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K‐State Polytechnic Diversity Assignment & Project Showcase, William Genereux, Becky Lynn Degreeff

Institute for Student Learning Assessment

On the K-State Polytechnic campus in Salina, KS, five faculty members have identified a project or assignment having a connection with human diversity in a course they teach. These projects and assignments were originally presented in a panel session at the 2013 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) – Midwest conference.

The panelists were the following faculty members:

Becky DeGreeff (Communication), Fred Guzek (Marketing & Business), Jung Oh (Chemistry), Greg Stephens (Business), and Bill Genereux (Computer Technology). The assignments presented included an activity in speech class that addresses racial and economic privilege, an international marketing exercise that follows a French …

An Empirical Evaluation Of The Clubsnsw (Australia) Multi-Venue Self-Exclusion Program, Dylan A. Pickering, Alexander Blaszczynski, Sally Gainsbury, Rowan Cameron

International Conference on Gambling & Risk Taking

Few empirical studies have evaluated the effectiveness of self-exclusion programs. Research is required to identify factors contributing to decisions to enter and/or breach self-exclusion orders, or to self-excluded gamblers to seek additional treatment. Clinical characteristics of self-excluders remain relatively unknown in addition to factors that differentiate gamblers who do or do not breach. Limitations of current programs are that gamblers can self-exclude from only one or a limited number of venues. The Multi-venue Self-exclusion program, developed and implemented by ClubsNSW (Australia), is a centralised web-based system designed to help problem gamblers self exclude from up to 35 venues at a …