Category: Faculty Partner Research

Kimberly Updegraff – Sibling relationships are often a person’s longest—preceding most friendships and romantic relationships—so the magnitude of sibling influence can’t be ignored

David Purpura – Many children in the United States fail to meet proficiency benchmarks on mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) tests in elementary school despite those tests being related to future outcomes. Thus, strategies are needed to identify and support children at risk for failing to reach proficiency in mathematics and ELA that consider multiple school readiness domains.

Breanya Hogue – This collaborative self-study examines bi-directional mentoring interactions between two faculty, a graduate teaching assistant, and a preservice teacher within a literacy methods course to examine the impact on shaping teacher identity and mentoring roles.

Leigha MacNeill – To advance clinical utility of an emerging risk calculator for identifying when to worry and when to act when young children show signs of mental health concerns in pediatric care, we: (1) replicate an early childhood mental health risk algorithm (DECIDE); (2) determine preliminary predictive utility of additional child and parenting assets, advancing a strengths-based framework to reduce the likelihood of biased identification.

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Research on the relationship between age and the work–family interface (WFI) is critical to effective human resource management. Yet, findings remain inconsistent and lack theoretical integration.

Heather Eicher-Miller – Food insecurity occurs when household members experience a change in their diet or decrease in food amount due to limited resources. Compared with all households, food insecurity is more prevalent among those with children, affecting 18 percent in 2023. In approximately half of those, the children did not directly experience food insecurity, indicating that coping strategies may help prevent this situation by limiting changes to quality and quantity of diet.

Cordelia Running; Kameron Moding – The dual-identity of being Latino/Hispanic and living in a rural area may exacerbate the acquisition of diet-attributed chronic disease. Nutrition education serves as an important resource for teaching individuals about healthy eating patterns, but it is unknown how relevant current programming is to this specific population.

Xinran Lehto, is one of the authors on this timely and innovative book offers an inspirational and thought-provoking journey into the future world of hospitality by conceptualizing an innovative future where hotels transcend traditional boundaries and evolve into dynamic hubs of innovation, environmental stewardship, community engagement and personal growth at the guest, employee and local resident level.

Ellen Ernst Kossek – Police agencies across the country are experiencing severe recruiting and retention challenges. Concerns about work–life balance are a major barrier to entering and remaining in the policing profession. In this chapter, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a pilot to evaluate the effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Training (FSST) in policing.

Jennifer Dobbs-Oates – Experiential learning, a long-aspired-to but often neglected career readiness tool, might finally be gaining a more solid foothold on campus due to today’s workforce disruptions.
The American Association of Colleges and Universities reports that only about a quarter of surveyed faculty, staff and administrators led experiential learning opportunities last fall, highlighting a “persistent gap between aspiration and execution.”