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Ec 2900 Global Economic, Business, And Social Issues Core General Education Assessment, 2021-2022, Raj Soin College Of Business, Wright State University

Core General Education Assessments - All

This report assesses Wright State University's course EC 2900, Global Economic, Business, and Social Issues, as part of the institution’s ongoing general education Core assessment plan.

Impact Of A Multi-Layered Autobiography Project For Transforming Intercultural Competence Among Pre-Service Teachers, Elizabeth J. Sandell, Luz Carime Bersh

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

This study investigated how a Multi-Layered Autobiography Project impacts the intercultural competence for undergraduate students, many of whom were aspiring teacher candidates in the United States. For purposes of this project, the concept of “culture” was adapted from West and Turner’s (2018) definition: the norms, behaviors, standards, values, etc. shared by a group of people, and passed along to later generations. Investigators deemed that “culture” was composed of numerous microcultures among a smaller group of human beings (with their own language, communication strategies, behavior rules, and expectations), who are bonded together by similar experiences, values, characteristics, organization, membership, location, or …

Can We Make Our Robot Play Soccer? Influence Of Collaborating With Preservice Teachers And Fifth Graders On Undergraduate Engineering Students' Learning During A Robotic Design Process (Work In Progress), Krishnanand Kaipa, Jennifer Kidd, Julia Noginova, Francisco Cima, Stacie Ringleb, Orlando Ayala, Pilar Pazos, Kristie Gutierrez, Min Jung Lee

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

This work-in-progress paper describes engineering students’ experiences in an NSF-funded project that partnered undergraduate engineering students with pre-service teachers to plan and deliver robotics lessons to fifth graders at a local school. This project aims to address an apparent gap between what is taught in academia and industry’s expectations of engineers to integrate perspectives from outside their field to solve modern societal problems requiring a multidisciplinary approach. Working in small teams over Zoom, participating engineering, education, and fifth grade students designed, built, and coded bio-inspired COVID companion robots. The goal for the engineering students was to build new interprofessional skills, …

Creditable Civic Engagement? Aligning Work On Civic Activity With Faculty Incentives, Kenneth W. Moffett, Laurie L. Rice

SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Political scientists frequently study and engage in civic engagement work and the institutions that employ them state that they value these endeavors. Yet, there is a disconnect between valuing and doing this work relative to aligning it with faculty incentives. We discuss our experiences with civic engagement work and how we made it fit into how we are evaluated. We use our experience to motivate recommendations to fellow faculty, institutions, and administrators with respect to how they can do and encourage this work going forward.

Leadership Styles And Effective Leadership Among Higher Education Leaders In The North American Division Of Seventh-Day Adventists, Patrice A. Wright

Dissertations

Problem

Leadership has been shown to be crucial in the success of organizations, especially in higher education. However, little research has been done about leadership styles and effectiveness in North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) higher education institutions. My study examined transformational, transactional, and passive avoidant leadership styles and leadership effectiveness in these higher education institutions.

Method

To examine leadership in Adventist colleges, I used the online MLQ-5X short form. I secured participation from 12 colleges and after repeated emails secured 168 responses. I analyzed the relationship between leadership styles, several leader characteristics and leader effectiveness, using SEM, …

Transformational Leadership In Higher Education Programs, Joshua L. Howell, Kim E. Bullington, Dennis E. Gregory, Mitchell R. Williams, William L. Nuckols

Educational Leadership & Workforce Development Faculty Publications

The current mixed-method study investigates transformational leadership qualities through higher education doctoral programs in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This study relies on three data points: interviews with graduate program directors of higher education doctoral programs (whether PhD or EdD), a program evaluation of programs, and Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5x™) survey results from students within said programs. Data were collected from the five public universities that offer higher education doctoral programs within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Students completed a self-rating using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ-5x™) and then were peer-rated by colleagues to strengthen the validity of the study. Additionally, themes …

Impact Of College Education On Incorporated And Unincorporated Self-Employment: Variations Among African Americans And Hispanics, Xuguang Guo, Wei Chen, Denis Iurchenko

Business

This study examines the impact of college education on incorporated and unincorporated self-employments. It specifically compares the effects on African Americans and Hispanics with the effects on Whites.

Etsu Health Annual Report - 2022, 2022

ETSU Health Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

2022 Morehead State University Benefits Guide, Morehead State University. Office Of Human Resources.

Staff Congress Records

2022 Morehead State University Benefits Guide.

Recognizing And Addressing Conflict That Emerges From Sociotechnical Change In Higher Education, Kathleen Ann Watkins-Richardson

Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations

Today’s unprecedented technology growth impacts at many levels—from individuals to groups to society. This study aims to characterize how exponential digital technology growth and organizational change is explained and experienced in a university setting deploying new instructional technologies—and how or where conflict emerges. Organizational conflict is a phenomenon that takes many forms and may not be fully recognized. This dissertation highlights theories of technology invention and disruption, the dynamics of sociotechnical change (defined as the interdependencies between people, technology, and the environment) and response in organizations, complex adaptive systems, and practice theory of change. It considers current technological forces at …

การพัฒนาหลักสูตรระยะสั้นการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุและกลไกเข้าสู่ระบบปริญญาผ่านระบบธนาคารหน่วยกิตและการเทียบโอน, ลภัสรดา ธนพันธ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษา 1) วิเคราะห์สภาพปัจจุบันของหลักสูตรระยะสั้นการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา 2) วิเคราะห์กลไกการเชื่อมต่อการศึกษาผ่านระบบธนาคารหน่วยกิตและการเทียบโอน และ 3) พัฒนาหลักสูตรระยะสั้นการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุและกลไกในการเข้าสู่ระบบปริญญาผ่านระบบธนาคารหน่วยกิตและการเทียบโอน กลุ่มตัวอย่าง 1) ผู้บริหารมหาวิทยาลัยจากมหาวิทยาลัยที่มีการเปิดสอนหลักสูตรผู้สูงอายุในประเทศ จำนวน 9 แห่ง 2) ผู้บริหารมหาวิทยาลัยที่มีหลักสูตรการเตรียมความพร้อมสำหรับผู้สูงวัยและเกี่ยวข้องกับกลไกการเชื่อมต่อการศึกษาการเข้าสู่ระบบปริญญาผ่านระบบธนาคารหน่วยกิตและการเทียบโอน จำนวน 4 แห่ง 3) ผู้ทรงคุณวุฒิ/ผู้เชี่ยวชาญจากหน่วยงานที่เกี่ยวข้องกับหลักสูตรการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุที่มาช่วยในการวิพากษ์หลักสูตร จำนวน 15 ท่าน 4) ผู้สูงอายุและผู้สนใจทั่วไปที่ต้องการนำความรู้ไปใช้ประกอบอาชีพหรือดูแลผู้สูงอายุจำนวน 1,604 คน โดยใช้วิธีการสุ่มตัวอย่างจาก 6 ภาคของประเทศไทย ซึ่งการจัดเก็บข้อมูลแบบสอบถามมี 2 วิธี แบ่งเป็น 50:50 ได้แก่ การจัดเก็บข้อมูลด้วยตนเองจำนวน 802 คนและการเก็บแบบสอบถามแบบออนไลน์ จำนวน 802 คน ซึ่งทางผู้วิจัยติดต่อตัวแทนจากระดับ อบต.และ อบจ. เป็นการส่วนตัว เพื่อขอความร่วมมือในการช่วยเก็บข้อมูลกับกลุ่มตัวอย่างแบบออนไลน์ เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการเก็บข้อมูลได้แก่ แบบสอบถาม แบบสัมภาษณ์และแบบประเมิน วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลด้วยการวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา และค่าสถิติ ได้แก่ ร้อยละ ค่าเฉลี่ย ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐานและt-test ผลการวิจัย สรุปได้ดังนี้ 1) ผลการวิเคราะห์สภาพปัจจุบันของหลักสูตรระยะสั้นการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุของสถาบันอุดมศึกษา พบว่า หลักสูตรส่วนใหญ่อยู่ภายใต้คณะคณะพยาบาลศาสตร์/วิทยาลัยการพยาบาล และเป็นหลักสูตรผู้ดูแลผู้สูงอายุ รายวิชาส่วนใหญ่เป็นเรื่องของการดูแลผู้สูงอายุ ส่วนใหญ่ไม่มีหน่วยกิต กลุ่มเป้าหมาย/ผู้เรียน : ส่วนใหญ่ คือ ผู้สนใจทั่วไป จำนวนที่รับต่อหลักสูตรไม่เกิน 50 คนและส่วนใหญ่มีค่าใช้จ่าย ผลการเปรียบเทียบปัจจัยส่วนบุคคลที่ส่งผลต่อความต้องการในหลักสูตรการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงวัย พบว่า ค่าเฉลี่ยความต้องการมีความแตกต่างกันตามอายุ ภูมิภาคที่พำนักอาศัย ระดับการศึกษา รายได้ อาชีพปัจจุบัน และปัญหาสุขภาพ ที่ระดับนัยสำคัญทางสถิติที่ 0.01 แสดงให้เห็นว่า หลักสูตรผู้สูงอายุในมหาวิทยาลัยของรัฐไม่ได้เป็นหลักสูตรเฉพาะที่จะไปเตรียมความพร้อมและส่งเสริมคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงอายุ ดังนั้นควรมีหลักสูตรเฉพาะที่สอดคล้องกับความต้องการของผู้สูงอายุอย่างแท้จริงและสามารถนำไปปฏิบัติได้จริง 2) ผลการวิเคราะห์กลไกการเชื่อมต่อการศึกษาผ่านระบบธนาคารหน่วยกิตและการเทียบโอน จากผลการวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลความต้องการหลักสูตรการพัฒนาคุณภาพชีวิตผู้สูงวัยของ 5 กลุ่มตัวอย่าง จำนวนทั้งหมด 1,604 คน จาก 6 ภาคของประเทศไทย พบว่า ส่วนใหญ่ต้องการเรียนเพื่อแสวงหาความรู้เพิ่มเติม …

Set The Tone With An Inclusive Syllabus, Alison Sloat

UNLV Best Teaching Practices Expo

Inclusive and equity-minded syllabi help welcome students, set positive and encouraging tones on the first day of class, and improve the chances of success for all.

Competence And Challenge: Sorority And Fraternity Life Professionals’ Preparation To Advise Culturally Based Sfl Organizations, Crystal Eufemia Garcia, Hannah L. Reyes, Antonio Duran

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

This qualitative narrative inquiry examined the professional preparation of sorority and fraternity (SFL) professionals working with culturally-based sororities and fraternities. Using narratives drawn from 15 professionals and guided by our conceptual framework, we unpacked important findings in terms of ways participants referenced their limited educational experiences, how they navigated learning within the confines of their professional roles, and distinctions in the value that professional associations and networks offered them. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

A Path Forward: Critically Examining Practitioners' Role In Addressing Campus Racial Climate, Kaleb L. Briscoe, Crystal Eufemia Garcia, Ashley L. Swift

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

Student affairs professionals (SAPs) have long grappled with the pervasiveness of whiteness within predominantly white institutions (PWIs). In this paper, we bring together our perspectives to offer insight into how whiteness informs SAPs’ response to racialized incidents and advocacy for Students of Color.

2022-January-01-Covid-19 Safety Protocols For Spring, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

Dear Students,

As we prepare to begin the spring semester next week, we are faced, yet again, with combatting another dangerous variant of COVID-19. The Omicron surge has battered our hopes that we might leave the struggles of the past two years behind. We are tired. We are frustrated. But we must not give in to the temptation to surrender. Instead, we must resolve to stay strong and fight this wearisome and perilous pandemic together.

Following the CDC’s recommended health and safety precautions is the best way to care for one another and protect those most vulnerable. Yes, wearing a …

2022-January-01-Etsu Department Of Accountancy Partners With Bcs To Fund Faculty Fellowship, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Blackburn, Childers & Steagall (BCS), a longtime supporter of East Tennessee State University and the College of Business and Technology, has partnered with the Department of Accountancy to fund a faculty fellowship. The program is designed to stimulate and facilitate projects by faculty members to improve their teaching, to advance their scholarly and creative work, to enhance the University's academic programs, and to realize institutional goals.

“In recognition of the 60-year anniversary of BCS, we are thrilled to reestablish our partnership with Blackburn, Childers & Steagall,” said Joel Faidley, interim chair of the Department of …

Meeting The Psychosocial Needs Of Online Learners In Social Work Programs And Four-Year Universities: What Is Being Addressed And The Many Areas For Improvement, Kathryn Gould

DSW Capstone Projects

Almost half of social work students enter their program with a history of mental health diagnosis and exposure to multiple childhood traumas. Over half of students at four-year institutions are enrolled in one or more courses online, yet retention in online coursework is much lower than in in-person courses. As online programs continue to grow in the field of social work it becomes a vital requirement to address the psychosocial needs of online learners. The call of this capstone is to examine how universities and colleges of social work can meet the increasing need to improve course work and service …

Transforming Social Work Practice And Research: Examining Lived Experiences Of Black Male Veteran Students And Mental Health, Tay Robinson

DSW Capstone Projects

Mental health disparities amongst the African American/Black community are well documented in literature. Throughout history the African American/ Black community have dealt with unethical operating procedures and research studies. This capstone project looks at historical facts, the lack of Black male veteran specific research as it relates to mental health, lived experiences of Black male veteran students with mental health/treatment, and developing culturally appropriate approaches to increasing research and effective practices to better serve this community.

The second chapter and first product of this capstone project is a systematic literature review. This literature review focused on finding literature on African …

Organizational Analysis In Preparation For Lms Change: A Narrative Case Study, F. Eamonn Powers, Robert L. Moore

STEMPS Faculty Publications

Collaboration and teamwork are concepts routinely attributed to organizational success and successful change management. Yet often the details of these collaborative experiences are limited to participants in the team involved. In this case study we highlight how a learning experience architect, as part of an organizational working group, could leverage human performance technology (HPT) principles to lead the analysis efforts surrounding an LMS platform change at a professional training organization. Human performance technology is the study and practice of improving productivity in organizations. This includes designing and developing effective interventions, processes, and methodologies that are ethical, results-oriented, comprehensive, and systemic …

Community Cultural Wealth Within New Latinx Destinations: Mexican American Narratives Of College Completion In Oregon, Anthony Villarreal

CGU Theses & Dissertations

With dramatic population growth and redistribution, Latinx are becoming increasingly dispersed across the country, particularly in states that previously had very few Latinx residents. Considering this phenomenon, there is a need for educational research that does not attempt to operate under the same assumptions within regions where the Latinx presence is long-standing, but rather carefully examines educational outcomes and experiences within the new Latinx destination context. This study explores the college access experiences of 20 Mexican American students within Oregon through a Community Cultural Wealth framework (Yosso, 2005). Participants were recruited through a purposeful sampling approach, accompanied with snowball sampling, …

Wasted Intuitions: New York City’S Solid Waste Management System And The Ambiguous Effects Of Traditional Collective Good Provision Analysis, Andrew Asplin

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Refuse Collection services' status as a public good has been highly contested. As it is both rivalrous and excludable, basic theory predicts that private provision of solid waste management services will be more efficient. Private trash carters are able to specialize in a way that municipality-run services simply cannot. New York City is unique in that its solid waste management system is rigidly split: residential trash is managed by the city; commercial trash is managed by private businesses. This thesis explores how New York City's public and private solid waste management systems complicate these initial intuitions through a welfare analysis. …

The Green Wave: Effects Of Legal Marijuana On The Labor Market., Sara Varon

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

In this paper I examine the relationship between the introduction of recreational marijuana laws and the labor market. First, using Google Trends data I find evidence that states that undergo the treatment of recreational marijuana legalization will likely experience a large and significant increase in search volume terms related to marijuana demand following the implementation of marijuana regulations. Using this same data set, I find support for the theory that as marijuana legalization becomes more entrenched within each individual state, public interest for marijuana also increases which allows for the use of Google Trends data as a proxy for legalization …

Biochar: Properties And Potential Benefits For Agricultural Soil In Rwanda, Andromede Uwase

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Physical and chemical soil degradation is becoming a major challenge for agricultural productivity in Rwanda, which is the most important part of the country’s economy. The wide spreading soil degradation in Rwanda is mainly a result of naturally poor soils coupled with unsustainable soil management leading to, for example, accelerated soil erosion, acidification, nutrient loss, compaction, and to decreasing yields. Biochar, as an end product of pyrolysis of biomass in the absence of oxygen, has been proposed as a soil amendment in remediation strategies because of its positive effects on soil productivity relevant parameters such as soil pH, structure, nutrient …

From The End Of Politics To Legitimate Opposition: Political Perceptions Of The 37th Congress Of The United States In The North 1860-1862, Lauren Dubas

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This paper intends to explore the political landscape of the Union during the first two years of the Civil War, specifically how the people in the North perceived what remained of the Congress from 1860-1862. I will be using a combination of primary and secondary sources to cover the 37^th Congress of the United States, whose members were elected in 1860 and legislated until the next Congressional election in 1862. My research shows several significant stages in the political landscape during this period and uses these stages of partisan politics as the foundation for understanding how the federal government, …

The Muted Woman: A Lovey-Dovey Themed Recital, From A Man's Point Of View, Raven Williams

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This senior thesis consists of a vocal recital, accompanying program notes, and research regarding the struggles of women composers as music evolved through its Ancient, Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Contemporary periods. The recital includes a compilation of love songs by French, Italian, English, and German composers, in particular Gabriel Fauré, the often-forgotten Stefano Donaudy, Samuel Barber, Roger Quilter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Joseph Haydn. This paper incorporates biographical information, analysis, performance history and cultural insights into the overshadowed women composers that prospered around the same time period as the men of the former. Specifically, Nadia Boulanger, Nannerl Mozart, Alice Mary …

Genomic Analysis Of Acetoanaerobium Sp. Vlb-1, An Anaerobic Bacterium Isolated From Nebraska's Eastern Saline Wetlands, Claire Martin

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Through the analysis of genetic code, the genomic and physiological characteristics of an environmental anaerobic bacterial isolate, Acetoanaerobium sp. strain VLB-1, can be determined and significant pathways can be identified in its significance to the environment. This particular organism was isolated from the Eastern Saline Wetlands in Lincoln, NE. With this isolate, an investigation into elemental and amino acid cycling via the Stickland reaction and the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway was conducted to determine possible metabolic products. The Stickland reaction is a relatively newly discovered pathway, observed in the genus Clostridium. A. sticklandii is the main model for this method of …

Nebraska Stories Of Humanity: Increasing Accessibility To Holocaust Education, Aila Ganic

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis seeks to answer the question: How can the digital humanities provide a vehicle that elevates the human impact of survivor narrative and testimony? An analyzation of how the digital humanities could preserve survivor testimony is conducted through an examination of how Bea Karp’s narrative will be shared through the Nebraska Stories of Humanity portal project. Based on this analyzation, the Nebraska Stories of Humanity portal could be an effective method for teaching Holocaust education for three main reasons. First, this portal project avoids perpetrator-oriented narratives by highlighting survivors and soldiers who liberated camps. Further, it also offers a …

A Strategic Audit Of A24, Jackson Bartak

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

A24 is an independent film production and distribution company founded in 2012. The company performs both duties for independent films as well as television programs, and a small portion of company revenue comes from merchandise it sells in an online kiosk. As of 2021, A24 had around 300 employees while maintaining a large catalog of movies and shows. Using a focus strategy, the company targets a more cultured audience for its unique (and sometimes outright bizarre) subject matter. To achieve this, A24 attempts to cast top B-list personnel both in acting and technical roles in order to corner its market. …

The Relation Between Childhood Maltreatment And Marriage Quality In Adulthood, Melanie Wagner

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Childhood maltreatment poses the potential for lasting effects on survivors as they enter adulthood. Research lacks investigations into these potential effects, such as the impact on interpersonal relations. This study investigates the correlation between different types of childhood maltreatment and overall quality of marriage, as well as aims to identify which type of childhood maltreatment may be the strongest relative predictor of marital quality. Analyses on a newlywed dataset from Lancaster County, NE yielded results of a strong negative association between measures of childhood maltreatment and marital quality through the application of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Quality of …

The Intersection Of Leadership Identity Development And Meaning-Making Experiences In College Students, Tori Pedersen

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The current study explored the intersection of meaning-making with leadership identity development through a narrative lens. Phenomenological interviews were conducted with six senior college students who participate in a leadership mentoring program. Results showed there are six themes of meaning-making experiences that influence leadership identity development: : (a) Confidence, (b) Growth From Challenges, (c) Identity, (d) Influence by Others, (e) Influencing Others, and (f) Involvements. These findings encourage the practice of developing leadership development curricula based upon these themes to further develop leadership identity in students.