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Faculty And Dean Attitudes Toward Institutional Civic Responsibility, Mutual Trust, And Civic Mindedness At Two Year Colleges, David W. Kobilka

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Two year colleges are often characterized as America’s “democracy colleges” implying a difficult to implement dual mission of democratizing education for all, and advancing the democratic purpose of civic engagement. Although such goals may be explicit in a college’s mission statement, how faculty or their deans receive that mission is not well-documented. Research suggests that for a college to advance a civic mission, those involved must themselves be civically minded. Moreover, for any mission to succeed, faculty and their deans must trust one-another. However, there is scant research specific to two-year colleges in these areas. This research attempted to address …

Damage Assessment Of Glass Fiber Composites Using Dielectric Spectroscopy And Thermally Stimulated Depolarization Current, Bryan Durham, Gayathri Kola, Mohammadkian Mahroumi, Vamsee Vadlamudi, Rassel Raihan, Kenneth Reifsnider, Minhazur Rahman, Monjur Morshed Rabby, Partha Pratim Das, Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian

Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM-UTARI)-Archive

A composite is generally defined as a material composed of two or more separate sub-materials that complement each other's characteristics when combined. Composites are widely used in several major industries due to their low density, high strength, and relatively predictable chemical and electrical properties. One of the significant challenges of integrating composites into more diverse fields is the ability to accurately and consistently test for damages. Due to the myriad number of microscopic structures available in composite materials, a single-use testing system is a large contributor to current research. One approach to the non-destructive testing of composites lies in exploiting …

Dataset For “Challenges For Successful Vertical Transfer: Views Of Staff And Faculty With Transfer Responsibilities", Alexandra Woods Logue, Kerstin Gentsch, Stephanie Abbeyquaye, David Wutchiett, Yoshiko Oka

Publications and Research

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Data-Driven Discovery Of Material States In Composites Under Fatigue Loads, Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian, Vamsee Vadlamudi, Rassel Raihan, Kenneth Reifsnider

Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM-UTARI)-Archive

Our community has a widespread knowledge on the damage tolerance and durability of the composites, developed over the past few decades by various experimental and computational efforts. Several methods have been used to understand the damage behavior and henceforth predict the material states such as residual strength (damage tolerance) and life (durability) of these material systems. Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BbDS) are such methods, which have been proven to identify the damage states in composites. Our previous work using BbDS method has proven to serve as precursor to identify the damage levels, indicating the beginning of …

Ordinary Differential Equations With Machine Learning For Prediction Of Smart Composite Fracture Toughness, Relebohile George Qhobosheane, Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian, Vamsee Vadlamudi, Kenneth Reifsnider, Rassel Raihan

Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM-UTARI)-Archive

This work in on the development of an ordinary differential equation (ODE) model coupled with statistical methods for the prediction of fracture toughness of a magnetostrictive, piezoelectric smart self-sensing Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite. The smart composite with sensing properties encompasses Terfenol-D alloy nanoparticles and Single Walled Carbon NanoTubes (SWCNT). To explore various configurations the of nanoparticle constituents’ effect on fracture toughness within the FRP composite, the ODE model developed within a finite element analysis (FEA) environment is considered to attain fracture observations across the solution space. The acquired FEA data is then used to feed the machine-learning (ML) algorithms …

Effects Of Surface Characteristics On Mechanical And Dielectric Properties Of Adhesively Bonded Carbon Fiber Composites, Minhazur Rahman, Gayathri Kola, Monjur Morshed Rabby, Muthu Ram Prabhu Elenchezhian, Relebohile George Qhobosheane, Vamsee Vadlamudi

Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM-UTARI)-Archive

The rapid rise of fiber reinforced composite usage in aircraft, spacecraft and automobile industries made the proper comprehension of repair and joining of these materials a crucial aspect. Adhesive bonding is one of the most advantageous and desirable joining and repair technique for fiber reinforced composites. However, the heterogeneity of fiber reinforced composites and the complex interfacial nature of the adhesive bonds, makes most non-destructive evaluation and assessment techniques ineffective to assess the state of the bond. Different manufacturing and surface preparation techniques impart different surface characteristics to the adherends, hence proper understanding of the state of bonds is dependent …

Family Communicative Environment’S Effects On Young Adults’ Social Norms About Limiting Alcohol: Examining The Mediating Effects Of Implicit Pri, Grace Ellen Brannon

Communication Faculty Publications - Archive

Alcohol usage among young adults remains a prominent public health concern. Communicating with family members about alcohol can positively influence young adults’ perceptions of social norms, yet the stigmatized nature of alcohol-related conversations in the family create a barrier to occurrence of these conversations. This study examines how young adults’ familial communication patterns impact their descriptive and injunctive social norms about alcohol, using Communication Privacy Management Theory as the theoretical framework. Specifically, this study seeks to understand how conversation orientation, conformity orientation, warm conformity orientation, and cold conformity orientation predicts two sets of social norms (descriptive and injunctive), and to …

Institutional Research Fact Book - Fall 2020, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

Institutional Research Fact Book - Fall 2020

Maker Literacies For Academic Libraries: Integration Into Curriculum, Katie Musick Peery

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Melding universities۪ strategic goals with libraries۪ teaching and learning mission, the academic library makerspace can be a powerful catalyst for information literacy, offering faculty partners a place for interdisciplinary, experiential learning. If you're pondering what it takes to get your makerspace into the curriculum, this volume's relatable, first-hand accounts from librarians, makerspace staff, and faculty partners will give you the confidence to make the leap. Contributors, drawn from the IMLS-funded Maker Literacies project, describe pilots and assessment for a variety of demographics, course subjects, and makerspace equipment. Guided by their experiences, you'll be ready to fully partner with faculty through …

Learning From Covid-19: Universal Design For Learning Implementation Prior To And During A Pandemic, Jennifer Renée Kilpatrick, Suzanne Ehrlich, Michelle Bartlett

UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship

This study examined whether higher education faculty knowingly and/or unknowingly applied UDL principles prior to and during the COVID-19 rapid online teaching and learning (ROTL) transition. Researchers collected data through a survey that was disseminated nationwide and completed by higher education faculty (n = 38). Findings included a shift in instruction modality where 50 percent of synchronous in person instruction moved to asynchronous online instruction or optional synchronous remote instruction. Additionally, there was an unsurprising, considerable increase in the use of technology to support student engagement with course content. Researchers identified themes in the barriers (e.g., time, resources, training) to …

Support For Students With Disabilities: How Awareness And Accommodations Differ Across Faculty Members Within The Postsecondary Context, Toby Tomlinson Baker

Theses and Dissertations

This case study sought to determine the most salient needs of higher education faculty who instruct and accommodate students with disabilities (SWDs). Therefore, the faculty were analyzed as a community in a university setting. Currently, the accommodations that faculty provide for SWDs vary from institution to institution. Additionally, certain variables, such as faculty’s years with the university, budget, size, and location of the institution impact the level of support provided and what specific accommodations SWDs receive.The purpose of this qualitative case study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the current level of knowledge that faculty obtain for accommodating SWDs. …

The Struggle With Basic Writing Skills, Ann Nowak

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Brian Foster Named Humanities Teacher Of The Year, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Foster enjoys designing courses to challenge and engage students Brian Foster is enjoying quite a successful conclusion to a wild ride of a year: the University of North Carolina published his book, he learned he would be co-editor of a prestigious sociology journal, and earned the honor of Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year.

Pacific Review 2020, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

No abstract provided.

Raj Soin College Of Business Newsletter - December 2020, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Raj Soin College of Business Newsletter

A eight page newsletter created by the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University. This newsletter includes a upcoming events, message from the dean, and more.

2020 December 1, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, December 1, 2020

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2020

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

Gamified Text Messaging Contingent On Device-Measured Steps: Randomized Feasibility Study Of A Physical Activity Intervention For Cancer Survivors, Michael C. Robertson, Elizabeth J. Lyons, Yue Liao, Miranda L. Baum, Karen M. Basen-Engquist

Kinesiology Faculty Publications & Presentations - Archive

Background: Physical activity can confer diverse benefits on cancer survivors. Unfortunately, many cancer survivors are not sufficiently active. The efficacy of physical activity interventions for this population may be increased by grounding them in Self-Determination Theory (SDT). Combining game design elements with wearable technologies may be a useful and scalable approach to targeting SDT constructs to promote cancer survivors’ physical activity. Objective: The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of Steps2Health, a physical activity intervention for cancer survivors. It also aims to investigate the effects of the intervention on motivation, physical activity, and step …

Inclusion By Building Capacity: Advancing Stem And Multicultural Programs With Oer, Michelle Reed, Bonnie Boardman, Julián Rodríguez

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Academic libraries play an important role in advancing the use of open educational resources (OER) in higher education. In addition to connecting communities with information, an increasing number of libraries now provide OER publishing support and services for faculty. This panel presents the results of two OER creation projects supported and funded by such a program. The authors of the OER and an academic librarian will discuss their experiences developing, publishing, and piloting the OER. The OER project titled “Spanish-Language Television News Production in the United States of America” (original in Spanish) is the first of its kind focusing exclusively …

2020 Supplementary Directory Of New Bargaining Agents And Contracts In Institutions Of Higher Education, 2013-2019, William A. Herbert, Jacob Apkarian, Joseph Van Der Naald

Publications and Research

The 2020 Supplementary Directory is an analysis of data for the period 2013-2019 of new bargaining units, bargaining agents, and contracts in higher education following publication of our last directory in 2012. The 2020 Supplementary Directory includes a listing of all new bargaining relationships concerning faculty, department chairs, librarians, postdoctoral scholars, academic researchers, and/or graduate student employees. It also includes data about bargaining units that existed prior to 2013 but did not appear in the last directory such as postdoctoral scholar and academic researcher bargaining units. Unlike prior directories, the 2020 Supplementary Directory includes a detailed unit composition description for …

Spring/Summer 2020: New Faculty Directory, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2019-2023

Fourteen new faculty members joined the college this year. We’re delighted to introduce them to readers via this new faculty directory.

With A Little Help From My Friends: Engaging Diverse Stakeholders To Create An Archival Nursing Exhibit, Raeanna Jeffers, Laura Haygood, Michael Barera

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. OBJECTIVE: Librarians and archivists at a large public research university created a nursing history exhibit documenting their nursing program through all its iterations dating back to its founding in 1890. Exhibit stakeholders collaborated to create this exhibit, which was delayed but not abandoned due to the pandemic. METHODS: An initial meeting was held among library staff that discussed the involvement of future external stakeholders, including nursing faculty and staff, a public library, and a county archive. After this, the involved collaborators identified archival materials …

2020 October 27, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, October 27, 2020

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2020

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

2020 October 27, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, October 27, 2020

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2020

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

Zooming To Success: Evaluating Student Grades To Make The Case For Online Instruction, Laura N. Haygood, John L. Bayhi, A.M. Serrano

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the South Central Chapter of the Medical Library Association. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this project was to learn the impact library instruction had on Nursing Research course student grades. METHODS: The setting of this research was an academic library serving a large, online nursing program. The health sciences librarians provided instruction to a population of graduate and undergraduate nursing research students. Intervention was a synchronous 45-minute advanced-searching demonstration in CINAHL offered to all students enrolled in all sections of Nursing Research. The librarians pulled a list of attendees from the video conferencing software …

Mind The Gap: Addressing Structural Equity And Inclusion On Wikipedia, Michael Barera

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Wikipedia's often-quoted mission and purpose is a quote from co-founder Jimmy Wales: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." Almost twenty years since the creation of English Wikipedia, which now has more than six million articles, there are over 54 million articles on more than 300 different language Wikipedias. However, there are still major gaps in content: some topics are covered incredibly well, others barely at all. In this presentation, Michael Barera will discuss some of the content gaps on Wikipedia …

Use Of Electronic Resources By The Academics: A Case Study From University Of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, Pradeepa Wijetunge Dr., Abhirami Sivasanthiran Ms.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of electronic resources (e-resources) by the academic staff of University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. The study aimed to determine their awareness and perceptions towards the e-resources, training, and the factors affecting the usage. Convenient sampling method was used to select a sample of 37 academics from a population of 431. The study adopted both quantitative and qualitative approaches, by using a questionnaire and a discussion. The study revealed that the majority often uses Internet to fulfill their information needs, they have learnt about the availability of the e-resources from their …

2020 October 13, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, October 13, 2020

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2020

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons In Excellent Teaching, The University Of Texas System Academy Of Distinguished Teachers, Art Brownlow, Beth Brunk-Chavez

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

The Little Orange Book captures reflections, tips and commentaries on teaching and learning from the members of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. Its many vignettes span a wide range of topics and teaching interests, from establishing a safe learning space to classroom silences, from curriculum development to modeling the best teachers, and from giving thanks to those teachers who came before us to leaving our own legacies. The Little Orange Book is the perfect text for first-time college instructors who are just getting started on their instructional careers, as well as longtime faculty who have many …

Upcoming October Southtalks, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The month of October includes a wide variety of SouthTalks, including a special Gilder-Jordan Lecture "One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy" presented by Carol Anderson at 6 p.m. Oct. 13, and a Voting Rights and Community Activism series lecture "The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today" at 5 p.m.

Faculty Perspectives And Experiences At The Jerusalem Center, Gaye Strathearn, Andrew C. Skinner, S. Kent Brown, Ed Stratford, Kent P. Jackson

BYU Studies

Strathearn: In 1985, my friend and I decided to backpack around the world. I said that if we were doing that, the first thing I wanted to do was get to the Holy Land. We were on a dime traveling, and we just had a Bible in one hand and a Let’s Go Europe in the other. That visit to the Holy Land started a fire within me, a love of that land. I was home about a year and a half when Elder James E. Faust spoke at our stake conference in Australia. He began by noting that “the …