In this article we argue that a refined understanding of "public" and "public engagement" can help researchers who produce critical research make better decisions towards achieving policy influence. We acknowledge the challenges critical researchers face in putting their research to work within the public domain. Critical…

Since the 1970s, catalogs of protest events have been at the heart of research on social movements. To measure how protest changes over time or varies across space, sociologists usually count the frequency of events, as either the dependent variable or a key independent variable. An alternative is to count the number of participants in protest.…

Although the effect of leisure constraints and involvement on loyalty has drawn attention in recent years, there are a limited number of studies for bicycle users. For this purpose, we investigated a) the main constraints for enrolled university students and the level of loyalty, b) the impact of perceived constraints on bicycle use c) the…

Educating for political engagement in democracy has become simultaneously more urgent and more challenging in the current, contentious, and highly polarized context. To improve student political learning, discourse, agency, and participation, colleges and universities should critically examine and improve their campus climates, the complex…

Courses: Basic communication course. Objectives: Using the Ally, Advocate, Activist framework in a basic communication course will help students apply course concepts to their lives and communities. This framework helps students practice civic engagement while mastering the skills that are typically tested for assessment purposes in the basic…

This report summarizes the Austin Independent School District Advanced Placement (AP) test results in 2018. AP test results may be used by higher education institutions to place students in courses and extend course credit to students who obtain high scores on the examinations

Postsecondary institutions online student enrollment is increasing and the goal of online faculty members are to provide a learning environment where students are participating. To increase student participation in an online environment, professional development courses taken by faculty members will enhance learning abilities. Online faculty…

This study proposes a formal multi-step methodology for qualitative assessment of topic modeling results in the context of online learner motivation to purchase Statements of Participation (SoP). We developed Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) based topic models on open-ended responses of three post-course survey questions from 280 open courses…

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a perceived impact of sorority chapter size on the sorority member experience. The qualitative instruments provided the means to understand the member experience based on sorority chapter size. Fifteen sorority women that affiliated with the National Panhellenic Conference were used in this…

This study investigated whether there was a difference in the change in graduation rates exhibited at institutions that recently added a Greek system when compared with institutions that have well-established Greek systems, and institutions that have no Greek system. The National Panhellenic Council identified 33 colleges and universities in the…

The purpose of this study was to examine whether undergraduates' participation in 12 different leadership trainings, workshops, conferences, or programs was associated with students' leadership efficacy. We used data from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership survey, which eight of the Big 10 institutions administered to students in spring…

Election day is perhaps the most exciting day to teach elementary social studies. For a moment in time the entire nation, and most importantly our students, are captivated by the democratic process that will determine our next leaders. The 2020 election is particularly appealing because it coincides with the centennial of the passage of the 19th…

This research is aimed to investigate students development in terms of their English speaking proficiency, vocabulary and pronunciation aspects in context of English as Foreign Language. Furthermore, six EFL students who become subject of this research are Indonesian students who are originally still studying at University of Widya Gama Mahakam…

Derreck Kayongo is an entrepreneur and the former CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. He founded the Global Soap Project (now acquired by Clean the World), a humanitarian aid organization for collecting discarded and unused soap from thousands of hotels worldwide, reprocessing it, then distributing it to in-need populations…

The purpose of this study was to investigate prospective middle school mathematics teachers' views on the flipped classroom. 41 third-year undergraduate students who were enrolled in the mathematics education department participated in this qualitative study. The study was conducted in the Statistics and Probability course and lasted for 11 weeks.…