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Spring 2021

Action in Education

Dean's Corner: A Year of Reflection; New Mentoring Microcredential; Global Partnerships Launches; Virtual Student Teaching;Kenneth Sarubbi Retires; Advancing Anti-Racism Initiatives; Past Is Prologue: The DePaul University and Facing History and Ourselves Collaboration continues in its mission; Nurturing the Special Education Workforce: DePaul partners with the Chicago Teacher Residency program to alleviate the shortage of special education teachers; Flexing His Teaching Muscles: As he alternates between teaching in person and virtually, Josh Cook credits his DePaul education for his flexibility; Breaking Barriers: A new book aims to help teachers educate language learners

First Year Checklist For Student Success Infographic, Ana Elena Schalk, Jen Harvey, Michelle Looby, Geraldine Gray

Reusable Resources

This infographic explores six dimensions from TU Dublin's First Year Checklist for Student Success. The six dimensions are: Early Orientation; Extended Orientation; Peer Mentoring; Assessment and Feedback; Learning Spaces; and Graduate attributes. The infographic links to resources and good practice in each dimension.

Report On 2020-2021 Compliance With Continuous Quality Improvement Legislation, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

A report provided to the Iowa Board of Regents regarding continuous improvement processes in courses at the University of Northern Iowa.

Georgia Southern Golf Course Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Extend Father's Day all week long!
• Going on NOW - The 10-Play Pass Sale!
• Passholder Appreciation Week
• ATTENTION: We're aerating June 6 - 9
• Why do we aerate the course?

Eagles Sweep Pool B Defeating Ulm On Friday, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Eagles Sweep Pool B Defeating ULM on Friday

Georgia Southern Golf Course Newsletter, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Extend Father's Day all week long!
• Going on NOW - The 10-Play Pass Sale!
• Passholder Appreciation Week
• ATTENTION: We're aerating June 6 - 9
• Why do we aerate the course?

2021-05-28 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent by the President of Morehead State University to the campus community regarding the phased lifting of masks on campus and fall classes sent on May 28, 2021.

O'Neal Cancer Service Line Names Krontiras, Kennedy Directors Of Clinical Affairs, Cancer Network, Anna Waters

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Heart Valve Disease: Another Silent Killer, Uab Medicine

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Biodiversity Monitoring And Volunteer Motivations: A Case Study On The Imagined Communities Of Citizen Scientists In Meinung, Taiwan, Serena May Calcagno

Master's Projects and Capstones

The Asia Pacific’s biodiversity is under threat. One significant step that can improve conservation is gathering data on what species exist in different areas over time, which can provide insight into ecosystem health. This is especially important in biodiversity hotspots, where high levels of endemism and anthropogenic risk overlap. Though it is one of the few places in the Pacific not classified as a biodiversity hotspot, Taiwan has an unusually high saturation in terms of biodiversity data points. Investigating the motives of biodiversity monitoring volunteerism is already a topic of growing scholarly interest, but relatively few studies have focused on …

Using A Social Ecological Model To Examine The Role That The Community Plays Regarding Children's Opportunities To Be Physically Active, Carolyn R. Crost, Kimberly Maljak Dr.

SPACE: Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement

Studies have shown that communities exist within a broader environment and it is important to consider how different levels interact and influence physical activity (PA) engagement. Guided by the social ecological model (SEM), a service-learning project was completed via observations at a Chicago Private School for a service-learning project and interactions with faculty, students, and community members. Results were directly connected to the SEM and two themes emerged: 1) the community contained an abundant amount of safe spaces for PA engagement and 2) the school displayed a supportive and positive attitude toward PA. The purpose of this study was to …

What Would Gloria Ladson-Billings Do?: A Pedagogical Framework That Moves, Dominique Modory

SPACE: Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement

During my time as an elementary education major at Loyola University Chicago, I was offered a position as a K-2nd grade dance instructor at McCutcheon Elementary. After some students expressed disinterest in dance, I turned to culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP), a term that is coined by pedagogical scholar Gloria Ladson-Billings, to engage, educate, and inspire my students. I explain the criticality of practicing introspection on one's biases that may unconsciously hinder a student's academic growth. Further, one must brainstorm on how to insert education into the context of students' cultures. In the article, I ruminate how, through CRP, cultural competency, …

They’Ve Walked Through Fire To Be Themselves: How Volunteers Can Help Lgbtq Youth, Youla Bekiaris, Randall O'Neill

SPACE: Student Perspectives About Civic Engagement

LGBTQ youth make up a staggering percentage of the homeless youth population in the United States, and yet the services available to them as compared to their heterosexual/cisgendered counterparts are sorely lacking. This paper examines the Youth Services Program at The Center where LGBTQ youth are offered education/GED tutoring, mental health counseling, vocational training, and much more. The authors describe their experiences as volunteers where, alongside preparing meals, they were fortunate enough to make connections with the youth and discover ways the entire community can become involved to help LGBTQ youth.

Reviewing The Flourishing Teacher: Vocational Renewal For A Sacred Profession, Chancey Bosch

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for Christians in Higher Education

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Rock Memorial And Ministry Opportunities And Christian Foundations Grant Dedication (2021), Taylor University

Buildings and Grounds of Taylor University

The program for the 2021 Rock Memorial and Ministry Opportunities and Christian Foundations Grant dedication.

Systemic Racism In The United States, Ari Emilia Short

Libraries

This bibliography contains an annotated selection of articles and studies related to systemic racism in the United States of America, covering 21st-century racial inequities in criminal justice, housing, employment, voting, education, and healthcare. Given the contentious nature of this topic - whether and to what extent systemic racism exists in the United States - sources were selected for relative neutrality, authority, and quality of methodologies used. This piece is intended to assist leaders, educators, activists, and any who wish to become better informed about this topic, develop empathy toward impacted groups, and prepare to address institutional concerns related to diversity, …

2021 May 27 - Academic Council Agenda And Minutes, Academic Council, East Tennessee State University

Academic Council Agenda and Minutes

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2021 Commencement Program, New York Law School

Commencement Programs

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2021-May-27-Etsu Students Offer Free Tax Filing, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (May 27, 2021) — For almost a decade, groups of East Tennessee State University business student volunteers have offered free tax preparation assistance through the Internal Revenue Service Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. This year, having dealt with limitations brought on by COVID-19, the program has concluded for the season with a total of 95 tax returns filed, according to accountancy faculty member Dr. Michelle Freeman. In all, eight students, two alumni, one support staff, and three professors helped make the process happen.

“We considered not opening the ETSU VITA site this year, but we have so …

Uab Professor Receives Research Grant For Hiv Suppression Study, Staff

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Setting Empirically Informed Policy Benchmarks For Physical Science Teaching, Elizabeth B. Lewis, Ana Rivero, Lyrica L. Lucas, Aaron Musson, Brandon Helding

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

In the United States, research on beginning science teachers provides little guidance regarding empirical minimum levels of discipline-specific science coursework for sufficient subject matter knowledge to teach science. Accordingly, in this study we analyzed secondary physical science teachers' science coursework for subject matter knowledge (SMK) and resulting misconceptions of chemistry and physics concepts. Findings were compared with state-level science teacher certification policies. Participants had either: (a) completed a master's level teacher preparation program with an undergraduate degree in science, (b) completed an undergraduate teacher preparation program with a minor degree or more in science, or (c) were undergraduate students enrolled …

2021-May-27-Etsu Welcomes Pharmacy Postgraduates, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy Postgraduate Residents

JOHNSON CITY (May 27, 2021) – East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy welcomes two new residents who will be furthering their postgraduate pharmacy training over the next year at the college.

Dr. Brittney Bright, of Knoxville, matched as a Postgraduate Year 2 (PGY2) Internal Medicine Resident.

“I am originally from East Tennessee and am so excited to return to the area to complete my postgraduate training at ETSU …

Temperature-Sensitive Holograms With Switchable Memory, Muhammad Irfan Dr, Suzanne Martin Dr, Izabela Naydenova Prof

Articles

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Herein, the dynamics and reversibility of temperature-induced changes in volume phase holographic gratings (VPHGs) recorded in the low-toxicity self-processing photopolymer poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide) (poly-NIPA) are reported on. Transmission and reflection gratings are exposed to temperatures ranging 8–60 °C to study the effect of temperature on their properties. First, the role of the photopolymer chemical composition is investigated by comparing layers containing NIPA with those containing acrylamide (AA) and measuring the normalized diffraction efficiency (DE) at 60 °C; higher thermal sensitivity is observed for poly-NIPA gratings (24% drop) versus low sensitivity for AA gratings (2% increase). The impact of …

The Chimera: Multiple Selves, Conflicting Desires, And Fluctuating Power Relations In Qualitative Research, Su Jung Um

The Qualitative Report

In this article, I (re)constructed and (re)presented a dialogic inquiry among my chimeric selves engaged in a study which I conducted from 2013 to 2017 to examine teaching experiences of graduates from a social justice-oriented preservice program. I interrogated the roles of my different, disparate, and discontinuous selves in the research process – as a former teacher, a former instructor of my research participants, a researcher with particular academic and political opinions, and as a foreigner working toward a doctoral degree from/in a U.S. higher education institution. In this article, I demonstrated how my chimeric selves with conflicting desires and …

Women's Basketball Leads Ncaa Division I In Community Service For 2020-21, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Women's Basketball Leads NCAA Division I In Community Service For 2020-21

New Book Explores Bioethical Dilemmas Posed By Covid-19, Haley Herfurth

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Uab Meets Needs Of Campus, Community, State And Beyond During Pandemic, Tyler Greer

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Uab's New Immunology Institute Provides New Avenues For Discovery, Staff

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Celebrate Physical And Mental Health During May With Uab Sports Medicine Faculty, Staff

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Promoting Equity By Scaling Up Summer Engineering Experiences: A Retrospective Reflection On Tensions And Tradeoffs, Walter C. Lee, David B. Knight, Monica E. Cardella

Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER)

A central challenge in engineering education is providing experiences that are appropriate for and accessible to underserved communities. However, to provide such experiences, we must better understand the process of offering a geographically distributed asset-based out-of-school program. This paper focuses on a collaborative research project that examined the broad implementation of the Summer Engineering Experiences for Kids (SEEK) program organized by the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). SEEK is a three-week summer program that engages participants in hands-on, team-based engineering design projects. NSBE’s goal is to make SEEK culturally sustaining, community-connected, and scalable. The purpose of this paper is …