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    Personal Faith Statement: David Arendale
    (2022-07-01) Arendale, David R
    College faculty members are often called upon to work in three environments at the same time: , , and . This is especially true for faculty who work at four-year research universities. These three environments often intersect with one another and are catalysts for actions. They help explain who I am as a professional educator. However, they leave out the personal dimension that fuels my interests expressed in those three areas. That is the reason I added the fourth statement. My faith in Jesus Christ is a powerful influence on my personal and professional life. In this faith statement, I share how my faith influenced my professional life in general and in particular the areas of teaching, research, and service. This statement has been long overdue for posting to my website.
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    Public Service and Community Engagement Statement: David Arendale
    (2022-07-01) Arendale, David R
    Engaged service to the community is an integral part of my research, personal faith, and an extension of who I am as a connected member of society. Many of my service activities are directed related to increasing access and success of students in postsecondary education, especially those that are historically underrepresented. Part of my passion for serving students who are the first student in their families to attend college is that I am a first-generation college attendee and graduate. My parents were warmly supportive of my attending college. They did not have the financial resources to pay my board and tuition. Also, they could not provide mentoring for the rigors of college as neither of them had graduated from high school. As with many young people during the Great Depression, the model was to attend high school until 16, get a job, and then get married. I could not have asked for a better pair of parents who cultivated a love of learning and reading. Just as with my classroom experiences, community engagement is a critical grounding element of my research. It also becomes a venue to disseminate my research findings.
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    Research and Knowledge Dissemination Statement: David Arendale
    (2022-07-01) Arendale, David R
    My research explores academic access in postsecondary education and develops evidence-based strategies to increase the success of underrepresented student populations in college. I focus on filling the gap between scholarship that analyzes academic performance problems and proposed solutions to increase student outcomes. Access programs often operate at the confluence of academic affairs, student affairs, and enrollment management. This busy intersection of interests and needs has generated considerable turbulence for these programs. My multidisciplinary academic preparation and work experiences in academic affairs, student affairs, and enrollment management afford me unique tools for this investigation.
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    Teaching Statement: David Arendale
    (2022-07-01) Arendale, David R
    Most formal teaching statements contain the pedagogy employed, learning objectives, details of individual classes taught, evaluations of teaching, and more. I prepared one of those statements for my promotion to associate professor. Rather than updating that document, I am using instead a blog posting that I created for my retirement. It is more of a reflection than a statement. In any case, you will get to know me better with this document. The rest of this document is the original blog posting from May 2019.