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New from EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University

Cleveland State University's MSL Academic Endeavors, publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library, is pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd edition of Dr. Abdullah Oguz’s Project Management open textbook!

Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach, 2nd ed.

https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/projectmanagement2ndedition/

ABOUT THE BOOK
In light of unprecedented changes, project managers must be prepared in response to the demands of their organizations and key stakeholders like clients, customers, and government agencies. This book covers the fundamentals of project management and aims to guide undergraduate and graduate students to acquire the building blocks of project management. This book also includes Microsoft Project tutorials for project scope, schedule, resources, and cost, and monitoring and controlling.

The first edition of this OER (Open Educational Resource) book was made available in October 2022. Since its release, significant advancements have occurred, including the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs), which have influenced the education sphere. However, the revisions in this edition were not solely driven by AI developments.

The 2nd edition includes a new chapter on Generative AI, and a new section on Scrum, the most common agile framework. New exercises were included in all chapters, with answers provided only for instructors. Updated PowerPoint presentations and Blackboard question pools are also available for instructors. All sections were revised and reformatted.

Please consider sharing this announcement with faculty who teach project management!

Licensed under a CC BY NC 4.0 International License 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Abdullah (Apo) Oguz (oʊ−uːz, Oh-ooz) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Monte Ahuja College of Business at Cleveland State University (CSU). He was an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems in the School of Business at Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) between 2022 and 2024 and a visiting lecturer at CSU in 2020 and 2021. Dr. Oguz has a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Prior to that, he worked as a senior member of the Projects and Technical Systems Department of the Turkish Customs Administration. 

His research interests include workplace cyberbullying and cyber deviance, utilization and impact of Artificial Intelligence, project management, and the effects of IT use on social well-being. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Internet Research, Organizational Dynamics, and the Journal of Information Systems Education, as well as conferences.

Faculty who plan to adopt this textbook are encouraged to let us know using this form: https://forms.office.com/r/m1MQCaQNVB 

We are excited to announce that EngagedScholarship @ CSU (ES @ CSU), the University’s digital showcase of scholarly and creative works, has surpassed six million downloads! Since its launch in 2012, our open access repository and publishing platform has posted or published more than 21,000 items across 846 disciplines and has been read by more than 84,000 institutions.  These items include journal articles, open educational resources, ebooks, peer-reviewed journals, images, and audio recordings representing all CSU colleges and a variety of departments.

If you would like to include your research or other scholarly content, publish an open educational resource, or create a new open access journal, email an ES @ CSU administrator at library.es@csuohio.edu.

About Michael Schwartz Library Digital Publishing

MSL Academic Endeavors, the publishing imprint of Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library, accepts manuscripts from local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. We also accept scholarly material from CSU faculty to publish open textbooks and other open educational resources. Books and Open Educational Resources are digitally published in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University, a virtual showcase for CSU’s research and creative output.

The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-Eds by Thomas E. Bier 

Cleveland State University's MSL Academic Endeavors, publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library, is pleased to announce the publication of a new book titled The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-Eds by Thomas E. Bier. Available exclusively from EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University, the book contains 100 op-ed articles submitted by Thomas Bier to the Plain Dealer and published between 1977 and 2022. Most of the articles concern a current event or issue in the city of Cleveland and/or communities in Northeast Ohio. 100 articles involve 100 topics, varying from local history, to the effect of public policy on communities, to where to locate a new baseball stadium.

Thomas Bier was director of the Cleveland State University’s Center for Housing Research and Policy from 1982 until 2003 when he retired.
 

More from Thomas Bier

E-book: Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence, 2017 

Other publications by Thomas Bier in Engaged Scholarship

Michael Schwartz Library Digital Publishing

MSL Academic Endeavors, the publishing imprint of Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library, accepts manuscripts from local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. We also accept scholarly material from CSU faculty to publish open textbooks and other open educational resources. Books and Open Educational Resources are digitally published in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University, a virtual showcase for CSU’s research and creative output.

Students:  did you miss this semester's Digital CSU Student Showcase?
Want your work from Fall 2022 archived in an online collection of student multimedia and digital projects?

It's not too late!  The online showcase is an opportunity for students to present finished or in-progress digital research projects created for their courses in a poster session style event to their faculty, staff, and their peers. Digital or multimodal research projects can take many forms, but they include: websites, video presentations, ebooks, infographics or other data visualization projects, lesson plans, maps, timelines, podcasts, research articles, or other digital compositions and multimedia work. 

HOW TO GET LISTED:

Upload your work to an appropriate host (YouTube, Soundcloud, your own cloud storage, etc.) and submit using this form.

The collection will be shared and archived on the university's institutional repository, EngagedScholarship.

KYW Radio: The Cleveland Years

by Dr. Richard Klein

The Michael Schwartz Library and EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University are happy to announce the publication of another new eBook by CSU's Dr. Richard Klein: KYW Radio: The Cleveland Years.

Today’s commercial radio-industry faces a persistent business problem stemming from the large number of apps and streaming platforms featuring personalized music and podcasts. But clever rivalry among media specialists is not new to the U.S. radio industry. The astonishing success of television during the post-war years dramatically diminished the size of radio’s listening audience. Westinghouse’s KYW rose to the occasion in the 1950's and 60's, resisting the rapid advancement of television by overhauling their out-of-date programming. KYW's hands-on approach transformed the 50,000-watt radio giant into an influential force and a leading Top 40 contender during its nine-year tenure in Cleveland. 

This book explores some of the methods used to achieve KYW's business objectives and what lessons we might learn from its experience. The broadcasting model perfected by KYW-Cleveland may well help some of today’s struggling outlets facing unyielding competition from new media. 

About the Author

Richard Klein, Ph.D. a recently retired professor of Business and Public Affairs from Cleveland State University, has written a number of books on a wide variety of business topics. His three most popular titles have focused on Cleveland department stores, the U.S. pharmacy industry and Cleveland’s drive-in restaurants. His interest in radio began as a teenager in the ‘60s when he listened to rock and roll music every day. His battery-operated transistor radio opened up a new world to a very energized teen who has remained a loyal radio listener ever since.

Other titles by Richard Klein:

• "Let’s Go Shopping at the Square” Cleveland’s Leading Downtown Department Stores: A Business Legacy 
• The Legacy of the Pharmacy Industry: Cleveland, Ohio
• Fast-Food Industry: A Cleveland Perspective 1930-2016

About Michael Schwartz Library Digital Publishing

MSL Academic Endeavors, the publishing imprint of Cleveland State University's Michael Schwartz Library, accepts manuscripts from local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. We also accept scholarly material from CSU faculty to publish open textbooks and other open educational resources. Books and Open Educational Resources are digitally published in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University, a virtual showcase for CSU’s research and creative output.

New E-book:  From Across the Pond: A Love Letter to Cleveland

by Peter Almond

The Michael Schwartz Library is happy to announce the publication of a new ebook:  From Across the Pond,  A Love Letter to Cleveland: The Memoirs of a Brit Journalist with the Cleveland Press 1970-82.   Available exclusively from EngagedScholarship@Cleveland State University, From Across the Pond is the engaging and insightful first-hand account of Peter Almond, a young British journalist who immigrated to Cleveland in January, 1970, working at The Cleveland Press newspaper until its demise in June, 1982.

Almond, having witnessed at first hand the cataclysmic events of a dozen turbulent years in Cleveland, now recalls the personalities, politics and passions of Northeast Ohio from a completely unique perspective: that of a young Brit at the start of his career with no previous experience of the United States. The chronological organization of chapters allows us to witness this callow outsider’s transition into a mature writer and an affectionate insider who obviously cares deeply about his adopted city. 

Though his award-winning coverage of some truly appalling events – including the Diamond Shamrock pollution scandal, the school desegregation struggle, and indeed the collapse of his own paper –  he shows us ourselves with the frankness of a good friend telling us the bare truth for our own good. These stories of Cleveland range across the American experience, and Almond tells them compellingly.

Almond contextualizes and leavens what could be heavy going with video & other multimedia links (just one advantage of the e-book format), and with charming personal asides he calls “Memory Flashes”, as well as a sprinkling of photos from his own personal collections and from the Cleveland Press collection housed in the Michael Schwartz Library’s Special Collections, which has formed the backbone of our renowned Cleveland Memory website.

He concludes his “love letter from London” with a satisfying summary of the progress since his departure of some of his most important investigations, and also with an impassioned plea for the digital preservation of the Press archives:

…The Cleveland Press wasn’t just ‘the other paper’ to the Plain Dealer...it was a 102-year-old giant that had its own character and style that suited perfectly the character of the working people of Cleveland: the original ‘Penny Press’ that presented stories the other paper didn’t. It died before the age of digitization, leaving the Plain Dealer to present itself to historians, researchers and public as the guardian of Cleveland’s newspaper history.

Two generations have now passed with no knowledge of The Press, and no knowledge of stories such as my own which have helped shape the history – and destiny - of north east Ohio…invisible to any and all of the historians, researchers and the public who search for us online. The entrapment of our legacy in the slowly-disappearing pages of a library at Cleveland State University is surely a major loss to the civic history of northeast Ohio.

About the Cleveland Press Collection 

Comprised of hundreds of thousands of clippings and photographs, The Cleveland Press Collection is the former editorial library, or "morgue," of The Cleveland Press and is now part of Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library's Special Collections. The last of Cleveland's daily afternoon newspapers, The Cleveland Press was published from 1878 until 1982.  The bulk of the collection was donated to the CSU Library in 1984 by the newspaper's owner, Joseph E. Cole, who was then a CSU Trustee.

The publication of From Across the Pond coincides with the 40th anniversary of The Cleveland Press's demise, and seems a fitting commemoration of Cleveland Memory’s 20^th anniversary.   

About the Author

Peter John Almond was born in Northampton, England, in January, 1946, and raised in a Royal Air Force family which moved frequently. Formal schooling ended at Woolverstone Hall School, Ipswich, in 1964 when he began four years journalist training at the Northern Echo and Yorkshire Evening Press, York. In December 1969 he married Anna Collinson, a nurse, in York before they emigrated to Cleveland the next month. At The Cleveland Press Peter was a general, Education, Labor and Investigative reporter. His journalism awards included a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism to Harvard in 1980/81. Peter and Anna adopted two Cleveland-born boys, Nicholas and Jeffrey, and in 1982 moved to Washington D.C. where Peter became State Department writer for the Washington Times.

For four years he was Europe/Middle East writer based in London, covering the Cold War, the Thatcher years and Beirut. Peter, with family, returned to D.C. in 1987 to be Pentagon writer for the paper. In 1990 he returned to London as Defence Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, leaving in 1995 to freelance for UK and U.S. publications, and retiring in 2010.

About Michael Schwartz Library Digital Publishing

MSL Academic Endeavors, the publishing imprint of Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library, accepts manuscripts from local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio.  We also accept scholarly material from CSU faculty to publish open textbooks and other open educational resources.

Books and open educational resources are digitally published in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University, a virtual showcase for CSU’s research and creative output.  

A New Open Educational Resource from CSU!

Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspective 

Edited by Dr. Julie Townsend 

Dr. Julie Townsend, a 2021 Textbook Affordability Grant Recipient, has just published Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspective. 

This collection of texts aims at making writing studies and New Literacy Studies accessible and relevant to first-year writers across all disciplines. Writers with different experience levels and a wide range of goals will benefit from learning how to study reading, writing, communication, literacy, and education with the tools available from the discipline of writing. The essays contained in this text are strong examples of first-year writers investigating a wide range of contexts to better understand the literacies that make up their lives. 

Dr. Townsend will use this freely available Open Educational Resource in her English 102, College Writing II classes.  Congratulations Dr. Townsend!  

Dr. Julie Townsend has been an Assistant Lecturer in the CSU’s English Department since 2019.    

Find the new book in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University at  https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/msl_ae_ebooks/27/

Faculty: there's still time to apply for this semester's textbook affordability grant - we've extended the deadline until December 10th.

You could be a hero!  Find, adopt, or adapt an existing open educational textbook or other educational resources to replace a traditional, high-cost textbook. Or create new open content to bridge gaps in available resources. Support will be provided by the Michael Schwartz Library, the Center for eLearning, and the Center for Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, and the Center for Faculty Excellence. Five awards are available.

ABOUT OPEN TEXTBOOKS

Open Textbooks are a type of open educational resource, are full, often peer reviewed, textbooks licensed to be freely used, edited, and distributed. Increasingly, faculty members all across the country are adopting open textbooks as one way to address the crisis of textbook affordability. Visit the Open Textbook Library to peruse peer-reviewed textbooks and decide if one of them is right for your course, or send your syllabus to your personal librarian to map your current materials to openly-licensed content for you to consider. Successful applicants will receive support from a team of librarians and instructional designers who will help you adopt or adapt openly-licensed material for your use.

Are you a CSU student with a book manuscript in search of a publisher?  Look no further!  MSL Academic Endeavors, the publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library, can digitally publish your book in EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University.   

To learn how to publish your book, visit Engaged Scholarship's Research Guide for books or email library.es@csuohio.edu.  Please use “student-authored book” in the subject line and include your name and contact information. 

EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University has a new look!

The site is the digital repository of the research, scholarly, and creative output of CSU faculty, staff, and students.

A service of Cleveland State University Libraries, the material here includes journal articles, books, theses and dissertations, presentations, creative works, and a wide variety of other content types. It reflects an organizational commitment to the collection, stewardship, and dissemination of the intellectual output of CSU.

The look may be new but Engaged Scholarship still offers more than 19,000 items for researchers to discover worldwide.

Check us out!

Congratulations to Lt. Beverly Pettrey, Cleveland State University Police Lieutenant and MA student in Applied Social Research

for winning 2nd place in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)'s 2021 Research Paper Master's Competition for her paper “Diversifying Police Departments Through Community-Oriented Based Policing”. The paper uses data from Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2016 (ICPSR 37323), provided by the Michael Schwartz Library.

Interested in social science research?
ABOUT THE ICPSR

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is an international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.  

The Michael Schwartz Library provides access to this vast data archive for more than 80,000 studies across a variety of disciplines including: behavioral and social sciences, education, economics, political science, public health, and more. Datasets are available for download in SAS, SPSS, and ASCII formats.  Learn more about ICPSR.

ABOUT LIEUTENANT PETTREY

Officer Beverly Pettrey joined the CSU Police Department in January of 2006 and worked diligently on many of the Crime Prevention and Safety Programs and Services offered on campus today. She was promoted to Lieutenant in November, 2014, and currently serves as the University's second female Lieutenant.

Read the paper on Engaged Scholarship @ CSU