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Creating Sustainable Volunteer Programs: Understanding Why United4hope's Church Coordinators Volunteer, Stanley Weber

Student Theses

Abstract Using the Volunteer Function Inventory (Clary et al., 1998), this descriptive research study gathered mean, median, and mode data of 42 United4Hope Church Coordinators (UCC) to further understand why each UCC had chosen to volunteer. This study is significant for U4H since these critical leaders provide leadership without traditional power sources and lead volunteers who can freely choose whether or not to follow. When applying Clary et al.’s (1998) 6-factor clusters, data showed that values (a means to express one’s altruistic and humanitarian values) motivation factors were the most significant factor across the group. This factor was followed by …

Examining The Effectiveness Of Principles Of Biology Laboratory Course According To Vision And Change And Mcat Standards, Dylin Gay

McNair Scholars Research

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) met in 2009 to hold the Vision and Change (V&C) conference to organize the Biology education under common concepts and competencies. The concepts direct content knowledge, while the competencies direct acquisition of cross-disciplinary skills Many undergraduate biology majors choose to pursue graduate training in health professions - including medicine . The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) released a document describing content and abilities needed to be successful on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). The MCAT is divided into four sections: one critical analysis section, and three science sections. The …

Message From The President / 7.28.21, Evan M. Glazer

Message from the President

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School Of Medicine's White Coat Ceremonies Planned For Aug. 1, Aug. 15, Caleb Jones

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Nih Expand Ceal Grant To Promote Covid-19 Vaccines, Staff

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Sun Belt Announces 2021-22 Women's Basketball Slate, Georgia Southern University

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• Sun Belt Announces 2021-22 Women's Basketball Slate

Uab Alumnus Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship To Further Studies, Staff

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First 3-D View Of Tb Granulomas Alters Paradigm Of Their Shape And Formation, Jeff Hansen

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Scott Named 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Postdoctoral Enrichment Program Fellow; Synthesizes Work In Science And Equity, Mary Ashley Canevaro

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An Exploratory Study Of Adjunct Faculty Professional Growth Experiences, Bethany Ann Potts

Dissertations and Theses

Part-time non-tenure track faculty, also referred to as adjunct faculty, are the fastest growing instructional group in higher education, but they are provided minimal professional support from their employing institution(s). This lack of support is a problem because working conditions shape instructors' investment and efficacy of performance in their professional practice. Well established in the literature are inquiries into adjunct faculty working conditions that prioritize analysis of the organization over the lived experiences of the faculty. However, the lived experiences of adjunct faculty offer a unique and important lens from which to interrogate the impact of institutional policies and practices …

2021-July-28-Etsu Covid Response New Cdc Guidelines, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

A memo sent to campus on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 regarding the new CDC COVID-19 recommendations that were released on Tuesday, July 27, 2021:

Dear ETSU community,

Yesterday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new recommendations regarding face coverings for fully-vaccinated individuals. This guidance comes in the wake of growing concerns over the Delta variant of COVID-19 and declining vaccine uptake rates. 

In accordance with these new CDC guidelines, ETSU encourages the use of face coverings indoors for everyone during this period of “substantial transmission.” While wearing face coverings on campus is not required, we encourage …

2021-July-28-Perreault Journalists Approach To Covid, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (July 28, 2021) – Dr. Mildred F. (Mimi) Perreault of East Tennessee State University is the coauthor of a second article examining the work of journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

“Metajournalistic Discourse as a Stabilizer within the Journalistic Field: Journalistic Practice in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” published in Journalism Practice, a top media and communication journal, was written by Perreault, along with her partner and research colleague, Dr. Gregory P. Perreault of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and Phoebe Maares of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria.

The authors note that gathering and …

Fly Away Home, Andrew Gansler

Diverse Families Bookshelf Lesson Plans and Activities

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Cultivating Graduate Stem Pathways: How Alliance-Based Stem Enrichment Programs Broker Opportunity For Students Of Color, Ariana L. Garcia, Tonisha B. Lane, Blanca E. Rincón

Educational Psychology, Leadership, and Higher Education Faculty Research

To understand how higher education institutions broker graduate opportunities for Students of Color (SOCs) in STEM, we employ a single case study of a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) alliance. Drawing primarily from student interviews and informed by Small’s (2006) organizational brokerage theory, our findings illuminate how 1) alliance-based STEM enrichment programs (SEPs) bridge social capital via interorganizational networks and 2) how SEP instability creates barriers to building the trust that is central to the brokerage process. We conclude with recommendations for future research and practice.

2021-July-28-Learn Wordpress, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY – (July 28, 2021) With increasing E-commerce and rising unemployment across the country, Cloud Wise Academy, an ETSU Innovation Lab affiliate member, is hosting a “WordPress for Beginners Workshop.” The six-week-long course is designed to teach one of the most in-demand website hosting technologies.

The workshop begins Sept. 13 and runs through Oct. 20, with classes on Monday and Wednesday nights from 6-8 p.m. In-person participants meet at the ETSU Innovation Lab, located at 2109 W Market St. in Johnson City. The class may also be taken synchronously online. Registration fees are $350 per participant, and participants may …

The Effectiveness Of Sq3r Technique In Curbing Aliteracy Among High School Students In Ilesa, Southwest, Nigeria., Kolawole Akinjide Aramide Dr, Margaret Olusola Abimbola Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

When the ability to read does not match with the willingness to do so, students exhibit negative attitude to reading which is expressed by lack of interest in reading known as aliteracy. This study considered SQ3R- a reading technique as a panacea for curbing aliteracy among high school students in Ilesa, Southwest, Nigeria. Pre-test. post-test control group quasi-experimental design was used and the data analyzed using SPSS version 22 with frequency distribution and Paired Sample Test. The study involved 14 high school students, out of which, 6 (42.8%) were males while 8 (57.2%) were females. There was significant reduction of …

In-Person To Virtual In Six Weeks: Moving A Conference Online Due To Covid-19, Emily K. Chan, Daina Dickman, Nicole Lawson

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum (SCAF) was planned to be held on the Sacramento State campus on May 4 & 5, 2020. When pandemic-related shelter-in-place restrictions were imposed in mid-March and it became clear an in-person event would be impossible, the project team had to quickly shift to a virtual event. While quickly changing the format of the event was challenging, there were also unexpected benefits. The project team was able to collect much richer data by recording all sessions and breakout discussions. Extending the timeline for the project also allowed for more in depth analysis of forum transcripts and …

Book Review -The Struggles Of Identity, Education, And Agency In The Lives Of Undocumented Students: The Burden Of Hyperdocumentation, Arli Mohamed

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

This review explores the chapters in The struggles of identity, education, and agency in the lives of undocumented students: The burden of hyperdocumentation. The review examines the content of the book by defining key terms, such as hyperdocumentation, and provides a short synopsis of each chapter to garner the interest of readers. It also examines the nature of undocumented Latinx students in the United States as discussed by the author through her application of appropriate critical social theories to evaluate the experiences of undocumented Latinx students. While describing each chapter’s content, this review also critiques some elements of the …

Menzies School Leadership Incubator: Insights, Adrian Field

Educational leadership

The Menzies School Leadership Incubator (the Incubator) is a national trans-disciplinary initiative to design, test and learn about transformative innovations that will support lasting systems change in Australian schools’ leadership. This review explores the successes, challenges and learning from work in the Incubator to date, from the perspective of a collaborative seeking longstanding systems change. The design of the review is informed by thinking in the innovation literature, principally communities of practice and socio-technical systems theory. This review was undertaken as a rapid exploration of experiences and learning, drawing on interviews with eight individuals from within the Incubator (six interviews) …

College-Educated Young Adults In The Mountain West, Eshaan Vakil, Olivia K. Cheche, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Higher Education

This fact sheet examines data originally published in “The Young and Restless and the Nation’s Cities,” a report prepared by Joe Cortright for the City Observatory. The original report explores the percentage of college-educated young adults (or individuals aged 25 to 34 with a bachelor’s degree), as well as the percentage these individuals made up of the total population in each metro area between 2000 and 2012. This fact sheet explores data for the following Mountain West places, as reported by the original source:

• Denver CSA (Combined Statistical Area)
• Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ Metro Area
• Las Vegas-Paradise, NV Metro Area
• Salt …

Getting Involved, Maggie Mason Smith, Megan Sheffield, Jessica Scott

Summer Workshop Series

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Perceptions Of Southwest Missouri Public School K‒12 Teachers And Building Principals In Regard To Preparedness Of Culturally Responsive Teaching, Katie C. Kensinger

Dissertations

Over the past two decades, K‒12 public education demographics have reflected an increase in student diversity while over 80% of the teaching population remains White (Ramirez et al., 2016). As student demographics evolve, public schools must adjust to provide all students with an education relevant to their backgrounds and experiences (Jones-Good, 2015). Teachers must prioritize and be prepared to teach diverse groups of students (Gay, 2018). This mixed-methods study included an analysis of teacher and principal perceptions of their level of preparedness for culturally responsive teaching in four southwest Missouri school districts with diverse student populations. The focus was placed …

2021-July-27-Etsu Health Hosting Free Covid-19 Vaccine Clinic At Johnson City Public Library, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (July 27, 2021) – ETSU Health will host a free Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine clinic at the Johnson City Public Library on Monday, Aug. 2, from 9 a.m. until noon. This single-dose vaccine is available to anyone age 18 and older. No appointments are required.  

“Throughout the summer, ETSU Health has offered regular clinics on our campus and throughout the community to reach as many people as we can with the COVID-19 vaccine,” said Donna Noland, manager of the ETSU Health COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. “The Johnson City Public Library is an important community hub and a …

2021-July-27-Etsu Wscc Digital Media Articulation Agreement, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

(July 27, 2021) The presidents of Walters State Community College and East Tennessee State University today announced an articulation agreement between the digital media programs of each college. This agreement allows students to transfer from Walters State’s new digital media major directly into its undergraduate counterpart at ETSU with advanced standing.

Students desiring graduate study have the option to go on to complete the new MFA degree in digital media from ETSU.

“Digital media skills are in demand both locally and nationally, and our students want to fill that demand. This degree originated after students requested an associate’s program that …

Asif Selected To The National Physical Activity Alliance Board Of Directors, Staff

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July 27, 2021 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Get To Know: Sharon Perkins, Georgia Southern University

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• Get to Know: Sharon Perkins

Sun Belt Conference Announces 2021-22 Men’S Basketball Schedule, Georgia Southern University

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• Sun Belt Conference Announces 2021-22 Men’s Basketball Schedule

2021-July-27-Johnson City Community Health Center Implements New System To Help Diabetic Patients, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Improving Patient Care

JOHNSON CITY (July 27, 2021) – The Johnson City Community Health Center (JCCHC), which is managed by the East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, has implemented a new tracking system that has been instrumental in improving the health of patients with diabetes.

Since the system was put in place, the clinic has recorded a significant decrease in the percentage of patients who have uncontrolled diabetes, which …

The Impact Of Culture On Learning Transfer In Burkina Faso And Ghana, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Culture is a predominant force in people’s lives that impacts learning and thus culture influences learning transfer. Because working across nations has become the norm and every year billions of dollars are spent on professional learning around the world, it is crucial for organisations to understand the role culture plays in the learning transfer process. Using a multidimensional model of learning transfer and the six dimensions of national culture model as conceptual frameworks, this qualitative study used a case study approach to examine the impact of culture on learning transfer in Burkina Faso and Ghana, West Africa. Interviews were conducted …