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Blues Scholar Promotes "Beloved Community" In New Memoir, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Book signing set for Wednesday, Feb. 26 at Off Square Books OXFORD, Miss. The chapters of Adam Gussow's life include teaching blues literature to inmates at Mississippi's maximum-security prison and getting crowds grooving as a street blues harmonica player in Harlem. The University of Mississippi professor of English and Southern studies weaves several of those personal stories into his new book My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir.(Post Hill Press).

Southdocs Film Guide For Spring, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Check out upcoming showtimes and locations for films produced by Southern Studies students, alumni, faculty, and staff for this spring.

University Students & Faculty Would Like More Knowledge About Using Ai In Academics, Tessa Richardson

Research on Capitol Hill

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prevalent in every aspect of human life. Understanding both faculty and student attitudes and behaviors toward AI in education allows governing boards and lawmakers to effectively discuss and make informed decisions regarding policies that impact its usage.

2025 February 18, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Faculty Senate Minutes No. 2, February 18, 2025

2025 February 18, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Faculty Senate Minutes No. 2 February 18, 2025

The Relationship Between Faith Integration Among Faculty In A Christian K-12 School And The Administrator’S Education Level And Years Of Experience In A Predictive Correlational Design, Kevin Jerome Barber

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this quantitative, predictive correlational research design was to determine the relationship between the administrator's education level and years of experience and faith integration learning among faculty within the Christian K-12 school. While research explains the administrator's importance, faith integration learning, and the need for education, there is a gap in the literature about how combining all three crucial factors helps Christian school faculty develop faith integration learning in the classroom. Most of the research has been conducted in qualitative studies, while this study desires to quantify the factors in a quantitative study. This quantitative, non-experimental study used …

Law Library Blog (February 2025): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Raquel Ortiz, Jessica Silvia

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Spring Southtalks Continue With Theme Of Southern Environments, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The SouthTalks series at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture continues its theme of Southern environments this spring. SouthTalks is a series of events exploring the interdisciplinary nature of Southern studies. All events are free to the public and take place in the Barnard Observatory Tupelo Room, unless otherwise noted.

Showcasing Your Scholarship With Lu Faculty Share, Mark Hamilton, Jeremy Mcginniss

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Learn how to access and manage your faculty profile in our new research information management system, “LU Faculty SHARE (Scholarship and Research Exchange)”. We will walk through how to claim your account and the process of adding articles, conference presentations, posters, awards, grants, and other research projects to showcase your scholarship.

Learning Outcomes:

• Access their LU Faculty SHARE account
• Know how to add various research outputs to their profile (articles, presentations, posters, awards, etc.)

Faculty Accountability In Higher Education: Navigating Complexity And Equity, Mary Margaret Cunningham

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This chapter examines the complex landscape of faculty accountability in modern higher education institutions. It analyzes the traditional supervisory structures and evaluation systems while highlighting emerging challenges and tensions in faculty assessment. Additionally, it explores the multiple dimensions of faculty accountability, including the tenure and promotion process, the role of student evaluations, and peer review systems. Particular attention is given to how these systems impact faculty of underrepresented identities and the increasing prevalence of non- tenure track positions. This chapter also explores how mission creep and shifting facultystudent dynamics affect accountability standards. Through an analysis of current practices and limitations, …

Secondary School Leaders’ Perceptions Of Their Role In Mitigating Cyberbullying, Masey Pechholt

Dissertations and Theses

Cyberbullying is a pervasive issue in secondary schools, posing significant challenges to student well-being and academic success. This phenomenological study explored how school leaders perceived their responsibilities in addressing and preventing cyberbullying within secondary school environments. Grounded in ecological systems theory, the study examined social media technologies and their relation to cyberbullying in schools, cyberbullying and cybervictimization, digital literacy among students, faculty, and parents/guardians, social media exposure and its impact at school, implications for school leaders addressing cyberbullying and both the value and problems of digital literacy. Through in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis, school leaders revealed a shared commitment to …

9. By The Faculty, For The Faculty: A Grassroots Effort To Define And Support Teaching Excellence, Virginia Stormer, Elisabeth Schussler, Chris Kilgore, Caroline Wienhold, Jordan Shipley, Ferlin Mcgaskey

Documenting Teaching Excellence

In 2022, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville launched a process to establish a university-wide set of principles guiding teaching excellence and rooted these efforts in the process of shared governance. After a meticulously inclusive feedback process and iterative revisions, we arrived at a set of four principles that we now call UT’s Principles of Excellence in Teaching (UT PoET), which reflect the specific values around teaching at our R1 (doctoral university with very high research activity), flagship, land-grant institution. This chapter will detail the process by which we arrived at these principles. In so doing, we hope to provide a …

2025 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

In 2025, NSU was recognized by the Carnegie Classification system as one of only 21 universities nationwide to hold all three of the following designations: Very High Research Activity (R1), Community Engaged Institution, and Opportunity College & University (OCU). Its R1 classification places NSU among the top tier of U.S. research universities, a milestone that reflects our continued growth and commitment to research that leads to real-world impact.. As an R1 institution, NSU is shining a new light on scientific discovery, medical breakthroughs, and technologies that advance quality of life: from pioneering treatments in neuro-immunology and cancer, to safeguarding coral …

Framing Large Language Models: Teaching Foundational Concepts Of Generative Ai And Information Literacy For Critical Student Engagement, Isaac Wink, Jennifer Hootman

Library Faculty and Staff Publications

This chapter situates the emerging scholarly conversation around AI literacy within the established Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. We apply three frames in particular: 1) Authority Is Constructed and Contextual, 2) Information Creation as a Process, and 3) Research as Inquiry, considering competencies relevant to students encountering generative AI applications in educational contexts and addressing ways that both students and instructors may seek to engage productively with such tools.

This chapter primarily focuses on tools such as ChatGPT that are built atop large language models (LLMs)—systems trained on massive text corpora—rather …

"I’Ll Wait Zero Seconds": Faculty Perspectives On Serials Access, Sharing, And Immediacy, Rachel Elizabeth Scott, Anne Shelley, Chad E. Buckley, Cassie Thayer-Styes, Julie A. Murphy

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

This study explores how faculty across disciplines access and share scholarly serial content and what expectations they have for immediacy. The authors conducted twenty-five in-depth, semi-structured interviews with faculty of various ranks representing all Illinois State University (ISU) colleges. The findings, presented in the words of participants and triangulated with data from local sources, suggest that faculty use a variety of context-specific mechanisms to access and share serial literature. Participants discuss how they use library services such as databases, subscriptions, interlibrary loan, and document delivery, coupled with academic social networks, disciplinary repositories, author websites, and other publicly available sources to …

How Inclusive Are Degree Programs In Operations Research And Analytics In The U.S.?, Michael P. Johnson Jr., Tayo Fabusuyi, Elham Hesari, Salina Chu

Public Policy and Public Affairs Faculty Publication Series

Academic programs in colleges and universities in the United States have increasingly embraced principles of equity and inclusion to support student success and diversity within professions. Innovations in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in university programs require baseline data on students, faculty and administrators, curricula, and programmatic support. A review of data shows that underrepresented groups in the US workforce have limited visibility in operations research and analytics. A review of DEI-related research reveals some relevant insights including a gap in studies specific to operations research and analytics.

To provide evidence in support of DEI initiatives in OR/analytics, we describe …

The Predictors Of Self-Censorship On College Campuses, Henry I. Long

CMC Senior Theses

Across U.S. colleges, speech climates are poor. Self-censorship and discomfort expressing views are common. At the same time, we find wide variation in speech climates across different institutions. This study is the first to identify factors that predict variation in speech climates. Drawing on data from multiple sources, including a survey of 58,807 undergraduates across 257 colleges and universities from the Foundation from Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), this study constructs a first-of-its-kind dataset to test three core theories of self-censorship found in the literature—student-centric theories, faculty-centric theories, and administrator-centric theories. We find moderate evidence to support each theory. Overall, …

Distinguished Professorship (Dp) Committee, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Distinguished Professorship (DP) Committee

The Distinguished Professorship is conferred upon faculty having achieved national or international  prominence and a distinguished reputation within the individual’s chosen field through significant  contributions to the research and scholarship, or through artistic performance or achievement in the  fine and performing arts.

Distinguished Teaching Professorship (Dtp) Committee, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Distinguished Teaching Professorship (DTP) Committee

1 The Distinguished Teaching Professorship is conferred upon faculty for outstanding teaching at the  graduate, undergraduate, or professional levels. Teaching mastery is to be consistently demonstrated  over multiple years at the institution where the Distinguished Teaching Professorship is bestowed. The  Distinguished Faculty Rank is a promotion to a prestigious, tenured rank above that of full professor.  Individuals so appointed are at a professional level beyond that which can be attained at the campus  level.

Comparison Of Dfr And Cae Criteria, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Comparison of DFR and CAE Criteria

Pandemic Impact On Research Faculty In Academic Medicine: A Mixed Method Study, Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, Vasilia Vasiliou, Lance D. Laird, Janet T. Civian, Linda H. Pololi

School of Business

Introduction: This mixed-method study sought to elucidate the impact of COVID-19 on the professional environments and career trajectories of midcareer research faculty in U.S. medical schools.

Methods: Participants were 40 midcareer medical school faculty enrolled in the Brandeis University C-Change Mentoring and Leadership Institute, a group peer mentoring career development course being tested in a National Institutes of Health-funded randomized controlled trial.

Results: We observed a gender disparity in both the quantitative and qualitative data, with women faculty describing COVID-19 more negatively impacting their career trajectory. This negative impact was independent of having children in the home. Participants largely reported …

Distinguished Professorship (Dp) Committee, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Distinguished Professorship (DP) Committee

The Distinguished Professorship is conferred upon faculty having achieved national or international  prominence and a distinguished reputation within the individual’s chosen field through significant  contributions to the research and scholarship, or through artistic performance or achievement in the  fine and performing arts.

Distinguished Service Professorship (Dsp) Committee, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Distinguished Service Professorship (DSP) Committee

The Distinguished Service Professorship is conferred upon faculty having achieved a distinguished  reputation for service not only to the campus and the University, but also to the community, the State of  New York or even the nation, by sustained effort in the application of intellectual skills drawing from the  candidate’s scholarly and research interests. It is bestowed on faculty in all disciplines and fields of  study.

Dl Decision Checklist, State University Of New York At Cortland

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DL Decision Checklist

Selection Criteria (adapted from SUNY Policies & Procedures) Academic librarians demonstrate unique talents as faculty who promote and facilitate access to  information, create knowledge-based solutions, and guide all sectors of the community toward  informed judgments about the quality and the principled use of information. They enhance student  learning, inquiry, and success via classroom teaching, research consultations, and the development of  instructional guides. In addition, they leverage their distinctive position on campus to facilitate  collaborations across campus.

Quality Improvement Project: Improving Nursing Faculty Perception Of Student Advising, Gayla Micek

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

This DNP Project aimed to influence a process change within the nursing faculty advising process for pre-licensure nursing students at the project site. The clinical site mandates faculty to meet with their assigned advisees twice per academic semester for advising. However, no guidelines have been provided by the educational institution on items to cover during these advising meetings. A mixed method approach, pre- and post-survey design with quantitative and qualitative data collection was utilized for this project. The major findings from this DNP project support evidence from the literature review that include the need for a structured faculty advising process, …

Community College Faculty Perception Of Guidelines For Promotions, Cynthia Williams-Roberson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Community College Faculty Perception of Guidelines for Promotions is a comprehensive study that examines faculty members' views on the current policies and procedures related to promotions and career advancement at community colleges. This research seeks to evaluate faculty perceptions of the fairness and equity of existing promotional guidelines, exploring whether faculty believe the policies may inadvertently facilitate discriminatory or biased practices. Additionally, the study aims to identify areas where the college may improve its written policies to ensure greater transparency, fairness, and consistency in promotional practices, using the standards set forth by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) as …

Interventions Designed To Increase Scholarly Activity And Achieve Promotion Among Primarily Junior Clinical Faculty In The United States: A Scoping Review, Heather A. Billings, Ashlee Mills Duffy, Gary L. Beck Dallaghan, Emily Glenn, Eric S. Peeples, Matthew R. Sandbulte, Jason F. Shiffermiller, Carrie Valenta, Bethany Lowndes, Jana L. Wardian

Journal Articles: Hospital Medicine

BACKGROUND: For many U.S. academic physicians, direct patient care is the primary focus of daily work and the most important professional responsibility. Concurrently, some degree of scholarly activity is often required for career advancement. Junior clinical faculty often face challenges that limit their success in this area such as heavy clinical workloads or other time constraints, a lack of personal expertise or experience, mentorship, and institutional infrastructure. Support systems and faculty development interventions may mitigate these challenges and contribute to increased academic productivity and promotion. The objective of this study was to perform a scoping review of literature on strategies …

Information Literacy & Library Research Skills: What Faculty Think Fy Students Know - A Pilot Study, Julia Warga

2025 Faculty Bibliography

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Decline In Attrition Rates In United States Pediatric Residency And Fellowship Programs, 2007–2020: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study, Emma Omoruyi, Greg Russell, Kimberly Montez

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Declining fill rates in US pediatric residency and subspecialty programs requires trainee retention. Attrition, defined as transfers, withdrawals, dismissals, unsuccessful completions, or deaths, disrupts program function and impacts the pediatric workforce pipeline. It aims to evaluate attrition trends among pediatric residents and fellows in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited programs from 2007 to 2020.

Methods: This repeated cross-sectional study analyzed publicly available ACGME Data Resource Book records. Attrition rates and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated overall and by subspecialty. Logistic regression assessed temporal changes; odds ratios (ORs) compared 2020 to 2007.

Results: From 2007-2020, pediatric residents …

2024 December, 30; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 December, 30