Faculty member writing groups support productivity

The author, a recent graduate of the Doctor in Public Administration program, shares his thoughts about what it means to study public administration in the twenty-first century. He hopes his insights, born out of more than a forty year-long career in the field—decades of work in colleges and universities as a faculty member, dean, provost, vicepresident, and acting president, as well as his extensive experience in teaching public administration at the graduate and undergraduate levels—will help doctoral students in their academic pursuits. More specifically, he hopes that his remarks will make Ph.D. students think more deeply about the promise of their endeavors and, on the other hand, give them advance warning about perils of the process and ways to avoid them.

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Diversity and Inclusion, a Perspective from a Four Years MSI Faculty Member

Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining ◽

10.1145/3394486.3411064 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eliana Valenzuela-Andrade

Keyword(s):

Faculty Member ◽

Diversity And Inclusion

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Exploring the Willingness to Accept SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine in a University Population in Southern Italy, September to November 2020

Vaccines ◽

10.3390/vaccines9030275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 275

Author(s):

Gabriella Di Giuseppe ◽

Concetta Paola Pelullo ◽

Giorgia Della Polla ◽

Maria Pavia ◽

Italo Francesco Angelillo

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Faculty Member ◽

Perceived Risk ◽

Southern Italy ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Risk Level ◽

Considerable Proportion ◽

Willingness To Accept ◽

University Population ◽

To Receive

Understanding whether members of the university population are willing to receive a future vaccination against COVID-19 and identifying barriers may help public health authorities to develop effective strategies and interventions to contain COVID-19. This cross-sectional study explored the willingness to accept a future SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in a university population in Southern Italy. The perceived risk level of developing COVID-19 was 6.5 and it was significantly higher among females, younger subjects, and those who agreed/strongly agreed that COVID-19 is a severe disease. Only 21.4% of respondents were not worried at all regarding the safety of the vaccine. Males, not being married/cohabitant, being a faculty member, those who perceived a lower risk of developing COVID-19, and those who did not need information regarding the vaccination against COVID-19 were significantly more likely to have no concern at all regarding the safety of the vaccine. The vast majority (84.1%) were willing to receive a future vaccine against COVID-19. Almost coherently with predictors of concern on the safety of the vaccine, being male, not being married/cohabitant, being a faculty member, not being concerned at all that COVID-19 vaccination might not be safe, and agreeing that COVID-19 can have serious health consequences were significant predictors of the willingness to receive the vaccine against COVID-19. A considerable proportion of the population had a positive willingness to receive the future COVID-19 vaccine, although some concerns have been expressed regarding the effectiveness and safety and public health activities seem necessary to achieve the rate that can lead to the protection of the community.

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