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The NDSU Faculty Research Series (FRS) on Engaged Citizenship and Inclusion showcases the scholarly research of NDSU faculty who have published on matters of social responsibility, equality, inclusion, and/or open-minded, ethical decision-making and action as related to topics including race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, ability, religion, or issues facing the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more at https://library.ndsu.edu/search-find/research/research-assistance/fac-research-citizenship-inclusion
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Item A Critical Discourse Analysis of Higher Education President’s Email Communications in 2020 and 2021(4/26/2023) Parson, Laura (Laura Jayne)Email communications from presidents to faculty, students, and staff communicate institutional priorities; they play an important role in shaping the ways that power, ideology, and influence are constructed and replicated across the institution (Serrano, 2018; McNaughtan & McNaughtan, 2018; Eddy, 2003; 2005; Briscoe, 2022). In this study, I explored presidential email communications sent between June 2020 and November 2021 across 11 public institutions in the United States. Eddy (2005; 2005) argued that university presidents have a responsibility to communicate as sense-makers during crises to help direct the campus conversation and to set the institutional agenda. As such, I sought better understanding of the nature of Higher Education presidential communications to expand knowledge of presidential communication styles and approaches to communicating institutional priorities. Specifically, using a Critical Discourse Analytic approach to data analysis, I sought to understand how the language used in emails were indicative of presidential and institutional priorities and if and how linguistic tool usage were utilized differently according to the topic.Item Disability Inclusion in Service Provision and Web Accessibility(10/13/2022) Park, KwangsooThis research examined the effect of human elements of service inclusion at a service encounter on the consumers’ perception and behavioral intentions. The results from an experiential design model indicate that an inclusive service environment for persons with disabilities elicits positive perception, attitude, and behavioral intentions by consumers without disabilities. There was a significant interaction between hospitableness and expertise. In high hospitableness condition, consumers without disabilities who observed a service employee with an expertise showed the higher degree of gratitude and favorable word of mouth than those who didn’t observe the expertise of the service employee. Especially, it is notable that expertise (i.e., disability etiquette) plays a significant role in eliciting higher degrees of evaluation and willingness to reward.Item Shared Leadership in Sport for Development and Peace (SDP)(4/27/2022) Kang, SeungminSport for Development and Peace (SDP) organizations utilize sport as a tool to address broad social issues, which has brought attention from diverse organizations including, but not limited to international/national governing bodies, sport federations, for-profits, and nonprofits for engaging in multi-organizational collaborations. However, the complex environmental factors and internal capacity challenges surrounding SDP organizations put additional pressure on leaders who are required to balance multiple organizational demands to achieve broad social change outcomes as well as the sustainability of the SDP collaborations. This presentation introduces how collaborative leadership approach characterized as shared leadership can help achieve the sustainability of SDP organizations by sharing recent research.Item Health Effects on the #MeToo Movement by Gender: Public Health Implications of a Social Movement(2/23/2022) Huseth, Andrea (Andrea Huseth-Zosel); Larson, Mary F. D. (Mary Frances); Nelson, Kjersten R., 1978-; Talcott, MeganIn October 2017, those who had experienced sexual harassment and assault commanded attention by posting their experiences with the hashtag “#metoo.” This movement built off Tarana Burke’s advocacy efforts beginning in 2007, and these posts were soon ubiquitous, with survivors sharing very personal and painful experiences. The ubiquity of these posts could have various impacts on those who read them, from empowerment to pain. In a recent study, we examine the health impacts of encountering the #metoo movement, particularly examining how outcomes vary based on an individual’s experience with sexual harassment. We find differences by the gender of respondent in both negative and positive health outcomes, depending on the respondent’s experience with sexual harassment. Public health strategies for preventing sexual harassment are discussed.Item Social Justice: Identifying Attributes, Antecedents and Consequences Through a Multidisciplinary Literature Review(12/7/2021) Buettner-Schmidt, Kelly Patricia"Social justice is a matter of life and death" (WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health). How do you define and describe social justice? Is social justice a process, a product, or both? Is it easier to describe social justice or social injustice? A broad multidisciplinary review of literature within and outside of the health-related literature resulted in the identification of social justice's attributes, antecedents, and consequences and provided clarification of the concept of social justice. A synthesized definition of social justice was developed. This presentation provides a baseline for a conversation on the meaning and implications of social justice and injustice in today's world.Item Inclusion or Exclusion? Varieties of Americanization in the Early 20th Century(10/20/2021) Blankenship, Anne M.At the turn of the twentieth century, millions of southern Italians and Eastern Europeans entered the United States. Their presence alarmed most Americans, not least their Catholic and Jewish co-religionists. By the late 1800's, Irish Catholics and German Jews had gained tentative acceptance within American society, and many felt that these new immigrants with their Old World dress, language, religious practices, and food threatened that status. Thus bean concerted campaigns of Americanization, one white Protestants supported as well. This presentation explores how their differing definitions of Americanization coincided or clashed and the closely related role of religion.Item Health Insurance in Rural America: A Partial Equilibrium Analysis(11/19/2022) Nganje, William Evange, 1966-The cost of rural health continues to be high in the United States despite an overall improvement in national health insurance enrolment. Stakeholder’s perception of adverse selection remains a culprit in the challenges of rural insurance markets. Risk attitude has been revealed as an alternative for measuring this phenomenon, given the 2014 prohibition law on pre-existing conditions and a subsequent repeal in 2018 accompanied by extensive debate in congress. We examine the existence of adverse selection in rural insurance markets by comparing the effects of pre-existing or chronic health conditions and risk attitudes in a Principal-Agent model.Item Life and Politics on the US-Mexico Border(2/25/2020) Wing, HeathAlthough national borders elicit geopolitical notions, in the 21st century borders are about people—their movements and migrations. In today’s terms, borders mark the point where politics and life converge, and are, therefore, biopolitical spaces. Nowhere is this truer than the U.S-Mexico border, where the precarious nature of life is codified and regulated by state power. This talk will address U.S. border policies and practices as they relate to life, [il]legality, and politics.Item Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology(`) Smith, Angela J. (Angela Jeannine); Fellows, Kristen R.Vice districts, saloons, and prostitution are things of HBO series set in the West. And yet, the actual people who inhabited these roles and places had real effects on their communities. Melvina Massey, an African American brothel owner who lived in Fargo and ran one of the city’s most notable establishments between the 1880s and 1911, serves as a case study through which to examine the history and larger impacts of those living on the fringes of society. After students in Dr. Angela Smith’s public history class first discovered Madam Massey in the local archives, Smith continued to look for more in-depth biographical data that would help shed light on broader historical patterns. Dr. Kristen Fellows, a historical archaeologist with research interests in race, gender, and the African Diaspora, joined the research team in 2014 and added an anthropological approach to the mix. Their collaboration has resulted in an exhibit on the red-light district in Fargo (2017) and an edited volume on the topic of historical sex work (2020) which includes chapters on Massey and her brothel. This talk will focus on Massey, but also on recent advances in the history and archaeology of historical sex work.