Byreddy

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Generative AI (GenAI) has become a fundamental part of modern life, influencing how we work, learn, and interact with technology. This project focuses specifically on text-based GenAI, which is widely used for tasks such as information gathering, code improvement, and content creation. Despite its benefits, it presents significant security risks that are often underestimated by users. This project investigates these risks and the corporate security gaps that lead to unintentional data leaks. The project also provides a brief overview of Large Language Models (LLMs), which are based on the deep learning technique known as Transformer architecture, used for performing …

Using Mentimeter In Online Book Clubs To Engage And Educate Extension Audiences, Nichole Huff, Miranda Bejda, Emily Dewitt, Heather Norman-Burgdolf, Melinda Mcculley

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cooperative Extension professionals, like many others, were tasked with quickly adapting to accommodate limited face-to-face interactions. The pandemic necessitated that Extension educators leverage online resources to deliver tailored programming in informative and innovative ways while providing engaging, hands-on learning experiences. This article highlights two studies using Mentimeter as a tool to educate and engage Extension audiences through subsequent installments of an online book club. The presented case studies examine the processes and outcomes of a unique educational approach to Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) in a non-traditional setting. The studies represent two distinct FCS disciplines: Family …

A Qualitative Lens For Exploring Ethical Reasoning: Developing The 8 Key Question Codebook, Yelisey Shapovalov

Dissertations, 2020-current

The Ethical Reasoning in Action program leveraged program assessment data to further promote student learning based on their effective educational framework for ethical reasoning: The Eight Key Question (8KQ) strategy. A cross-disciplinary team of five core researchers launched the first constructivist qualitative inquiry into students’ ethical reasoning process. The purpose was to comparatively describe essays of Low and High performing students. The basic qualitative design evolved over 19 months to create the 8KQ Codebook through an emergent, iterative, and conceptually sensitizing process. The 8KQ Codebook synthesized structural coding with a mix of theory-driven and data-driven codes across six research questions: …

Young Adults Entering The Economy, Connor Whelan, Gabriel Bell, Christian Brantley, Javarius Seabrooks

ENGL 1102 Showcase

This anthology is written with the hopes of educating the public about the current state of the economy and how Generation Z is entering it. This paper goes over the basics of their financial behavior, the negative affects of education monopolies, financial schemes, and new technology that Gen Z has brought to the table.

2022 November 18 - Board Of Trustees Agenda And Minutes, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

2022 November 18 - Board Of Trustees Audit Committee Agenda And Minutes, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

We Are ... Marshall, October 26, 2022, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

2022 September 16 - Board Of Trustees Audit Committee Agenda And Minutes, Board Of Trustees, East Tennessee State University

Board of Trustees Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

2022-06-16 Board Of Regents Bylaws - Revised, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Revised Morehead State University Board of Regents Bylaws approved on June 16, 2022.

Strategies That Financial Managers Use To Effectively Conduct Corporate-Responsible Financial Reporting, Wendelin Parker

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The primary role of financial managers is to produce accurate financial reporting that shows financial health. Financial managers may experience negative effects on the financial stability of their business organizations if they do not conduct corporate-responsible financial reporting effectively. Grounded in the international accounting standards board’s framework, the purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies financial managers use to conduct corporate-responsible financial reporting to achieve financial stability. The participants comprised three financial managers in Georgia, US, with strategies to conduct corporate-responsible financial reporting to achieve financial stability. Data were collected from semistructured interviews, organizational documents, and …

Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 16, 2021, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Acceptance of the Agenda

Approval of the Minutes (November 4, 2021 and November 16, 2021 Meetings)

Remarks by the Chair

Remarks by the President

Updates by the Faculty Senate President

Updates by the Western Student Association President

Updates by the Graduate Student Association Vice President

Community Policing: Campus Safety through Service-Oriented Operation

Annual Presidential Assessment

Public Comments Regarding Action Items

Action Items

• Approval of Capital Expenditure for WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine
• Presidential Compensation

Consent Items

• Curriculum Proposals
• Personnel Report
• Revised WMU Duty to Report Criminal Acts Policy
• WMU Lease Agreement with FedEx Office and Print Services
• Annuity …

Reimagining The Classroom Experience

Business Exchange

This article discusses innovative approaches to teaching business subjects, including using the principles of improvisational comedy to teach business leadership, using a game to help students learn to uncover financial fraud, and working in technology-enhanced classrooms.

Forensic Accounting At Bgsu: A Proposal, Allison Mishka

Honors Projects

Forensic accounting is a field utilizing accounting and investigative knowledge to detect and examine financial fraud. There is growing demand for professionals in the field. Currently Bowling Green State University (BGSU) does not offer a forensic accounting course. To determine if introducing a forensic accounting to BGSU is appropriate at this time, I have researched other accounting programs and forensic accounting courses. I have also conducted surveys of Schmidthorst College of Business students and faculty as well as forensic accounting professionals to determine if implementing a forensic accounting course would be beneficial to the university and to students. Based on …

A Survey Of Serious Games For Cybersecurity Education And Training, Winston Anthony Hill Jr., Mesafint Fanuel, Xiaohong Yuan, Jinghua Zhang, Sajad Sajad

KSU Proceedings on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice

Serious games can challenge users in competitive and entertaining ways. Educators have used serious games to increase student engagement in cybersecurity education. Serious games have been developed to teach students various cybersecurity topics such as safe online behavior, threats and attacks, malware, and more. They have been used in cybersecurity training and education at different levels. Serious games have targeted different audiences such as K-12 students, undergraduate and graduate students in academic institutions, and professionals in the cybersecurity workforce. In this paper, we provide a survey of serious games used in cybersecurity education and training. We categorize these games into …

Encounters Between The Elderly And Law Enforcement: An Overview Of Mental Illness, Addictions, Victims And Criminals

Contemporary Southern Psychology

Abstract

The elderly population is growing dramatically throughout the world. Out of this growth comes an increase in the number of encounters between the aged and law enforcement. These encounters occur because of a variety of factors including mental illnesses and addictions. Furthermore, older adults may be victims as evidenced in different forms of abuse such as physical, emotional, or financial abuse. Sadly, some documentation exists that older adults are committing more crimes. Multiple reasons have been postulated for these crimes including poverty, jealousy, and boredom. All of these different situations with the aged have created an increase in the …

Charter Schools, Academy Schools, And Related-Party Transactions: Same Scams, Different Countries, Preston C. Green Iii, Chelsea E. Connery

Arkansas Law Review

In the course of the last quarter century, governmental entities in both the United States and England have sought to encourage educational innovation by creating publicly funded schools that are independent from many of the rules that apply to locally controlled schools. These schools are called charter schools in the United States and academy schools (academies) in England. Private companies run a high percentage of these charter schools and academies. In the United States, these companies are commonly referred to as educational management organizations (EMOs). In England, these organizations are called academy trusts (ATs).

Accounting Education In Greece During The Gfc (2009-2016), Dimitrios V. Siskos

Publications

The structure of accounting education in Greece, and in the world, is facing nowadays many significant challenges since the global financial crisis has left behind many critical educational burdens. At the same time, there is an increase in accounting omissions and malpractices of ethics both in the public and in the private sector of Greece. These undoubtedly contributed to massive unemployment, high poverty rate, crime and other social ills experienced in the country. This motivated the study on restructuring accounting education by devising a new educational framework that can be applied to Greek universities and colleges with the purpose of …

Information Sources That Influence The Financial Literacy Of Puerto Rican College Students, Enid Alvarez

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Researchers agree that Puerto Ricans lack basic financial knowledge that would allow them to participate in the financial system actively. However, the literature did not provide any data about the knowledge transmission practices that Puerto Ricans use to gather and transmit financial knowledge. As a result, there was a limited understanding of the social learning processes used by Puerto Rican college students to make financial decisions. Using consumer socialization and family financial socialization models as the theoretical framework, the purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental study was to identify the information sources that Puerto Ricans use to gather financial knowledge. A …

การพัฒนาต้นแบบที่เหมาะสมในการส่งเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิต : การประยุกต์ใช้โมสต์และสมาร์ท, ธีรยุทธ พิริยะอารยะกูล

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) พัฒนาและตรวจสอบความสอดคล้องของโมเดลเชิงสาเหตุของความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตกับข้อมูลเชิงประจักษ์ 2) วิเคราะห์ความต้องการจำเป็นในการส่งเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิต 3) พัฒนาต้นแบบที่เหมาะสมในการส่งเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตโดยประยุกต์ใช้ MOST และ SMART และ 4) ศึกษาผลการใช้ต้นแบบที่เหมาะสมในการส่งเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตโดยใช้การสำรวจ วิธีดำเนินการวิจัยแบ่งเป็น 4 ระยะ การวิจัยระยะที่ 1 และระยะที่ 2 ใช้การวิจัยเชิงสำรวจในการวิเคราะห์ความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินของนิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตและความต้องการจำเป็น ตัวอย่างวิจัย ประกอบด้วย นิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตจำนวน 1,494 คน จากสถาบันอุดมศึกษารัฐ สถาบันอุดมศึกษาเอกชน และสถานศึกษานอกสังกัดสำนักงานคณะกรรมการการอุดมศึกษา เครื่องมือวิจัย ประกอบด้วย แบบวัดความรู้ทางการเงินมีความตรงเชิงเนื้อหา (IOC) มีค่าอยู่ระหว่าง .428 ถึง 1.000 มีค่าความเที่ยง (KR20) เท่ากับ .783 มีค่าความยากอยู่ระหว่าง .533 ถึง .783 มีค่าอำนาจจำแนกอยู่ระหว่าง .278 ถึง .764 แบบวัดเจตคติทางการเงินและพฤติกรรมทางการเงินมีความตรงเชิงเนื้อหา (IOC) มีค่าอยู่ระหว่าง .714 ถึง 1.000 และมีความเที่ยงแบบความสอดคล้องภายในได้ค่าสัมประสิทธิ์แอลฟาของครอนบาคอยู่ระหว่าง .692 ถึง .951 การวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลใช้สถิติเชิงบรรยาย ค่าดัชนี PNI แบบปรับปรุง และการวิเคราะห์ตัวแปรพหุนาม การวิจัยระยะที่ 3 เป็นการประยุกต์ใช้ MOST แบ่งออกเป็น 2 ขั้นตอน คือ ขั้นตอนแรก เป็นการวิเคราะห์การศึกษาความรอบรู้ด้านการเงินจากเอกสาร สกัดและพัฒนาองค์ประกอบของต้นแบบที่เหมาะสม ขั้นตอนที่สอง เป็นการคัดเลือกสื่อการเรียนการสอนและคุณลักษณะของเนื้อหาการเรียนการสอนตามคุณลักษณะของต้นแบบที่เหมาะสม มาตรวจสอบการตอบสนองต่อต้นแบบที่เหมาะสมด้วยการสัมภาษณ์ผู้ให้ข้อมูลจำนวน 10 คน ในการวิจัยระยะนี้ใช้การวิเคราะห์เนื้อหาและการประมาณค่าขนาดอิทธิพล การวิจัยระยะที่ 4 เป็นการประยุกต์ใช้ SMART ด้วยการสำรวจ (experimental survey) ในการวิเคราะห์การใช้ต้นแบบที่เหมาะสม ตัวอย่างวิจัย ประกอบด้วย นิสิตนักศึกษาระดับปริญญาบัณฑิตจำนวน 232 คน จากสถาบันอุดมศึกษารัฐ สถาบันอุดมศึกษาเอกชน และสถานศึกษานอกสังกัดฯ เครื่องมือวิจัย ประกอบด้วย แบบสอบถามคุณลักษณะของต้นแบบที่เหมาะสม …

2018-03-29 Amended Bylaws Of The Board Of Regents, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Bylaws of the Board of Regents of Morehead State University amended and approved on March 29, 2018.

Uab Launches New Bachelor Of Science Degree In Digital Forensics, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Ethics In Higher Education: A Study Of The Perceived Ethical Climate Of Administrators And Faculty At A Higher Education Institution, Philip Rothman

Education Doctoral

Ethical transgression is an ongoing problem in higher education. There is a relationship between the perceived ethical climate of an organization and the ethical behavior of its employees, and that ethical climate can be a predictor of ethical behavior. The ethical climate types are: egoistic, deontological, and utilitarian. This quantitative study measured and identified the perceived ethical climate of administrators and full-time faculty at a higher education institution, and then compared the results to determine if there was a significant difference in perception. Given that administrators and faculty are critical and influential employees, predicting their ethical behavior is beneficial for …