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2022-August-01-Meet Etsu's Newest Officer - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Officer Samantha Delduca of East Tennessee State University’s Department of Public Safety says these words have been a powerful influence on her drive to prove herself and to serve her community. She wants others to understand the truth of those words as she does herself. Samantha Delduca

Officer Delduca came to ETSU in 2022 after a long and winding road. After graduating high school in 2010, Delduca earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science at Chaminade University of Honolulu, then a master’s degree in cybersecurity at George …

2022-August-01-Doctor Of Occupational Therapy Program - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

While most students are returning to campus this week for the start of the semester, 19 graduate students have been in class all summer making ETSU history as the inaugural class of the new Doctor of Occupational (OTD) Therapy Program. Savannah Yankee

The new cohort of OTD students arrived in May 2022 and recently completed their first round of classes in their journey to become occupational therapists. “Over the summer, we really came together as a group to navigate the program,” said Savannah Yankee, a member of the first OTD class. “The faculty has been amazing, guiding the way for …

2022-August-01-New Etsu Faculty Part 2 - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Dr. Amanda Slaten Frasier

Assistant Professor

Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Clemmer College 

What are you looking forward to the most about being an ETSU faculty member?

I am most excited to engage in research and develop new collaborations.

Where were you most recently working?

I have actually spent the last two years teaching high school at University School on campus. So I have been a part of the ETSU community for a while, but I am transitioning into a new role. Prior to coming to ETSU, I was an assistant professor in the teacher preparation program at Michigan State …

2022-August-01-Outfitting The Cutestbucs - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

East Tennessee State University and Ballad Health announced a new partnership that aims to create a foundation for the success of all children and their families across the Appalachian Highlands called Buccaneer Building Blocks.

Treasured milestones like a baby’s first steps, a sweet smile, or first words are among the moments families forever cherish as their children quickly grow. ETSU and Ballad Health are helping families mark some of those developmental milestones while providing key resources about early childhood education, lifelong learning, and college access planning.

Beginning this month, families of all newborn babies delivered at Ballad Health facilities in …

2022-August-01-Meet Our New Etsu Faculty -Part 3 - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Dr. Bernita Armstrong

Assistant Professor

Department of Graduate Programs
College of Nursing

What are you looking forward to the most about being an ETSU faculty member?

I have worked for 13 years as an adjunct faculty in College of Nursing. Changing roles from adjunct to full-time faculty, I look forward to working with the graduate faculty and leadership team to continue promoting the latest best practices and provide intense and varied student-experiences, so our students feel confident when they change roles from students to practicing professionals.      

Where were you working most recently?

I worked for the Veterans Health Administration as …

2022-August-01-Restoring The Past - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

For more than 100 years, the Hindman Settlement School in Eastern Kentucky has sought to provide education and service opportunities for the people of its mountainous region. Unfortunately, the recent devastating floods in Kentucky threatened to erase important items that are part of the organization’s rich history.

When documents and photos from Hindman were damaged, faculty from ETSU who have connections with the Kentucky school reached out to the Archives of Appalachia to see if there was anything the center could do to assist with restoring and preserving these items.

So, a dedicated team of staff and volunteers came to …

The Hr Connection, Georgia Southern University

Human Resources Newsletter

• Introducing O.U.R Southern- Orientation for University Readiness
• August Wellness Corner
• Upcoming USG Well-Being Events
• Save the Date!
• Employee Resource Group Informational
• On-Campus Part-Time Job Fairs
• New! Hiring Timelines
• Appointments available with our Financial Vendors

The Legal And Ethical Environment Of Business, Cristen W. Dutcher

KSU Distinguished Course Repository

This course is an introduction of the relationship between law and the business environment. The material includes an overview of the areas of law that are relevant to business, including torts, crimes, contracts, the Constitution, antitrust, real estate, court procedure, government regulation, intellectual property and remedies. The class also addresses ethical issues that may arise in a business’s internal and external activities. Many of these topics will overlap such as computer crime legislation, liability for errors in data or programming for an IT system, or the ethics of revealing information to gain an advantage in business.

2022-August-01-Etsu Msn Program Ranked By Fortune, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University ranks ninth in the nation among Fortune Education’s Best Online Master’s in Nursing (MSN) Programs in 2022.

Recognizing that classrooms are “no longer physical but virtual,” Fortune Education aims to guide readers in “navigating this new, rich and somewhat overwhelming world of education.” Its rankings are developed and produced by its editorial staff.

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University ranks ninth in the nation among Fortune Education’s Best Online Master’s in Nursing (MSN) Programs in 2022.

Recognizing that classrooms are “no longer physical but virtual,” Fortune Education aims to guide readers in …

2022-August-01-Etsu's Carter Railroad Museum Sponsoring Fall Excursion, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Book your seat now for a fall railroad excursion.  

On Oct. 8, the George L. Carter Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and East Tennessee State University’s George L. Carter Railroad Museum will sponsor a trip that features stops in the Great Smoky Mountains and western North Carolina.  

The trip will include the opportunity to shop, visit the Smoky Mountain Trains Museum and dine in Bryson City, North Carolina.  

“The route is a relaxing ride through quiet countryside on your way to small town life in western North Carolina on the Tuckasegee River Excursion,” organizers …

2022-August-01-Arborist Travis Watson - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

He plants shrubs and flowers, ensuring the vegetation gets the appropriate amount of water and sunlight. He cultivates newly planted trees, pruning and assessing the health of the saplings. He helps craft plans for a range of extreme weather events, including droughts and floods. 

East Tennessee State University’s Travis Watson is the campus arborist. He’s also a graduate student working toward a certificate in geospatial analysis.    

“Community projects are huge for me, and I get a lot of personal enjoyment from that,” said Watson, who recently graduated with a master’s degree in biology. “My graduate training at ETSU gave me …

2022-08-01 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent on August 1, 2022 by the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding the epic floods in Eastern Kentucky and what services the college planned to provide students from that region.

The 1-2-3 Of Market Research For Business Startups: A Case Study In Library Instruction, Daniel Le, Marie-Louise Watson

Georgia Library Quarterly

This article describes a practical way to teach student entrepreneurs to search and use market data for business startup plans. The conventional way of teaching students to find articles and business intelligence based on a class assignment can be challenging for many students without an academic business background. This library instruction approach sequentially uses three databases enriched with business data and infographics to support the development of critical thinking for student entrepreneurs. It teaches entrepreneurial personality support, analysis, visualization, and market mapping.

Internal Communication Within An Institution Of Higher Education During The Covid-19 Crisis: A Case Study, Jonathan Boone Clemmons

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the role internal communication played in shaping perceptions among stakeholders during a major crisis event happening on a university campus. The main question that this study sought to answer was: how did formal and informal communication during the COVID-19 pandemic affect the perception and adoption of changes related to the pandemic? This case study utilized interviews and document analysis to understand both the change process and its accompanying communication. Workplace Social Network Exchange was the guiding theoretical framework utilized to fully understand the professional lives of participants. Four major themes were identified …

Human Resource Officer's Perspectives On Recruitment And Hiring Practices Of Diverse Candidates, Tara Kelton Mcdaniel

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Theses & Dissertations

A wealth of research supports the positive impact minority teachers have on all students, but especially minority students. Benefits include an increase in academic achievement, an increase in educational engagement, and an overall sense of self-efficacy and autonomy. Unfortunately minority teachers and teachers of color are significantly underrepresented in the United States teaching workforce compared to their White counterparts. Challenges for diversifying the teaching workforce include historical factors of racism and suppression, the Whiteness of educator preparation programs as the prevailing ideology, and the presence of toxic work environment conditions during field placements and employment. While many historical and contemporary …

Instructional Designers Conducting Professional Learning Using Social Media: A Phenomenological Study Of Their Experiences Through A Self-Regulated Learning Lens, Pauline S. Muljana

STEMPS Theses & Dissertations

Because the instructional design and technology field is dynamic (Sharif & Cho, 2015; Wang et al., 2021), instructional designers need to pursue continuous, just-in-time professional learning (Carliner, 2018) to improve knowledge, skills, and abilities (Sharif & Cho, 2015; Ritzhaupt & Martin, 2015), without being constrained by location, budget, and time (Muljana et al., 2020; Muljana et al., 2021). On the one hand, the omnipresent social media technologies offer affordances for facilitating this type of professional learning. Such technologies allow instructional designers to reach out to colleagues, search for ready-to-implement strategies, and find relevant, timely information. On the other hand, conducting …

2022-August-01-Etsu Theatre And Dance Presents 2022 - 2023 Season, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – Four shows will headline the 2022-2023 season for East Tennessee State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance.

“Our previous season marked our first year in the Martin Center’s new Bert C. Bach Theatre, and it was truly an epic season,” said Karen Brewster, professor/chair of Theatre and Dance. “All of our shows were performed to sold-out audiences, and we were able to transform this black box space to become a stretch of the Colorado River, followed by a family living room, to various locations across the mountains of North Carolina. That is the beauty of having …

2022-August-01-Calling Etsu Choirs Alumni, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University has issued a call to alumni of the ETSU Choirs to gather for a special reunion concert. 

The event, which will help kick off Homecoming week at ETSU, happens at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, in the ETSU Martin Center for the Arts. 

Greyscale will be honored at concert

“We are inviting all eras of the ETSU Choirs to come together for what will be a truly special evening,” said Dr. Alan Stevens, director of choral activities and chair of the Department of Music.  

ETSU is home to many award-winning …

2022-August-01-New Etsu Faculty - Part 1 - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Leendert Craig

Lecturer

Department of Engineering, Engineering Technology, Surveying, and Interior Architecture
College of Business and Technology

What are you looking forward to the most about being an ETSU faculty member?

I am looking forward to learning all I can from my fellow faculty members and working with the students. I think it is fun to watch them grow as they learn.

Where were you most recently working?

Last year I was working as an adjunct at ETSU.

What are your favorite hobbies?

My favorite hobby is learning. I love taking things apart to learn their secrets and finding ways …

2022-August-01-Etsu One Of America's Best-In-State Employers, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – East Tennessee State University has been recognized by Forbes in its 2022 listing of America’s Best-in-State Employers.

The listing on Forbes.com was compiled by Forbes and Statista based on data from an independent survey taken by approximately 70,000 U.S. employees working for businesses with at least 500 employees across 25 industry sectors. Direct recommendations from employees, as well as indirect recommendations from workers in industry, were collected in the compilation of rankings. The survey considered every aspect of employees’ experience, including working conditions, salary, growth potential and diversity.

ETSU, which is one of the largest employers in …

2022-August-01-Treating Gambling Disorders - Bucwire, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

East Tennessee State University is home to the second clinic in the state to treat individuals whose lives have been significantly harmed by gambling, thanks to a $1.2 million grant by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (MHSAS).

This grant was recently awarded to The Institute for Gambling Education and Research (TIGER) at the University of Memphis (UM) to expand gambling research and treatment services for all Tennesseans. “In the next five years, our partnership with MHSAS will make Tennessee a leader in managing gambling harms experienced by the people living in our communities,” Ginley said. …

2022-August-01-Etsu To Expand Services For Hivaids Care, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – A new grant will allow East Tennessee State University to expand clinical services to provide support for individuals with HIV in the region.

Dr. Jonathan Moorman, co-director of the ETSU Center of Excellence in Inflammation, Infectious Diseases and Immunity and vice chair for Research and Scholarship in the Department of Internal Medicine, has received a notice of award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

The Ryan White HIV Center of Excellence (COE) has received Ryan White Part B funding from the Tennessee Department of Health for more than …

2022 August, Morehead State University. Office Of Communications & Marketing.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for August of 2022.

2022-08-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter from August of 2022.

Present At The Creation, A Redux: The Need For Strategic Minded Joint Force Officers In A Rapidly Changing And Dynamic International Security Environment, Thomas Joseph Snukis

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

The US Joint Force has an outstanding record over its history of superb performance at the tactical level of war. Inarguably, the United States is currently the best tactical Joint Force in the world a product of a world class tactical education, training, and development program generating and sustaining that tactical proficiency at the individual and organizational level. While tactical education and training programs have been extremely successful, the Professional Military Education (PME) responsible for developing strategic mastery has not been as highly rated. Over the past seventy-five years numerous indictments have been levied against the US PME enterprise, and …

Associations Between Instagram Addiction, Academic Performance, Social Anxiety, Depression, And Life Satisfaction Among University Students, Behzad Foroughi, Mark D. Griffiths, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Yashar Salamzadeh

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

The use of social networking sites (SNSs) has become increasingly popular. Although several studies have been carried out on the addictive use of SNSs such as Twitter and Facebook, there is little research on Instagram addiction and its drivers. The present study investigated the association between students’ needs and Instagram addiction by incorporating physical activity as a moderator among 364 university students. Additionally, the associations between Instagram addiction, academic performance, depression, social anxiety, and life satisfaction were investigated. The results showed that recognition needs, social needs, and entertainment needs all contributed to Instagram addiction. However, information needs were not a …

Closing The Gender Gap In Entrepreneurship Education, Carolyn J. Rodeffer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Entrepreneurship education in higher education has been cited as a key strategy in filling the entrepreneurship talent pool, preparing students with the skills and confidence needed to start new ventures (Westhead & Solesvik, 2016). However, outcomes of entrepreneurship education for female students are less positive than for their male counterparts (Shinnar et al., 2012; Westhead & Solesvik, 2016; Wilson et al., 2007). Working within the frameworks of Bandura’s self-efficacy theory (1977), Azjen’s theory of planned behavior (1991), and Steele and Aronson’s stereotype threat theory (1995), this quantitative study utilized an experimental research design to assess the impact of role model …

Towards Pedagogy Supporting Ethics In Modelling, Marie Oldfield

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Education for concepts such as ethics and societal responsibility that are critical in building robust and applicable mathematical and statistical models do currently exist in isolation but have not been incorporated into the mainstream curricula at the school or university level. This is partially due to the split between fields (such as mathematics, statistics, and computer science) in an educational setting but also the speed with which education is able to keep up with industry and its requirements. I argue that principles and frameworks of socially responsible modelling should begin at school level and that this would mean that ethics …

Economic Education: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Douglas Nettleton

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Dr. Nettleton is an Associate Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Economic Education at Georgia Southern College.

Managerial Risk Aversion And Limits On Corporate Debt*, Walt Woerheide, Hans Heymann

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Walt Woerheide is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of lllinois at Chicago Circle. Hans Heymann is an Associate Professor of Finance at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.