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Title: Mohawk Industries Inc. comprehensive analysis honors case
Author: Beale, Zach
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Business enterprises, Manufacturing industries
Description: This comprehensive analysis of Mohawk Industries Inc. provides a detailed overview of the company, including its history, mission, and values. The report analyzes the flooring industry in which Mohawk operates, including market size, growth prospe...

Title: Commercializing craft : Native American artistry at residential schools within the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
Author: Schutt, Jaden
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indigenous arts
Description: My thesis specifically focused on federally instructed and federally implemented Native American art at residential boarding schools from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Specifically, I analyzed the evolution of the Native art cu...

Title: Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) as a lens of participatory learning and exposure to environmental racism in the United States
Author: Alabi, Mora, Fotiushang, Nikol
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Alternate reality games, Environmental racism
Description: Contemporary educational models emphasize educators employ tools to increase engagement and collaborative thinking in student learning. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) have recently been found to have great potential for language immersion and cult...

Title: The politics of pollution in America's most vulnerable communities
Author: Clark, Caylea
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Pollution, Poverty
Description: Throughout the history of the United States, corporate facility polluters have been targeting low socioeconomic status and high minority communities across the country. This has been displayed through countless studies including this thesis and ac...

Title: Incels and The Red Pill : preventing the growth of online misogyny
Author: Starr, Evie
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Misogyny, Incels
Description: In an increasingly digital world, the problem of radicalization and online extremism has become more relevant than ever before. One such example is the networked misogyny of the manosphere and its associated subgroups. One of these groups is made ...

Title: Authorship agreement
Author: Rasmussen, Lisa M., Holladay-Sandidge, Holly D., Demeter, Elise, Banks, George C., McBride, Andrew
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Authorship, Academic writing
Description: Authorship on a paper, presentation, or other scholarly work indicates a substantial contribution to a project and accountability for the results. Authorship decisions often affect reputations and careers, and they can be a source of tension, even...

Title: 2023 report on the experiences of neurodivergent students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Barbour, Triston
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Neurodiversity
Description: This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of students at UNC Charlotte who identify as neurodivergent and/or as having a disorder related to mental health or function, specifically as they re...

Title: La casa de las flores : a case study of Queer Mexican representation in millennial telenovelas
Author: Eric Phann
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Television soap operas, Queer studies
Description: Telenovelas are a TV genre unique to Latin America and are often colloquially referred to as "Spanish soap operas'' since, like US soap operas, they feature a storyline that evolves from episode to episode and airs every weekday. A key difference,...

Title: One-size-doesn't-fit-all : differentiated engagement pathways for transfer student success - appendices
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Moore, Anne Cooper
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: College students--Transfer, Academic libraries--Services to transfer students
Description: This Appendices document is a supplement to the paper, "One-Size-Doesn't-Fit-All: Differentiated Engagement Pathways for Transfer Student Success", that was submitted as part of the Proceedings of the 2022 Library Assessment Conference (2022, Nove...

Title: Inter-institutional mobile hotspot lending program handbook
Author: Croxton, Rebecca A., Price, Bob, McCallister, Kelly, Dusto, David, McLellan, Amanda, Bourne, Brandy, Collogan, Jessica, Brown, Wanda Kay
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, Web-based instruction, Internet access
Description: This handbook outlines key components of a inter-institutional mobile hotspots lending model that was developed as a collaborative initiative between seven University of North Carolina System institutions. The project was made possible by grant fu...

Title: Windows and mirrors : a content analysis of diversity in the Common Core Text Exemplars
Author: Romney, Kelsey M.
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Multiculturalism
Description: As diversity in the United States student population increases, children’s literature should be reflective of that growing diversity. A descriptive content analysis was conducted to analyze the gender and racial diversity of the main characters/pe...

Title: Structure and composition define immunorecognition of nucleic acid nanoparticles
Author: Afonin, Kirill A.
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Immune system, Interferon, Nucleic acids

Title: The impact of educational reforms on Russian women from 1850-1900 : obtaining a higher education with the help of socialism
Author: Litchfield, Amber
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nihilism, Women's rights, Women in education, Russia
Description: Restrictive governments breed revolutionaries, history has shown this much. Nineteenth-century Imperial Russia is marked by a time of reforms and liberations. The tsars' Alexander I, Nicholas I, and Alexander II mismanaged the reforms during this ...

Title: Assessing the impact of curriculum on open and transparent research practices
Author: Markant, Doug, Galati, Alexia
Date Created: 2022, 2022, 2022
Subjects--Topical: Open scholarship, Education, Higher
Description: Over the past decade, in response to the so-called “replication crisis”, psychology researchers have begun adopting practices that promote openness and transparency. Currently, these emerging best practices are not consistently represented in the ...

Title: 2022 report on the experiences of Black students at Atkins Library
Author: Moore, Jon, Croxton, Rebecca A., Davis, Tiffany, Krumbine, Tracie, Ornat Bitting, Natalie, Perry, Crystal
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Academic libraries, College students, Black, Anti-racism
Description: This report describes the study our team conducted to better understand the needs and experiences of Black students at UNC Charlotte related to the spaces, services, and resources of Atkins Library. The research team for this study was comprised o...

Title: Civilizing paternalism : Mill, autonomy, and Indian assimilation policies
Author: Lee, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, North America, Assimilation (Sociology), Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
Description: John Stuart Mill, a Western philosopher of the Enlightenment period, argues that paternalism is an infringement on an individual’s autonomy. Although Mill argues as such, Western powers have been observed to exercise paternalism by way of imperial...

Title: The contextual characteristics of violent crime against Native American women
Author: Stanley, Michelle A.
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Indigenous peoples, Violent crimes
Description: National surveys, reports, and research articles have indicated that Native American women experience some of the highest rates of violence compared to women from other racial or ethnic groups in the United States. Despite these findings, there is...

Title: SRC Sound Partners training for new SRC teachers
Author: Beach, Kristen D.
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Literacy programs, Early childhood education
Description: These training materials reflect the most recent update of Sound Partners Training Materials, originally designed for the UNC Charlotte Summer Reading Camp by Dr. Kristen Beach in 2016. The materials are a translation of the Sound Partners (Vadasy...

Title: The Corona Caesar, a Shakespeare podcast adaptation by Andrew Hartley
Author: Hartley, A. J. (Andrew James)
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Plays (Shakespeare, William), Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, William), English drama (Tragedy)
Description: Produced and performed by the undergraduates of the Theatre Department at UNC Charlotte (podcast series produced as an audio play). The show was rehearsed, recorded, and released under Covid-19 social distancing protocols in the Fall of 2020. This...

Title: Millennials will one day be eighty: generations in humor and context
Author: Looby, Kimberly
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Conflict of generations, Sociology, Humor, Library science
Description: Presented at the IDEAL Conference in Columbus, Ohio. August 2019. Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Libraries and Archives Most generational workshops make an honest attempt at trying to understand unique experiences through divers...