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    Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression Fall 2025
    (MTSU, 2025-11-18) Raquel Barbalat, Editor-in-Chief
    Collage is a creative journal published by Middle Tennessee State University since 1968. It is produced by a student staff to showcase the creative work of MTSU students. The MTSU Honors College oversees the journal.
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    Building Blocks & Road Blocks: Launching a Campus OER Program
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2025) Baskin, Ginelle
    Presentation at the 2025 Open Arkansas Conference on October 3, 2025 in Harrison, Arkansas at North Arkansas College.
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    Cash Flow Growth and Stock Returns
    (Wiley, 2021) Jansen, Benjamin A.
    I extend the financial economic literature by presenting and testing a model that expresses a firm's expected stock return as a function of its expected free cash flow growth. Results suggest that cash flow growth is positively associated with stock returns. Furthermore, additional information is re- flected through cash flow growth relative to cash flow, profits, and dividends. Evidence additionally suggests that operating activities explain more than investment activities of the firm. I find that $1 invested in the long–short cash flow growth portfolio grows to $15.30 over the sample period, whereas $1 invested in the stock market grows to $9.85.
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    The Relationship Between Ethics and Rhetoric in Higher Education and its Ramifications
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2025) Anders, Christopher M; Anders, Christopher M; Detweiler, Eric; Pantelides, Kate
    ABSTRACT This project traces the historical relationship between ethics and rhetoric in higher education. It selectively utilizes influential people and periods to demonstrate how Western rhetorical education’s relationship to ethics has been shaped. This history starts in ancient Greece, with the philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, then travels through Quintilian to the Renaissance and Peter Ramus, whose influence carries into the founding of universities in the United States. The thesis demonstrates how, as American society evolved, the influences of religion, politics, the founding fathers, and The Scottish Enlightenment helped shape not only American universities but also the relationship between ethics and rhetoric in US higher education. It then shows how as the US population expanded, the effects of the Civil War, World War II, and public discourse around education further shaped US higher education and its purpose. Finally, it tracks the effect of 20th-century rhetoric and writing teachers, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), The New Critics, The New Rhetoric, and the general organization of university departments, revealing how these affected the make-up and content of rhetorical instruction in higher education and its relationship with ethics as it exists in the present moment.
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    Shared Leadership in a Simulated High Stakes Environment
    (Middle Tennessee State University, 2025) Workman, Dean; Workman, Dean; Hein, Michael; Van Hein, Judith
    Shared leadership is an increasingly relevant approach to team dynamics in complex, high-stakes environments. This thesis explores how vertical leadership styles (initiating structure, transactional, and transformational), individual adaptive capacity, and teamwork influence the development of shared leadership. Using archival data collected over a five-year period from the NASA Flight Operations Center – Unified Simulation (FOCUS) Lab at Middle Tennessee State University, the study analyzes how leadership perceptions and behaviors affect shared leadership emergence within simulated aviation dispatch center teams. Participants included undergraduate students assigned to specialized operational roles in teams of approximately ten. Measures included self-assessments by formal leaders and peer ratings of leadership behavior, adaptability, and teamwork. Results revealed that team member perceptions of transactional leadership were positively associated with shared leadership, while team perception of leadership’s initiating structure exhibited a moderate negative relationship. Transformational leadership showed a positive correlation with shared leadership, although the results were constrained by data limitations. Individual adaptive capacity and teamwork did not significantly predict shared leadership emergence. These findings offer implications for leadership development, especially in environments requiring coordinated decision-making and distributed expertise.