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Awards For Excellence In Service

Northeast Historical Archaeology

2003, 2007, 2008, and 2011 award recipients for the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology's Award for Excellence in Service.

Introducing Fortenbaugh Intern Melanie, Melanie L. Fernandes

Blogging the Library

My name is Melanie and I am a Fortenbaugh Intern in Special Collections. This is my third week in Special Collections, and I have to say I am loving the experience! I have been giving the task of cataloging the Potuchek Papers. I personally find college history to be very interesting, so I am having a great time going through these papers and examining how past courses were taught. There are also many materials having to do with college committees, and I am getting to see how these different organizations helped make Gettysburg College what it is today. [excerpt …

Olive Boline Wills Collection, Georgia College And State University

Special Collections Finding Aids

The bulk of the collection is the notes and papers from courses Mrs. Wills took while at Georgia State College for Women. However, these papers do not represent her entire course load during her academic career; it appears that many of them come from her junior and senior years. Most of the materials are from her education, psychology and sociology courses, probably required for her major.

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Chn 413 Advanced Technical Chinese Green Energy, Mona Niedbala

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for CHN 413 Advanced Technical Chinese Green Energy. The course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Mona Niedbala. Requesting faculty member: Wayne He.

Progressive Farmers Club Of Baldwin County Collection, Georgia College And State University

Special Collections Finding Aids

Meeting minutes constitute the majority of the collection. Ranging from the late 20's to the early 2000's, the PFC shows us a look inside the club's structure.

Milledgeville-Baldwin County Ministerial Association, Georgia College And State University

Special Collections Finding Aids

Though this collection encompasses 1953 to 1990, the most comprehensive records are found from 1953 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1977. Materials from other years are less detailed and systematic in comparison, with seeming gaps in recording.

The meeting minutes provide an inkling of the community issues with which the area pastors concerned themselves. Correspondence included in this collection may elaborate on some of those issues. Church and pastor member listings also comprise the minutes. Financial records, as well as minutes, reflect the programs supported by the Ministerial Association. For the most part, these records are detailed, including statements, …

Prenatal And Neighborhood Correlates Of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (Odd), Andrea A. Russell, Claire L. Johnson, Arwa Hammad, Kelly I. Ristau, Sandra Zawadzki, Luz Del Alba Villar, Kendell Coker

Psychology Faculty Publications

This study investigates the link between prenatal exposure to alcohol and drugs, parental perceptions of neighborhood safety and support, and the diagnosis of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) among a nationally representative sample of youth. A subset of variables from a larger study, the 2001–2004 National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), as well as its supplemental parental surveys, was analyzed in this study. This study used a specific selection of 5,924 adolescents and their parents from the NCS-A. Results suggest a correlation between prenatal caffeine use and a subsequent ODD diagnosis in female adolescents. Overall correlations between neighborhood drug use/sales and minority …

Comparing The Experiences And Withdrawal Considerations Of Treatment And Regular Foster Care Parents: The Canadian Perspective, Jessica Smith, Susan Rodger, Jason Brown, Laurel E. Pickel, Wendy Den Dunnen, Alan W. Leschied Dr.

Journal Articles

This study investigated differences in the experiences of Canadian foster parents providing regular and treatment foster care and their consideration to withdraw from their position. Survey responses from 852 foster parents were analyzed subsequent to separating the participants into two groups based on the primary type of care they provided (regular N = 454; treatment N = 398). Results revealed that treatment foster care parents considered withdrawing at a higher rate compared to regular foster care parents. Subsequent analysis revealed numerous differences between the two groups regarding foster parents’ experiences in fostering and reasons to withdraw. The results are discussed …

Nothing Monotonous About Drones Now, Erika Simpson

Political Science Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Trio Concert: Violin, Cello, Piano On Valentine's Day

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

The Howard Performing Arts Center announced a Valentine's Day 2015 concert, presenting Carla Trynchuk on the violin, Chi Yong Yun on the piano, and Stephen Framil on the cello.

Student Criminality: The Influence Of Strain, Family And Peers, Annie Cvetan

Theses and Dissertations

General strain theory suggests that a number of conditioning factors affect who is more likely to respond to strain with crime. Research has also demonstrated that an individual's self-complexity plays a role in how an individual responds to strain. Self-complexity refers to (1) the number of identities individuals perceive as important to themselves; and (2) the varied characteristics they ascribe to these identities. This research study analyzed if college students were committing crime, whether the crimes were major or minor in nature, and if criminality was a new behavior or an imported one. This study also looked at who, if …

Captions Resources And Library Patronage By Hearing Impaired Students In University Libraries Of South-South Nigeria., Abimbola Labake Agboke, Emem Paul Udofia Dr.

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study investigated the Availability of Captions Resources and Library Patronage by Hearing Impaired Students in University Libraries of South-South Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis was formulated to guide the study and tested at .05 level of significance. Survey research design was employed. The population for the study was 57 hearing impaired students from 10 universities in south-South Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used in the study. A structured questionnaire was developed and used to elicit information from the respondents. Frequency distribution and percentages was used to determine the level of availability and use while Pearson Products Moment …

Assessing Political Skill For Management Selection, Nneka Joseph

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Political skill has been described as using human resources and manipulating social exchanges to influence group outcomes (Mintzberg, 1983). Researchers have found that political skill has significant relationships with constructs such as contextual performance, career satisfaction and leadership. Based on these empirical findings it may be beneficial to include a measure of political skill as part of a selection process. In this study, different methods were explored for measuring political skill that may be appropriate for administrative purposes such as the self-rated questionnaire called the Political Skill Inventory (PSI), a situational judgment test (SJT) and the structured interview. A sample …

Closing The Racial Wealth Gap: Innovative Solutions For Change, Southern Regional Asset Building Coalition

Center for Social Development Research

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap: Innovative Solutions for Change

Letters To The Editor Feb. 5, 2015, Joshua Rogers

Orland Park Public Library (Illinois), 2013

No abstract provided.

J. Harold Saxon Collection, Georgia College And State University

Special Collections Finding Aids

This collection contains personal items belonging to Saxon including his master's thesis, personal employment application, tax return, and photographs. In addition to these items, there are newspaper clippings from his time with the Georgia Education Association and the Georgia Accrediting Commission. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from educators around the state of Georgia concerning his candidacy for offices in the Georgia Education Association. There are several reports and audits for the Quitman Public Schools included in this collection, as well as newspaper clippings reporting on the progress made in public education in the 1930s through the 1960s. …

Spartan Daily, February 5, 2015, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 144, Issue 6

My First Weeks!, Megan E. Fowle

Blogging the Library

I am very excited to work in the Reference Department this semester! I have completed my first two weeks, which I spent training with different members of the Reference staff. I really enjoyed being able to learn from each of them, to see what their strengths were and hearing their pieces of advice. Now that my training is over, I get to start working the reference desk and handling questions on my own! [excerpt]

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 30, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Ponder, Abby. Marketing, Engineering Careers Top Best Jobs List
• Rogers, Shelby. Kissing Bridge Remains Iconic Romance Spot – Old Fort Bridge
• Voorhees, Jessica. Transit Ridership Increases Due to Changes – Parking & Transportation Services
• Crumbie, Trey. Two Charged with Murder of WKU Student to Have Court Date – Dominique Wortham, Adriana Mason, Larry Thomas
• Bradley, Erian. WKU Competing for $200,000 Security Grant
• Rogers, Shelby. Two-Day Workshop to Take on Climate Change – Interfaith Workshop on Earth Care
• McCaffrey, Molly. The Gift of Time: Or a Manifesto for College Students …

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Nfs 559x Standards For Dietetics And Research Practice, Julia Lovett

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for NSF 559X Standards for Dietetics and Research Practice. This course was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Julia Lovett. Requesting faculty member: Cathy English.

Strategic Planning Development Team Meeting Notes 2/5/2016, Strategic Planning Development Team

Resource Archive

‘Values’, ‘Vision’ and ‘Mission’, the components of the Strategic Plan, are presented to the group. The meeting participants discussed word clusters used to display what components of the strategic plan mean to the Portland State University community. After analyzing what PSU means to the community, the group then reflects themselves what does PSU mean to them..

The Cowl - V.79 - N.16 - Feb 5, 2015

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 79 - No. 16 - February 5, 2015. 20 pages.

Smart Data - How You And I Will Exploit Big Data For Personalized Digital Health And Many Other Activities, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

No abstract provided.

Andrews Celebrates Black History Month: Guest Speaker Michael B. Kelly Ii

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Andrews University celebrates Black History Month, 2015. This article includes a schedule of events for the month of February. Michael B. Kelly II, senior pastor of the Mt. Rubidoux Adventist Church in Riverside, was a guest speaker.

Perspectives From China: Social Media And Living Well In A Chinese Context, Sarah Mattice

UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship

The United States has a current population of approximately 313.9 million people. In 2013, more than 600 million users had active accounted on Qzone, China’s largest social media site (Millward 2013). Although discussions of social media tend to assume American or European users, social media is a worldwide phenomenon, and different locales bring different concerns to bear on social media ethics. China not only leads the world in terms of sheer numbers of users, but also has the most active environment for social media, ranging from instant chat platforms like QQ to blogs, microblogs, social networking sites, and gaming platforms. …

Best Practices For Facilitating Diversity In The Online Classroom, Michelle Anne Rog

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This project, Facilitating Diversity in the Online Classroom – Best Practices, explores four best practices for facilitating diversity in the online classroom. The philosophical and ethical framework for this study is built on Martin Buber’s belief that people must be open to dialogue and interested in participating in it and that they stay attentive to another’s uniqueness and how it matters. Grounded in the theory of Critical Pedagogy, this study urges teachers to be open-minded to change and to affect and shape he environment around them. The eLearning course is designed to offer teachers a foundational set of best practices …

Zach's News, Georgia Southern University, Zach S. Henderson Library

Library Publications (1999-2023)

• International Journeys at the Library: Moroco, Feb. 11th @12:15PM
• GPO and OMB Release President Obama's Fiscal Year 2016 Budget

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 41, February 5, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

François Le Champi: A New Émile, Vicki De Vries

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Despite its frequent classification as a pastoral novel, George Sand’s François le champi advocates forcefully for better treatment of abandoned children. During the nineteenth century, much debate centred on how best to ensure their care, education and integration into society. Sand’s solution, embodied by her eponymous protagonist, bears a striking resemblance to the ideal Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposes in his Émile, ou de l’éducation. Sand’s modelling of François on Rousseau’s Émile had personal roots, but would also have resonated with contemporary readers, many of whom considered Rousseau an authority on child-rearing and education. Sand’s use of Émile as intertext lends …

Gender Differences In Depression Across Parental Roles, Kevin Shafer, Garrett T. Pace

Faculty Publications

Prior research has focused on the relationship between parenthood and psychological well-being, with mixed results. Some studies have also addressed potential gender differences in this relationship, again yielding varied findings. One reason may be methodological choices pursued in these studies, including the lack of focus on combined parental roles (for example, biological parent and stepparent). The authors used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 (N = 6,276) and multinomial treatment models to address how combined roles influence depressive symptoms in mothers and fathers. Further, they explored potential gender differences. Their results indicated that having multiple parental roles …