Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 3, published in 1985. This issue's theme is Appalachian Music. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1002/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, published in 1986. This issue highlights the work of Black Appalachians and features key Black figures in Appalachian history. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1003/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 2, published in 1986. The theme of this issue is Homecoming '86, a "celebration of Tennessee Homecoming '86, a commemoration of the history and traditions of the Volunteer State." / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1004/thumbnail.jpg

Now and Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3, published in 1986. This issue's theme is Cherokees, exploring Cherokee news and culture and featuring Cherokee authors and experiences. / https://dc.etsu.edu/now-then/1005/thumbnail.jpg

According to Kerlin (1995a), first-generation students are not expected to survive to doctorate degree attainment because of vulnerability to negative affects associated with their status; yet persist they do at East Tennessee State University. The desire to study the first-generation East Tennessee State University's Doctors of Education and the limited number of first-generation graduate studies available, especially in the academic field of education, promoted developing this study. It was the intent of this study to offer additional empirical research toward understanding variables associated with first-generation persistence as encountered by East Tennessee State University's Doctors of education. Quantitative analysis derived through survey research served as an explanatory framework to investigate major variables of first-generation persistence. The survey targeted East Tennessee State University's Doctors of Education who received degrees prior to June 2004. Investigation of empirical evidence revealed that unlike previous first-generation studies (Hayes, 1997; Hurley, 2002; Inman and Mayes, 1999; Khanh, 2002; NCES, 1998; Terenzini, Springer, Yaeger, Pascarella, and Nora, 1996) the bulk (73.7%) of East Tennessee State University Doctors of Education were first-generation. Moreover, although previous studies suggested the presence of unique barriers attributed to first-generation status, no significant differences resulted in either identification or ranking of barriers or facilitators to degree attainment between first-generation East Tennessee State University's Doctors of Education and their non-first-generation counterparts. The Survey of ETSU Doctors of Education requested respondents prioritize identified barriers and facilitators. After plotting significant bivariate coordinate pairs among ranked barriers and facilitators, flat line (zero sloped) clusters depicted the presence of six weak monotone associations among variables. Facilitator rankings were associated with a respondent's age, parental college attendance, and education specialist degree, while barrier rankings were associated with a respondent's marital status at the time of degree attainment, secondary support source, and post doctorate employment.

The purpose of this study was to determine the racial awareness of majority group member students at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and factors related to racial awareness. Seven research questions and five hypotheses were examined. The Oklahoma Racial Attitudes Survey-Preliminary Form (ORAS-P) was used to identify the racial awareness of White students enrolled at ETSU during the fall of 1999. Forty-six classes were surveyed obtaining a sample totaling 395 students. In addition to completing the ORAS-P, students in the sample were asked the following demographic questions: gender, age, city and state of birth, name and location of high school from which they graduated, race, parents occupation and highest level of education, annual family income, college classification, number of core classes that have a diversity component completed at ETSU, and the nature of contact they have had with someone of a different race. Once the students' racial awareness levels were determined, t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to test for differences between subgroups on the ORAS-P. Results showed that annual family income and contact with minorities were significantly related to racial awareness while the percentage of minorities in the high school the respondent graduated from and the number of core classes having a diversity component completed at ETSU were not related to racial awareness. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to determine how effectively the independent variables could predict one's level of racial awareness. Analysis showed that the variables of age, gender, annual family income, and contact (with minorities) were the most significant predictors of racial awareness.

Riley Armstrong [2084]; Brian Baker [Heretica Malleus]; Matthew J. Brown [A Functional Use of Space]; Patrick Burke [Soda Fired Vase]; Carmen Burroughs [Honeysuckle]; Danielle Byington [Calamine Typewriter; Conception; Words, with You in Mind]; Gabe Cameron [Juxtaposition]; Catherine Pritchard Childress [The Cinnamon Peeler’s Wife; Bathsheba’s Bath; Blossoming Indigo]; Joshua Cole [Four Seasons]; Brooke Day [Ornament]; Nancy Jane Eanest [Scraps of a Life]; Olivia Ellis [Grumpy Livie]; Matthew Gilbert [Contingency]; Jonathan Hill [Chiaksan; Buried in the Mountain]; Hunter Hilton [A List of Things Someone]; Janice Hornburg [How to Become a Fossil]; Alisa Johnson [Flower]; Lindsey King [Sparking]; Katie Lea [Meta Moments]; Rachel Maynard [Triggered: Reading with a Raw Heart]; Beth Miller [At What Cost]; Shalam Minter [Fracture 1 & 11]; Amanda Musick [Mother Is My Light]; Andrew Norris [This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman]; Elizabeth Saulsbury [Deserted]; Kelsey A. Solomon [A Song for My Mooresburg Springs Mothers; Because they told me to write my own history; Interview with Catherine Pritchard Childress]; Adonica Supertramp [A Shift in Perspective]; Linda Tipton [Albatross]; Laura Traister [Alcedo Atthis; Beach Seining; Circumventing the Street Preacher; Indian Morning; The Interruption]; Kathryn Haaland [I Am Something New]; Whitney Parkinson [Flow]; C.J. Wehr [Unwanted Changes]; Haley White [Untitled Owl] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1000/thumbnail.jpg

Devon Koren Asdell [Natural Bridge]; Jessica Brice [The Furrowed Field]; Amy Chartier [Through the Road and of My Heart]; Victoria Cunningham [Concealment July 2001]; Carie Dutro [A Friend of Mine Once Told Me]; Nancy Jane Earnest [Summer Ritual]; Franci Doyle [Jackass]; Mike Garrett [Game]; Spicey Gould [Passage]; Megan Jewell Kern [On Three]; Jessica Hodges [Just 2]; Gregory Marlow [Charlie’s Wife]; Shanda Miller [Affirmations]; Neli Jennifer Minthorn [Untitled]; Ouzounova [Stairway to a Sense of Place]; Alison Pack [Accessories]; James Sharp [Boones Creek]; Deborah Smith [The Game]; Kevin Stephenson [A Tale of Two Tales]; Pam Tabor [Letting Go]; Chris Vaughn [Foretold]; Rachel Williamson [Retired Barber]; / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1001/thumbnail.jpg

Blaine Boles [My Father]; Kevin Brown [Heterophemize (from A Lexicon of Lost Words], Latibulate (from A Lexicon of Lost Words]]; Dayna Bruell [Black and Blue]; Danielle Byington [About a Cheerleader I Used to Know, The Shining, Thunder and Nursery Rhymes, On The Lady and the Unicorn]; Raleigh Cody [Broken Handle, Digging Trench in Unicoi, TN]; Rima Day [Untitled]; V. Kelsey Ellis [Doomed Beauty]; Tucker Foster [Excerpts from “Driving Like an Idiot”]; Lauren Fowler [The Cut]; Trish Gibson [On Jack and the Dead Old Lady in the Bathtub from Brantner: Annalee 16, Taylor 24, Mariah 18, Catlett: Anna 16, Jackson 12]; Matthew L. Gilbert [Counting Thunder on Edgewater Drive, After a Summer Rain, The Makeup Box ]; Lyn Govette [Meditations on a Storm]; Kathryn Haaland [Untitled (Ring]]; Michael Hale [Three Wise Men, Atrocities]; Hannah Harper [Jill]; Cory Howell [Hospital Meadows, Drive after Rain]; Becca Irvin [Tapered]; Megan King [Katrina]; Freddie Lyle [Contraption]; Emily Matney [Balance]; Beth Miller [Autumn Road, Interview with Kevin Brown]; Priyanka Modi [Tenfold’s Light Hide]; Daniel Isaac Ratliff [Walking the Right Way: Coming to Terms with My Pentecostal Holiness Upbringing]; Tyler Ridgeway [Time Capsules and With & Without]; Kelsey A. Solomon [My first cup of coffee, After Reading Hélène Cixous on a Windy October Evening, the Female Poet Writes for Herself]; Dana T. Speight [The Sunflower Room];Mary Emily Vatt [Chopin Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2]; Susan Voorhees [Rise and Fall]; Chantel Wehr [Speak with Me (The Seeds)] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1002/thumbnail.jpg

Andrew Barnes [Good Stock]; Josh Blevins [Firebird]; Joseph Bowman [Epilogue]; Nikki Buckner-McCoy [Bargaining]; Andrew Butler [Octet and Sestet from an Asheville Balcony, Convalescent Haiku, Alchemy, Coming of Age Again and The Graduate]; Danielle Byington [Children until We Die]; Disconnected Rima Day [Quilt]; Ashley Fox [Baptism, Interview with Jane Hicks, His Girl]; Hannah Harper [Selkie]; Hunter Hines [Inward Spiral]; Mary Hunter [Learning Norn Iron]; Becca Irvin [Altered Vessel]; Storm Ketron [Origin: Johnson City, TN]; Derek Laurendeau [Pop-Up Book I , Metamorphosis]; Kimberly Leland [Empty Nest]; Caroline Lowery [Stella]; Freddie Lyle [Untitled II]; Kelly Meadows [Seek]; Andrea Menendez [Radio Children]; Shalam Minter [Mirror, Mirror]; Jerianne Paul [Go Singing into Zion, Rafters]; Tyler Ridgeway [The Void]; Lauren Roberts [Yellow House with Sign]; Jared Sand [The Mouthpiece]; Joseph Sloan [Goddess of the Harvest:How I Met My Wife]; Cate Strain [For Piper on My 46th Birthday]; Daniel Taylor [Astray]; Adam Timbs [The Older City]; Jacob Vines [The Canyon Black]; Kaci Wells [Untitled] / https://dc.etsu.edu/mockingbird/1003/thumbnail.jpg