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Biometric Performance Monitoring in Collegiate Sports: Balancing the Benefits with Ethical and Regulatory Considerations
Get PDFBiometric performance data provides invaluable insights into an athlete’s performance, which coaches can utilize to optimize training sessions and help prevent and track player injuries. This research contrasts the importance of biometric performance data in sports with the necessity for protecting that data as it is collected by wearable performance monitoring devices and then utilized within collegiate sports. Several ethical and security concerns are fostered by the lack of explicit regulations protecting student-athletes’ biometric performance data. Therefore, an analysis is provided of the regulated protections provided to professional athletes and collegiate athletes for collecting, storing, and utilizing their performance data. Furthermore, this paper examines the implications of Murphy v. NCAA and its revocation of federal regulations prohibiting sports wagers on both professional and amateur athletics. Finally, this paper presents a set of potential reforms to regulations and legislation that could provide additional safeguards preventing the unauthorized disclosure of student-athlete biometric performance records
Book Review: The Inglorious Years: The Collapse of the Industrial Order and the Rise of Digital Society by Daniel Cohen
Get PDFBook Review: Ethno-Pornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge by Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici & Neil L. Whitehead
Get PDFBook Review: Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality by Bruce Nelson
Get PDFUniversity-Public Partnerships for Disaster Recovery: Promoting Community Resilience Through Research, Teaching, and Engagement
Get PDFThis article describes a state-supported, multiuniversity, interdisciplinary effort to address unmet disaster recovery needs identified by six hard-hit, low-capacity North Carolina communities following Hurricane Matthew. At the request of the director of the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management and the state governor, university officials created a team of faculty, practitioners, and students called the Hurricane Matthew Disaster Recovery and Resilience Initiative (HMDRRI). This 2-year program delivered research, teaching, and engagement activities of the sort that are not typically undertaken by federal or state emergency management agencies, insurance providers, or nonprofit organizations. HMDRRI also offered graduate students in land-use planning, landscape architecture, and architecture opportunities to help provide community assistance under the supervision and mentoring of faculty and practitioners. An overarching goal of the program was to help build greater rural resilience, an outcome that has received inadequate attention from academics and practitioners
Encouraging Engagement and Critical Reflection Among Undergraduate Sociology Students
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Jonathan M. White and Shelley K. White (2020). The Engaged Sociologist: Connecting the Classroom to the Community (6th ed.). Sage Publications. 280 pages. ISBN: 978-157922620
Stakeholder Preferences for Process and Outcomes in Community-University Research Partnerships: Implications for Research Collaborations
Get PDFResearchers in numerous fields assert that research partnerships involving academics and nonacademics are essential for developing solutions to pressing and complex problems. While theoretically justified and urgently needed, working across institutional and epistemological boundaries to produce knowledge and create solutions turns out to be complex and challenging. Given the potential and often realized challenges of collaborations, and the need for partners to come together to develop workable solutions, additional research is needed on process in research collaborations. With this paper, we contribute to the literature on process and outcomes in the development of community-university research teams. Specifically, we study local government officials’ (LGOs) process and outcome preferences for engaging in community-university research partnerships and their perceptions of academic researchers. Our data were generated from open-ended responses to a statewide survey of LGOs in Maine, United States, during the scoping phase of a large-scale sustainability-focused research initiative. Our findings revealed that respondents’ process preferences were influenced by such considerations as partners’ willingness to codesign the partnership and the attendant research, and by having a shared understanding of partner needs and responsibilities. Stakeholders’ outcome preferences were influenced by their perceptions of the type and relevance of the outcomes to all involved parties. We conclude with a discussion of how to use this data to initiate research partnerships and facilitate inclusive partnership processes. Being mindful of partners’ process and outcomes preferences in research collaborations and being aware of the perceptions that partners bring to the table are important for achieving solutions that are inclusive, thoughtful, and ethical
Greene & Hitchcock: A Marriage Made in Hell? Or, the What-ifs & the Why-nots
Get PDFQuentin Falk explores the relationship--or non-relationship--between Graham Greene and Alfred Hitchcock
Women in Literature: The Impact of Feminism on Fantasy Literature, 1950–1990
Get PDFThe feminist movement of the 1960s and 1970s directly impacted the evolution of the Fantasy Literature genre, changing it from a genre dominated by male authors and characters to one filled with many strong-willed, intelligent female characters that were written by female authors. Historians have often studied the impact of the First Women’s Right’s Movement on society but have often overlooked the impact the second wave of feminism had on society and have completely overlooked its tremendous impact on the Fantasy Literature genre. The works of authors writing before the Second Women’s Right’s Movement, T.H. White and J.RR. Tolkien, were compared to works written during and after the movement by authors such as William Goldman, Ursula K. Le Guinn, Patricia A. McKillip, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Janny Wurts and Raymond E. Feist. Fantasy Literature went from a genre solely dominated by male authors with powerful male characters and foolish or evil female characters to a genre with many female authors creating entire works centered on the adventures and abilities of strong-willed and intelligent women
Lessons Learned: Three Student Leaders Reflect on Their Experiences in the Berry College ESL Program
Get PDFIn this reflective Student Voices piece, three student leaders reflect on their experiences in the Berry College English as a second language (ESL) program