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    Affordable Learning Materials and Texas State University: Second Year Report from the Managing Textbook Costs Committee
    (2021-09) Sriraman, Vedaraman; Willett, Dana R.; Bagby, Jokwon; Cavitt, Mary Ellen; Gonzales, Matthew; Gutierrez, Sonya; Kipp, Lindsay; Martin, Benjamin R.; Martinez, Sergio; McNeill, Seth; Morel, Gwendolyn; Morganti, Dianna; Nowicki, Michael; Paulson, Eric J.; Paz, Mark; Root, John; Shroff, Piyush; Tanner, Glenn; Underhill, Barry
    The Managing Textbook Costs Committee (MTCC) at Texas State met regularly during the course of this unusual academic year in an effort to continue to advance the use and development of affordable learning materials. Work of the MTCC in its first year resulted in the drafting of several short- and long-term goals. The University Libraries have archived the First Year Report from the MTCC in Texas State’s Institutional Repository. Activities in the second year contributed to progress toward those goals.
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    Insights on Minority Business Growth: A Report on the Growth-Related Challenges Experienced by Minority-Owned Businesses in Texas
    (2022-12) Daspit, Joshua J.; Wan, Maggie; Konopaske, Robert; Anderson, Sidney; Lopez, Omar S.
    Data show that minority businesses do not grow at the same rate as non-minority businesses. This report outlines initial insights gained regarding why this difference exists. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from minority and non-minority business owners in Texas, four primary findings emerge that help to highlight the challenges minority-owned businesses encounter when seeking to grow.
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    History of Texas State Human Resources: September 1969 - March 2021
    (2022-08) McBride, John E.
    The idea for this HR Office history came from the Comprehensive Peer Review of the Personnel Office in October 2001. Part of the requirements of the Review was to give a history of the Personnel Office. A history was compiled and included as part of the Peer Review. For posterity purposes I felt it would be fun and informative to update the history from where it left off at FY’01 in the Peer Review to the current FY’21. So this document is essentially in two parts: (1) The FY’01 Peer Review as written at the time and (2) events as they unfolded from FY’02-FY’21.
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    Cuentos and Testimonies II: Students' Voices, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism
    (Texas State University, Office of the Provost, 2021-09) Thorne, Debbie; Stills, Aja; Vastakis, Anastasia; Hinojosa, Olivia; Monroe, Rozelle; Kuykendall, Victoria; Serrano, Elisa; Rodriguez, Jack; Rose, Sarah; Esparza, Elizabeth; Dixon, Jhmar; Villalpando, Lindsey; Pimentel, Quetzin; Pimentel, Charise; Jimenez-Lopez, Jesus A.; Pimentel, Octavio; Blanco, Clarice A.; Scott, Amanda
    Cuentos and Testimonies is a collection of short chapters, edited by Dr. Octavio Pimentel and Dr. Miriam F. Williams, is the result of an open invitation for faculty to share their thoughts and vision for diversity and inclusion at a Texas State. This edited book collection is designed to pave a path forward, toward healing and reconciliation. The editors acknowledge that we must continue to share our stories (cuentos) in real time and face to face, but there is power in the written word, carefully crafted and considered. Chapter 1: Introduction (pp. 1-6) Chapter 2: "We Need to Change Everything" (pp. 7-11) Chapter 3: Cautionary Tale (pp. 12-18) Chapter 4: Reclaiming Agency (pp. 19-25) Chapter 5: My Experience as a Black Man in the IT Industry (pp. 26-35) Chapter 6: Attention Deficit Disorder (pp. 36-44) Chapter 7: Aprende del Silencio / Learn from Silence (pp. 45-52) Chapter 8: My Stutter Journey at Texas State University (pp. 53-55) Chapter 9: The Origin of My Fear Trigger Warning: #thepatriarchy (pp. 56-57) Chapter 10: Diversity Amidst Disaster (pp. 58-66) Chapter 11: Soy Panameño y Afro-Americano Viviendo en Tejas: Ethnic Complexity of a Texas State University Student (pp. 67-70) Chapter 12: Constant Mispronunciations and Corrections (pp. 71-76) Chapter 13: A Critical Reflection on College Choice and Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Status (pp. 77-86) Chapter 14: Hispanic Serving Institutions: Chipping Away at Systemic Racism (pp. 87-95) Chapter 15: Cracking the Curriculum Code: A Student-Teacher Dialogue on Crisis, Pedagogy, and Practice (pp. 96-109)
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    Cuentos and Testimonies I: Diversity and Inclusion at Texas State
    (Texas State University, Office of the Provost, 2019-05) Bourgeois, Gene; Hayes, Autumn; Bowman, Scott; Pimentel, Charise; Pimentel, Octavio; Guajardo, Miguel A.; Valadez, Monica; Grimaldo, Leticia Romero; Henry, Genise; Henderson, Karon; Roundtree, Aimee K.; Williams, Miriam F.; Scott, Amanda; Norton, Christine; Watt, Toni; Kampschaefer, Scott; Saldivar, Scott; Ramirez, Sara; Pimentel, Octavio; Williams, Miriam F.
    Cuentos and Testimonies is a collection of short chapters, edited by Dr. Octavio Pimentel and Dr. Miriam F. Williams, is the result of an open invitation for faculty to share their thoughts and vision for diversity and inclusion at a Texas State. This edited book collection is designed to pave a path forward, toward healing and reconciliation. The editors acknowledge that we must continue to share our stories (cuentos) in real time and face to face, but there is power in the written word, carefully crafted and considered. Chapter 1: Introduction (pp. 1-4) Chapter 2: The Yes-Ands (pp. 5-10) Chapter 3: Intentional Inclusion - Thoughts on Galvanizing a Diverse and Inclusive University (pp. 11-17) Chapter 4: I Stress Less and Sleep More at a Hispanic Service Institution (pp. 18-23) Chapter 5: ¡No escondan el nopal! Sus raíces son obvias! ("Don't Attempt to Hide your Latinx Ethnicity! Your Ethnicity is Obvious") (pp. 24-29) Chapter 6: Framing of Pláticas, Reflections and Cuentos (pp. 30-40) Chapter 7: Diversity & Inclusion in Academic Program Development and Faculty Recruitment: An Interview with Professor Libby Allison (pp. 41-48) Chapter 8: Cultivating Activist-Based Pedagogy in the Age of Generation Z (pp. 49-55) Chapter 9: From Foster Care to College Student: Addressing the Need for Equity, Access and Inclusion in Higher Education (pp. 56-63) Chapter 10: Diversity is Essential to a Thriving Collegiate Culture (pp. 64-69) Chapter 11: Pushing Boundaries of Tejanx: Visibility, Inclusion, and Experimentation (pp. 70-75) Chapter 12: A Call for Anti-Discrimination: Embracing Difference through Respect, Responsibility, and Reciprocity (pp. 76-81)
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    Affordable Learning Materials and Texas State University: First Year Report from the Managing Textbook Costs Committee
    (2020-12) Sriraman, Vedaraman; Willett, Dana R.; Bagby, Jokwon; Cavitt, Mary Ellen; Gonzales, Matthew; Gutierrez, Sonya; Kipp, Lindsay; Martin, Benjamin R.; Martinez, Sergio; McNeill, Seth; Morel, Gwendolyn; Morganti, Dianna; Nowicki, Michael; Paulson, Eric J.; Paz, Mark; Root, John; Shroff, Piyush; Tanner, Glenn; Underhill, Barry
    In August 2019, Texas State University formed a Managing Textbook Costs Committee composed of students, faculty, and teaching and learning support staff to study the issue of textbook costs for our students. During the 2019-2020 academic year the committee: - scanned departments and colleges for on-going affordable learning materials activity; - surveyed students and faculty about learning materials and their costs; - explored best practices for adoption of affordable learning materials initiative; - conducted a literature review on affordable learning materials; and - studied approaches for engaging faculty and students on the subject. This is the Texas State University Managing Textbook Costs Committee's first year report.
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    Playing for a Winner: Remembering Coach Milton Jowers
    (Texas State University-San Marcos, 2009-01) McDonald, Vernon
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    Recording Aquarena History
    (Texas State University-San Marcos, 2009-12) Jennings, Alec
    No abstract prepared.
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    The First Century: School of Applied Arts and Technology at Southwest Texas State University
    (1999-01) Thompson, G. Sue
    Document recording the history of the first ninety years of the School of Applied Arts and Technology at Southwest Texas State University. Prepared for the Southwest Texas State University Centennial Anniversary.
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    Summary of a Conference on Texas Water Problems and Possible Solutions
    (Southwest Texas State Teachers College, 1954-12) Southwest Texas State Teachers College
    On July 20, 1954, more than five hundred farmers, ranchers, bankers, industrialists, members of the armed forces, teachers, and students gathered on the campus of Southwest Texas State Teachers College to hear leading authorities from private, state, and federal agencies discuss the increasingly acute Texas water problem ans some of the possible solutions. This conference was sponsored by Southwest Texas State Teachers College to meet two of its educational responsibilities: first, to ensure that teachers and prospective teachers studying at this public institution be prepared to present the problem of conservation to the students in the Texas schools; second, to educate the lay public to the nature of the conservation problem. This bulletin has been published in the belief that the addresses delivered to the conference are of such significance to the people of Texas that they should be given the widest dissemination both to teachers and the general public.
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    The LBJ the Nation Seldom Saw
    (Southwest Texas State University, 1983-08-27) Hardesty, Robert L.
    Prepared to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth date of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States and Distinguished Alumnus of Southwest Texas State University.
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    Emphasis Upon Excellence
    (Southwest Texas State College Press, 1964-05) Brown, William Frank; Derrick, Leland E.; Flowers, J. Garland; Jackson, Ernest Bryan; Jones, Clem C.; Juel, Martin O.; Norwood, Patrick H.; Martine, Floyd L.; Rogers, J. Lloyd; Stewart, Marjorie O.; Wilson, Joe H.
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