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Building Resiliency and Collective Power in the Workplace Through Trauma Informed and Socially Just Conflict Transformation
Full text linkThis paper critically examines trauma in organizational life, specifically in organizational conflict by exploring power constructs, and the roles of both social and individual identity, experience, and perception. It articulates tools and strategies to build trauma-informed organizations as well as strategies for managing conflict within them. This work also carries implications for societal change as connected to personal and organizational transformation
Building a Successful Communication Center at a STEM Institution through Multidisciplinary Leadership, Programming, and Strategic Partnerships
Full text linkBeyond the introductory public speaking course, communication centers can play a significant role in higher education through creating an institutional culture of communication that spans disciplines and through contributing to their institutional mission, strategic plan, and student success initiatives. To do this work, this article argues for the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to communication centers, achieved through three key strategies: collaborative, multidisciplinary leadership; diverse communication center programming; and strategic partnerships. Implementing a Co-Director leadership model allows representation from multiple disciplines, resulting in a stronger communication center better able to innovate, refine, achieve goals, and respond to institutional needs. Using a three pillar center structure that incorporates multiple external perspectives and leverages outside knowledge can increase center reach, improve tutor training and tutee experience, grow faculty participation and buy-in, and raise the overall center profile. By prioritizing strategic, multidisciplinary partnerships, this article offers recommendations for new and established centers that can lead to expanded services and stronger support from campus stakeholders to meet changing institutional needs and to cement the center’s status as vital to that institution
Mathematical model of Zika virus transmission and control measures
Full text linkZika virus (ZIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne flavivirus capable of infecting humans through mosquito bites as well as through sexual contact between humans. ZIKV mitigation has traditionally focused on the reduction of the presence and abundance of mosquitoes. As the mosquitoes adapt to pesticides, the use of personal preventive measures will have to play a crucial role in controlling the spread of ZIKV. To evaluate different kinds of preventions, we consider a new mathematical model for ZIKV dynamics that incorporates four control measures, including two separate prevention measures, one for mosquito bite prevention and one for sexual transmission prevention. We study the model both analytically and numerically. We show that the mosquito bite control measure is more important for disease elimination and mitigation than the sexual transmission prevention
Journal of Learning Spaces Assessment Report
Full text linkThe purpose of this assessment report is to analyze The Journal of Learning Spaces citation data in order to see the impact the journal’s content is making in learning communities. A similar report was conducted in 2017 and an update of data was desired to effectively see the impact since the journal’s 2011 foundation. The data analyzed in this report are collected from Google Scholar, ERIC database, and the viewing data from Journal of Learning Spaces’ files
Exploring Faculty Barriers in a New Active Learning Classroom: A Divide and Conquer Approach to Support
Full text linkThis qualitative study uses an emergent design to explore the experiences of faculty teaching in a newly renovated, large-capacity Active Learning Classroom (ALC). The present study takes first- and second-order barriers (Ertmer, 1999) into consideration for a specific type of technology-integrated classroom, the ALC, and looks at faculty barriers to implementing active learning and utilizing active learning spaces. By acknowledging barriers and identifying those which are extrinsic and intrinsic, faculty and faculty support staff can begin to address barriers more effectivel
The People vs. The Virus: Food Insecurity in the U.S. and the Impacts of COVID-19
Full text linkWhen thinking about Human Needs Theory most immediately jump to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the idea that needs are ranked in order of importance: food, water, shelter and then move up to self-actualization. What many do not realize is that things like security also fall within human needs. This paper takes a deeper dive and explains that the need for security can also be tied to the need for food. The two go hand in hand. It does so through the conflict of food insecurity and the greater impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our food system. The author works at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro assisting with the quarantine program and feeding the students placed into quarantine. The author witnessed this impact firsthand, sought to bring to light this unique moment in our collective human history, and help offer solutions to combat the conflict. It should be noted that the statistics used were current at the time of submission
Perceived productivity in open-plan design library: Exploring occupant behavior and perception
Full text linkLibraries in higher education face drastic spatial changes, transforming spaces traditionally used for housing books to spaces for interaction and shifting from individual learning to team-based learning. This study aims to (1) identify space uses, (2) examine the environmental satisfaction, support for productivity, and perceived productivity depending on space, and (3) test their relationships. The results of 66 survey responses suggest that students still come to the library for individual study, and students in quiet zones show high environmental satisfaction. Environmental satisfaction is indirectly associated with creativity, while environmental support with acoustic comfort is directly related to concentration
Medical improvisation improves communication skills among healthcare professionals
Full text linkWhile medical improvisation is emerging as a promising strategy for communication training, little is known about its effects on interdisciplinary healthcare teams and there is a need to advance knowledge about the impact of engagement during the training on communication skill improvement. We evaluated changes in communication skills among 132 healthcare professionals from one department at a large U.S. medical center who participated in medical improvisation (improv) communication training developed by a multidisciplinary team at a provost-level university-based center dedicated to communicating science. Participants took part in one of 15 single session in-person workshops delivered in October 2020 and co-facilitated by an improv expert and a seasoned clinician-scientist leader. Participants completed questionnaires regarding their communication skills before and after taking part in the training. Most of the self-reported communication skills that were assessed showed improvement following the workshop. Improvements were reported in 7 out of 8 communication skills that were assessed. Moreover, engagement moderated the effects of the training — among those with lowest pre-training communication skills, higher levels of engagement predicted greater improvement in communication skills, whereas low engagement predicted little change following the training. Medical improvisation is a promising approach to improve communication in healthcare. Further research is needed to estimate long-term effects of medical improvisation training and investigate ways to increase participant engagement
Book Review: Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms: Learning With Minecraft Let’s Play Videos
No full textA book review of Michael Dezuanni's Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms: Learning With Minecraft Let’s Play Videos. While Dezuanni's book analyzes peer learning in pre-college contexts, the discussion of peer pedagogies carries important implications for higher education communication centers
Communication Centers as Uniquely Positioned Sites to Strategize “Belonging”
Full text linkThis essay will talk about what it feels like to belong