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Environmental participation and evaluation on Marshall University\u27s campus
Get PDFEncouraging environmental awareness and engagement on Marshall University’s campus is a fundamental goal of the institution’s Sustainability Department. In working with the department, this study sought to describe the student body’s perceptions, opinions, and rates of environmentally friendly behaviors on campus. In addition to describing the desired population, analysis was conducted to identify what factors influence pro-environmental behaviors within students to produce more effective messaging and engagement strategies for the Sustainability Department. Through the lens of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), individual action is produced by behavioral intent, influenced by an individual’s values, norms, and perceived situational control. Measures were constructed to identify the rates of pro-environmental behaviors of students, their perceived normalcy of environmental care on campus, and their level of personal value regarding environmental issues. While scales were lacking in reliability and a comprehensive sample across the university population was not established, it was found that an individual’s level of value in environmental issues did correlate with pro-environmental behaviors as well as awareness and use of university offered environmental projects. While further research into the beliefs and practices of students on Marshall University’s campus is needed to expand these results, baseline data for understanding the population at hand was produced. These data suggests that students tend to care for environmental issues, but mostly practice on individual scales with low awareness of services offered by the university. It is recommended that the Sustainability Department emphasize personal value and contribution to nature in its messaging to increase future engagement
Partnering with Archivists to Process the Manuscript Collection Present at the Marshall University Herbarium
Get PDFThe Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) is located on the third floor of the Science Building at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, United States. It was founded in the 1930\u27s by Dr. Frank A. Gilbert when Marshall was still Marshall College. Today, MUHW is the second largest herbarium in West Virginia with about 50,000 specimens, including 20 types. Mostly composed of vascular plants, the herbarium also contains small collections of non-vascular plants, fungi, algae, fossils, and some ethnobotanical material, mainly brought from Ecuador by one of the former curators, Dr. Dan Evans between the 1980\u27s and 2000\u27s. Apart from these biological collections, the Herbarium also has a small library and many other documents from former curators: letters from 1920-1930 written by Dr. Gilbert during the early years of MUHW, and research, teaching, and personal documents from Dr. Evans. In order to process the documentation present in the Herbarium, the MUHW curator reached out to the chair of the Special Collections Department at Marshall University, whose focus is precisely on manuscript collections like this and their historical relevance to the University and the Huntington area
ASCH Teaching and Research Archive for the History of Christianity
No full textThe American Society of Church History\u27s Teaching and Research Archive (TARA) is a curated collection [covering] the history of Christianity and its cultural contexts in all places and historical periods through the 20th century, including non-Western expressions. The Library of Appalachian Preaching was added to the Archive in September 2021.https://mds.marshall.edu/aa_about_the_library/1007/thumbnail.jp
Library of Appalachian Preaching: A Digital Repository of Sermons
No full textAs the winners of the 2020-21 Distinguished Artists and Scholars Team award, Robert Ellison and Larry Sheret were invited to give a presentation at the August 2021 TRACE (Teaching, Research, and Community Engagement) Tuesday conference. This is a recording of that presentation.https://mds.marshall.edu/aa_about_the_library/1009/thumbnail.jp
0869: League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Collection, 1931-2020
Get PDFInitially created as an auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the League of Women Voters was formed as an independent organization on February 14, 1920, six months prior to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. The League was designed to be “a mighty political experiment.” Although nonpartisan, the organization educates the public about politics and elections and advocates for major public policy legislation.
The League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area organized in April 1944 and was granted recognition as a local League on January 10, 1948.The program of the new chapter was built around three ideas: to make women more aware of political forces; to arouse women to their responsibility for government; and to act on governmental issues. The group has been active since its formation in providing voters’ services, advocating for policy change, and improving the quality of life in the Huntington area
Child/ Family/ and Community
No full textOver the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis/ from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model/ Family Systems/ Functionalism/ Conflict Theory/ Symbolic Interactionism/ and Psychological Perspectives.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1689/thumbnail.jp
Applications of Maxwell\u27s Equations
No full textThis book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism/ it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description/ the topics covered were “electromagnetics/ magnetostatics/ waves/ transmission lines/ wave guides/antennas/ and radiating systems.”https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1701/thumbnail.jp
The Balance of Personality
No full textThis open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested in teaching about theory and research on personality.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1702/thumbnail.jp