Exploring The Influence Of Acbsp Accreditation On The Value Proposition Of Nc Business Schools, Jamie Holleman Conrad

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

National accreditation agencies, such as the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs, offer accreditation opportunities to provide external validation of continuous improvement processes implemented within the business schools’ programs of study. The requirements for obtaining and maintaining the most popular national business program accreditations are resource consuming and do not yet have a documented level of influence on the business schools’ value propositions associated with the accreditation process or accreditation status. The current study is necessary to explore the influence accreditation has on the value proposition presented to the marketplace, which is an essential component of the marketing strategy …

An Automated Feedback System To Support Student Learning Of Conceptual Knowledge In Writing-To-Learn Activities, Ye Xiong

Dissertations

As a pedagogical strategy, Writing-to-Learn (WTL) intends to use writing to improve students’ understanding of course content. However, most of the existing feedback systems for writing are mainly focused on improving students’ writing skills rather than their conceptual development. In this dissertation, an automatic approach is proposed to generate timely, actionable, and individualized feedback based on comparing knowledge representations extracted from lecture slides and individual students’ writing assignments. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in the feedback generation: to help students assimilate new knowledge into their existing knowledge better, their current knowledge is modeled as a set of matching …

Mind Maps And Machine Learning: An Automation Framework For Qualitative Research In Entrepreneurship Education, Yasser Farha

Dissertations

Entrepreneurship Education researchers often measure entrepreneurial motivation of college students. It is important for stakeholders, such as policymakers and educators, to assert if entrepreneurship education can encourage students to become entrepreneurs, as well as to understand factors that influence entrepreneurial motivation. For that purpose, researchers have used different methods and instruments to measure students' entrepreneurial motivation. Most of these methods are quantitative, e.g., closed-ended surveys, whereas qualitative methods, e.g., open-ended surveys, are rarely used.

Mind maps are an attractive qualitative survey tool because they capture the individual's reflections, thoughts, and experiences. For Entrepreneurship Education, mind maps can be utilized to …

2020-August-31-Virtual Climate Reality Training Mentor, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

p>JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 31, 2020) – Dr. Audrey Depelteau, director of the ETSU Innovation Lab, was chosen to be a mentor in the first Climate Reality global virtual training held in July. Five hundred Climate Reality Leaders from around the world served as mentors for more than 10,000 participants. Climate crisis training focused on diversity, equity, inclusion

Depelteau’s graduate studies focused on environmental toxicology, and she trained to be a Climate Reality Leader in 2013 to support Innovation Lab clients developing green technologies. The Climate Reality Project (CRP), founded and chaired by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al …

2020-August-31-Quillen College Of Medicine To Host Booney Vance Memorial Lecture, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 31, 2020) – East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine will host an online lecture by Dr. Andres J. Pumariega titled “Cultural Competence in Mental Health: Lessons from Booney Vance,” on Friday, Sept. 18, at 11 a.m.

Pumariega, a former faculty member at Quillen, now serves as professor and chief of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine and UF Health.

His lecture is part of the ETSU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ annual Dr. Hubert R. “Booney” Vance Memorial Lecture, established in memory of Vance, who …

2020-August-31-Going Places, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

ETSU welcomes the following new faculty and staff to the university family:

Dr. Michael J. Allshouse is a professor of pediatric surgery in the Department of Surgery. He comes to ETSU from Valley Children’s Healthcare, Madera, California, where he was medical director of Pediatric Surgery. He holds his D.O. from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Lori Balmer is director of Clinical Education and Radiography in the Department of Allied Health. She was previously director of the Radiography Program at Trinity College of Nursing and Health Sciences. She holds a master of public administration degree from Indiana University.

Dr. Amanda …

2020-August-31-Perfect 36 Score, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (August 31, 2020) Reilly Wells, a senior at University School, was notified that she earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT exam.

Fewer than half of 1% of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2019, only 4,879 out of nearly 1.8 million students who took the ACT earned a top composite score of 36.

Originally from Sullivan County, Wells lives in Johnson City with her parents, Tamie and Warren Wells.  Her grandparents, Larry and Karen Daniels, live in Kingsport. This is her second year …

2020-August-31-Enjoy Retirement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Congratulations to the following members of the East Tennessee State University family who retired in August.  Thank you for your service!

Edward A. Baryla – Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics and Finance

Lee Johnson Morrow – Assistant Athletic Director for Facilities and Game Operations, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Published August 31, 2020, as part of the Accent email newsletter for faculty and staff.

Mindfulness: A Promising Practice To Reduce Accountant Stress, Abigail Anderson

Marriott Student Review

This article considers the practice of mindfulness as an approach to reduce stress within the lives of accountants. Mindfulness has existed for centuries as a Buddhist tradition and has only recently become popular in the Western world as a stress-reduction technique that can lead to improved mental and emotional well-being. This article also examines the prevalence of mindfulness within the Top 10 accounting firms in the United States and some results regarding employee performance. As more and more firms begin to utilize mindfulness as a low-cost method to better employee performance and well-being, university accounting programs should consider incorporating the …

Benefits Of The Habit Of Reading, Jackson V. Wagstaff

Marriott Student Review

Reading offers great cognitive, emotional, and social benefits.

2020-August-28-Etsu Response Hurricane Laura, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 28, 2020) – East Tennessee State University has activated its ETSU Response website to provide information on support for those affected by Hurricane Laura.

The website, www.etsu.edu/response, provides links and contact information for those who wish to provide volunteer or monetary support to relief agencies.

It also helps connect students, faculty and staff who may have been personally impacted to support services, including the ETSU Counseling Center and the Employee Assistance Program.

The ETSU Response website has been used several times in the past to give individuals a way to provide assistance for victims of disasters …

2020-August-28-Deidra Rogers, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 28, 2020) – Change is certain, and the ability to embrace change and transform it into opportunities for growth can redefine a person’s future in ways unimagined. Deidra Rogers will discuss her own experiences with embracing change in “Braving MY Own Wilderness,” a free virtual talk in East Tennessee State University’s “Women on Wednesdays” series, on Sept. 2.

Deidra Rogers

2020-August-28-Carter Railroad Museum August Heritage Day, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 28, 2020) – The George L. Carter Railroad Museum, located in the Campus Center Building on the campus of East Tennessee State University, will reopen on Saturday, Aug. 29, for Heritage Day focusing on the vast expanses of the American West.

The colorful and popular lines of the region west of the Mississippi will be highlighted on the reopening, which will be operated under the specific health guidelines instituted by the university. All visitors will be required to wear masks while on the ETSU campus and in its buildings, including the railroad museum.  There will be directional …

2020-August-27-Abby Lewis Named Mockingbird Editor, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 27, 2020) – Abby N. Lewis is serving as the editor of the 2020-21 edition of The Mockingbird, East Tennessee State University’s literary magazine.

Abby N. Lewis

Lewis is starting her third and final year as a graduate student at ETSU. She is pursuing a dual master’s degree in English and communication and storytelling studies, as well …

Exploring The Association Of Academic Psychological Capital And Experiential Learning With Academic Performance, Diane Kutz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This research study expands upon the body of research seeking to define the effect of Academic Psychological Capital (Academic PsyCap) and student Participation in Experiential Learning on one success measure of students, Academic Performance, as measured by grade point average (GPA). It also seeks to investigate the moderating effect of Experiential Learning on the relationship between Academic PsyCap and Academic Performance. The study argues that Social Cognitive Theory and Broaden and Build Theory supported a reciprocal relationship between Academic PsyCap and Participation in Experiential Learning Activities and the positive relationship between both constructs and Academic Performance.

The study was conducted …

Trailblazing Transformation: Pioneering Transformative Peacebuilding In Academic Labor Conflicts, Sam Frazier Hediger

Dissertations and Theses

Unionized contingent faculty in the United States face an increasingly difficult economic landscape in their labor-management conflicts with university administrations. These unions, comprised of graduate student employees and adjunct instructors, won significant victories for their members but have failed to shift the broader patterns of casualization, unsustainable compensation, and job precarity, stemming from the systemic debasement of higher education institutions and the American labor movement, both of which pose significant challenges to conventional conflict resolution strategies. To find a path forward, this thesis explores the nature and possibility of transforming of the academic labor conflict, using a transformative peacebuilding approach …

2020-08-27 Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., Evaluation Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

The Faculty Senate Evaluations Committee meeting minutes for August 27, 2020.

2020-August-26-New Wellbeing Initiative Inspires Competition, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (August 26, 2020) – While there won’t be any flying Quidditch tournaments anytime soon, a new student wellbeing program at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy is inspired by the competitive house model from Harry Potter and designed to help students soar to new heights throughout their pharmacy career.

The Gatton Wellbeing Program was created to foster mentorship, student leadership and personal growth through a friendly year-long tournament and is one of the first—if not the first—college of pharmacy program of its kind in the world, modeled on the highly successful “learning community” model pioneered …

2020-August-26-Leading Undergrad Research, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (August 26, 2020) Dr. Trena Paulus has been named director of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities for East Tennessee State University’s Honors College.

Paulus currently holds a research faculty appointment at the Quillen College of Medicine and is an affiliate faculty member with ETSU’s Applied Social Research Laboratory (ASRL).

In her new role, she will promote and increase the visibility of research efforts being made by ETSU undergraduate students and also create new opportunities for more students and faculty to work together.

“We want to get undergraduates engaged in research earlier in their university experience, possibly within …

2020-August-26-Etsu Awarded One Of Seven Rural Health Research Centers By Hrsa, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 26, 2020) – East Tennessee State University received one of seven Rural Health Research Center grants, awarded by the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, to create the Rural Health Equity Research Center.

The $2.77 million award, which ETSU won in collaboration with the NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis, part of NORC at the University of Chicago, spans four years.

According to HRSA, the goal of the Rural Health Research Center program is “to conduct rural research to assist providers and policy-makers at the federal, state and local levels …

2020-August-25-Letter From President Noland, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

August 25, 2020

As I walked across campus yesterday, I was energized by the number of people and face coverings I encountered. However, I realize that for each individual I see on campus, there are even more students, faculty and staff engaging with our institution remotely. All of us, including those learning and working on campus, are coping with feelings of isolation and uncertainty. These feelings are magnified by what is going on around us as outcries for social justice echo across our nation, most recently in Wisconsin where protests emerged following the police shooting of Mr. Jacob Blake.

Now …

2020-08-25 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Faculty Senate Records

A message from the President sent August 25, 2020 regarding Covid-19 reporting on campus.

2020-August-21-Pond Receives Honor, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – East Tennessee State University bestowed its highest honors upon three professors today with the presentation of the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Awards for Teaching, Research and Service.

The winners were nominated and selected by their faculty peers. Each received a medallion, a plaque and $5,000 provided by the ETSU Foundation during the annual Faculty Convocation, which marks the beginning of the new academic year and fall semester. 

This year, the Faculty Convocation was delivered in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The Distinguished Faculty Award in Teaching was presented to Dr. Brooks Pond …

2020-August-21-Dr Brooks Pond Receives 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award For Teaching, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – East Tennessee State University presented the 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching to Dr. Brooks Pond, professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

The award was presented at the annual Faculty Convocation, which was delivered in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pond joined East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy as a founding faculty member in 2007. Over the past 13 years at ETSU, she has participated in didactic teaching of students within the College of Pharmacy and the biomedical science Ph.D. program.

Pond’s teaching accomplishments have …

2020-August-21-Dr Marc Fagelson Authors Ted-Ed Lesson About Tinnitus, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (August 21, 2020) – An animated educational video written by Dr. Marc Fagelson, professor of audiology at East Tennessee State University, has been viewed more than 576,000 times in just three days since it was posted on the popular TED-Ed YouTube channel.

The video, titled “What’s that ringing in your ears?”, provides a glimpse of the auditory system and explores the constant ringing sensation of tinnitus, why it happens and provides information regarding management strategies.

Roughly one in seven people worldwide experiences tinnitus, or “the perception of any number of sounds, such as ringing, buzzing, hissing, clicking, or …

Staff Council Agenda, Georgia Southern University, Staff Council

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

Strategic Pillars:

• P1: Student Success

• P2: Teaching and Research

• P3: Inclusive Excellence

• P4: Operational Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Sustainability

• P5: Community Engagement

1. Call to Order
2. Consent Agenda
3. Presidential Updates and Comments
4. Information Sharing and Gossip
5. Human Resources Updates
6. Office of Inclusive Excellence
7. Treasurer Report
8. Committee Reports
9. Old Business
10. New Business
11. Important Dates and Announcements
12. Adjournment

2020-August-21-Dr Mohamed Elgazzar Receives Distinguished Faculty Award For Research, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Dr. Mohamed Elgazzar receives 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award for Research

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – The Distinguished Faculty Award in Research was presented to Dr. Mohamed Elgazzar, professor in the ETSU Quillen College of Medicine’s Department of Internal Medicine.

The award was presented at the annual Faculty Convocation, which was delivered in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A member of the ETSU faculty since 2010, Elgazzar has gained national recognition for his research focusing on the molecular immunobiology of sepsis and chronic inflammation.

“Dr. Elgazzar is a brilliant researcher,” said Dr. Zhi Q. Yao, …

2020-August-21-Dr Donna Cherry Receives 2020 Distinguished Faculty Award For Service, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – The Distinguished Faculty Award for Service was presented to Dr. Donna Cherry, associate professor in the Department of Social Work in the College of Clinical and Rehabilitative Health Sciences.

The award was presented at the annual Faculty Convocation, which was delivered in a virtual format due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cherry, who has taught at ETSU since 2009, has held numerous service roles at the university and throughout the community.

“Overall, Dr. Cherry’s service record is remarkable,” said Dr. Mary Mullins, chair of the Department of Social Work. “The impact of service …

2020-August-21-Welcome Week 2020, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – It will certainly look different this year than in years past, but in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, East Tennessee State University’s traditional Welcome Week will still provide new and returning students with opportunities to enjoy entertainment, engage with fellow students, learn about campus services and student organizations, and win prizes.

Over a two-week period – from Aug. 24-Sept. 3 – students may take part in a variety of virtual and self-guided events.

Highlights of the week include a drive-in movie, a virtual trivia event, and a virtual major concert.

Buctainment will host a …

2020-August-21-Women On Wednesdays, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (Aug. 21, 2020) – “Suffrage in Southern Appalachia” is the focus of a free virtual talk by Rebecca Proffitt at East Tennessee State University on Wednesday, Aug. 26, at noon via Zoom.

This talk, held in conjunction with the centennial of Women’s Suffrage, is part of the “Women on Wednesdays” lecture series sponsored by the university’s Women’s Studies Program. The live stream may be viewed at https://etsu.zoom.us/j/91733077013. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.

Rebecca Proffitt