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Daily Eastern News: October 09, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

October

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Issue 49, Beth Heldebrandt

NoteBooth

Harjo book focus of Big Read, COVID impacts, Library wins Bud May award, Post Amerikan project completed, Faculty Spotlight: Nan (Tina) Wang, Faculty Interview: Brad Tolppanen

2020 Celebration Of Scholarship, Creativity, And Engagement, Todd Bruns, Beth Heldebrandt

Programs

The 2020-2021 academic year is truly extraordinary and higher education’s new, hopefully temporary, normal began on rather short notice in Spring 2020. While our environment has changed, we, as a shared community, are pleased that the important work of faculty continues and evolves as faculty broaden and redefine the boundaries of scholarship, creativity, and innovation in accelerating hybrid and remote environments. And, as new forms and strategies for scholarship and creativity emerge, the core principles of faculty life and student learning remain central to the mission of Eastern Illinois University.

For that reason, our faculty, department chairs, college deans, the …

Daily Eastern News: September 29, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: September 23, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: September 03, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: August 25,2020, Eastern Illinois University

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2020 Booth Library Annual Report, Library Services

Annual Reports

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Forevereiu (Summer 2020), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

ForeverEIU 2020

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Into The World We Go, The Peace Corps Program As A Facet Of America-Ghana Relations, Godwin Gyimah

2020 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity

After Ghana had attained its independence in 1957, Nkrumah’s greatest domestic challenge became the transformation of the Ghanaian educational system as a tool towards modernizing the newly independent country. Having spent many years under colonial rule, little attention had been paid to the Ghanaian education system resulting in only a five percent literacy rate in 1957 when Ghana attained its independence. Upon assuming power, Nkrumah developed a Five-Year Plan which sought to ensure self-sufficiency in Ghana through universal education, a tool of a modernized nation. To enhance the ambition of making Ghana self-sufficient, the education sector had a role to …

The Impact Of Board Composition And Activity On Non-Performing Loans, Md Nurul Islam

2020 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity

This paper examines the impact of board composition and activity on bank non-performing loans (NPLs). The empirical evidence suggests that NPLs are negatively related to board independence, separation between the CEO and chairman roles, directors with financial expertise, and the frequency of committee meetings. Additionally, we find that, during the financial crisis period (2008–2009), a large board size and the presence of female directors may also help lower NPLs. The results support the hypothesis that shareholder-friendly bank boards and active boards are more effective monitors, and thus help lower bank’s NPLs.

The Effects Of Gall Formation Due To Gall-Inducing Insects On Solidago Altissima’S Stem Height, Sarah Mummel

2020 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity

Gall-inducing insects are an old evolutionary member of our world, but little is known about their impact on goldenrod, Solidago altissima’s growth and development. We tested the relationship between gall diameter and stem height and the effects of gall presence on stem height. We sampled 20 random 1m² plots along a 30 meter long transect in a goldenrod field to find rosette and ball galls growing upon goldenrod. This transect was one of five other parallel transects, totaling approximately 150 m² of land. We measured heights of galled plants, heights of healthy nearby plants, and the diameter …

Hypochondria And Interpersonal Relationships, Cynthia Kmety

2020 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity

Interpersonal relationships are important parts of our everyday lives, that can affect how we interact with others and can affect health status. This view on interpersonal relationships is often overlooked, however. This study was conducted with the goal of analyzing how the presence of hypochondria affects interpersonal relationships. It was hypothesized that those who have hypochondria will experience more negative interpersonal relationships. The researcher conducted a study using a survey that was administered to sixty-nine people. Results of the research and survey found that there were strained interpersonal relationship between people who have connections to hypochondria. Further research needs to …

Issue 48, Beth Heldebrandt

NoteBooth

EIU Comic Con, Fashion Exhibit, Study room reservation system, Bill Schultz interview

Does A Prolonged Faculty Strike In Higher Education Affect Student Achievement In First Year General Education Courses?, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Christine R. Junker, Mark Cubberley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The effect of faculty strikes in higher education on student achievement is vastly understudied yet has broad implications for discerning potential consequences of labor disputes in academia. Research in this area is understandably difficult, however, as work stoppages in higher education are uncommon, unplanned, and typically brief, which precludes much of the comparative data needed to assess impacts on students. In the spring semester of 2019,WrightStateUniversityexperienced a nearly three-week faculty work stoppage as a result of failed contract negotiations. In this study, end-of-course grades for six undergraduate first-year courses taught prior to and during Spring 2019 by the same instructors …

Daily Eastern News: March 13, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

March

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Bracing For Covid-19 - Den (Mar. 13, 2020), Daily Eastern News

COVID

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Daily Eastern News: March 06, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 04, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 02, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 28, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 21, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 18, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 17, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 13, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: February 12, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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February 11, 2020, Faculty Senate

Minutes

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Daily Eastern News: February 11, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: January 31, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: January 30, 2020, Eastern Illinois University

January

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