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Curanderismo, Gabino Noriega Iii Sep 2024

Curanderismo, Gabino Noriega Iii

Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal

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Fieldnote 19: Intersection Of Mindfulness And Writing, Venus Evans-Winters Dr. Sep 2024

Fieldnote 19: Intersection Of Mindfulness And Writing, Venus Evans-Winters Dr.

Fieldnotes of a Black Woman Scholar: Research, Culture, and Wellness

Recently, in our culture, there has been an overemphasis on writing for public consumption and profit. Academic writing privileges content that addresses "somebody else's problem" instead of writing for personal growth and imagination. This trend can overshadow the profoundly transformative potential of writing when it's approached as a tool for personal healing and authentic relationship building. Mindfulness awareness allows us to write from a place of authenticity and presence. As we observe our thoughts and emotions, we gain insights into our true selves, much like how staying present in the moment helps us navigate life's complexities. Dr. Venus Evans-Winters shares …


In Kinship With The World: Developing A Novel Instrument To Assess Human-Nature Relational Values, Kimberly Post Sep 2024

In Kinship With The World: Developing A Novel Instrument To Assess Human-Nature Relational Values, Kimberly Post

Educational Studies Dissertations

In the nascent field of human-nature relational values, there is a growing body of literature suggesting their transformative potential in sustainability education. The ability to analytically distinguish relational values from other valuations can both inform pedagogical approaches and help to identify how people understand and value their relationships with the living and more-than-living biospheric inhabitants. To address this need, an overarching question was posited: Can a relational values-specific assessment instrument be designed and validated for use in post-secondary sustainability education? Through a survey of the literature, thematic analysis of validated human-nature connection instruments, and multi-method qualitative research, a pilot instrument …


Consumer Product Perceptions Within Emerging Markets: The Product Adoption Process And Consumer Ethnocentrism, Miguel Sahagun, Larry L. Carter, Arturo Z. Vasquez-Parraga Sep 2024

Consumer Product Perceptions Within Emerging Markets: The Product Adoption Process And Consumer Ethnocentrism, Miguel Sahagun, Larry L. Carter, Arturo Z. Vasquez-Parraga

Marketing Faculty Publications

The general acceptance of globalization and free trade across most national governments has led to the massive proliferation of foreign goods across the globe within the past few decades. As a result, the consumer adoption of imported products has been researched extensively; however, the bulk of these studies have focused on developed countries, leaving less developed and emerging countries vastly unexplored compared to their developed counterparts. Using Mexico to represent an emerging market with high levels of consumer ethnocentrism, this study examines the relationships among consumers’ attitudes toward imported products, their behavioral intentions, and consumer ethnocentrism within the product adoption …


Procedural Justice In Prison: Examining Female Inmates’ Experiences, Perceptions, And Interactions With Correctional Officers, Michael E. Antonio, Selena R. Price, Cassandra L. Reyes Sep 2024

Procedural Justice In Prison: Examining Female Inmates’ Experiences, Perceptions, And Interactions With Correctional Officers, Michael E. Antonio, Selena R. Price, Cassandra L. Reyes

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Correctional staff behavior can impact inmates’ perceptions of procedural justice and facilitate incidents of prison misconduct and violence. This analysis showed findings gathered from 136 female inmates incarcerated in a state correctional system. This exploratory analysis examined inmates’ self-reported responses about direct experiences, perceptions, and interactions with correctional officers. Findings from 19 Likert-scale items highlighted inmates’ encounters with correctional officers, however, results shown here focused on findings uncovered from a content analysis performed on inmates’ written comments to an open-ended item. The emerging themes portrayed correctional officers as disrespectful, indifferent, misusing authority, and dehumanizing."


Lessons Learned From An Undergraduate Criminal Justice Internship: The Student Experience, Nancy Blank, Robin S. Goldberg-Glen, Lori Simons, Nicole Scharfetter, Denna Grande Sep 2024

Lessons Learned From An Undergraduate Criminal Justice Internship: The Student Experience, Nancy Blank, Robin S. Goldberg-Glen, Lori Simons, Nicole Scharfetter, Denna Grande

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Internships play a crucial role in the educational and professional training of students. This article presents a qualitative evaluation of the benefits and challenges of an undergraduate internship through an examination of self-reflective journals completed by 20 seniors majoring in criminal justice. Findings were organized into five major themes: knowledge acquisition, professional development, personal development, affective development, and awareness of the realities of the criminal justice system. The most frequently cited benefits included increased learning, the ability to apply coursework to the internship experience, and improved career readiness. Challenges included exposure to field experiences that led to feeling sad and …


Criminology And Criminal Justice Researchers’ Experiences And Challenges With Institutional Review Boards, Elaine Gunnison, Jacqueline B. Helfgott Sep 2024

Criminology And Criminal Justice Researchers’ Experiences And Challenges With Institutional Review Boards, Elaine Gunnison, Jacqueline B. Helfgott

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Conducting research in criminology and criminal justice settings brings unique challenges involving human subjects. Prior research has examined the quality and effectiveness of Institutional Review Boards (IRB). However, research on the experiences of criminology and criminal justice researchers when interfacing with their IRBs is scant. This study seeks to fill this gap through the exploration of experiences criminology and criminal justice researchers have had with IRBs. Focus groups were conducted with 13 researchers who were members of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the American Society of Criminology. Results revealed that participants experienced challenges centering around specific themes …


Information Trolls And Democracy: A Qualitative Examination Of Disinformation Campaigns In Canada, Rachelle Louden, Richard Frank Sep 2024

Information Trolls And Democracy: A Qualitative Examination Of Disinformation Campaigns In Canada, Rachelle Louden, Richard Frank

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"This research explores disinformation delivered during the 2019 Canadian Federal election. This study explores the methods and techniques used by the perpetrators of disinformation campaigns in the context of Canadian elections. This research also examines whether the disinformation discovered during the election falls within criminal foreign interference. Critical discourse analysis is used to qualitatively analyze 26 articles published by a Northeastern U.S. based independent news website within the ten months leading up to the election. This research finds that the use of unnamed sources, hyperbolic statements to misrepresent facts, and strategies to de-legitimize reputable institutions were the most common tools …


The Making Of (Un)Certainty In Knowledge Production: Rhetoric At Play In A Heritability Controversy, Angelica Camacho, Dominique Robert Sep 2024

The Making Of (Un)Certainty In Knowledge Production: Rhetoric At Play In A Heritability Controversy, Angelica Camacho, Dominique Robert

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"(Un)certainty is not an inherent quality of a scientific assertion. It is rather the product of negotiations and collective work performed amidst noisy or quiet scientific debates. Using a controversy on heritability of crime-related behaviors as a case study, this paper proposes an analysis of the rhetoric at play to produce (un)certainty in publications presenting competing arguments. The controversy under study is at the heart of the legitimization of biosocial criminology, a contested field of study. The research shows that on the discursive front, three main strategies are used to modalize the (un)certainty of scientific claims over that of competing …


Everyday Postsocialism In Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel In One Direction, Jill Massino, Markus Wien Sep 2024

Everyday Postsocialism In Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel In One Direction, Jill Massino, Markus Wien

Central European Studies

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people’s varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.


2024 Latinx Heritage Month, Illinois State University, Latin American And Latino/A Studies Program Sep 2024

2024 Latinx Heritage Month, Illinois State University, Latin American And Latino/A Studies Program

Latinx Heritage Month Posters

Schedule of events for Illinois State University's Latinx Heritage Month celebration


Organizing And The Revitalization Of American Catholicism, Richard L. Wood Sep 2024

Organizing And The Revitalization Of American Catholicism, Richard L. Wood

Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications

American Catholicism today struggles to sustain its longtime character as a truly “public religion”—that is, a religious tradition with a vital presence within the public sphere in the US. Reinvigorating Catholicism in the US will require both internal renewal and new approaches to public life, both of which will require continuity with the deep tradition and significant reorientation of ecclesial dynamics. This paper argues that specific, faith-based community-organizing practices can help renew the public voice of Catholicism. In adopting such practices and inflecting them through Catholic commitment to theologically coherent processes of leadership formation, American Catholicism can reinvigorate parish life …


جاهزية المدارس الأردنية لتعزيز الهوية الوطنية لدى الطلبة في ظل العولمة (دراسة ميدانية من وجهة نظر معلمات مدارس مديرية تربية لواء القويسمة), Aida Ali Ahmad Al-Hunaty Sep 2024

جاهزية المدارس الأردنية لتعزيز الهوية الوطنية لدى الطلبة في ظل العولمة (دراسة ميدانية من وجهة نظر معلمات مدارس مديرية تربية لواء القويسمة), Aida Ali Ahmad Al-Hunaty

Journal of the Association of Arab Universities for Research in Higher Education مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للبحوث في التعليم العالي

هدفت الدراسة التحقق من جاهزية المدارس الأردنية لتعزيز الهوية الوطنية لدى الطلبة في ظل العولمة من وجهة نظر معلمات مدارس مديرية تربية لواء القويسمة. ولتحقيق هذا الهدف تم استخدام المنهج الوصفي التحليلي. وتكوّنت عينة الدراسة من (308) معلمات تمّ اختيارهن بالطريقة العشوائية الطبقية من مدارس مديرية تربية لواء القويسمة. وتم توزيع أداة الدراسة عليهن إلكترونياً، والتي تضمنت (25) فقرة تقيس جاهزية المدارس الأردنية لتعزيز الهوية الوطنية لدى الطلبة في ظل العولمة ضمن ثلاثة مجالات (المقررات المدرسية، الأنشطة اللامنهجية، الإدارة المدرسية). وتوصلت الدراسة إلى وجود دور مرتفع للمقررات الدراسية في تعزيز الهوية الوطنية لدى الطلبة في ظل العولمة، ووجود دور متوسط …


Having The Difficult Conversations: Tiptoeing Around Eggshells, Mehmet Soyer, Mustafa Banister Sep 2024

Having The Difficult Conversations: Tiptoeing Around Eggshells, Mehmet Soyer, Mustafa Banister

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Discussing difficult topics with care can help enhance the inclusivity and effectiveness of the learning environment. This workshop/presentation explores the challenges and opportunities inherent in addressing historically marginalized topics and socially stigmatized group identities within educational settings. Drawing on contemporary research, theoretical frameworks, and instructor experience, it examines the complexities of navigating discussions around privilege, oppression, and inequality. The workshop will emphasize the importance of creating safe and brave spaces where all students, particularly those from marginalized and underrepresented groups, feel empowered to share their experiences and perspectives. Key strategies for fostering inclusivity in the classroom are proposed, including the …


Whiteness: Six Stages Of Identity Development, Ann Roemer Sep 2024

Whiteness: Six Stages Of Identity Development, Ann Roemer

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

Multicultural inclusion cannot exist in our North American schools without educators acknowledging that many of us live like snowflakes in a white bubble. This presentation includes the social concept of race, the characteristics of whiteness, and Ruth Helms' stages of white identity. Come with curiosity and an open mind.


Revisiting The "Old Ways": Re-Incorporating Oral Examinations Into Upper Division Courses, Stephen Vangeem Sep 2024

Revisiting The "Old Ways": Re-Incorporating Oral Examinations Into Upper Division Courses, Stephen Vangeem

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

While some courses embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) and even incorporate it into classwork and assignments, this presenter took the sudden prevalence of AI as an opportunity to pivot away from the traditional final term paper and revisit the European tradition of oral examinations as an end-of-semester Capstone. This presentation will outline one approach to gauging cumulative comprehension in the social sciences through oral examination


Courageous Student-Teacher Dialogue On Ai: Cultivating Environments Of Respect, Jared Colton, Clayton Brown, Beth Buyserie, Gabriele Ciciurkaite, Marta Halaczekiewicz, Jeannie Johnson Sep 2024

Courageous Student-Teacher Dialogue On Ai: Cultivating Environments Of Respect, Jared Colton, Clayton Brown, Beth Buyserie, Gabriele Ciciurkaite, Marta Halaczekiewicz, Jeannie Johnson

Empowering Teaching Excellence Conference

This interdisciplinary panel, representing five departments from the CHaSS AI Working Group, will discuss policies and pedagogical approaches for navigating uncertainties with generative AI challenges. This informational session highlights issues in relation to USU’s academic integrity policies and procedures, as well as students' rights and educational benefits. The session also focuses on creating productive learning conversations with students in order to cultivate productive AI use, prevent AI misuse, and respond with care when AI has been possibly misused. Our panelists will discuss the following questions:How can teachers frame classes' (and my pedagogy) to establish productive expectations around AI usage? What …


Behind The Curtain: Recommendations For Neurodiversity Research, Andree Koehler Sep 2024

Behind The Curtain: Recommendations For Neurodiversity Research, Andree Koehler

The Qualitative Report

Researchers have explored neurodiversity in terms of gender, gender identity and expression, masking, and more, yet the focus is often on neurodiversity as synonymous with autism. There remains a challenge to expand the body of neurodiversity research that is broader than autism. In my article, neurodiversity will be discussed as an element of the broad human condition, rather than a singular state or condition of impairment isolated to a portion of the population to delineate the paradigm based on neurological variations from medical and social models. This paper was designed to offer a “how to” for conducting research into neurodiversity …


Expanding Healthcare Access For The Undocumented Immigrant Community: The Heal For Immigrant Families Act Of 2023, Perla Torres Estrada Sep 2024

Expanding Healthcare Access For The Undocumented Immigrant Community: The Heal For Immigrant Families Act Of 2023, Perla Torres Estrada

The Gettysburg Journal for Public Policy

When it comes to the topic of universal healthcare, most of us will readily agree that healthcare is a human right. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of who should be granted this right, and if it should be left to the free market to determine access and affordability. Specifically, the political debate on expanding healthcare access to undocumented immigrants in the United States revolve around concerns over costs, legality, and equity. Proponents maintain that it is a human right whereas opponents question the potential burden on taxpayers and the implication for immigration policy. The HEAL …


Us-China Trade Relations As It Relates To Section 301 Of The 1974 Ustr And Ipr, Maxim Epstein Sep 2024

Us-China Trade Relations As It Relates To Section 301 Of The 1974 Ustr And Ipr, Maxim Epstein

The Gettysburg Journal for Public Policy

No abstract provided.


Gettysburg Journal Of Public Policy 2024 Sep 2024

Gettysburg Journal Of Public Policy 2024

The Gettysburg Journal for Public Policy

Complete Issue of The Gettysburg Journal for Public Policy 2024


2024-2025 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar Sep 2024

2024-2025 Ursinus College Course Catalogue, Office Of The Registrar

Ursinus College Catalogues, 1869-Present

A digital copy of the 2024-2025 Ursinus College Catalog. It contains details of the curriculum, departmental requirements and courses of instruction as well as the Open Questions core requirements, experiential learning and the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE). Academic policies, special opportunities and scholarships, off-campus programs and graduation requirements are also outlined.


Building Bridges: Catalyzing Institutional Change At Utah State University Via Experiential Learning With Ute And Navajo Students, Mehmet Soyer, Mehmet Fatih Yigit, Shyla Gonzalez-Dogan, Gustavo A. Ovando-Montejo, Saeed Ahmad, Tisean Chapoose Sep 2024

Building Bridges: Catalyzing Institutional Change At Utah State University Via Experiential Learning With Ute And Navajo Students, Mehmet Soyer, Mehmet Fatih Yigit, Shyla Gonzalez-Dogan, Gustavo A. Ovando-Montejo, Saeed Ahmad, Tisean Chapoose

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

This article presents the development, implementation, and impact of a cultural competence course initiated by the Mentoring and Encouraging Academic Success (MESAS) Program at Utah State University (USU). The MESAS Program supports American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students through various initiatives, including the Faculty Advocate initiative, talking circles, the Indigenous Knowledge Symposium, and the Native American Living/Learning Community. Under MESAS, faculty, staff, and non-Indigenous students are offered the cultural competence course which aims to increase an appreciation for the contributions of Native American and other underrepresented groups, while addressing institutional barriers to their academic success and social well-being. …


Test Optional Admissions: A Case Study On Access And Persistence For Underrepresented Students In Higher Education, Lori M. Kemmet Sep 2024

Test Optional Admissions: A Case Study On Access And Persistence For Underrepresented Students In Higher Education, Lori M. Kemmet

Student Theses and Dissertations

It is commonly accepted that primary and secondary education help maintain social and economic stability, but there is also consensus that postsecondary education contributes to social and economic mobility. While there have been improved enrollment numbers among minoritized and low socioeconomic populations over time, there is still disproportionate underrepresentation among Black, Latino(a), Native American, and less economically privileged students in higher education, the disparity is ever more apparent when considering university degree completion rates among these underserved groups. Although test-optional admissions were implemented due to the inability of high school students to take the SAT or ACT during the COVID-19 …


Municipal Law Enforcement Perceptions Of Active Shooter Response Training, Christopher M. Martin Sep 2024

Municipal Law Enforcement Perceptions Of Active Shooter Response Training, Christopher M. Martin

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

There are continuous occurrences of active shooter events in communities all over the United States. This study explored municipal law enforcement active shooter response training, tools used in response to active shooter incidents, and community policing policies practiced by the agency. The theory of andragogy was used to guide the behaviors associated with active shooter training and response. Research questions focused on how Root Agency (pseudonym) officers felt about their agencies’ active shooter response training and how officers felt about whether more active shooter training with the community would be beneficial. Data were collected using qualitative interviews with 10 law …


The Perceptions Of Women In Ict Concerning Hybrid Work At Telecommunication Companies In South Africa, Ntombizethu Lubisi, Samwel Mwapwele Sep 2024

The Perceptions Of Women In Ict Concerning Hybrid Work At Telecommunication Companies In South Africa, Ntombizethu Lubisi, Samwel Mwapwele

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

This study examines the perceptions of women in ICT regarding the hybrid work model in South Africa's telecommunications sector, a shift accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research explores both the benefits—such as flexibility, financial savings, and improved work-life balance—and the challenges, including communication difficulties, collaboration issues, and infrastructural problems like power outages. Using a qualitative, interpretive approach, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 11 participants from 8 JSE-listed telecom companies. The key finding is that while the hybrid model is generally viewed favourably for supporting career development, the findings underscore the need for well-structured policies to ensure effective …


Perceived Organizational Support On Blended Learning, And Job Performance Of Women Academics Post Covid Pandemic., Hazel Mubango, Hlanganipai Ngirande, Khathutshelo Khashane K, Sam Jnr Takavarasha Sep 2024

Perceived Organizational Support On Blended Learning, And Job Performance Of Women Academics Post Covid Pandemic., Hazel Mubango, Hlanganipai Ngirande, Khathutshelo Khashane K, Sam Jnr Takavarasha

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

The pandemic's impact on education in Africa, particularly Southern Africa, has been quite severe. This has led to a strong desire to create new educational solutions in response to the crisis. As a result, universities embraced blended learning, leading to a decrease in face-to-face teaching and learning but guaranteeing continuity in learning. Organizational support for women academics is imperative for the effective implementation of blended learning. Due to traditional gender norms, working women continue to bear the primary responsibility of childcare, often facing significantly greater demands on their time and energy than their male counterparts. The purpose of this study …


Data Breach Mitigation In Hospital Database Management Systems – The Case Of A Hospital In South-South Nigeria, Leton Rebecca Nsereka, Irene Govender Sep 2024

Data Breach Mitigation In Hospital Database Management Systems – The Case Of A Hospital In South-South Nigeria, Leton Rebecca Nsereka, Irene Govender

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

The damaging effects of data breaches result in the loss of sensitive data, operational downtime, financial losses, and, in extreme cases, legal action. This study investigates the Hospital Database Management systems (HDMS) in a selected hospital in South-South Nigeria for the mitigation of data breaches. The deployment of an Incident Response Framework for data breach mitigation on HDMS has yet to be fully researched, creating a gap literature. The research objectives were accomplished through mixed methods and design science research (DSR). About 180 participants including forty employees from the medical records unit and 140 patients/patient relatives, who interact with the …


Pms 6 (End Matter), Poemmemoirstory Staff Sep 2024

Pms 6 (End Matter), Poemmemoirstory Staff

PoemMemoirStory (literary magazine)

pp. 145-151


Omaha, Wendy Rawlings Sep 2024

Omaha, Wendy Rawlings

PoemMemoirStory (literary magazine)

pp. 104-115