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Aligning Curriculum and Career Pathways: Insights from the Curriculum Connector and English Department Pilot

Description: Presentation outlines an assessment of students’ experiences in a major, focusing on career preparation, skill development, and sense of belonging. It also analyzes alumni outcomes to identify career pathways. Findings highlight strong student passion and transferable skills, but also challenges such as limited awareness of career options, rigid degree plans, and fewer community opportunities. Overall, the insights are used to improve curriculum, advising, and student engagement. It was present… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Monticino, Michael & Prince, April
Partner: University of North Texas

Belonging, Achievement, and Retention

Description: Presentation exploring the assessment of student needs in the UNT Honors College. It challenges the assumption that high-achieving students are automatically positioned for success, arguing that persistence is often shaped more by connection and belonging than by academic ability alone. Using an ecosystem model of student success, it explores how structured engagement, mentorship, and intentional measures of belonging can help institutions support high-achieving students and reduce disengagemen… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Ryan, Sean; Ozog, Lizette & Forst, Michael
Partner: University of North Texas
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Ciencias sociales e iniciativas para la conservación de los pastizales centrales de América del Norte: Plan de integración

Description: The Central Grasslands of North America provide vital habitat and ecosystem services, yet continue to decline despite ongoing conservation efforts. This integration plan addresses the gap between social science research and its application in grassland conservation delivery. Drawing on three complementary efforts (a literature review of conservation social science, a synthesis of surveys of ranchers, producers and landowners across Canada, Mexico and the United States, and a social science need… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Collaborate and Connect: Active Learning by Design

Description: Presentation examines the role of social connections in enhancing health, cognitive functioning, and student well-being. It highlights how intentional community-building practices and meaningful interactions improve engagement, confidence, academic success, and overall quality of life. It was presented at the 2026 Student Portraits Data Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Perez, Kelly & Herbert, Tama
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service

DFWI and Student Success at UNT: Classroom Design, Syllabus Features, and Accessibility Levers that Improve Retention

Description: Presentation examines Ds, failures, withdrawals, and incompletes (DFWI) through scheduling, classroom design and course accessibility and highlights possible ways to bring these down, as high rates of DFWI remain a persistent concern in higher education. It was presented at the 2026 Student Portraits Data Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Trebat, Thomas; Brown, Natalie; Smith, Quentin; Archibald, Audon & Heap, Tania
Partner: UNT College of Information

Encouraging Graduate Student Connection and Participation using the Glenn and Ellis Mentoring System (GEMS)

Description: Presentation explores the intentional design of the Behavior Analysis program at UNT and its foundation in Continuous Learning Communities (CLCs), emphasizing structured training, collaboration, and the integration of science-based principles. It highlights how learning occurs across multiple contexts, formal, informal, and experiential, supported by reflective practice and community engagement to foster continuous individual and disciplinary development. It was presented at the 2026 Student Po… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Bergmann, Sam; Morales, David & Ala'i-Rosales, Shahla
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service

Engaging Ethical AI Integration: Best Practices for Instructor Development and Student Success

Description: Presentation discussing ethical approaches to integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into faculty development and student learning. The presentation includes project goals, current and future activities, and ethical implications of AI use. It was presented at the 2026 Student Portraits Data Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Vastine, Stephanie & Anderson, Brian
Partner: University of North Texas

From Anxiety to Agency: Growing Faculty Confidence and teaching Skills around AI for Student Success

Description: Presentation examines how the Generative AI Institute for Teaching (GAIT) helps faculty move from uncertainty and anxiety about artificial intelligence to confidence, ethical decision-making, and effective classroom integration. Drawing on participant reflections and program outcomes, it highlights strategies for building AI literacy, fostering critical thinking, supporting responsible AI use, and enhancing teaching practices to improve student success. It was presented at the 2026 Student Port… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Boye, Allison
Partner: University of North Texas

Identifying the Advising Needs of early College Students via Exit Interviews

Description: Poster highlights how exit interviews help identify advising needs for early college students, summarizing methods, key findings, and recommendations for improving student support at the Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science, University of North Texas. It was presented at the 2026 Student Portraits Data Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Hazy, Francine
Partner: University of North Texas

Looking North Toward Confidence: Findings from the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension in Project-Based Learning Contexts

Description: Poster presents research on how project-based learning (PBL) can reduce communication apprehension among college students. Using the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA), the study measured students’ anxiety levels in communication settings such as group discussions, meetings, interpersonal conversations, and public speaking before and after completing project-based communication courses. It was presented at the 2026 Student Portraits Data Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2026
Creator: Ross, Christina L.
Partner: UNT College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
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Social Science and Conservation Efforts Across the Central Grasslands of North America: An Integration Plan

Description: The Central Grasslands of North America provide vital habitat and ecosystem services, yet continue to decline despite ongoing conservation efforts. This integration plan addresses the gap between social science research and its application in grassland conservation delivery. Drawing on three complementary efforts (a literature review of conservation social science, a synthesis of surveys of ranchers, producers and landowners across Canada, Mexico and the United States, and a social science need… more
Date: April 30, 2026
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Advancing Language Revitalization Goals Through Community-based Archiving

Description: Article examining how community-based archiving initiatives reflect language revitalization goals through a case study of an archival collection created by community members engaged in revitalization efforts. Understanding the decision-making and intentions behind such collections provides insight and guidance for future community-based archiving projects. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint C… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Burke, Mary
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Assessing the Impact of Image Resolution on OCR Transcription Accuracy

Description: Article investigating the relationship between image resolution and OCR (optical character recognition) performance, with a focus on both character-level accuracy and the integrity of subsequent text processing pipelines. The findings have practical implications for document digitization workflows, especially in resource-constrained environments where high-resolution image storage and processing may be questionable. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Boubehziz, Toufik; Koudoro-Parfait, Caroline & Lejeune, Gaël
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Community Archiving Across Languages: Strategies and Tools for Multilingual Praxis

Description: Article describing how the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico / Emergency Archive of Puerto Rico (AREPR) team put its values into praxis through participatory design of both the project’s collections and the platform in which they are housed. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Boyles, Christina
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Curation as Collective Practice: Archiving the Inga-Lil Hansson Akha Materials

Description: Article discussing the archival curation of re- search material collected by professor Inga-Lill Hansson from 1974 to 2022 through extensive fieldwork on the Akha language. It describes the relationship-centered collaboration between Hansson’s network and the archiving team, the gradual curation workflow, and reflect on the technical, interpretive, and ethical decisions required to make a single scholar’s lifetime of work discoverable and responsibly reusable. It was presented at the 3rd Intern… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Benavides, Jose; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Borch, Søren; Burke, Mary & Weber, Sydney
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The digital language archive as a platform for exploring language data, analyses, and publications

Description: Article outlining a platform for a digital language archive which integrates original data, analyses, and publications. Thereby, the digital language archive becomes the host and facilitator of research, which supports the integrity of research projects. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Weber, Tobias
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Enhancing Photograph Description in Language Archive Metadata with Artificial Intelligence

Description: Article presenting a project in which generative AI was utilized to enhance free-text descriptions in metadata records that represent a typical kind of resources in language archives: photographs. It was presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Digital Language Archives held on December 15-16, 2025 as part of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2025.
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalin, Vyacheslav
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Finding Metadata for Digital Archiving in Linguistic Fieldnotes

Description: Article examining how digital language archives can address challenges of legacy field materials through a case study from the Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL), a repository dedicated to preserving and documenting the languages of South Asia. It focuses on two CoRSAL legacy projects: the curation of Norman Zide’s extensive collection on the Munda languages of north-central India (Gutob, Gta’, Korku, and Mundari), and the classroom fieldnotes of James Matisoff on Tibeto-… more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Lowe, John Brandon & Fos, Jonas
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Learning to Assess Use of Materials in Language Archival Collections

Description: Article on presenting a learning module for a graduate course on community language archiving for information professionals offered at the University of North Texas. The focus of the practical assignment in which students evaluate digital language archive usage through comparative analyses of stratified random samples and interpret their findings. It reports selected results of this learning in a summer semester of 2024/2025 academic year and discusses future steps. It was presented at the 3rd … more
Date: December 30, 2025
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Savchenko, Viktoriia & Savchenko, Kostiantyn
Partner: UNT College of Information
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