Reflections on Open Educational Resources: Abdullah Oguz

Abdullah Oguz, a faculty participant in CSU\u27s 2021 Textbook Affordability Summer Symposium (TASS), recorded a short video to describe his experiences using open educational resources (OERs) and to provide advice for other faculty considering doing the same. This video demonstrates the value of OERs for student achievement, as well as CSU faculty members\u27 commitment to student success. Recorded Fall 2021

Parasympathetic Activity and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness in Athletes

Bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) is a term used to describe the bronchial constriction response to environmental stimuli. BHR is increasingly common in endurance athletes due to increased exposure to some stimuli. The purpose of this review is to evaluate Stang et al.\u27s (2016) article, Parasympathetic Activity and Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness in Athletes and discuss the significance of their results. The results concluded that BHR is related to the parasympathetic activity of the heart rather than the pupils. The study concluded that there is an association between BHR and parasympathetic activity of the heart, methacholine is associated with BHR and cardiac vagal activity, and BHR may or may not vary based on the type of sport

An End-to-End Network for Co-saliency Detection in One Single Image

Co-saliency detection within a single image is a common vision problem that has not yet been well addressed. Existing methods often used a bottom-up strategy to infer co-saliency in an image in which salient regions are firstly detected using visual primitives such as color and shape and then grouped and merged into a co-saliency map. However, co-saliency is intrinsically perceived complexly with bottom-up and top-down strategies combined in human vision. To address this problem, this study proposes a novel end-to-end trainable network comprising a backbone net and two branch nets. The backbone net uses ground-truth masks as top-down guidance for saliency prediction, whereas the two branch nets construct triplet proposals for regional feature mapping and clustering, which drives the network to be bottom-up sensitive to co-salient regions. We construct a new dataset of 2019 natural images with co-saliency in each image to evaluate the proposed method. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art accuracy with a running speed of 28 fps

Is It Worth It”: The Lived Experience of Food Insecurity among College Students at a Midwestern University System

Food insecurity exists on college campuses among college students. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of how college students experience food insecurity. A phenomenology-based study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of food insecurity among students at the University of Nebraska (NU) system campuses, namely, the University of Nebraska—Lincoln (UNL), the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), and the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK). In-depth interviews with twenty-one students, ranging from undergraduate to doctoral-level students, were conducted. This study also aims to build knowledge around students’ experiences with food insecurity. The essential research question guiding this inquiry is, how do college students experience food insecurity, and what challenges do they face, if any, when it comes to being food insecure, if at all? Based on the analysis of the students’ experiences, two overarching and eight subthemes were developed. The results from this study can provide insights into the impacts food insecurity has on students. Each of these areas has important implications for improving students’ situations related to food insecurity and the potential to improve student outcomes and help address gaps in the current literature

Devinity Interview, 25 July 2023

Devinity (b. 1979) grew up in Sandersville, Georgia, before moving to Cleveland in 1992. Devinity discusses coming out as a transgender woman in the 1990s, her career as a female illusionist/entertainer, and discrimination within the LGBTQ+ community. Devinity discusses working as former employee of the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland, including her involvement in the Center\u27s Trans Wellness Program, Transgender Day of Remembrance, Transgender Day of Visibility, and Pride events. She discusses founding the Trans Wellness Resources and Support Network and her ongoing work as a LGBTQ+ community activist

Teaching \u27Intellectual Diversity\u27 in the Shadow of Ohio SB 83

At Cleveland State University there is a class that studies multicultural literature. In Spring, 2023, the focus has been the multicultural short story. Once students became familiar with formal narrative elements (plot, conflict), the critical analysis was driven by the question, “What is ‘cultural’ about multicultural fiction? Rather than analyzing the stories in terms of formal structure (e. g. plot), critical inquiry now centered on the cultural icons wherein students began to define a different learning experience. As students were developing this new process of inquiry, SB 83 was introduced in the Ohio State legislature. The intent to create parameters in attempts to promote intellectual diversity, changed the question to “What if information gained could not be shared?” The lightening talk will follow those students whose response engaged OER. The presentation will include the instructional context, classroom strategies for defining and teaching cultural content, and student reflection on their own learning and the potential to effect learning in others

Cuyahoga County Grocery Store Assessment, 2023

High profile grocery store closures in working class neighborhoods have galvanized community efforts and political will to address grocery store gaps – albeit in a reactive manner. Grocery stores are an essential part of our communities, providing access to food, medicine, jobs, household items and banking services. Their relevance merits a robust focus on policy solutions. This Grocery Store Assessment is a collaboration among public sector entities and neighborhood leaders to better understand the grocery store landscape, learn from implementation efforts and develop proactive policy solutions. There are 223 small, mid and large-scale grocery stores and 11,000 grocery workers in Cuyahoga County. About 14% (178,000) of county residents are lower-income AND lack a grocery store in their neighborhood – what we characterize as a food desert. Families living in these locations are also less likely to own a vehicle. Considerations resulting from community dialogue on grocery store issues: -How might we better anticipate grocery store closures? -Are there strategies that government can employ to stabilize existing stores? -How might we use community benefit agreements among grocers, community and government