520 research outputs found
Review of the book Unbegrenzte moglichkeiten: Amerikanisierung in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900-1933) by Egbert Klautke
No full textDr. Jeff R. Schutts (Douglas College) reviews the book Unbegrenzte Moglichkeiten: Amerikanisierung in Deutschland und Frankreich (1900-1933) by Egbert Klautke (2005).Final article published
Review of the book Hitlers Volksstaat: Raub, Rassenkrieg und nationaler Sozialismus by Götz Aly
No full textDr. Jeff R. Schutts (Douglas College) reviews the book Hitlers Volksstaat: Raub, Rassenkrieg und nationaler Sozialismus by Götz Aly (2008).Final article published
Correspondence from Jeff D. Stone to William R. Beardslee, July 9, 1966
No full textCorrespondence from Jeff D. Stone to William R. Beardslee discussing a Voter Education Project student worker voter registration initiatives in Muscogee county
Association Between Immediate Treatment of Early Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and Breastfeeding Outcomes: Findings From the TOBOGM Study
No full textPublished March 05 2024Canaan Negash Seifu, Jincy Immanuel, William M. Hague, Helena Teede, N. Wah Cheung, Emily J. Hibbert, Christopher J. Nolan, Michael J. Peek, Vincent W. Wong, Jeff R. Flack, Mark Mclean, Arianne Sweeting, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, J, urgen Harreiter, Emily Gianatti, Viswanathan Mohan, Helena Backman, and David Simmons, on behalf of the TOBOGM Research Grou
Jeff Richards: Open Country
No full textLoganberry Books presents author Jeff Richards and his book Open Country, a tightly woven novel in 18 short stories that starts and ends at the Ohio River, the division between two families who fight on opposite sides during the Civil War and figure prominently in the piece. It is written in the vernacular of the time with a tone of gallows humor
2022 - Jeff Stowell
No full textDr. Jeff Stowell (Psychology) Dr. Jeff Stowell’s service to EIU is at such an incomparable level that it would be difficult to imagine what EIU would look like without his extraordinary commitment to this institution.
He is our accreditation liaison. He is on the textbook advisory committee (in the past chair), the academic program elimination committee, and the institutional animal care and use committee. He has served on the online learning board (co-chaired), HLC assurance review committee (also co-chaired), learning goal subcommittee (chair, of course), and dozens of other committees (university, college, and department) representing many, many years of collective service to our institution. Beyond the gates of EIU, Jeff serves our state and his discipline on the Illinois College Course Materials Affordability and Equitable Access Task Force, IAI Transfer Psychology Panel, and as a reviewer for various journals and presses, among other things. He is currently the executive director of the Mid-America Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference. Last, but certainly not least, Jeff has served continuously on Faculty Senate since 2010, and for the last seven years as Vice-Chair (for which he gets no CUs). Jeff is an innovator and early adopter of classroom technology. He is also conscientious in how he uses these new tools, ever careful to assure that they are actually improving the educational experience for students, as well as their retention and understanding. Jeff has been named the Psi Chi (Psychology Honor’s Society) chapter’s faculty member of the year, four times, and he has been nominated for U.S Professor of the year three times. In addition, he has received a TurningPoint teaching award, the Michael R. Hoadley Instructional Technology Award, an award for a textbook he contributed to (the McGuffey Award), along with teaching awards from our Honors College, the College of Sciences, the School of Continuing Education, and the Department of Psychology, among many other accolades. In 2012 he was named Faculty Laureate, arguably the highest teaching award at our University. Jeff’s record of outstanding research is another feather in our collective hats. Much of his most recent research focuses on the application of various teaching technologies and strategies, and their assessment. This is the kind of work that doesn’t just benefit our students and faculty, but faculty and students everywhere. It is also particularly relevant and timely, given the global pivot to online instruction in the wake of the Covid epidemic, and the changing demographics of our nation that will compel universities to reach out and cater to the unique needs of non-traditional students. Jeff is the author of more than three dozen journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. Many of these are co-written with students. He has also co-authored or edited another dozen works on line and in print, including the books Activities for Teaching Statistics and Research Methods (APA, 2017), and Getting Connected: Best Practices for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning in Psychology (Oxford, 2011). True to the criteria for the award, Jeff exemplifies achievement in every area – service, teaching, and research – for which a professor’s work is traditionally measured.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/distinguished_faculty_award/1008/thumbnail.jp
Born again in the gospel of refreshment?: Coca-colonization and the re-making of postwar German identity
No full textThe chapter, "Born again in the gospel of refreshment?: Coca-colonization and the re-making of postwar German identity" was written by Jeff R. Schutts (Douglas College Faculty). Sitting in the ruins of the Third Reich, most Germans wanted to know which of the two post-war German states would erase the material traces of their wartime suffering most quickly and most thoroughly. Consumption and the quality of everyday life quickly became important battlefields upon which the East-West conflict would be fought. This book focuses on the competing types of consumer societies that developed over time in the two Germanies and the legacy each left. Consuming Germany in the Cold War assesses why East Germany increasingly fell behind in this competition and how the failure to create a viable socialist "consumer society" in the East helped lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. By the 1970s, East Germans were well aware that the regime's bombastic promises that the GDR would soon overtake the West had become increasingly hollow. For most East German citizens, West German consumer society set the standards that East Germany repeatedly failed to meet.By exploring the ways in which East and West Germany have functioned as each other's "other" since 1949, this book suggests some of the possibilities for a new narrative of post-war German history. While taking into account the very different paths pursued by East and West Germany since 1949, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competition and highlight the connections between the two German successor states, as well as the ways in which these relationships changed throughout the period. By understanding the legacy that forty-plus years of rivalry established, we can gain a better understanding of the current tensions between the eastern and western regions of a united Germany.book chapterPublished
"Die erfrischende pause": Marketing Coca-Cola in Hitler's Germany
No full textThe chapter, ""Die erfrischende pause": Marketing Coca-Cola in Hitler's Germany" was written by Jeff R. Schutts (Douglas College Faculty). The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. Selling Modernity places advertising and advertisements in this tumultuous historical setting, exploring such themes as the relationship between advertising and propaganda in Nazi Germany, the influence of the United States on German advertising, the use of advertising to promote mass consumption in West Germany, and the ideological uses and eventual prohibition of advertising in East Germany.
While the essays are informed by the burgeoning literature on consumer society, Selling Modernity focuses on the actors who had the greatest stake in successful merchandising: company managers, advertising executives, copywriters, graphic artists, market researchers, and salespeople, all of whom helped shape the depiction of a company’s products, reputation, and visions of modern life. The contributors consider topics ranging from critiques of capitalism triggered by the growth of advertising in the 1890s to the racial politics of Coca-Cola’s marketing strategies during the Nazi era, and from the post-1945 career of an erotica entrepreneur to a federal anti-drug campaign in West Germany. Whether analyzing the growing fascination with racialized discourse reflected in early-twentieth-century professional advertising journals or the postwar efforts of Lufthansa to lure holiday and business travelers back to a country associated with mass murder, the contributors reveal advertising’s central role in debates about German culture, business, politics, and society.book chapterPublished
‘Green Shift’: An analysis of corporate responses to climate change
No full textThe concept of climate change is now of global concern. This article explores corporate responses through an investigation of the rhetoric of several major UK companies that claim to be leading corporate adjustment. It argues that their actual business practice fall far sort of the claims made for it. This raises questions about the extent to which solutions based on a philosophy of market and business solutions is capable of either meeting the ends claimed for it or confronting the scale of the problem of climate change. The difficulty, however, is that in the competition of when corporate claims are allow to compete, bad solutions might be diverting attention from and even driving out good solutions
Regression From Early GDM to Normal Glucose Tolerance and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in the Treatment of Booking Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Study
No full textTOBOGM CollectionOBJECTIVE: To compare pregnancy outcomes among women with a normal oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) before 20 weeks' gestation (early) and at 24-28 weeks' gestation (late) (no gestational diabetes mellitus, or No-GDM), those with early GDM randomized to observation with a subsequent normal OGTT (GDM-Regression), and those with GDM on both occasions (GDM-Maintained). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Women at <20 weeks' gestation with GDM risk factors who were recruited for a randomized controlled early GDM treatment trial were included. Women with treated early GDM and late GDM (according to the World Health Organization's 2013 criteria) were excluded from this analysis. Logistic regression compared pregnancy outcomes. RESULTS: GDM-Regression (n = 121) group risk factor profiles and OGTT results generally fell between the No-GDM (n = 2,218) and GDM-Maintained (n = 254) groups, with adjusted incidences of pregnancy complications similar between the GDM-Regression and No-GDM groups. CONCLUSIONS: Women with early GDM but normal OGTT at 24-28 weeks' gestation had pregnancy outcomes that were similar to those of individuals without GDM. Identifying early GDM likely to regress would allow treatment to be avoided.David Simmons, Jincy Immanuel, William M. Hague, Helena Teede, Christopher J. Nolan, Michael J. Peek, Jeff R. Flack, Mark McLean, Vincent W. Wong, Emily J. Hibbert, Alexandra Kautzky-Willer, Jurgen Harreiter, Helena Backman, Emily Gianatti, Arianne Sweeting, Viswanathan Mohan, and N. Wah Cheung, on behalf of the TOBOGM Research Grou
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