College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences (CLAHS): Recent submissions
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SPIA February 2021 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2021-02)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA Community October 2020 Update
(Virginia Tech, 2020-10)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA March 2021 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2021-03)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA January 2021 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2021-01)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA Community July 2020 Update
(Virginia Tech, 2020-07)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA Community December 2020 Update
(Virginia Tech, 2020-12)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA April 2021 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2021-04)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA May 2021 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2021-05)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
SPIA February 2022 Newsletter
(Virginia Tech, 2022-02)This is the monthly newsletter for the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. -
Mad Squirrel Keeping it Rural: Reflecting on Twenty Years of Hip-hop Environmental Awareness and Advocacy
(2022-04-28)In this autobiographical piece, I reflect on my twenty-year history as an emcee working at the intersection of hip hop and environmental awareness. Since summer 2000, I have recorded and performed environmentally situated ... -
Race, School Discipline, and Magnet Schools
(2021-07)School environment plays an important role in student outcomes. Increasingly, research has also highlighted the role school environment plays in the White-Black suspension gap. We test whether magnet schools reduce the ... -
Measuring the motivational climate in an online course: A case study using an online survey tool to promote data-driven decisions
(Elsevier, 2022-12)Creating a positive motivational climate in an online course can engage students in their learning. Instructors may be able to better manage their courses and create a positive motivational climate if they implement online ... -
News2Note, April 2022
(Virginia Tech, 2022-04)The April 2022 issue of News2Note, the academic newsletter of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, published monthly during the academic year. -
Quantifying Interactive Cooling Effects of Morphological Parameters and Vegetation-Related Landscape Features during an Extreme Heat Event
(MDPI, 2022-04-09)In this study, we apply the ENVI-met model to evaluate the effects of combinations of morphological and vegetation-related landscape features on urban temperatures and thermal comfort. We simulated the thermal conditions ... -
Motivational Climate Predicts Student Evaluations of Teaching: Relationships Between Students’ Course Perceptions, Ease of Course, and Evaluations of Teaching
(American Educational Research Association, 2022-02-23)Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are important at most colleges and universities. One purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which motivational climate was associated with SETs. Another purpose was to ... -
Promoting sustainable responses to the US opioid epidemic with community-academic partnerships: qualitative outcomes from a statewide program
(2022-04-07)Background Drug overdose deaths in the United States have continued to increase at an alarming rate. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) distributed more than $7 billion ... -
Moving Beyond the Native-Speaker Bias in the Analysis of Variable Gender Marking
(2021-08-09)In the current study, we respond to calls for reform in second language acquisition that center on the field's preoccupation with native-speaker and prescriptive targets as a benchmark for additional-language learning. In ... -
Resisting the Trauma Story: Ethical Concerns in the Oral History Archive
(Living Refugee Archive, University of East London, 2020)This short article presents an oral history project undertaken with refugees resettled in Southwest Virginia. From this project has emerged an understanding of refugees as curators of a personal archive of stories. A ... -
Designing Transdisciplinarity: Exploring Institutional Barriers and Drivers of Collaborative Transdisciplinary Teaching
(Informa UK Limited, 2021-01-01)Employers increasingly desire new graduates to work across boundaries, in teams, and with developed soft skills, especially in public affairs. Likewise, students increasingly seek academic experiences for learning, practicing, ... -
Co-management during Crisis: Insights from Jurisdictionally Complex Wildfires
(2022-04)There is a general agreement within the wildfire community that exclusively top down approaches to policy making and management are limited and that we need to build governance capacity to cooperatively manage across ...
