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Innovation And Equality: An Approach To Constructing A Community Governed Network Commons, Rider W. Foley, Olivier Sylvain, Shelila Foster

Faculty Scholarship

Networked computing affords users distinct opportunities to communicate with each other, build relationships, transact business, and create. Yet, the digital divide perpetuates existing disparities between social groups. Interventions that rely on private ownership or philanthropy often fall short. Efforts to redress these disparities require collaboration across academic disciplines and with government and private sector organizations. This paper chronicles efforts in Harlem to address this through a collaborative approach to networked computing. We draw on two concepts--responsible innovation and co-governance--to sketch a community-based approach to networked computing. Second, the article identifies two potential systems, based in property law, through which a …

Transitions In Care And Services (2nd Ed.), Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Community and Population-based Materials

The purpose of this best practice guideline (BPG) is to provide evidence-based recommendations for nurses and members of the interprofessional team, organizations and the health system. These recommendations support safe and effective transitions in care for pediatric and adult persons and their support network. This BPG is to be used by nurses and members of the interprofessional team across the continuum of care (e.g., primary care, home and community care, mental health and substance use health settings, acute care, rehabilitation, long-term care, correctional facilities and shelters), in all domains of practice (e.g., clinical care, administration, education, policy and research) supporting …

Learning About Others In Multiculturalist Social Service's Curriculum In Finland: Transnational Feminism, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, And Politics Of Othering In The Curriculum, Jenni Lampinen

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Social work education aims to train competent professionals to answer the needs of changing populations and society. Education includes theoretical and practical components that offer the frames for social work at different levels of society; personal, interpersonal, institutional, and structural. Primarily, multicultural social work focuses on working with populations with diverse ethnic, cultural, and racial identities that often differ from the majority population. Multicultural social work can be seen as a bridge between minority communities and society. This research was implemented using discourse analysis to examine the social services program’s curriculum of one University of Applied Sciences in the Helsinki …

Best Practices For Health Equity And Antiracism Curriculum For Healthcare Workers Regarding Sb 5229, Amanda Osei, Iman Yunis

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Interpersonal racism, bias, and discrimination can often directly contribute to poor healthcare outcomes. Their correlation can be seen in infant mortality, maternal mortality, life expectancy, heart disease, cancer, and more (Bailey et al., 2017; Gee & Ford, 2011). The COVID-19 health pandemic reinforces this pattern of health inequity. Structural inequalities during the pandemic further emphasized racial and ethnic disparities in BIPOC populations. BIPOC populations are more likely to have conditions associated with increased risk of illness from COVID-19 relative to their white counterparts (Raifman et al., 2020). Barriers to achieving health equity include lack of policy addressing health inequities and …

Mindfulness For Inpatient Psychiatric Clinical Staff: Designing And Evaluating A Pilot Intervention To Reduce Stress And Burnout, Daniel Brusser

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has both highlighted and compounded a burnout crisis among the healthcare workforce. Healthcare professionals are experiencing workplace stress and professional burnout in substantial numbers, which has resulted in multiple negative consequences including decreased productivity, poor staff retention, and increased organizational costs. While effective multi-pronged approaches to address stress and burnout among healthcare professionals account for the problem at all levels from individual to organizational, a growing evidence base supports the implementation of mindfulness-based interventions as one strategy to reduce stress and burnout and build resiliency.

Objectives: The purpose of this DNP project was to design …

The Lived Supervision Experiences Of Disabled Music Therapists, Emma Martin

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Within and outside of the music therapy field, there has been a recent push for more conversations and literature on social justice. However, disability has been largely left out of this dialogue. Disabled individuals have unique worldviews, and their voices as individuals and practitioners should be an integral part of social justice within music therapy. This study examined disabled music therapists' supervision experiences. All music therapists receive supervision during their education and clinical training, and many go on to supervise. Supervision therefore presents an opportunity to advance the profession by striving to understand disabled music therapists’ perspectives. The purpose of …

Trialling Hyflex At Tu Dublin – Stakeholders’ Voices And Experiences, Frances Boylan, Geraldine Gorham, Catherine Gorman, Jen Harvey, Louise Lynch, Niall Minto, Ziene Mottiar

Irish Journal of Academic Practice

HyFlex is a multi-modal instructional approach that offers students the opportunity to engage with modules face-to-face and online in a mode that best suits their learning style and situation. Covid-19 forced many universities and lecturers to offer HyFlex opportunities. This emergency flip and required agility to deliver HyFlex provides the opportunity to learn from the experiences of using this mode of teaching and learning.

This research presents the results of a survey of 44 lecturers who were part of the HyFlex Community of Practice (COP) or who were employing HyFlex in their practice, and 490 students who engaged with HyFlex …

Epanorama November 2021, Southern Adventist University

Panorama Parent Newsletter

This electronic issue of Panorama includes information on Southern Adventist University's students in mission work and organizations serving local refugee centers.

A Renaissance: The Absurd Retelling Of Mostly True Events, Erica R. Hitzman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Throughout the following you will be taken on a fantastical retelling of the exhibition A Renaissance, and some of what lead up to it. Through the eyes of various shifting perspectives you will explore the relationships between the artist, her art, and the viewer in the hopes of unveiling how the work plays into feminist theory, its place in the Zeitgeist, and the motivations behind it. Each perspective is formatted differently, to visually mirror the shift in perspective. Presented in the first person and aligned to the right, the account of the artist discusses the process, emotion, and inspiration behind …

Beyond The Covid-19 Pandemic: The Importance Of Social Determinants Of Health In Educating Healthcare Leaders, Tashuna Albritton, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, Umadevi Yokeeswaran, Marlene Camacho-Rivera

Publications and Research

As scholars of color and educators in the health professions, we are compelled to advocate for the inclusion of the study of health disparities and social determinants of health (SDOH) throughout higher education to understand, analyze, and effectively respond to healthcare access disparities, including COVID-19 disparities, in Black and Latinx communities across the United States. In addition to our identities and lived experiences, healthcare access disparities and their root causes are woven throughout the courses that we teach in the departments of social medicine, social work, and social and behavioral sciences.

Open House Notes From The Creativity, Discovery, And Innovation Workgroup During The Und Leads Development Process. The Notes Preserve Participant Feedback Related To Research, Creativity, Innovation, Collaboration, Scholarship, And Opportunities For Strengthening Und’S Future Strategic Direction., University Of North Dakota

LEADS Development Documents

Town hall notes from the Collaboration and Engagement workgroup during the UND LEADS development process. The notes preserve participant feedback related to collaboration, community engagement, partnerships, experiential learning, outreach, and UND’s role in serving communities across North Dakota and beyond.

Assessment And Diagnostic Practices Relating To Autism Spectrum Disorder In The United States And Mexico, Maria Valdez, Jessica R. Stewart, Wan-Lin Chang, Ruth Crutchfield, Ralph Carlson

Communication Sciences & Disorders Faculty Publications

Purpose: The present study examined and compared professional assessment and diagnostic practices relating to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Mexico and the United States (U.S.). This information is of great importance because there is an extremely limited amount of information pertaining the assessment and diagnostic practices for ASD in Mexico and little is known about how these practices compare to those in the U.S.

Methods: Archival data from a survey investigating ASD in the U.S. and Mexico was used for this study. Participants included 29 professionals from the U.S. and 7 professionals from Mexico. Professionals were from a variety of …

Domestic Arts, Dates, Drugs, And Dress Codes: Scripps College's Early Attitudes Towards Gender, Sexuality, And Women's Education, Kathleen Mchale

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis explores how Scripps College's administration, faculty, and students dealt with expectations of gender roles and sexuality during the first two decades of the college's existence. It looks at the historical development of women's colleges, Scripps' curriculum and aims, architecture, residence life, rules and regulations, and applied these areas to discuss how students and other Scripps community members responded to norms about gender and sexuality.

Analyzing Tweeting Patterns And Public Engagement On Twitter During The Recognition Period Of The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Study Of Two U.S. States, Misbah Ul Hoque, Kisung Lee, Jessica L. Beyer, Sara R. Curran, Katie S. Gonser, Nina S.N. Lam, Volodymyr V. Mihunov, Kejin Wang

Faculty Publications

The abundance of available information on social media can provide invaluable insights into people's responses to health information and public health guidance concerning COVID-19. This study examines tweeting patterns and public engagement on Twitter, as forms of social media, related to public health messaging in two U.S. states (Washington and Louisiana) during the early stage of the pandemic. We analyze more than 7M tweets and 571K COVID-19-related tweets posted by users in the two states over the first 25 days of the pandemic in the U.S. (Feb. 23, 2020, to Mar. 18, 2020). We also qualitatively code and examine 460 …

Delaware’S Multidisciplinary Teams For The Investigation Of Child Abuse: Communities Of Practice?, Lori Sitler

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

Multidisciplinary teams (MDT) of professionals are mandated to respond to and investigate cases of child abuse in Delaware. Utilizing research and theory about interorganizational collaboration, my exploratory study considered how this mandate operated in practice. Five themes from interorganizational literature (IOC) on facilitators and barriers to collaborative practice--trust, commitment, communication, capacity, and change--were examined using the theories of Goffman and Weber. The concept of power underlies these themes.

The MDT was considered a motivating example to explore whether Lave and Wenger’s socio-cultural learning theory of Community of Practice (CoP) explained learning and practice among multidisciplinary professionals considering barriers and facilitators …

Using An Interdisciplinary Case Study To Incorporate Quantitative Reasoning In Social Work, Nursing, And Mathematics, Elizabeth Post, Mischelle Stone, Lauren Cavner Williams, Mary Beaudry

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Through the national consortium, SUMMIT-P, Ferris State University faculty collaborated to develop and scaffold mathematics and quantitative reasoning across disciplines to reduce math anxiety. Participants in this collaborative group included faculty from social work, nursing, and mathematics who developed a case study on a Hurricane Katrina scenario that necessitated calculating the need for emergency shelter, water, food, and medicine, and as a response to the potential for a Malaria outbreak. This particular case study allowed faculty to use the lens of social justice to teach mathematical concepts and provided an avenue for nursing and social work students to engage in …

Interdisciplinary Collaboration To Develop Meaningful Mathematical Experiences, Susan Ganter, Bill Haver

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

This issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations (JMSCE) is the second special volume highlighting the impact of the consortium for Synergistic Undergraduate Mathematics via Multi-institutional Interdisciplinary Teaching Partnerships (SUMMIT-P). The development and goals of SUMMIT-P were outlined in the preface of the first special issue of JMSCE devoted to this project (Ganter & Haver, 2020). Full participation from partner discipline faculty is key to the success of redeveloping introductory mathematics courses in a way that incorporates the contextual needs of the other disciplines. As such, SUMMIT-P’s first task was to find ways to best engage colleagues …

A Health Justice Response To School Discipline And Policy, Thalia Gonzalez, Alexis Etow, Cesar De La Vega

American University Law Review

Inequities in school discipline and policing have been long documented by researchers and advocates. Longitudinal data is clear that Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC) students are punished and policed at higher rates than their white classmates. For students who have disabilities, especially those with intersectional identities, the impact of school discipline and policing is amplified, with disparities existing at some of the highest rates across multiple categories. And this disproportionality has not diminished during short- and long-term school closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, schools have employed new models of exclusion in the pandemic setting that operate …

Building Awareness Around The New American Community In Concord N.H., Heather Mckinnon

M.S. in Leadership

The purpose of this Capstone is to create an opportunity to explore resettlement. The research seeks to understand the resettlement process in the context of exploring immigration in the United States Research will focus on Concord, N.H. This project was chosen as a result of my experiences working with the New American population as a home visitor and home-based manager for the Early Head Start program in Concord, N.H. Depending on demographic statistics, publications, and case studies, this data is both quantitative and qualitative in nature. The findings indicate that in order to advocate for new American populations, the community …

Promoting A Walk/Run Event To Expand Services For Individuals With Disabilities, Mckenzie Rodgers

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

The Suzanne Vitale Clinical Education Complex (CEC) at WKU provides services to many individuals and families affected by autism spectrum disorders and other developmental delays and disabilities. As a nonprofit organization, the clinic relies heavily on donations and fundraisers as sources of income. One of the CEC’s primary fundraisers is the annual LifeSkills Run/Walk for Autism. This event is held each April during autism awareness month, at the Bowling Green Ballpark, providing an opportunity for the community to support the clinic in an enjoyable way.

For an honors capstone experience, the author promoted the 15th annual LifeSkills Run/Walk for Autism …

A Descriptive Study: Perceptions Of Family Court Judges And Attorneys Regarding Parents Involved With Child Welfare Services As A Result Of Substance Misuse And/Or Mental Health Issues, Nathan Terrell

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

For three consecutive years, Kentucky has dealt with the worst rates of child maltreatment in the United States. Kentucky has implemented numerous measures to address this crisis. While many research efforts have focused on perceptions of children involved with child welfare services, there are few efforts researching the perception of judges and lawyers about parents involved with family court services.

This study used a mixed-methods approach to explore the perceptions of Kentucky Family Court Judges and family law attorneys about parental involvement with child welfare services as a result of substance misuse and/or mental health issues. The qualitative component of …

How Do Refugees Experience A “Sense Of Place” In A Community Garden? Exploring An Intervention To Mitigate The Consequences Of Displacement, Amy E. Stein

Bryn Mawr College Dissertations and Theses

As a consequence of displacement, refugees grapple with significant resettlement challenges, such as social isolation, language barriers and depression, anxiety, and trauma. A growing body of literature focuses on place-making, or emplacement, to promote health and well-being for re-settlement challenges. This qualitative study helps social service providers understand the neces-sity for community-based interventions to improve the resettlement process for refugees, using a place attachment model. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Karen and Chin Burmese (Myanmar) adult refugees who participated in a community garden program in Phil-adelphia (ages 28 to 82). Data analysis revealed that community gardens offer an opportunity for …

Resilience And Fortitude: The Lives Of Impoverished Women In Fremantle, Western Australia, 1890-1914, Linda Mcgowan

Theses

Many impoverished women struggled to raise their children without support in Fremantle, Western Australia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This thesis investigates how these women managed to provide for their children, and keep their families together, at a time when society expected women to be supported by men. The appalling living conditions in the slum areas of Fremantle, which often led to serious health issues that further impacted on women’s struggle for survival, are explored as well as how the denial of legal rights, and harsh community attitudes towards these women, exacerbated already difficult situations. Options such …

Csbs Statements, V24, 2022, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

Experiencing Dementia --- 5
Underground Iowans --- 8
Tripp of a Lifetime --- 10
Suitcase of Knowledge --- 12
A Beloved Professor's Lasting Gift --- 14
College News --- 16
Alumni Spotlight --- 24
Donor Spotlight --- 30
Annual Giving --- 32
Class Notes --- 34

University Profile: 2021, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

No abstract provided.

A Program Evaluation Of A Social-Emotional Alternative Learning Program, Patricia Horton-Albritton

Doctor of Education Dissertations

The names of the participants and the school district used in this program evaluation are pseudonyms to protect the participant’s identity. This program evaluation was from the perceptions of the parent/guardian and faculty of the Garnett County School District (GCSD) K-8 Alternative Learning Program. The study focused on the middle school program. The school district received the AWARE (Advancing Wellness and Resilience Education) grant from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). GCSD used part of the grant funds to strategically implement programs to support students who attend the alternative …

Qualitative Analysis Of Cancer Care Experiences Among Rural Cancer Survivors And Caregivers, Kendra L. Ratnapradipa, Jordan Ranta, Krishtee Napit, Lady Beverly Luma, Tamara Robinson, Danae Dinkel, Laura Schabloske, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

PURPOSE: Rural (vs urban) patients experience poorer cancer outcomes and are less likely to be engaged in cancer prevention, such as screening. As part of a community needs assessment, we explored rural cancer survivors' and caregivers' experiences, perceptions, and attitudes toward cancer care services.

METHODS: We conducted 3 focus groups (N = 20) in Spring 2021 in rural Nebraska.

FINDINGS: Three patterns of cancer diagnosis were regular care/screening without noticeable symptoms, treatment for symptoms not initially identified as cancer related, and symptom self-identification. Most participants, regardless of how diagnosis was made, had positive experiences with timely referral for testing (imaging …

University Of Memphis Magazine, 1999 Fall

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual Report of the President.

Cover Story, "Innkeeper to the Campus" by Elizabeth Jane Walker

Because of Kemmons and Dorothy Wilson's beneficence, the University will soon have a magnificent building to house its new hospitality and resort management program. (Photo by Don Reber)

Also featured, "A Sampling of UofM Research"

by Greg Russell and Elizabeth Jane Walker

"Scholar in Service": Dr. Joann Keyton; "Grading School Reform": Dr. Steven M. Ross; "Aid for the Addict": Dr. Charles Williams; "Innocence Lost": Dr. Phyllis Betts Partners; "Saving Lives": Dr. Michael Neuman; "Voice of Reason": Dr. Shelley White-Means; "Room with a View": Dr. Robert …

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2016 Winter

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual President's Report.

University Of Memphis Magazine, 2015 Winter

University of Memphis Magazine

Annual President's Report.