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#Golead Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

#GoLead Newsletter (2016-2023)

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The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

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Five Things You Should Know This Week, Georgia Southern University

A Few Things You Should Know This Week (2020-2023)

• Celebrate Together Thursday on the Armstrong Campus
• Annual Armstrong Campus Arboretum Plant Sale is Thursday
• High Volume of Requests Forcing HR to Adjust Completion Timelines
• Health Services Offering COVID-19 Bivalent Boosters

Rev. Benjamin Franklin Young, Jr.

African American Funeral Programs

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Faculty Internationalization Perceptions: Comparing Disciplines, John P. Girard, Laura Thomason, Chris Tsavatewa

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

This project examined faculty internationalization perceptions at a medium-sized public university. In this phase of the project, the researchers focused on the potential differences between distinct faculty groups. The groups under review were based on the university's academic schools of Arts & Letters, Aviation, Business, Computing, Education & Behavioral Sciences, and Health & Natural Sciences. Two sets of data were collected and analyzed. The first collection was exploratory in nature and was collected in the first quarter of 2020. The second dataset was meant to confirmatory and was collected in the fourth quarter of 2020. In hindsight, we now know …

Let’S Normalize Mental Health Days, Lateshia Warren, Virginia Wilcox

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a vast amount of unprecedented challenges, many of which appear to be disproportionately affecting the mental health and well-being of young adults. While there is research to suggest university students experience high rates of mental health disorders, less is known about the specific impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on student mental health and how they are coping with this stress (Prowse et al., 2021). This study involved Elementary Education professors purposefully embedding mental health days in certain education courses throughout the 2021-2022 school year. This study was conducted with undergraduate students at an all women's …

No Dejes Nada En La Puerta: Achieving Equity Through Asset-Based Peer Support, Brooklyn Herrera

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Higher education institutions are becoming increasingly diverse, and Latinx students are a major contributor to this diversity, as they are the largest and fastest growing minoritized population in the United States. Nevertheless, retention and completion gaps for Latinx students persist (Kolluri, 2021). Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) play a pivotal role in promoting educational equity for Latinx students, but they have traditionally been concentrated in urban areas and a small number of states. In future years, new HSIs will emerge largely in rural environments and states with rapidly growing Latinx populations, such as Georgia.

Informed by community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005), this …

Seeking The Way Back To Normal: A Longitudinal Qualitative Investigation Of Teacher Experiences Through Covid-19, Jeffrey Keese, Karen Mcintush

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

This qualitative study represents the final report of a three-year longitudinal investigation of teacher experiences since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring semester of 2020. Teachers from a diverse set of school contexts discussed their experiences returning to fully in-person instruction of students in individual interviews and a focus group. The transcripts of those conversations were analyzed using a hybrid qualitative approach to uncover emergent themes and compare experiences across three school years across a priori themes including teacher well-being, student concerns, and instructional technology use. Emergent themes included student impacts (e.g., poor habits developed by students) …

Examining Social Justice Ideas In Science Teachers Through An Online Book Club, Suzanna Roman-Oliver

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

This study explored the experiences of four pre-service science teachers while participating in a virtual book club. The participants were science education MAT students that were enrolled in a “Learner Differences” course during the summer semester. The participants read “Teaching Science for Social Justice” from Angela Calabrese Barton. They met virtually for an hour each week to discuss the ideas presented within the different book chapters. A total of 13 science education MAT students were part of the book club, but only four agreed to participate in the study. Data was collected in the form of course artifacts that included …

Facing Some Hard Truths: A Caep Action Research Project Results In Reflexivity, Reflection, & Revision, Melissa Comer, Nancy Kolodziej

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Per Ojeda (2010), for reflection to be effective it must include opportunity to improve performance. Writing the self-study report for the Council for the Accreditation of Education Preparation (CAEP) provided a perfect chance for the researchers to put effective reflection into action. Situated within a graduate-level literacy program, they implemented a collaborative action research project simultaneously with writing the CAEP self-study report. Guided by the research questions below, they learned valuable lessons, validated the program’s strengths, and faced some hard truths about its weaknesses.

• What practical applications can be learned from the CAEP self-study report?
• How can critical reflection be …

Black Stem Mentors Matter: A Qualitative Case Study Examining The Contextual Factors Of Mentoring Relationships In Stem At A Private Hbcu That Contribute To African American Student Persistence Within Stem Majors, Brittany Chambers

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

As science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields continue to drive the nation forward, there remains a need for more diversified STEM minds. While there have been many interventions geared toward supporting minorities at predominately white institutions (PWIs), seldom do researchers investigate where African American STEM students experience the most success, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Therefore, this qualitative case study aimed to examine the contextual factors that make up mentoring relationships in STEM at a HBCU that contribute to African American student persistence in STEM. An exploratory, qualitative approach was utilized to focus on STEM students at a …

2022 Conference Program, Gera Conference

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Conference Theme: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems for the 21st Century

The George-Anne Inkwell Edition, Georgia Southern University

The Inkwell

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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College Of Engineering News, Georgia Southern University

College of Engineering & Computing: News & Publications (2010-2023)

• MSMechE Student Weaver Presents Research at DC Conference

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Library Resources For Future/Current Resource Conscious Educators, Kay Coates, Lamonica Sanford

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at the Georgia Libraries Conference.

Size Assortative Mating In The Clown Weevil, Denson K. Mclain

Faculty Datasets

These data were collected as part of a study of the Sesbania clown weevil, Eudiagogus pulcher Fahraeus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in eastern Texas, where the density of clown weevils varied by 25-50 times within all of four sites, increasing with the proximity to water of its host plant, rattlebox, Sesbania drummondi (Rybd.) Cory (Fabaceae). These data document changes in the strength and direction of assortative mating by size (body length) which reflect the effect of population density on the rates of mate choosiness, courtship, and inter-male rivalry. Stochastic simulations investigate how interactions between population density, the operational sex ratio, rate of …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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Midweek Memo, Georgia Southern University

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Georgia Southern’S Checkout Equipment: Laptops, Cameras, Boardgames, And More. How We Manage The Checkout Equipment Program, Wilhelmina Randtke, Lonnie Brogdon, Tony Curtis, Jessica Garner

University Libraries: Faculty Presentations

Presentation given at the Georgia Libraries Conference, Macon, GA.

Georgia Southern makes available a variety of equipment for student check out including a fleet of approximately 200 laptops, high-end digital cameras, tripods and lighting kits, video recording equipment, high-end microphones, and more. Equipment checkout is popular with students with equipment cycling in and out. Equipment also presents unique cataloging challenges. MARC was designed for books, and providing a good search for pulling statistics for non-traditional items can be a challenge. Items also may be returned needing repairs and Georgia Southern performs in-house repairs on laptops and other electronics. Participants will …

College Of Public Heath News, Georgia Southern University

College of Public Health: News & Publications

• State Health Leader to Discuss Past, Present and Future of Georgia’s Public Health at Georgia Southern University

Alpha Labeling Of Amalgamated Cycles, Christian Barrientos

Theory & Applications of Graphs

A graceful labeling of a bipartite graph is an α-labeling if it has the property that the labels assigned to the vertices of one stable set of the graph are smaller than the labels assigned to the vertices of the other stable set. A concatenation of cycles is a connected graph formed by a collection of cycles, where each cycle shares at most either two vertices or two edges with other cycles in the collection. In this work we investigate the existence of α-labelings for this kind of graphs, exploring the concepts of vertex amalgamation to produce a …

Gata Now!, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Family Weekend
• Men's Soccer Pink Out
• Women's Soccer International Day
• Rifle Invisible Opponent & Pink Out
• Question of the Week
• 2022-23 Women's Basketball Season Tickets
• 2022-23 Men's Basketball Season Tickets
• Women's Basketball Hygiene Drive
• Pledge Per Week
• Volleyball
• Women's Soccer
• Men's Soccer
• Full Schedule
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Department Of Human Resources News, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources Newsletter

• Making a Difference In Georgia

Gata Now!, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Family Weekend
• Men's Soccer Pink Out
• Women's Soccer International Day
• Rifle Invisible Opponent & Pink Out
• Question of the Week
• 2022-23 Women's Basketball Season Tickets
• 2022-23 Men's Basketball Season Tickets
• Women's Basketball Hygiene Drive
• Pledge Per Week
• Volleyball
• Women's Soccer
• Men's Soccer
• Full Schedule
• Headlines

Department Of Human Resources News, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources (2010-2023)

• Making a Difference In Georgia

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern Professor Named Sociologist of the Year

• State Health Leader to Discuss Past, Present and Future of Georgia’s Public Health at Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

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College Of Business News, Georgia Southern University

College of Business: News & Publications

• FA & SIA Jointly Host E*Trade Speakers

• Finance Association Hosts Northwestern Mutual Guest Speakers