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From Disengagement To Stewardship: A Leadership Intervention To Strengthen Nonprofit Board Governance, Shannel M. Mceachin

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study designed, implemented, and assessed a stewardship-based leadership intervention to strengthen board leadership and engagement within the Y.T.I. Youth Tutoring Initiative Board of Directors. The rationale for this project was grounded in nonprofit governance best practices and a theological framework of stewardship. Effective nonprofit leadership requires the board of directors to take an active role in governance and self-leadership. The Youth Tutoring Initiative Board of Directors faced leadership and engagement challenges, evidenced by limited individual contributions and organizational accountability. Without intervention, the leadership risked continued stagnation and limited strategic contribution. This project ignited the board's leadership by implementing a …

A Qualitative Sociocultural Study Of Social Constructionism In Youtube Videos Of The Permaculture Community, Penny L. Uzzetta

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This qualitative study addressed a gap in communication literature by examining how the permaculture community used YouTube to communicate knowledge about regenerative agriculture. Guided by a social constructionism framework within the sociocultural tradition, the study explored how narratives, symbols, audio, and video were used to communicate experiences, knowledge, and values related to permaculture and regenerative agriculture. The dataset consisted of 40 hours of publicly available YouTube videos from leading permaculture channels. The YouTube videos were examined using qualitative content analysis to better understand how the permaculture community communicated knowledge about regenerative agriculture. Across the videos, creators used stories from their …

A Phenomenological Study Of Mental Health Provider' Experience With Affective Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Treating African American Military Personnel, Jacqueline Jarvis

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe mental health providers’ lived experience with affective cognitive behavioral therapy (ACBT) in treating African American military personnel. Although ACBT has shown promise as a culturally responsive therapeutic approach, limited research has explored its application within military contexts for African American service members. Guided by Moustakas (1994) and Colaizzi’s (1978) phenomenological frameworks, data were collected through semistructured interviews with licensed mental health providers experienced in ACBT delivery. Data analysis followed an iterative process of equalization, thematic clustering, systemic challenges, and textural-structural synthesis to capture the essence of providers’ experiences. Findings highlight providers’ …

Pandemic And Smes Financing: The Role Of Macroprudential Policy And Financial Development, Fitri Handayani, Suryo Adi Rakhmawan

Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking

This research examines the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic, macroprudential regulations, and financial advancement on the financing of SMEs in Indonesia. It furthermore investigates the prospects for SMEs to elevate their company classifications during and subsequent to the pandemic. The research utilises a panel dataset encompassing 33 provinces from 2014 to 2021 and applies the System GMM technique to evaluate macro-level factors affecting the loan provision for SMEs. This examination is additionally enhanced by a granular study employing Differencein-Differences alongside Propensity Score Matching. Research indicates that the pandemic considerably lowered the financing availability for SMEs, undermining the efficacy of macroprudential …

Front Matter, Justin Vaughn, Mikel Norris, Hillary Style

Journal of Political Science

No abstract provided.

Queer And Christian: How Lgbtq+ University Students Build Affirming Religious Spaces, Sarah L. Boyd

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

How do queer Christian students navigate religious spaces? This project examines this question by focusing on an ecumenical campus ministry’s ‘Queer Bible Study’ (QBS) meetings at a medium-sized university in Florida. The study explores how students reconcile their queer and Christian identities within a religious context. Using ethnographic observation and linguistic analysis, this research highlights how these students create inclusive and affirming spaces where both aspects of their identities can be explored and expressed. Three methods of space formation were identified: physical, cultural, and linguistic. The students used these methods to create a space where they actively renegotiated their identities, …

The Worm In The Garden: William Blake’S “The Sick Rose,” Allen Ginsberg’S “Sunflower Sutra,” And The Literary Origins Of Environmental Consciousness, Erin Blake

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

This paper contends that William Blake’s “The Sick Rose” written in 1794 and Allen Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra”, written in 1955, constitute the two most significant poems in a continuous tradition of literary environmentalism stretching from the first Industrial Revolution to the organized ecological movements of the post-war twentieth century. Reading Blake through an eco-critical lens, the paper demonstrates that the poem’s symbolic architecture infers a systemic critique of industrial capitalism’s assault on the living world, anticipating by more than a century the conceptual vocabulary of modern environmental thought. The paper then traces how Ginsberg, whose formative encounter with Blake’s voice …

Korean Soft Power: Utilizing Celebrity Influence In Cosmetics, Josephine Humphrey

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

This study examines the economic aspect of the international influence of South Korean K-pop idols. Following the separation of the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, South Korea became a little-recognized state with relatively low influence on the international stage. South Korean culture was little known outside the peninsula, and, beginning in the 1990s, K-pop music became popular domestically but was widely unheard of globally. The technological revolution of the late 1990s, however, marked a turning point, providing South Korea with a new way to disseminate its culture through the internet and digital media. Known as the …

The Solstice, Mckenzie Neulinger

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

Illustrated depictions of our human past make history accessible and inspiring. The Solstice visualizes an interpretation of a local Jacksonville Indigenous site, excavated in the past by Dr. Keith Ashley and UNF students. The site's shell middens are arranged so that their tallest points align with the solstices. Through this piece, I wanted to show the intention and sense of community behind that design. I created this piece digitally in Procreate on my tablet, drawing on site maps and correspondence with Dr. Ashley to keep it as accurate to the available data as possible.

I am an anthropology student and …

The Heritage Site Sustainability Index (Hssi): A Multidimensional Approach To Heritage Economics In Saudi Arabia, Ali Mohamed Aliraqi

Arab Economic and Business Journal

This paper develops the Heritage Site Sustainability Index (HSSI), a multidimensional composite for measuring economic sustainability in the Saudi heritage sector. Using a purposive expert sample (n=74, March–May 2026), the study applies OLS regression, Mann-Whitney analysis, and scenario-based projections to 2035. Reliability is exceptional (α=0.967); EFA (KMO=0.914; 3 factors, 68.4% variance) provides preliminary support for a hierarchical second-order structure. Weights are normative; DEA is conceptual only. CI-HSSI scores 57.22/100 , fragile , with financial transparency the weakest variable (50.7). A practitioner Vs. academic gap of 18.6 points (p

"Adding What Is Life-Giving To My Years.” A Collaborative Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography On Transforming Kidney Failure, Frederik Crous, Claude-Hélène Mayer

The Qualitative Report

Chronic physical health conditions may challenge mental health conditions. This collaborative therapeutic positive autoethnography (ThePosAE) presents a discourse between two authors regarding one author’s ability to transform his extremely challenging physical health conditions into positive learning and development from a salutogenetic perspective. The authors, through dialogue and reflective thoughts, explore the one author’s life story and his successful attempt to transform physical challenges into an embodied “up” schematic structure and finally into an “inside-out” schema. The author’s strengths and his ability to create comprehensibility, manageability and meaning while facing extreme health challenges is part of his latest discovery of the …

"Let-Downs, Leaky Containers, And Elder Healing.” The Nicu Experience From A Grandmother’S Perspective And Grandmotherly Transference In Therapy And Infant Observation, Karen E. Dare, Anna M. Jones

The Qualitative Report

This article examines my experience of grandmotherhood and my daughter Anna’s autoethnography of her first moments of becoming a mother. Here, I reflect on the birth of my three grandchildren (for whom I use pseudonyms) in a recorded conversation with Anna. I am an emotional container for her which I contrast with the leaky container of the hospital as her babies required neonatal intensive care, and Anna was sent home without them. Our identities shift in relation to one another at her first son Rowan’s birth in a motherhood constellation. I propose that therapeutic positive autoethnography (THE PosAE) can support …

Transforming Hardship Through Heartship: A Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography Of Recovery Through Rereading And Rewriting Past Journal Entries, Laura D. Russell

The Qualitative Report

Journal writing has long been recommended as a therapeutic practice for growth and healing. Receiving less attention, however, are techniques for revisiting past journal entries to learn from and/or expand them. What might autoethnographers and journalers alike discover about themselves and their potential for growth by looking back on and interacting with these entries through a positive inquiry lens? In the key of therapeutic positive autoethnography (ThePosAE), the author experiments with artistic, inquiry-evoking techniques to demonstrate how reflexively rereading and rewriting excerpts from one’s personal journal serves both generative and transformative purposes. Reflecting on and working with her personal journal …

The Cost Of Raising A Child In The Mountain West, 2024-2026, Devin Streuter, Sophia Booth, Kerima Awol, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Economic Development & Workforce

This fact sheet reports data on the annual cost of raising a child in four selected Mountain West metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs): the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO MSA; the Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV MSA; the Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ MSA; and the Salt Lake City-Murray, UT MSA. SmartAsset’s “Cost of Raising a Child in Major U.S. Metros – 2026 Study,” includes data on the cost of raising a child across 48 major U.S. metropolitan areas. This fact sheet highlights the change in annual costs of raising a child in Mountain West metropolitan areas from 2024 to 2026 and the percentage change in costs …

Colbert Ferry On Natchez Trace Correspondence To Daniel W. Bown, Superintendent, May 22, 1991, William Lindsey Mcdonald

Correspondence

Correspondence from William Lindsey McDonald to Daniel W. Brown, superintendent of the Natchez Trace Parkway, regarding Colberts Ferry, a historical site near Florence, Alabama.

Co-Authoring In Autoethnography: Defining And Developing Co-Author Relations In Academic Development Research, Yuqi Lin, Eisuke Saito, Lynette Pretorius

The Qualitative Report

Multi-author autoethnography has become a popular methodological approach in academic development research. While it offers unique strengths in diversifying voices, preserving lived experiences, and promoting innovative practices, limited attention has been paid to the co-author relationships that shape and constitute the research process. This article argues that stronger methodological engagement is needed to review, define, and reflect on co-author relationships. Attention should be paid to intimacy, hierarchy, positionality, and power relations between authors, and how these dynamics may influence collaboration, reflexivity, and knowledge production. Drawing on academic development research, this article identifies personal, collegial, and educational relationships as the three …

Advancing Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography (Theposae): Theoretical Foundation, Framework And Future, Claude-Hélène Mayer

The Qualitative Report

This article presents a brief introduction of the foundations of “therapeutic positive autoethnography” (ThePosAE). It briefly presents how the concept of ThePosAE came to life, how it is defined and framed in terms of its theoretical foundation and what the future of ThePosAE might bring.

From Suffering To Flourishing: A Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography From A Therapist’S Perspective, Claude-Hélène Mayer

The Qualitative Report

This article focuses on how to overcome pain and suffering in a therapeutic context. It not only takes the client’s development through existential positive psychology into consideration, but focuses primarily on the autoethnographic experiences of the therapist and our client–therapist relationship. The article thereby provides a rich example of a therapeutic positive autoethnography (ThePosAE). The study uses a hermeneutic phenomenological approach to explore the lived experience of myself as a therapist. It provides rich descriptions of reflections on the therapeutic process. This process is interlinked with van Tongeren and Showalter van Tongeren’s (2020, 2021) therapeutic process model and provides insight …

An Evocative Autoethnography: What I Thought I Learned About Culture, Power, And Communication As A Hospital Patient: Then, A Surprise Epiphany!, Janet C. Richards

The Qualitative Report

Like all truthful autoethnographies, this is not just a simple story I tell here. Originally, I wrote this narrative describing what I thought was a good example of a relatively new but expanding genre of research and writing entitled evocative autoethnography. However, although I did not know it at the time, some information was missing from my story – even worse-  many of my initial perceptions were incorrect. Through additional  reading, self-reflection, and interviews of family, colleagues, and friends I discovered “autoethnographic writing does not merely tell stories about yourself garnished with details but actively interprets your stories to make …

True Love? Exploring Therapeutic Love Dynamics Utilizing A Positive Dialogical Autoethnography Approach, Madalena Grobbelaar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd

The Qualitative Report

Questions about whether therapists genuinely feel love for their clients sit at the heart of ongoing debates about relational depth, emotional authenticity, and ethical connection in therapeutic practice. While therapeutic love has long been discussed in professional literature, conversations typically focus on client idealisation, transference, or the management of boundaries. Less attention has been given to therapists’ own emotional landscapes, and how they understand, experience, and name the feelings that arise in their work, including those they might describe as love. Using Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography (ThePosAE), the study employs interlocution as a dialogical autoethnographic method in which one author poses …

Assignment 4: The Calculus Of Voting—Is Voting Rational?, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

No abstract provided.

Assignment 3: Scroll, Share, Repeat: Breaking The Political Hobbyism Cycle, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

Eitan Hersh argues in his work Politics is for Power that more Americans engage in “political hobbyism”—treating politics as a spectator sport rather than as a means to acquire power and create change. Hersh argues that much of what Americans call “political engagement” is actually political hobbyism—consuming news, debating online, or following politics as entertainment rather than working to acquire power or influence policy. This assignment asks you to critically engage with Hersh’s ideas and reflect on your own political practices.

Assignment 1: Voices Of Citizenship - A Political Storycorps Project, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

StoryCorps is a national project dedicated to the idea that everyone has a story worth sharing. Its mission is “to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all—one story at a time.” This assignment uses the StoryCorps model to explore one of the most fundamental concepts in American Government: political socialization.

Assignment 2: Breaking The Bubble— Examining Your Political Information Diet, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

How we consume political information shapes our understanding of the world. This assignment examines how “filter bubbles” and “media bubbles” create echo chambers that reinforce our existing beliefs while limiting exposure to diverse perspectives. You’ll analyze your own information ecosystem and compare it with someone from a different political perspective.

Assignment 6: The Soundtrack Of Power: Music As A Tool For Political Mobilization, Rebellion, And Reflection, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

Music has been intertwined with political life since the earliest human civilizations. From ancient war drums to revolutionary anthems, from campaign rally soundtracks to protest chants echoing through city streets, music has served as one of humanity’s most powerful tools for political expression, mobilization, and resistance. It can unite thousands of strangers in a shared emotional experience, crystallize complex political grievances into a memorable chorus, and preserve the memory of movements long after their participants have passed

Assignment 5: Understanding Our Moral Foundations: My Political Dna, Phillip Ardoin

Phillip Ardoin, Fight Club Politics

This multi-part assignment is designed to help you understand the psychological underpinnings of political ideologies and develop the skills to communicate more effectively across the political spectrum. You will explore your own moral framework, analyze how it shapes your beliefs, and learn to frame arguments that resonate with those who hold different values.

Introduction To The Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography (Theposae) Special Issue, Claude-Hélène Mayer, Ronald J. Chenail

The Qualitative Report

In our introduction to the Special Issue on “Therapeutic Positive Autoethnography” (ThePosAE) published in The Qualitative Review, we frame the term and concept of ThePosAE, and then we present the eight papers which are published in the special issue, featuring authors from Germany, the US, South Africa, and Australia who share their autoethnographic pieces from or in the context of ThePosAE approach.

Uthealth Mcgovern Medical School 2026 Quality Symposium Abstracts-2

Teaching in Clinics

UTHealth McGovern Medical School 2026 Quality Symposium Abstracts-2

Uthealth Mcgovern Medical School 2026 Quality Symposium Abstracts-1

Teaching in Clinics

UTHealth McGovern Medical School 2026 Quality Symposium Abstracts-1

The Rise Of The Machines: Ai And The Future Of Residency Training, Marsal Sanches

Teaching in Clinics

The Rise of the Machines: AI and the Future of Residency Training