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Developing Post-pandemic Learning Community on an Urban Commuter Campus
No full textThis evidence-based practice paper presents our multiple-pronged approach to develop a post-pandemic learning community in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology on an urban commuter campus. College students\u27 sense of community has been directly linked to their persistence, satisfaction with the university, motivation, and perception of course value. Building learning communities face special challenges on commuter campuses in the era of post-pandemic hybrid learning. Based on the social learning theory of community of practice, we connected a first-year programming course, a student service-learning program, and two student organizations and developed a unique community-building approach. Our expected outcome is a stronger sense of community among the students and faculty in the department
Corporate Responsibility Communication and Score Trends: A Buyer and Supplier Perspective
No full textThe growth of corporate responsibility initiatives continues as firms are facing increasing pressure from stakeholders. This study aims to analyze what factors in corporate responsibility communication impact the value creation for a focal buying firm. Monthly corporate responsibility reports and corporate responsibility scores were collected from twelve chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing firms active in sustainable procurement initiatives. Sentiment analysis was utilized via the Harvard General Inquirer lexicon that connects syntactic, practical, and semantic information to determine the sentiment polarity for the classification document. Topic classification through multiple supervised machine learning algorithms and comparisons was conducted for buyer and supplier dyads to determine topic classification alignment. Initial propositions are developed indicating the role of focal firm communication strategy as well as sentiment alignment between buyer and suppliers\u27 corporate responsibility communications on a focal buying firm\u27s corporate responsibility performance. We propose communication sentiment tends to follow the corporate responsibility score trends in firms. Additionally, buying firms with suppliers who also advocate positive sentiment toward corporate responsibility tend to have greater growth in corporate responsibility scores indicating the importance of positive consumer corporate responsibility communication. This study extends knowledge of corporate responsibility communication and proposes that alignment in sentiment between the buyer and supplier enhances corporate responsibility. We also propose alignment in corporate responsibility topics among buyer and supplier dyads do not necessarily influence performance in the same way as sentiment
The Overture! Then Is Here-And-Now: Hindsight Is Twenty, Twenty?
Get PDFMy existence and presence as a Black woman and graduate scholar in music therapy have allowed me to share my experience of racial trauma and oppression in the hallways of GCSU’s music therapy program. Autoethnography is the method I use to write my thesis on the relationships between Blackness, pedagogy, and music therapy. Thus, I perform an evocative autoethnographic study that allows me to share my personal experience of racial trauma and oppression within the culture of music therapy and to critique the larger social structures of whiteness that disenfranchise and dominate me and other Black student music therapists (SMTs). This approach threads Critical Race Theory (CRT)-Multiculturalism-Social Justice as a lens to analyze my racialized experiences. It also centers my voice and shows the adverse effects of encountering systems of oppression, ideologies, and theories in academia. I use my voice to express my identity, challenge the dominant narratives, and advocate for social justice. I also describe how discriminatory acts, microaggressions, and both covert and overt racism affected my mental health and well-being. The manifestations of my unique experiences resulted in having internalizing problems of low self-esteem, high blood pressure, overeating, frequent headaches, anxiety, and sleep disturbances (Cenat, 2023). I have two research questions that guide my study, related to the impact and consequences of racial trauma on my experiences at GCSU. Four themes emerged from this study, which were: Silenced and Invisible, Anti-Blackness, Erasure, and I Belong Here! As a Black woman in music therapy, I express my desire for a voice and authenticity. I am critical of the current music therapy curriculum at GCSU, which I find to be rooted in Eurocentrism and exclusion, and irrelevant to the needs and issues of marginalized groups. I also criticize the lack of commitment and action from the institution and the program to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. My findings support a call for music therapy programs to adopt a pedagogy that uses a CRT-multicultural-social justice lens. This pedagogy would address the various forms of power, privilege, and oppression that exist in the world, challenge the white supremacist ideology that pervades the music therapy profession, and value the diversity and agency of Black SMTs and their clients
Eternity Enterprises: A Near Future Short Story Collection
Get PDFA near future science fiction short story collection that explores our entanglements with technology and how that further complicates our humanity
Neocolonialismo y sus agentes en También la lluvia
No full textThe Spanish film También la lluvia (2010) directed by Icíar Bollaín is a commentary about the social factors that resulted in the Water Wars of Cochabamba, Bolivia. This essay contextualizes the circumstances that led up to the violent riots that plagued Cochabamba from November 1999 to April 2000. También la lluvia centers around a foreign film crew seeking to film a movie in Cochabamba, Bolivia for its beautiful landscape and cheap labor. In the months it takes to film the movie, portraying the colonial exploitation of Native Americans, the Water War is developing in the surrounding city. This essay examines Bollaín’s use of the three primary characters and the viewer as agents of capitalism and parallelism as a rhetorical device to promote a metanarrative that implicitly points to globalization, racism, and neoliberalism as agents of neocolonialism
Just Don\u27t Frighten the Horses : Discussing Porn and Kink in Fandom Spaces
Get PDFMy thesis discusses why the banning of sexually explicit content is occurring in fandom spaces, who is trying to ban this content, and why it should matter to people both inside and outside of fandom. This thesis looks at these answers within the framework of feminism and fandom culture. When fanfiction is considered to be literature, it is easy to see why fanfiction matters. This is especially true when the authors of fanfiction are primarily women and are told that their content might be harmful to others through the reasoning that pornography is anti-feminist. I wanted to explore why these ideas are false and how actually banning sexually explicit content is not only harmful to fanfiction authors but also to marginalized groups as a whole. I argue that pornographic fanfiction should not be censored as it gives a voice to marginalized communities
Contending with COVID: Examining Levels of Anxiety Among College-Aged Adults in the Wake of the Pandemic
Get PDFMuch is unknown about the impact of pandemics, as well as their corollary effects. Paying particular attention to the demographic characteristics of participants (gender, race/ethnicity, and familial income), this quantitative study examines differences in levels of anxiety in separate, unmatched samples of college students before and after social distancing due to COVID-19. Via an online survey platform, participants (N = 156) completed self-report measures which gathered demographic characteristics and levels of anxiety. A four-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) did not show significant differences in levels of anxiety among participants across gender, race, familial income, or social distancing status. Implications for future research are discussed
Roy Mixon Interview 2
Get PDFRoy Mixon worked first in accounting and later as a floral therapist at Central State Hospital from 1962-1984. This interview details his experiences.
The Link to Full Text button above takes you to the video of Mr. Mixon\u27s interview.https://kb.gcsu.edu/rememberingcsh/1012/thumbnail.jp
