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This study reports on the effects of professional development (PD) training programs on faculty’s perceptions and uses of technology for teaching and learning using mixed methods. Collected data include survey questionnaires to faculty at a school of…

This contribution represents a case example of how mythology and literature from post-conquest sources might be used for framing hypotheses about the meaning of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican iconography, and the problems of this approach. It focuses on…

Non-profit organizations are increasingly adopting business practices, an institutional phenomenon called managerialization. Sometimes those business practices cause conflict with, or drift from, the non-profit’s mission. We investigate the…

In this chapter, we (two scholars of Color) critically reflect on our time teaching diversity required courses to predominantly white pre-service teachers at a predominately white institution (PWI). We frame our reflections using Critical Race Theory…

This study explored the relationship between high school sophomores’ purpose orientations and their postsecondary completion a decade later by examining the data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002. Among four types of purpose (career,…

This study connected the dualistic model of passion and self-determination theory to examine the motivational determinants of student-athlete perceived efforts within- and across- athletic and academic domains. College student-athletes completed…

This study portrays profile uses of technology in the classroom by faculty at a school of education at a university in Central California (N = 47). First, it describes their professional uses of certain technology on a frequency scale. Second, it…

In this work, I examined how variation in sport conduct is allocated across the three different levels (i.e., athlete, team, and sport) in order to consider how the team and sport environment might contribute to athletes' sport conduct. Specifically,…

How do we make a home in spaces not built for us? What does an academic home for Southeast Asian American (SEAA) women look and feel like? This is the story of how a collective of SEAA women came together to create an alternative space in higher…

A lab activity for teaching students the fundamentals of statistical analysis by timing pulsar periods is described. The electromagnetic pulses of pulsars have been mapped to sound and uploaded on social media channels, allowing students to “listen”…

During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic colleges and universities in the United States were forced to move to remote delivery of courses and services. Academic library electronic resources naturally adapted to the virtual environment,…

Social and political policy, human activities, and environmental change affect the ways in which microbial communities assemble and interact with people. These factors determine how different social groups are exposed to beneficial and/or harmful…

BACKGROUND: Strict strategies including lockdowns and working from home were adopted worldwide during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. University professors suddenly shifted to work from home adopting distance teaching. OBJECTIVES: This…

Studies that utilize radio frequency plasma modification as a strategy to tune the surface properties of polymeric constructs with the goal of enhancing their use as biomedical devices have grown considerably in number over the past decade. In this…

Creating exhibitions in virtual reality offers unique user experience design challenges. This paper examines a case study of a past VR exhibit and discussions on future UX and usability research for VR exhibitions. Due to COVID19, student BFA shows…

It was March 2020. Our cities and towns locked down; our elementary, middle, and high schools boarded up. Our universities too. And we learned they wouldn’t be opening any time soon.As directors of California Writing Project sites at FresnoState, CSU…

Introduction: This study utilizes interpretive phenomenology to understand the experiences of people with visual impairments in the virtual workplace. As virtual work is becoming increasingly common, this investigation is timely for employment…

American College Dance Association Gala Performance by California State University, Fresno’s Contemporary Dance Ensemble with dancers Nicholas Castro, Khalil Curry, Megan Evans, Cory Faamausili, Fatima Flores, Alicia Longoria, Jessica Lopez Morales,…

The imperative for decolonial research methodology has been long discoursed in academia. However, there remains a rift between dominant colonial research practices in the academy and the needs of researchers of color. In this article, I explore…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have demonstrated promising performance in accuracy for several applications such as image processing, speech recognition, and autonomous systems and vehicles. Spatial accelerators have been proposed to achieve high…