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Item Play, Sports, and Running with Friends(2024-06-14) Stewart, Kenneth D.Dr. Ken Stewart begins with his earliest recollections of playing with friends who lived in his neighborhood in a small cotton mill town in North Carolina. His enjoyment of playful competitions in cornstalk wars and sword fights turned into pick-up games of tennis, races against peers in the swimming pool, and touch football games in the town park. As a small high school freshman, he tried out for basketball, football, and baseball and, in the end, earned thirteen letters in high school. As Stewart sees it, his work ethic in practice led to greater acceptance by his peers and the development of a strong relationship with his high school coach. Through sports, he began to feel more socially accepted despite many self-doubts and a sense of social inferiority. At Duke, Stewart participated in intramural basketball competitions and was on their track team as a sophomore. He discontinued track because of the academic realities of a change in major to psychology in his junior year. After decades of little or no physical exercise, he began running for health and weight control reasons in 1973 at age 40. That decision led to better work stress management and the many enjoyable events he experienced “running with friends” for over 32 years.Item Self Care Advice in 2021 and Aerobic Exercise 1983 Style(The General Psychologist, 2021) Stewart, Kenneth D.In 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 epidemic, the American Psychological Association called on all caregiving professionals to pay more attention to their well-being through “Self-Care.” Ken’s 2022 article addressed how he approached Self-Care through aerobic exercise with friends and work colleagues throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.Item As Best I Can Tell Frostburg State: 1970-2000(2024-06-22) Stewart, Kenneth D.Dr. Kenneth Stewart memoir of his 30-year career at Frostburg State College and Frostburg State University, 1970 - 2000. Stewart was hired as a faculty member for the Frostburg State College Psychology Department in 1970, with a goal to create a Psychology Master's Program at the college. Stewart went on to become Chair of the Psychology Department in 1977 and then Dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences in 1986 until his retirement in 1999. He also served as Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1991 - 1993. Stewart describes his working relationships with Presidents Dr. Nelson P. Guild, Dr. Herb. Reinhard, Harold Delaney and Dr. Catherine Gira, faculty collaboration, his involvement in restructuring faculty salary equity and promotion & tenure and teaching psychology courses.Item ERM Ideas & Innovations: The Evolution of E-Resources Management in a Small Academic library – Paraprofessional Staff and Librarian Perspectives(2020-09-04) Lowe, Randall A.; Frost, Nancy A.; Zumbrun, Emily A.Two paraprofessional staff members and their supervising librarian provide perspectives on the effect that a major shift in operational focus had on a small academic library’s acquisitions department. Staff members detail how their jobs changed as well as the challenges they faced when transitioning from a largely print-based operation to one in which working with electronic resources came to comprise the majority of their responsibilities. The supervising librarian addresses some of the managerial challenges present throughout this process, as well as corrective actions taken as informed through engaging staff in regular and frank dialogue.Item Predictive Value of Performance Criteria for First-Time Sophomore Resident Assistants(2015) Severance, Dana A.; Childs, William P.; Hall, Kelly S.; Department of Educational Professions; Doctor of Education, Educational Leadership (Ed.D.)Housing professionals are increasingly compelled to consider hiring resident assistants (RAs) from a pool of applicants that includes students with less college experience than has traditionally been expected. The purpose of the study is to determine if the success of first-time sophomore RAs differs from that of first-time upper-class RAs according to performance evaluations by their supervisors. Performance evaluations of first-time resident assistants were compared to determine if any performance evaluation criteria predicted the sophomore or non-sophomore class standing of RAs post hoc. Performance evaluation data for first-time RAs were gathered from universities in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. The reported performance criteria were relationships with residents, relationships with staff, residential community development, programming, and administration. The data were analyzed using binary logistic regression. Performance criteria did not predict an RA’s class standing. Supervisors of first-time resident assistants evaluated the performance of sophomore resident assistants substantially the same as their upper-class counterparts. This result will give housing professionals more confidence in selecting students to serve as resident assistants regardless of their class standing.