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Community Engagement Initiative: Academia Partnering With The Health Department And Community Agencies For Change, Martha L. Coulter, Karen D. Liller, Chukwudi Ejiofor, Casey Mcbride, John Roth, Lilia Cruz

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The Community Engagement Initiative developed at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health illustrates the importance of developing partnerships between academia, health departments, and community agencies to build capacity and expand the cadre of researchers equipped with skills in community organization, community participation, constituency development, capacity building, community empowerment, and coalition building. A case study of Champions for Children is provided to demonstrate how the initiative functioned in a realworld environment.

Measuring College Students’ Community Service Attitudes Validly And Efficiently: Development Of A Short Version Of The Community Service Attitudes Scale, Jody S. Nicholson, Heather Barnes Truelove, Jennifer M. Barton, Robert G. Moulder

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The current study presents a brief-version of an existing Community-Service Attitudes Scale (CSAS; Shiarella, McCarthy, & Tucker, 2000) that is theoretically grounded, psychometrically sound, and empirically validated. Students (n = 544) participating in courses that required a service- learning component were administered the original CSAS and validation measures. An exploratory factor analysis suggested an eight-factor, 24-item solution with simple structure and good fit indices; a confirmatory factor analysis suggested good model fit, good internal consistency, and construct validity. The CSAS-Brief is an important tool that could help facilitate research studies and experiences related to community engagement in higher education.

Elementary School-University Partnership: The Elementary Parent Leadership Academy, M. Blake Berryhill, Madalyn Riggins, Rosiana Gray

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

School-family-community partnerships have been shown to increase student success and overall school climate. In order to support local schools and their students and families, The University of Alabama created the Elementary Parent Leadership Academy (EPLA), a training program that prepares elementary school parent leaders with the skills to strengthen school communities through supporting parent involvement. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the 2014-2015 EPLA graduates found that the program increased parent school leadership behaviors and attitudes.

Evaluating Beyond The Ivory Tower: Lessons Learned From The Scholars Program, Catherine M. Jordan, Scott Chazdon, Kristina Alviz

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The University of Minnesota Extension Scholars Program is a competency-based, multidisciplinary, cohort-based faculty development program offering a “Learning Circle” grounded in adult learning theory paired with funding for community-engaged research. It aims to build capacity for community-engaged scholarship, catalyze institutional support, and benefit community partners. This article reports on the program evaluation of the first Scholars Program cohort and offers recommendations for future programs, as well as insights regarding evaluation of higher education community engagement efforts.

Creating Culturally Relevant And Responsive Health Care Models, Naomi N. Duke

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Western-based health models situate formalized education as a distinct driver of outcomes, including health and well-being. This study, conducted as part of the Community-engaged Scholars Program, interviewed elders and practitioners in cultural communities about relationships between cultural ways of knowing and health to inform Western-based models of health service delivery. While years of schooling may translate into practical means for obtaining goods and services, cultural knowledge frames provide a foundation for addressing the complexities of health.

Addressing Health And Education Disparities In Low‐Income Families With Young Children: Lessons Learned As A Community Engaged Scholar, Mary O. Hearst

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Health and education disparities persist in low-income communities. This project, part of University of Minnesota Extension’s Community-engaged Scholars Program, aimed to identify common root causes of health and education disparities as part of a school readiness intervention for low-income, multiethnic children. In this paper I describe my growth as a communityengaged scholar attempting to understand the role of community voice in documenting the complex, interrelated nature of early childhood and lifelong well-being.

Community Context And Connections In The Development Of A Parenting Support Curriculum For Low‐Income African‐American Families, Lauren Martin

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Grounded in my participation in the University of Minnesota Community-engaged Scholars Program, this article presents a case study of community-based ethnographic and participantobservation methods used to embed local context into the foundation of a parent education and empowerment approach to address the achievement gap by race, poverty, and place in one neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The case study demonstrates how context-specific wisdom and expertise of parents and community members is a critical foundation for tailoring appropriate research-based curricular components.

Community‐Based Participatory Research On Urban Parks And Health Dispariɵes: Perspecɵves From An Urban Planning Researcher, Yingling Fan

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

As part of the University of Minnesota Community-engaged Scholars Program, I undertook a Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) project evaluating the potential of urban parks to improve health outcomes in disadvantaged communities. This paper describes my CBPR rookie experiences and discusses challenges in the CBPR process. By reflecting on my missteps, I offer critical insights and recommendations. Urban Planning researchers interested in applying the CBPR approach are recommended to commit to the “muddling through” process, seek institutional support, engage both government agencies and community advocates, and acquire long-range and flexible funding.

The Scholars Program Learning Circle: An Example Of Capacity Building In The Academy For Engaged Team Science, Lauren Martin, Yingling Fan, Naomi Duke, Mary O. Hearst, Cathy Jordan

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

We describe the professional development component, or Learning Circle, of the Communityengaged Scholars Program, a multidisciplinary, cohort-based program intended to build scholars’ capacity for community-engaged scholarship. We explore the Learning Circle in the context of “team science.” We argue that the Learning Circle pedagogy is a right fit for promoting, not just engaged research, but also engaged team science, within the academy.

The Community‐Engaged Scholars Program: Designing A Professional Development Program To Enhance Individual Capacity, Community Benefit, And Institutional Support, Catherine M. Jordan

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The University of Minnesota Extension’s Community-engaged Scholars Program is a competency- based, multidisciplinary, cohort-based faculty development program offering a “Learning Circle” grounded in adult learning theory paired with funding for community-engaged research. It aims to build capacity for community-engaged scholarship, catalyze institutional support, and benefit community partners. This special issue introduction describes the theoretical underpinnings, development, and implementation of the program and provides context for papers that follow describing the Learning Circle, participating scholars’ insights, and evaluation results.

Creating An Institutional Agenda For Community-Engaged Scholarship Faculty Development, Andrew Furco

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Building a comprehensive and robust faculty development agenda is key to securing an institution’s status as a fully engaged campus. This article provides an editorial on the articles presented in this volume, which highlight the experiences of a group of engaged scholars and their research partners who participated in a four-year faculty development initiative designed to enhance their capacities to produce high-quality, community-engaged scholarship.

Community‐Based Research And The Historian’S Craft, Zorian Maksymec, Christina Redmond, Nina Reid-Maroney

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper discusses a community-based research project that paired undergraduate history students with local community partners in an exploration of the antislavery movement in Canada and the problem of its erasure from local historical memory. The article outlines the project’s background and method, examines the wide-ranging importance of the community classroom it helped to create, and reflects on the importance of undergraduate research in the setting of a liberal arts university as a bridge between classroom and community.

Faculty Feel It Too: The Emotions Of Teaching Through Service‐Learning, Carrie W. Lecrom, Lynn Pelco, Jill W. Lassiter

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

The authors used Coles’ (1993) framework of emotional satisfactions and hazards to examine the experiences of faculty members teaching service-learning classes for the first time. Seven faculty from two institutions completed monthly reflections and focus groups for one year. Qualitative analysis indicated that faculty experienced several of Coles’ emotional satisfactions and hazards, were prone to emotional contagion, and depended on colleague mentoring to navigate the experiences of using service-learning pedagogy for the first time.

A Qualitative Assessment Of The Impact Of A Service‐Learning Course On Students’ Discipline‐Specific Self‐Efficacy, L. Suzanne Goodell, Natalie K. Cooke, Sarah L. Ash

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Investigators employed a multi-method qualitative approach to determine the impact of a service- learning course on students’ discipline-specific self-efficacy. The majority of students reported an increase in discipline-specific self-efficacy after participating in this service-learning course. Analysis resulted in three major themes: (1) constructive criticism and self-reflection improve self-efficacy; (2) experience breeds confidence; and (3) service-learning encourages students to obtain more knowledge and experience in areas of deficiency after the servicelearning experience.

Assessing Global Citizenship After Participation In Service Learning In Physical Therapy Education, Mark Drnach, Craig Ruby, Kelley Kluender, Brian Palomba, Marissa Ursick

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

Promoting a global perspective has become a recent topic in health care education (Frenk et al., 2010). The idea is to produce graduates who are capable of delivering culturally appropriate services to communities in need, both locally and globally. Various didactic components and pedagogies can be used but the outcome of producing a graduate who acts on that education is unclear. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of service learning on promoting identified behaviors reflective of a global citizen in graduates from Wheeling Jesuit University’s (WJU) Physical Therapy Program. This doctoral program includes service-learning courses that …

Development Of Community‐Based Workshops For Mexican‐Origin Rural, Low‐Income Study Participants, Rosa D. Manzo, Yvette G. Flores, Adela De La Torre

Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education

This paper documents the process of developing community-based psychoeducational workshops to engage and retain study participants within a comparison research site. The development and adaptation of the workshops followed methods of cultural adaptation and ecological validity (Domenech-Rodriguez & Wieling, 2004; Bernal, Bonilla, & Bellido, 1995). Our work supports the idea that culturally responsive approaches can engage community members and increase the acceptability of researchers in low-income Mexican-origin communities.

Principal Agency 50 Years After The Lau Decision: Building And Sustaining Bilingual Education Programs For Asian Languages, Kevin M. Wong, Zhongfeng Tian

Education Division Scholarship

This study examined how three champion principals of Asian language dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs—Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin—in California have navigated the oscillating language-in-education policies after the Lau decision. We explored principals' various roles through a lens of agency in a social justice leadership framework, specifically considering the opportunities and challenges for agentive leadership from three different phases: foregrounding and engaging, planning and implementing, and evaluating and sustaining. Findings demonstrate that the success of DLBE programs goes beyond the overarching language policies that supposedly enable bilingual education; rather it hinges on the bottom-up commitment, collaboration and resilience of principals, …

Sexannodb, A Knowledgebase Of Sex-Specific Regulations From Multi-Omics Data Of Human Cancers, Mengyuan Yang, Yuzhou Feng, Jiajia Liu, Hong Wang, Sijia Wu, Weiling Zhao, Pora Kim, Xiaobo Zhou

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Background

Sexual differences across molecular levels profoundly impact cancer biology and outcomes. Patient gender significantly influences drug responses, with divergent reactions between men and women to the same drugs. Despite databases on sex differences in human tissues, understanding regulations of sex disparities in cancer is limited. These resources lack detailed mechanistic studies on sex-biased molecules.

Methods

In this study, we conducted a comprehensive examination of molecular distinctions and regulatory networks across 27 cancer types, delving into sex-biased effects. Our analyses encompassed sex-biased competitive endogenous RNA networks, regulatory networks involving sex-biased RNA binding protein-exon skipping events, sex-biased transcription factor-gene regulatory networks, …

Unaccompanied Migrant Children In The Mountain West, 2015-2023, Annie Vong, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Demography

This fact sheet examines data on the number of unaccompanied migrant children who obtained sponsors and relocated to 22 cities in five Mountain West states from 2015 to 2023. Data from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah are included from a New York Times report which includes U.S. Department of Human Health and Services data on unaccompanied migrant children in all 50 states and Washington D.C.

Promoting Emergent Literacy In Preschool Through Extended Discourse: Covert Translanguaging In A Mandarin Immersion Environment, Robin E. Harvey, Kevin M. Wong

Education Division Scholarship

Rich oral language practices, including the opportunity and ability to participate in cognitively and linguistically challenging extended discourse, are foundational to early literacy development. To meet children’s needs in their first exposure to the languages of schooling, educators may engage students in extended discourse multilingually. The current study focuses on student-centered translanguaging conversations to examine strategies that preschool teachers employ to support young children’s emerging bilingual and biliteracy development in a Mandarin immersion preschool serving primarily nonheritage learners of Mandarin in the United States. Findings indicate that, despite the school’s Mandarin-only policy, teachers engaged in covert translanguaging practices to extend …

What’S Mine Is Yours: Managing Student Loans Within Different Gender Couples, Samantha Leigh Moser

Theses and Dissertations

In the United States, borrowing student loans from the federal government or private market to attend college has become increasingly common. Roughly one in eight Americans has student loans (Looney, Wessel, & Yilla 2020). Reports on federal student loans indicate that roughly 1.6 billion dollars was outstanding in May of 2022 (Hanson 2022b). Additionally, about 43.4 million borrowers each owe an estimated $37,014 in federal education loans (Hanson 2022a). Privately, as of July 2023, $131 billion dollars was outstanding for education loans.

Sociologists have begun researching the consequences of student loan debt on borrowers and their families. Consequences of student …

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Indiana Law Supporting Newly Established Indiana Innocence Project, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

Law students from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will have the opportunity to help exonerate wrongfully convicted Hoosiers through the newly established Indiana Innocence Project, which officially launched Saturday (Aug. 17).

Established in association with the national Innocence Project—which has helped free more than 240 wrongfully convicted prisoners since 1992—the Indiana Innocence Project (INIP) has been made possible through the support of the Herbert Simon Family Foundation, along with the Law School and IU’s Department of Criminal Justice.

The Indiana Innocence Project will screen and investigate cases with meritorious innocence claims, secure DNA testing when biological evidence …

Epigenome-Wide Association Study Of Prostate Cancer In African American Men Identified Differentially Methylated Genes, Anders Berglund, Kosj Yamoah, Steven A. Eschrich, Rana Falahat, James J. Mulé, Sungjune Kim, Jaime Matta, Julie Dutil, Gilberto Ruiz-Deya, Carmen Ortiz Sanchez, Liang Wang, Hyun Park, Hirendra N. Banerjee, Tamara Lotan, Kathryn Hughes Barry, Ryan M. Putney, Seung Joon Kim, Clement Gwede, Jacob K. Kresovich, Youngchul Kim, Hui Yi Lin, Jasreman Dhillon, Ratna Chakrabarti, Jong Y. Park

School of Public Health Faculty Publications

Introduction: Men with African ancestry have the highest incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer (PCa) worldwide. Methods: This study aimed to identify differentially methylated genes between tumor vs. adjacent normal and aggressive vs. indolent PCa in 121 African American patients. Epigenome-wide DNA methylation patterns in tumor DNA were assessed using the human Illumina Methylation EPIC V1 array. Results: Around 5,139 differentially methylated CpG-sites (q < 0.01, lΔβl > 0.2) were identified when comparing normal vs. tumor, with an overall trend of hypermethylation in prostate tumors. Multiple representative differentially methylated regions (DMRs), including immune-related genes, such as CD40, Galectin3, OX40L, and STING, were detected …

Socioeconomic Status, Physical Inactivity, And Bmi In Transitional Urban China: Contextualizing The Theory Of Fundamental Causes, Jun Xu, Fang Gong, Wei Zhao

International Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Drawing insights from the theory of fundamental causes of disease, this study examined the relationships between socioeconomic status (SES) and selected risk factors in transitional urban China. Specifically, under China’s distinct institutional and sociocultural environment, we examined how contextualized SES (i.e., party membership, hukou status, housing ownership, and subjective social status) and conventional SES indicators (i.e., education, income, and occupation) were associated with physical inactivity and body mass index (BMI). Utilizing the urban subsample of the 2017 Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we found that individuals with higher education, income, Communist Party membership, and urban hukou status had lower risks …

Natural Resource Factors Promoting Urban And Rural Integrated Development In The New Era: Target Selection And Policy Design, Zhimin Zhang, Guohua Yuan, Ruilin Liu

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Reconstructing the reverse flood of natural resource elements in rural and urban regional systems is the basic form of requirement for realizing urban-rural integration. Taking target selection-realistic obstacles-institutional demand-system construction as the logical main line, starting from the current situation of natural resource element allocation under the framework of urban-rural integrated development, it sorted out the problems existing in the urban-rural integrated development of natural resources such as asymmetrical property rights design, inconsistent bearing plans of various types, lack of natural resource revenue sharing mechanism, and poor asset flow channels and trading systems, with unified layout, power return, paid use, …

Facilities’ Scientists Affect Scientific Impacts Of Large-Scale Research Infrastructures’ Outputs, Mingze Zhang, Xiaoxiao Fan, Yunlong Li, Zexia Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

In the context of big science, collaborative research is one of the most significant characteristics and large-scale research infrastructures (LSRIs) play an important role as research platforms. However, whether collaborations, specifically, the co-authorships between facilities’ scientists and users, could affect the performance of LSRIs’ outputs or not is unclear. This work takes SLAC National Accelerate Lab as an example and quantifies how the participation of facilities’ scientists influences the performances of LSRIs’ outputs. The result shows that facilities’ scientists could promote the scientific impact. Therefore, a continued and long-term collaborative relationship should be attempted to set up, which could release …

Evolution Of Informatization Policies In China Since 12th Five Year Plan Period, Jing Wu, Yuke Li, Ting Sun, Feng Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

At present, informatization has become an important engine for high-quality economic and social development in China. Systematically reviewing the evolutionary features of informatization policies is an important reference for further optimizing policy layout. This study constructed an analytical framework for policy evolutionary features, covering four dimensions of policy quantity structure, policy issuing department, policy theme, and policy tool, from policy external attributes to policy content elements. Social network analysis, text mining methods, and content analysis were used to conduct quantitative analysis on the 703 central-level informatization policy documents since the 12th Five-Year Plan period. The study found the followings. (1) …

Developmental Logic Of Social S&T Awards In China And Suggestions For High Influence Development, Xiaoya Ren, Zhiqiang Zhang

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

The scientific award system is a significant characteristic of the institutional development of science and technology, and is an important institutional arrangement for promoting the S&T development and building a great power in science and technology in China. This study focuses on the direction of promoting the development of social S&T awards in China, with the goal of studying the high-impact development of social S&T awards in China. Firstly, the study systematically examined the evolution of the domestic and international S&T award system, analyzed the operating experience of internationally high prestigious social S&T awards, and further refined the value and …

Chinese Academician Workstations: Evolution, Development, And Optimization, Qinjie Yang, Shengbo Wu, Cong Cao

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

As a science and technology platform where star scientists are deeply involved in industry-university-research cooperation, academician workstations play a pivotal role in driving enterprises’ technological strategic planning and facilitating the transformation and upgrading of regional industries. They also promote the more efficient integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain. Based on the data of Chinese academician workstations and integrating big data analytics and mathematical statistics analysis, this work studies historical evolution, spatial-temporal distribution patterns, and innovation mechanisms of academician workstations with following findings. (1) The development of Chinese academician workstations can be divided into four stages: …