CSCR 2015-2016 Project & Events Report, page 1 of 5

CSCR Director 2015-16: Dr. Mary LaLone; CSCR Website Manager: Dr. Roby Page; Work Study Coordination: Dr. Beth Lyman.

CSCR Projects, 2015-16

Project Title Name of the CSCR Associate

Inclusive Dates

Community groups and/or on-campus groups involved as clients & partners

Types of Activity/Project Description

Sustaining the Community Mind for Long-term Community Resiliency: Appalachian Values Assessment in Floyd County, Virginia

Dr. Melinda Wagner, project director

2013-2015

Collaboration with Floyd Story Center at the Old Church Gallery; Floyd County Community and Economic Development Office; RU Scholar-Citizen Initiative; Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center; Appalachian Regional Commission’s Appalachian Teaching Project ($4,500 travel grant).

CSCR REPORT: Radford University Appalachian Teaching Project: “Sustaining the Community Mind for Long-term Community Resiliency: Rural Appalachian Values Assessment in Floyd County, Virginia” Kasey Campbell and Melinda Bollar Wagner, Ph.D., December 2015 Qualitative research: recorded interview data collection and analysis to assess values residents want to preserve and perceptions of potential threats to those values; to be used for planning decisions re land use and economic development. Research project for SOCY 482/582 Qualitative Research Methods; & APST 495/595 Research in Appalachia. Project results have been presented at the Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachian Teaching Project Conference and the Appalachian Studies Conference. CSCR GRANT: see column to the left

Roots With Wings Project

Dr. Melinda Wagner, project director

2007-ongoing

Collaboration with Floyd Story Center at the Old Church Gallery; Floyd County High School; RU Scholar-Citizen Initiative; Honors Academy; Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center

CSCR REPORT: “Roots With Wings: Floyd County Place-Based Education Oral History Project Spring 2015” Melinda Bollar Wagner, July 2015 Project for SOCY 493 Practicum RU-Floyd County oral history project to record the stories of elders in Floyd County. RU students teach workshops in qualitative research methods and mentor Floyd County high school students who do oral history interviews with Floyd County elders and make documentary movies. CSCR PRODUCTS: Project results have been presented in written technical reports, plus numerous presentations including to the Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachian Teaching Project Conference, the Appalachian Studies Conference, the Floyd Town Council, Floyd High School, at RU (e.g. Student Engagement Forum & Appalachian Awareness Day), and an extensive list of internet video & publications venues. See http://www.radford.edu/content/chbs/home/sociology/news/stories/2015/roots-with-wings-resumes-flight-in-floyd-co-.html.

New River Historical Society (NRHS) and Wilderness Road Regional Museum (WRRM) Consulting Project

Dr. Mary LaLone, consultant

2012-ongoing

Ongoing consulting project and collaboration with the New River Historical Society and Wilderness Road Regional Museum. Working in collaboration with Dr. Carolyn Mathews, President of the NRHS.

Research consultant for New River Historical Society and its Wilderness Road Regional Museum. Needs assessment and planning work by LaLone in 2012 led to the establishment of an ongoing teaching/research partnership between RU and the WRRM to assist the museum with planning and development. LaLone consults for the NRHS Board of Directors on a monthly basis. Development of a collaborative, ongoing SOCY-museum internship/ independent study program. Students engage in publicity and media development, event and exhibit planning, grant-writing, collection management, and educational programming.

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Project Title Name of the CSCR Associate

Inclusive Dates

Community groups and/or on-campus groups involved as clients & partners

Types of Activity/Project Description

Engaging the Community: A Community-Based Research (CBR) Class Project for 2015-16

Dr. Mary LaLone, project director, working in collaboration with co-director Dr. Carolyn Mathews

Fall 2015-ongoing

Fall 2015 SOCY 486 Engaging the Community class project affiliated with RU’s Scholar Citizen program; plus associated SOCY internships. Community partners are New River Historical Society and Wilderness Road Regional Museum.

CSCR REPORT: “Wilderness Road Regional Museum: Recommendations for Community Outreach.” Mary B. LaLone, Carolyn Mathews, Lauren R. Bailey, Bianca M. Billings, Catherine E. Costello, Victoria R. Curtis, Stephanie L. Prusa, Allanah K. Rocha, Blake Sholes, and Rolphine Vales. December 2015. Radford, VA: Radford University Scholar-Citizen Initiative and the CSCR, December 2015. Technical consulting report prepared for the New River Historical Society. Students in Dr. LaLone’s Fall 2015 SC-SOCY 486 “Engaging the Community” class conducted community-based research (CBR) and prepared a substantial 99-page consulting report for the New River Historical Society. In December 2015, the team made a formal presentation of its report to the NRHS’s Board of Directors. The NRHS Board was impressed with the team’s presentation and, after reviewing the report, it held a special planning meeting on January 11, 2016, to begin making plans to implement a number of the team’s recommendations for educational programming, volunteer organization, publicity, and exhibit outreach activities. In addition to the class, Sociology interns Lauren Bailey and Carson Reynolds helped the museum develop some of these outreach activities during the Fall & Spring semesters. CSCR REPORT: “How the Wilderness Road Regional Museum Can Engage Their Community: A Community-Based Research Analysis Consulting Report for the New River Historical Society.” Lauren R. Bailey. December 2015. Radford, VA: CSCR & Department of Sociology, Radford University.

Peaceline Plus Program Evaluation

Dr. Joanna Hunter, as principal investigator working with Bianca Dickerson, Kelsey Boyd, and Hannah Knowles (formerly Dr. Jeanne Mekolichick, 2011-14)

2011-ongoing

Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley

Conducting ongoing program evaluation for the Women’s Resource Center Peaceline Plus program. Received a $20,000 Verizon Grant to purchase technology to support the program evaluation in 2014. CSCR student research assistants assist with the Peaceline Plus program evaluation. Project results have been presented as written technical reports to the client on an annual basis. Plans to publish these results in an appropriate scholarly journal are underway, with Dr. Hunter serving as PI and Bianca Dickerson serving as a research assistant. CSCR GRANT APPICATION: ideas42 foundation grant application, Joanna Hunter, October 2015, to support the Peaceline Plus initiative. CSCR REPORT: “Peaceline Plus Evaluation Report AY 2014-2015.” Joanna Hunter, Bianca Dickerson, Hannah Knowles, and Kelsey Boyd. January 10, 2016. Report prepared for Women’s Resource Center of the New River Valley.

Beans & Rice Pulaski High School ACE Program

Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, consultant

2013-ongoing

Beans and Rice, Inc. Consulting and survey research assistance for the Beans and Rice ACE Program at Pulaski High School. CSCR student research assistants and interns assist with program development.

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Project Title Name of the CSCR Associate

Inclusive Dates

Community groups and/or on-campus groups involved as clients & partners

Types of Activity/Project Description

RU Disability Resource Office Satisfaction Survey

Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, principal investigator

2014-ongoing

RU’s Disability Resource Office, Angela DeVore, Director

Provides survey research assistance to help conduct and analyze the DRO’s Satisfaction Survey. CSCR student research assistants assist with the survey research.

Civic Engagement in Higher Education

Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, with Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett, Director, Scholar-Citizen Initiative

2015-ongoing

Research project. Examining civic engagement initiatives in higher education. CSCR research assistant assisting with research.

Fun Fridays Community Adolescent Mentoring Program (CAMP)

Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, principal investigator

Fall, 2015 Fun Fridays Community Adolescent Mentoring Program, Radford, VA

Consultation on organizational restructuring and grant-seeking, conducted by Dr. Lyman and a CSCR research associate

RU Poverty Project

Dr. Elizabeth Lyman, principal investigator

2016 RU campus community

A research and service team project on college student poverty and homelessness, entailing both traditional research and developing recommendations for assisting low-income and homeless college students. The team is comprised of Dr. Lyman (PI), an RU staff member, three CSCR research assistants, and a CSCR intern.

RU Sustainability Dr. Allison K. Wisecup, researcher

2014-ongoing

RU Sustainability project conducted in association with Dean Grady, Dr. Rick Roth, Julio Stephens

Research project. Data cleaning, coding, and analysis. CSCR student research assistants assist with project research and analysis. CSCR JOURNAL ARTICLE: "A Comparative Study of the Efficacy of Intervention Strategies on Student Electricity Use in Campus Residence Halls,” Allison K. Wisecup, Dennis Grady, Richard A. Roth, and Julio Stephens. Accepted February 6, 2016 for publication in The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Healthy Highlanders

Dr. Allison K. Wisecup, consultant and project director

2014-ongoing

Abby Mundy, RU Student Health Services Dr. Mark Shanley, Vice President of Student Affairs

Class project for SOCY 380 and SOCY 480 Social Research Methods classes. Students are developing a literature review and survey (deployed Spring 2015) to investigate factors associated with utilization of student health services at Radford University. This project is continuing 2016.

Student Health Satisfaction

Dr. Allison K. Wisecup, consultant and project director

2015-ongoing

Abby Mundy, RU Student Health Services

Research project. Analysis of patient satisfaction data collected each semester by the Student Health Center. The final report and a revised survey instrument were completed by Blake Sholes, a CSCR student research assistant. CSCR REPORT: “Student Health Services: Patient Satisfaction,” Allison K. Wisecup and Blake Sholes, Fall 2015.

National College Health Assessment

Dr. Allison K. Wisecup, project director

2016 Julie Dill, SAVES Office

Research Project. The American College Health Association requires the collection of survey data from a representative sample of students for accreditation purposes. Data collection will involve the use of CSCR student research assistants.

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Project Title Name of the CSCR Associate

Inclusive Dates

Community groups and/or on-campus groups involved as clients & partners

Types of Activity/Project Description

Visual Sociology Class Project

Dr. Roby Page, project director

2010-ongoing

Class project developed for the SOCY 465, Visual Sociology class, to engage studies in first-hand applied experiences merging photography and sociology.

Religious Identity and Practices of U.S. College Students

Dr. Joanna Hunter, principal investigator, with Bianca Dickerson, CSCR intern.

ongoing Research project. Analysis of quantitative data from college students at two colleges compared with the National Study of Youth and Religion, a nationally representative data set collected 2007-8. CSCR student research assistants assist with project analysis. Dr. Hunter and Bianca Dickerson presented their preliminary results at the Association for the Sociology of Religion conference in Chicago, IL in August 2015. They are working on preparing a manuscript for submission to an academic journal.

Diversity and architecture/design outcomes

Dr. Carla Corroto, consultant

ongoing Evaluating hiring practices, diversity workshops for designers

Architectural design process – group and cooperative-design critique

Dr. Carla Corroto, principal investigator

ongoing Theoretical critique of cooperative design practices

Qualitative research methods – narrative inquiry

Dr. Carla Corroto, principal investigator

May 2016 Missing Feminist Revolution in Architecture. Project funded by College of Humanities and Behavioral Science research grant

SOCY 326 Special Projects (SO)

Dr. Amy Sorensen, project coordinator

Spring 2016

See next column

Students choose a gender-related topic to research. Part of the research process was to interview someone in the community with some knowledge of the topic.

RU Sociology Alumni Mentoring Network (SAMN)

Dr. Amy Sorensen, project coordinator

Spring 2015-ongoing

Former RU Sociology students

This group allows current students to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of former students year round. CSCR student worker seeks out alumni and maintains a database of alumni information.

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CSCR Sponsored Events and Speaker Series, 2015-16

Event Title Name of the

CSCR Associate

Dates Community groups and/or on-campus groups involved as clients & partners

Event Description

SOCY 497 Senior Seminar, Sociology Alumni Career Panel

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

Fall 2015 Organizations represented by former graduates of the RU Sociology program

This panel event is designed to coincide with Senior Seminar, but is available to all students. Former graduates are invited to be a part of the panel, providing their expertise to students

SOCY 497 Senior Seminar, Sociology Grad School Panel

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

Fall 2015 Panelists represent a variety of expertise on graduate school

This panel event is designed to coincide with Senior Seminar, but is available to all students. Former graduates and other local graduate program leaders are invited to be part of the panel, providing their expertise to students

Sociology Alumni Mentoring Network Luncheon

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

Fall 2015 Co-sponsored by Alumni Relations, Sociology Club. Alumni of the department attend

Students have an opportunity to have lunch with former students, to increase knowledge, skills, and networking

Sociology Alumni Mentoring Network Mixer

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

Fall 2015 Co-sponsored by Alumni Relations, Sociology Club. Alumni of the department attend

Students have an opportunity to have lunch with former students, to increase knowledge, skills, and networking

SOCY 497 Senior Seminar, Contemporary Issues in the Workplace Panel Series

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

Fall 2015 This year included: New River Community Action, NRVCS, Women’s Resource Center, Radford Police Dept, Juvenile Detention Home, Court Services Unit, VT Institute on Policy & Governance, Beans & Rice, and many campus partners

In conjunction with Senior Seminar (SOCY 497), a series of speaker panels are developed, covering a wide variety of topics. Students attend, grow their networks, and can more fully explore these issues. Some panels included: Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Disability Issues, Work/Life Balance; Working in Non-profit, Working in Criminal Justice, Working in Health/Mental Health, Grant-writing & Assessment in the workplace;

Spring Project Extravaganza for the SOCY 326

Dr. Amy Sorensen, professor

April 2015 Students presented their final projects based on gender research they completed throughout the semester. Invitations are sent to other departments/RU programs and community partners.