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2025-03-28 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of March 28, 2025, which includes the meeting minutes of the meeting held on February 7, 2025.

The Interplay Of Agile Capabilities In Crisis Response, Marko Bastl, Corrado Cerruti, Carlos Mena, Heather Dawn Skipworth

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

Large-scale disruptions that lead to extreme environmental uncertainty, combined with perceived threats and time pressure, have prompted some organizations to rapidly form new networks. This research aims to focus on how actors in these newly formed networks leverage their agile capabilities in response to extreme disruptions. Design/methodology/approach

Grounded in the agility literature, this study employs an abductive research approach and a multi-case design. Data were collected from 18 actors embedded in four newly formed networks located in the United Kingdom, Italy, Colombia and the USA. Findings

Through six propositions and an empirically derived model of supply chain agility under …

2025-03-27 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes from March 27, 2025.

2025-03-27 Statement Of Purpose For An Onboarding Provost - 2nd Reading, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A second draft of a statement of purpose for an onboarding provost submitted and discussed at the March 27, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting.

2025-03-27 Policy Review And Revision Process - Draft, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A draft revisal of the Policy Review and Revision Process submitted at the March 27, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting.

2025-03-27 Draft Of Hidden Documents Resolution, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A draft of a proposed resolution on hidden documents and administrative transparency submitted and discussed at the March 27, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting.

2025-03-27 Faculty Senate Standing Committees Members, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A membership list of the Faculty Senate Standing Committees presented at the March 27, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting.

Ameliorating Public Procurement Performance: Green Public Procurement Policies Within A Legislative Framework, Karem Sayed Aboelazm, Muayad Ahmad Obeidat, Fady Tawakol, Nada Zuhair Alfil, Fatima Hafiz Irshad Ul Haq

All Works

This paper highlights green public procurement, the difference between it and sustainable public procurement, and the benefits that green public procurement can achieve for the environment and its preservation. The paper also seeks to know how public procurement performance can be improved by designing and implementing green public procurement policies to stimulate environmental sustainability in the public sector and to provide a model for applying green public procurement to government agencies. The descriptive and analytical approaches were used to highlight the importance of public procurement as one of the powerful drivers and tools for governments through which public policies can …

2025-03-26 University Graduate Committee Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate., University Graduate Committee.

Faculty Senate Records

Meeting minutes from the University Graduate Committee from March 26, 2024.

Sustainability Orientation, Sustainability Implementation, And Brand Image In Service Firms, Vafa Saboorideilami, Sandeep Jagani

Barowsky School of Business | Faculty Scholarship

This paper uses legitimacy theory and cognitive dissonance theory to explore the relationship between sustainability orientation, sustainability implementation, and brand image in the service sector. Specifically, we examine the mediating role of implementation—the translation of strategic intent into actionable practices—on customers' perceptions. Using multilevel analyses of 31 US service firms and a survey of 6891 customers, we find that sustainability implementation is a strong positive predictor of brand image. However, sustainability orientation alone has a negative direct effect on brand image, suggesting that stated commitments without corresponding action can harm perceptions. Crucially, sustainability implementation positively mediates the relationship between orientation …

Operationalising The Loss And Damage Fund For Sids Under The Cop30 Implementation Agenda, Alicia Ramdal

COP30

COP28 marked the formal operationalisation of the Loss and Damage Fund, however, its current structure remains inadequate to meet the urgent needs of SIDS which face recurring climate driven losses in the absence of timely and predictable finance. From the perspective of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), this paper examines the post-GST implementation gap and argues that the Fund's weak and fragmented operationalisation is a critical barrier to delivering the GST commitment to provide "timely and adequate support" to vulnerable countries. For SIDS, the credibility of COP30 and the Paris Agreement framework will hinge on embedding a delivery …

Staff Council Minutes, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

Staff Council Agenda, Georgia Southern University

Staff Council Meeting Minutes & Agendas

No abstract provided.

Marketization As An Influence On Leadership Behavior And Organizational Mission In U.S.-Based Nonprofit Organizations, Joshua Caulfield

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) form a sector of society aimed at supporting specific communities without a profit motive and the encumbrances inherent in government organizations. As society has matured, NPOs find themselves engaging in their missions within the context of a highly competitive marketplace. Leadership and staff find that resource requirements are growing, the supply of funding and other sources of support is threatened, and the expectations of their communities are expanding. This has led NPO leaders to make decisions to adopt businesslike practices, called marketization, more frequently. This study explored an under-researched sector of the NPO community, trade associations and …

Challenges Leadership Faces When Trying To Expand Mobile Healthcare Utilization Within Texas Nursing Home Rehabilitation Centers, Resulting In A Potential Decline Of Physician Workflows And Probability, Erica Nicole Gibson

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The expansion of mobile healthcare utilization within Texas Nursing Home Rehabilitation Centers (TNHRC) includes numerous challenges, primarily influenced by leadership's ability to adapt to technological innovations. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership practices at TNHRC and the implementation of mobile healthcare solutions by analyzing the critical impact of leadership on the activation of physician workflow and emergent patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine how leadership traits, behaviors, and decision-making play a role in the adoption of mobile technology (and resistance to change) in nursing homes, where a limitation in resources …

Racial Differences In Knowledge, Attitudes Toward Vaccination, And Risk Practices Around Lyme Disease In The United States, Madiha Shafquat, Niyati Patel, Brandon Mcfadden, James H. Stark, L. Hannah Gould

Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduction Lyme disease (LD) incidence in the United States is highly regional, with most cases occurring in 16 high-incidence jurisdictions. LD incidence and severity of disease have been found to vary by race. This study describes racial differences in knowledge, attitudes toward vaccination, and risk practices related to LD.Methods Four web-based surveys were conducted with adults and caregivers of children in high-incidence jurisdictions and 10 states neighboring them. Respondents were recruited via an established online panel to represent the general population. Self-reported race was pooled into 3 categories: 'White', 'Black or African American', and 'Other' for analysis. Analyses were conducted …

Integrated Marketing And Impact To Consumer Loyalty And Customer Satisfaction, Richard A. Sizemore

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This dissertation explored how the lack of an effective marketing strategy can result in the loss of consumer loyalty and customer satisfaction when a grocery retailer takes an omnichannel approach. The researcher used a flexible, single case study to explore the potential when a grocery retailer offers services for in-store and virtual platforms when an integrated marketing strategy is not used resulting in the loss of brand equity. The researcher was guided by two critical questions and two sub questions to set the limitations, assumptions and delimitations to understand a contemporary issue. The literature review, which contained over 110 peer-reviewed …

The Failure Of Project Managers To Allocate Resources Effectively Resulting In Failed Or Stalled Kenyan Government Projects, Jectone Oyoo

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Resource allocation is a vital role of the project manager from the project’s initiation to its completion. The study investigated the failure by project managers in Kenyan government projects to effectively allocate resources leading to the failure or stalling of those projects. This study was aimed at exploring the processes and actions employed by project managers in allocating resources that result in the success, failure or stalling of Kenyan government projects. The researcher collected data by interviewing 30 project managers from six counties across the country that formed the six cases. The study revealed three major themes, resource availability, resource …

The Impact Of Artificial Intelligence On Fashion And Retail Efficiency: A Strategic Analysis, Andrew Burnstine, Raouf Ghattas

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

Home, Health, Community, & Allyship: Utahns’ Awareness, Understanding, And Attitudes, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

During the fall of 2023, Utah Women & Leadership Project (UWLP) researchers conducted a statewide study to establish a baseline for public perceptions related to the awareness, understanding, and attitudes about challenges that Utah women and girls face. In early 2024, we published 20 short research summaries that shared the results of this comprehensive study. Then, in the fall of 2024, we administered the survey, with slight refinements, around the state of Utah. We now share the results of the 2024 data by releasing six white papers; this is the fifth in the series.

Overall, this comprehensive study was designed …

Exploring Homogeneity In Today's Cultural Expression, Roderick Hunt

Digital Laboratory: Publisher of Internet Journal

This article examines the increasing cultural homogeneity driven by the internet's global reach and accessibility. Roderick Hunt—an educator, brand expert, and fashion designer—integrates writing into his creative practice and brand ethos. Through his label, Uniform Journal, he merges ideas and products, emphasizing both form and function. In a Q&A discussion, Hunt explores how the internet has influenced contemporary cultural practices and challenges the notion of originality in an era of digital interconnectedness.

Synthesizing Metoo: A Meta-Analysis Of Workplace Sexual Harassment In Hospitality And Tourism, Yunxuan Carrie Zhang, Cass Shum

Hospitality Faculty Research

Purpose – Despite increasing research attention on hospitality and tourism workplace sexual harassment, there is a lack of holistic understanding of its nomological networks. This meta-analysis aims to synthesize the antecedents and consequences of workplace sexual harassment in the context of tourism and hospitality.

Design/methodology/approach – A total of 184 effect sizes from 39 independent hospitality and tourism studies (N=12,093) were included in this meta-analysis. Comprehensive MetaAnalysis software was used to analyze the results.

Findings – The results supported victim age and work environment as antecedents of workplace sexual harassment. Workplace sexual harassment affects work-related (job attitudes and job performance) …

The Effects Of Conventional And Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks On The Stock Market, Sajjadur Rahman

All Faculty Scholarship (Archived)

This paper applies weekly data to investigate the effects of the conventional and unconventional monetary policy shocks on US stock returns, using a multivariate structural VAR model that considers transmission mechanisms in channeling the effects of these shocks into the stock market. We identify both types of policy shocks using high and low volatility in the relevant policy variables. Our empirical results suggest that the interest rate channel, not the bank lending channel, plays a major role in the process of transmission and the US stock market responds less to the conventional monetary policy than the unconventional one. We estimate …

Nebraska Beef Cow Breeding Herd As Capital Stock, Richard Perrin, Margarida Noelia De Aguiar Cunha Souza, Lilyan E. Fulginiti

Cornhusker Economics

Throughout her lifetime, the capital stock value of a cow first rises as the size/quality of calves increase, then declines because there are fewer calves expected over her remaining lifetime. The value later in life begins to rise in anticipation of culling value.

We estimate the age distribution of the Nebraska cow herd every year, then we estimate the capital value of each cohort. Adding these values across ages and adjusting to 2015 prices, we obtain the series of capital values, measured in terms of 2015 dollars.

In addition, we calculate the value of the annual flow of services provided …

Ddx219.1 Social Media Analysis And Marketing Strategy Example 2, Sae University College

Exemplars

This project was created to explore how different social media platforms facilitate distinct forms of audience interaction. The student applied this understanding to develop a targeted social media marketing strategy for a chosen creative project. It is exemplary work due to its clear analysis of platform-specific engagement techniques, thoughtful strategy development, and strong alignment between content, platform, and audience. The work demonstrates both critical thinking and practical application of social media marketing principles.

2025-March-14-Etsu Administrator Earns State Pharmacy Award For Student Advocacy, Bill Gatton College Of Pharmacy, East Tennessee State University, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 14, 2025)—Steve Ellis, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy, is the first non-pharmacist ever to earn the Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists Student Advocacy Award from the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA). Ellis was honored with the award on Tuesday, Feb. 25, in Nashville during TPA’s Pharmacy Day on the Hill.
 

The TSSP Student Advocacy Award is traditionally been presented annually to a professor, preceptor, or pharmacist who has demonstrated devotion to the success of student pharmacists through a commitment of life-long leadership which directly encouraged, inspired and …

Ddx219.1 Social Media Analysis And Marketing Strategy Example 1, Sae University College

Exemplars

This project was created to explore how different social media platforms facilitate distinct forms of audience interaction. The student applied this understanding to develop a targeted social media marketing strategy for a chosen creative project. It is exemplary work due to its clear analysis of platform-specific engagement techniques, thoughtful strategy development, and strong alignment between content, platform, and audience. The work demonstrates both critical thinking and practical application of social media marketing principles.

Utah Organizations Supporting Women & Girls: Exploring The Landscape, Susan R. Madsen

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

In 2024, U.S. News & World Report rated each state using 71 metrics in eight categories. Utah came out on top, declared as the “Best State Overall” for the second year in a row, ranking number two in education, and number three in both economy and infrastructure categories. ¹ In addition, WalletHub dubbed Utah 2023’s Most Charitable State, citing high levels of charitable giving and volunteerism,² and ConsumerAffairs declared Utah the “Best State to Move to in 2024.”³ In addition, Utah also ranks high in work hours, volunteerism, affordability, happiness, outdoor recreation, social mobility, and more.⁴ See …

2025-03-13 Statement Of Purpose For An Onboarding Provost - Revised Draft, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

A revised draft of a statement of purpose for an onboarding provost after discussions during the February 27, 2025 Faculty Senate meeting and submitted to the Faculty Senate on March 13, 2025.

A Conversation With Loe Gino, Loe Gino, Seb Taylor

Digital Laboratory: Publisher of Internet Journal

LOE Gino is a Bay Area native from Berkeley, California and an independent artist. He has been a pioneer in the music industry for new age artistry. His ability to be a voice for independent artists parallels his wordsmith-skills as a rapper. As a part of the Bay Area cultural scene, he is a real life example of how to set a vision and build it as you go. Every aspect of his creative vision is thought out and executed with the accuracy of a freestyle. LOE Gino stands as an example of what it means to never conform to …