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Play, Instruct, Lead: Investigating The Influence Observing Same-Gender Role Models Has On Leadership Development Of Collegiate Women Student-Athletes Coaching At Youth Sports Camps: A Phenomenological Study, Mercy-Nora Osei Dec 2025

Play, Instruct, Lead: Investigating The Influence Observing Same-Gender Role Models Has On Leadership Development Of Collegiate Women Student-Athletes Coaching At Youth Sports Camps: A Phenomenological Study, Mercy-Nora Osei

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study is to describe how observing same-gender role models influenced the leadership development of collegiate women student-athletes (CWSA) when coaching at youth sports camps (YSC) at NCAA institution campuses in the United States. The theory that guided this study was Albert Bandura’s theory on social learning, as it explained the relationship between observational learning and the influence role modeling had on leadership development. The central question was: How does observing same-gender role models influence the leadership development of collegiate women student-athletes when coaching at youth sports camps? This study used a transcendental phenomenological design to …


The Impact Of Average Principal Diabetes Cost On Population Health Measures Within Homogeneous Demographics, Alvin Dwayne Binns Dec 2025

The Impact Of Average Principal Diabetes Cost On Population Health Measures Within Homogeneous Demographics, Alvin Dwayne Binns

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The United States healthcare sector has encountered an increasing burden from diabetes health conditions and diabetes expenditures. Vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected, resulting in increased health mortality and morbidity. This quantitative retrospective, observational, cross-sectional cohort study identified the relationship between the average principal diabetes cost and population measures for Alabama Medicare beneficiaries living in homogeneous communities diagnosed with the principal diagnosis of diabetes. The theoretical framework guiding the study was the socio-ecological theory. Purposive sampling was applied to the secondary Mapping Medicare Disparities data population comprising 57 United States territories and 3,243 counties. Specifically, Medicare beneficiary participants diagnosed with the …


Llm-Based Automatic Generation Of Contextually Appropriate User Interface, Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon Dec 2025

Llm-Based Automatic Generation Of Contextually Appropriate User Interface, Ilia Labzovsky, Danny Karmon

Defensive Publications Series

Currently, the user interface (UI) for digital photo management applications is a static, reverse chronological grid of thumbnails. From a user perspective, this UI has several drawbacks such as high interaction cost for retrieval, lack of contextual adaptation, and higher task friction. This disclosure describes a generative situational UI engine for media management applications. The engine is powered by an integrated large language model that is capable of automatic user interface generation. This engine replaces the static, one-size-fits-all grid with a dynamic interface that, with the user’s permission, is generated based on the user’s context and the content of their …


Book Review: Dismantling Conspiracy Theories: Metaliteracy And Other Strategies For An Information-Disordered World, Katie Greer, Stephanie Beene, William Glick Dec 2025

Book Review: Dismantling Conspiracy Theories: Metaliteracy And Other Strategies For An Information-Disordered World, Katie Greer, Stephanie Beene, William Glick

School of Information Student Research Journal

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Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.15, Iss.2 Dec 2025

Ischool Student Research Journal, Vol.15, Iss.2

School of Information Student Research Journal

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The Hunt For "Dragon Shards Of Knowledge": A Study On The Information Needs Of The Mmorpg Community, Jessamy Hallie Dec 2025

The Hunt For "Dragon Shards Of Knowledge": A Study On The Information Needs Of The Mmorpg Community, Jessamy Hallie

School of Information Student Research Journal

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the information needs and information-seeking behaviors of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) information community. To evaluate and define these needs and behaviors a literature review of research contributions published by established information professionals studying MMORPG and video game players was performed. The results showed that the MMORPG community is considerably understudied and lacking sufficient library programming and educational opportunities compared to other communities. It also revealed their dependence on collaboration and the promotion of social connection between members. Their shared goals and common interests helped to facilitate members’ information-seeking and …


Recurring Coups In The Sahel Region Likely To Strain U.S. Resources, Autumn Tewksbury, Anthony Zampino, Shay Dauphinais, Andrew Britland Dec 2025

Recurring Coups In The Sahel Region Likely To Strain U.S. Resources, Autumn Tewksbury, Anthony Zampino, Shay Dauphinais, Andrew Britland

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

This client report examines recurring military coups in the Sahel region of Africa and the probability of implications for U.S. interests. We incorporated analysis of terrorist organizations, adversarial involvement in the region, and projected socioeconomic factors in the next three to five years. Our analysis indicates these factors could pose a direct threat to U.S. national security interests. Current U.S. policy prohibits aid distribution to coup governments, increasing the likelihood that Sahelian countries will turn to U.S. adversaries for economic support. An additional aspect to consider is the Sahel’s natural resources and economic opportunities. Our project utilizes in-depth research, geospatial …


The Current State Of Global Engagement Within U.S. Jesuit Institutions: Challenges And Opportunities, Han Yan, Lin Lu Dec 2025

The Current State Of Global Engagement Within U.S. Jesuit Institutions: Challenges And Opportunities, Han Yan, Lin Lu

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Jesuit education aims to cultivate global citizens who actively engage with the world and champion social justice. As economic and social ties grow increasingly interconnected, Jesuit institutions need to develop innovative international learning opportunities for students. In this study, using publicly available IIE Open Doors data from the past two decades, we assess international student enrollment and study abroad initiatives at U.S. Jesuit institutions and compare these metrics against national trends. The results suggest that U.S. Jesuit institutions have substantial potential to invest in and reap the benefits of global engagement. Grounded in the Jesuit mission and the Inspirational Paradigm …


Generative Ai And The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, Nicole Reibe Dec 2025

Generative Ai And The Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm, Nicole Reibe

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

A group of seven faculty members, the Digital Teaching Fellows (DTF), were formed in 2023 to explore issues related to generative AI at a Jesuit university in the United States. The group incorporated generative AI assignments into their courses and conducted a survey assessing students’ experiences with generative AI in the course. Drawing from both quantitative and qualitative analysis, the DTF reached two key conclusions. First, despite their reservations, students’ overall receptiveness to generative AI integration creates a fitting moment for thoughtful pedagogical innovation. Second, our findings reveal a critical gap between generative AI’s current implementation and its potential to …


We Need A New Language, A New Imagination, A New Story... And It Won't Come From Ai, Christopher Pramuk Dec 2025

We Need A New Language, A New Imagination, A New Story... And It Won't Come From Ai, Christopher Pramuk

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

Adapted from a public lecture given for Regis University’s Ignatian Mission Day, the essay wrestles with the crisis of communication across political divides, the attacks on universities across the country linked to Project 2025, and the emergence of Artificial Intelligence as a powerful new challenge in the landscape of Jesuit higher education. Identifying the root illness of our times as a diseased and captive cultural imagination, the author calls for responses that heal and break open the imagination. The poets and prophets, artists and storytellers, share common cause with the Ignatian imagination – a contemplative, transcendent horizon, grounded in the …


Abolitionist Principles And Pedagogy: Teaching To Build The World Anew, Jennifer E. Potter, Elyshia Aseltine Dec 2025

Abolitionist Principles And Pedagogy: Teaching To Build The World Anew, Jennifer E. Potter, Elyshia Aseltine

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


"Be Like Water": Practicing Abolition On The Ground, Katie R. Horowitz, Taryn Johnson Dec 2025

"Be Like Water": Practicing Abolition On The Ground, Katie R. Horowitz, Taryn Johnson

Feminist Pedagogy

This Social Justice Strategy asks students to immerse themselves in abolitionist waters by learning abolitionist perspectives, strategies, and practices from a local abolitionist, transformative justice, or mutual aid organization while providing them a service or fulfilling one or more of their needs. This is a self-paced, term-long project scaffolded by abolitionist histories and best practices for working in community. The instructor uses a student survey as a basis for forming groups and matching them up with local organizations, then students create plans for working together, including how to address conflict restoratively. Groups research their organizations and collaborate with them to …


Strategies For Seeding Police Abolition In A Minefield, Kaden Paulson-Smith Dec 2025

Strategies For Seeding Police Abolition In A Minefield, Kaden Paulson-Smith

Feminist Pedagogy

A major challenge for abolitionist teaching is uprooting the assumption that carceral systems are natural and inevitable. This essay describes strategies for teaching about the colonial capitalist origins and white cisheteropatriarchal development of the police, and the critical theorization and abolition of policing, in a hyper-politicized minefield. These strategies emerged from teaching, “The Global Politics of Policing,” after the Summer of 2020 in the Midwest, where abolitionist critiques were frequently met with burning resentment. Three overarching strategies to facilitate learning about police abolition include: 1) consistent engagement with learning materials; 2) critical analysis as a learning objective and theoretical framework; …


Towards Abolitionist Media Studies, Beth Capper Dec 2025

Towards Abolitionist Media Studies, Beth Capper

Feminist Pedagogy

The reflections in this article are grounded in my experience teaching a graduate-level special topics course on media and abolition at the University of Alberta in 2023. In this article, I draw upon my experience teaching this course in order to offer a general framework for integrating abolitionist principles into the media studies classroom. In addition to tracing a critical genealogy of scholarly and activist efforts to delineate and intervene in the relations among prisons, policing and media, I propose two key abolitionist principles that challenge how we teach media studies: (1) an intentional centering of incarcerated/criminalized people and a …


Story Exchange Walls: Bridging Community And Carceral Spaces Through Writing, Tobi Jacobi, Braden Bomgaars Dec 2025

Story Exchange Walls: Bridging Community And Carceral Spaces Through Writing, Tobi Jacobi, Braden Bomgaars

Feminist Pedagogy

The “story exchange wall” activity that follows expands the scope and accessibility of stories that can contribute to building infrastructures grounded in abolition-minded practices of care and relationality. Story exchange walls are built upon the premise that: a) not all community voices are heard; b) there is value in pursuing understanding across discourse communities; and c) writing is an engaging method for encouraging dialogue on social issues and dismantling misconceptions about system-impacted people and their community commitments and contributions. Through a series of written and displayed dialogues, mobile story exchange walls offer a dynamic tool for engaging social issues and …


Star Wars: Andor – An Abolitionist Study Guide, Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, Isaac Ginsberg Miller Dec 2025

Star Wars: Andor – An Abolitionist Study Guide, Marcelo Garzo Montalvo, Isaac Ginsberg Miller

Feminist Pedagogy

This study guide provides a set of activities for teaching abolition through Season 1 of the speculative fiction TV series Star Wars: Andor (2022). Through the practice of critical literacy (viewing, reading, and analysis), we offer various ideas on how to engage Andor as a relevant pedagogical tool for studying and teaching abolitionist movement histories and methodologies. By guiding students through a critical analysis of this widely-circulated, mainstream cultural text, we seek to activate an abolitionist pedagogical lens that can be applied across various genres and media – making tangible connections between popular culture and political struggles writ large. These …


Reimagining Carceral Spaces – A Guerilla Tour Of Hm Prison Pentridge., Bree Carlton, Liam Gillespie Dec 2025

Reimagining Carceral Spaces – A Guerilla Tour Of Hm Prison Pentridge., Bree Carlton, Liam Gillespie

Feminist Pedagogy

In this paper, we reflect on our experience of running a Guerilla Walking Tour of the now decommissioned and repurposed HM Prison Pentridge. This original teaching activity, conducted with Master of Criminology students, was grounded in traditions of critical and radical pedagogy, which stem from the broad recognition that education can never be neutral or value free, but rather, that it is a political process through which students can become actively engaged in the worlds they are learning about so that they can critique and transform them. To this end, our walking tour was designed to encourage students to examine …


Decolonizing Monopoly: Intersectionality, Abolition, And Fun, Faith Deschamps, Caroline Mullins, Elizabeth Sumoza, Vanessa Hildebrand, Veda Hyunjin Kim Dec 2025

Decolonizing Monopoly: Intersectionality, Abolition, And Fun, Faith Deschamps, Caroline Mullins, Elizabeth Sumoza, Vanessa Hildebrand, Veda Hyunjin Kim

Feminist Pedagogy

“Abolitionist teaching is not sustainable without joy” (Love 2019: 120). We propose a joyful classroom activity that recreates the game “Monopoly” to bring to the forefront the lived experiences of people in late racial capitalism. This re-creation is an exercise in which undergraduate students rewrite both the characters to represent intersectional identities in the United States and the chance cards to represent the contemporary context. Students then play the game with these characters and end with a reflection on the lesson. In this way students are able to exercise prior course learning on identity, privilege, inequality, intersectionality, social stratification, organizing, …


Co-Creating An Encyclopedia Of Abolition As A Method Of Abolitionist Instruction And Community Engagement, Kristen Maziarka Dec 2025

Co-Creating An Encyclopedia Of Abolition As A Method Of Abolitionist Instruction And Community Engagement, Kristen Maziarka

Feminist Pedagogy

No abstract provided.


2022u_Sm07_Approved_Cm_Bio-4813-4823-Curation-Of-Collections-Nat-Hist-Collections-Research, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Sm07_Approved_Cm_Bio-4813-4823-Curation-Of-Collections-Nat-Hist-Collections-Research, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Sm08_Approved_Program-Deletion_Ba-Environmental-Studies, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Sm08_Approved_Program-Deletion_Ba-Environmental-Studies, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Sm03_Approved_Cm_Bio-3033-Evolution-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Sm03_Approved_Cm_Bio-3033-Evolution-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2021u_Sm25_Approved_Reconfiguration_Bs-Actuarial-Science_Corrected-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2021u_Sm25_Approved_Reconfiguration_Bs-Actuarial-Science_Corrected-Rev1, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac111_Approved_Nc_Wgs-470v-Internship, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac111_Approved_Nc_Wgs-470v-Internship, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac110_Approved_Nc_Wgs-460v-Independent-Study, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac110_Approved_Nc_Wgs-460v-Independent-Study, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac109_Approved_Cm_Soc-3353-Minority-Groups, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac109_Approved_Cm_Soc-3353-Minority-Groups, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac94_Approved_Cm_Arth-2593-Survey-Of-Art-History-Ii, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac94_Approved_Cm_Arth-2593-Survey-Of-Art-History-Ii, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac93_Approved_Cm_Arth-2583-Survey-Of-Art-History-I, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac93_Approved_Cm_Arth-2583-Survey-Of-Art-History-I, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.


2022u_Lac91_Approved_Nc_Art-3123-Creative-Practice, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac91_Approved_Nc_Art-3123-Creative-Practice, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

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2022u_Lac92_Approved_Cm_Art-4123-Senior-Critique, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Dec 2025

2022u_Lac92_Approved_Cm_Art-4123-Senior-Critique, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

All Approved Curriculum

No abstract provided.