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Volume 57, Issue 43 | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2023 | ndsmcobserver.com
South Bend recognizes professor for work
Panel discusses school, prison
By KATE KIRWAN
By CAROLINE COLLNS
News Writer
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“Wit h ent repreneurship, you’re teaching people to drea m a nd how to pursue t hose drea ms,” says Michael Morris, professor of ent repreneurship a nd socia l innovat ion at t he Keough School of Globa l A f fa irs. Last week, Sout h Bend Mayor Ja mes Mueller honored Morris’ g roundbrea king ef for ts to eradicate pover t y in Sout h Bend w it h a procla mat ion recog ni zing t he creat ion a nd success of t he Sout h Bend
In 2010, more than 3 million students were suspended from school. Local leaders who spoke at Notre Dame on Tuesday evening said such disciplinary measures often further entrench the schoolto-prison pipeline. “You can’t understand the American system of mass incarceration without understanding the American education system,” Justin McDevitt, the assistant regional director for alumni and reentry services with Notre Dame Programs for Education in Prison (NDPEP), said.
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Courtesy of Michael Morris
South Bend Mayor James Mueller (right) hands Dr. Michael Morris (left) a proclamation recognizing his work in entrepreneurship.
The Tuesday evening panel discussion focused on dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline and was moderated by McDevitt. The event was hosted by Student Government and cosponsored by the Alliance for Catholic Education, the Center for Social Concerns and the Education, Schooling & Society Program. Fitting within the larger context of Walk the Walk Week, programming that focuses on issues of justice and equity across campus and the country, the discussion centered around actions currently being taken to dismantle the pipeline and how the Notre Dame see PIPELINE PAGE 3
Saint Mary’s introduces new payroll system By KATELYN WALDSCHMIDT Associate News Editor
This semester, Saint Mary’s introduced a new payroll system for student employees. The new system, Oracle, replaced the Banner system which the College has been using since 1999. This system change comes after several student employees had issues last semester with not receiving their wages. Morgan Martin is a resident assistant and hall director
assistant in Le Mans Hall and she did not receive payment for either of her jobs until late in the last semester. “So as paychecks were going through, I just wasn’t getting paid anything. So I contacted payroll about it.” Martin said after she spoke to payroll it was supposedly fixed but she had to wait a month until her next paycheck and when it was supposed to come, she still didn’t receive anything. “Eventually I just went into
payroll and talked to a lady and she was very nice about it and very understanding,” she said. Martin said that the payroll employee helping her just seemed to hit a button and it was fixed, a seemingly too simple fix after months of issues. While she did eventually get paid, this had happened to her the year before as well. “This was an issue the year before too. I didn’t get paid until March last spring,” she said. Martin joked that there must be something wrong with her and
her account but this has happened to other resident assistants as well. Chief information officer Todd Norris explained that issues like these will become a rarity with Oracle in place. “Oracle provides some automation and data transfer automation that allows for the process from once the time has been approved until the money arrives in your account,” he said. However, Norris also said that this transition was in the works
before these problems arose last semester. “The reason for making the change has to do with modernizing the campus,” he said. “While the Banner system was great in 1999 and has made many improvements over the years, it maybe didn’t keep pace with what we’d hoped and expected.” Norris continued to highlight features of Oracle that students see PAYROLL PAGE 4
RESEARCH
Measure provides representation for burnout There are visual measures to quantify job satisfaction and measure pain, such as the WongBaker FACES Pain Rating Scale posted in doctors’ offices and hospitals. However, there were no visual measures to track job burnout, so Notre Dame professor Cindy Muir (Zapata) set out to create a short-term measure to assess employees’ feelings about burnout. The Muir Matches Measure is a validated visual measure
of job burnout created by Muir and published with Charles Calderwood, a psychology professor at Virginia Tech, and Dorian Boncoeur, an assistant professor for the Mendoza College of Business. According to Muir, visual measures are powerful because they allow people to quickly assess their feelings. “The idea for [the measure] hit me as I stared at an image of matches burned at different levels during a presentation,” she said. Long surveys are time-consuming, especially for those
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experiencing job burnout, so Muir wanted to create a quick and regular way to assess burnout by using a visual that is easily recognizable: burning matches. The scale of matches burning down allows people to pinpoint how they are feeling. Calderwood explained that job burnout is a challenge that arises from insufficient recovery. “Recovery is how people keep themselves replenished and occupationally healthy over time,” he said. Within burnout literature, the time scale of burnout has progressed to include both
feelings over a long time and daily fluctuations. “You have burnout that is a chronic strain reaction or a longer-term syndrome, but you also see the symptoms of burnout vary from day-to-day in terms of how exhausted you feel or how disconnected from your work you feel,” Calderwood explained. The paper published by Muir and her coauthors confirmed that the visual scale of the matches burning down corresponds with existing measures of job burnout. They validated the scale by looking at different instruction sets and ways of
defining burnout. Calderwood said that, when launching the tool, the group had to grapple with the misalignment between how people refer to burnout in everyday language in comparison to how burnout may be referred to by an academic or defined in a dictionary. “‘Burnout’ is something that’s become a term in our everyday language. People say that they’re ‘burned out,’ but they can mean different things by that,” Calderwood said. “The disconnect between the everyday
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