ABSTRACT This case study suggests a multi-level model for dance programs and departments to navigate institutional change centered on place-based programming and involving administrators, faculty, and guest artists. This model proposes that a fundamental orientation to place through place-based programming is an essential and effective framework to ensure resilience and relevance. Within that framework, we emphasize activating sensemaking to navigate institutional change by administrators and department leaders, applying scaffolding as an administrative and pedagogical method by faculty at the program level, and exercising dancing-with as a collaborative and interdisciplinary posture with guest artists. By positioning administrators and leaders, faculty, students, staff, guest artists, campus allies from other disciplines, and community partners as change-making agents, dance programs in higher education can choreograph administrative, curricular, and creative responses to change that affirm dance’s centrality in the university’s ecosystem.

This study empirically explores the impact of local newspaper closures on suppliers' investment efficiency. The results reveal that suppliers with customers in close proximity to local newspaper closures make inefficient investment decisions. Cross-sectional analyzes suggest that the negative effect is stronger for suppliers in competitive industries, geographically distant from customers, and when customers have low analyst coverage, institutional ownership, or local media presence. Our findings highlight that the economic consequences of local newspaper closures extend beyond nearby firms, influencing the investment decisions of their trade partners.

Our objectives in this study were to understand the impact of COVID-19 disruptions on the academic and personal experiences of undergraduate students at a state land-grant institution in the Western United States, and to use those insights to identify actionable ways to improve student success. We used a mixed method survey to assess strategies used by undergraduates to adapt to COVID-19 disruptions. Results revealed that despite challenges, the majority of students continued toward their academic goals. Face-to-face classes yielded the greatest student satisfaction, and students reported great dissatisfaction with separation from peers and instructors. These insights will be especially helpful to educators and administrators in responding to future challenges and planning future approaches. This overview of students’ attitudes associated with moving from in-person to online coursework may also be useful for advising students considering which of these instructional paradigms to pursue.

Abstract Objective Patient falls in the healthcare settings are unwanted events that can have severe consequences for both inpatients and outpatients; however, falls are preventable and nurses play an important role in this prevention. The purpose of this study was to investigate nurse activities in fall prevention and its relevant factors. Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Can Tho Central General Hospital, with the participation of 90 nurses. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire consisting of five parts, including personal characteristics, knowledge about fall prevention, self-efficacy in fall prevention, nursing practice environment, and fall prevention activities. The data were entered and analyzed using SPSS 18.0 software with descriptive statistics, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson’s correlation coefficients. Results The mean score of participants’ knowledge in fall prevention was 4.67 (SD = 2.50) out of 11 scores; the self-efficacy score was 49.43 (SD = 8.55) out of 66 scores; nursing practice environment score was 29.69 (SD = 4.00) out of 40 scores; and the fall prevention activity scores were 75.58 (SD = 9.96) out of 100 scores. Factors related to fall prevention activities included gender (p = 0.03), place of work (p = 0.02), number of fall prevention training sessions (p = 0.03), self-efficacy in fall prevention (r = 0.61, p < 0.001), and the nursing practice environment (r = 0.25, p < 0.05). Conclusions An intervention program for fall prevention can be implemented to enhance the knowledge about fall prevention among nurses and improve the nursing practice environment to enhance patient safety.

Situated expectancy-value theory posits that students’ academic outcomes are influenced by their expectancy beliefs and the value they place on the task, including perceived costs. We examined how reported costs differed between three college courses (chemistry: N = 140, statistics: N = 36, and English composition: N = 33), how reports changed over time within the same course, and how they varied between men and women. Results suggested that emotional cost was the most frequently reported cost at baseline in chemistry and statistics, but task effort cost was reported most frequently in English. At final, task effort cost was the most frequently reported across all courses. Students reported more emotional costs at final in chemistry compared to statistics. In chemistry, students reported outside effort costs and emotional costs more at baseline than at final. In statistics, students reported task effort costs, outside effort costs, and emotional costs more at baseline than at final. In English, students reported more task effort cost and emotional costs more at baseline than at final. Finally, men reported more task effort costs at baseline than women in English. Our findings show differential effects of reported costs across courses, over time, and between men and women.

PurposePromoting pro-environmental behaviors like proper waste sorting in the workplace is crucial for organizations seeking to reduce their environmental footprint. This study aims to investigate the role of maximizing decision-making style – the tendency to pursue the optimal alternative – on employees’ waste sorting intentions and behaviors through the lens of the comprehensive action determination model.Design/methodology/approachOnline survey data collected from 374 Chinese employees. The statistical tool SmartPLS 4.0 was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe results revealed that maximizing decision-making style positively predicted attitude, personal norm, waste sorting self-efficacy and waste sorting habit, which in turn increased intentions to sort waste properly in the workplace.Originality/valueThe study highlights the role of decision-making style in promoting waste sorting practices among employees and offers significant theoretical implications for understanding individual differences in environmental decision-making. In addition, it provides practical implications for designing effective workplace sustainability initiatives, including insights into social marketing strategies aimed at fostering sustainable behaviors in organizational settings.