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Emotional Support Animals, Service Animals, And Pets On Campus, C. W. Von Bergen

Administrative Issues Journal

For decades, universities have been accommodating physically disabled students who require guide dogs and other types of service animals. Within the past several years, however, mentally disabled students have increasingly petitioned colleges with no-pet policies to permit them to bring their animals on campus because they need a companion or emotional support animal to make college life easier and to reduce their stress, loneliness, depression, and/or anxiety. Institutions that unlawfully reject such requests are finding themselves in court and charged with disability discrimination. Schools are understandably confused about their obligation, if any, to waive their no-pet rules under these circumstances. …

The Impact Of A Support Group For Mentors, Joel Bates

Senior Honors Theses

In recent years, mentoring has been recognized by organizations and researchers as having great importance and potential. One of the three major mentoring fields, youth mentoring has been utilized and noted as a source of support and benefit for youth. Although some reviews are conflicted, the literature has largely shown this practice of guiding youth to be effective in helping to produce improved outcomes for children later in life. Researchers have also found evidence for the benefits of mentoring for mentors that can be explained within the context of Erikson’s psychosocial theory of development. The program that was studied for …

Taking Nothing For Granted In Management Education: A Systemic Perspective On The Role Of Reflective Questioning, A. Georges L. Romme, Inge C. M. Van Seggelen-Damen

Organization Management Journal

Questioning is one of the most critical behaviors in management education and learning. In this article we explore the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of reflective questioning, as a key element of management learning and education. Reflective questioning involves raising tentative, nonrhetorical questions. By reviewing and synthesizing the literature, we develop a model of reflective questioning in the form of a causal loop diagram. This model implies that reflective questioning can be taught through particular forms of management education, but is also contingent on the psychological safety of the group setting, the individual need for cognition, and challenging tasks and experiences.

Mature Women And Higher Education: Reconstructing Identity And Family Relationships, Louise Webber

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.

Stepfamily Experiences Project (Step), Kevin Shafer, Erin K. Holmes

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Stepfamily Experience Project (STEP) is a data set made up of approximately 1,500 emerging adults (aged 18-29) that was collected in 2013. STEP was motivated by a research literature which argues that stepfamilies are worse off than two-biological parent families (sometimes called biologically-intact families). While, on average, this may be true, STEP researchers thought that this research ignored what makes a successful stepfamily. This is unfortunate, because stepfamilies are of immense worth which can positively impact men, women, and children. As a result, we collected data, with the support of BYU and generous donors, to find out exactly what …

Statement Given In Bridging The Gap: How Prepared Are Americans For Retirement? Hearing Before The U.S. Senate Special Committee On Aging, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Center for Social Development Research

Statement Given in Bridging the Gap: How Prepared Are Americans for Retirement? Hearing Before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

We Get To Carry Each Other: Using The Musical Activism Of U2 As Framework For An Engaged Spirituality And Community Engagement Course, Marshall Welch

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

This article describes a January term community engagement service-learning course that used the musical and spiritually-based activism of the rock group U2 as an example of engaged spirituality using activism and advocacy. In addition to learning about the history, music, and activism of the band, students were taught a specific set of skills for activism, advocacy, and community organizing that included creating goal statements, developing and implementing action plans, and coordinating logistics for advocacy-based events on campus. Students were assigned to apply these skills as the service-learning component of the course. These activities were conceptualized as indirect service that reflected …

Chanticleer | April 2, 2015, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, April 2, 2015, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Program Proposals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, April 2, 2015, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Credit Hour Change
• New Course

Plant Soils and Climate

• Course No. Change, New Course, Dual List
• New Course, Grade Type

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change
• New Course
• Course Description Change

School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course, Grade Type

Art and Design

• Prerequisite Change
• Add Repeatable for Credit
• New Course, Dual List

Theatre Arts

• New Course

Economics and Finance

• Dual List Change
• Dual List Change, Grade Type

Management

• Course No. Change, Title Change
• Credit Hour Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Grade Type

Communicative Disorders and Deaf …

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, April 2, 2015, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Program Proposals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

The Comment, April 2, 2015, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, April 2, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The April 2, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, April 2, 2015, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

No abstract provided.

Workers Can't Find Jobs, Jobs Can't Find Workers: Solving The Talent Paradox, Harika Rao

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

A plethora of recent employment surveys have identified the 'talent paradox' implying the inability of the employers to find suitable workers despite the abundant availability of undergraduates reportedly due to the lack of future work skills. Against this backdrop, this study aims to illuminate the need for improving the marketability of the undergraduate students by infusing hitherto untested combination of the two interventional models, namely, Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats and Stephen R Covey's 7 Habits of the Highly Effective People. ' The very dynamic nature of the unemployment problem among undergraduates is of current and continuing interest not …

2015-04-02 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Faculty Senate. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes for April 2, 2015.

Factors That Lead To Hospital Readmissions And Interventions That Reduce Them: Moving Toward A Faith Community Nursing Intervention, Deborah J. Ziebarth

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

Abstract

Hospital readmissions affect over 80 percent of all Medicare enrollees. Hospitals have a responsibility to their Medicare patients to keep them safe after discharge in their homes and communities. With changes in the Medicare reimbursement model, hospitals are examining efficient methods of decreasing avoidable re-admissions. A Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care Program may be just the answer to improve patient’s discharge experience, ensure post-discharge support and reduce re-hospitalization.

Methods

In preparations for testing a Faith Community Nurse Transitional Care Program Model, a systematic integrative review was needed. Using PRISMA, a search was done, inclusion criteria identified, and articles retrieved. …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, April 2, 2015, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Sciences

• Credit Hour Change
• Course No. Change
• New Course

Plant Soils and Climate

• Course No. Change, New Course, Dual List
• New Course, Grade Type

School of Applied Sciences, Technology and Education

• Title Change, Course Description Change
• Title Change
• New Course
• Course Description Change

School of Veterinary Medicine

• New Course, Grade Type

Art and Design

• Prerequisite Change
• Add Repeatable for Credit
• New Course, Dual List

Theatre Arts

• New Course

Economics and Finance

• Dual List Change
• Dual List Change, Grade Type

Management

• Course No. Change
• Credit Hour Change
• Title Change, Credit Hour Change, Grade Type

Communicative Disorders and …

Influx Of Child Immigrants To The United States: Policy & Practice Implications, Megan Vogt

Annual Graduate Student Symposium

This qualitative study helps individuals to recognize what the United States and the state of Iowa are doing for the children coming from the countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Through interviews, the research was able to identify what other resources are still needed in helping the children capture a better life.

Suicidal And Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, Taylor Ash

Annual Graduate Student Symposium

A literature review over the differences between suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents. This review looks into several factors and differences about why adolescents engage in the behaviors, reactions they receive when asking for help, and implications for future practice.

Role Overload And Prescription Stimulant Use Among College Students, Haley Cook

Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research

Previous research has found that prescription stimulant use on college campuses has increased in recent years although estimates of the actual amount of stimulant use vary. Studies have also found that the motives for stimulant abuse vary with some individuals indicating they use prescription stimulants for academic purposes while others use them for recreational purposes. Today, the student role includes academic, organizational involvement, and social expectations. Students, who have difficulty meeting the multiple obligations placed upon them by the student role are said to be experiencing role strain. One type of role strain is role overload, which occurs when people …

Full Issue

Paideia

No abstract provided.

Educating The Mindful Citizen: Suny Trustee Joseph Belluck '94 Advocates For Mindfulness' Place In University Curriculums, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Leveraging The Law School For Good, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Ub Law Forum Volume 29 Number 2 Spring 2015, University At Buffalo School Of Law

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Eagle Families Newsletter Spring 2015, Bridgewater College

Eagle Families Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Phoenix, 2015-04-01, Student Life

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.

Faculty Perspectives - Spring 2015, Iit Chicago-Kent College Of Law

Faculty Perspectives

This issue features new scholarship on law, gender, and society by faculty members Katharine K. Baker, Felice Batlan, and Michael Spak. Also inside—constitutional law scholarship by Steven Heyman.

Factor Analyses Of A Social Support Scale Using Two Methods, Yu Yu, Cheng-Shi Shiu, Joyce Yang, Mingjiong Wang, Jane M. Simoni, Wei-Ti Chen, Joy Cheng, Hongxin Zhao

Psychology

Purpose: Evaluation and comparison of the factor structure of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey (MOS-SSS) using both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) with two samples of people living with HIV/AIDS in China.

Methods: Secondary analyses were conducted with data from two comparable samples of 320 people living with HIV/AIDS from the same hospital using the same inclusion criteria. The first sample of 120 was collected in 2006, and the second sample of 200 was collected in 2012. For each sample, CFA was first performed on the original four-factor structure to check model fit, followed …

New Frontiers 2014-2015, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Office Of Graduate Studies And Research

New Frontiers

New Frontiers 2014-2015 Features:

• Plants to Fuel - Paul Twigg
• Intrinsic Motivation - Sherry Crow
• Cemetery Desecration - Carol Lilly
• Child Kinship Caregiving - Toni Hill
• Dr. Doomtown - Doug Waterfield
• Personalized Treatment - Miechelle McKelvey
• Film Scholar - Sam Umland