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Who Publishes In Top-Tier Library Science Journals? An Analysis By Faculty Status And Tenure, Quinn Galbraith, Elizabeth Smart, Sara D. Smith, Megan Reed

Faculty Publications

This study analyzes the status and background of authors publishing in high-impact library science journals. Twenty-three high-impact journals were selected in this study by both quantitative and qualitative measures, while the analysis of author background focuses on whether the author holds a faculty status position with a tenure track. This study finds that 76% of academic librarians publishing in top-tier library science journals have faculty status.

Center Welcomes New Historian Jessica Wilkerson, Admin

Blog Posts

This fall, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Department of History will welcome Jessica Wilkerson as a new assistant professor of history and Southern Studies. Wilkerson comes to the university from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she completed her doctoral work in the field of women's and gender history.

2014 Fall Faculty Conference: Enacting A Model Community: Our University, Academic Affairs

Fall Faculty Conference

The 2014 Fall Faculty Conference featured breakout sessions by FSDC and Office of Sponsored Programs, Jim Bates, Sarah Bouchard, Patti Frick, Diane Nance, Jane Wu, Kay Ball (Nursing), Michele Acker, Suzanne Ashworth, Danielle Docka-Filipek, Paul Longenecker, Lisa Phillips, Kathryn Plank, Mark Skillings, Kerry Strayer, Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Shirine Mafi, Shelley Payne, Kevin Svitana, Rares Piloiu, Paul Wendel, Anna Young, Jim Bates (Music), Shelley Payne (Health and Sport Sciences), Aaron Reinhard (Physics), Joy Shoemaker (Nursing), and Jeff Smith (Mathematical Sciences).

Pacific Review Fall 2014, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Swosu Standing Committees 2014-2015, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

University Standing Committees

No abstract provided.

The Power Of Belief: An Interview With David Wharton, Admin

Blog Posts

From time to time we'll feature articles from our print newsletter, the Southern Register. Here, an interview of Dr. Wharton by Associate Director for Publications and Register Editor Jimmy Thomas.

Evaluation Of Faculty : Are Medical Students And Faculty On The Same Page?, Elhadi Aburawi, Michelle Mclean, Sami

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: Student evaluation of individual teachers is important in the quality improvement cycle. The aim of this study was to explore medical student and faculty perceptions of teacher evaluation in the light of dwindling participation in online evaluations. Methods: This study was conducted at the United Arab Emirates University College of Medicine & Health Sciences between September 2010 and June 2011. A 21-item questionnaire was used to investigate learner and faculty perceptions of teacher evaluation in terms of purpose, etiquette, confidentiality and outcome on a five-point Likert scale. Results: The questionnaire was completed by 54% of faculty and 23% of …

Oxford Blues Fest Features Center Faculty, Staff, Friends, Admin

Blog Posts

The Oxford Blues Fest, hosted by the University of Mississippi Museum, begins this evening, Thursday, July 17. A panel on blues scholarship tomorrow at 1:15pm will feature Scott Barretta of the Highway 61 radio show and Mark Camarigg, managing editor of Center publication Living Blues. Southern Studies and English professor Adam Gussow will participate in a panel of blues musicians at 2:30pm.

Hands-On Exercises, Faedra Wills

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Researchcommons, Faedra Wills

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2013-14, Office Of Sponsored Programs And Research

Office of Sponsored Programs and Research - Reports

The Office of Sponsored Programs and Research (OSPR) at Governors State University (GSU) continues to enhance its services and outreach. We are excited to see more faculty and students look into funding opportunities and work on grant opportunities. OSPR continues to encourage faculty, staff, and students to participate in training provided and to communicate with our office if there are training opportunities you would like to see offered at GSU related to grants. Please take some time and read the OSPR annual report for this past year. The annual report emphasizes the diversity in sponsors, faculty, and projects. As you …

A Metapopulation Model For Sylvatic T. Cruzi Transmission With Vector Migration, Christopher Kribs, Britnee Crawford

Mathematics Faculty Publications - Archive

This study presents a metapopulation model for the sylvatic transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, across multiple geographical regions and multiple overlapping host-vector transmission cycles. Classical qualitative analysis of the model and several submodels focuses on the parasite's basic reproductive number, illustrating how vector migration across patches and multiple transmission routes to hosts (including vertical transmission) determine the infection's persistence in each cycle. Numerical results focus on trends in endemic [equilibrium] persistence levels as functions of vector migration rates, and highlight the significance of the different epidemiological characteristics of transmission in each of the three regions.

Pacific Review Summer 2014, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

2014 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: General Education, Academic Affairs

Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference

The 2014 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference features a keynote speech by José Antonio Brown. José Antonio Bowen is the new incoming president at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He currently is the Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts, Algur H. Meadows Chair and Professor of Music at Southern Methodist University. Bowen began his teaching career at Stanford University in 1982 as the Director of Jazz Ensembles. In 1994, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) at the University of Southampton, England. He returned to America in 1999 …

Announcement, Library Resources For Faculty Tenure & Promotion Training, May 8, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library. Online Learning And Instructional Technology Services

Professional Development

Announcement for a training for resources available to keep track of publications and metrics for faculty going up for tenure or promotion.

Re-Engineering A Website Into A Digital Humanities Project - We Think!, Lynn F. Johnson, Ramona Holmes

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

What happens when you have a website that needs a facelift and you want to evolve the contents into a digital humanities project? What makes it different? This poster session explores a process we are attempting at the University of Texas @ Arlington Libraries. Taking an amazing collection of US-Mexico War materials in our Special Collections, harnessing high collaboration with our Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, and re-imagining a website has been a six month process that tapped into an academic partnership and internal re-organization. We invite you to examine our painful process that used a project with no documentation, …

Texas Documents: What Are They Good For?, Jeff Downing, Krystal E. Schenk

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Although some people might have thought to use these documents as fuel to keep warm this past winter, UT Arlington Libraries has decided to digitize a core collection of legacy documents produced by Texas state agencies. What seemed like a straightforward project (select documents, scan and upload to our institutional repository) quickly became a complex project. Problems included creating a comprehensive list of our state document holdings, mapping titles and agencies to degree programs, and deciding which titles were candidates for scan to destroy vs. scan to retain, and how to use existing metadata from our catalog to populate the …

Prostate Cancer Detection Using Combined Autofluorescence And Light Reflectance Spectroscopy: Ex Vivo Study Of Human Prostates, Vikrant Sharma, Ephrem O. Olweny, Payal Kapur, Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, Claus G. Roehrborn, Hanli Liu

Bioengineering Faculty Publications - Archive

This study was conducted to evaluate the capability of detecting prostate cancer (PCa) using auto-fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy (AFLS) and light reflectance spectroscopy (LRS). AFLS used excitation at 447 nm with four emission wavelengths (532, 562, 632, and 684 nm), where their lifetimes and weights were analyzed using a double exponent model. LRS was measured between 500 and 840 nm and analyzed by a quantitative model to determine hemoglobin concentrations and light scattering. Both AFLS and LRS were taken on n = 724 distinct locations from both prostate capsular (nc = 185) and parenchymal (np = 539) tissues, including PCa tissue, …

Accessing Opportunities Through Active Transportation In Arlington, Texas, Kevin Shane Pace, Ivonne Audirac

Planning Masters Professional Reports - Archive

This examines active transportation as it relates to accessibility, opportunity, and ultimately equity for residents in disadvantaged communities in the City of Arlington, Texas. Adding to the growing discussion and research surrounding active transportation, the accessibility measures presented contribute an approach to identifying disadvantaged communities in a city and quantifying the opportunities accessible by foot and bike in these communities. The research utilized a replicable index for identifying disadvantaged neighborhoods and a method for quantifying the number of opportunities that can be accessible when pedestrian and bicycle facilities are present. The research and analysis shows that individuals lacking access to …

Stress Levels In Tenure-Track And Recently Tenured Faculty Members In Selected Institutions Of Higher Education In Northeast Tennessee, Amanda R. Carr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare the stress, strain, and coping levels between pretenured faculty and recently tenured faculty in institutions of higher education in Northeast Tennessee. Aging faculty population combined with talented people leaving the area is common in rural parts of the United States. There is a need to better understand the occupational factors within the faculty roles in order to better recruit and retain faculty in this region.

Four different institutions of higher education in Northeast Tennessee, producing 92 responses, participated in this study. The Occupational Stress Inventory – Revised (Osipow, 1998) was used …

The Power Of Collaboration: Creative Opportunities With Faculty, Faedra Wills, Jeff Downing

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Digital humanities, e-science and other web-based initiatives are rapidly developing, resulting in many new and exciting opportunities for librarians to collaborate with faculty and the community. This poster outlines two digital projects currently underway at UT Arlington.

Centralized To Scattered: Designing Project Workflows For A Dynamic Staff, Krystal E. Schenk, Faedra Wills

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

How can staff collaborate on digital projects when they are dispersed throughout the library? This is the challenge the new Digital Creations department was faced with after a library wide reorganization in the summer of 2013. In 2011, the UT Arlington Libraries began mining faculty CVs for articles that we could add to our local institutional repository. After the re-organization the staff previously working on this project were now scattered between three departments. By leveraging the project management features of the newly adopted tool SharePoint, we are able to distribute the work of this project across staff, and departments. In …

Agenda, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, April 17, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences

College Council Meeting Minutes

Agenda for the April 17, 2014, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences' Council.

Corpus Linguistics Of The Vernacular: “Catching A Cold” In Text Types That Complement Google Books Data, Laurel Smith Stvan

Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

Poster presented at the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium (TXDHC) on April 11, 2014

The Loop (Early Spring 2014), Taylor University

The Loop (2012-2017)

The early Spring 2014 edition of Taylor University’s The Loop.

The Loop (Late Spring 2014), Taylor University

The Loop (2012-2017)

The late Spring 2014 edition of Taylor University’s The Loop.

Spring 2014, College Of The Pacific

History News

No abstract provided.

Measuring Support For Climate Change Research At The University Of Richmond, Adam Forrer, Brianna Miller, Hunterr Payeur

Environmental Studies Senior Seminar Projects

This study investigated the possibility of hiring new faculty at the University of Richmond whose area of expertise incorporates climate change. The study used a survey of Richmond students to gauge interest in academic areas such as climate change classes and research with faculty. In depth interviews with faculty members from various departments within the University were also conducted. Further research showed that although 12 of the top 25 liberal arts schools in the United States offered two or more classes specifically on the issue of climate change, the University of Richmond intermittently offers one climate change class, located in …

Tissue Engineering Bone Using Autologous Progenitor Cells In The Peritoneum, Jinhui Shen, Ramesh Saxena, Cheng Cheng Zhang, Joseph Borrelli Jr., Liping Tang, Ashwin Nair

Bioengineering Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Benedetti, Robert, Oral History Interview, Jon Schamber

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Dean, College of the Pacific and Executive Director, Jacoby Center (1989-2013). Topics include: Budget challenges 1990s, General Education reform, evolution of citizen leader concept, Atchley and DeRosa administrations, Midtown Magnolia Project, Stockton Speaks, More Votes that Count research project.