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The Impact Of Sense Of Belonging And Christian Identity On Retention Intentions At Evangelical Christian Colleges And Universities, Corey R. Ross

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Navigating Faith, Race, And Belonging: A Qualitative Study Of Students Of Color At A Private Christian University, Eunice Hong

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

From Discipline To Discipleship: Reframing Student Conduct As Spiritual Formation In Christian Higher Education, Andrew Degroot

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

The Problems With Sin, Steve Beers

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Reviewed: How We Break: Navigating The Wear And Tear Of Living, Jacob Banks

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Corey Ross, Eunice Hong, Steve Beers, Andrew Degroot, Rebecca Crowder, William Buhrow, Aundrea Paxton, Hannah Acquaye, Jacob Banks

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

An Exploration Of Spiritual Loneliness And Spiritual Well-Being And Friendship In Christian College Students, Rebecca Crowder, William Buhrow, Aundrea Paxton, Hannah Acquaye

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Behavior - Spring 2026, Midwest Symposium For Leadership In Behavior Disorders

ReThinking Behavior Magazine

A magazine for professionals serving children and youth with behavioral needs.

Spring 2026, Volume 9, Issue 3

The Hidden Power Of Citizenship: Political Identity In The Twilight Zone Of Equal Protection, Charles J. Anderson

Indiana Law Journal

More than half a century ago, in the landmark case of Graham v. Richardson, the Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits state-level blanket exclusions of noncitizens. That case ushered in a new rule: State classifications based on alienage are “inherently suspect” and subject to strict scrutiny. But Graham’s rule has a major exception. Just a few years after Graham was decided, the Court upheld several state laws excluding noncitizens from working as police officers, public school teachers, and probation officers. So was created what would later be termed “political function” doctrine. …

Information Law Pluralism, Hannah Bloch-Wehba

Indiana Law Journal

Information-intensive activities are reshaping political, social, and economic institutions. As they respond to these shifts, legislators and regulators are embracing information as a regulatory device for tech. Far from limiting themselves to public disclosure, consumer notice, and other traditional mechanisms of fostering transparency and information flows, however, legislators are using other, more nuanced tools to incentivize regulated entities to obtain, generate, and share information.

This Article maps the landscape of the emerging information-based regimes for regulating tech and assesses their conceptual and practical implications. It canvasses an extensive set of recently enacted laws regulating the information economy and shows that, …

Rethinking Objectivity: The Problem Of Pretext In The Fourth Amendment, Monu S. Bedi

Indiana Law Journal

Pretextual encounters continue to erode the legitimacy of the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Simply put, a police officer can act on personal bias or animus as long as the search or seizure is deemed “objectively reasonable.” Numerous scholars (e.g., Bennett Capers, Gabriel Chin, and David Harris) have critiqued this objective standard, contending it perpetuates discriminatory practices, particularly against communities of color. The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself suggested that the Court might need to reconsider the legal precedent she helped establish. More recently, Orin Kerr has also argued that the Court’s reliance on objective determinations is inconsistent with …

The Addison C. Harris Lecture: Intellectual Diversity Mandates And The Freedom To Teach, Keith E. Whittington

Indiana Law Journal

This Essay provides the first examination of the Indiana Senate Bill 202, which was adopted into law in the spring of 2024. The new law imposes an “intellectual diversity” mandate on public university classroom teaching in the state. The law is novel in its approach but is part of a larger movement to intercede in what is taught in university classrooms. The intellectual diversity mandate raises difficult and unexamined conceptual, normative, and practical problems that will now demand attention from university officials in Indiana and that might soon confront university administrators in other states across the country if the Indiana …

The Plight Of Workers: Alj Independence In Arkansas Workers’ Compensation, P. Brock Hatfield

Indiana Law Journal

“Unfortunately, many of the changes made by this act were necessary because administrative law judges, the Workers’ Compensation Commission, and the Arkansas courts have continually broadened the scope and eroded the purpose of the workers’ compensation statutes of this state. . . . In the future, if [changes must be made to Arkansas workers’ compensation law], those things shall be addressed by the General Assembly and should not be done by administrative law judges, the Workers’ Compensation Commission, or the courts.”¹It would be hard to imagine a blunter statement of purpose to undermine the independence of administrative law …

Encampments And Property Law, Terry Skolnik

Indiana Law Journal

Although encampments have become increasingly common, they remain under-theorized, especially in the field of property law. Homeless encampments are ubiquitous in many cities. Social movements—such as Occupy Wall Street, the Freedom Convoy Movement, and college campus protests related to the war in Gaza—involve encampments that aim to catalyze social change. Yet surprisingly, legal scholars have devoted relatively little attention to encampments. This is a major oversight. Encampments matter for a range of moral, philosophical, and legal reasons that are hiding in plain sight and generate important theoretical and practical consequences that require deeper scrutiny.

This Article aims to fill this …

Representation In Removal Proceedings, Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock, Weston Ley, Christopher Levesque

Indiana Law Journal

Millions of immigrants in the United States are facing threats of mass deportation under the second Trump Administration. At the same time, the Administration has sought to end federal programs aimed at providing basic information and guidance to immigrants in removal proceedings. In addition, large numbers of immigration judges have been fired from immigration courts that already face massive backlogs. Amidst these upheavals, deportation defense lawyers have come to occupy a more central role than ever in ensuring fairness and due process in immigration courts. Are certain groups of immigrants more likely to obtain legal representation than others? Among those …

Systemically Valuable Transaction Costs, Mitchell C. Johnston

Indiana Law Journal

Ronald Coase’s famous theorem tells us that in a world without transaction costs, legal entitlements would be distributed efficiently. It is often treated as a corollary of the Coase Theorem that reductions in transaction costs generate increases in welfare as barriers to efficiency-increasing transactions fall. To be sure, not all voluntary transactions are efficiency increasing (for example, some transactions create negative externalities). In such cases, scholars have noted that transaction costs may inhibit socially inefficient transactions. But the situation is more complex. Drawing on ideas from systems theory, this Article advances a more complete theory of when transaction costs support …

Wildfires, Smoke Pollution, And Household Purchasing Behaviors, Tamara Sheldon, Crystal Zhan

Faculty Publications

In this paper, we investigate households’ behavioral responses to wildfires in California to understand their mitigation and adaptation strategies. We combine daily household-level consumer purchase data from the NielsenIQ Consumer Panel with detailed wildfire incident and smoke exposure data from various sources. Our analysis reveals that wildfires reduce retail trips and overall spending, both in-store and online, likely due to evacuations. However, wildfire-driven smoke increases purchases of essential goods, indicating adaptive behavior. More experienced households tend to respond more cautiously, and we observe heterogeneity in responses based on income, age, and pre-existing health conditions. These findings highlight the complexity and …

The Nondiscrimination Principle, Zephyr Teachout

Fordham Law Review

No abstract provided.

She Loves Me

Theatre and Performance Studies Programs

Department of Theatre and Performance Studies presents

She Loves Me FULL Program

She Loves Me

Theatre and Performance Studies Programs

Department of Theatre and Performance Studies presents She Loves Me

Detecting And Managing Plant-Parasitic Nematodes On Peanut In South Carolina, Zachary Dantzler, Dan Arco, Joe E. Varn, Shelby Hammond, John D. Mueller

Peanuts

Several species of nematodes cause significant yield losses on peanuts in the southern United States (Table 1). Among row crops, peanuts are unique because nematodes can damage peanuts at two different growth stages. First, nematodes can affect the emerging radicle and secondary roots, causing reductions in water and nutrient uptake, and subsequently causing stunting or chlorosis. In many cases, the most significant impact of nematodes on peanut is a decrease in grade caused directly by the nematodes feeding on peanut pegs and shells. These wounds allow pathogenic fungi to enter the shells, causing pod and seed rots (Figure 1). The …

Detecting And Managing Plant-Parasitic Nematodes On Soybean In South Carolina, Jonathan K. Croft, Kyle Smith, Shelby Hammond, Michael T. Plumblee, John D. Mueller

Soybeans

No abstract provided.

Library & Knowledge Services Newsletter - Spring 2026, Maria Roman

Library Newsletters

Library & Knowledge Services Newsletter - Spring 2026

Backlash: How Racial Justice In Higher Education Is Being Trumped By Politics, Aaron N. Taylor

AccessLex Institute Research

This article discusses contemporary social and political backlash to racial justice and how it has overshadowed and flouted higher education antidiscrimination law and principles of racial justice. The first three parts chart the evolution of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in higher education affirmative action cases. Part I interrogates the Court’s fallacious detachment of affirmative action from its racial justice origins in Defunis and Bakke. Part II discusses how the Grutter majority tacitly departed from Bakke, using the vague concept of critical mass to seemingly empower schools to engage in affirmative action as a racial justice tool. Part III explains how …

Policy Brief For Evidence-Based Telehealth Use In Ems: A Comprehensive Reference For Program Administrators, Field Leaders, And Clinical Directors, Florida Center For Emergency Medical Services

Florida Center for Emergency Medical Services Research Reports

Executive Summary

Telehealth-supported emergency medical services (EMS) represents an evidence- based approach to enhancing prehospital care delivery, expanding access to physician expertise, and improving resource utilization. The evidence base demonstrates clear benefits in appropriate contexts: for time-sensitive emergencies, telehealth enables significant reductions in treatment times; for low-acuity conditions, programs report transport reductions of 50–67% while maintaining high safety profiles.

Successful implementation requires appropriate patient selection, robust technical infrastructure, comprehensive training, and systematic quality assurance. Programs demonstrate success when targeting patients with stable vital signs and absence of conditions requiring immediate physical intervention. Implementation barriers commonly include regulatory and reimbursement limitations, …

Evidence-Based Telehealth Use In Ems: A Comprehensive Reference For Program Administrators, Field Leaders, And Clinical Directors, Michael Lozano Jr.

Florida Center for Emergency Medical Services Research Reports

Executive Summary

Telehealth-supported emergency medical services (EMS) represents an evidence-based approach to enhancing prehospital care delivery, expanding access to physician expertise, and improving resource utilization. This best-practice reference synthesizes current evidence and operational experience to guide EMS administrators in evaluating, implementing, and sustaining telehealth programs tailored to their communities' needs and resources.

Telehealth in EMS encompasses multiple distinct applications. General teleconsultation enables paramedics to connect with remote emergency physicians for real-time clinical guidance and disposition decisions. Specialty-specific applications focus on time-sensitive conditions including stroke and acute myocardial infarction, where early specialist involvement compresses treatment timelines. Community paramedicine integration extends EMS …

Policy Brief For Crisis On The Frontlines: Recruitment And Retention Challenges In Ems, Florida Center For Emergency Medical Services

Florida Center for Emergency Medical Services Research Reports

Executive Summary

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in Florida and across the United States are facing an unprecedented workforce crisis. EMS staffing shortages are no longer looming - they are present-day realities that affect the safety and well-being of every community. EMS personnel are the first line of response for medical emergencies, disasters, and public health crises. Yet today, many agencies are struggling to maintain staffing levels due to recruitment barriers, retention challenges, and systemic funding shortfalls. The message is clear: stabilizing the EMS workforce is essential not only for EMS agencies but also for the broader public safety and health …

Policy Brief For Vital Signs: Findings From Florida’S 2024 Ems Workforce Statewide Survey, Florida Center For Emergency Medical Services

Florida Center for Emergency Medical Services Research Reports

Executive Summary

Florida's Emergency Medical Services workforce stands at a critical juncture. The 2024 statewide survey of nearly 50,000 certified EMTs and paramedics reveals both strengths and vulnerabilities that demand immediate policy attention. While Florida's EMS professionals demonstrate strong commitment to their communities and confidence in clinical leadership, significant challenges threaten long-term workforce sustainability.

Most concerning are persistent gaps in compensation satisfaction, high rates of mental health challenges, and troubling retention patterns among early-career providers. These findings suggest that without strategic intervention, Florida may face escalating shortages in emergency medical response capacity, particularly in underserved and rural communities.

This policy …

Human Biology Group Project, Wroud Saleh

Open Educational Resources

No abstract provided.

Hls–Phenocam Land Surface Phenology: Code And Data Release. Data Supporting The Manuscript Enhanced Land Surface Phenology Detection In Western U.S. Drylands By Fusing Harmonized Landsat And Sentinel-2 Observations With Near-Surface Phenocam Time Series., Yuxia Liu, Xiaoyang Zhang, Y. Shen, Yongchang Ye, Shuai An

Global Land Surface Season Data Sets

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.62812/CEEX1495

The data is for the paper "Enhanced land surface phenology detection in western U.S. drylands by fusing Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 observations with near-surface PhenoCam time series."  which has been submitted to the journal Remote Sensing of Environment.

The downloadable file contains: 

README file that provides an overview of all all supporting files.
Data code description for reviewers
Three folders containing data

File type : zip/application 
File size :  1.3MB