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My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• President Marrero to host virtual town hall on June 8
• Office of Inclusive Excellence to host virtual community listening sessions beginning June 9
• How you can help fight the coronavirus
• Georgia Southern's Q1 2020 Economic Monitor: Pandemic slams regional economy, outlook remains murky
• Georgia Southern alumna fulfills lifelong dream, helps children struggling to read
• Personal hardships drive graduate to earn degree, advocate for others
• Georgia Southern doctor of physical therapy students awarded scholarships for volunteer work
• Georgia Southern student wins Next Generation of Campus Rec writing contest
• Preserving history: Georgia Southern anthropology faculty, students to investigate Civil War battlefields
• Armstrong …

Formative Research To Design A Culturally-Appropriate Cancer Clinical Trial Education Program To Increase Participation Of African American And Latino Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Claudia Barajas, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Caree R. Mcafee, Pamela Hull, Maureen Sanderson, Juan Canedo, Katina Beard, Consuelo H. Wilkins

Health Policy & Community Health: Faculty Publications

Background: Addressing knowledge deficiencies about cancer clinical trials and biospecimen donation can potentially improve participation among racial and ethnic minorities. This paper describes the formative research process used to design a culturally-appropriate cancer clinical trials education program for African American and Latino communities. We characterized community member feedback and its integration into the program.

Methods: We incorporated three engagement approaches into the formative research process to iteratively develop the program: including community-based organization (CBO) leaders as research team members, conducting focus groups and cognitive interviews with community members as reviewers/consultants, and interacting with two community advisory groups. An …

Wrack And Ruin: Legacy Hydrologic Effects Of Hurricane-Deposited Wrack On Hardwood-Hammock Coastal Islands, John T. Van Stan Ii, Scott T. Allen, Travis Swanson

Earth, Environment & Sustainability: Faculty Publications

Hurricanes can cause immediate catastrophic destruction of marsh vegetation and erosion of soils; however, they also have long-lasting ecological impacts. Those impacts include the deposition of tremendous amounts of saltmarsh litter ('wrack') onto upland ecosystems, the hydrologic effects of which have not previously been investigated. When Hurricane Irma battered the southeastern US coastline, widespread wrack deposition was reported (often exceeding 0.5 m depth), especially in vulnerable coastal hammock ecosystems: locally-elevated forests within the saltmarshes that rely on freshwater inputs from rain. We report the impacts of this deposited wrack, which has persisted for 2 years, on effective precipitation inputs to …

College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• 5 things you must do to have a successful virtual internship experience

The Burning Number Of Directed Graphs: Bounds And Computational Complexity, Remie Janssen

Theory & Applications of Graphs

The burning number of a graph was recently introduced by Bonato et al. Although they mention that the burning number generalizes naturally to directed graphs, no further research on this has been done. Here, we introduce graph burning for directed graphs, and we study bounds for the corresponding burning number and the hardness of finding this number. We derive sharp bounds from simple algorithms and examples. The hardness question yields more surprising results: finding the burning number of a directed tree with one indegree-0 node is NP-hard, but FPT; however, it is W[2]-complete for DAGs. Finally, we give a fixed-parameter …

Continuing Education Newsletter, Continuing Education, Georgia Southern University

Division of Continuing & Professional Education

• 10 Free, Online Classes Are Still Available!
• Continuing Education, Department of Public and NonprofitStudies Partner for New Certificate Program
• The Georgia Educational Research Association InvitesProposal Submissions for Its 45th Annual Conference
• Call for Submissions
• The Division's Mission

Georgia Southern Magazine, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Magazine

• Through the Storm
• The Eagle has Landed
• Making History
• The Call to Public Service

The Hr Connection, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources (2010-2023)

• Initial Return to Campus Plan (June 1 - August 1)
• Wellness Corner
• Fall 2020 TAP Deadline Soon
• Concerned about returning to work?
• Continuing education offering FREE online courses

Establishing Best Practices In Institutional Repository Organization, Scott Bacon

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meeting (2020) (Archived)

On the one-year anniversary of the CCU Digital Commons repository the organization of the Collections / Communities.html page was reviewed to gauge the need for revisions. Over 100 Digital Commons sites were examined to see how other repository managers organized their Collections pages. Top-level communities were coded into Community Types and were analyzed to surface trends in current practice. This presentation reviews trends in practice that emerged during research, as well as some of the best practices that were identified, including planning, iteration, labeling, limiting jargon, and finding a balance with top-level and nested content. Suggestions for improvement are given …

Keeping The Ball Rolling: Sustainability And The Open Access Learned Society Journal, Virginia C. Feher, Aajay Murphy

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meeting (2020) (Archived)

In this presentation, the editor and managing editor of the Georgia Library Quarterly (GLQ), the journal of the Georgia Library Association, will provide a brief history of the journal and share information related to current publication practices, in addition to discussing future plans, with a focus on sustainability, including maintaining a robust editorial board, ensuring a reliable peer review process, and the importance of legacy planning to make sure that future editors gain the knowledge and expertise to continue to successfully manage and publish a long-standing and vital journal for Georgia librarians and librarianship. GLQ is published by Kennesaw …

Drive Traffic, Increase Links, Michele Gibney, Nicole Grady

Digital Commons Southeastern User Group Meeting (2020) (Archived)

One of the best ways to drive traffic to an institutional repository site is by adding links to it from other, established sites. This could be your institutional website – adding links from a departmental page to the department’s scholarly work. Or from your social media platforms to a relevant article corresponding with a topical news event. Another option is Wikipedia. Have you considered leveraging Wikipedia’s astronomical base of users for your own ends? With an average of 200 million+ page views a day, Wikipedia is an excellent resource to drive traffic to your IR.

But HOW can you accomplish …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern doctor of physical therapy students awarded scholarships

• Master of Health Administration program receives reaccreditation

Mini-Plans And Freedom Pass Options Announced For Football, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Mini-Plans and Freedom Pass Options Announced for Football

Radio Graceful Labelling Of Graphs, Laxman Saha, Alamgir Rahaman Basunia

Theory & Applications of Graphs

Radio labelling problem of graphs have their roots in communication problem known as Channel Assignment Problem. For a simple connected graph G=(V(G), E(G)), a radio labeling is a mapping f : V(G) →{0,1,2,…} such that |f(u)-f(v)|≥ diam(G)+1-d(u,v) for each pair of distinct vertices u,v ∈ V(G), where diam(G) is the diameter of G and d(u,v) is the distance between u and v. A radio labeling f of a graph G is a radio graceful labeling of G if f(V(G)) = {0,1,… |V(G)|-1}. A graph for which a radio graceful labeling exists is called radio graceful. …

Engagement Of Community Stakeholders To Develop A Framework To Guide Research Dissemination To Communities, Jennifer Cunningham-Erves, Tilicia Mayo-Gamble, Yolanda Vaughn, Jim Hawk, Mike Helms, Claudia Barajas, Yvonne Joosten

Health Policy & Community Health: Faculty Publications

Background: Dissemination of research findings to past study participants and the community-at-large is important. Yet, a standardized process for research dissemination is needed to report results to the community. Objective: We developed a framework and strategies to guide community-academic partnerships in community-targeted, dissemination efforts.

Methods: From 2017 to 2019, a community-academic partnership was formed in Nashville, Tennessee, and iteratively developed a framework and strategies for research dissemination using cognitive interviews. A deductive, constant comparative analysis was conducted on interview responses to examine framework and strategy content. Feedback was used to finalize the framework and strategies for the evaluation. …

Message From The President, Georgia Southern University

Messages from the President

• Message from the President

My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• Georgia Southern’s new vice president for student affairs has firsthand experience with Eagle Nation
• Georgia Southern launches ‘Finish Strong’ campaign to ensure Eagle success
• Sales students in Parker College of Business compete virtually in global competition
• Georgia Southern business student finds team, career during time in Statesboro
• Georgia Southern combines two departments for enhanced student wellness
• Georgia Southern Division of Continuing Education, Department of Public and Nonprofit Studies to offer new certificate program
• BFA senior exhibition showcases online

One More Time: Paula Boixader, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• One More Time: Paula Boixader

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern Division of Continuing Education, Department of Public and Nonprofit studies to offer new certificate program

• Georgia Southern Division of Continuing Education offers free online courses through June 30

• BFA senior exhibition to be showcased online

Georgia Southern Golf Course Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Phase One

Georgia Southern Golf Course Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Phase One

The Effect Of Empathy On Compassion Fatigue And Quality Of Life On Bachelor Of Science Nursing Students, Parker E. Intonato

Honors College Theses

Empathy is a skill that nurses and nursing students must use with their patients to provide high quality care and build rapport with patients. Although, the prolonged use of empathy has been shown to increase compassion fatigue in nurses and decrease quality of life. Empathy has been described as the ability to feel and understand what another is experiencing. Compassion fatigue can be described as the natural response of emotions and behaviors that occur after experiencing and suffering the traumatic experiences of others. The effects of compassion fatigue call into question quality of life (QOL) issues. Quality of life includes …

Green Book (2018) And Blackkklansman (2018): An Analysis Of White And Black Perspectives In Contemporary Films Using Critical Race Theory, Kelsie E. Posey

Honors College Theses

This research analyzes two films, Green Book (2018) and BlacKKKlansman (2018), to uncover the connections between diverse racial representation off-screen, and the presentation of non-white perspectives on-screen. This study uses CRT to frame the effects of diverse source materials and production teams on the films' narratives.

Evaluation Of Student Reactions To Consumer Products, Bryce K. Lesher

Honors College Theses

Based on gender role congruence theory, this research sought to understand how consumer perceptions differ for masculinized and feminized products when they are presented by the opposing gender. Additionally, our research sought to understand what role—if any—political affiliation played in the consumer’s perception of the products presented. The results of this study were inconclusive due to a data collection error, however, the study itself serves as a good framework for answering the question of interest and should be rerun to draw meaningful conclusions.

Early Nineteenth Century Accounting By An Adolescent Merchant, Laurie J. Henry, Michael E. Bitter

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Laurie J. Henry, PhD, CPA, CGFM, is an associate professor of accounting, in the Department of Accounting, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0229.

Michael E. Bitter, Ph.D., CPA, is a professor of accounting, in the School of Business Administration, M.E. Rinker, Sr. Institute of Tax and Accountancy, Stetson University, Deland, FL 32723.

Management Entrenchment In The Market For Corporate Control, Ken C. Yook, George M. Mccabe

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Ken C.Yook, Ph.D., is associate professor of finance. Department of Finance, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC 20036.

George M. McCabe, Ph.D., is professor of finance, Department of Finance, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588.

Staff Council Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

• Call to Order
• P3-5, HR Updates
• P3, President;s Diversity Advisory Council (PDAC) Update
• Information Sharing and Gossip
• P4, Approval of April 17, 2020 Minutes-VOTE
• P4, Treasurer's Report
• P3-5, Committee Reports
• New Business
• P4, By-Laws Update-Vote
• P4, Review of Terms for Staff Council Members
• P4, 2020-2021 Elections Update
• P1-5, USG Staff Council Updates
• Adjournment

Staff Council Meeting Minutes, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

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Messages From The Provost, Georgia Southern University

Messages from the Provost

May 15, 2020: Online Transition Summer Term Start

Zach Harris Joins Volleyball Coaching Staff, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Zach Harris Joins Volleyball Coaching Staff