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The Correlation Between Personal Stressors, Anxiety And Caffeine Consumption Among Jmu Faculty, Erica B. Larocca

Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current

This study investigates the relationships between caffeine consumption, stress and anxiety among faculty at James Madison University. This was examined using a mixed methods study with a sample of twenty undergraduate faculty members from all Academic Colleges besides the College of Education. Quantitative data serves to provide descriptive statistics as well as data from the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 scale and the Caffeine Expectancy Scale. Qualitative data serves to learn about the motivations and habits surrounding caffeine, and about the stressors and anxieties specific to faculty members. Anxiety and caffeine are reported to have an association (p=0.656). It was found that …

Faculty Management: An Examination Of The Dual Role Of Faculty As Managers In Higher Education, Rume J. Azikiwe

Full-Text Theses & Dissertations

This research study offers a better understanding on the role of faculty when they are given managerial/leadership roles beyond their teaching and research duties. It focuses on why faculty members accept initial roles with a university; how they become faculty managers; how they are transitioned into faculty management roles; what challenges are with having faculty managers in the role; how the concept of academic freedom/empowerment plays a role in challenges of faculty managers; and how university leadership can respond to, support, and prepare faculty managers to be successful in these administrative roles. To better understand faculty managers, the researcher conducted …

Foundations Of Social Work Research: Guidebook For Social Work Literature Reviews And Research Questions, Rebecca L. Mauldin, Matthew Decarlo

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

This short guidebook provides information about selecting a research topic and research questions, searching for literature, reading and understanding scholarly writing, and writing a literature review to synthesize what is known and what remains to be learned about a social problem. For students who appreciate the availability of resources on the internet, it also provides links to additional materials. It can be used with its companion textbook, Foundations of Social Work Research by Rebecca L. Mauldin and Matthew DeCarlo, or as a stand-alone guide. [Visit the books' Pressbooks page to download the OER in other formats or to access an …

"We Don't Work For Free": Tenured Faculty Engagement In Assessment Initiatives On A Unionized Community College Campus, Lauren Kosrow

Dissertations

This case study, which included faculty and administrator interviews as well as an exploration of institutional documents and faculty meeting spaces, examined what influences a tenured faculty member’s decision to engage with assessment initiatives at Midwest Community College and what senior leaders can do to successfully engage tenured faculty in these efforts. Principal-agent theory (PAT) offers an important and helpful framework for considering how senior leadership can successfully engage tenured faculty in student learning outcomes assessment on this specific unionized community college campus. The findings of this study suggest that senior leaders must leverage both incentives and monitoring to successfully …

An Exploration Of The Experiences Of Faculty With Disabilities In A Research University In The South, Gonzalo Camp

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

While diversity and inclusion has become a benchmark for universities all around the country, faculty with disabilities remain in the margins of higher education discourse and are a neglected population across the spectrum of academia. This thesis aims at exploring the experiences of faculty with disabilities at a specific research 1 university in the South. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five faculty members who self-identify as having a disability. Four themes emerged from this study: able-bodied lens, fear, social isolation, and coping mechanisms. Building on the existing literature, these findings offer new information to expand the knowledge on the challenges …

Women Engineering Faculty Well-Being: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Shannon Kristine Stefl

All Dissertations

This study examined the lived experiences of women as they navigate faculty pathways in engineering. This qualitative research study centered on the well-being journeys of seven women who have achieved tenure as engineering faculty to uncover how these women psychologically experienced and incorporated well-being across their personal and professional lives in support of their success, happiness, and satisfaction.

Leveraging qualitative research techniques aligned with the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) methodology, this study elicited and systematically analyzed accounts of well-being across participants’ professional and personal life spaces. The well-being journeys of seven participants, JoAnn, Rose, Marie, Allison, Dylan, Mary, and Gabriella, …

Law School News: Faq For 1ls 04-16-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

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

Economics Newsletters

As five page newsletter from the Department of Economics at Wright State University documenting the current affairs of the department.

My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• President Kyle Marrero addresses Eagle Nation
• Census 2020: Eagles Count
• 40 under 40 nominations close today
• Summer TAP deadline set for April 15
• Armstrong Campus alumna lends helping hand to create masks for health care workers
• Georgia Southern faculty experts: turn your COVID-19 panic into a plan
• Georgia Southern moves more than 5,000 classes online, professors offer creative solutions for remote learning
• How a goat named Moonpie is helping social needs students to socialize
• Georgia Southern's Armstrong Campus lights up the small screen on NBC's drama "Council of Dads"
• Georgia Southern engineering students forge customized metal 3D printer
• Need public …

Law School News: F.A.Q. Update: Covid-19 And Rwu Law 03-30-2020, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Law School News: F.A.Q.: Covid-19 And Rwu Law, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

No abstract provided.

Faculty Knowledge And Skills Development: A Review For Nurse Educators, Matthew S. Howard, Danielle Perkins Manning

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

This presentation will include information on an asynchronous learner-paced educational activity aimed to support academic nurse educators in their quest for knowledge. Mapped to all major content areas for the Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) credentialing examination, this six-course program is engaging, featuring interactive practice scenarios, knowledge checks, and downloadable resources.

Graduate Occupational Therapy Students & Information Literacy: Does A Research Consultation Increase Information Literacy Skills While Lowering Library Anxiety?, Mary C. Rickelman, Christine Moghimi

Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students

In today’s academic environment, students equipped with self-regulated learning and information literacy skills have an excellent opportunity for professional success, given our current information-based practices in health care. Information literacy instruction provided to students early in their coursework will aide them in acquiring competency for the remainder of their studies, especially scholarly projects. Along with information literacy issues, library anxiety has been identified in the literature as a contributing factor to poor academic performance in students. The purpose of this study was to explore components of library anxiety, if present, as well as to help students become more comfortable and …

School Of Nursing News, Georgia Southern University

Nursing: News & Publications (2013-2023)

• Nursing Faculty Publish Article

Multiculturalism And Diversity Issues In Applied Behavior Analysis, Brian M. Conners

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The topic of training in diversity and multiculturalism in the field of applied behavior analysis (ABA) has only been discussed within recent years. Minimal research has examined this topic particularly within the scope of training at the graduate level in higher education. Therefore, this paper focuses on examining full time ABA faculty perceptions of multiculturalism and diversity training within their own graduate programs. Furthermore, this paper also presents a call to action related to diversity issues in the field of ABA in terms of graduate students and graduate preparation training and curriculum.

Curriculum Design And Development To Promote Best Teaching Practice, Kimberly N. Silver Dunker

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

This preconference will discuss how nursing curriculum is designed and developed to promote best teaching within programs. This program includes aspects of the Faculty Knowledge and Skills Development: A Review for Nurse Educators (FKSD) which is aimed at preparing academic nurse educators for the Certified Nurse Educator (CNE®) credentialing examination.

Evidence-Based Testing Practices In Nursing Education: Does Faculty Experience Count?, Wendy L. Moore

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Nurse faculty make important decisions about student academic performance and progression. Faculty-developed written exams remain the most important assessment strategy in nursing programs. Given the high-stakes nature of nursing exams, it is imperative that they are evidence-based. However, little is know about faculty who implement evidence-based testing practices most often.

2020 February 18, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 2, February 18, 2020

2020 February 18, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 2, February 18, 2020

The Effects Of Plastics Intake On Drosophila, Gabriela De Moraes, Tal Gir, Carolina Landa Perez, Raymond Mackuol, Kimberly D. Rowland

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Drosophila melanogaster is commonly used as a model organism to study countless human health-related issues and concerns (Pandey et al., 2011. From a global aspect, pollution, in all its forms, is an ever-growing concern. In particular, plastics, due to their incapability to decompose, has raised many questions pertaining to the effect this will have on our already struggling planet and ultimately what those effects mean for the human race. Plastics are composed of a group of chemicals known as phthalates which allow the material to be as flexible and durable as it is. Phthalates are also used in a widespread …

An Analysis Of Campus Services For International Students At Institutions In The Midwest, Sylvia Miriyam Findlay

Theses and Dissertations

Higher education campuses are becoming ethnoculturally diverse with the influx of international students from various parts of the world and must modify their international student recruitment and enrollment strategies in response to this trend. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of student affairs personnel to campus services for international students by comparing what should be provided to what is being offered. The study also attempts to identify the gap in their perceptions. Services identified in the literature were examined using the Briggs and Ammigan (2017) collaborative programming and outreach model, which combined concepts of student engagement …

Dynamical Role Of Pivotal Brain Regions In Parkinson Symptomatology Uncovered With Deep Learning, Alex A. Nguyen, Pedro D. Maia, Xiao Gao, Pablo F. Damasceno, Ashish Raj

Mathematics Faculty Publications - Archive

The release of a broad, longitudinal anatomical dataset by the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative promoted a surge of machine-learning studies aimed at predicting disease onset and progression. However, the excessive number of features used in these models often conceals their relationship to the Parkinsonian symptomatology. Objectives: The aim of this study is two-fold: (i) to predict future motor and cognitive impairments up to four years from brain features acquired at baseline; and (ii) to interpret the role of pivotal brain regions responsible for different symptoms from a neurological viewpoint. Methods: We test several deep-learning neural network configurations, and report our …

2020 January 18, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, January 18, 2020

2020 Ruby Yearbook, Tiffini Eckenrod, Allyssa Borrelli, Alex Mossaidis

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2020 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Comparison Between Faculty And Student Perception Of Instructor Presence In Online Courses, Samantha D. Penney

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Each year more reports indicate that online programs are in demand. These programs are sought after by the population to fit into their lives. As a result, concern for quality online courses is at the forefront of the higher education industry. This also increases the concerns for how to teach online classes and how to engage the students in the course materials. The theoretical construct of community of inquiry (CoI) determines that engagement or interaction. This study compares the similarities and differences of CoI experienced by faculty and students. The study uses each of the CoI types of presence: social, …

Research Brief Fiscal Year 2020, Nova Southeastern University

Research Briefs

No abstract provided.

Nsu Translational Research And Economic Development Fy 2020 Annual Report, Nova Southeastern University

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Rwandan Nursing And Midwifery Faculty's Experiences Of Applying Knowledge About Teaching Methodology To Practice In Academic And Clinical Settings With Students, Jean Pierre Ndayisenga, Yolanda Babenko-Mould, Marilyn K. Evans, Madeleine Mukeshimana

Africa Western Collaborations Day 2020 Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Chapter 6: Scenarios, Georgia Southern University

Covid-19 Pandemic: News & Publications (Archived)

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Exploring Faculty Perceptions Of Campus Climate Before And After A Consolidation, Stephanie Denise Watson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Consolidations have become a market strategy for both public and private higher education institutions as a way of rebranding to address financial challenges and to remain competitive. Challenges arise when faculty and staff members are expected to merge the racial climates of a non-historically black college and university (NHBCU) and a historically black college and university (HBCU). The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of issues related to inclusion, campus interactions, and diverse campus groups following the consolidation. The racial campus climate framework by Hurtado, Milem, Clayton-Pedersen, and Allen served as the conceptual framework for this …