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The Potential Impact Of Creating A Justice And Equity Credential On Student Achievement And A&I Retention & Persistence, Jeremy Rupp

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

This research paper explores the potential impact of introducing a Justice & Equity Credential and an Achievement and Integration (A&I) License on educational equity in Minnesota. Drawing on a comprehensive literature review and original empirical data collected through surveys and interviews, the study investigates the efficacy of credentialing and licensing frameworks in addressing systemic disparities in educational systems pointed at both students and practitioners of A&I. The findings underscore the critical need for targeted interventions to promote equity in A&I programming, highlighting the role of professional development, cultural responsiveness, and accountability in supporting staff retention and fostering equitable outcomes for …

Principals Who Lead Elementary Schools With Minimal Out-Of-School Suspensions, Jennifer Bordonaro

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

Mixed-methods research was conducted in order to understand the principals of Minnesota elementary schools where no more than one out-of-school suspensions had been assigned annually from 2017 to 2022. The study consisted of a survey, document analysis, and qualitative interviews. While the findings did reveal commonalities amongst the participants that provided insight into the implementation of nonexclusionary discipline, the picture could not be deemed complete as the identified schools were predominantly White and affluent. There continues to be a great need to study leaders of schools where OSS is not statistically predictable by the school’s student population in regard to …

Communicating Across The Divide: Using Critical Communication Pedagogy As A Lens To Reimagine The Mediated Basic Communication Course As A Space Of Activism, Margaret Baker

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly influenced teaching and learning in mediated spaces, highlighting the challenges many historically excluded learners face in virtual environments. While previous research suggests that well-designed online courses can effectively support these students, communication education as a field has been slow to adopt virtual learning. This resistance has left many educators underprepared to develop equitable and impactful online coursework. Previous work has demonstrated the success of critical communication pedagogy (CCP) - which centers the experiences of traditionally underserved students and promotes collaborative learning - within face-to-face communication coursework (Fassett & Warren, 2007). As such, this dissertation investigates how …

The Influence Of The Student-Teacher Relationship On The Mathematics Confidence Of Students, Mary Tracey Plante

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

The student-teacher relationship impacts student confidence and achievement. Many factors such as race, gender, language learning, and special education were researched as they influence this relationship. This research focused on using a correlational case study to determine how the student-teacher relationship influences the mathematics confidence of students when social-emotional supports and learning are implemented. Data collection methods involved using a Likert scale and interviews with the teacher. For the students, data collection was a Likert scale, number sense assessment, interviews, and anecdotal notes. The participants were a kindergarten teacher and 18 of her students from a diverse, midwestern suburban school …

The Significance Of Palliative Care Education And Areas For Improvement, Lindsey Bunday

Honors Projects

Palliative care is vital in prioritizing quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Such care is crucial to help patients understand their prognosis, address needs, and meet goals of care. However, physician shortages, improper utilization, and non-standardized medical curriculum amplify the gaps in care and demonstrate significant room for improvement. Innovative curriculum and opportunities for knowledge advancement can refine education and improve patient care.

A Lust Letter To Print: Understanding Human Carnality Through The Zines Of The World, Eliana Jenkins

Neureuther Book Collection Essay Competition

Undergraduate winner: 2^nd place, 2024, 37^th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition

How Local Paid Sick Time Innovations —And The Covid-19 Pandemic —Have Shaped A Growing Paid Leave Movement Across The United States, Sherry Leiwant, Jared Make, Elena Rodriguez Anderson

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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Protecting Workers As Consumers And Consumers From Workers In New York City, Louis Cholden-Brown

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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We Built This City: Generative Ai, Copyright, And The Built Environment, Talin Ghazarian

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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In Pursuit Of Meaningful Civil Representation: Advocacy Strategy Proposals For An Integrated Civil Gideon And Legal Empowerment Approach, Sophia T. Slater

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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Accommodations And Resources For Audiologists With Hearing Loss, Joseph Thomas Kraus

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

Hearing loss affects millions of people worldwide. The audiology profession strives to help all individuals achieve their communicative goals and needs, providing support and expertise to a deserving population. Audiologists themselves are not immune to the challenges of hearing differences themselves. This project has two main objectives to identify and discuss needs and challenges faced by audiologists, both within their professional field, as well as their educational upbringing, and to highlight specific accommodations that can enhance their professional success. The research phase of this project aims to develop a resource guide tailored to the needs of audiologists with hearing loss …

Consideration For Expanding The Audiology Scope Of Practice To Include Prescription Medication Authority, Erin Grace Gill

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

The demand for medical professionals rises in conjunction with the rise of prescriptions written annually in the United States, but there are not enough physicians to meet the demand for patient prescriptions (Mohamadloo et al., 2019). In the United States, 2.4 million healthcare visits for acute otitis externa were recorded in 2007; approximately half were between the ages of 5-14 years old. Healthcare providers were estimated to have spent about 600,000 hours treating acute otitis externa.

Prescriptive authority is the ability of healthcare providers to prescribe specific medications, including controlled substances. Prescriptive authority is legally allocated by federal and state …

Dementia Implications For Audiology: Cognitive Screening In Clinical Practice, Kelsey May Harris

Doctoral Scholarly Projects & Capstones

Dementia is a progressive, debilitating cognitive disorder recognized as one of the greatest challenges to global health in the 21st century. In recent years, dementia has gained significant importance in the international health agenda due to the increasing aging population, longer life expectancies, and the substantial socioeconomic burden. Global concern has led to increased efforts to understand, manage, and alleviate its impact. Considering the lack of curative treatments, dementia research and awareness campaigns have intensified with a focus on early detection, prevention strategies, and collaborative healthcare. Prevention has focused on identifying risk factors and modifiable aspects of lifestyle closely linked …

Mindful Movements Matter: Differentiating Active Body Movements In Underprivileged Students’ Learning Of Physics Concepts, Seokmin Kang, Mingtsan Lu, John B. Black, Sungyeun Kim

Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

Background

The theory of embodied cognition claims that body interaction with the environment change how we think and constitute cognition. Accordingly, active learning enriches learning experiences which in turn lead to better learning.

Purpose

Although learning by moving one’s body is often regarded as active learning, not all body movements lead to better learning. To investigate the influence of different levels of body movements on learning, we developed embodied learning activities and implemented in elementary afterschool program.

Sample

Twenty-seven fifth graders (12 girls, 15 boys) for Study 1 and forty-eight fifth graders (28 girls, 20 boys) for Study 2 were …

Manga In Bookstores, Claire Curry

Book Publishing Final Research Papers

In recent years, manga has seen a surge in popularity. This research seeks to provide insights into the role of manga in U.S. bookstores and its implications for reader discovery. Through observations at bookstores in the Portland area, including Books with Pictures, Kinokuniya, Powell’s, and Barnes and Noble, it was examined how manga is presented to readers. Factors considered include manga’s physical placement in the store and surrounding sections as well as shelving methods and categorizations like genre labels, particularly for manhwa, manhua, and light novels. Display tables, end caps, and shelf talkers also demonstrate a unique way for bookstores …

Evaluating Equitable Successes In Literary Spaces A Portland Book Festival (Pbf) Case Study, Tia-Theo Thompson

Book Publishing Final Research Papers

How do literary institutions achieve and evaluate successes in equity? Do certain factors expedite this transition? To understand the impact of Literary Art’s Discovery Model on diversity in literary spaces, data concerning all BIPOC Writers & Presenters at the Portland Book Festival 2023 was collected and analyzed by book placement, genre, and age category (among additional subcategories). Acknowledgement of publishing industry trends and activism within literary communities appear to be significant factors while curating authors with equity in mind.

Digital Comics Subscription Service Usage And Its Impact On Printed Comic Buying Habits: The Digital Comics Subscription Loop, Isaac Swindle

Book Publishing Final Research Papers

This study developed a digital comics subscription loop that borrows from consumer loyalty research done in publishing and marketing studies. The proposed loop uses comic publisher’s proprietary subscription platforms as a “book showroom” to allow consumers to sample titles, driving physical sales. Original survey data was then gathered about comic book consumers’ usage of digital subscription platforms and what drives them to make physical purchases. The data was then compared to the proposed model, finding significant cross-medium consumption, as well as many reported completions of the Digital Comics Subscription Loop. The survey data found that over 80 percent of respondents …

Plagiarism Or Progress?: An Inquiry Into Generative Ai And Copyright, James Knight

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The emergence of accessible artificial intelligence (AI) in 2022, including notable models such as Chat GPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing Chat, has sparked significant discourse regarding their societal impact. This paper delves into the contrasting perspectives regarding the role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in society, particularly in the realm of copyright law. While pessimists express concerns about the potential stifling of human ingenuity and innovation, optimists advocate for embracing AI's creative potential, advocating for legal reforms to address copyright issues. Focusing on the legal domain, this paper argues for amending US copyright law to accommodate AI-generated content, proposing …

Ensuring Equity In Medical Malpractice Cases For Low-Income Plaintiffs, Hassan El-Cheikh

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

Every year in the United States, around 85,000 medical malpractice lawsuits are filed. These lawsuits are overwhelming and exhausting for the plaintiffs, while doctors report feelings of anxiety, denial, and panic. Due to the complexity of medical malpractice lawsuits and state legislators making it difficult for victims of medical negligence to sue, some attorneys require up-front payment to retain a medical expert witness. This typically costs over $500 per hour but depends on the specialty. For low-income individuals, these payments are simply unrealistic. However, if the government were to pay for the obtaining and retention of a medical expert witness …

The Tiktok Dilemma: Regulating Tiktok For Minors In The Age Of Free Speech, Julia Waters

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The influence of social media platforms, particularly TikTok, on the mental health and well-being of adolescents has become a matter of increasing concern. This paper examines the constitutionality of Montana's proposed ban on TikTok, arguing that while well-intentioned, such a ban would infringe upon citizens' First Amendment rights. Instead, the focus should be on addressing the underlying issues of data collection practices and content moderation. The paper proposes federal legislative solutions, including age verification requirements and amendments to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold social media platforms accountable for harmful content. By addressing these issues, policymakers can …

Incorporating Climate Considerations Into Investment Assessment Processes: Guidance For National And Local Governments, Esther Akwii, Grace Brennan, Leslie Hannay, Martin Dietrich Brauch, Nora Mardirossian

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Global climate change impacts pose complex, dynamic challenges to the success of land-based investments — such as agriculture, forestry, and wind and solar energy — which can further exacerbate detrimental climate change impacts if they are not sustainably implemented. Countries outline in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) their goals and plans to reduce GHG emissions and adapt to climate change impacts. To ensure their success, governments must fully integrate their NDCs into national climate strategies, plans, and policies that drive government action and decisions. Improved land-based investment decision-making through the incorporation of climate considerations in investment assessment processes (IAPs) can …

Extending Mnrega To Address The Social, Economic And Ecological Costs Of Climate Change And Create Public Sector Climate Jobs, Shriraksha Mohan

Student Papers in Local and Global Regional Economies

Job Guarantee policies make public sector jobs available for those who are able and willing to work. Job guarantee schemes must work in a democratic and inclusive manner to tackle both unemployment and precarious employment, with the goal of eliminating poverty-wages and poor labor standards. In India, a social welfare measure for job guarantee, MNREGA – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, was enacted in 2005 with the aim to guarantee the constitutional ‘right to work’. MNREGA scheme guarantees employment for 100 days to one individual in every rural household. In the context of climate-related events and disasters, this …

Detailing The Effects Of Cannabidiol On Exosome Release In Ewing’S Sarcoma, Bennett Hasley

Theses

Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) is a highly aggressive pediatric cancer found within bone that carries a low five-year survival rate within its patients. This is due, in part, to the cancer’s high malignancy properties as well as the development of resistance to the chemotherapies used to combat this cancer. This project aims to determine if cannabidiol (CBD) has an effect on either exosome release or the protein, signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) within ES cells. Exosomes are vesicles that can carry proteins and other signaling molecules which are released by the cell and allow for cell-to-cell communication. Within …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2024, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents:

Editors’ Introduction , Editorial Board Members

Essays; “Dress as a Weapon”,“ Kubrick’s Survivors: Breaking the Cycle of Violence in Stanley Kubrick’s Killer’s Kiss and The Shining”, “The French Muslim Debate”, “The Hole and The New Minimalist Object”, “The Loneliness of Womanhood”, “ The Road Towards Sustainable Resource Management in the Brazilian Amazon and Beyond”, “Understanding Desire in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut”

Book Reviews; Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, Esmond and Ilia: An Unreliable Memoir, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, I’m Glad My Mom Died, My Body, North Woods, Only the Clothes on Her Back, The Art of Darkness: A …

Asexuality In Science Fiction: A Study Of Non-Sexual Queer Intimacy In Short Stories By Ursula K. Le Guin, Samuel Delany, And Theodore Sturgeon, Mik Dressler

Honors College Theses

The study of asexuality is still a relatively new concept in queer studies, and the rarity of asexual literature poses questions about how media can help further develop this study. This question takes unique shape in the genre of science fiction, one deeply and intrinsically tied to queer storytelling but very often hypersexualized. This essay evaluates the asexual themes of four sci-fi short stories which predate modern vocabularies and frameworks of asexuality: “The Widget, The Wadget, and Boff” by Theodore Sturgeon, “Unchosen Love” and “Mountain Ways” by Ursula K. Le Guin, and “Aye, and Gomorrah” by Samuel Delany. Referencing queer …

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Mandating Trauma-Informed Care Education For Indiana Nurses: A Health Policy Analysis, Lori Hardie

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The prevalence of trauma exposure poses a significant concern for public health. Extensive research has established the correlation between trauma and adverse health consequences. Studies indicate that adopting trauma-informed care (TIC) can enhance satisfaction, communication, and overall patient health outcomes. However, the current state of TIC education in academic programs and professional practice settings needs to be improved.

Objectives: The goal of this policy analysis project was to devise specific language and strategies to promote the implementation of a TIC education mandate for Indiana nurses.

Methods: The design of this project was an analysis of governmental …

The Impact Of Hypertension Education On Knowledge And Management Of Blood Pressure, Nkechi Onwuemene Msn, Fnp-Bc

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The low rate of blood pressure management knowledge has been identified as an essential risk factor for uncontrolled hypertension (HTN). Providing an educational intervention for HTN management in a retail clinic setting will allow timely treatment of HTN and decrease the costs of associated health related complications.

Objectives: This project aimed to improve hypertension knowledge and blood pressure management in patients diagnosed with hypertension or patients with blood pressure readings that exceed the guidelines, seeking care in a retail clinic.

Methodology: A pre-post educational intervention was used in this evidence-based project. Following BP screening, 46 participants …

Measuring Implementation To Impact: Evaluation Of A Chronic Pain Integrative Medical Group Visit Program, Paula Tomczak Msn, Rn, Lmt, Cph, Cne

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Chronic pain is a public health crisis. Current clinical practice guidelines recommend non-invasive mind-body therapies as a first-line treatment, and studies indicate they can be successfully delivered in group settings using an Integrative Medical Group Visit model. A Federally Qualified Health Center piloted a nurse-led Integrative Chronic Pain Group program for Medication Assisted Treatment patients experiencing chronic pain and opioid use disorder, for which an evaluation was needed.

Objectives: This evaluation examined program quality, value, and significance to provide a progress report toward established goals to inform stakeholder decision-making and improve effectiveness.

Methods: Following the CDC Program Evaluation Framework, …