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This is Not Propoganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
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Fake News: Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age
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The Ethics of Student Attrition in Healthcare Education Programs
Get PDFStudent attrition is a problem in healthcare education programs, but there is little in the literature regarding the organizational ethics of lowering it. Some argue that lowering attrition is unethical, because it would lower academic and professional standards, potentially impacting patient care. Others say students deserve to make decisions about when to leave a course of study. However, these arguments ignore inequities in attrition, as well as the conflicts of interest in, and moral obligations of colleges and universities. Lowering attrition rates in healthcare education programs is inherently ethical because it levels the playing field for underrepresented minorities that disproportionately leave programs, provides more diversity and equity in the healthcare system, creates more qualified healthcare providers, and fulfills the moral imperative that programs have to support their students and contribute quality providers to the healthcare system. While lowering student attrition in healthcare education programs is ethical, how it is achieved is not always ethical
2025 Nominee Bookmarks: 9th-12th Grade
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Using IR for CUREs: Collaborating with Educators to Preserve Undergraduate Projects on an Institutional Repository
No full textAt the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the library’s former head of Special Collections and a professor from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction collaborated on a project to build a collection of original children’s stories and make them available for future teachers on the University’s institutional repository (IR). Elementary and early childhood education majors utilized resources from the Special Collections to craft original folklore, in which exemplars of undergraduate projects were selected for submission to the IR. There is a need to present an opportunity to showcase undergraduate research, not only to use archives, but to allow exceptional undergraduate projects to be reviewed; the IR allows this process to make clear connections for exemplary student work.
In this session, presenters will show how the project posed a platform for award-winning undergraduate research and the importance of future impact on course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURE). A collection of original folklore is one way that exposure to IR platforms helps to prepare undergraduates to use qualitative research methodology as a tool for future research and instructional materials
Empowering Student Voices: Expanding Inclusion and Faculty Engagement with Student Collections
No full textOur presentation discusses initiatives we’ve launched that are aimed at expanding student inclusion in the Argo Scholar Commons, our institutional repository. We started by working with our Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) to develop curated collections of graduate and undergraduate research our students present in OUR’s Spring and Summer Research Symposia. Currently, we are actively adding discipline-specific collections that feature capstone work by both graduate and undergraduate students. This initiative has had some surprising effects on faculty engagement in the ASC and has heightened our own understanding of the impact of the research work that our students do. By making students a priority, we can help foster interdisciplinary collaboration and encourage student and faculty engagement with institutional research initiatives. And while the end result of all these labors is the growth of the ASC, along the way we are helping our students gain professional exposure, build their academic portfolios, and actively contribute to the university’s research community
Building a Research Data Catalog
No full textAcademic institutions are finding that they need to do a better job of managing the data generated by campus researchers. While having a data repository is the aspirational solution, our campus is not yet at a place where we can justify it. In the interim, we have created a research dataset catalog to assist with making research created on our campus more visible. A dataset catalog is a tangible first step toward better management of research datasets through metadata-only records that link out to datasets hosted externally. For this project, we chose to leverage our existing Digital Commons repository. Topics for discussion include the situation on our campus, groundwork we conducted, harvesting of records in third-party repositories via APIs, metadata evaluation and normalization, and raising awareness to make the catalog a sustainable resource