Digital Commons Network^™

Investing In The Future: A Financial Comparative Study Of Hsis, Hbcus, And Non-Minority Serving Liberal Arts Colleges, Sophia Phelan

Honors Program Theses and Research Projects

This research presents a preliminary expedition into identifying the relationship between Net Present Value (NPV) and Return on Investment (ROI) of general liberal arts institutions, Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). HSIs and HBCUs have a long tradition of serving specific underrepresented communities of color, fostering success through culturally appropriate learning environments. This research utilizes a unique business lens to discuss the value of a service-based institution, using tools such as value proposition and consumer fit, and then, it compares each set of institutions using ROI and NPV. The data, sourced from College Scorecard, Georgetown …

A Historical Review Of Course Requirements In Agricultural Mechanics For Agricultural Education, Teacher Education Undergraduates At Nine 1862 Land-Grant Universities, Kristopher R. L. Rankin Iii, M. Craig Edwards

Journal of Research in Technical Careers

Preparing pre-service students to teach agricultural mechanics is a difficult task due to the career pathway including a great variety of topics (Byrd et al., 2015). This study examined the trend in requirements in 1862 land-grant universities for number of courses, course credit hours, and course topics related to agricultural mechanics, as well as the total credit hours needed for degree completion in agricultural education, teacher education. Overall, the universities examined had lessened the total course credit hours related to agricultural mechanics courses from 8.33 to 11.83 credit hour requirements in 1980, to a range of 6.67 to 8.33 credit …

Integrating Diverse Perspectives In Graduate Statistics Education Through Academic And Library Faculty Collaboration, Christina Jones, Ethan Fridmanski, Julie A. Lorah

Journal of Graduate Librarianship

Graduate-level statistics education is often narrowly focused on the mathematical aspect of modeling. While this aspect is important, this focus results in a gap in the student’s understanding regarding the context of the development and use of statistical models. This article provides a description and initial evaluation of a program designed to address this gap. Specifically, the authors collaborated to create a reading list related to the topic of social justice in statistics and integrated the resources on this list into a graduate-level statistics class on the topic of multilevel modeling. The article describes this integration, preliminary evaluation, and future …

Creating A Road Map For Librarians To Teach Statistical Literacy, Giovanna Badia

Journal of Graduate Librarianship

This article offers a case study of the development of a workshop on reading regression results. It also provides a practical overview of how librarians, guided by their own experiences working with data, can teach others how to read descriptive statistics and regression results. The broader aim of the article is to help librarians move toward teaching a workshop on any statistical literacy topic or expand their teaching activities in this area. It includes tips for preparing to develop a statistical literacy workshop, as well as a bibliography of learning and teaching resources on statistical analysis.

December 6, 2024 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Mindfulness Matters: Addressing Anxiety And Navigating Toward Wellbeing Through Miea Mindfulness Practices, A Mixed-Methods Study Of Lgbtiq Graduate Writing Students, Kim Westerman

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

Mindfulness Matters: Addressing Anxiety and Navigating Toward Wellbeing Through MIEA Mindfulness Practices, a Mixed-Methods Study of LGBTIQ Graduate Writing Students

Anxiety has always been a part of the human experience, even before the phenomenon was conceptualized in the 17^th century and named by Freud in the 19th. And human beings have devised many strategies for addressing anxiety: reducing it, ignoring it, distracting oneself from it, despairing over it, medicating it, engaging with it, moving through it, co-existing with it. The current zeitgeist, more than four years into the COVID-19 global pandemic, situates anxiety as a central facet of …

December 6, 2024 Minutes, Swosu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Seeking Equitable Access Amid Academic Capitalism, Chelsea Renaud

Masters Projects

As enrollments decrease nationally for 4-year public universities and funding sources wither, institutions are increasingly re-evaluating the purpose of higher education. This re-evaluation is characterized by a bleeding over between private and public interests in higher education. Economic factors are forcing the issue of the ethos of higher education: namely, whether institutions should prioritize profit or prioritize educating their population. The push-and-pull between private and public interests bears out most immediately for students, who experience increased costs to attend and persist in college. As university libraries increasingly embody a negotiation site for resource access, student support, and student success and …

Office Of Equity And Inclusion Newsletter - December 2024, Office Of Equity And Inclusion, East Tennessee State University

Office of Equity and Inclusion Newsletters

No abstract provided.

December 2024 General Education Council Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney General Education Council

General Education Council

No abstract provided.

3 Chosen As Uab Vips For Fourth-Quarter 2024, Reporter Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, December 5, 2024, Kate Horan, Zach Cosme, Ashley Adam, Renee Washart, Emily Veasey, Sidney Belleroche, Hadley Whitman, Adam Denn

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The Case of the Missing Lower Wismer Doors • Seen the Zine? • SAAC's Annual Holiday Food Drive • Representation Exploration: Capstone Excerpt • Campus Squirrels Pack Up for the Holidays • The Yap With Emily Veasey: #WomenInMaleFields • PSA: Students' Healthy Holidays • Field Hockey Concludes Spectacular Season • Women's Basketball Blasts Out to Hot Start!

2024 December 5 - From My Notepads Newsletter, Office Of The President, East Tennessee State University, Brian Noland

From My Notepads: A Newsletter from President Brian Noland

No abstract provided.

2024-12-05 Resolution On Campus Safety, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A resolution for campus safety submitted to the Faculty Senate on December 5, 2024.

2024-12-05 Generative Ai Syllabi Statements And Use Guidelines Proposal, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A proposal, titled "Generative AI Syllabi Statements and Use Guidelines," submitted to the Faculty Senate on December 5, 2024.

2024-12-05 Number Of Faculty By Department, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

The number of faculty by department at Morehead State University as calculated on December 5, 2023.

2024-12-05 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter from December 5, 2024.

2024-12-05 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from December 5, 2024.

Bounded By Place: Rural Students, College Knowledge, Educational Motivation, And College Going, Sarah Rutt Williams, Frimpomaa Ampaw, Skylar R. Duke, Anne M. Hornak

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Rural students face inequitable access to educational opportunities when compared to their suburban and urban counterparts (Koricich et al., 2018; Ovink et al., 2018), and their postsecondary experiences and outcomes remain understudied. Research on the role of college knowledge in the persistence of this educational inequity is particularly scarce. Using a non-experimental survey design, the present study seeks to understand the effect of rural students’ college knowledge on their postsecondary intentions. We use surveys completed by rural high school seniors and logistic regression to analyze the relationship between students’ college knowledge, their motivation, and their postsecondary plans. Our findings show …

Empathy And Academic Achievement Among Black/African American College Students In An Hbcu, Hyung Nam Kim

Journal of Educational Research and Practice

Empathy is the ability to understand the thoughts, behaviors, and feelings of others. In addition to fostering strong relationships and overall personal growth, empathy plays a crucial role in college students achieving positive academic outcomes. However, a knowledge gap exists concerning the role and impact of empathy among college students, particularly Black/African American students at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). This research aims to address this gap by examining those students’ empathy levels and their association with academic achievement. The study found relatively low levels of empathy and a negative association between empathy and academic performance. Further research is …

Occupational Therapy Faculty Mentorship And Degree Type As A Predictive Relationship With Student Satisfaction Scores, Gwen R. Morris

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education outlines criteria for occupational therapy graduate programs by degree type but does not require pedagogic knowledge for either degree type. The problem addressed through this study was that the predictive relationship between occupational therapy faculty mentorship in the first 3 years of teaching and degree type with student satisfaction is unknown. The study was grounded by constructivism and occupational adaptation. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to determine if there is a predictive relationship between occupational therapy faculty mentorship and degree type (independent variables) with student satisfaction (dependent variable) among occupational …

December 4, 2024 Blazer Weekly, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

Blazer Weekly (student newsletter)

No abstract provided.

Reframing And Reclaiming Poetry In The Esl Classroom, Rebecca C. Eagleson

Master's Theses

The debate over using poetry as an authentic text in the ESOL classroom has persisted for nearly a century. However, emerging research from an EFL context suggests that reconsidering poetry in the ESL classroom may be timely. This literature review examines the origins of the controversy by highlighting the intersections of linguistics and literary criticism and how they shaped current ESOL approaches to poetry. It then outlines the standard points and counterpoints of the ESOL controversy over poetry. Finally, it evaluates recent case studies and methodological reviews from EFL contexts that have reignited new interest and research into utilizing poetry …

College Proximity And College Costs: Is It More Expensive To Attend A Far-Away College?, Amanda Cook

Journal of Student Financial Aid

Many scholars have argued that it may be more costly to attend a far-away college than it is to attend a nearby college. If this is true, students who live in areas where colleges are few and far between may face higher costs than those with ample college options. This study assesses the plausibility of this line of reasoning by examining the association between geographic access to higher education, distance traveled to college, and college costs, as indicated by student debt. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, this study finds that people with lower levels of …

Developing A Digital Portfolio: Professionalizing Your Digital Identity, Christina Katopodis

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Students In Uab's Public Relations Program Win National Teahan Awards, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Nsf Epscor Grant Awarded To Uab Professor For Pioneering Quantum Simulation Research, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Five Tips To Maintain Gut Health During The Holidays, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Support For Western Illiinois University Faculty/Librarians, Todd Bruns

Faculty Senate Resolutions

Vol. 53, Res. 1

This resolution in support of WIU faculty and faculty librarians passed unanimously.

December 3, 2024 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

No abstract provided.