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Best Practices in American Indian Student Retention at East Carolina University in Juxtaposition to the University of North Carolina System
(2015-04-29)
At just 0.9% of the total undergraduate student population, American Indian (i.e. Native American, Alaska Native1) students are underrepresented at most of the universities in the University of North Carolina (UNC) system ...
Land of the Free – Why not ‘Sea of the Free?'
(2014)
Commercial whaling has become an increasing problem in countries such as Norway, Iceland, and Japan. Since the placement of the moratorium by the International Whaling Commission in 1986, countries have been required to ...
The Effects of Text Messaging on Students’ Literacy.
(2014)
Texting has become any every day task that many teenagers engage in on a day to day basis. Many of those text messages that are sent often contain textisms. The use of textisms is starting to become more accepted among the ...
Electronic Theses and Dissertations Workshop
(2014-03)
Presentation for graduating students who are required to deposit a thesis or dissertation. This presentation describes the deposit process using the Vireo ETD management system, the university's institutional repository, ...
Creating Cherokee Print: Samuel Austin Worcester’s Impact on the Syllabary
(East Carolina University, 2008)
The 1821 creation of a written syllabary for the Cherokee language by Sequoyah and its use in the
Nation’s newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, are routinely examined within the context of the tribe’s
discourse surrounding ...
Authority Control of Names in Local Digitization Projects and the Eastern North Carolina Postcard Collection
(East Carolina University, 2009)
Authority control is a vitally important but frequently overlooked aspect of metadata creation for local digitization projects. The addition of digital projects metadata to the traditional cataloging environment creates a ...
Effectiveness of the Nintendo® Wii Fit™ games on the balance of a community-dwelling older adult in Eastern North Carolina
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The aim of this study was to determine if the Nintendo® Wii Fit™ was an effective and motivating modality for fall prevention with an older adult who has MG and lives in Eastern North Carolina. With the increasing number ...
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in the Academic Library: A Methodology for Mapping Multiple Means of Representation in Library Tutorials
(2015-05)
Librarians designed a biology tutorial not only to address an assignment, but also to make tutorials more accessible to students with various learning styles. The Science Librarian created the content by using aspects of ...
Cross-generational Valuing Among Peer Academic Librarians: A Preliminary Report Following Up with Millennials
(2015-03-26)
Paper presents a preliminary analysis of survey research designed to elicit information about Millennial academic librarians, their most valued colleagues at work, and reasons why they value these colleagues, and compares ...
Fish assemblage and habitat use in North Carolina and Virginia waters during the annual Cooperative Winter Tagging Cruise, 1988-2013
(East Carolina University, 2018-12-10)
Long-term ecological research can be valuable in understanding ecosystem function and species requirements, allowing managers to better regulate and enforce strategies for continued use of the resource, commercially and ...