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2025 Higher Education County Profile, Shelby County
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Annual Report, Associated Charities, Memphis, 1921
No full textTenth Annual Report of the Associated Charities, Memphis, TN. It covers the time period of 1920-1921.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-famservicememphis1/1009/thumbnail.jp
Annual Report, Associated Charities, Memphis, 1922
No full textEleventh Annual Report of the Associated Charities, Memphis, TN. It covers the time period of 1921-1922.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-famservicememphis1/1010/thumbnail.jp
Annual Report, Associated Charities, Memphis, 1923
No full textAnnual Report of the Associated Charities, Memphis, TN. It covers the time period of 1922-1923.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-famservicememphis1/1011/thumbnail.jp
Document, Highlights from the History of Family Service of Memphis, 1943
Get PDFDocument, Highlights from the History of Family Service of Memphis, Memphis, TN, 1943. The document is 19 pages in length.https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-famservicememphis1/1031/thumbnail.jp
Financial Harm in Gambling Help-Seeking: A Scoping Review
Get PDFGambling literature often references financial harm, an objective experience following gambling-related financial losses. Financial harm alongside emotional distress has been implicated in help-seeking for problem gambling, indicating the importance of subjective reactions to financial harm and its perceived severity. It is unclear whether the gambling literature measures both objective and subjective experiences of financial harm. To explore the implications of financial harm on gambling help-seeking behaviors, this scoping review explored how the gambling literature measures financial harm among gambling help-seeking populations. In 84 articles, financial harm was defined through objective metrics such as debt and bankruptcy. Although financial harms were referenced as a reason for seeking help, extant gambling literature did not directly measure subjective experiences of financial harm. This highlights a need for future gambling research to measure subjective experiences of financial harm to understand its role in gambling help-seeking
A Signaling Theory Approach to Employee Reactions to Organizational Change
No full textIn a fast-paced business environment, organizations must continuously adapt to remain competitive. However, research indicates that change efforts often encounter resistance and fail to achieve their objectives. This dissertation tests a model of change recipient reactions that posits the role of change communication and individual perception of distributive justice and procedural justice as its primary antecedents. In alignment with signaling theory, the dissertation focuses on three outcomes: openness to change, commitment to change, and turnover intention. More specifically, this dissertation aims to provide valuable insights into how employee trust in management mediates the relationship between change antecedents—including the quality of change communication, procedural and distributive justice—and change outcomes: openness to change, commitment to change, and turnover intention
Inclusive Science Education: High School Biology Educator’s Voice, Experiences, Attitudes, and Challenges Instructing Students with Extensive Support Needs
Get PDFStudents with extensive support needs are moving into inclusive general education science classrooms in higher concentrations. Teachers’ commitment to their students and their attitudes towards their students can influence student success in the classroom and educator experiences or challenges can influence attitudes (Bhatnagar & Das, 2014; Carter & Hughes, 2006; Gonzalez, Henneman, & Schluter, 2019). In this CDT narrative inquiry study, I examined high school biology teachers’ narratives to address the following research questions: (1) What do the narratives of high school inclusive biology teachers reveal about their attitudes regarding the inclusion of students with extensive support needs in the general education classroom? (2) What do the narratives of high school inclusive biology teachers disclose about their experiences that are shaped by the inclusion of students with extensive support needs in the general education classroom? (3) What do the narratives of high school inclusive biology teachers reveal about the challenges encountered regarding the inclusion of students with extensive support needs in the general education classroom? Using stories and lived experiences shared through interviews, the findings developed into four themes that were entitled: Teachers’ Experience with Persons with Exceptionalities, Unprepared, Classroom Resources Needed, and Effective Strategies. Experiences shape attitudes, and as new experiences occur, attitudes can evolve. For the teacher participants, attitudes about inclusion changed over time as classroom experiences conveyed the understanding that inclusion is a must, shaped new mindsets, and led to effective strategies in the classroom to support their students with more extensive support needs. The fight is far from over for inclusion for students with more extensive support needs in the general education biology classroom. Teachers in the current classrooms need support, relevant professional development, and resources, while those looking to embark on a secondary education career need stronger and more focused classes to become strong advocates for all students and their learning. By equipping our teachers to use their teacher voice to empower their teaching, they find the right tools to help more diverse students with a variety of support needs, embrace their perspectives, and allow themselves to speak for their profession (Cortazzi 1993)
ACT BAD BUT KEEP IT RESPECTABLE: HOW RESPECTABILITY INFLUENCED MY PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
Get PDFThis autoethnographic study explored how culture and upbringing influenced my approach to respectability politics professionally, the coping strategies I used to deal with microaggressions regarding respectability politics in the workplace, and how the demands of respectability expectations affected my personal life. This autoethnographic study also explored how the normalizing influence of the dominant culture played a role in my professional identity development. It used personal narratives and reflections to examine how these expectations shaped professional identity, coping strategies, and the emotional and physical toll of workplace respectability politics. This study contributes to current research on respectability expectations in professional spaces. The implications of my research contribute to academic, professional, and social realms while also offering contributions to hip-hop feminist theory, Black feminist thought, and human resource policies. The study applies bringing wreck in hip-hop feminism (Pough, 2004) to corporate spaces, extends Black feminist thought’s concept of self-definition (Collins, 1990) to corporate spaces, and addresses how microaggressions in the office can adversely impact wellness. Keywords: Blackgirl, the culture of dissemblance, fucking with the grays, hegemony, identity shifting, intersectionality, microaggression, respectability politics, strong Black woman, stereotype threat, tokenism
“Home is Here!”– Or is it?: Exploring the Influence of Place and Politics on Identity, Belonging, and the Dreamer Consciousness
Get PDFFor more than a decade, migrant childhood arrivals have been identified as “dreamers” due to immigration policy initiatives such as the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). While navigating various identities, including U.S. immigrant, their native nationality, and being socialized simultaneously within their native and American cultures, they must also reckon with what their future identities will be thanks to politics around “undocumentedness.” This is especially true for undocumented Latines in the United States. Today, their livelihoods are in far greater jeopardy than ever before with DACA\u27s uncertainty, calls for mass deportations, their racialized criminalization, and highly restrictive policies, particularly in the U.S. South. With a focus on the undocumented Latin American population in the New Latino South, I utilize qualitative, semi-structured interviews to examine how undocumented young adults understand and navigate their identities and sense of belonging in a country that socially, legally, and politically excludes them. Particularly, I examine how place and policy changes that threaten undocumented young adults’ sense of self affect their identity formations and their sense of belonging. I theorize that racialized undocumented Latinx individuals navigate social, political, and legal systems of oppression to understand their identities and belonging through a dreamer consciousness. I find these experiences are influenced by (1) place, both geographically and (2) socially, and (3) through politics—each of which shapes their identity formation and negotiation. With this study, I address theoretical and place-based research limitations within racial/ethnic studies and immigration scholarship. Lastly, this study takes a holistic approach to contribute to scholarship on undocumented young adults\u27 identity formation and incorporation processes by exploring how these processes evolve over time and across places