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Providing Support for Lactating Women at ECU
(2018-04-26)
Returning to work after birth is challenging for many new mothers. East Carolina University has taken great strides in supporting nursing mothers’ transition from maternity leave back to work or school.
As outlined in the ...
Helping Keep the Costs of Textbooks for Students Down: Two Approaches
(2018-05)
Librarians at East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro received a 2-year grant to support a combined alternative textbook project. This project engages in a two-pronged approach to reduce ...
An Experiment Assessing Punitive versus Wellness Framing of a Tobacco-Free Campus Policy on Students’ Perceived Level of University Support
(2017-08-20)
The objective of this study was to examine how different ways of describing a hypothetical tobacco-free campus policy would impact college students’ perceived level of support from the college. In the spring of 2016, we ...
Navigating 21st Century Digital Scholarship: Open Educational Resources (OERs), Creative Commons, Copyright and Library Vendor License
(2018-06-09)
Digital scholarship issues are increasingly prevalent in today’s environment. We are faced with questions of how to protect our own works as well as others’ with responsible attribution and usage, sometimes involving a ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Data Migration: a Case Study with ECU
(2018-05-31)
In 2016, East Carolina University sought a user-friendly, innovative system for faculty activity reporting to replace their current technology.
Although their requirements were straightforward—integration with institutional ...
The Effect Of Fine Arts on Language and Literacy Skills in Children
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
Abstract
Current techniques of teaching literacy to elementary school students are commonly limited to the use of standard reading programs such as Macmillan, McGraw Hill and Houghton (LaJevic, 2013). Although systematic, ...
Individual Virtual Competence Across the Generations in a Workforce
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
Many companies have found huge benefits in having work groups who have the flexibility to work from any location at any time by using various tools for virtual communication, also known as virtual teams. The success of a ...
The Effect of Partisan Media Exposure on the 2016 Presidential Election
(East Carolina University, 2018-05-01)
Does partisan media influence people’s attitudes? In particular, does media bias influence voters’ attitudes toward presidential candidates? One perspective is that voters’ opinions of candidates are due to other factors, ...