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Lori McVay

By on August 14, 2017 in Faculty Publications

McVay. Lori.  “Rural Women Leaders: Identity Formation in Rural Northern Ireland.”  In Gender and Rural Globalization: International Perspectives on Gender and Rural Development, edited by Bettina Bock and Sally Shortfall, 170-184. Boston: CABI, 2017.

Gender and Rural Development

This chapter examines the identity of women leaders in Northern Ireland in order to understand how these women managed to become leaders, against all traditional odds, and which events and life choices shaped their identity. In doing so, it elaborates how growing up in a rural context may nurture women’s confidence and readiness to lead in the sense that taking on responsibility is considered part of a rural lifestyle.

Brent Cline & Robbie Bolton

By on April 30, 2016 in Faculty Publications

Cline, Brent Walter and Robert Bolton. “The Need for the Disabled Body in The Moviegoer.” In Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer at Fifty: New Takes on an Iconic American Novel edited by  Jennifer Levasseur and Mary A. McCay, 135-146. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2016.

Walker Percy's The Moviegoer at FiftyBrent Walter Cline and Robert Bolton… present a roadmap for Bolling’s inward journey, exploring a variety of the book’s elements from the role of the broken body to various spiritual connections.

Josh Wymore

By on April 30, 2016 in Faculty Publications

Cheslock, John J., Justin C. Ortagus, Mark R. Umbricht, and Josh Wymore   “The Cost of Producing Higher Education: An Exploration of Theory, Evidence, and Institutional Policy, Volume XXXI.”  In Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research, edited by Michael B. Paulsen, 349-392. New York: Springer, 2016.

Higher EducationResearchers face multiple challenges when studying the cost of producing higher education, which has led many to avoid the topic altogether. As a result, higher education scholarship provides little guidance to institutional leaders aiming to reduce costs in response to financial difficulties. To encourage greater research in this area, we review prominent cost theories, examine empirical research into costs, and explore specific policies that alter costs within colleges and universities. Our theoretical overview focuses on the cost disease, the revenue theory of costs, positional arms races, and the principal-agent problem to explain cost increases within higher education. Our discussion of empirical research is organized around Brinkman’s (Higher education cost functions. In: Hoenack SA, Collins EL (eds) The economics of American universities: management, operations, and fiscal environment. State University of New York Press, Albany, pp. 107–128, 1990) five major determinants of costs: size, scope, level of instruction, discipline, and revenues. When examining institutional policies, we discuss instructional activities and non-instructional activities separately. For instructional costs, we focus our attention on how faculty composition and instructional technology alter costs in higher education. The discussion of non-instructional costs examines how costs can be decreased through reducing scope, increasing economies of scale, eliminating the cost disease, and altering incentives. We conclude the chapter by describing several promising areas for future research.

Michael Buratovich

By on March 31, 2015 in Faculty Publications

Amin, Amr and Michael Buratovich.”The Anti-Cancer Charm of Flavonoids: A Cup of Tea Will Do You Good!.” In Frontiers in Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery, edited by Atta-ur-Rahman and M. Iqbal Choudhary, 552-587. N.p.: Bentham Science, 2015. 

Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human AgencyHormone-dependent cancers of the breast, prostate and colon have, in the past decade, become the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Billions of dollars have been spent to study cancers like these, and tremendous advancements in the understanding and treatment of cancer have been made. Nevertheless, as effective cures for a variety of cancers continue to elude us, natural protection against cancer has been receiving a great deal of attention lately not only from cancer researchers and patients, but also from physicians. Phytoestrogens, plantderived secondary metabolites, are diphenolic substances with structural similarity to naturally-occurring human steroid hormones. Phytoestrogens are normally divided into three main classes: flavonoids, coumestans and lignans. Flavonoids are found in almost all plant families in the leaves, stems, roots, flowers and seeds of plants, and are among the most popular anti-cancer candidates. Flavonoidic derivatives have a wide variety of biological actions that includes antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, and antiallergic activities. Some of these benefits are explained by the potent antioxidant effects of flavonoids, which include metal chelation and free-radical scavenging activities. However particular phytoestrogens show a marked ability to induce programmed cell death in specific cancer cells, and delay or prevent the onset of discrete cancers altogether. Patent applications regarding flavonoids range from protocols for extraction and purification from natural resources and the establishment of various biological activities for these extracts to novel methods for the production and isolation of flavonoids with known biological activities. This review will bring the reader up to date on the current knowledge and research available in the field of flavonoids and hormone-dependent cancers, and some of the submitted patents that exploit flavonoids.

Amy James and Robbie Bolton

By on February 23, 2015 in Faculty Publications

James, Amy and Robbie Bolton. “Hanging Out with Google” In  The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity, edited by Carol Smallwood, 65-72. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human AgencyIn 2011, Google gave up yet another failed attempt at building a social network, replacing Google Buzz with Google+. Google has had a healthy list of failed forays into the social network market (McCracken 2014). Even though the reviews of Google+ have been mixed, at best, it has survived for three years now. Google+ claims a half billion active monthly users but most estimate the number to be closer to half that (Miller 2014). With more than a billion active monthly users, Google+ is not much of a threat to Facebook’s dominance in the social media market (Ha 2014). However, some have speculated that challenging the social media market is not Google’s endgame (Miller 2014). The merits of Google+ can be debated, but the brightest star of all the features is its video conferencing tool, Google Hangouts.

Sharon Norris

By on December 16, 2014 in Faculty Publications

Norris, Sharon E.”Learning and Knowledge Creation under Perpetual Construction: A Complex Responsive Approach to Applied Business Research.” In Handbook of Research on Scholarly Publishing and Research Methods, edited by  Victor C. X. Wang, 205-203. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-7409-7

Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human AgencyOrganizations are changing places where learning and knowledge creation is under perpetual construction. In order to keep pace with these changes, applied business research courses for graduate business students need to go beyond the ideology that business decision making is a tidy and rational process. To portray business decision making as a strictly goal-oriented and rational process overlooks the reality of the complexity of contemporary organizations, and this perspective may result in rigid thinking and single-loop learning. The purpose of this chapter is to present a complex responsive approach to applied business research that encourages flexible thinking and double-loop learning. The most comprehensive applied research studies in the future will be those where researchers become immersed in the research process and engage with participants in the process of learning and knowledge creation. Through this process, researchers help unleash the creative potential of the organization and gain a valuable learning experience.

Sharon Norris

By on March 31, 2014 in Faculty Publications

Norris, Sharon E.”Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human Agency.” In Andragogical and Pedagogical Methods for Curriculum and Program Development, edited by  Victor C. X. Wang and Valerie C. Bryan, 118-141. Hershey, PA:IGI Global, 2014. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5872-1.ch007

Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human AgencyThe objective of this chapter is to introduce improvisational self-directed learning as a transformative approach to developing effective adult learning. Improvisational self-directed learning is a method that encourages individuals to leverage their psychological capital and self-directedness through the exercise of human agency. It is common practice to focus on content-related learning objectives while designing educational curriculum and programs. Less routine is a simultaneous focus on the psychological state, human agency, and self-directedness of those involved in the entire process. The type of transformative learning communities necessary for effective 21st century adult education require ongoing faculty and student development. This chapter provides a theoretical framework based on human agency, psychological capital, improvisational behavior, and adult learning. The use of improvisation is presented as a technique for leveraging psychological capital, human agency, and self-directedness to create thriving 21st century learning communities.

Paul Patton

By on December 3, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Patton, Paul. “The Prophetic Imagination and Passion of David Mamet.” In Prophetic Critique and Popular Media: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications, edited by Robert Woods and Kevin Healy. New York: Peter Lang , 2013.

Prophetic CritiqueLong after playwright and filmmaker David Mamet had left the home of his mother and stepfather, his younger sister sat down at the family table for dinner just before leaving to perform as lead in her high school play. Pre-occupied with the jitters and joys that accompany opening nights, Lynn just picked at her food. Her mother asserted that since she had cooked the food, it had to be eaten and insisted that no one would be excused until the meal was consumed. Upon seeing her orders were not followed, her mother called the school, asking for the drama teacher, and then informed the director that her daughter would not be able to attend the opening night performance. No, Lynn was not sick; she had not finished her vegetables.

Brent Cline

By on August 13, 2013 in Faculty Publications

Cline, Brent Walter. “Great Clumsy Dinosaurs: The Disabled Body in the Posthuman World.”  In Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure, edited by Kathryn Allan, 131-143. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Great Clumsy DinosaursIn science fiction, technology often modifies, supports, and attempts to ‘make normal’ the disabled body. In this groundbreaking collection, twelve international scholars — with backgrounds in disability studies, English and world literature, classics, and history — discuss the representation of dis/ability, medical ‘cures,’ technology, and the body in science fiction. Bringing together the fields of disability studies and science fiction, this book explores the ways dis/abled bodies use prosthetics to challenge common ideas about ability and human being, as well as proposes new understandings of what ‘technology as cure’ means for people with disabilities in a (post)human future.

Sharon Norris

By on December 5, 2012 in Faculty Publications

Porter, Tracy H., and Sharon E. Norris. “Workplace Spirituality.” In Integrity in Organizations, edited by Wolfgang Amann and Agata Stachowicz-Stanusch, 429-438. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Transformative Curriculum Design and Program Development: Creating Effective Adult Learning by Leveraging Psychological Capital and Self-Directedness through the Exercise of Human AgencyThe business environment has undergone dramatic changes for the past several decades, and these paradigmatic adjustments have brought about new expectations about work and the work environment. It has been argued that downsizing, reengineering, and layoffs of the past few decades have turned many American workplaces into environments in which workers have been demoralized and taken for granted (Brandt, 1996). Individuals have witnessed the work environment become increasingly impersonal and, in some cases, insecure environments (Fry & Cohen, 2009). The push for higher economic returns, productivity, and profitability has crippled and eventually bankrupted once-prominent organizations. The wide road of traditional management has led many organizations and their leaders to perdition.

Recognizing the downward spiral, humanistic managers have traversed the competitive environment by taking a road less-traveled. They are committed to creating workplaces in which making a difference and operating with integrity are balanced with enhancing productivity and making a profit. In humanistic environments, both human capital and financial capital are recognized as assets to be protected, wisely invested, and deployed with integrity. Designing the workplace so that people experience purpose and meaning in work, connectedness through positive relationships, and alignment of personal and organizational values, has been identified as one of the most important managerial tasks of the twenty-first century (Nichols, 1994; Milliman, Czaplewski, & Ferguson, 2003).

Humanistic managers create environments in which spiritual-based values guide decision making, and employees are consistently provided with opportunities to perform at their best (Milliman, Ferguson, Trickett, & Condemi, 1999).