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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

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November 2, 2011 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes (Archived)

November 2, 2011 Armstrong Graduate Curriculum Committee Minutes

Assessing Event Quality Of High School Football Games: Development Of A Scale, Kevin Byon, Matthew Ziemnik, Eddie T. C. Lam, James J. Zhang

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (a) to identify the dimensions of event quality associated with high school football games and (b) to develop a scale, Event Quality Scale of High School Football (EQS-HSF) that measures event quality of high school football games. Applying a random cluster sampling method, participants were adult spectators (N = 404) from three high school football home games. Following the scale development procedures suggested by Churchill’s (1979), a total of 25 items under six factors (Game Attractiveness, Event Setting, Economic Consideration, Social Opportunity, Exciting Atmosphere, and Enjoyment Experience) were written and validated through qualitative …

Social Marketing As A Catalyst For Building New Relationships Between Sport Practitioners And Academicians, Eric C. Schwarz, Dallas Branch

Journal of Applied Marketing Theory

Social marketing, conceptualized by Kotler and Zaltman (1971) as a means to promote social objectives and causes more effectively, has the potential to be the catalyst for addressing the disparity and creating positive perceptions. Social marketing is a significant means to address communication, conceptualization, and intellectual gaps between groups, which often results in clarifying differences in product and value outcomes; and the need for change and shifts in paradigms associated with practitioner-academician interaction (Hanna, 2001). Primary and secondary research conducted showed that there is fragmentation within the sport industry between academicians and practitioners, resulting in a large intellectual gap. It …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

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The Inkwell, Armstrong Atlantic State University

The Inkwell

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October 17, 2011 Aasu Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

October 17, 2011 AASU Faculty Senate Minutes

F2f In The Age Of Im: Term Paper Clinic At West Virginia University Libraries, Kelly Diamond, Alyssa Wright, Noël Kopriva

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Friends Of Henderson Library Newsletter, Lori Gwinett, W. Bede Mitchell, Sonya S. Shepherd, Jessica Minihan, Margaret Mary Jones, Lisa Smith, Marvin Goss, Jonathan H. Harwell, Jennifer Gerrald, Bob Fernekes, Rebekah Cole, Janet Burns, Julie Harwell, Richard Leo Johnson

Library Publications (1999-2023)

In This Issue: "Save the Date"; "Volunteer Opportunities"; "Social Networking & Henderson Library"; "Ebooks-More than just Kindle or NOOK"; "Attention all Eagles Fans"; "Online Tutorials Using Adobe® Captivate®"; "Henderson Heroes: Spotlight on Employees"; "Blogging and Tagging with the Library"; "Streamlining Workflow Using Wikis & Google Docs"; "Password Now Required for Library Computers"; "EagleScholar: Georgia Southern University's Institutional Repository"; "BYOM: Bring Your Own Mat...to the Library?"; "Center for Research Libraries Membership"; "The USA PATRIOT Act vs. the Constitution"

9/11, Ten Years Later, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

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The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

CLASS Notes

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Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

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Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University Student Awarded Prestigious Scholarship for Study Abroad

The Message Or The Messenger: The Effects Of Political Attitudes And Source On Perceptions Of Media Bias, Emily E. Eisenhart

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

As the televised news media market becomes increasingly diversified, the evidence available suggests that news media audiences are more fragmented than ever, audiences trust the media less and less, and that news consumers tend to seek outlets that they believe share their political attitudes and worldview (Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2009, Tsfati & Capella 2003, Niven 2002, Stalder, 2009, Pew Center, 2009). Researchers Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) were some of the first to describe empirically an observation they call the “hostile media phenomenon.” This phenomenon draws from social judgment theory and assumes that “individuals evaluate the legitimacy of an object …

Learning About Social Capital In A Nonprofit And Philanthropy Management Class, Alexander Livshin

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The SOTL project was based on the goal of developing learning tools that would help students think and act outside the narrow circles of relatives and friends and develop the potential for broader associations through participating in nonprofit organizations and philanthropy. This was done by having students work in groups to invent a charitable organization based on specific local needs during the course, and by having them reflect on the learning gained through the project work. By the end of the term, as indicated by the group projects, reflective essays and two surveys, the vast majority of the students have …

Impact Of Peer Evaluation Confidentiality On Student Marks, Christina Hamme Peterson, N.Andrew Peterson

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Although group work is commonly used in university-level instruction, social loafing, domineering team members, poor attenders, and inequitable distribution of marks have been identified as obstacles to team-based learning. Peer evaluation has been proposed as one vehicle to address these issues. For use in grading, peer evaluations are often anonymous; however, as tools to address team functioning, they should not be conducted anonymously, but rather with the results discussed as feedback. It has been suggested, however, that non-confidential peer evaluations will artificially elevate students’ marks. In this study, we investigated the impact of peer evaluation confidentiality on students’ marks. Without …

Surfacing The Structures Of Patriarchy: Teaching And Learning Threshold Concepts In Women's Studies*, Holly Hassel, Amy Reddinger, Jessica Van Slooten

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Patriarchy is a threshold concept in women’s studies—a significant, defining concept that transforms students’ understanding of the discipline. This article reviews our design, implementation, and findings of a lesson study crafted to teach women’s studies students the complex idea of patriarchy as a social system. We analyze the lesson using both quantitative and qualitative analysis, in keeping with the ideals of feminist pedagogy, suggesting a new model of SoTL research for the women’s studies field.

Images Of Experience: Decolonizing Medicine, Colleen Hill Patton

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The experiences of illness and trauma are vivid examples of a discontinuity that separates us from those that surround us. In seeking treatment, we enter a very foreign culture, regardless of how long or of how serious our injury or illness. We are disconnected from our personal and private lives and are placed within a cultural group bearing a separate set of beliefs and practices. Practitioners of medicine make up a distinct culture. This culture is formed as a site of discontinuity in a large part through the experiences of medical education from that of the experiences of the one …

Sex, Affect, And Academic Performance: It's Not What You Think, Rich Lewine

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

The academic impact of serious depression among college students is beginning to receive increased attention in the research literature. In contrast, we know very little about the affect of mild depression, or dysphoria, on academic performance. This study examines the relationship of baseline dysphoria in 188 students to five measures of academic performance following baseline. Results suggest that even mild dysphoria is associated with poorer academic performance among, paradoxically, academically stronger female students. We discuss the importance of attending to this group of students who are often overlooked because they are relatively high achievers, but who may benefit from short-term, …

Assessing The Pedagogical Impact Of The Vanth Engineering Research Center On Faculty And Postdoctoral Professionals, Monica F. Cox, James Cawthorne, Nathan Mcneill, Osman Cekic, Matthew Frye, Melissa J. Stacer

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

From 1999 to 2007, the Vanderbilt-Northwestern-Texas-Harvard/MIT (VaNTH) Engineering Research Center focused on improving bioengineering education through the applications of learning science, learning technology, and assessment and evaluation within the domain of bioengineering. This paper discusses results from a survey to explore the impact of the VaNTH experience on participating faculty and postdoctoral professionals. The results note that respondents differed in their familiarity with and applications of dimensions of the “How People Learn” framework and in their operationalization of effective instruction after their participation in VaNTH. Implications for teaching and learning with the context of a Center model are discussed along …

Reconsidering Boyer's Reconsideration: Paradigms, Sharing, And Engagement, David Starr-Glass

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Ernest Boyer provided a purpose for a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) although he might not have provided a description of the process. Boyer’s contribution concerned the nature of scholarship and research and, as such, it implicitly questioned existing assumptions, paradigms and epistemologies. Disciplinary paradigms are examined through the work of Thomas Kuhn in order to appreciate their strengths and limitations. An analysis of Boyer’s reconsideration of research and scholarship of engagement then provides purpose and direction for the scholarship of teaching. As an emergent discipline, SoTL finds itself defined and described. In that description there are concerns about …

La Máscara Afro-Puertorriqueña: Una Auto-Re-Presentación A Través De La Búsqueda De La Identidad Racial, Étnica Y Nacional En Down These Mean Streets, Forrest Blackbourn

The Coastal Review

This article analyzes the textual elements of Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets that demonstrate, in addition to the continual problematization of closed racial categories, the problems that are associated with static categorizations of ethnicity and nationality. This article calls into question traditional definitions of race, yet it also challenges definitions of Puerto Rican and Nuyorican identities. Race, nationality, and ethnicity are all vital elements to the human experience, and we will discover who is/are responsible for the protagonist Piri’s lack of racial recognition in the United States.

La Complejidad Del Concepto De La Mujer Española De La Posguerra En La Novela De Manuel Mantero, Maria Aurora Álvarez Andréu

The Coastal Review

Ever since antiquity until the present, the concept of woman has been based on the duality of Mary and Eve. The intention of the present work is to study a third option to complete this preexisting duality of womanhood. More precisely, the objective of this work is to analyze how the characters of the single woman, the nun and the prostitute in León de Manuel Mantero's novel Estiércol [Manure] constitute an empty idea of the feminine which, consequently, will allow us to have a more clear perception of the social reality during Spain's post civil war era.

Chaos As Ecological And Autochthonous Expression: An Ecocritical Study Of La Vorágine, Danion L. Doman

The Coastal Review

This article utilizes principles of ecological criticism to provide new readings of both the role and presentation of nature in José Eustasio Rivera’s novel La vorágine. Whereas critics have heretofore focused on Rivera’s memorable subjective descriptions of the Amazon jungle, the present study foregrounds the rich diversity of the real organisms represented in these depictions. In addition, this essay explores the connections between the text’s core trope, chaos, and the current ecological and social scientific understanding of the ecology and the human history of the Amazon Basin.

Charamicos: Bildungsroman Femenino O Aprendizaje Político A Través De La Memoria Histórica, Lucia M. Montas

The Coastal Review

In Latin America, the combination of history and fiction, especially during the last decades has allowed marginalized groups, specifically women, to contribute to the rewriting and reevaluation of their national history. Women writers in contemporary Dominican literature have been able to actively participate in this process after a long period of silence. Dominican author Angela Hernandez exemplifies this idea within contemporary Dominican narrative. In her novel Charamicos (2003), Hernandez reinterprets the Post Trujillo era from a feminist point of view. Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze this novel as a depository of historical memory and construction of …

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

Excerpt: "Greetings! CLASS extends a fond farewell and its sincere gratitude to Dr. Michael Braz for 24 years of service and dedication to Georgia Southern University. A legend both at the University and in Statesboro, he received the President's Medal from Georgia Southern and was named a Legend in the Arts by the Averitt Center for the Arts in Statesboro. We wish him the best of luck in retirement as he embarks on his new adventure in the Peace Corps."

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An Archaeological Examination Of A Family Cemetery In The South Carolina Low Country, Brian Mitchell Milner

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Over the past eleven years excavations have been conducted at nineteenth century rice plantation near Coosawhatchie, South Carolina. This site has yielded an amazing assortment of artifacts as well as multiple structures associated with plantation life in the Antebellum South. It was during the course of this work that a long forgotten family cemetery was relocated. This paper details the process of excavation and locating of the cemetery, analysis of artifacts recovered, and the determination of the use of the area as that of a place of interment.

Between Morality And Myth: A Parodic Visual Manifesto, Patricia J. Quilichini

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Acting on the belief that art communicates, that an image speaks all languages, these works were created as a visual manifesto responding satirically to the absurd way in which myths are elevated to the status of moral values. The photographic works created for this thesis challenge long held beliefs and emotions that associate sex with shame and guilt, and that grow out of the moral traditions we have inherited. Judeo-Christian traditions and religious beliefs have created widely unchallenged social/moral constructs, which regard sexuality and sexual awareness as sinful and woman as subservient to the moral authority constructed by men. I …