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Delta Theta Sigma
No full textBottom Left to Right: Nancy Garrett, Shorty (Connie) Helton, Kim Partin, Jerri Rosenbaum Geyer, Jana Bass, Debbie Hickman, Yolando Counts, Middle Left to Right: Dawn Suerdick, Diana Beach, Diana O. Quinn, Wendy Flynn, Glenda Horton, Kelly Barker, Rose Anna Eddo, Missy Watson, Regina Sawyers, Back Row Left to Right: Terri Kyle, Cathy Hart, Lesia (Chad) Chadwell, Ronee Rhea, Mary Sue Reel, Barbara Wallace, Donna Conner, Sanchen (Shasta) Owens.https://digitalcommons.lmunet.edu/deltathetasigma/1000/thumbnail.jp
Quantitative Pilot Study: Impact of Social Responsibility and Altruism Values on Rehabilitation Employee Satisfaction
Get PDFBackground: This study explores the association between physical therapist satisfaction in a rehabilitation private practice and perceptions of altruism and social responsibility in the workplace. Small private, for-profit businesses like therapy practices often embrace altruistic values and socially responsible cultures driven by close stakeholder relationships. Alignment between business culture and personal values is a stronger predictor of workplace and career satisfaction. Employees who perceive value alignment report higher job satisfaction and relatedness. Prosocial cultures, rich in altruism and social responsibility, foster job fit and reduce dissatisfaction and turnover. Physical therapy\u27s core values, including altruism and social responsibility, are integral to clinical practice. This study aims to explore whether these values influence employee job satisfaction. Methods: Thirty-three employees from a large rehabilitation private practice in West Georgia completed a survey comprising the societal outreach subsection of the Professionalism in Physical Therapy: Core Values Self-Assessment tool, along with sections assessing employee-environment fit and job satisfaction. Participants included physical therapists, assistants, and supervisors. Survey reliability was validated using Cronbach\u27s Alpha and Spearman\u27s Rho correlation to analyze associations between altruism and social responsibility values, employee-environment fit, and job satisfaction. Results: Significant Spearman Rho associations were found across all cohorts. Promoting cultural competence correlated positively with intent-to-stay while providing therapy to underserved populations inversely correlated with job satisfaction. For supervisors, aligning social policy with patient/client interests is associated positively with leadership style and intent-to-stay. Among employees, associations included promoting community activism, aligning with company values, and ensuring social policies match patient/client interests. Conclusion: Combining the altruism and societal outreach section with other tools measures core values in the workplace and their association with employee satisfaction and intent-to-stay. An inverse relationship was noted between satisfaction and providing pro bono services for the physical therapy cohort. However, there were two positive relationships with intent-to-stay in the job: promoting cultural competence within the profession and larger public for the supervisors and providing therapy services to the underserved and underrepresented populations for the total employee cohort. The findings suggest that altruism and social responsibility subsets, along with other cultural tools, may be used to expose culturally embodied values in private physical therapy practice
Student Engagement in Tennessee Ninth Grade Post-COVID Classrooms
Get PDFDuring the school closures associated with COVID-19, researchers found student engagement decreased, partially due to the concurrent increase in the number of adolescents diagnosed with problematic internet use and internet addiction. At the time of this study, there was limited research related to student engagement after students returned to face-to-face instruction. Moreover, when students returned to in-person school after the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, a paradigm shift to internet-based learning occurred, which meant every student had a computer and spent more time learning online than before the pandemic. Unfortunately, this paradigm shift occurred while students were returning to school with increased problematic internet use and internet addiction and decreased student engagement. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive study was to understand the perceptions of Tennessee ninth-grade teachers concerning student engagement, as well as the strategies used, and support needed by those teachers in classrooms where students used internet-based learning tools and digital learning platforms on a regular basis. After collecting and analyzing the data, I found ninth-grade Tennessee teachers thought students faced challenges in emotional, behavioral, and cognitive engagement, and teachers needed support from instructional leaders in a variety of areas related to student engagement. Educators would benefit from this study because it brings awareness to the ways internet-based learning influences student engagement and provides guidance for strategies to increase ninth-grade student engagement in the new internet-based paradigm for instruction and learning
The Small Business Killer: How FinCEN Enforcement of the CTA Could Destroy the Last Bastion of the American Dream.
Get PDFThis article addresses an urgent matter regarding the possible repercussions of FinCEN enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) against small businesses. The CTA, passed into law in 2021 and made effective January 1, 2024, mandates the creation of a nationwide database that collects owner information of certain legal entities to help prevent money laundering and other illicit financial activities. Further, a legal entity’s failure to comply with the statute may result in civil penalties of up to $591 per day of violation and even criminal penalties.As of January 1, 2024, tens of millions of small businesses in the U.S. have become subject to the statute’s reporting requirements. However, only a minority of affected small businesses know of the CTA, with the threat of severe financial penalties looming just over the horizon of 2025 for those unaware. Worse yet, the CTA raises numerous questions in white-collar crime, business associations, and bankruptcy law that could lead to further disproportionate harm, such as the loss of small businesses important to communities nationwide, significant FinCEN case backlogs, excessive small business bankruptcy litigation, familial turmoil, and even mental illness in some cases.Beyond identifying these urgent concerns with the CTA, this article goes further by providing a “willful” violation standard assessment that FinCEN may use for CTA enforcement and a possible dischargeability standard for CTA penalties in bankruptcy. Moreover, the article justifies that the CTA should be repealed and replaced with alternative solutions. These solutions include enacting FinCEN’s proposed rule targeting residential real estate, enacting certain digital asset regulations drafted through bipartisan efforts, and creating an IRS database using currently held taxpayer information
Delta Theta Sigma
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Generations of Abuse: Exploring the Sexual Assault Epidemic on Native Land
Get PDFThe United States government has a long history of extending its reach into the affairs of Native people. Yet, it has consistently failed to protect Native women from rampant violence and abuse. Native American women have the highest rates of sexual abuse in the country. The federal government has the decision to either mend its long-standing indifference toward Indigenous women or allow them to continue to suffer under the current system. This note explores the sexual assault crisis on Indian land and seeks to bring positive change to historically marginalized women. Specifically, this note highlights the need for Congress to appropriate more funds and authorize more services to help these Native victims escape generations of abuse
Rethinking Law School Admissions
Get PDFTaking the Law School Admissions Test ( LSAT ) has been required for law school admission for almost a century. The exam has changed over the years, but a higher score on the LSAT has been a significant indicator of one’s acceptance into the vastly sought-after legal profession. This note addresses the changes needed to cater to more well-rounded law students and attorneys upon passing the bar exam. This note does not seek to eradicate the LSAT in its entirety; instead, law schools should place less emphasis on the LSAT and more on other factors such as undergraduate GPA, extracurriculars, and prior work experience
RURAL, K-12 EAST TENNESSEE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS’ PERCEPTIONS OF PRINCIPAL PREPARATION PROGRAMS AND ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Get PDFThere were concerns in both quantity and quality of principal candidates regarding training experiences and principals being prepared to lead schools. Research was limited when it came to principal preparation programs (PPPs) training rural, East Tennessee school principals to become instructional leaders and school district leaders providing ongoing professional development opportunities for rural principals. Due to the overall lack of research regarding these facets, further research was necessary to understand how PPPs advisors and school district leaders needed to better prepare rural school principals to lead instructionally. Twenty rural school principals responded to a questionnaire regarding principals’ perceptions of PPPs and ongoing professional development opportunities. In addition, I interviewed five rural school principals to investigate their beliefs based on Bandura’s (1977) self-efficacy theory regarding performance accomplishments. The purpose of this qualitative, interpretive study was to understand the perceptions of rural, East Tennessee K-12 school principals and how principal preparation programs and ongoing professional development opportunities prepared them to be instructional leaders based on Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy regarding performance accomplishments. After analyzing the data, I found rural, East Tennessee K-12 school principals were prepared most to be instructional leaders when coursework focused on practical, real-life experiences and ongoing professional development opportunities were specific to individual school districts’ needs. This was a foundational study as it could be used as the framework for future studies exploring PPPs and how to better prepare rural school principals to succeed in East Tennessee as instructional leaders
From Preparation to Practice: How Principals Engage Families in Diverse School Settings
Get PDFRural, urban, and suburban school principals faced distinct challenges in engaging families and fostering positive school climates. Recognizing the need for tailored leadership strategies, it was essential for principal preparation programs to provide context-specific training. The purpose of basic interpretive qualitative study was to explore the relationship between principals’ approaches to school management in rural, urban, and suburban schools and how their preparation programs facilitated the development of these approaches. Forty-six principals participated in the study, and I collected data through a questionnaire based on a parental involvement framework. The analysis revealed key differences in strategies; rural principals emphasized community involvement, while urban principals addressed cultural and linguistic diversity. These findings showed that the specific school context shaped effective engagement strategies and principal preparation programs needed to adapt to equip leaders with the skills necessary to meet these varied needs. This study underscored the importance of improving leadership training to prepare principals for their unique challenges better