Emily Orr Family History

The family history of Emily Knapp Orr. A history of the Brooks and Knapp family as it relates to Emily

NAU is abuzz about career

In 2013, NAU Career Development implemented a robust 3 year assessment strategy. Year One, showcased at the 2015 Assessment Fair, focused on assessing the Reach of our program. In Year Two, we continued to assess Reach and added measures of Perception, including satisfaction surveys targeted towards students, employers, and campus partners, as well as interviews with faculty. Assessing outcomes of both quantitative and qualitative data analyses, our results demonstrated something exciting….NAU is Abuzz about Career! The busy bees at NAU Career Development are having an impact, resulting in prepared students, engaged partners, and satisfied employers. Our data is reviewed throughout the year, and continues to inform future priorities and next steps. Come see what the buzz is about

THE RELATIONS AMONG MOTIVES, NEGATIVE AFFECT, AND CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER USAGE: WHO IS USING WHAT AND WHY?

Researchers in the domain of computer-mediated communication (CMC) are beginning to investigate the motives for using tools such as Facebook and MSN Messenger (MSN). It is unclear, however, whether motives specific to Facebook and MSN use are associated with negative affect or with the use of these tools. The present study investigated the motives for Facebook and MSN use and the affective and usage correlates of these motives. A total of 360 CMC users were recruited for this study. Of this total, 350 were Facebook users and 259 were MSN users. The study was conducted online and participants completed a series of self-report questionnaires assessing motives, negative affect, and CMC use. Data reduction analyses of motives questionnaires revealed five motives for Facebook use and four motives for MSN use. The Regulation of Social Anxieties motive for Facebook use and the Offline Stress Reduction motive for MSN use were both positively correlated with negative affect (NA) and social avoidance, and negatively correlated with positive affect (PA). The Enjoyable Distraction motive (for both Facebook and MSN) was positively correlated with the frequency of Facebook use and with the intensity of Facebook and MSN use. These results demonstrated that the CMC use motives that correlated with negative affect were different from the CMC use motives that correlated with CMC usage. The present study also demonstrated the importance of including a measure of negative affect (NA) when investigating CMC motives and affective correlates. Implications for using the need to belong framework (Baumeister & Leary, 1995) in CMC motives research were discussed

Personality and motivations associated with Facebook use

Facebook is quickly becoming one of the most popular tools for social communication. However, Facebook is somewhat different from other Social Networking Sites as it demonstrates an offline-to-online trend; that is, the majority of Facebook Friends are met offline and then added later. The present research investigated how the Five-Factor Model of personality relates to Facebook use. Despite some expected trends regarding Extraversion and Openness to Experience, results indicated that personality factors were not as influential as previous literature would suggest. The results also indicated that a motivation to communicate was influential in terms of Facebook use. It is suggested that different motivations may be influential in the decision to use tools such as Facebook, especially when individual functions of Facebook are being considered

Predicting Education-Job Mismatch and Its Consequences for A Cohort of American Workers

This paper considers the income and health consequences of education-job mismatch for a cohort of workers. Education-job mismatch is common, but there is little research on how it is related to outcomes for workers. This study uses longitudinal data from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to examine education-job mismatch over a significant portion of the work life course – early career, between ages 25 and 35, and mid-career. Findings suggest that gender, race/ethnicity, and occupational sector are important predictors of experiencing education-job mismatch. Men, African Americans, and workers in office-administrative occupations were more likely to experience mismatch. Overeducation was associated with poorer health and lower income levels, whereas undereducation was only related to poorer health. The health and income of those who were matched at one time was more like the outcomes of people matched at both time points, suggesting penalties associated with longer periods of mismatch

Designing display in the department store: techniques, technologies, and professionalization, 1880-1920

Between 1880 and 1920 displays in leading department stores reached an unprecedented level of artistic and commercial ambition that required professional skill, engaged with technology, earned consumer attention, and provided distinction between stores. Merchandise arrangements conveyed technical proficiency and innovation specific to the retail setting while their form and content were also in conversation with current events, art, urban life, and popular culture. This thesis explores the making, viewing, and meanings of display. Discussion will be framed around the following questions: What role did display design play in the development of department stores in Chicago, New York and London at the turn of the twentieth century and how can the impact and significance of display be identified in the stores’ material and visual cultures? Drawing from a diverse range of unexplored primary resources and archives, this thesis reveals a set of previously underrepresented design roles, tools, and techniques of display production in the practice of architects, window dressers, shopfitters, and interior decorators who employed manual and mechanical methods to create displays that were on constant view and in continual flux. In this newly changeable retail environment, display’s alignment with fin-de-siècle modernity is explored through the themes of speed, variation, fragmentation, rationalization, and theatricality. Overall this thesis analyzes how display achieved an agency to transform everyday objects into commodities and to make consumers out of passersby

The influence of shyness on the use of Facebook in an undergraduate sample

Researchers have suggested that individual differences will help to determine which online communication tools appeal to and are used by different individuals. With respect to the domain of computer-mediated communication, shyness is a particular personality trait of interest, as forums provide opportunities for social interactions that shy individuals might otherwise avoid. The present study investigated the personality trait of shyness and its relation with certain features of an online communication tool (Facebook). We hypothesized that shyness would be significantly related to the quantity of time spent on Facebook, the number of contacts added to one’s Facebook profile, and attitudes toward Facebook. Our findings supported that shyness was significantly positively correlated with the time spent on Facebook and having favorable attitudes toward the social networking site. Furthermore, shyness was significantly negatively correlated with the number of Facebook “Friends.” Limitations of the present study and suggestions for future research are addressed

Teaching the Piccolo: A Survey of Selected College Flute Teachers

"The piccolo is an auxiliary member of the flute family. A diversity of opinion exists among college flute teachers as to the importance and method of piccolo study as part of a flute curriculum. This author conducted a study to outline some current pedagogical trends among college flute teachers. This document presents information gathered via electronic survey from college flute instructors at schools accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. The survey questions pertained to background information of respondents, studio size, studio requirements, instruments and pedagogical material, and pedagogy. Sixty-five teachers responded to the survey, and the results are published in this document. "--Abstract from author supplied metadata