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Using ChatGPT in your Teaching
Get PDFA presentation to during Faculty Workshops (2023) outlining ways to use AI in one\u27s teaching
Artifice and Intelligence: Designing Writing Assignments in the Age of AI
Get PDFNew Generative AI models offer challenges to writing instruction. While AI poses obvious challenges to academic integrity, confronting plagiarism and learning new digital tools are not new to the classroom. This workshop considers specific strategies and best practices for engaging students in the writing process, combating plagiarism, mitigating student use of AI tools when they\u27re not appropriate, and incorporating generative AI into the writing process
Voices of Values 2023 Survey Report
Get PDFThe report is an analysis of a Rhode Island state survey conducted by the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. The survey, fielded by Embold Research between October 12-17, 2023 via the web, gathered responses from 887 registered voters in Rhode Island, with a modeled margin of error of 3.3%. The survey asked a wide range of questions related to the health of U.S. democracy and political polarization, including on the topics of affective polarization, ideological polarization, news media consumption, and disinformation
Recollections of Professor Christopher Carbone
No full textInterview with Christopher Carbone, Graduate Program Coordinator and Lecturer in the department of Counseling, Leadership and Expressive Arts. Professor Carbone discusses his 20 year teaching career at Salve Regina, the history of his department since its founding by Professors Jack Childs and Barbara Ganim and how he started teaching in the program 20 years ago. Christopher also discusses his favorite memories of teaching, the importance of the arts and Mercy, his impressions of the Sisters of Mercy, especially Sister Leona Misto and the importance of her Mercy Symposium to his understanding of the Mercy mission at Salve Regina, and Sister Therese Antone and the importance of her leadership to the university
An Analysis of the Challenges of Islamic Vaccination Resistance to Disease Eradication Programs and Recommended Mitigations
No full textIn 1988, the World Health Assembly established the goal of eradicating polio by the year 2000, a goal which, as of 2023, has yet to be attained. Since 2012, polio has been endemic to only three countries—Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan—all facing widespread vaccination resistance from various organized and unorganized actors, often justified in religious terms. While there has been a considerable amount of recent scholarly research into the relationship between Islamic vaccination resistance and polio eradication, it has yet to produce a theoretical framework for comprehensively explaining the relationship of Islamic vaccination resistance to vaccine-preventable disease eradication generally. This study addresses that knowledge gap by using a multiple case study method to explore Islamic vaccination resistance in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Leveraging grounded theory, this study investigates the phenomenon of vaccination resistance as it has developed over time, starting from smallpox eradication through the current state of polio eradication and looking ahead to the emerging phenomenon of measles vaccination resistance. Building upon this foundation, this study analyzes the common themes of vaccination resistance, offering a theoretical explanation rooted in the partially overlapping elements of Islamist ideologies and widespread distrust of Western-led, vertical health initiatives. It also uses content analysis to assess the awareness of both the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the Measles and Rubella Partnership (M&RP) toward critical themes identified in the multiple case study. Finally, this study proposes three principles that the measles eradication program should adopt to proactively mitigate vaccination resistance stemming from ideology and distrust. The first is to bolster accountability through publishing detailed annual status reports and by adopting its own auditing body modeled after the polio program’s Independent Monitoring Board (IMB). The second principle is humility, displayed in forging a program that reflects local health priorities and integrated services rather than one that narrowly targets the goal of eradication. The third and final principle is shared ownership, requiring a measles program that demonstrates ideological neutrality through a genuine, institutional partnership with the Muslim world
The Russo-Ukrainian Pre-War Crisis: A Comparative Test of Rational Choice, Expected Utility, Poliheuristic, and Prospect Theories to Explain the War\u27s Outbreak
No full textGiven the tremendous suffering created by the Russo-Ukrainian war and its profound international security implications, policymakers and international relations scholars must fully grasp why the three-month pre-war crisis erupted and ultimately ended in conflict instead of de-escalation. Accordingly, this mixed approach study seeks to identify the most likely crisis-related decision-making strategies adopted by President Biden, Zelensky, and Putin. The dissertation tests rational choice, expected utility, poliheuristic, and prospect theory frameworks against the critical decisions made by the three presidents. The dissertation’s findings indicate that a Prospect Theory-based framework provides the most accurate predictions of the four models tested to explain five critical decisions made immediately before and during the crisis. The Prospect Theory model consistently preferred the non-conciliatory alternatives available to each President, thus steering the crisis into war, which all actors would have preferred to avoid. Further, and to an unexpected degree, the study’s incidental finding highlights the salience of politics in decision-making, concluding that a simple lexicographic decision rule grounded in political interests accurately predicts and explains each leader\u27s choices more reliably and parsimoniously than the four tested frameworks and just as elegantly. This decision strategy, conceptualized as the political-lexicographic model (PLM), is offered as an alternative framework that most aptly explains and predicts the three Presidents\u27 crisis decision-making strategies. Additionally, the dissertation’s comparative approach, which evaluates multiple political leaders involved in the crisis and tests competing decision theories through qualitative and quantitative lenses, demonstrates the value of incorporating several theoretical models and overweighting the political dimension when explaining or attempting to forecast a crisis outcome. The conceptual framework offered in this study is practical, intuitive, and easily adaptable by policymakers, analysts, and scholars. The conclusions and recommendations in this dissertation will ideally contribute to more accurate and reliable predictions and accounts of foreign policy decisions, especially those that involve the potential for inter-state conflict
State Sponsorship of Self-Determination Movements: Does Sponsorship Really Lead to Autonomy Concessions?
No full textAn analytical blind spot exists within the International Relations literature regarding the causal impacts that state sponsorship of self-determination movements has on the outcomes of intrastate conflicts. This gap in our collective knowledge is due in part to the trend within the existing literature to aggregate all forms of third-party intervention when conducting empirical analysis. Additionally, most scholars fail to distinguish self-determination movements with other forms of insurgency. This dissertation argues that the interaction of state sponsorship and self-determination movements are theoretically and operationally distinct from other forms of intervention and insurgencies warranting a disaggregation in empirical studies. This dissertation, through the creation of a novel dataset, provides such a study. The author finds that, contrary to the traditional assumptions surrounding third-party intervention in intrastate conflicts, sponsorship has little discernable causal impact on the granting or restricting of autonomy and independence rights
Living Mercy: Reflecting on the Vocation and Values of Salve Regina University
Get PDFWith this collection of essays, we honor the vocation and spirit of mercy that has enlivened and guided Salve Regina University for the last 75 years. Inspired by the accomplishments of the past and looking forward to the call of the future, these essays provide a starting point for University-wide conversations to support Salve Regina in discerning how it will move into the increasingly complex challenges of the future. Salve\u27s tradition of mercy is rooted in the example of Catherine McAuley, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 19th-century Dublin, Ireland. It is a model of faith expressed through action and maintains that each person is called to and capable of contributing to the common good by responding to the needs of the day, to respond to the suffering and injustice of each era.Attending to this spirit of mercy that continues to guide our University, this project considers how the six core values of Salve’s Strategic Compass – purpose-driven education, respect and dignity for all, mercy community, integrity, faith and spirituality, and compassionate service and solidarity – relate to our shared mercy, Catholic heritage, and the mercy vocational paradigm. Exploring how to re-root and re-frame these values, we approached the project as a vocationally oriented narrative. This type of narrative focuses on the call and vocation, as well as the patterns of meaning that shape the unique identity of an institution in its founding and how the institution has evolved and changed in response to the claims and context of social and historic dynamics. Thus, these six essays are harmonized by a three-fold critical-creative structure that attends to the dynamic experience of the call and spirit of mercy modeled in the founding of the University, how we presently live this call, and envision the challenges and possibilities that lie on the horizon. We employed the perspectives of Foundations, Living Presence, and Horizons to frame an analogical exploration of the unique character, actions and ideals that have inspired and sustained the vocation and mission of Salve Regina University, and may be creatively transferred to shaping the horizon for future generations of students.Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the founding of Salve Regina University, we invite readers to reflect on this collection of essays and then to join the conversations that are to follow as we continue to discern the path forward as Salve takes its next steps into the future.https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/fac_staff_ebooks/1006/thumbnail.jp
2023 Polarization Index Part III: Polarization in the Federal Government
Get PDFPolarization is both a buzzword and a tangible indicator of the state of our nation. We hear how polarized the American public is from our politicians, the media, and our friends and family. We have also experienced the effects of voter suppression, election denial, cancel culture, the January 6th attack on the Capitol, and congressional gridlock.This Polarization Index was created to help us better understand how polarized the American public is really. Grasping the ways in which we are polarized – to what degree and over what issues – and identifying areas of bipartisan agreement, will give us a stronger foundation from which to make progress. The following report presents data from a multitude of reputable sources to provide a holistic understanding of partisan polarization in the United States.This report is Part III of four parts. It tackles polarization in the federal government, with a section dedicated to each of the three branches. Parts I and II (September 2023) cover affective and ideological polarization. Part IV (December 2023) covers media and disinformation
