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How Social, Behavioral, And Policy Factors Impact Water Satisfaction And Management In Urban Areas, Rafi Haikal, Thoriqi Firdaus, Siti Hilya Nabila, Rizqi Shafira Chairunnisa Oct 2025

How Social, Behavioral, And Policy Factors Impact Water Satisfaction And Management In Urban Areas, Rafi Haikal, Thoriqi Firdaus, Siti Hilya Nabila, Rizqi Shafira Chairunnisa

Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development

The issue of water management in Indonesia’s specific urban contexts, specifically in Surabaya as an industrial hub and Bali as a tourist destination, is of paramount importance due to its impact on public health and environmental sustainability. This study analyses water management and conservation factors by comparing two distinct urban areas. The research design employs Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), which involves a specialised approach for analysing the complex relationships between variables. The results of the analysis indicate that community attitudes in Surabaya, facilitated by infrastructure and technology, significantly predicts intention to perform (β=0.334, p<0.001) and water management satisfaction (β=0.409, p<0.001). In contrast, collaboration with the government enhances environmental constraints (β=0.285, p<0.003) and water management satisfaction (β=0.140, p<0.044). In Bali, where water management is based on traditional practices, community attitudes do not significantly affect water management satisfaction (β=0.095, p>0.431). Still, perceived …

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Examining The Evolution Of Coaches Issues In Interscholastic Sport, Tyler J. Ratts, Eric W. Forsyth, Zachary C. T. Evans, James E. Johnson, Michael Fraina, Warren A. Whisenant Oct 2025

Examining The Evolution Of Coaches Issues In Interscholastic Sport, Tyler J. Ratts, Eric W. Forsyth, Zachary C. T. Evans, James E. Johnson, Michael Fraina, Warren A. Whisenant

Global Sport Business Journal

Central to interscholastic athletic programs are coaches who directly affect the developmental outcomes experienced by student-athletes through their participation (Blanton et al., 2024; Grant, 2024; O’Boyle, 2014). Forsyth et al. (2022) analyzed the key issues perceived by athletic administrators to affect the coaching position, with Coaches Education rated as the single most important issue and Finding Coaches and Retaining Coaches also deemed to be of very high importance. Over time, the coaching role has continued to evolve, as increased role demands (Ratts, 2025), changing stakeholder expectations (Johnson et al., 2019; Stoffer et al., 2021), and growing burnout and turnover (Martin …

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The Athlete’S Nil Playbook: The Complete Guide To Owning And Profiting From Your Name, Image, And Likeness, Kelly Brummett Oct 2025

The Athlete’S Nil Playbook: The Complete Guide To Owning And Profiting From Your Name, Image, And Likeness, Kelly Brummett

Global Sport Business Journal

This review discusses The Athlete's NIL Playbook: The Complete Guide to Owning and Profiting from Your Name, Image, and Likeness. Though aimed at high school and college students and their parents, the book is a practical guide for anyone interested in learning more about and navigating the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) marketplace. With examples from current and former student-athletes' lived experiences, Dosh offers guidance for developing a personal brand, contacting sponsors, and seeking NIL opportunities beyond social media marketing. In addition, Dosh shares her legal experience to highlight potentially one-sided contract terms and key questions to ask before signing …

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Justifying The Opposite: A Pedagogical Reminder For Those Teaching Financial Ratio Analysis, William H. Sackley, Roger T. King Oct 2025

Justifying The Opposite: A Pedagogical Reminder For Those Teaching Financial Ratio Analysis, William H. Sackley, Roger T. King

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Although introductory finance texts may be clear and instructors may be thorough, students often exhibit an extremely superficial understanding of financial ratio analysis upon leaving their introductory classes. We find that students’ understanding can be enhanced by requiring them to justify why the opposite of their initial impression of a financial ratio may be correct. Thus, students – or other analysts – may be too quick to judge whether the value of a particular financial ratio is “good” or “bad.” This approach requires little additional classroom time, yet seems to create a better understanding of the interrelated financial variables comprising …

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An Endogenous Measure Of Class Participation, E. Anthon Eff Oct 2025

An Endogenous Measure Of Class Participation, E. Anthon Eff

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Peer assessments can provide valuable information to instructors who are assigning class participation scores. Student peer assessments bring their own problems, however, including grade inflation and variation in the quality of assessments across students. This paper addresses these problems by employing an endogenous measure of class participation, which dampens the influence of poor quality information and makes the evaluation fairer, since it weighs more heavily the opinions of classmates that students respect. The technique is employed on example data from an undergraduate seminar course, and the results are evaluated. The technique is shown to be incentive-compatible.

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Evaluating College Teaching Performance: The Case Of Principles Of Economics Classes, Joachim Zietz, Mark L. Wilson, Howard H. Cochran Jr. Oct 2025

Evaluating College Teaching Performance: The Case Of Principles Of Economics Classes, Joachim Zietz, Mark L. Wilson, Howard H. Cochran Jr.

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The paper suggests a methodology to remove potential bias from performance evaluations, which may arise, for example, if those being evaluated cannot control key factors that affect their performance score. The methodology is illustrated for the case of instructors’ teaching evaluations in principles of economics classes at a large comprehensive university. Standard student evaluations and the results of an end-of-term test of student knowledge are adjusted for student and class characteristics using simple regression techniques. In addition, student evaluations are adjusted for grade inflation. The results of the suggested methodology are compared to those derived from the common evaluation method …

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Labor Markets In The Classroom: Marginal Revenue Product In Major League Baseball, Craig A. Depken Ii, Dennis P. Wilson Oct 2025

Labor Markets In The Classroom: Marginal Revenue Product In Major League Baseball, Craig A. Depken Ii, Dennis P. Wilson

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper presents an easily understood example of a labor market that is useful in introducing how wages and rents are determined, using professional baseball as the context. The mechanics of a competitive labor market are outlined and an empirical analysis of the major league baseball (MLB) labor market is described. An example out-of-class exercise investigating how salaries are determined is also presented. Additionally, sample topics are provided for in-class discussion at various levels of undergraduate economic instruction.

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Distance Delivery In Economics: Faculty Perspectives, Joseph A. Farinella, Bradley K. Hobbs, H. Shelton Weeks Oct 2025

Distance Delivery In Economics: Faculty Perspectives, Joseph A. Farinella, Bradley K. Hobbs, H. Shelton Weeks

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Although a large number of colleges and universities have begun offering economics courses utilizing distance learning, limited empirical evidence has been presented on how economics faculty perceive this medium. We address this weakness in the literature by conducting a survey of academic members of the Economics professorate and examining their perceptions and attitudes toward distance learning. Specifically, we solicited information on current offerings using distance technology, the willingness of faculty to teach via distance delivery, perceived suitability of various economics courses for distance delivery, the degree to which requisite distance delivery technologies are used by faculty, and perceived stakeholder demand …

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Drivers Of Policy Support And Political Consumerism Behavior Among Water Recreationists, Mina Kim Oct 2025

Drivers Of Policy Support And Political Consumerism Behavior Among Water Recreationists, Mina Kim

Proceedings of the Recreation Experience Community Network Research Symposium

Individuals who engage in water-based recreation share a distinct bond with water quality due to their direct contact with aquatic environments during leisure activities. Increasing concerns about water quality have led to a rise in research exploring how environmental conditions and perceived risks shape environmental attitudes and conservation actions. However, it remains uncertain whether water recreationists extend their conservation efforts beyond those directly tied to their activities. To explore this issue, the present study investigates whether water-based recreationists in South Carolina support more stringent water management policies and engage in political consumerism behaviors, such as boycotting and buycotting. Data were …

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The Random Lottery Mechanism As An Academic Incentive, Calvin Blackwell Oct 2025

The Random Lottery Mechanism As An Academic Incentive, Calvin Blackwell

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The author shows the benefits of using the random lottery mechanism as a pedagogical tool. The mechanism’s primary advantage is to provide students an incentive to work additional problems without increasing the amount of homework the teacher must grade. In addition, this mechanism encourages in-class participation and can generate discussion of mechanism design.

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The Effectiveness Of Using Electronic Slides To Teach Graphical Economic Concepts, Charles Kroncke, Lynnette Smyth Oct 2025

The Effectiveness Of Using Electronic Slides To Teach Graphical Economic Concepts, Charles Kroncke, Lynnette Smyth

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Quiz results demonstrate that one-time exposure to learning graphical material from electronic slides produces no statistically significant advantage over exposure to the same material presented with “chalk and talk”. Previous electronic slide experience is not a significant explanatory variable for students who were exposed to the material via chalk. However, prior exposure to slides is the only significant variable influencing quiz grades for those students who were tested on material presented with electronic slides. The instructional benefits of using electronic slides in any course are not confined to that course but extend to other classrooms that likewise utilize this technology.

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Does Macro/Micro Course Sequencing Affect Student Performance In Principles Of Economics Courses?, Andy Terry, Ken Galchus Oct 2025

Does Macro/Micro Course Sequencing Affect Student Performance In Principles Of Economics Courses?, Andy Terry, Ken Galchus

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Using a sample of 870 students in the College of Business at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, we look at the question of whether and to what extent Macro-Micro course sequencing affects student performance in principles of economics. We find that the optimal sequencing involves having students take the two principles of economics classes concurrently. In addition, consistent with most prior research, we find that grade point average, major, and to some extent ethnicity and gender are significantly related to performance in one or both of the principles of economics classes.

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Enhancing Economics And Finance Learning Through Automated Grading Of Spreadsheet Exercises, Douglas M. Kline, Thomas Janicki Oct 2025

Enhancing Economics And Finance Learning Through Automated Grading Of Spreadsheet Exercises, Douglas M. Kline, Thomas Janicki

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Instructors of undergraduate courses in economics and finance as well as other business school courses are increasing turning to spreadsheet applications to reinforce concepts presented in the classroom. As the number of exercises increases in these courses the grading and management of the assignments become an overwhelming burden. This teaching note discusses five techniques that were implemented to increase the number of learning exercises, while decreasing the instructors grading time and the opportunity for plagiarism. The key success factor was to implement an automatic grading program for Microsoft Office products reducing grading timing and plagiarism while increasing objectivity in the …

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A Pedagogical Note On The Derivation Of Option Profit Lines, Hassan Shirvani, Barry Wilbratte Oct 2025

A Pedagogical Note On The Derivation Of Option Profit Lines, Hassan Shirvani, Barry Wilbratte

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper presents a simple graphic method of deriving profit lines for complex option strategies which obviates the need for numerical calculations used in finance textbooks. Having mastered the underlying profit lines associated with simple option and stock investments, students can derive profit lines for complex strategies by following two simple graphic addition rules proposed in this paper. While these rules appear in elementary math books, most finance textbooks either ignore them completely, or apply them only implicitly without explaining their derivation. The result is that the teaching of option profit lines tends to become an unnecessarily arduous exercise.

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What We Should (Not) Teach Students About Interest Rate Determination, T. Windsor Fields, William R. Hart Oct 2025

What We Should (Not) Teach Students About Interest Rate Determination, T. Windsor Fields, William R. Hart

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

There are two general approaches to interest rate determination--Liquidity Preference and Loanable Funds. The standard textbook treatment usually presents these two approaches as if they were two ways of doing the same thing. Textbook authors then switch back and forth between the two approaches depending on which seems better suited for the problem at hand. We argue in this paper that the choice between these two approaches does matter. You simply can’t have it both ways—either the interest rate is determined in the money market or in the loanable funds market, but not both.

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Improving The Coverage Of The Dupont Approach Of Financial Analysis In Finance Courses Through The Use Of The Net Leverage Multiplier, Robert J. Angell, Betty L. Brewer Oct 2025

Improving The Coverage Of The Dupont Approach Of Financial Analysis In Finance Courses Through The Use Of The Net Leverage Multiplier, Robert J. Angell, Betty L. Brewer

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

This paper points out a deficiency in the coverage of the DuPont system of financial analysis in most finance textbooks and provides an alternative that more accurately aligns the analytical measures to the factors affecting a firm’s return on equity. Furthermore, we analyze data on firms to determine the extent to which the recommended alternative differs from the “standard” measures.

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Enhancing Clarity And Completeness Of Basic Financial Text Treatments On Operating Leverage, Halil Kiymaz, Robert Hodgin Oct 2025

Enhancing Clarity And Completeness Of Basic Financial Text Treatments On Operating Leverage, Halil Kiymaz, Robert Hodgin

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

We review degree of operating leverage (DOL) discussions from nine current elementary finance textbooks and note incomplete treatments. We argue that textual discussions on DOL could aid the beginning student’s understanding by noting, in addition to fixed costs, the impact of other variables (unit variable costs, unit price, short-run output level). We further suggest that complete treatments should reference how the DOL measure fits into the larger business risk context, point to management’s role in influencing selected DOL variables as business risk parameters, and mention the measurement discontinuities of DOL at breakeven and profit maximizing output levels.

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The Price Of Success: The Demand For An “A” In Economics Principles, Norman Cloutier, Dennis Kaufman Oct 2025

The Price Of Success: The Demand For An “A” In Economics Principles, Norman Cloutier, Dennis Kaufman

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

The demand for grades is an engaging topic for economics students. This study surveyed students to determine the maximum price they would be willing to pay for a grade of “A.” Survey results were utilized to estimate a well-behaved demand function and demonstrate basic principles of demand and elasticity. A probit model revealed that student demand conforms to economic theory, and in particular, that willingness to bid is associated with student financial endowments and “taste” for a purchased “A.” Significant gender differences were discovered; males were both more likely to bid and to be influenced by financial and intellectual endowments.

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The Complete Set Of Explicit Yield To Maturity Formulas, Ricardo J. Rodriguez Oct 2025

The Complete Set Of Explicit Yield To Maturity Formulas, Ricardo J. Rodriguez

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Obtaining general explicit yield to maturity (YTM) formulas is feasible for coupon bonds with integer maturities of less than five periods but, surprisingly, the literature lacks such formulas for three- and four-period bonds. I fill this void by providing the complete set of integer-maturity YTM formulas. Although the new formulas are unwieldy, they may be computationally advantageous over iterative methods of finding the YTM. Indeed, I present simulations indicating that the three-period YTM formula may require as little as one-third of the computation time needed with trial and error methods. Similarly, the four-period formula also produces substantial computational savings.

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A National Survey Of Teaching Methods In Advanced Placement Economics Courses: More Chalk And Talk?, Dennis L. Placone, Claire Melican Oct 2025

A National Survey Of Teaching Methods In Advanced Placement Economics Courses: More Chalk And Talk?, Dennis L. Placone, Claire Melican

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Becker and Watts conducted national surveys in 1995 and 2000 of those teaching economics at post-secondary institutions to investigate teaching methods used in undergraduate courses. Surveys similar to Becker and Watts were sent to AP economics teachers. We compare the teaching methods used in college classes with those used by AP teachers. Compared to principles courses in economics offered at the colleges, the typical high school AP Economics class has a smaller number of students, the teachers are more likely to use classroom discussions and the high school teachers use lectures less often than do college instructors of economics.

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A Project For The Introductory Financial Management Course Designed To Involve Students With Online Financial Information And Analytical Tools, James B. Pettijohn, Gay A. Ragan, Kent P. Ragan Oct 2025

A Project For The Introductory Financial Management Course Designed To Involve Students With Online Financial Information And Analytical Tools, James B. Pettijohn, Gay A. Ragan, Kent P. Ragan

Journal of Economics and Finance Education

Finance-related websites have proliferated, and students have become more Internet-savvy with increasing usage of the World Wide Web. Furthermore, finance professionals regularly use such finance-related websites (Association for Financial Professionals 2002). Given these facts, in this paper we demonstrate efficient and effective ways to use a semester-long, yet manageable, Internet-based research project designed to involve students with online financial information, data, and analytical tools, while reinforcing topics encountered in the typical introductory financial management course. We also suggest how to use pedagogically-sound practices to systematically alter the complexity of the project, and use a scoring guide to simplify grading.

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Papernest Media: A Collaborative Multimedia Research Project, Susie V. Mabry Oct 2025

Papernest Media: A Collaborative Multimedia Research Project, Susie V. Mabry

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Papernest Media is a collaborative multimedia research project that contextualizes the history and contemporary status of insect commodities as traditional food, tourist fare, and natural dye in Oaxaca, Mexico. Our interdisciplinary team of Anne E. Pfister, PhD in Applied Medical Anthropology, Alex Kledzik, BA in Sociology and Susie Mabry, UNF International Studies, came together in 2024 to produce a short film accompanying the exploratory phase of a larger ethnographic investigation. In July 2024, we traveled to Oaxaca during a peak season and the annual Guelaguetza festival to investigate the touted sustainability of edible insects in a region known for its …

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Rewilding The Built Environment: Navigating Economic, Political, And Social Barriers To Urban Ecological Restoration, Carly E. Smith Oct 2025

Rewilding The Built Environment: Navigating Economic, Political, And Social Barriers To Urban Ecological Restoration, Carly E. Smith

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Urban rewilding offers a nature-based approach to restoring ecological processes in cities while advancing climate resilience, biodiversity, and public well-being. Unlike conventional green infrastructure, rewilding allows ecosystems to develop with minimal intervention, emphasizing succession, complexity, and long-term adaptability. This paper examines the political, economic, and social factors that frame how rewilding is understood and implemented in urban planning. Governmental frameworks often prioritize order, predictability, and short-term results, making it difficult to accommodate the uncertainty and ecological complexity that rewilding requires. Economic models struggle to capture its long-term value, frequently overlooking ecosystem services or reconciling competing land uses. Social perceptions of …

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A Descriptive Study Of Black College Students’ Perceptions Of Law Enforcement After Police Brutality, Alisia L. Collins Oct 2025

A Descriptive Study Of Black College Students’ Perceptions Of Law Enforcement After Police Brutality, Alisia L. Collins

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Police brutality is a social issue that has tormented the mental health of the Black community for decades. Seeing brethren battered and bruised countless times has taken an emotional toll on the relationship of the Black community with the American justice system and the officers meant to uphold it. Previous research has shown that the Black community primarily has a negative perception of law enforcement because of factors like police brutality, unjustified shootings, and legal policies within the justice system. Compounding experiences can occur for people with disabilities within the Black community. Specifically, autistic people have a higher risk of …

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Repairing Epistemic Injustice And Loss In The Era Of Climate Coloniality, Farhana Sultana Oct 2025

Repairing Epistemic Injustice And Loss In The Era Of Climate Coloniality, Farhana Sultana

Geography and the Environment - All Scholarship

Climate change intensifies existing inequities, disproportionately impacting marginalised populations, particularly in the Global South and Indigenous communities. This is maintained through inequitable global climate governance, policies and solutions. The paper argues that climate coloniality, the complex entanglements of colonial legacies with contemporary climate and ecological changes, operates through systemic knowledge-based marginalisation or epistemic injustice, serving as a key mechanism in the uneven production and distribution of climate harms. Beyond the more commonly discussed material dimensions of loss and damage, epistemic injustices arise from silencing critical voices and devaluing knowledge systems. The paper extends the scope of loss and damage debates …

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State-Specific Secondary Sources, Joshua Levine Oct 2025

State-Specific Secondary Sources, Joshua Levine

Library Staff Online Writings

As legal research instructors, we regularly teach students that it’s a good idea to start their research with secondary sources. If the research issue falls under the law of a specific state, it’s especially helpful to consult a secondary source that discusses that law of that state. However, you might not find relevant state-specific secondary sources – they simply might not be available – and that poses a special set of challenges.

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Open Education As A Tool For Trans And Gender Diverse Inclusion, Stephen Krueger Oct 2025

Open Education As A Tool For Trans And Gender Diverse Inclusion, Stephen Krueger

Library Presentations

There has been little attention given to gender diversity in the open education world so far. But OER and open pedagogy have the potential to be extraordinary tools for supporting trans and gender diverse students: removing cost barriers for a population with extremely high poverty rates, adapting resources to include current and localized information about healthcare and law, and highlighting trans and gender diverse voices. This session will offer an overview of the relationship between open education and gender inclusion. It will also touch on ways in which widespread practices in open education do not serve trans and gender diverse …

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Worker Rights In Collective Bargaining, Benjamin W. Arold, Elliott Ash, W. Bentley Macleod, Suresh Naidu Oct 2025

Worker Rights In Collective Bargaining, Benjamin W. Arold, Elliott Ash, W. Bentley Macleod, Suresh Naidu

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

Collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) specify the contractual rights of unionized workers, but their full legal content has not yet been analyzed by economists. This paper develops novel natural language methods to analyze the empirical determinants and economic value of these rights using a new collection of 30,000 CBAs from Canada in the period 1986-2015. We parse legally binding rights (e.g., “workers shall receive. . . ”) and obligations (e.g., “the employer shall provide. . . ”) from contract text, and validate our measures through evaluation of clause pairs and comparison to firm surveys on HR practices. Using timevarying province-level variation …

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Evaluating Information - Verifying The Credibility Of Sources, Sandra Teft Oct 2025

Evaluating Information - Verifying The Credibility Of Sources, Sandra Teft

Handouts

This in-class assignment was designed for students in a WRT 150 course. The purpose was to get students thinking about the credibility of different sources types, evaluating them based on the criteria presented.

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October 28, 2025 Nagpra And Tribal Relations Committee Meeting Minutes, Bryan Morey Oct 2025

October 28, 2025 Nagpra And Tribal Relations Committee Meeting Minutes, Bryan Morey

University NAGPRA and Tribal Relations Committee

October 28, 2025 minutes for the WKU NAGPRA and Tribal Relations Committee meeting. Meeting conducted via Zoom.

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