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Faculty Senate Minutes

March 11, 2020 Faculty Senate Minutes

Infusing Literacy And Math Into A Socio-Culturally Responsive Summer Science Camp, Alma D. Stevenson, Shelli L. Casler-Failing

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will describe a Summer Literacy in Science Camp conducted with students in intermediate and middle level at our local Boys and Girls Club. The students participated in reading and writing activities incorporating culturally relevant books, research, journal writing, innovative presentations, and daily science labs focused on the investigation of the surface and tap water in our community.

Read, Write, Rhyme: Increasing Reading Performance With Hip-Hop Texts, Crystal Monique Lavoulle

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation describes the Harlem Renaissance to Hip Hop Movement, a literacy program that uses best practices in literacy instruction to improve reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing. Moving beyond educational hip-hop songs and videos, this presentation offers insight into effective ways to increase Georgia Milestone Assessment scores in both English language arts and social studies using a variety of hip-hop texts.

Giving Them What They Need: An Emergent Framework For K-12 Support Systems That Promotes Equity In Student Success, Randy Bumpers, Chelsia Douglas

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

The GAP Project is a K-12 academic success program delivered to student cohorts beginning in the seventh grade. The program uses a co-curricular, blended learning model. Students at the local colleges support the program as volunteers and interns that serving as facilitators and curriculum developers. The program seeks to generate a pipeline of student cohorts from local K-12 schools with increased college-going culture.

The Domino Effect: Lessons From The Prison Walls, Trent Grundmeyer, Jamie Ross

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation is designed to provide insight to those who serve at-risk populations. Participants will explore the risk factors and statistics around at-risk youth. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to hear first-hand from an incarcerated women who can testify to successful and unsuccessful interventions adults attempted to help her with. She is both a victim and success story that is the face of how education can indeed make a difference for kids.

After successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Build empathy for students who do not have support from parents.
2. Understand why attendance is often …

4-H Tech Changemakers Project: Empowering Teens & Serving Rural Communities, Kasey Bozeman

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

With over 23.4 million people lacking broadband internet access in the U.S, families and communities demonstrate struggles. Feeling secure and knowledgeable enough to adopt and use the technology is another challenge. Through the 4-H Tech Changemakers project, youth and adult teams taught digital literacy and safety skills to 80 communities across America. This session will share how to implement a similar program in your community.

Arguing About Science: Empowering Students And Developing Issue-Based Pedagogies Through Debate, Cynthia Deaton, Jacquelynn A. Malloy

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation will guide 4th-12th grade educators to engage students in using content area knowledge to solve real-world problems. Using an adaptation of policy debate, learners use facts and evidence gathered through their participation in Science and Engineering Practices to create resolutions to place-based issues that are occurring in their own communities.

Conference Program 2020, National Youth-At-Risk Conference Savannah

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

Conference Program

Triangles In Ks-Saturated Graphs With Minimum Degree T, Craig Timmons, Benjamin Cole, Albert Curry, David Davini

Theory & Applications of Graphs

For n ≥ 15, we prove that the minimum number of triangles in an n-vertex K₄-saturated graph with minimum degree 4 is exactly 2n-4, and that there is a unique extremal graph. This is a triangle version of a result of Alon, Erdos, Holzman, and Krivelevich from 1996. Additionally, we show that for any s > r ≥ 3 and t ≥ 2 (s-2)+1, there is a K_s-saturated n-vertex graph with minimum degree t that has \binom{ s-2}{r-1}2^{r-1} n + c_{s,r,t} copies of K_r. This shows that …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• How do prominent figures of black history impact you to do better today?
• SGA drafting new constitution after an election left the presidency vacant
• Student arrested for rape and aggravated assault at Cambridge apartments
• Hinesville adopts jail-free marijuana ordinance
• Gender and sexuality to be discussed at Courageous Conversations
• If you have an unpaid or low-paid internship, this scholarship is for you
• Black Women Empowerment Awards to honor eight Eagles
• Sexual Assault Response Team displays shirts around campus
• Know Your Health & Resources A Sex-Ed Learning Experience
• Choose Your Major
• What you missed in Georgia Southern Athletics The Weekend of Feb.21 …

Up Rooting: Sports Marketing Analytics And Attendance In Major League Baseball, Adam Merkle, Catherine Hessick, Britton Leggett, Kenneth O'Connor, Larry Goehrig

AMTP Proceedings 2020

Spurred by a continuous decline in Major League Baseball (MLB) ticket sales and attendance, this study examines external and internal factors affecting team financial performance. Using only secondary data, constructs for external factors (i.e. population, facility age, etc.), team offensive performance (i.e. at-bats, home runs, etc.), attendance, and revenue-based financial metrics were analyzed with PLS-SEM. The findings reveal external factors positively affect both attendance and team financials, but the relationship between a team’s offensive performance and team financials is fully mediated by attendance. The findings imply future sales growth may need to come from marketing strategies and promotional efforts beyond …

Common Data Set, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Common Datasets

No abstract provided.

Small Teaching: Effective Techniques To Scaffold Student Learning In Information Literacy Instruction Sessions., Omer Farooq

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Learning scientists have long advocated for using learning techniques that help students achieve their learning outcomes in a variety of different contexts. These strategies include engaging prior knowledge, elaborative interrogation questions, self-explanation, distributed practice, and testing—all of which bring the processes of comprehension, critical thinking, and synthesis to the explicit attention of the learner. However, the use of strategies such as self-explanations, analogies, and elaborative interrogation prompts that enhance learning by facilitating the various stages of the research process is not fully explored in the context of information literacy instruction. This presentation will highlight ways to incorporate specific questioning prompts …

Everyone Loves Gummi Bears! Removing The Intimidation Factor From Research Data Management With Yummy Fun., Dawn N. Cannon-Rech, Jeffrey M. Mortimore

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

How do you get students excited about research data management and attract over 70 participants to a voluntary workshop? How do you get Librarians excited about teaching a research data management workshop to undergraduates? With the promise of Gummi Bears and hands-on fun! During this workshop session, presenters will break down their experience overhauling a faculty workshop into an active learning session to expose students of all experience levels to basic research data management concepts and techniques. Presenters will walk participants through their design process from inception to delivery, highlighting how Gummi Bears lessened students’ intimidation with this complex topic …

Archives And Stem: The Perfect Formula For Immersive Cross-Disciplinary Instruction., Dawn N. Cannon-Rech, Autumn Johnson

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Reaching out to STEM Students beyond the one-shot requested instruction sessions is challenging. Creating faculty buy-in for non-traditional STEM instruction is doubly challenging. This poster will highlight a recent activity designed to draw STEM participation in utilizing a unique set of resources from the institution’s Archival Collections. Normally viewed as primarily relevant to history and humanities students, this collection provides the backbone for a fully immersive Escape Room Activity and exposure to primary sources normally not considered part of the normal STEM course work. The hands-on activity provides an opportunity for critical thinking, reflection, and teamwork. The poster will highlight …

Students’ Perspectives On The Teaching And Learning Of Information Literacy And Library Skills (Ils), Annah Sephene Macha

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Information Literacy is one of the key factors in order for one to succeed at any university. The purpose of this study was to investigate the students’ perception towards the teaching and learning of Information and Library Literacy or skills ILS, at a regionally accredited university of Science and Technology in Central Botswana.

A sample size was a population of the study was going a total one hundred (100) students filled the questionnaire and ten (10) students’ and ten (10) staff members were involved in the same structured interviews. The methodology administered----All three librarians teaching TWAL students and a sample …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

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• A new playing field: former athlete turned educational leader inspires students to be campus, community leaders
• Georgia Southern working with National Institute of Design, Amazon India to create sustainable e-commerce packaging
• Georgia Southern 'New Teacher Thrive and Survive Summit' assists new teachers with classroom management
• Science on Tap brewing scientific conversations in Savannah, Statesboro
• 'Godspell' next up in Main Stage Series at Performing Arts Center

My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• Keeping the region in motion: Georgia Southern opens new Kinesiology Research Labs
• Front row seat to history: Georgia Southern Liberty Campus student attends 2020 State of the Union
• Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony to perform spring concert on Armstrong Campus
• Ancient North American beasts subject of next edition of Science on Tap
• 2020 USG Well-being Kickoff Events begin Feb. 25
• Eagle baseball kicks off busy week for athletics

Scholar-Athletes Recognized For Performance In The Classroom, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Scholar-Athletes Recognized For Performance in the Classroom

Sensemaking And Big Data Science: Soft And Hard Marketing Skills Are Needed Today, Michael Latta

AMTP Proceedings 2020

The story of how Big Data Science was enabled through the marriage of technology in the form of the young discipline of computer science and the mature discipline of statistics was told by Gil Press in his (2013) Forbes piece titled ‘A Very Short History Of Data Science.’ The name “Data Science” is now the discipline charged with utilizing Big Data. But making sense of data has a much longer history and has been debated by scientists, statisticians, librarians, computer scientists and others for years. More recently, the ideas surrounding the importance of ‘context’ have been integrated into the use …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Southern Ambassador wins Miss Georgia Southern competition
• Jaiden Hamilton’s career high performance leads Eagles to snap losing streak against Arkansas State
• Opinion: The rise of black quarterbacks has been a long time coming

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

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• Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony to perform spring concert on Armstrong Campus
• U.S. News & World Report recognizes Georgia Southern business programs
• Ancient North American beasts subject of next edition of Science on Tap

Faculty Senate Agenda, Helen Bland

Faculty Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• United States Navy Band to perform on Georgia Southern's Armstrong Campus on Feb. 28
• Georgia Southern students to provide free income tax preparation for community
• Armstrong Campus hosts annual 'High School Congressional Exhibition'
• Georgia Southern students host first annual Coastal Georgia Reverse Science Fair

Music For Minds And Muscles, Shelly Lawson

Southern Conference on Children (2006-2022)

This training is necessary for EC professionals to gain knowledge on how music can be incorporated into every aspect of learning. Training will also assist in curriculum planning that incorporates the GELDS.

EC professionals will be able to demonstrate how music can teach the whole child. They will get specific resources they can use to help lesson plan and learn how to incorporate it in their classroom.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Celebrating 20 Years of Patti Pace Performance Festival
• Armstrong Campus' Southern Cafe, aquaponics farm-to-table partnership offers sustainable, healthy food options
• Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health Eta Sigma Gamma chapter receives national award

Librarian's Report 1-24-2020, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Librarian's Reports

January 24, 2020 Librarian's Report

Approval Of Curricula Actions - Graduate Committee Minutes - January 2020, Y'Lonne Hodges

Faculty Senate: Index

Georgia Southern University's Faculty Senate has approved the Graduate Committee meeting minutes, which includes approved curricula actions.