Quote of the Day: Increasing Student Engagement with Textbooks and Common Readers

Ensuring that students not only complete assigned readings, but also actively engage with the readings, is a common challenge faced by faculty. Research indicates that approximately only onethird to one-half of students complete assigned readings for any given day (Hatteberg & Steffy, 2013; Hoeft, 2012; Burchfield & Sappington, 2000).https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1080/thumbnail.jp

An overview of the CDFI industry

The community development financial institutions (CDFI) industry is at a crossroads in terms of identifying strategies for increasing overall sustainability and scale, and ultimately, impact. This article presents an overview of the CDFI industry in the United States and New England and identifies the changes and challenges facing CDFIs and what they indicate for the sector’s future.Financial institutions ; Financial institutions - New England ; Community development ; Community development - New England

Showing Success: Student Stories on Film

In Fall 2019, we showed video interviews of successful (i.e., graduated) alumni to first-year seminar students in the hope that incoming students would be inspired to adopt similar success strategies leading to increased retention and completion of their UNLV degree. The Academic Success Center filmed interviews with ten UNLV graduates who took our first-year seminar, COLA 100E. These COLA 100E Success Stories were then edited into three videos, each focusing on a particular theme, such as the first-year transition, the major selection process, and the key tips for graduation. The goal was that these successfully-graduated students would serve as motivational role models for UNLV’s diverse first-year student population. Though the alumni echoed concepts taught in the class, we imagined these peers would be more relatable than the instructor alone, encouraging students to identify with and potentially adopt new approaches to and perspectives of success early in their college careers.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/btp_expo/1113/thumbnail.jp

A new approach to public housing

Since 1996, a federal demonstration project called Moving to Work has shown that if public housing agencies are permitted to merge funds from various programs and are exempted from most regulations, they can administer housing programs better.Public housing - New England ; Public housing ; Housing policy

A new approach to public housing

Since 1996, a federal demonstration project called Moving to Work has shown that if public housing agencies are permitted to merge funds from various programs and are exempted from most regulations, they can administer housing programs better.Public housing - New England ; Public housing ; Housing policy

Social Media and it\u27s Effects on Mental Health of High School Students

Previous studies have established a link between mental health and social media usage. That research has shown that social media usage in students can be detrimental to their self-esteem, motivation, and generalized anxiety. This study focused on the effects of social media usage on high school students. The hypothesis was that high social media usage would be associated with student mental health. This study included surveying high school students in the Northwest Indiana area. These surveys asked questions regarding how often the students used social media, what they used it for, and what their perceived stress and anxiety levels were regarding social media usage. This study is important because it brings awareness to the community on how social media can have an impact. The presenters include senior Social Work majors Nancy Engel, Kimberly Mullins, and Emma Brandy. The sponsor of this research is Professor Dr. Matthew Ringenberg, the Valparaiso University Social Work Department Chair

Knots with distinct primitive/primitive and primitive/Seifert representatives

Berge introduced knots that are primitive/primitive with respect to the genus 2 Heegaard surface, $F$, in $S^3$; surgery on such knots at the surface slope yields a lens space. Later Dean described a similar class of knots that are primitive/Seifert with respect to $F$; surgery on these knots at the surface slope yields a Seifert fibered space. Here we construct a two-parameter family of knots that have distinct primitive/Seifert embeddings in $F$ with the same surface slope, as well as a family of torus knots that have a primitive/primitive representative and a primitive/Seifert representative with the same surface slope.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures; 2 figures update

On manifolds with multiple lens space filings

An irreducible 3--manifold with torus boundary either is a Seifert fibered space or admits at most three lens space fillings according to the Cyclic Surgery Theorem. We examine the sharpness of this theorem by classifying the non-hyperbolic manifolds with more than one lens space filling, classifying the hyperbolic manifolds obtained by filling of the Minimally Twisted 5 Chain complement that have three lens space fillings, showing that the doubly primitive knots in $S^3$ and $S^1 \times S^2$ have no unexpected extra lens space surgery, and showing that the Figure Eight Knot Sister Manifold is the only non-Seifert fibered manifold with a properly embedded essential once-punctured torus and three lens space fillings.Comment: 30 pages, 13 figure

Skepticism in HealthCare: An Analyzation of Race Discrimination and Trust in Doctor\u27s Judgement

Historically Black people have experienced extreme experiences of medical mistreatment, one of the most prominent and longest running being the Tuskegee Experiment. Racism is not only apparent in the medical industry it is structurally tied to the foundation of American society and it is non-debatable that Black people are tremendously affected by these structures. Past literature has sought out to examine the connection between Black people and the trust that they have in medical institutions. My research builds on this past work and examines how experience with race discrimination affects the trust that a person may have in their doctor’s judgement. Using data from the General Social Survey (N=638) I conducted a multivariate regression. Results showed that having an experience with discrimination because of race was not statistically associated with the trust that someone has in their doctor’s judgement. Although the results of this research did not show statistical support for my hypothesis the non-significance of it raises other important points and areas in need of research. It is also important to acknowledge that although there is no statistical significance in this study that does not cancel out the possibility that experience with race discrimination has some effect on trust in doctor’s judgement. There is a need to further analyze the causal mechanism behind the difference in Black people and people of colors trust in doctors versus White people