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    Geographic Splits, Mergers, and Reorganizations
    (2025-12-12) Sewald, Ronda L.
    This presentation walks audience members through the process of determining whether to establish geographic name headings under the Library of Congress Name Authority or Subject Authority file and how to select the proper heading when a country has undergone a series of splits and mergers. It includes helpful charts and references to specific instructions in the LC Subject Headings Manual.
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    EXPLORING STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF AN ONLINE ADAPTIVE INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS COURSE TO INFORM INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN INTERVENTIONS
    ([Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2023-06) Falchi, John J.; Bonk, Curtis J.
    This mixed method study found that students (N = 118) who completed a five-week online Introduction to Statistics course at University of North Carolina Charlotte were ambivalent towards its viability as a course modality. Student ambivalence was found in nine of twelve variables describing the adaptive effectiveness dimensionality (component) which included elements related to personalization, feedback, knowledge assessments, support for learning, and general ease of use associated with the adaptive learning platform. Students found somewhat difficulty in all three variables found to describe the course noise dimensionality, which described the extent to which students find disruption in the learning process due to the course model and the underlying technology, adaptive platform (Realizeit). Qualitative findings from group and individual interviews identified ambivalent themes associated with knowledge assessments, learning personalization, learning path recommendations, learning interventions, and learning progression. Quantitative component cluster scores for this dimensionality were statistically significant for variability with large effect sizes. A finding that suggests interaction among the independent variables and clusters leads to varying student perceptions of adaptive learning as a viable course modality.
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    Overview of best practices for quantitative analysis of economic and academic benefits of research-enabling facilities
    (Indiana University, 2025-12-10) Snapp-Childs, Winona G.; Hancock, David Y.; Smith, Preston M.; Towns, John Towns; Stewart, Craig A. Stewart
    This report provides an overview of best practices regarding quantitative analyses of the economic and academic benefits of research-enabling facilities, and a few comments about potential pitfalls. A defining characteristic of research-enabling facilities is that they provide some sort of service to a group of researchers who are treated more as clients than as collaborators. This brief overview summarizes the contents of a suite of papers regarding quantitative and qualitative methods for interrogating the Return on Investment (ROI) in research-enabling facilities in financial and other terms. Among the reports analyzed in pursuing the issue of assessment of research-enabling facilities, it is possible to discern five different types of quantitative assessments of return on investment. This report also discusses best practices in depiction of return on investment analyses and utility evaluation generally for research-enabling facilities. All of these best practices are applicable to research institutions at larger scales.
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    Intra-group and Inter-group Racial Disparities in Nonprofit Funding: Insights from Stratification Economics
    (2025) Deng, Shuyi
    Recent research has increasingly examined nonprofit funding disparities between White and Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, especially after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. However, limited attention has been paid to funding disparities among different BIPOC sub-groups. Drawing on stratification economics, this paper investigates intra-BIPOC disparities and their relationship to White-BIPOC disparity in nonprofit funding. Using a national dataset of human services general support grants from 2018 to 2022, the study finds that racial disparities in nonprofit funding exist not only between White and BIPOC communities—as well documented in existing literature—but also among different BIPOC sub-groups. Moreover, intra-BIPOC disparities either sustain or exacerbate White-BIPOC disparity, thereby perpetuating racial hierarchies in nonprofit funding. These findings enrich our understanding of racial disparities in nonprofit funding and underscore the need for actions addressing the nuanced group dynamics both within and beyond BIPOC communities.
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