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eScholarship@Frostburg serves as a showcase of scholarly and academic materials from the Frostburg State University (FSU) community within MD-SOAR. FSU students, faculty, and staff may contribute completed research, scholarship, and evidence of experiential learning to promote their work via MD-SOAR. MD-SOAR can, also, store records related to the history of Frostburg State University. For more information, go to the Lewis J. Ort Library's website.

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2016 Federal Employee Orientation Programs Best Practices Research Project
(2016-10-19) Blankenship, Diane; Hart, Gaia; Foreign Service Institute (U.S.)
New employee orientation is rapidly becoming a focus of organizational success within the literature as noted by LinkedIn efforts, a noted leader in employee engagement, and recommendations for training processes in various industries from Federal government, private industry, and the medical community. The evaluation and revision process is an ongoing dynamic process which continues to gather Level 1, 2, and 3 data from participants, analysis and interpretation of data, examination and trend analysis, and research to identify instructional techniques and resources to enhance the learning experience. The FSI Civil Service Orientation Coordinator collaborated with FSI’s first-ever Virtual Fellow as part of the Department’s new program incorporating citizen involvement to conduct research within the Federal government to identify the best practices and industry standards of orientation programs. The research efforts of this project synthesized previous 2015 research in workforce training and this 2016 orientation study, current research, literature review, trends, and the Kirkpatrick Model principles of training and evaluation. This report presents the information in a standard format for each section: literature information, survey results, best practices, and industry standards, after reviewing 30 Federal agencies’ survey responses and many course curriculum agendas. Attempts at gaining insight from Federal leaders cited in the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government survey went unanswered, thus the Federal agencies cited in Best Places survey were not necessarily represented in this report. Responses were from Federal agencies that were members of the OPM Training and Development ListServe. In general, Federal government agencies seem to be lagging behind leading commercial entities and other literature citing best practices and standards in the field of curriculum design and evaluation of workforce orientation training programs. Benchmarking against enlightened leaders in the commercial arena such as Zappos, LinkedIn, and Google would yield more extensive learning to gain expanded insights into designing creative, engaging, cutting-edge, new employee orientation programs.
Acquisition and Development of the American Association of Community Colleges' Competencies for Community College Leaders
(2016) Rothstein, Carol A.; Thompson, Glenn E.; Department of Educational Professions; Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership (Ed.D.)
Community colleges are facing a severe shortage of qualified leaders that may threaten the stability of these institutions. Seventy-five percent of community college presidents and a large number of senior administrators are planning to retire within ten years (AACC, 2013; Boyd, 2010; Shults, 2001). The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) addressed the leadership crisis in 2003, and again in 2012, by creating a framework that identified five key competencies that every community college president should possess. The competency areas are 1) organizational strategy; 2) institutional finance, research, fundraising, and resource management; 3) communication; 4) collaboration; and 5) advocacy. The AACC publication, Competencies for Community College Leadership, addressed the skills community college presidents need, but it did not address how presidents acquired and developed those skills. This study uses a phenomenological design to discover the ways current community college presidents acquired and developed their skills with the AACC competencies.
Alexey Pajitnov: Ackerman’s Main Three
(2023-03-29) Owens, Jared; History; HIST490 - America and the History of Video Games
This paper uses Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman to look into Alexey Pajitnov's life during his creation of Tetris. It uses three main points, Pajitnov’s early interest in puzzles, computers, and mathematics, the release of Tetris in 1984, and Pajitnov's move to the United States to explain how Tetris became the game it is today. These three points in Pajitnov's life seem to explain how Tetris gained its fame.
Analysis of Signal Intelligence for Wireless Communication Systems
(2016-05-12) Kovuri, Nishant; Pendyala, SuryaDev; Dawood, Suhana; Mohammed, Abubakar S; Zheng, David; Computer Science
This research is based upon derivations of signal data in wireless communication systems. A cellular network is a radio network distributed over land through cells where each cell includes a fixed location transceiver known as base station. These cells together provide radio coverage over large geographical areas. Mobile network is a combination of multiple nodes (MS, BTS, BSC, MSC, HLR, VLR, EIR) Widely known problems are due to medium between sender-receiver, terrain area, overload traffic, TCP/IP packets congestion, transmitter-receiver hardware and other criteria. Problems could be tackled and reduced in different approaches based on causes.
Baccalaureate Service, 1926
(1926-06-06) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 6, 1926, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1927
(1927-06-05) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 5, 1927, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1928
(1928-06-10) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 10, 1928, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1929
(1929-06-09) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 9, 1929, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1930
(1930-06-15) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 15, 1930, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1931
(1931-06-07) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 7, 1931, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1932
(1932-06-05) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 5, 1932, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1933
(1933-06-11) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 11, 1933, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1934
(1934-06-10) State Normal School
Baccalaureate service program for June 10, 1934, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1935
(1935-06-09) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 9, 1935, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1936
(1936-06-07) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 7, 1936, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1937
(1937-06-06) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 6, 1937, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1938
(1938-06-12) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 12, 1938, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1939
(1939-06-11) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 11, 1939, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1940
(1940-06-09) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 9, 1940, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.
Baccalaureate Service, 1941
(1941-06-08) State Teachers College
Baccalaureate service program for June 8, 1941, which may include written corrections and annotations. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in baccalaureate service programs, the service may have changed after the program was printed.