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Black American School Counselors’ Experiences Of Racial Discrimination In The Workplace, Tiffany Jackson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

While school counselors play a pivotal role in promoting equity and inclusion within educational institutions, they may experience systemic challenges themselves, particularly in predominantly White professional environments. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to explore the experiences of Black American school counselors who experienced racial discrimination in the workplace and how they made meaning of those experiences. The research addressed the lived experiences of Black American school counselors who experienced racial discrimination in the workplace and how they make meaning of those experiences. The study was grounded in hermeneutic phenomenology and critical race theory. Six Black American school …

A Realist Review Of The Remediation Of Professionalism Lapses In Undergraduate Medical Students (Restore 3), Ross Raymond-Jones, Tom Gale, Nicola Brennan, Marie Bryce, Tristan Price

Peninsula Medical School

IntroductionProfessionalism is a core element of medical curricula worldwide and remains a cross-cutting theme across all aspects of a medical programme. When a medical student fails to demonstrate the expected attributes and behaviours, medical schools have a duty to step in, and where appropriate, offer remediation that aims to facilitate behavioural change. There is sparse explanatory theory on this complex topic, resulting in little evidence-based guidance for medical schools to utilise. This review aims to explain how, why, to what extent and in what circumstances professionalism remediation works for undergraduate medical students.MethodWe conducted a realist review that aligns with the …

The Lessons I Never Took, Nadia Luong

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

“The Lessons I Never Took” is a lyric poem rooted in the author’s experience growing up as a first-generation Cambodian American child in an immigrant family. The poem examines how socioeconomic hardship and language brokering shape a child’s relationship to desire, responsibility, and unrealized possibility. While other children receive formal lessons that allow their interests and talents to be discovered, the speaker develops unrecognized interpretive skill by helping her parents navigate English-speaking institutions. Without assigning blame, the poem holds parental sacrifice and childhood loss together, revealing how survival can limit not only access to enrichment but also a child’s opportunity …

Breaking The Silence - Moving Beyond Lecture Hall Echo Chambers In Nursing Education, Joshua Michael Kies, Elizabeth Faye Snyder, Cyndi Faudree

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Nursing student silence in higher education undermines active learning and critical thinking development. This literature review examines participation barriers, engagement strategies, and approaches to fostering inclusive discussion environments. Research identifies multiple contributing factors: fear of negative evaluation, cultural differences in communication styles, insufficient content knowledge, and technological challenges in virtual settings. The Student Engagement in Digital Learning Framework reveals four key dimensions—emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and social—that interact to create barriers or facilitators to student voice. Evidence-based solutions include extending wait times to 10-15 seconds for cognitive processing, implementing culturally responsive pedagogies, providing multimodal participation formats, and scaffolding discussions to build …

Dowland Is For Everyone! The Making Of A New Biography, K. Dawn Grapes, Katharyn R. Benessa

Soundboard Scholar

Following the publication of her new biography of the Elizabethan lutenist John Dowland, K. Dawn Grapes details her research journey in conversation with Katharyn Benessa. They discuss both the history of Dowland research, including the legacy of Diana Poulton, and the gaps that still remain. Grapes offers new context for understanding Dowland’s music and considers how his travels and experiences may have shaped his life and work.

From Protection To Provision, Not Participation: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Children's Digital Rights Research And Its Implications For Media Literacy Education, Author Information Removed

JMLE Submissions Open for Review

Media literacy education is widely held to have moved from a protective to a participatory paradigm. This study asks whether the children's digital rights literature that informs it has made the same move. Records were retrieved from Web of Science and Scopus (search date 31 August 2026), screened, and deduplicated, yielding 1,012 publications from 1993 to 2026. A dictionary built on the protection–provision–participation framework of the Convention on the Rights of the Child was applied to 4,507 keywords. Protection accounted for 40.4% of classified keywords, provision for 44.4%, and participation for 15.1%. Protection exceeded participation by 2.4 to 3.1 throughout, …

Is Artificial Intelligence Intelligent? Trust, Verification, And The Responsible Use Of Al In Libraries, Norman Desmarais, Janice Schuster

Library Faculty and Staff papers

We live in an age of alternate realities. If we do not like the current situation, we can pick or rearrange facts to suit our worldview. It appears our information systems follow suit, particularly in artificial intelligence (AI). Developers in the Al industry generally want friendly Al that does what the human user wants (as long as it is not too naughty). They do not want Al that says "I do not know," so they design models to be fluent, not factual. Consequently, the engines confidently invent citations, titles, or people if not constrained or verified, a phenomenon called AI …

Pre-Service Teachers' Experiences On Teaching Essay Writing To Grade 10 Learners In The Eastern Cape, Ncebazakhe Makhohlisa, Lundi Nomlala

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This paper explores pre-service teachers’ experiences in teaching essay writing to Grade 10 English First Additional Language learners. Despite the significance of essay writing for developing learners' writing skills in multilingual classrooms, writing essays remains a challenge for most English First Additional learners. The extant research has examined the challenges that learners face in essay writing. However, there is limited research examining pre-service teachers’ experiences in teaching essay writing during their teaching practice. This paper employed a qualitative research approach, and data were drawn from 30 pre-service teachers’ reflective journals based on their teaching practice experiences. Cognitive Process Theory was …

Patient-Provider Communication Matters In Telehealth Use, Chanam Shin, Thomas Guffey, Mijin Kim

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Introduction: Telehealth use has rapidly expanded health care access and reshaped patient-provider interactions. Evidence shows that telehealth can be influenced by communication quality between patients and providers. However, little is known about how patient-provider communication relates to telehealth use among minority ethnic populations.

Purpose: This study was to examine associations between patient-centered communication and telehealth use in Asian Americans.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey 6 data. A total of 265 adults who identified as Asian American were included. Telehealth use was assessed by asking respondents if they used telehealth in the …

From Himalayan Catastrophe To National Resilience: Lessons From The 2026 Bhote Koshi And Trishuli River Floods In Nepal, Keshav Bhattarai, Ambika P. Adhikari

Himalayan Research Papers Archive

On the morning of 26 August 2026, the mountains above Nepal’s northern frontier delivered a disaster of almost unimaginable speed and scale. A massive mass of ice, rock, and sediment detached in the high Himalayan terrain near the Nepal–Tibet border, descended roughly 1,200 metres, interacted with the Lhende Khola system, and generated a debris-rich flood that surged through the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli river corridors, destroying settlements, markets, roads, bridges, hydropower facilities, and an international border crossing and transforming them into fields of mud, boulders, and wreckage within minutes (ICIMOD, 2026b; Reuters, 2026a). Satellite analysis indicates that a substantial section …

Bahasa, Budaya, Dan Kecerdasan Buatan: Tantangan Pengajar Bipa Di Era Ai, I Made Darma Sucipta, I Made Rai Jaya Widanta, I Made Sujanayasa

Journal of Language, Literature, and Arts

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) has brought significant transformations to the teaching of Indonesian for Foreign Speakers (Bahasa Indonesia bagi Penutur Asing, BIPA). This empirical qualitative study aims to describe the challenges faced by BIPA teachers in integrating AI into language instruction and the strategies they employ to balance the use of technology with the preservation of local culture. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, classroom observations, and the analysis of teaching-material documents involving three BIPA teachers at Bali State Polytechnic who were selected through purposive sampling. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings indicate …

From Principle(Al) To Practice: The Child As A Datafied Digital Citizen In India’S Digital Public Infrastructure, Aditi Pillai

Indian Journal of Law and Technology

This paper extends global scholarship on datafication and children’s digital citizenship to the context of India’s expanding Digital Public Infrastructure (‘DPI’). It examines how institutional data infrastructures profile and socially construct the child as both a data principal and a digital citizen. Drawing on an interdisciplinary Interpretive Policy Analysis (‘IPA’) framework, the study captures the perspectives of institutional actors and caregivers, who constitute key intermediaries in processes of institutional datafication. First, expert interviews with specialists across law, data governance and children’s rights are used to interrogate the legal and policy artefacts that define the “child” within India’s DPI ecosystem. Second, …

More Than A Name: Reparative Description For Women’S Archives, Allison Mccormack, Hallie Oines

Journal of Western Archives

This article describes a reparative description initiative at an academic library aimed at improving access to women’s archival collections. By hiring a metadata specialist through grant funding, the project revised legacy MARC records to update, expand, and standardize collection descriptions. Prioritizing inclusive language and accurate subject headings, the team addressed gaps that previously hindered discovery of women’s materials. Over two years, 818 records were remediated, enhancing creator, topical, and genre/form access points. The article discusses project challenges, strategies for respectful description, and the resulting improved discoverability, offering a replicable model for reparative archival work.

Correspondence Between Kenneth L. Whitt And Dr. Herman A. Brautigam, Herman A. Brautigam, Kenneth L. Whitt

Kenneth L. Whitt Papers

Correspondence between Kenneth L. Whitt and Dr. Herman A. Brautigam, Brautigam providing answers to Whitt's various questions about Brautigam's time as editor of the Shorthorn newspaper.

The High Cost Of Incomplete Physical Exams: Missed Diagnosis Of Cushing Syndrome In A Patient With Recurrent Hospital Admissions, Tarah M Burton, Miranda K Hunter, Mihail Zilbermint

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Cushing syndrome is a rare but life-threatening endocrine disorder associated with a classic constellation of physical exam findings (e.g. “moon facies”, abdominal striae, etc.). However, thorough biochemical testing is needed to confirm this diagnosis. We present the case of a 35-year-old male with multiple hospitalizations across a variety of healthcare institutions for heart failure, cellulitis, uncontrolled hypertension, and diabetes.  While an adrenal mass was eventually identified on imaging, classic signs of Cushing syndrome – including violaceous striae, truncal obesity, and facial plethora – were missed during prior admissions.  This case illustrates the diagnostic delay that can result from incomplete physical …

Fatal Early-Onset Cirrhosis Secondary To Masld In A Young Adult: A Case Report And Historical Overview, Brittani Paige Kongala, Khursana Duty, Hussam Ammar

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent liver disease worldwide. Its natural history is typically characterized by slow progression over decades. We describe a rare case of rapidly progressive MASLD in a young woman that culminated in decompensated cirrhosis, multiorgan failure, and death within one year of diagnosis—an unusually aggressive course that diverges from the typical trajectory of the disease. Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is the most prevalent liver disease worldwide and is generally characterized by slow progression over decades. Although progression to cirrhosis typically occurs over many years, rapidly progressive disease has …

Cied-Related Infection Incidence And Clinical Outcomes In Adult Recipients Of Leadless Pacemakers, Abdullah Sahyouni, Esdras Panchame Pavon, Aylin Ma, Johny Alrahal, Matthew Guzie, Kirstenn Claire Calaguas, Steven H. Nguyen, Anjali Balla, Shruti Sreekanth, Bobby Malik, Robert Subbiondo, Yizhi Lin

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives

Infections of traditional pacemakers represent a serious complication as they are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Unlike traditional pacemakers, which have a subcutaneous pocket and transvenous leads, leadless pacemakers have emerged as a promising alternative with a self-contained intracardiac design with significantly lower infection rates. The aim of this systematic review is to synthesize current research on device-related infections in leadless pacemaker recipients. A comprehensive review was performed through PubMed with the following key words, “leadless pacemaker,” “Micra,” “infection,” “PPM,” “conventional pacemaker,” yielding 291 articles. Then, articles were screened for relevance to infection rates among adult recipients of leadless …

Studying Extreme Weather Event Impacts For Transit-Reliant Unhoused Populations, Costanza Rampini, Serena Alexander, Jeff Wootton, Amruta Ashish Gandhi

Mineta Transportation Institute

No abstract provided.

Cine Magnífico | Spanish Film Festival, National Hispanic Cultural Center

LAII Events

¡Cine Magnífico! celebrates Spanish and Latin American culture through presentation of some of the best of modern cinema in a weekend-long program, featuring work by first-time filmmakers and established masters alike.

The subject matter runs the gamut from comedies, action, romances and documentary films, to dramatic masterpieces. Some of the riskiest and most innovative films of recent years will be included.

¡Cine Magnífico! is organized by Instituto Cervantes, the National Hispanic Cultural Center and UNM Latin American & Iberian Institute so as to be at the forefront of the movement to increase cultural opportunities for the entire New Mexico community …

Childbirth Self-Efficacy And Factors Influencing Labor And Birth In The Dominican Republic, Lori Hubbard, Thomas P. Mccoy, Katherine Aquino, Franceska Charles, Julia Ricker, Gabrielle Carlson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

At 58.1%, the cesarean birth rate in the Dominican Republic (DR) is the highest in the world (1). The World Health Organization cites the overuse of elective cesareans as a global health priority, but states reduction efforts should utilize educational interventions that incorporate local determinants of health (2,3). This descriptive, cross-sectional, convergent mixed methods study examined childbirth self-efficacy, demographics, and beliefs about labor and birth in expectant and newly postpartum parents from low resourced communities in the Dominican Republic. A demographic survey, researcher-designed items grounded in the theory of planned behavior, and the 62-item Spanish version (4) of the 4 …

Immigrant Women’S Experiences Of Living In An Abusive Relationship: A Narrative Inquiry, Fay M. Dastjerdi, Sassan Issari, Zipora Rahmanov, Elizabeth Sombilon

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Immigration has become a reality in most parts of the world for different reasons. Iranian immigrants ranked sixth in acquiring Canadian citizenship and eighth in being admitted as permanent residents (Bains, 2024; Risdon, 2024). Most immigrants experience some degree of loss and disassociation after being dislocated. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) impacts people of all genders, ages and socioeconomic, racial, educational, ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds; however,women experience this form of gender-based violence at much higher rates, most often perpetrated by men (Statistics Canada, 2023 & 2025). IPV presents a significant public health challenge affecting diverse demographic groups, including immigrant women …

Using Graphic Novels In The Teaching And Learning Of Mathematics And Physics, Jason Ho, David Klanderman, Sarah Klanderman, James Turner

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Are you looking for innovative teaching strategies for geometry or other mathematics and physics courses? In this article, we o!er a discussion of several graphic novels and their potential for successful teaching and learning at the high school and university levels. We describe how engaging stories, combined with mathematical and scientific meaning found in both text and image, can help to excite students, enrich learning, and explain mathematical concepts. We report on recent data collected from multiple mathematics and physics classes that extend prior research on the use of graphic novels to teach English Language Arts (Boerman-Cornell and Kim, 2020) …

Universal Screening For Measles Immunity During Pregnancy: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Anuradha Devabhaktuni, Sarah Boudova, Elias Kassir, Sohum Shah, Neil S. Silverman, Christina S. Han

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Measles is a highly contagious illness capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality, including adverse pregnancy outcomes. Routine screening for measles immunity is not currently recommended during pregnancy. Given the increasing frequency of measles outbreaks nationally and globally, awareness of measles immunity status can influence management of pregnant individuals who incur measles exposures and offer an opportunity for postpartum or preconception vaccination.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of universal screening for measles immunity during pregnancy in the United States.

STUDY DESIGN: A decision-analytic model was constructed to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of universal screening for measles immunity during …

Prepregnancy Obesity Versus Excessive Gestational Weight Gain: A Comparative Evaluation Of Adverse Outcomes, Samuel Schultz, David Krantz, Matthew Blitz, Ashley Battarbee, Moti Gulersen

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Papers

Background/Objectives: Obesity and excessive gestational weight gain (EGWG) are known risk factors for adverse outcomes in pregnancy, but the comparative risk is less well defined and increasingly relevant in an era of increasing use of weight loss medications. We aimed to determine whether EGWG was associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, compared with prepregnancy obesity. Methods: Multicenter retrospective cohort study of pregnant patients who delivered a singleton within a single university health system from 2019–2024. Patients with missing prepregnancy body mass index (BMI) data, BMI < 18.5 kg/m2, or pregestational diabetes were excluded. Logistic regression with propensity score weights and g-computation were used to evaluate if the incidence of several adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes were impacted by prepregnancy obesity and gestational weight gain (GWG). p values were adjusted for multiple comparisons. Results: Among the 129,615 pregnancies included, 28,516 (22.0%) had prepregnancy obesity, 36,943 (28.5%) were overweight prior to pregnancy, and 64,156 (49.5%) had a normal BMI prior to pregnancy. When compared to patients with obesity, patients with normal prepregnancy BMI and EGWG had a lower risk of adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes, including gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, eclampsia, cesarean delivery, and postpartum hemorrhage, as well as large and small for gestational age birthweight, stillbirth, neonatal intensive care unit admission, neonatal mechanical ventilation, respiratory distress syndrome, intraventricular hemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sepsis. Beneficial effects were attenuated for patients with overweight prepregnancy BMI or for larger EGWG. Conclusions: Lower prepregnancy BMI, even with the potential unintended consequence of EGWG, may be more favorable than untreated prepregnancy obesity with regard to perinatal outcomes.

Leading From The Precipice: How Academic Deans Are Navigating Artificial Intelligence In Higher Education, V. Dozier, Sarina Chugani Molina

Copley Library: Faculty Scholarship

This qualitative case study examines how associate deans at a medium-sized Catholic university respond to the rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI). Guided by decolonial and feminist frameworks, the study analyzes survey data from seven academic leaders to understand their concerns, decision-making processes, and emerging practices. Our findings reveal uneven adoption, limited institutional guidance, and ongoing concerns about academic integrity, equity, and bias. The study also highlights the often-unseen relational and emotional labor involved in supporting faculty and students. We conclude by recommending flexible, collaborative approaches to AI governance that attend to context, care, and diverse ways of knowing.

The Employment Situation Of Veterans: August 2026, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

U.S. employment grew by 162,000 jobs in August 2026 while the national unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. Veteran unemployment improved significantly, falling from 4.2% in July to 3.4% in August, with Post-9/11 veterans declining from 4.7% to 3.5%. Female veterans (2.4%) and male veterans (3.6%) both had lower unemployment rates than their nonveteran counterparts. Unemployment among Black veterans dropped sharply from 10.4% to 4.4%, while Hispanic veterans improved to 4.9%. Younger veterans continued to experience the highest unemployment rates. Overall, veterans maintained lower unemployment rates than nonveterans across most demographic groups.

The State Of The Unions 2026: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph Van Der Naald

Publications and Research

The 2026 State of the Unions report finds that while union density remains strong in New York, membership rates remain largely unchanged, despite renewed organizing, successful strikes and strong public support for labor. Union density stands at 20.5 percent in New York City and 20.9 percent statewide, more than double the national rate of 10 percent, yet well below levels recorded two decades ago. The report also examines the persistent divide between public- and private-sector unionization, the industries and workers sustaining organized labor, and the forces limiting growth. A special section considers Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s labor-friendly record and the opportunities …

Fastest-Warming States And Cities In The Mountain West, 2025, Maisoon Faris, Kahlen Coss, Kevin Yang, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Environment

This fact sheet presents data published by Climate Central on the change in average annual temperatures for the five Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah and 15 Mountain West cities from 1970 to 2025. City-level data are derived from Applied Climate Information System (ACIS) operated by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), state-level data are derived from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI).

Implementation Of Asynchronous Mentor Education Modules To Improve Mentoring Competency, Elvira Sayfutdinova

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Student Projects

Background & Significance: Structured mentorship supports new CRNAs as they transition to practice, fostering confidence, job satisfaction, and professional growth. The WashU Medicine Department of Anesthesiology (WUDA) launched a CRNA Mentorship Program in 2022, but it lacked standardized mentor education, leading to inconsistent mentor preparation and variable mentoring practices.

Review of Literature Findings: Structured mentor education improves mentoring competency across healthcare settings, yet the literature specific to CRNAs remains limited. Asynchronous, self-paced formats reduce barriers to participation for busy clinicians, but no prior study has evaluated a fully asynchronous, prerecorded mentor-education format for CRNAs.

Methods: This pre-/post quality improvement (QI) …

Palliative Care Consults In The Intensive Care Unit, Kyra Zimmer

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Student Projects

Background & Significance: Intensive care unit (ICU) patients often face serious illness or terminal diagnoses requiring invasive monitoring and life-sustaining treatments. Palliative care (PC) supports patients and their families by focusing on improving quality of life, goals of care, and symptom management. It is estimated that 14-20% of ICU patients in the United States could benefit from palliative care consults (PCCs) with potential savings of $6 billion per year. Nurses caring for these patients face unique ethical challenges and may develop secondary post-traumatic stress, emotional strain, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

Review of Literature: The review of literature supported a structured …