The SBI Program and Student Outcomes: A Study of Business Policy Classes

This study represents a preliminary inquiry ID to determine the value of combining SBI and Policy into a singular curriculum. A comparison of this combined formal was made wi1h the traditional Policy course. A slightly modified Job Diagnostic Survey (Hackman & Oldham, 1975) and a skills/usefulness scale (Hoffman, Fon1eno1 & Viswanathan, 1990) was administered to assess the difference between the two groups. Results suggested that the combined format met or exceeded the ou1comes of the traditional Policy course

TOBACCO'S IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE ECONOMY OF SOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA

Community/Rural/Urban Development, Crop Production/Industries,

Grammars of Transformation: Saving Evangelical Cultural Engagement

Watts, William J. “Grammars of Transformation: Saving Evangelical Cultural Engagement.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2018. 137 pp. Evangelical Christians have been struggling to offer a thorough and unified account of cultural engagement for the last several decades. H. Richard Niebuhr’s “Christ the Transformer of Culture” type has supplied evangelicals with the most influential rhetoric on the proper relationship of Christians and the church to the culture at large. However, this consensus is collapsing in the wake of new ways of speaking of cultural engagement that largely downplay or altogether avoid the language of transformation. The emergence of these new ways of speaking, that is, “grammars of cultural engagement,” signals the important and formative role of language in uniting one’s stated theology and suggested practices regarding cultural engagement. This dissertation argues that language is the way in which theology and practice is formally constituted in cultural engagement, and thereby serves as a control on the thought and life of the church. Because language is so formative and prone to ambiguity and imprecision, especially with respect to metaphors used in cultural engagement, no single grammar of engagement should be considered exclusively normative for the evangelical church. Grammars should be tethered to sound theological belief, and should allow such theology and contextual discernment shape how they are expressed linguistically with an eye toward practice

Time Allocations and Reward Structures for US Academic Economists from 1955–2005: Evidence from Three National Surveys

Using survey data collected in 1995, 2000 and 2005 from US academic economists, in which respondents were asked to indicate what percentage of their work time they allocate to research, teaching and service activities, and also how their departments and schools weight research, teaching and service in determining annual raises and making promotion and tenure decisions, we find these economists were allocating more time to teaching even though perceived departmental and school incentives provided a clear premium for research. The overall samples did not show major changes in their allocation of time from 1995–2005, but there were different responses at different types of schools, with increased time spent on research by faculty at doctoral schools while at masters' and baccalaureate schools more time was devoted to teaching. We use regression analysis to investigate factors that affect how different faculty members allocate their time between teaching and research. In addition to Carnegie school classifications and related school characteristics, faculty members' gender and rank were significant predictors of how economists allocate their time. Male economists, particularly among assistant professors at research universities, spent less time on teaching and more time on research than female economists.