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An Ethical Examination: Dieselgate
Get PDFThis essay examines the ethical implications of the automobile manufacturer Volkswagen Group and the 2015 scandal known as Dieselgate they were involved with. This scandal involved the use of defeat devices to manipulate emissions test in over half a million Volkswagen vehicles and the following cover-up that ensued. The scandal highlights a critical failure of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Volkswagen prioritized short-term profits over ethical transparency and environmental accountability. Using Stakeholder Theory, Utilitarianism, and Corporate Social Responsibility as the theoretical frameworks, this essay argues that the actions of Volkswagen disregarded the interest of stakeholders, contributed to environmental harm, and undermined consumer trust. This essay also looks at opposing viewpoints such as Milton Friedman\u27s shareholder theory, which emphasizes profit maximization as the primary responsibility of a business and argues that regulatory frameworks alone ensure ethical compliance. These counterarguments are refuted, demonstrating that ethical practices and Corporate Social Responsibility are not only moral imperatives but also key to fostering long-term environmental and financial sustainability, as well as brand loyalty
September 20, 2024 Executive Committee Meeting
Get PDFMinutes of the September 20, 2024 Executive Committee meeting, Board of Trustees
Improving Student Learning Outcomes: A Conversation About How Faculty Use Assessment Data
No full textThe proposed panel discussion will feature faculty and co-curricular program leaders who have developed and enacted assessment plans that have yielded useful data. Scholars and practitioners in the field of education assessment rightly recognize the importance of faculty buy-in as a core component of changing a campus culture away from compliance and toward a culture of student learning. Kristina Meinking (2021) further argues that an institution that embraces the scholarship of teaching and learning can result in a campus climate where curiosity, rather than compliance and mandates, drives student learning assessment. This workshop will be facilitated by Professor Sheena Shifko, and it will offer diverse examples of learning assessment that has resulted in programmatic changes. The programs represented on the panel range from an accredited program in health sciences to the writing program at Shawnee State and the university’s general education program. Panel participants will share how they’ve used assessment to improve student learning and program operations, and they’ll offer suggestions to faculty and co-curricular program leaders who are new to the process or feel their assessment processes have stagnated
The Influence of Early Introduction to Algebra on Mathematics Achievement in a Rural School District in Ohio
Get PDFAlgebra I is a foundation for mathematical learning. The timing of enrollment is arguably a massive factor in mathematical success. The timing in which a student enrolls in Algebra I could shape their future in education and their career. This thesis examines the effects of 8th grade Algebra I enrollment versus 9th-grade Algebra enrollment regarding standardized test scores. The research finds that students perform higher on standardized test scores when they enroll in Algebra I in the 8th grade in comparison to students who enroll in Algebra I in the 9th grade. This finding is beneficial for the ultimate decision of Algebra I placement to improve mathematical education for all students
The influence of teacher experience on Project Lead the Way test scores
Get PDFroject Lead the Way (PLTW) is an organization that develops engineering curriculum for all grade levels. Research has been conducted on the curriculum and other STEM curriculum to determine student achievement levels and the factors that affect student achievement. These factors include teacher retention, teacher years of experience, student demographics, etc. Investigating how a teacher impacts their students learning can help schools understand the value of a seasoned teacher. With PLTW training having high costs it can make teacher retention a bigger concern. The Highland Prep Academies utilize PLTW curriculum and have about ten trained teachers across the three schools. Data was collected from them during the academic year 2022-23, which included student demographics, PLTW test scores, and teacher semesters of experience. This data was analyzed using multiple linear regression, ANOVA, and two-way ANOVA with and without a covariant in the software R 4.3.0. Through the analysis it was found that two specific PLTW courses had lower scores than the others, Aerospace Engineering and Principles of Engineering. Student test scores were observed to decrease 1% every time a teacher had taught a course. Regarding student demographics, it was found that African American and Native American students scored lower then Caucasian and Asian students. Specifically, male Caucasian students scored higher than the other interactions of ethnicity and gender. It was also determined that students with male teachers scored lower than students with female teachers. Lastly, for the Highland Prep Academies it was determined that Madison Highland Prep’s average PLTW test score was a higher than the test scores at Highland Prep West and Highland Prep Surprise. These results imply that changes need to be made to ensure educational equity of the students and that teachers need continued PLTW curriculum support through the years of teaching
Empirically comparing the performance of LDA and QDA when classifying customer sales data with different properties of normality and equality of covariance matrices
Get PDFDiscriminant analysis is a statistical technique used to classify data into different classes. Many studies have compared different methods used to classify data as regards their performance. This study compares Linear Discriminant Analysis and Quadratic Discriminant Analysis under varying conditions of normality and the equality of covariance matrices. More precisely, this study seeks to determine which of the two techniques is better when classifying datasets with different properties of normality and equality of covariance matrices and aims to determine whether normality and equality of covariance matrices influence the prediction performance of each method. This study processes online stores’ customer sales data. Though the data processed was randomly generated, it was close to reality, since the data generation took into account different aspects like the mean and standard deviations of purchases of a particular type of product for a given period. By varying such parameters as the mean and the standard deviation, approximate real-world datasets were obtained. These datasets were processed using LDA and QDA for classification and the ROC-AUC score was used as the performance metric for each method. By statistically comparing these metrics, information was obtained concerning which method performed better under certain conditions. The results indicate that LDA performs better than QDA when classifying online stores’ customers based solely on their purchasing habits, but also reveal an insensitivity of LDA to changes in both normality and equality of covariance matrices. With these results, businesses with online stores will be able to choose wisely which classification method to use depending on the type of distribution contained in the dataset
When a House Becomes a Home: Kinship Systems in the FX Series \u3cem\u3ePose\u3c/em\u3e
No full textMuch of the literature on Bryan Murphy’s groundbreaking series Pose (2018-21) has addressed its progressive representation of transgender characters who are not only dealing with personal issues surrounding their gender identity but also face external social and cultural dynamics seeking to enforce a binary, immutable gender system. Building on this research, my talk focuses on the organization of many of the series’ characters into so-called “houses”—the most famous among them arguably being the one formed by Blanca (Michaela Jaé Rodriguez)—and analyzes them as self-selected families that provide support to LGBTQ youth who have been rejected by their birth families. My paper examines the ways in which the series complicates and supersedes the sociological concept of the “chosen family” first introduced by Kath Weston in the 1990s. For instance, I argue that, since the houses are part of New York City ballroom culture (with weekly balls where house members challenge each other in various categories), the series foregrounds as inevitable and organic the connections between families and the larger queer community. Thus, Pose counteracts the privatizing tendencies of the traditional family unit as inherently apolitical. This seems particularly significant as the series is set during the AIDS crisis of the late 1980s, and many of its characters are themselves persons living with AIDS (PLWAs), including Pray Tell (Billy Porter), an emcee in the Ball scene, a member of its Masters of Ceremony Council, and godfather to several of the houses. My presentation argues that, rather than private entities cut off from social politics, the families in Pose are directly involved in the fight against AIDS, which in turn allows the series to address the social stigmatization and marginalization of PLWAs in a manner that promotes social, cultural, and political change
No Natural Predators: The Rhetoric of Desire in \u3cem\u3eSaltburn\u3c/em\u3e
Get PDFThe film Saltburn (2023) centers upon Oliver Quick, a scholarship student at Oxford with a difficult home life who befriends the wealthier, more-popular Felix Catton in his first year. When Oliver’s father dies, Felix invites him to live at the family’s estate for the summer. As he ingratiates himself to the family and enmeshes himself in their lives, Oliver’s true intentions are gradually revealed, with devastating consequences for the Cattons. Oliver’s desire for status and the measures he takes to achieve it have led critics to compare Saltburn to Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and aspects of the film are reminiscent of Harron’s American Psycho (2000). Writer/director Emerald Fennell embraces the extremes of human behavior in the film, and we see Oliver perform his desire through acts of intimacy rarely—if ever—depicted in a wide-release film. Audience reactions to these unusual scenes highlight the discomfort and surprise viewers experienced. This discomfort is perhaps intensified by the film’s moral ambiguity; for all our jests about “eating the rich,” Oliver’s metaphorical consumption of the Cattons leaves us feeling unsettled. Saltburn constitutes what rhetorical critic Roderick P. Hart (1994) calls a curious text. Citing Hart, Foss (2009) describes such an artifact as one that “doesn’t fit or breaks a pattern.” I investigate the film’s curious aspects using a mixture of methods from content analysis (Geisler & Swarts, 2019) and generative rhetorical criticism (Foss, 2009), and I articulate its significance as a rhetorical and cultural artifact reflecting broader concerns about desire, wealth, and power.
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Using a Sensory Adapted Dental Environment to Determine a Change in Dental Anxiety for Neurotypical Individuals
No full textBackground: This research aims to further and support current research on sensory adapted dental environments (SADE) during routine dental procedures on neurotypicals individuals.
Methods: A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was utilized to collect data from 23 subjects at a dental clinic in southern Ohio. Four sensory adaptation (SA) options were provided. Dependent variables were heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance, and anxiety. Statistical analysis and data were computed at a significant p-value of .05 using Microsoft Excel, GPower, and WebPower.
Results: Decrease in anxiety was found to be statistically significant (p\u3c.05) in the sample with the use of any SA. Music was the most preferred SA chosen by subjects (n=8).
Conclusion: The findings suggest that SADE significantly decreased anxiety across all ages (10-82) with varying SA’s