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Mental Health / Wellness
Get PDFCollege can be an extremely stressful time for many students especially the first year. There can be many stressors weighing on students giving them an overwhelming feeling. For instance, “Before the pandemic, “60% of U.S. students felt ‘overwhelming’ anxiety, while 40% experienced depression so severe they had difficulty functioning... Suicidal thinking, severe depression and rates of self-injury among U.S. college students more than doubled over less than a decade” (Druckenmiller, 2022). I chose to talk about mental health and wellness because this is something that everyone will have some problems with at some point, but if you are prepared and know how to combat these problems you can overcome them. I wanted to give my COR students the tools they need to combat these stressors and feelings as well as letting them know they are not alone.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/corslides/1046/thumbnail.jp
How a Book Changed a Nation [2022]
Get PDF“We don’t believe in vampires.”
I didn’t bother to turn away from the TV to look at my parents. On screen, a crew of young men were interviewing an old woman. She spoke only Romanian, and a too-perfect female voice spoke for her in English. I could see the confident fear in her expression as she exclaimed that vampires were indeed real and that she was always scared of them. She wasn’t alone. All of Transylvania were aware of the existence of vampires. Truly, these young men— ghost hunters and cryptologists—were right to come here to this haunted nation. The crew moved to Bran Castle, home of the infamous Count Dracula. It was time to look for vampiric activity. If they were lucky, perhaps they would even find the ghost of cruel Dracula himself. They stumbled down the halls at night with candles to guide them. “Vlad Ţepeş (a.k.a. Dracul) was a king of a different Romanian kingdom. He stayed no more than three days in Bran Castle, if any,” my mother said. At that, my attention was split. What did my parents mean by saying that Dracula—the Dracula—didn’t actually live at Bran Castle (or, as I and so many lovingly called it, “Dracula’s Castle”)? “Vampires are not even Romanian.” My worldview on what I thought vampires were ended at that moment. As a first generation American to two Romanian-born immigrants (Transylvanian ones to boot), I thought I knew enough about “real” vampires even without being a vampire aficionado. I knew that Bram Stoker’s Dracula is what made Transylvania so memorable. Was it all a lie
Class of 2022 Commencement Program
Get PDFMay Commencement, Graduate Ceremonyhttps://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/commencements_programs/1200/thumbnail.jp
Small Talk Haiku - Temur
Get PDFLibrary Literary Contest Spring 2022: “Small Talk”
Entrants wrote a haiku that addressed the following prompt: “ You escape small talk with the most unrealistic excuse possible. Write your excuse as a haiku.”https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/librarystudentworks/1000/thumbnail.jp
The influence of short-term goal setting on student performance and motivation
Get PDFStudent goal setting is one powerful tool that can influence students\u27 attitudes and achievements. This mixed-methods study examines the effects of short-term goal setting on the performance and motivation of students in a fifth-grade classroom. Students set weekly goals and tracked their performance through daily self-reflection. The goal-setting intervention provided students an opportunity to gain success through intrinsic rewards and strengthen their self-efficacy skills. Data were collected and analyzed over a three-week time frame. This presentation provides details on the effectiveness of goal setting in the classroom and procedures for structuring goal-setting interventions for upper elementary students
Staying Engaged while Staying Home?: Service-Learning, Writing, and COVID-19
Get PDFAs an approach to writing instruction that has traditionally required students to engage in in-person community projects, service-learning has also traditionally involved risks. For example, students engaging in service-learning without proper support often do not approach community partners with the appropriate respect, and when university stakeholders fail to make clear what their side can offer in a partnership, they can leave community partners in the lurch when the semester ends and students finish their community-engaged coursework. These risks can be mitigated through education and reflection for instructors and students alike. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing social distancing orders, however, left instructors scrambling to learn how to teach their “traditional” courses remotely and created a dangerous situation for students and potential community partners. But the benefits of community-engaged writing pedagogies such as service-learning—nourishing activist dispositions, exposing students to systemic injustice as opposed to short-term or local issues, encouraging goal-oriented collaboration, etc.—still prove important, especially after COVID-19 exacerbated existing social inequities. This article examines existing research into the long-term benefits of service-learning, including two case studies of students who engaged in service-learning partnerships that required little to no direct contact and a description of a community-engaged writing course in which student-to-community contact proved unnecessary. While it is difficult to create new data on the effects of service-learning on writing students in an online space, the existing research can help make the case for continuing to pursue community-engaged writing instruction while we consider the precautions necessary to make that pursuit safe and worthwhile
Perhaps Discomfort is the Answer: Refusing Liberal Feminism and Imperial Cartographies of Thinking/Feeling
Get PDFThe Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs is an unsettling feminist ethnography that traces the movements of three objects: the endings of female genital cutting in Ghana, their relationship to anti-cutting campaigns and the forms of governance they instantiate, and the role anthropology and feminism have played in this governance since colonial rule. It makes the case that the three objects must be studied together: namely, that we need to understand the practice of female genital cutting alongside its endings; that cutting does not exist outside of anti-cutting campaigns; and that anti-cutting campaigns are entangled with both feminism and anthropology and do not exist outside them. It invites the reader to encounter the life worlds of Ghanaian women who have experienced female genital cutting and invested themselves in ending it, as well as Ghanaian activists and civil servants who worked to bring about this change and in so doing, reckoned with their own complicity with injurious forms of governance
President\u27s List, Spring 2022
Get PDFSpring 2022 President\u27s List.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/presidentslist/1011/thumbnail.jp
CEO Abstracts, Fifteenth Biennial
Get PDFAbstracts from the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors, 15th Biennial Research Symposium held at the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, North Carolina in 2022.https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/recreation/1007/thumbnail.jp
