Strengthening Wellness for Food Insecure Students: Altruism, Spirituality, and Academic Performance

Strengthening Wellness for Food Insecure Students; Altruism, Spirituality and Academic Performance is a quantitative methods study using a mediated analysis with structural equation modeling to test the extent to which wellness dimensions mediate the relationship between food insecurity and student grade point average. Student food insecurity is a growing concern at higher education institutions across the United States (Cady, 2014; Goldrick-Rab & Cook, 2011; Maroto, Snelling & Linck, 2015) with food insecurity rates ranging from 14% to 59% in recent studies (Freudenberg, Manzo, Jones, Kwan, Tsui & Gagnon, 2011; Patton-Lopez, Lopez-Cevallos, Cancel-Tirado & Vazquez, 2014). This phenomenon on college campuses is also reporting negative impacts on students’ wellness (El Zein, 2017a; Gallegos, Ramsey & Ong, 2014) and academic performance (El Zein, 2017a; Maroto, Snelling & Linck, 2015). While higher education institutions have begun to address this concern with food pantries and social services, the purpose of this study is to examine the role of student wellness in the relationship between food insecurity and academic performance. The methodological approach for this study includes a mediation analysis with structural equation modeling as well as an exploratory factor analysis which determined factor loadings for items related to the nine dimensions of wellness in the study: social, emotional, physical, financial, occupational, environmental, cultural, spiritual, and intellectual. Findings from the study identify 48% of the sample report some type of food insecurity within the last twelve months. The study also presents a comprehensive model demonstrating the relationship between wellness, food security, and grade point average. The outcomes from the model include the identification of four core wellness dimensions: socioemotional, altruism, spiritual, and physical (diet and exercise), which are mediated by academic/career wellness for predicting grade point average outcomes. In addition, food security is also reported as correlating with financial stress and substance use. Implications for higher education practitioners, policymakers, and future research are discussed

The Expanding Role of the Counselor as a Vocational Expert Witness

An article written by William J. Weikel and published in the April 1986 Journal of Counseling & Development, pages 523-524

A Multimodal Approach in Dealing with Chronic Epstein-Barr Viral Syndrome

An article written by William J. Weikel and published in the May 1989 Journal of Counseling & Development, pages 522-524

The Ursinus Weekly, March 7, 1938

Editorship of 1939 Ruby goes to Gene Hile • Harmony between races urged by Hill • Mr. Pim passes by is junior play • St. Patrick\u27s Day motif for soph hop • York County alumni convene, elect new officers • Pre-meds to hear Behney, Penn med. prof., tonight • Local dramatic casts to play off-campus • Y gay nineties shindig put off \u27til March 18 • Twelve comely campus coeds model at AAUW style show • Brandt, Schlaybach, Rhoads May queen nominees • Grapplers place second in Middle Atlantics as Hayashi, Astheimer, Steinmetz win • Intramural boxing and wrestling carnival to be staged April 4-6 • Ten battery candidates answer Jing\u27s call • Cagers end season with 39-29 win from Drexel • Co-ed basketeers swamp Drexel, as Bunny Harshaw gets 29 • Frosh close disastrous season with 42-39 loss to Drexel • Day study defeats Curtis, leads interdorm race • Maples, Shreiner, Day tie for top in girls\u27 loop • Dean Kline\u27s brother dies at York, Pa., Friday • Men and women debaters argue arbitration, on road triphttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1893/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 24, 1937

Ursinus to award 7 honor degrees • Paisley to induct seventh president • Tomlinson voted council leader • Alumnus enters newspaper business with Independent • 150 enjoy roast dogs at big joint Y. party • Alspach wins; frosh return all officers for 2nd term • De Wire and Brandt chosen math, English group heads • Love and music tangle in operetta to be given by cast of 100, June 5 • Paul Craigie and Alice Plunkett elected new Curtain Club heads • Fifty couples at May hop dance to college orchestra • Dr. M. C. Old to teach zoology at Chesapeake this summer • Diamondmen win two tight games with timely hitting • Broad jump places clinch track win over St. Joe\u27s • Netmen drop 4 matches; women victors in 3 more • Freshmen take class track tourney easily • Bears avenge earlier Wildcat defeat by 5-4 score; Gemmell up • Brodbeck houses champions • Only loss of week at bats of the Dragons, 4-1; Swift up • Clark again pitches Jayvees to victory, 7-2, over Perky • Commuters roast wieners • Lewis, Kramer head campus social groups • Girls buy sewing machine from May pageant profits • Forty sub-freshmen take exams since open house • Prof. Brownback remains activities council headhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1933/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, February 7, 1938

Business outlook is forum topic • Wilson signs Don Pike for soph hop • Siggie Shelly\u27s band to play at Lorelei • Campus players in Penn contests • The Mikado postponed until June fourth: \u27Silly\u27 operetta is Sat. production • Weekly staff reorganizes: adds 16 reporters • Dr. Calvin Yost, Jr., to preview next year\u27s journalism course for benefit of Weekly staff • Frosh girls pick Pakenham, Robbins representatives • Would-be profs commence practice teaching • College men captain \u27dean\u27s list\u27, also lead on \u27B\u27 list • Eight students quit school at end of semester • Job-seeking seniors to see Michael, Wednesday • Phys. Ed. mermen and mermaids cavort in Norristown Y pool Thursday mornings • Hashagenmen jounce Lebanon Valley, 52-46; drop thriller to F and M, 41-35 • Bear matmen fall before Owls, 26-8 • Rosemont defeats bear sextet in slow game • Bear cubs drop two more, to Perkiomen and Curtis • Ken Snyder resigns from men\u27s student councilhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1889/thumbnail.jp

Millimeter and submillimeter wave technology developments for the next generation of fusion devices

There is increasing demand for compact watt-level coherent sources in the millimeter and submillimeter wave region. The approach that we have taken to satisfy this need is to fabricate two-dimensional grids loaded with oscillators, electronic beam steerers, and frequency multipliers for quasioptical coherent spatial combining of the outputs of a large number of low-power devices

Untersuchungen zum Einfluss von Ghrelin auf das Schlaf-EEG und die assoziierte nächtliche Hormonaktivität bei gesunden Probanden

Ghrelin ist der natürliche Ligand des wachstumshormon-sekretagogen (GHS)-Rezeptors (Kojima, 1999). Es stimuliert die Wachstumshormon (GH)-Ausschüttung an der Hypophyse und wirkt appetitsteigernd. Bisherige schlafendokrinologische Untersuchungen zeigen, dass die Hormone wachstumshormon-freisetzendes-Hormon (GHRH), Somatostatin, corticotropin-freisetzendes Hormon (CRH) und Cortisol in die Schlafregulation involviert sind. Auch synthetische Wachstumshormon-Sekretagoge (GHS) modulieren beim Menschen den Schlaf und beeinflussen die nächtliche hormonellen Sekretion. Ziel dieser Arbeit war es, die Effekte von Ghrelin auf das Schlaf-EEG und die nächtliche Hormonsekretion von GH, ACTH, Cortisol, Prolaktin und Leptin bei jungen gesunden Männern zu untersuchen. Nach Gabe von 4 x 50 µg Ghrelin iv. zu Beginn der Nacht fand sich ein signifikanter Anstieg des Tiefschlafs im Schlaf-EEG und der assoziierten nächtlichen GH-, Cortisol- und Prolaktin-Sekretion. Die Leptinspiegel waren nicht signifikant verändert. Diese Arbeit konnte zeigen, dass exogen appliziertes Ghrelin signifikante Wirkungen auf den humanen Schlaf und die schlafassoziierte Hormonsekretion ausübt. Anhand der Ergebnisse ist davon auszugehen, dass Ghrelin nicht nur auf die GH-Sekretion, das Appetitverhalten oder das Gewicht Einfluss nehmen kann, sondern eigene endogen-schlafmodulierende Effekte ausübt und bei jungen gesunden Männern als tiefschlaffördernder Faktor angesehen werden kann. Weiterhin bewirkt Ghrelin einen deutlichen Effekt auf die somatotrophe und corticotrophe Hormonsekretion, indem es die physiologischen Sekretionsmuster von GH und Cortisol stimuliert und intensiviert. Bei Betrachtung der gegensätzlichen Wirkungen der einzelnen Hormone GHRH und CRH auf den Schlaf ist dabei bemerkenswert, dass Ghrelin die GH-sekretagogen und tiefschlaffördernden Effekte von GHRH und die Cortisol-sekretagogen Effekte von CRH vereint. Man kann postulieren, dass Ghrelin eine mögliche Schnittstelle des somatotrophen und des corticotrophen Systems darstellt

A Survey of Counselors in Private Practice

A survey of members in the American Mental Health Counselors Association conducted to assess certain demographic data and counselor participation in private practice conducted in 1980 by William J. Weikel, Richard W. Daniel and Janet Anderson