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Cooperative Extension As A Partner In Creating Healthy Communities: An Environmental Scan, Suzanne M. Prevedel, Cindy Nelson, David Buys, Linda Cronk, Valerie Duffy, Julie Garden-Robinson, Marcel Horowitz, Bernestine Mcgee, Marla Reicks, Daniel Remley, Tamara Warren

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

health and wellness, chronic disease prevention and management, curriculum, Cooperative Extension, Extension, health programming, Health and Wellness Framework, ECOP Action Teams

2018 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Otterbein University And The Public Good, Academic Affairs

Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference

The 2018 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a talk by John C. Burkhardt, drawing on his work to talk about how faculties can be more inspired and effective.

John C. Burkhardt is a professor of clinical practice in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. He was the founding director and currently leads the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, which was established in 2000 to better understand and influence the changing role of higher education within a diverse, dynamic, democratic society. For three years, 2013-2016, John directed …

Campus Assembly Minutes 05/02/2018, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

Nursing Faculty And Care Of The Dying, Jessi Balagtas

The Eleanor Mann School of Nursing Undergraduate Honors Theses

Background: There is a demand for effective and efficient palliative and end of life nursing care that will meet the needs of the aging Baby Boomer generation. Though advancement has been made, palliative and end of life care for the seriously ill adult is still lacking. That deficiency can be traced to deficiency in nursing education. Further still, nursing faculty attitudes, knowledge and self-efficacy in palliative care may present a barrier for adequate palliative care nursing curriculum.

Objective: Explore the current knowledge, attitudes and self-efficacy of nursing faculty regarding care for seriously ill adults.

Methods and Design: A quantitative, descriptive …

An Investigation Measuring The Impact Of Financial Literacy Programs On University Student Debt, Morgan O'Sullivan

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Student loan debt is the most common form of debt in the United States today outside of mortgage debt. The research for this study sought to (1) investigate whether financial literacy programs in the State of Florida have an impact on student debt levels, as well as (2) determine how the responsibility for the provision of financial literacy education was distributed throughout a university community. The research provided for a survey that was sent to 70 institutions in the State of Florida analyzing whether or not these institutions had financial literacy programs in place. A survey was also sent out …

Uta Data Repository Scope & Policyuta Data Repository Scope And Policy, Peace Ossom Williamson

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

When You're "It": Preserving And Sharing The Family Archivespreserving And Sharing The Family Archives, Leslie Wagner

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Initially using digitization to make historical photographs, oral histories, and moving images accessible to the public in her role as a professional archivist, Leslie Wagner found it necessary to apply those same concepts as family historian, genealogist, and keeper of the family archives. As the eldest child, the tasks fell to her naturally, but when serving as executrix for her parents' estate (2016-2017), she came into possession of several generations of correspondence, photographs, film, audiotapes, and documents. Beyond the physical aspects of preserving these items, she was also challenged with the need to share the family history with the younger …

Exploration Of The Qualities And Interactions Of Post-Secondary Faculty Identified As Exemplary By Students With Support Services, Joan E. Green

Special Education ETDs

Recent statistics indicate that approximately 11% of undergraduate college students seek out disability support services (National Center for Education Statistics, 20015). The review of research indicated a lack of research regarding faculty in postsecondary education and their knowledge of disabilities and services, experiences of individuals with disabilities, and in particular, experiences and interactions toward students with support services attending postsecondary educational institutions. The purpose of this case study was to explore the classroom experiences of seven faculty nominated by students with support services as exemplary at a four-year public university. The semi-structured interviews focused on the abilities of students with …

Take This, It's Free: Digital Media In The Public Domain, Adam Northam, Michael Barera

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Digital collections have been a part of Texas A&M University at Commerce Libraries holdings since 2006 and we want to ensure our digital content is as accessible as possible. In 2016, to expand our audience, identified images from a selected digital collection documenting university history that had entered the public domain. This project's goals are to provide people with high quality digital content that can be used and shared freely, and to determine if placing digital media in the public domain will direct more traffic back to the source material, which currently resides in our Northeast Texas Digital Collections, thus …

Personal Care Products: Where Are The Phthalates?, Tara Lunsford, Erika L. Doctor, Cassandra S. Korte

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Phthalates are chemicals that are commonly used as a plasticizer in personal care products. This class of compounds is added to help prevent products from drying out. Phthalates have been shown to have potential negative impacts on reproductive organs, cause birth defects, effect the endocrine system, as well as causing other ill effects. For example, previous work found that phthalates can have an effect on the endocrine system of adolescent individuals. In an intervention study, phthalate exposure was reduced when these products were not being used. The purpose of the present study is to examine phthalate abundance in personal care …

Government Documents Collection Development Project: A Monumental Task, Troy Black, Sunday Phillips

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

BACKGROUND UTA Libraries was designated a federal depository in 1963. For 50 years the library received physical copies of federal documents. In 2014, the library stopped receiving print documents and instead started receiving electronic copies only. The documents collection that the library had been collecting for 50 years had never been weeded properly and approximately 50% of the material on the shelves were not cataloged and therefore, not discoverable. The physical collection occupied 31 ranges of shelving (= 3,780 shelves or 10,080 ft.). There was also a sizable print collection housed at the library's offsite storage facility (Library Collection Depository). …

2018 March 22, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, March 22, 2018

Campus Open Access Policies and System Repository

2018 March 22, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, March 22, 2018

Campus Open Access Policies and System Repository

New Business Faculty Bring Professional Expertise, Danny Mooers

The Voice

No abstract provided.

Expanding The Intellectual Property Knowledge Base At University Libraries: Collaborating With Patent And Trademark Resource Centers, Martin K. Wallace, Suzanne Reinman

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

Patent and Trademark Resource Centers are located in libraries throughout the U.S., with 43 being in academic libraries. With the importance of incorporating a knowledge of intellectual property (IP) and patent research in university curricula nationwide, this study developed and evaluated a partnership program to increase the understanding of IP and patent searching methods at universities that do not headquarter a PTRC. This article describes the methods for establishing those partnerships, summarizes their results, and offers a list of best practices and lessons learned for establishing future partnerships.

Spring 2018: On The Road To Disaster, Marybeth Matzek

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

In September 2017, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit south of Mexico City, and a management professor in De Pere checked her passport. Lucy Arendt (Business Administration), an expert in decision-making following a natural disaster, would travel to Mexico at the end of the semester.

2018 March 20, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 4, March 20, 2018

My News, Georgia Southern University

My News (2014-2020)

• Biology faculty develops accessible, hands-on experiments to teach evolution
• Armstrong Campus to host reading with acclaimed novelist Chris Bachelder
• Georgia Southern ranked No. 8 on 2018 Military Times 10 Best Cybersecurity Programs list
• Treasure Savannah day of service to take place in Savannah, Hinesville
• Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art hosts Nancy Bookhart for artist talk Feb. 28
• True Blue pride at the Olympic Games
• Faculty, Staff Eagle Week set for March 5-9

Engaging The Faculty: Developing Content And Writing Support, Eric Mason, Chris Netterville, Jacob Weiers

CAHSS Faculty Presentations, Proceedings, Lectures, and Symposia

In this roundtable, presenters gather information on interactions with university faculty and writing centers. Upon reflection, they will ask participants to collaborate on discussing best practices concerning the development of workshops and overall supportive content for faculty in order to help promote the teaching of writing from a writing center perspective.

University Libraries: Looking Ahead, Mary M. Somerville

University Libraries Librarian and Staff Presentations

No abstract provided.

2018 February 13, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes No. 2 February 13th 2018

Minutes, College Of Arts & Sciences Council Meeting, February 9, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Arts & Sciences

College Council Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the February 9, 2018, meeting of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Arts and Sciences' Council.

2018 February 6, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, February 13, 2018

Free Access to Menstrual Products

A Method For Inferring Regional Origins Of Neurodegeneration, Justin Torok, Pedro D. Maia, Fon Powell, Sneha Pandya, Ashish Raj

Mathematics Faculty Publications - Archive

Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, is characterized by the emergence and spread of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, causing widespread neurodegeneration. Though the progression of Alzheimer’s disease is considered to be stereotyped, the significant variability within clinical populations obscures this interpretation on the individual level. Of particular clinical importance is understanding where exactly pathology, e.g. tau, emerges in each patient and how the incipient atrophy pattern relates to future spread of disease. Here we demonstrate a newly developed graph theoretical method of inferring prior disease states in patients with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment using an …

Using An Engaged Scholarship Symposium To Change Perceptions: Evaluation Results, Sapna Varkey, Olga Smirnova, Tara Lee Gallien

Journal of Extension

Engaged scholarship (ES) entails a symbiotic relationship between the community and the university. This article reports results from an evaluation of an ES symposium Eastern Carolina University held to increase awareness of ES as a means for integrating research, teaching, and service and to potentially change unfavorable perceptions about ES through education and testimonials. After the symposium, participants were more likely to suggest that the university should put more weight on ES. On the basis of our findings, we believe that a symposium designed to encourage open dialogue among faculty, administrators, and Extension professionals can lead to increased awareness of …

A Syllabus For Sst 560: Oral History & Documenting Lgbtq Histories In Mississippi, Admin

Blog Posts

We like to occasionally post syllabi from Southern Studies courses, like Dr. Brian Foster's SST 102: The Southern Protest Mixtape and Dr. Darren Grem's course on southern music history. Today we share Dr. Jessie Wilkerson's SST 560: Introduction to Oral History, which has as its theme "Documenting LGBTQ Histories in Mississippi."

2018 January 30, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, January 30, 2018

2018 January 30, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, January 30, 2018

Faculty Senate: approved changes from EPC for Transfer Credit Evaluation (1/30/18)

2018 January 30, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, January 30, 2018

SUNY Cortland College Catalog – General Education

New Study The South Essay By Dr. Adam Gussow "Blues Expressiveness And The Blues Ethos", Admin

Blog Posts

The blues -- as a palette of intense, often contradictory feelings; a range of social conditions heavily inflected by blackness and southernness; an expressive form encompassing literature as well as music; and a philosophical orientation towards experience -- are a more complex cultural phenomenon than some realize. This essay unpacks the latter two concepts: blues expressiveness and the blues ethos. Blues expressiveness is constituted by a range of cultural practices, including the AAB stanza, call and response procedure, vocalizations, blues-idiomatic language, and signifying. The blues ethos, too, offers multiple strategies for surviving bad times by refusing to reify the down-ness …