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John Rosamond Johnson
No full textPhotograph: Early portrait of John Rosamond Johnson taken in Jacksonville Florida. On front: Davis Gallery E.W. Johnson, Manager, 13 1/2 West Bay Street Jacksonville, Fla. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1212/thumbnail.jp
Unidentified Group on Steps of Bethel Baptist Institutional Church
No full textPhotographs: Photograph of group of unidentified men outside Bethel Baptist Church. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1172/thumbnail.jp
Unidentified Graduates Group Photograph
No full textPhotograph: Scene from unidentified school graduation. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1191/thumbnail.jp
Unidentified Residents of the Old Folks Home
No full textPhotograph: Three residents of the Old Folks Home. Three unidentified people outside around a fire. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1222/thumbnail.jp
Service Laundry Co. Drivers and Eartha M.M. White
No full textPhotograph: Eartha White (second from right) and drivers from Service Laundry Co. standing next to delivery vehicles in front of Service Laundry Co. building, 1657 Cleveland St. Jacksonville, Florida. Caption on photograph: Put Your Duds in Our Suds, We Wash Everything But A Dirty Conscience. Handwritting on reverse of photograph. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1206/thumbnail.jp
Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
No full textPhotograph: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Signed 8 x 10 glossy print. Undated.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/eartha_images/1262/thumbnail.jp
Assessing the Effects of Health Insurance Status on Compliance with Diabetes Care
Get PDFBackground: Diabetes is a chronic disease that affects millions of people in the United States. Compliance with treatment plans is important for preventing life-threatening complications of the disease. However, many diabetics forgo recommended testing and other management standards due to lack of health insurance.
Purpose: This study aims to assess the effect of health insurance status on compliance with diabetes care.
Methods: This study was a secondary analysis using 2005–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data. For participants who reported having diabetes, compliance with care was assessed based on insurance status. Compliance indicators included hemoglobin A1C check by a doctor in the past year, seeing a diabetes specialist in the past two years, taking diabetic pills to lower blood sugar, and taking insulin. Weighted multivariable logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between insurance status and compliance with diabetes care.
Results: Of participants who reported having diabetes (n=5,152), there were clear sociodemographic differences in insurance status. Uninsured individuals were less likely to have their A1C checked by a doctor in the past year (aOR=0.25, 95% CI=0.18-0.35), to have seen a diabetes specialist in the past two years (aOR=0.77, 95% CI=0.60-0.99), or to be currently taking insulin (aOR=0.58, 95% CI=0.43-0.80) when compared to those who were insured. Uninsured individuals who were male, had less than high school education, or had an income below the federal poverty level were much less likely to have their A1C checked by a doctor in the past year or to be currently taking insulin when compared to their insured counterparts.
Discussion: Health insurance status plays an important role in compliance with diabetes care and management. There is a need for improved access to care and affordable insurance options for those with diabetes to prevent serious complications of the disease
Through the looking glass: An autoethnography
Get PDFThis dissertation is an autoethnography studying my experiences as a female high school principal in the south. Autoethnography is qualitative research that analyzes personal experiences to understand a particular culture (Ellis et al., 2011). I share my lived experiences in fictionalized composite examples to protect myself and others possibly implicated in the research (Law & Fine, 2004). Through analysis, I use feminist theories and metaphors to understand the school and community and the presence of southern culture in this school’s context. Through research, I found glass metaphors describing women in leadership roles and their obstacles (Simpson & Kurma, 2015). I found many feminist leadership theories that use glass metaphors that applied to my lived experiences: glass ceiling, glass escalator, glass cliff, glass walls, and glass slipper. Other theories applied to my research are theories around professional dress for women, role incongruency theory in gendered organizations such as education, and theories describing southern culture centered around the importance of loyalty and storytelling.
I also found it important to share lessons learned on this journey parallel to my leadership experiences. I learned leading an underperforming high school and writing a dissertation were more difficult than anticipated. I realized I was not alone in writing this dissertation or leading a high school. I learned the importance of the right fit in choosing a committee and doctoral chair and what the right fit means in leadership. I learned that both processes in writing an autoethnography and leadership are forever evolving. Also, writing about my experiences and applying theories to those experiences helped me make sense of the world and myself as a leader. Furthermore, as an autoethnography shares stories of lived experiences to make sense of the world and add to current research, I found storytelling is part of the southern culture that manifests in the school I lead.
Autoethnography is a qualitative form of research that is messy, personal, analytical, and emotional. Writing this type of qualitative research for a dissertation requires reflection, vulnerability, and applying theories to understand experiences. In adding this autoethnography to current research, I hope more leaders will learn from my shared experiences
Investigating the mediation effects of student-teacher relationships between extracurricular activities and students\u27 academic achievement in high school
Get PDFWhile there is evidence to support the notion that extracurricular activities have a positive impact on student success and development, the reasons why students participate in these activities, why they continue to participate in these activities, and why these activities lead to better educational outcomes are unclear. This study was conducted at three high schools in a county in northeast Florida with a total n of 131 students. This study used three theories as lenses to examine how student-teacher relationships impacted student engagement in extracurricular activities and in turn student achievement: Self-Systems Processing (Connell & Wellborn, 1991), Attachment Theory (Bowlby, 1969), and School Belonging (Goodenow & Grady, 1993) to analyze the data collected from the surveys. This data collection for this study included both quantitative survey questions and open-ended qualitative survey questions that produced three main findings. First, overall, students involved in extracurricular activities had slightly higher mean-level perceptions about their student-teacher relationships (i.e., caring, trust, and help) than those not involved in extracurricular activities, but this difference was not statistically significant. Second, for students involved in extracurricular activities their perceptions of the student-teacher relationship were slightly higher for their extracurricular teachers than their general teachers, but again, not significantly so. Finally, there were no effects of extracurricular activity on academic achievement within this sample
Investigation of microstructurally dependent mechanical properties of cold sprayed copper using correlative microscopy
Get PDFThis project employs multi-instrument materials characterization to analyze material made with the “Cold Spray” additive manufacturing process. Cold spray is an emerging additive manufacturing technique with unique benefits resulting from its low temperature adhesion process induced by plastic deformation. Metallic powder collides at high speeds creating three dimensional materials and coatings without the need for melting. Copper cold sprayed specimens were analyzed using a series of imaging techniques to characterize the microstructure at varying levels of detail and magnification. Scanning electron microscopy and electron back scattered diffraction were paired with microhardness testing to generate a correlative comparison between microstructure and physical properties of cold sprayed material. This research investigates how microhardness changes across the surface of highly deformed cold sprayed materials and the role inhomogeneous plastic deformation plays in level of microhardness. Both sprayed and transverse orientations were investigated providing a better understanding of the anisotropic mechanical properties created by the cold spray process. Results demonstrated that the cold sprayed microstructure exhibits an increase in microhardness with increasing levels of grain refinement in the sprayed orientation. This correlation was less apparent in the transverse orientation which reinforces the documented evidence that shows as-sprayed cold sprayed materials possess both anisotropic microstructure and properties