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Supporting Digital Accessibility In Community College Libraries, Jessica Tipton Oct 2025

Supporting Digital Accessibility In Community College Libraries, Jessica Tipton

Sabbatical Projects

Original Sabbatical Proposal: As part of my dissertation on removing accessibility barriers to library services and resources, I will evaluate materials our library creates, purchases, and shares, focusing on WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.  I will earn a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies (CPACC) certification and create a guide for academic librarians on developing accessible learning materials and evaluating purchased content to ensure equitable access for all students.

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Library Newsletter, Volume 21 Number 1, Sacred Heart University Library Oct 2025

Library Newsletter, Volume 21 Number 1, Sacred Heart University Library

Library Newsletters

A Word from the Stacks...Strategic planning initiative -- New staff -- Programming spotlight: Creativity in motion --Books we love: Staff-recommended reads

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Key Library Resources: New Student, Raquel Estrada Oct 2025

Key Library Resources: New Student, Raquel Estrada

Library Display Posters

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Key Library Resources: Graduate Resources, Raquel Estrada Oct 2025

Key Library Resources: Graduate Resources, Raquel Estrada

Library Display Posters

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Key Library Resources: Graduate Students, Raquel Estrada Oct 2025

Key Library Resources: Graduate Students, Raquel Estrada

Library Display Posters

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Issue 9, Why I Chose Bryant, Shantell J. Dorley Oct 2025

Issue 9, Why I Chose Bryant, Shantell J. Dorley

Thrive

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Urban Political Ecology And Informal City: Using The Capabilities Approach In Co-Designing With Slum Communities, Patrick Vance S. Nogoy Oct 2025

Urban Political Ecology And Informal City: Using The Capabilities Approach In Co-Designing With Slum Communities, Patrick Vance S. Nogoy

Philosophy Department Faculty Publications

Slum communities which compose an informal city offer a serious challenge to urban metabolism approaches that promise to be inclusive in confronting environmental injustice. In particular, urban political ecology (UPE) frameworks critically examine power structures and relational dynamics in the environment where objectionable injustices are identified and corrected. However, Holifield (2009) finds UPE limiting as it excludes marginalized communities and other important factors. The main reason Holifield highlights is the dominance of Marxist UPE frameworks that interpret environmental injustices narrowly as results of uneven social power relations and dynamics driven primarily by neo-liberal capitalist behaviors, institutions, and activities. Alternatively, he …

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Economías De Reciprocidad En Un Paisaje Neocolonizado: La Plaza Almirante Brown Como Nodo Socioecológico Repensar La Belleza, La Pertenencia Y Las Plantas Desde La Educación Ambiental Y El Valor Plural Isp Report, Yereni Bruno-Sanchez Oct 2025

Economías De Reciprocidad En Un Paisaje Neocolonizado: La Plaza Almirante Brown Como Nodo Socioecológico Repensar La Belleza, La Pertenencia Y Las Plantas Desde La Educación Ambiental Y El Valor Plural Isp Report, Yereni Bruno-Sanchez

Argentina: People, Environment, and Climate Change in Patagonia and Antarctica

This study seeks to understand how ecological imperialism present in urban green spaces affects the optimal functioning of the reciprocal economies that sustain these places, through the case of Plaza Almirante Brown in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The perceptions, values, and emotions that visitors attribute to this urban ecosystem are analyzed, as well as the social dynamics that keep it alive. The work acknowledges and respects the sense of place already established, while identifying a gap in the plaza's relational economy linked to the limited presence and public understanding of native flora. It proposes that the incorporation of …

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Entre Hogares Y Fronteras: Trayectorias Migratorias Y Acceso A Los Derechos De Trabajadoras Paraguayas De Casas Particulares En La Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Lizeth Victoria Rocha Rocha Oct 2025

Entre Hogares Y Fronteras: Trayectorias Migratorias Y Acceso A Los Derechos De Trabajadoras Paraguayas De Casas Particulares En La Ciudad Autónoma De Buenos Aires, Lizeth Victoria Rocha Rocha

Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights

Hay una gran concentración de migrantes paraguayas que trabajan en el sector del servicio de casas particulares en la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. A pesar del marco legal de igualdad de Argentina, las experiencias y trayectorias migratorias de estas mujeres siguen sin ser suficientemente estudiadas, en particular en lo que respecta a las desigualdades sistemáticas a las que se enfrentan. Este estudio ofrece una pequeña visión de la exploración de este tema. Se centra en las experiencias de cuatro mujeres paraguayas que han trabajado en casas particulares de Buenos Aires en los últimos cinco años. Al analizar sus historias, …

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Estabilización Estructural Y Desigualdad Financiera: La Proliferación Del Crédito Al Consumo Y La Bancarización Estratificada En El Área Metropolitana De Buenos Aires Entre 1983 Y 2001, Elias Mceaneney Oct 2025

Estabilización Estructural Y Desigualdad Financiera: La Proliferación Del Crédito Al Consumo Y La Bancarización Estratificada En El Área Metropolitana De Buenos Aires Entre 1983 Y 2001, Elias Mceaneney

Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights

This study analyzes how the neoliberal reforms implemented in Argentina between 1983 and 2001 transformed household access to credit and reconfigured financial inequality in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires. Through a mixed-methods strategy that combines long-run quantitative analysis of macroeconomic, labor, and economic indicators with a qualitative reconstruction of institutional and sociopolitical change, the research demonstrates that the stabilization achieved under the Convertibility Plan enabled a rapid expansion of the banking system and consumer credit. However, this growth did not generate broad financial inclusion; access to accounts, loans, and credit cards remained strongly conditioned by labor formality, income level, …

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Nuestro Pasado, Nuestro Presente: Construir Y Recordar Lo Colectivo A Través Del Artivismo, Savannah Soraghan Oct 2025

Nuestro Pasado, Nuestro Presente: Construir Y Recordar Lo Colectivo A Través Del Artivismo, Savannah Soraghan

Argentina: Social Movements and Human Rights

A lo largo de Argentina, las calles están alineadas con murales, afiches y grafitis. Muchos son referencias para acordarse de la última dictadura, citando la memoria, la justicia y la verdad; otras, se refieren a diferentes coyunturas o eventos, como la segunda desaparición de Jorge Julio López o “el triple crimen” de Villa Moreno. Todos ven las paredes sin pensar acerca de dónde vienen, ya que los procesos de sus creaciones no están tan visibilizados. Argentina también es el hogar de muchas organizaciones de trabajadores, militantes, artistas y demás que trabajan en las paredes y otros medios para cuidar y …

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‘Invest!’: Liberty Bonds And Stock Ownership Over The Twentieth Century, Gillian Brunet, Eric Hilt, Matthew Jaremski Oct 2025

‘Invest!’: Liberty Bonds And Stock Ownership Over The Twentieth Century, Gillian Brunet, Eric Hilt, Matthew Jaremski

Economics: Faculty Publications

The Liberty Bond drives of World War I were nation-wide interventions aimed at increasing financial literacy and associating bond ownership with patriotism. Using data from the first year of the Survey of Consumer Finances, 1947, through 1971, we investigate whether exposure to the drives shaped investing behavior over the long run. We find that households residing in counties that had high Liberty Bond participation had greater stock and bond ownership rates in later decades, and held more favorable opinions towards retirement saving and stock investment. These effects are present only among cohorts actually exposed to the bond drives, and not …

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[Description And Sample Chapter Of] Living Well With Adult Adhd: Practical Strategies For Improving Your Daily Life, Laura E. Knouse, Russell A. Barkley Oct 2025

[Description And Sample Chapter Of] Living Well With Adult Adhd: Practical Strategies For Improving Your Daily Life, Laura E. Knouse, Russell A. Barkley

Bookshelf

Imagine an ADHD toolkit filled with tried-and-true skills that empower you to be more focused and productive—and to “hack” daily life so your strengths can shine. That's exactly what expert therapist Laura E. Knouse and preeminent authority Russell A. Barkley offer in this friendly guide. In short, engaging chapters, you get a menu of science-based strategies and resources for getting organized, completing tasks from start to finish, managing time, regulating your emotions and impulses, and addressing common relationship problems faced by adults with ADHD. Drs. Knouse and Barkley share ideas you can use every day, complete with checklists, self-coaching tips, …

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Theory Comparison, Chen Li Oct 2025

Theory Comparison, Chen Li

Open Educational Resources

This assignment invites students to critically compare two developmental theorists (the professor can choose which two theorists), reflecting on their similarities, differences, and personal evaluations. Students will explore where they agree or disagree with each theorist and connect their reflections to contemporary contexts, cultural perspectives, or personal experiences. The assignment also includes peer engagement, with thoughtful responses to two classmates to deepen discussion and understanding.

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Personal Introduction & Learning Profile, Chen Li Oct 2025

Personal Introduction & Learning Profile, Chen Li

Open Educational Resources

This assignment asks students to introduce themselves through a brief personal narrative that highlights key experiences, early influences, and goals for the course. Using any creative format, students reflect on how their background shapes their approach to learning and what they hope to gain moving forward. Students also engage with two peers’ introductions to help build a collaborative learning community.

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Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Pol1101 (American Government: Practices And Values), Michael A. Villanova Oct 2025

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Pol1101 (American Government: Practices And Values), Michael A. Villanova

Open Educational Resources

In this course, we will analyze the ideas, history, and values of American politics and government. This course is divided into three parts. First, we will examine the foundations of American politics by looking at America’s founding documents, early American political thought, and the history of civil liberties and civil rights. Second, we will read about political behavior and discuss what motivates political participation in America. Third, we will look at American political institutions in the three branches of government: legislative, executive, and judiciary. This class will provide students with an introductory understanding of key concepts, theories, debates, and ideas …

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Way Kambas National Park: The Human-Wildlife Conflict Success Story Still In Need Of Improvement, Eleanor Lefkowicz Oct 2025

Way Kambas National Park: The Human-Wildlife Conflict Success Story Still In Need Of Improvement, Eleanor Lefkowicz

Indonesia: Arts, Religion, and Social Change

This paper investigates the negative interactions between humans and animals in Way Kambas National Park of Sumatra, Indonesia, and the prevention and mitigation tactics the community utilizes. The numerous villages surrounding the National Park suffer from elephant activity damaging their farms, while the elephants are frequently harmed by poaching within the park. Participate observations and interviews concluded that the Way Kambas community responds to human-wildlife conflict with a collaborative effort by locals, government park police, and non-governmental organizations to both deter elephant presence outside of the park and poaching activity within the park, as well as to mitigate the negative …

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The Imperative Of Regeneration: Exploring The Dimensions Of Tourism And Agriculture In Bali, Ava Whitney Oct 2025

The Imperative Of Regeneration: Exploring The Dimensions Of Tourism And Agriculture In Bali, Ava Whitney

Indonesia: Arts, Religion, and Social Change

This research centers on the impacts of mass tourism, development, and modernization on the landscape and culture of Bali and investigates regenerative alternatives in agriculture and tourism. Regenerative thinking offers a vision of travel and subsistence that preserves the ecology of the landscape and the integrity of Balinese culture. Organic farming and permaculture principles are traditional agricultural practices in Bali that have existed for generations, imbued with the Tri Hita Karana philosophy of Balinese Hinduism. Agriculture is a facet of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) that transmits ecological and cultural wisdom to future generations about how to relate to the natural …

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The Erasure And Resilience Of Tionghoa-Indonesian Culture And Identity, John Hines-Shah Oct 2025

The Erasure And Resilience Of Tionghoa-Indonesian Culture And Identity, John Hines-Shah

Indonesia: Arts, Religion, and Social Change

Indonesia is home to the largest diaspora of Chinese people anywhere in the world. Yet, the experiences of Chinese-Indonesians reveal a sustained erasure, discrimination, and pressure to assimilate in the face of political and social tensions. Under Dutch colonial rule, they were placed in a racial hierarchy, placed between Europeans and Indigenous Indonesians, yet excluded from full participation in either group. This structure planted early seeds of mistrust and scapegoating that endured into the post-independence period. After 1945, state policies often sought to assimilate Chinese-Indonesians, restricting cultural expression, closing Chinese-language schools, and encouraging or even requiring the adoption of Indonesian-sounding …

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Helping The Natural World Speak For Itself: Art's Role In Communicating Environmental And Sustainability Concepts In Sydney, Australia, Elizabeth Clark Oct 2025

Helping The Natural World Speak For Itself: Art's Role In Communicating Environmental And Sustainability Concepts In Sydney, Australia, Elizabeth Clark

Australia: Rainforest, Reef, and Cultural Ecology

Climate change and its broadening scope have made awareness of environmental issues, as well as ways to mitigate them, essential to securing our planet's future. Artistic venues, such as art galleries and even theatres, are becoming increasingly prominent in this conversation due to their ability to engage broad audiences and make scientific concepts more accessible. To understand the effectiveness of artistic efforts in science communication, it is necessary to assess the strategies by which both successful scientific venues, like zoos or natural history museums, and emerging artistic venues in science disseminate information. This project aimed to assess science communication strategies …

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The Impacts Of Sports Specialization On Youth Development, Madison M. Allen Oct 2025

The Impacts Of Sports Specialization On Youth Development, Madison M. Allen

Honors Thesis

To this date, there has been a rise in the professionalism of youth sports, which has increased the competitiveness and likelihood of early specialization in young athletes. While this allows youth athletes to have recognition at a young age, many athletes experience negative effects that inhibit their ability to make it to the elite level at a later age. Sports specialization can be defined as the participation and/or training of one sport year-round, typically excluding participation in all other sports. Current research suggests that sports specialization can contribute to injury and musculoskeletal disorders, impact motor skills and coordination, and cause …

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The Role Of Temporal Predictability In Sustained Attention, Miho Kato, Harun Yörük, Thomas S. Redick Oct 2025

The Role Of Temporal Predictability In Sustained Attention, Miho Kato, Harun Yörük, Thomas S. Redick

Annual Student Research Poster Session

Attention requires sustaining focus on information and goals over time. Sustained attention performance is affected by time and temporal predictability. Specifically, previous research showed that performance in sustained attention tasks decreases when the focus of attention is required to be sustained over a longer period of time, and performance increases when the duration to sustain attention is predictable (known as temporal predictability). The current research examines the relationship between the duration of sustained attention and temporal predictability with two cognitive tasks. In the Sustained Attention to Cue Task (SACT), participants were required to sustain their focus of attention on a …

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Entrepreneurship Over The Business Cycle, Ryan Rudderham, Miyu Aoki Oct 2025

Entrepreneurship Over The Business Cycle, Ryan Rudderham, Miyu Aoki

Annual Student Research Poster Session

During economic recessions, individuals face a challenging decision: whether to seek traditional employment or start their own business. While recessions are a poor time for entrepreneurship due to reduced consumer spending and business productivity, these periods also feature high unemployment, which makes finding wage work difficult. This project developed a theoretical framework to study entrepreneurship over the business cycle by introducing labor market frictions, creating a tractable yet realistic structure for occupational choice. Traditional macroeconomic models struggle to capture entrepreneurial decision-making across business cycles. As such, this project looked at labor market frictions in building a theoretical framework. Over the …

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77 | Khirbat ‘Amra: A Rural Site From The Hellenistic To Early Islamic Periods In The BeʼEr Sheva‘ Valley, Itamar Taxel, Noé D. Michael Oct 2025

77 | Khirbat ‘Amra: A Rural Site From The Hellenistic To Early Islamic Periods In The BeʼEr Sheva‘ Valley, Itamar Taxel, Noé D. Michael

IAA Reports—Monograph Series of the Israel Antiquities Authority

This volume constitutes the final report of the large-scale salvage excavations directed by Gil Tahal on behalf of the IAA in 1993–1994 at the site of Khirbat ‘Amra, in the north-central area of the Be’er Sheva‛ Valley. The excavations revealed architectural remains and finds dated mainly to the Hellenistic until the Early Islamic periods, in addition to scantier remains or isolated finds from the Chalcolithic period, the Iron Age II and the Ottoman period. Khirbat ‘Amra is one of the largest multiperiod sites in the Be’er Sheva‛ Valley, specifically in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. Furthermore, Tahal’s excavations were …

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Professor Perspectives: Inclusion Of Students With An Intellectual Disability In Transition Programming On A College Campus, Melissa Jane Massey Oct 2025

Professor Perspectives: Inclusion Of Students With An Intellectual Disability In Transition Programming On A College Campus, Melissa Jane Massey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

 

Students with intellectual disabilities (ID) are often unemployed or underemployed compared to students who do not have ID. Transition or postsecondary programming for students with ID has increased in recent years in response to the U.S. federal requirement for special education professionals to complete transition plans before students turn 16. The requirement for transition planning in Texas is age 14, and the ARD committee including the student and parent come together to develop goals for future planning. Transition plans include information on future employment, future independent living skills, and agency connections that students with ID may need to access to …

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Unleashing The Research Superpowers Of Ap Students, Lindsey Douglas, Suzanne Rook Schilf, Camille Cooper, Jennifer Groff Oct 2025

Unleashing The Research Superpowers Of Ap Students, Lindsey Douglas, Suzanne Rook Schilf, Camille Cooper, Jennifer Groff

Presentations

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Examining Choices Of Sarcastic Responses In Dialogue With Virtual Interlocutors, Samantha Langley Oct 2025

Examining Choices Of Sarcastic Responses In Dialogue With Virtual Interlocutors, Samantha Langley

Theses and Dissertations

We report the results from three experiments examining people’s preferences for using sarcasm in conversation as a function of: 1. whether their interlocutor uses sarcasm during the conversation; 2. Their knowledge about whether the interlocutor has used sarcasm in a previous conversation; 3. The presence of prosodical and visual cues for interlocutors’ sarcasm. In each experiment, participants took part in two conversations, and we manipulated whether the interlocutors were sincere or sarcastic and whether they remained the same or changed from one conversation to the next. Experiment one used written conversations and experiment two and three used pre-recorded video clips …

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Leveraging After School Programs As Resources To Support Adolescent Health And Wellbeing Within Underserved Communities: A Qualitative Study, Olivia Staples Oct 2025

Leveraging After School Programs As Resources To Support Adolescent Health And Wellbeing Within Underserved Communities: A Qualitative Study, Olivia Staples

Theses and Dissertations

Over the past decade, youth have shown a consistent rise in stress, major depression, anxiety, and suicide, with underserved youth (low-income, minoritized communities) at greatest risk of exposure to chronic stress, related outcomes, and less access to health services (APA, 2017). Afterschool programs (ASPs), which serve as important resources in underserved communities, can be a critical support for youth health and well-being (Afterschool Alliance, 2019). However, few studies have examined ways in which ASPs address the challenges underserved youth face across their ecosystem to promote youth resilience (Jones & Deutsch, 2011). Using qualitative interview data from staff and youth across …

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The Role Of Prelimbic Projections To The Rostromedial Tegmnetal Nucleus In Cue Discrimination, Emma Lane Carlson Oct 2025

The Role Of Prelimbic Projections To The Rostromedial Tegmnetal Nucleus In Cue Discrimination, Emma Lane Carlson

Theses and Dissertations

Maladaptive decision-making, such as persistent reward seeking despite negative consequences, is a hallmark of substance use disorder (SUD) and related psychiatric conditions. These behaviors are thought to arise from impairments in aversive learning and disrupted neural signaling that normally supports behavioral inhibition. The prelimbic cortex (PL) plays a critical role in encoding cue–outcome associations and exerting top-down control over behavior, while the rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg) serves as a GABAergic inhibitor of midbrain dopamine neurons in response to aversive stimuli. Although both structures have been implicated in reward and avoidance processes, little is known about how direct PL-RMTg projections contribute …

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The Processing Of Emotional Prosody And Semantics In Native And Non-Native Chinese Speakers, Cheng Xiao Oct 2025

The Processing Of Emotional Prosody And Semantics In Native And Non-Native Chinese Speakers, Cheng Xiao

Theses and Dissertations

Emotional information in spoken language is conveyed through both semantic and prosodic cues. While listeners interpret the meaning of utterances (what is said), they also detect the speaker’s emotional prosody (how it is said). For non-native speakers, processing these two types of information simultaneously can be challenging, particularly in a tonal language such as Mandarin Chinese, where the same acoustic feature (i.e., pitch) encodes both lexical semantics and emotional prosody. This dissertation reports a series of behavioral and fMRI experiments investigating how native and non-native Chinese speakers perceive and process emotional prosody and semantics in words and sentences. Behaviorally, results …

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