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Creating Relationships for Social Good
Get PDFThe marketing research completed by students who are in their senior year of study at Molloy College proved yet again to be a rewarding experience for all parties involved. Student success came about while working harmoniously as a team to complete a fourteen-week research project that helped develop their professional as well as personal skills throughout the capstone experience. The students worked with a ‘live’ non-profit located on Long Island and their efforts proved to serve society well while moving their mission forward. This senior project promotes civic engagement within our local community while continuing to be beneficial toward their skills and disposition when entering into the business world. The students were charged with putting together turnkey recommendations that would assist the non-profit toward building upon their local relationships to fulfill its mission. This would subsequently lead to a better understanding of the great work that their assigned non-profit partakes in while embracing their efforts via social responsibility
A Comparative Review of Perceived Costs and Benefits of Business School Accreditation Options
Get PDFBusiness schools are continually challenged with developing programs that prepare students for successful careers and meet the evolving needs of industry. An accreditation association can provide business schools with best practice guidelines that help them ensure quality in their educational programs and supporting processes. The choice of accrediting agency is an important one for each school and could impact its success in achieving its mission. This paper examines the three primary business program accreditation associations in the United States: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB); The Accreditation Council for Business Schools & Programs (ACBSP); and The International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). An investigative study was conducted that reviewed the existing literature to identify any perceived costs and benefits of accreditation. Important factors to consider included: fit with the mission, vision, and values; faculty qualifications and scholarship expectations; financial resources; marketplace impressions; graduating student employment; teaching innovations; and online program and global reputation. The overall choice of accreditor should be made based on the fit with the school’s mission, resources, core competencies, and strategic goals. Business schools and their accreditors should work together to ensure that business programs continually meet the evolving needs of modern industry
The Experience of Music Therapists in Delivering Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThis study explored the experience of the music therapist in delivering music therapy via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. In semi-structured interviews, three music therapists explored their transition from in-person to telehealth clinical services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data was analyzed using interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) and organized into group themes and individual themes. Group themes included 1) role of therapist changing 2) technology considerations in the home office 3) career reflection and future practice. Individual themes included 1) adapting to change, 2) learning curve of telehealth and burnout, 3) work-life boundaries and authentic therapeutic presence. Participants experienced an expansion of their role as a music therapist and each music therapist reflected on how telehealth and the pandemic influenced their career moving forward. Study findings offer implications for music therapy practice in telehealth and future research exploring music therapy in telehealth and music technology
Educator Perspectives on Both Sides of the Pandemic: Inspirations Taken from Hamilton
Get PDFThe year is 2020; it is unrecognizable to students, parents, and teachers. While struggling daily to redefine what pandemic teaching is—interwoven with the stress of surviving the disease, or even managing at-home life—teachers are challenged to be innovative in new ways. They are called to be agile, creative, digitally fluent, and responsive to varied models of instructional delivery. Hours are spent balancing home and work while designing virtual lessons, developing engaging activities, learning new technology and remote-teaching strategies, as well as determining which students may be lost along the way. It is widely recognized and documented that not all districts are resourced the same way. Accordingly, the tools for both accessibility and ready-to-go technology impact new instructional models. This is compounded by the complex rollout of instructional methodologies across the nation, and uncertainty for the future
The Coastal Monitor: Vol. 7 No. 3
Get PDFWhere has all the pollution gone? No hazardous toxic algal blooms? Incredible summer estuarine water quality! No fish kills. Banner years in recreational fisheries for Stripers and Blues and incredible numbers of Humpback whales! No going to restaurants, so greater at home use of water and septic systems! Since March 2020, drier years than most, thus reducing runoff with fertilizers and organic pesticides, resulting in reduced water contamination. So maybe, just maybe, this COVID- 19 period which has altered our collective lives forever, has also resulted in a grand experiment on what has been hiding in plain sight? That is, the attainability of all our water quality issues and concerns in Suffolk County being blamed totally on the “evil nitrogen” from 360,000 household septic systems, is ultimately misaligned with the facts and actual observations. Unfortunately, it has taken a pandemic to bring to light the misdirected hyper attention to the replacement of the time-tested effectiveness of septic waste treatment and wastewater engineering science. With an overzealous and totally overstated impact from these homeowners every function convincing some unfortunate homeowners to instead of maintaining their personal gravity driven septic systems at insignificant annual cost, to replace their “old systems” with an expensive “advanced technology” system: one which has moving parts requiring added long-term maintenance, and always vulnerable to power outage
Examining the Experiences of Nordoff-Robbins Level One Trainees Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThis phenomenological study aimed to analyze the experiences of Nordoff-Robbins level one trainees in the United States amid significant platform shifts as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Data collection consisted of semi-structured virtual interviews that primarily focused on the experiences of trainees as students/supervisees and as providers of music-centered music therapy services. Emergent themes included (1) Shared Musical Space When Not Physically Together, (2) The Impact of Virtual Platforms on the Experience of Musical Aesthetic, (3) The Nordoff-Robbins Trainee’s Relationship with the Musical Self, and (4) Growth Resulting from Unforeseen Change. Findings reveal that interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics, central to the individual’s experience of their lifeworld -- and intermusical and intramusical dynamics, central to the individual’s experience of their musical lifeworld -- are all interconnected and relevant to the Nordoff-Robbins trainee’s development as a music-centered music therapist
Understanding the Lived Fertility Preservation Experience from Diagnosis to the Start of Adjuvant Therapy: A Study of Young Breast Cancer Survivors
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The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore and gain an in-depth understanding of the lived fertility preservation experience of young female breast cancer survivors from diagnosis prior to the start of adjuvant therapy. The knowledge gained from the findings of this study may provide insights for nursing practice, research, and academia.
Background
Premenopausal women often present with later-stage disease and a prognosis far worse than women who develop breast cancer later in life. In addition, this disease in younger women tends to be of a more aggressive biological subtype, with outcomes that are significantly worse than for their older counterparts. The aggressiveness of the disease warrants the use of more rigorous multi-modal treatment approaches that can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and hormone therapy to promote cure and prevent a recurrence. Treatment with chemotherapy can deplete the ovary of follicular stores, leading to menstrual irregularities, ovarian failure, and associated infertility. Preserving fertility is a priority for young cancer survivors, yet there is often little discussion about fertility preservation before the initiation of adjuvant therapy. Preservation of the reproductive potential of these young women is of great importance as it is time sensitive and can be significantly affected depending on the treatment. Research Question What is the lived experience of fertility preservation during the post-diagnosis to the pre-adjuvant therapy time period of young women with breast cancer?
Methodology
A qualitative, phenomenological method was chosen to explore the lived fertility preservation experience of young women subsequent to a breast cancer diagnosis. This study utilized the hermeneutic phenomenological perspective of Martin Heidegger (1962) along with van Manen’s (1990) methodological activities. A purposive sample of eight young women were recruited using snowballing technique, and data was collected using in-depth unstructured interviews.
Findings
Five essential themes emerged from the analysis of the data collected. The essential themes developed from the data were: (1) Grateful for Care and Support from Others; (2) Preserving Optionality During Chaos; (3) Overwhelmed with the Amount and Complexities of Medical Information; (4) Unpleasant Symptoms; and (5) Assuring Temporality and Preserving the Now for the Future. The themes illuminated the lived fertility preservation experience of young women. Participants verbalized their experiences, describing both the positive and negative experiences. The meaning of the fertility preservation experience for these women showed that despite the overwhelming, complex, unpleasant, and chaotic environment, participants were empowered by self-determination to preserve their fertility. In doing so, they found hope in protecting their future and were grateful for their network and the support they received. The findings of this study has implications for the nursing profession. Integrating this topic in curriculum for undergraduate and graduate programs will expand the knowledge base for nurses and foster a willingness to openly educate, advocate, and provide evidenced-based nursing care during this critical period
The Prevalence of Hip Hop Music in Music Therapy Education & Practice
Get PDFDespite the popularity and significance that hip hop music holds in our society today, there is a grave absence of hip hop music in music therapy academia and practice. This study explores the prevalence of hip hop music in music therapy education and practice. Two populations, current students and new clinicians, were surveyed for this study to ascertain the prevalence of hip hop music both in current music therapy practice and in the current music therapy education system. This study involved the collection of data surrounding the participants’ experience with hip hop music prior to their studies, in their music therapy training/education, and their clinical work. Research findings indicate that the majority of music therapy students and clinicians were not exposed to hip hop music and techniques within their academic curriculum, which has led them to feel underprepared for and hesitant about the clinical use of hip hop. Hesitations about the clinical use of hip hop included lack of knowledge of the genre and fear of cultural appropriation. This study aims to provide valuable insights for music therapy educators, students, and clinicians, to further diversify music therapy academic programming, advanced training, and future clinical work
Positioning Co-Teachers in an Integrated English as a New Language Class: Making Sense of Teaching Roles
Get PDFThis study examined how co-teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and General Education (GE) perceived their roles, agency, and professional positioning within co-taught elementary integrated English as a New Language (ENL) classes. Theories of positioning and educational change guided this study, exploring teachers’ perceptions of parity and observations of their discourse and interactions within the context of school and district cultures and policies. ESOL and GE co-teachers who implemented the collaborative cycle of instruction with fidelity experienced parity in their partnerships. These teachers utilized their distinct areas of expertise and had a common understanding of each teacher’s roles and responsibilities. However, ambiguity or conflicting administrative directives concerning co-teaching often contributed to inequitable teacher hierarchies and challenged GE and ESOL teachers to make sense of their roles in supporting English Language Learners (ELLs). GE teacher discourse revealed perceptions of being lead teachers, with ESOL teachers serving in a supportive role. The study concluded that ESOL teachers perceived a loss of their professional identities when discourse and interactions placed them in a subordinate position to the GE teacher. Implications for policy and practice at the district and school building levels include increasing ESOL teachers’ involvement in curriculum writing at the district level to create a shared discourse of expertise among their GE and content area colleagues, as well as enacting policy change at the district level to establish collaborative structures for co-planning to cultivate equitable roles for co-teachers. Recommendations are offered for future research to expand the understanding of co-teacher positioning