Research for Non-Profits, a Service Learning Class in Grantseeking Research

This chapter describes Research for Non-Profits a 300/500 level service-learning course that introduces non-profits and grantseeking while teaching research and information literacy skills. Students in the course create a funder research portfolio for a non-profit client with a funding need. As students draft, revise, and polish the portfolios, they hone their research skills as well as engage with larger information literacy concepts, particularly the value of information, information creation as a process, and how authority is constructed and contextual. The chapter describes the course’s long development road as well as how partnerships were built, not only with the campus center for service and learning but multiple academic departments as well. The course is described in detail including learning objectives, assessments, and outcomes. The benefits for students, faculty librarian, campus, and community are also discussed

Follow the Money and the Research - Engaging Students and Non-Profits with a Grant-seeking Course

Research for Non-Profits is a 300/500 level service-learning course that gives students an introduction to non-profits and grant-seeking while teaching them research and information literacy skills. The final project is a funder research portfolio for a non-profit client with a funding need. This portfolio contains detailed profiles of funding agencies that are most likely to give to the non-profit as well as statistics and research studies useful for writing a grant proposal. As students draft, revise, and polish the portfolios, they hone their research skills as well as engage with larger information literacy concepts, particularly the value of information; information creation as a process, and how authority is constructed and contextual. Attendees will learn about the course’s long development road as well as how partnerships were built, not only with the campus center for service and learning but multiple academic departments as well. The presentation will also provide two semesters’ worth of course outcomes including student and course partner assessment. Attendees will leave the session with access to lesson plans, rubrics and best practices for working with community partners

Mapping civic courage

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-96).Hero Reports extends the rationale of New York City's "See Something, Say Something" campaign-an alert public can be a good security measure. The current political climate within the United States translates the MTA's tactics into ones of fear. Instead of fostering collective security, these calls for vigilance create rifts between people and communities. An unhealthy impact of the "See Something, Say Something" campaign encourages people to look at each other with heightened and prejudicial suspicion. Although other projects have sought to interrogate the tactics of such citizen-detective campaigns, they do not provide productive alternatives. Because of this, projects seeking to deflect fear, only serve to reify and preserve its power. An alternative technology is needed to effectively destabilize the message of fear inherent in the MTA campaign. Hero Reports counterbalances the vigilance associated with suspicion and Othering with measures of positive and contextual alertness. It is a technology that builds communities that are truly, and collectively, empowering. Hero Reports provides this alternative first by aggregating stories of everyday heroism, and then by thematically, geographically and temporally mapping them. By linking and contextualizing discrete moments of heroism, Hero Reports promotes a public discourse about how we create, enforce and value social norms. Balancing the empirical ways we measure crime, Hero Reports provides the groundwork for determining the empirical parameters for heroism.Alyssa Pamela Wright.S.M

Building a Graduate Research Exhibits Program in an Academic Library

This session will describe West Virginia University Libraries’ annual Graduate Student Exhibits Award. The award, managed by our Art in the Libraries Committee, invites current graduate students to submit ideas for an exhibit to visually showcase their scholarship in new and experimental ways. These can present a visual evolution of their work, visualize their research and influences, or answer a research question. Graduate student proposals can be based on academic or creative research and lend themselves to visual interpretation with Library consultation. Awards include a $500 prize and help with design, installation, promotion, and coordination of a public program, offering an opportunity for exposure. The exhibits are hung annually in the Libraries’ Graduate Student Commons and are promoted in partnership with West Virginia Universities’ Office of Graduate Education and Life. The goals of these awards are to: provide a multidisciplinary platform for deeper learning, foster intellectual discourse and discussion, and demonstrate the breadth of WVU\u27s creative and innovative activity. The award program mirrors our Faculty Research Exhibit award and has been successfully run for two years resulting in three exhibits. The exhibits have represented a range of graduate research at WVU from Sociology, Soil Science, and English. The public program includes a reception and short research presentation with question-and-answer session. The presentation provides graduate students the opportunity to discuss their work in a public forum that might be lower stakes than a conference. It also asks graduate students to make their research visible and more accessible to audiences outside of their own fields. The award program has the added benefit of promoting the Libraries Graduate Research Commons space which is designed for graduate student study space, meetings, and events. Feedback for the events has been positive at the administrative, faculty, and student level. The conference session will highlight some examples of the exhibits, review how we developed the award, the support we provide the student creating the exhibit, how we promote the exhibits, and our plans to continue to grow the program as part of an expanded suite of research services for faculty and graduate students

Connections to Home: Immigrant Material Culture in Northern Utah

This study explores how a group of Latin American immigrants in Cache Valley connects to \u27home\u27 through material culture. We analyzed 16 interviews in NVivo with Latin American immigrants for the whats, hows, whys, and effects of object exchange between the immigrants in the U.S. and people in their country of origin. We found that this excahnge helps immigrants remember their roots, maintain interpersonal relationships in their countries of origin, and build interpersonal relationships in the U.S. These immigrants also discussed objects of sentimental value. Some represented memories of in their origin countries. Others represented new memories created in the U.S. and their creation of a new home here in Utah. Material culture helps these immigrants connect to \u27home,\u27 both in the U.S. and their countries of origin

F2F in the Age of IM: Term Paper Clinic at West Virginia University Libraries

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Pre-Post, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study of the WorkingWell Mobile Support Tool for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in the United States

Successful competitive employment has been found to be related to enhanced self-esteem, higher quality of life and reduced mental health service use for individuals living with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. The effectiveness of the individual placement and support model has been demonstrated in multiple randomised controlled trials in many countries. The management of stress, depression and anxiety in the workplace may be effectively enhanced through digital mental health interventions. The WorkingWell mobile support tool (‘app’) is specifically designed to meet the need for illness management support for individuals with SMI in the workplace, as an adjunct to professional treatment

Work in Progress: A meta-literature review of Moral Foundations Theory as applied in game studies

This paper outlines an in-progress systematic review of extant research in game studies that has incorporated Moral Foundations Theory (MFT), or relevant extensions of that theory to media entertainment, such as the Moral Intuition and Media Entertainment/Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars (MIME). Due to the interdisciplinary nature of these theoretical perspectives as well as game studies broadly, systematic review is critical to helping us collectively understand and collate the research in this area. The systematic review is done in two parts, one as a deep description of the characteristics of included studies, and one as a statistical analysis (as well as a qualitative assessment) of the quality of those included studies. At this stage, an initial set of 24-26 articles focused on gaming and MFT/MIME have been uncovered via systematic database searching, and both study characteristic and study quality coding sheets in progress (shared, within)

On Assessing the Scope of Missing Native Americans in Nebraska: Results From a State-Wide Study and Recommendations for Future Research: On Assessing the Scope of Missing Native American Persons: Results From a State-Wide Study and Recommendations for Future Research

Recent legislation in multiple states has called for studies on the scope of missing Native American persons. Here we report on one such study from Nebraska by first describing the practical and methodological issues for researchers to consider when examining data on missing Native persons. Then, using data from four point-in-time-counts in 2020, rates of Native American missing persons as well as case contexts over the study period are reported. Findings show that Native Americans are disproportionately represented among Nebraska\u27s missing persons, that reports often involve minor boys, and that cases are dynamic and most are resolved quickly. Relatedly, most Native missing persons cases are only listed on the state clearinghouse, not the national missing persons lists. The paper is concluded with a discussion of specific directions for future research and policy regarding missing Native Americans