Boots to books: Helping college student veterans through library outreach and engagement programs

The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades

Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester-long experimental study to determine if using Twitter – the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue –...

Brawling in the Library: Gaming Programs for Impactful Outreach and Instruction at an Academic Library

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2013 (“The Impact of Gaming on Libraries,” edited by Scott Nicholson), pp. 802–813. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Academic libraries not only need to focus on instructing students about library resources but also need to actively reach out to them. One way to accomplish this is to integrate gaming into library programming and instr...

Student Ambassadors and STEM Outreach

Behavioral Health and Adjustment to College Life for Student Service Members/Veterans.

OBJECTIVE Increasing numbers of student service members/veterans (SSM/Vs) are enrolling in college. However, little is known about how their previous military experience affects their adjustment to this new role. The present study tested the hypothesis that SSM/Vs who report adjustment problems in college have a higher incidence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other beh...

Hospital outreach service: helping to prevent nursing home placement.

An outreach service from a post-acute metropolitan teaching hospital delivered an intensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated allied health service, and achieved both early hospital discharge and the prevention or delay of nursing home placement. This article reports on three types of cases which illustrate how the service assisted ward teams, families and patients to determine whether nursing...