Shane Kraus (Psychology) and colleagues recently published several scholarly works: The first paper (Spanish Validation of the Brief Pornography Screen Within a Clinical Sample of Individuals with Gambling Disorder) was published in Archives of Sexual Behavior.  The second was a letter to the editor (A Response to “A Meta-Review to Guide…
Vicky Albert (Social Work), Jaewon Lim, and Daeyoung Kwon (both Public Policy and Leadership) recently published an article in the Sustainability Journal. In their article "Geographic Analysis of Four Social Safety Nets’ Responsiveness to the Pandemic Recession and Social Sustainability," they investigate…
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John Curry (History) attended the College Board Advanced Placement World History: Modern Examination Development Committee meeting, held in Reston, Virginia, as the Higher Education Co-Chair representative. The meeting spent four days designing and finalizing the questions for several different versions of next year's Advanced Placement exams for…
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Danielle Mireles (Teaching and Learning) and Anna Acha (University of California, Riverside) recently published a co-authored chapter, "From compliance culture to liberatory access: reimagining disabled & deaf futurities on college campuses and beyond," in the Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education: Like a Path in Tall…

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