Cheryl Patton'sresearch interests include leadership, particularly healthcare leadershipas it pertains to ethics, healthcare disparities, and conflict management. Sherecently defended her dissertation entitled Workplace Conflict,Management, and Leadership Implications: An Interpretive Phenomenology ofMedical Imaging Technologists, which concluded her PhD studies inOrganizational Leadership at Eastern University. 

 Call for Proposals: Case Studies 

Title of Book: Health Policy Management: A Case Approach

Editors: Rachel Ellison, PhD, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 

Lesley Clack, ScD, University of Georgia 

Introduction: Health policy is continuously changing, and textbooks must be constantly updated to keep up with the ongoing developments. The purpose of this textbook is to provide introductory health policy material, along with a variety of cases that are relevant to health policy.…

Dr. David Perkins, CCOB Associate Professor, recently presented at the 2017 INFORMS(Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) annual conference in Houston. The presentation, "Insights into the Data Mining Cost Model," provided a review of important literature associated with the Data Mining Cost Model (DMCoMo), suggested how DMCoMo can be applied in today'sanalytics organizations, and recommended further areas of application &research.

  Joshua Greever attended  Southeast Regional Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Kentucky, March 17-18, 2017.  The theme of the conference was: "Work, Vocation, and Human Flourishing in the Christian Tradition".   The title of his presentation was "The Gospel and True Human Flourishing in Ephesians".   The presentation analyzed the relationship between the gospel, work, and human flourishing in Paul's letter to the Ephesians. The gospel in Ephesians provides hope for what we…

Rick Holbeck and Kelly Palese recently presented at the Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison, Wisconsin. Their topic was on the benefits of using online full time faculty. Some of the topics that were discussed included collaboration of online full time faculty to share best practices and create supplemental materials, timely feedback and grading, office hours five days a week, and the ability to proactively contact students using welcome calls and checking in when students fall…

http://biophiliasummit.com

First Global Biophilia Summit

In partnership with www.pandisciplinary.net

Call for Presentations

Dates: May 21, 22 and 23, 2018

Location: Mount Mellary Monastery, County Waterford, Ireland

Conference Fee: From €380 (Includes accommodation, all meals, tea/coffee breaks, and return transport from Dublin to the monastery)

The theory of biophilia proposes that in the earth’s biosphere, all living things – both non-human and human – are inextricably linked and…

The Teaching Showcase presented by the Center for Innovation in Research and Teaching (CIRT)has started and goes through the month of July!  The topic this year is Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Click here to view and comment on presentations.

We have two opportunities for you to highlight your developing or completed scholarship. Over the summer, we will showcase teaching practices in the Teaching Showcase.

Each Teaching Showcase will focus on a different topic relevant to effective online instruction; the theme for the 2017 TS is the SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING AND LEARNING (SoTL). As educators, it is important to discover, reflect, and share teaching strategies with our colleagues and the collective community of teacher-scholars. As…