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ETSU 125 - Chapter II website archive (HTML)
No full textThis submission contains a copy of the ETSU 125 - Chapter II website (formerly www.etsu.edu/125) as it existed in August of 2025. The file contains a zipped folder with the combined HTML/CSS data from each portion of the archived site. The HTML can be opened in a web browser. The links contained within archived webpages may no longer be active. Many of the documents originally contained within the website can now be found in Digital Commons.
The ETSU 125 - Chapter II site has also been archived in the Internet Archive\u27s Wayback Machine
Addiction in the Prison System: Recidivism and Alternatives
No full textThe United States criminal justice system has the highest number of incarcerated individuals in the world, with nearly 2 million people currently being behind bars, and around 7.5 million arrests per year according to the most recent available statistics. A key factor in this is addiction, specifically substance use disorders. Between 58% to 68% of adults arrested are addicted to one or more substances, with 68% of drug involved individuals being rearrested within three years of being released. This recidivism rate is incredibly high, and when combined with current prison and jail overcrowding, has created massive problems for the United States criminal justice system as a whole. However, there are alternative facilities which can be explored to potentially fix this issue. Day Reporting Rehabilitation Centers, often referred to as Day Reporting Centers or DRCs, are facilities designed to take those sentenced to prison or jail time with drug addictions and not only provide them with medical care, but also with preparation for their future lives. Should a person complete the program, their sentences are considered completed as well. When examining previously published modern literature with an emphasis on the comparison between the recidivism rates of the correctional system and Day Reporting Centers, it is clear that these rehabilitation facilities offer holistic care for inmates with many benefits as alternatives to incarceration, including suggested lowered rates of recidivism. Some regions have already begun to make a step towards the increased usage of alternatives to make a positive impact upon the community, including the state of Tennessee
Branding the Divide: Political Ideology and the Strategic Challenges of Higher Education Marketing
No full textThe purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how first-year students experience and interpret institutional branding within the context of their personal and social identities, with particular attention to the role of political ideology. While previous research had examined general branding strategies and declining public trust in higher education, scholars have given little attention to the ways in which prospective students make meaning from institutional messaging during one of the most significant transitions of their lives.
I conducted interviews with 12 first-year students from four-year colleges and universities across South-Central Appalachia. The phenomenological analysis revealed that students’ interpretation of university messaging operated through complex meaning-making processes involving family backgrounds, faith traditions, regional identities, and political perspectives as intersecting rather than determining factors.
This study offers insight into the dimensions of institutional communication and how universities can develop more informed approaches to engaging diverse prospective students
Behavioral Manifestations of Childhood Abandonment: African-American Men\u27s Reflections and Strategies to Support Teenage Boys in K-12 Education
No full textThe purpose of this study was to explore the behavioral manifestations of childhood abandonment as reflected in the lived experiences of African-American men and to identify strategies that may support African-American boys in K–12 educational settings. Although there has been limited documentation regarding the direct connection between childhood abandonment and behavioral challenges in school environments, this study seeks to address that gap by capturing the reflections of African-American men who experienced abandonment during their formative years. These reflections provide insight into how abandonment may shape behavior in educational spaces and what types of interventions or supports might have made a difference during their K–12 schooling.
Data collection strategies included in-depth, semi-structured interviews with African-American men between the ages of 25 and 60 who attended public K–12 schools and experienced some form of childhood abandonment. Analysis of data occurred in three phases: (a) horizontalization of statements to identify significant meaning units, (b) clustering of those units into themes using phenomenological reduction, and (c) synthesis of the structural and textural descriptions into a composite essence. The analysis of the phenomenological interview data will be guided by the theoretical proposition that childhood abandonment disrupts attachment and developmental systems, as explained by Attachment Theory and Ecological Systems Theory. The trustworthiness of the analysis will be protected through reflective journaling and bracketing of researcher bias
