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Preferred Leadership Style, Cognitive Operator Competencies, and Senior Leader Competencies Exhibited by United States Marine Corps Special Operations Officers: A Quantitative Non-Experimental Study
Get PDFResearch identifies existing commonalities between leadership style and conceptual, technical, and interpersonal competencies. Marine Forces Special Operations Command has not explored leadership style and leader competencies and how they relate to the cognitive operator concept described in Marine Special Operations Forces 2030: A Strategic Vision for the Future. By not thoroughly exploring how they relate, Marine Forces Special Operations Command may not understand the level of interdependence between leadership style and senior leader competencies and the mastery of cognitive operator competencies. This quantitative non-experimental study explores the relationship between preferred leadership style, cognitive operator competencies, and senior leader competencies exhibited by United States Marine Corps Special Operations Officers. Sixty United States Marine Corps Special Operations Officers completed a survey comprised of demographic data, a Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire subset, a cognitive operator competencies questionnaire, and a senior leader competencies questionnaire. A series of t-tests determined significant relationships between transformational, transactional, and passive avoidant leadership characteristics and cognitive operator competencies; transactional and passive avoidant leadership characteristics and senior leader competencies; and cognitive operator competencies and senior leader competencies. The relationship between transformational leadership characteristics and senior leader competencies was insignificant. Additionally, several ancillary findings resulted from stratifying survey responses according to participant characteristics. The information generated by this study can be used to compare against Marine Forces Special Operations Command’s officer training continuum and determine where to best incorporate training on preferred leadership style, cognitive operator competencies, and senior leader competencies
Scorpions of the Horn of Africa (Arachnida, Scorpiones). Part XXVIII. Scorpions of Djibouti
Get PDFAll scorpion species known from Djibouti are listed, with color photographs and maps of their distribution. Buthus awashensis Kovařík, 2011 known from Ethiopia and Somaliland is reported for the first time from Djibouti. The diagnosis of Orthochirus afar Kovařík & Lowe, 2016 is revised; O. borrii Rossi, 2017 is determined to be a junior synonym of O. afar Kovařík & Lowe, 2016 syn. n.; O. aristidis (Simon, 1882) syn. res. is returned to synonymy with O. olivaceus Karsch, 1881; and O. arenicola Lourenço & Ythier, 2021, is relegated to the status of nomen dubium. Hemiscorpius lipsae sp. n. is described and fully complemented with color photos of the female holotype and its habitat
Perceptions on Charter Schools in West Virginia
Get PDFIn 2018 and 2019, the public school teachers in West Virginia walked out of their classrooms to protest charter schools opening in the Mountain State. During a special legislative session in the summer of 2019, the state\u27s first charter school law was passed, paving the way to open West Virginia\u27s first charter school. This research provides data on whether the COVID-19 global pandemic changed how individuals in West Virginia view charter schools. A concurrent nested mixed-method approach was used for this research. A twenty-one-question survey, Perceptions on Charter Schools in West Virginia, was developed using both Likert scale and open-ended questions. Personal interviews were conducted using purposive sampling with three individuals possessing unique charter school experience. Five hundred forty-seven individuals responded to the survey. Data indicated a significant difference for eleven survey questions regarding charter schools depending on the respondents\u27 demographic groups. Groups included college student, multiple commitments, teacher, parent/grandparent, and other. Perceptions of West Virginians regarding charter schools vary depending on the demographic group of the survey respondents. Findings also revealed that over 90% of respondents preferred in-person charter schools over virtual charter schools. The open-ended question showed varying opinions for and against charter schools opening in West Virginia
Librarians in an Austerity Environment
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to evaluate methods used by library administrators to maintain collections to support programs at Carnegie institutions classified R1, R2, D/PU: Doctoral/Professional Universities (formerly R3) with varying degrees of research activity and selected M1 (i.e., Masters Large) institutions, and compare those data.
Public institutions of higher education have seen mandatory state budget cuts for more than 20 years, with each year’s cut being larger than the previous. These statewide education cuts have affected academic libraries in a major way, resulting in purchasing cutbacks, decreased subscription renewals and cancellations.
Purchasing cutbacks have meant fewer physical book purchases and more journal cancellations, while hiring freezes and job cuts have resulted in more responsibilities for individuals in the library workforce; in some cases, duties have been outsourced to specialty companies, from maintenance operations to acquisitions processing, such as cataloging and even labeling.
These drastic cuts in library budgets have caused librarians and administrators to cut not only fringe elements in the budget, but to develop creative changes in the fabric of library functioning in order to remain operational, as well as maintain accreditation standards
The Place of Delivery in Late 20th-Century Latin American Homiletics Debates
No full textWhile scholars understand the late twentieth century as a transformational time for religious, social, and political cultures in Latin America, scholarly attention tends to focus on the relationship between social and theological movements (e.g., liberation theology). However, the existing scholarship has not adequately addressed the issue of how preaching practices and styles shape those social and theological movements. To begin to address this gap, this paper specifically considers the place of delivery in late-twentieth-century Latin American debates about homiletics. The second half of the 20th century saw major changes in the practices of Latin American preaching as Vatican II opened up new opportunities for vernacular preaching in the Catholic church and the explosive growth of evangelicalism, including charismatic movements, transformed both Protestant and Catholic preaching cultures and spread their preference for extemporaneous or impromptu styles of preaching. By closely examining arguments surrounding rhetorical delivery in homiletics debates in late-twentieth-century Latin America, this paper will illuminate the relationship between homiletical practices and styles and the development of theological and social movements
St. Maximilian Kolbe: Preaching the Primacy of Love
No full textOne of the best-known Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe (1894-1941). His offer of himself in the place of another man who had been selected to die in the starvation bunker at Auschwitz is often recalled as an extraordinary act of charity and an illustration of the power of love over evil. Less attention is focused on Kolbe’s work before his arrest and ultimate deportation to Auschwitz. In 1917, Kolbe along with six other students at the International Seraphic College in Rome founded articles the Militia Immaculatae, an international evangelizing organization. The friary he established at Niepokalanów in 1927 quickly became the world’s largest Franciscan monastery and the largest publishing house in Poland. Through his writings, especially articles in Rycerz Niepokalanej (Knight of the Immaculate) and his radio addresses, Kolbe had a profound impact on the Conventual Franciscan Order as well as hundreds of thousands of ordinary Catholics. This paper will explore some of the major themes in Kolbe’s thought as well as his style of communication
20220831: Assessment Office, Program Reviews, 2006-2009
Get PDFThese items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from 2006-2009. Items were received in 2021 but were not accessioned until 2022 and include program reviews for undergraduate, graduate, and MU SOM programs. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents
Sermons or Political Speeches? Islam(ism), ʿUlama and Khuṭbāt
No full textJamʿiyyat ʿUlamā-I Islam (Society of Scholars of Islam, JUI) is a major representative of electoral Islamism in Pakistan. The ʿUlama, mentioned in the title of the party, are traditionally educated Scholars of Islam, most of whom serve as prayer leaders (Aʾimma; sing. Imām) in mosques. JUI is a potent force, both in Parliament and ‘on streets’ and works under its Qāyid (Leader), (Mawlana) Fazlur Rahman (1953--). Rahman, a seasoned Pakistani Politician and Theologian, severs as Amīr (President) of the party. JUI is a major vehicle for the politicization of ʿUlama. These politically active ʿUlama, in turn, advance party agenda in their (Friday) Khuṭbāt (sermons). In doing so, these ʿUlama, thus, tend to blur the boundaries between religious and political utterances. More explicitly these boundaries collapse in the publication practices adopted by Islamist groups. JUI, for instance, strategically brand the largely political speeches of its President (Rahman) as Khuṭbāt. Khuṭbāt-i Qāyid-i Jamʿiyyat (KQJ), thus, is an Urdu language book, comprising of Rahman’s speeches. He delivered these Khuṭbāt mostly to political rallies, home and abroad. The speeches, 62 in number, cover a period of twenty years from 1986-2006. They were orally delivered, recorded, transcribed, possibly edited by party officials, and then published. My paper seeks to broadly examine KQJ to decipher Islamist techniques of sermonizing the political speeches. The paper also aims to textually analyze a selected Khuṭbā from KQJ to find out Rahman’s politically motivated legitimization strategies based on references from Islam’s foundational scriptures, Qurʾan and Hadith
