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Grant Extends Early Childhood Development Resources For Jefferson, St. Clair And Walker Counties, Alicia Rohan

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Sjsu Erfa Board Minutes, October 7, 2019, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Executive Board Minutes

October 7, 2019

Bertrand Succeeds By Helping Students Reach For Their Dreams, Matt Windsor

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Illuminated Magazine, School Of Graduate Studies, East Tennessee State University

Illuminated: Graduate Student Research Magazine

From the School of Graduate Studies; Optimism, Health Related Self-E­fficacy, and Quality of Life [Morgan Treaster, Psychology, Ph.D]; Beckett and the Creative Writing Process [Sam Campbell, English, M.A]; Where Are They Now? [Featuring: David Bryant & Wilhelmina Van Dijk]; Discovering the Role of Anandamide in Physcomitrella patens [Imdadul Haq, Biomedical Sciences, Ph.D]; Examining the Forest Setting in Early Modern Literature [Brooke Johnson, English, M.A.]; Where Are They Now? [Featuring: Meg Roussos]; Identifying Risk Factors Regarding Phthalate Exposure [Denise Chavez, Public Health, M.P.H.]; Where Are They Going? [Featuring: Oceane Tanny & John Wagle]; Predicting the Past and Future Environments of the …

Chinese Culture Club, Ashley Thyes

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

Afterschool club that teaches students about Chinese culture and teaches them how to speak and white various words and phrases.

Green Club After School Program Curriculum, Megan Willburn

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

Green Club is an after school program which encourages students to develop environmental empathy, passions for environmental sustainability, and knowledge about the workings of environmental systems.

Dungeons And Drafting, Talitha Greaver, Paige Doland

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

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Girl Empowerment Club, Tori Pedersen, Murphy Glen

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

Girl Empowerment Club teaches girls about self-reflection and communicating effectively in hope of inspiring confidence. The goal of the club is to encourage girls to strengthen their interpersonal skills while learning more about themselves.

Art And The Environment, Ellen Dexter, Lydia Dexter

Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs

After school club that teaches the importance of sustainable practices and conversation activities through art projects and imagination.

Housing & Residence Life Impact Report: Fall 2017 To Spring 2018, Hayden Hoopes, Alan Andersen, Kirk Bird, John Bostock, Whit Milligan, Amanda M. Hagman

Publications

Introduction: Living on campus is considered a high impact practice for student success. Student success is believed to emerge from “the amount of physical and psychological energy that the student devotes to the academic experience” (Astin, 1984), housing and residence life programming facilitates this type of devotion. However, creating this type of living experience requires administrators understand the complexities of how housing can affect specific student groups and their decision to either persist at or leave an institution. This report explores the impact of housing and residence life at Utah State University on students living on campus. It disaggregates results …

Otterbein Towers Fall /Winter 2019, Otterbein Towers

Towers Magazine

The 2019 Democratic Presidential Debate held at Otterbein. Taking a look at Racial Identity. A Commitment to Affordability. Integrative Studies : A Retrospective of More Than 50 Years of Curriculum Innovation and a Look at Its Impact.

The Spinnaker Fall 2019, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community. Date: Fall 2019

Using Ripple Effects Maps To Identify Story Threads: A Framework To Link Private To Public Value, Jane E. Haskell, Barbara A. Baker, Melissa D. Olfert, Sarah E. Colby, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Kendra K. Kattelmann, Adrienne A. White

Health and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Extension professionals must demonstrate organizational value to garner public awareness and support. Measuring and communicating outcomes that have public value can be challenging. In this study, Ripple Effects Mapping incorporating the Community Capitals Framework was used to evaluate a childhood obesity prevention study, iCook 4-H, of youth-adult pairs in Maine. The objective was to describe the process of generating impact statements through story threads about program benefits to the participants and the potential benefits to nonparticipants, such as family members, friends, and other community members. Extension professionals can use storylines, or story threads, as a qualitative research technique to generate …

Sustainable Solutions, Georgia Southern University

Sustainable Solutions Newsletter (2016-2021)

• Greenfest
• Campus Community Garden
• What Does Georgia Southern Recycle?
• Where Can I Recycle Off Campus?
• Tailgate Recycling
• Eco-Reps
• Grocery Tour
• Shuttle to Downtown Farmer's Market
• After School Garden Program
• Center for Sustainability
• Student Sustainability Fee Grant Projects
• Job Opportunities
• Conferences
• Green Tip

Strengthening Wellness For Food Insecure Students: Altruism, Spirituality, And Academic Performance, Bridget Weikel

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

Strengthening Wellness for Food Insecure Students; Altruism, Spirituality and Academic Performance is a quantitative methods study using a mediated analysis with structural equation modeling to test the extent to which wellness dimensions mediate the relationship between food insecurity and student grade point average. Student food insecurity is a growing concern at higher education institutions across the United States (Cady, 2014; Goldrick-Rab & Cook, 2011; Maroto, Snelling & Linck, 2015) with food insecurity rates ranging from 14% to 59% in recent studies (Freudenberg, Manzo, Jones, Kwan, Tsui & Gagnon, 2011; Patton-Lopez, Lopez-Cevallos, Cancel-Tirado & Vazquez, 2014). This phenomenon on college campuses …

The Echo: September 27, 2019, Taylor University

2019-2020 (Volume 107)

Taylor students have less debt – It’s Pitch Night – Come out to the annual Taylathon! – TU community addresses TP – TU offers games class – Summit conference challenges students – New language course offers culture, opportunity at Taylor – Melon and Gourd: the chase begins – Introducing: Ansley Kary – Meet freshman Mer Fenton – foody fix – fit Friday – it’ll be grand – The Weekly Bachelor Bachelorette – Crossword -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Taylor professor performs at Carnegie Hall – Theatre sparks hard conversations with talkbacks – Songwriter shares the art of making music in …

Sun Belt Conference Honors 172 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work In Classroom, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Sun Belt Conference Honors 172 Eagle Student-Athletes For Work in Classroom

Two Faculty Members Complete Hers Institute Leadership Program, Adam Pope

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The Echo: September 13, 2019, Taylor University

2019-2020 (Volume 107)

Autism minor makes history – Campus struggles with Internet quality – Taylor earns No. 1 position again – Professor honored through kinesiology award – Scholars on track for success – Taking a look at Enneagram culture – Taylor gardens team goes to the farmers market – RedBarn positively affects lives in Upland – Interim President shares stories and wisdom from her life – Bee Kind and visit farmers market – foody fix – it’ll be grand – The Weekly Bachelor and Bachelorette – fall faves -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Anthology integrates imagination and faith – Recent grad brings life …

Gower Embodies Uab's Collaborative Spirit Through Cross-Campus Partnerships, Haley Herfurth

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The Echo: September 6, 2019, Taylor University

2019-2020 (Volume 107)

Taylor film department boasts record number of new students – Hurricane Dorian gives rise to OIP fundraiser – Boren Center dining dollars drastically cut – New faces to look for in halls at Taylor – Body of Skylea Carmack found in Gas City shed, stepmother arrested – Senior interns at NASA over summer – Meeting the new student body president, vice president – A successful Community Plunge – How basic of a Taylor student are you? – Local festival attracts thousands of visitors – croc thoughts – The Weekly Bachelor and Bachelorette – Welcome Back to TU -- #TaylorU’s Top …

Motivated By Personal Loss, Baskin Became A Champion For Improving Community Health, Haley Herfurth

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Heudebert 'Inspires All Of Us To Be Better Educators', Brit Blalock

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Uni Grad Student News, V18n1, September 2019, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside This Issue:
--Graduate College Staff Student, Faculty and Alumni Profiles
--Annual MBA Conference Altrusa Scholarship Recipients
--Professional Development Opportunities
--Research and Sponsored Programs Event
--Take Care Tips from the Graduate College
--Welcome New Graduate Students!
--Graduate Students Living On Campus

Towards A Pedagogy Of Life Purposes, Manny Lopez

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

College students who understand how the courses that they are enrolled in connect with their broader life goals are more likely to apply an approach of task perseverance with academic endeavors. Yet, nearly three million adolescent community college students in the United States may not have developed clear purposes in life. Relatedly, overtime the lack of lucid life purposes contributes to maladaptive behavior.

This dissertation is a compilation of three interrelated studies that took place in two public community colleges in the City University of New York. Guided by authentic inquiry and framed by sociocultural theory, central to each study …

Sustainable Solutions, Georgia Southern University

Sustainable Solutions Newsletter (2016-2021)

• Director's Message
• Happenings
• Upcoming in Fall 2019
• Campus Engagement
• Campus in the Spotlight
• Conferences
• Environmental News
• Green Tip

Georgia Southern Magazine, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Magazine

• News and Events
• True Blue Spotlight
• Protecting the Nest
• Caring for Orphaned Wildlife
• Her Beacon of Hope
• Doing the Right Thing
• Meet Our 40 Under 40

2019-August-29-Etsu, Northeast State Sign Rehabilitative Health Sciences Articulation Agreement, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Implementing A Health Coach Into Your Healthcare Continuum, Dalton Jarvis

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

Presentation on Implementing a Health-coach into your Healthcare Continuum.

Abroad View Of Wellness, Patrick Kunkel, Megan Mills, Seth Clark

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

A presentation on a Study Abroad trip taken to Hungary.