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Jeffrey Brody is a professor of Communications and a member of the Asian American Studies Program Council at California State University, Fullerton. He teaches advanced writing classes, courses on mass communication and society, and media and diversity. 

Our opening discussion from the interview with Professor Brody consists of questions that would help us understand the teaching experience from a professor’s point of view during a pandemic. 

Professor Brody stated that the most challenging obstacle for him was being able to maintain student interest. He felt it was very hard to gauge their interactions, especially with many blank screens. One way around this resulted in the Zoom breakout rooms. Students would be split into groups and would each have a specific topic to discuss while Professor Brody would visit each room to hear more personal feedback. He felt that in some ways there were many benefits to it that allowed students much more flexibility for those who are also working full-time jobs.

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The focus of this review of the thesis is presented by the member of California State University Leslie Klukas. She focuses on instructional relationship, Communication, and the effects it has on academic buoyancy. The purpose of the study is founded on the idea as well as the many challenges that undergraduate and graduate students have with the completion of their coursework. Obviously, there are many challenges both on a personal as well as on an academic level that may prove to be setbacks and barriers to success. The focus as well as the major impact in the background of this article is based around looking at the challenges of rigorous academic programs that can make students feel as if they are struggling or able to maintain the same level of success in their coursework. 

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Janelle Gilbert-Darius is a Professor of Psychology, specializing in Industrial Organizational Psychology at California State University, San Bernardino. She is also serving as California State University, San Bernardino’s General Education Director. We asked her a series of questions relating to social activism and its relation to advertising as well as social media’s influence on both. Dr. Gilbert-Darius was well equipped to speak on these matters due to her experience addressing these issues within her Psychology studies. She was able to provide a unique insight into individual’s as well as organization’s behaviors within social and political movements and their relation to marketing.

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Derar Serhan has a Ph.D. in curriculum and Instruction/Educational Technology and is a professor in mathematics at Arizona State University.

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For our interview, we spoke to Dr. Meeds, professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Meeds specializes in research on advertising copy and psycholinguistics. Most of his studies are on the eye-tracking of consumers to gauge the success and impact of advertisements. He conducts his research to measure how copy print persuades consumer behavior. Our primary focus for the interview was to gauge a better understanding of what eye-tracking is and how it can be applied to positively impact consumer behavior. This form of research can be used by communication professionals to craft a more effective advertisement.

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Social media is an incredibly prevalent factor within many individuals’ lives nowadays. So much so, numerous researchers have conducted multiple studies focusing primarily on its effects on users.Dr. Megan Vendemia is fascinated with social media’s impact, as she has focused most of her research emphasizing how it influences individuals and its potential impact on self-identity. Besides her research background, she is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Chapman University. With Dr. Vendemia’s experience, she became the ideal candidate to interview. Our group mate Angelina Nguyen conducted an amazing interview where they discussed the effects of social media and Dr. Vendemia’s study The effects of engaging in digital photo modifications and receiving favorable comments on women’s selfies shared on social media.

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We had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Professor Cynthia King, who is a Professor of Communications at Cal State Fullerton. She has vast knowledge of media research due to her experience in the field. She is also responsible for creating the COMM 410 class. It was interesting to get her input when it came to her research and what she thought about our own research. 

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Dr. Elise Anguizola Assaf is a communications professor within the Department of Communications here at California State University, Fullerton. As an assistant professor in the undergraduate program, she has taught hundreds of students public relations courses. She has a Ph.D. in Education from Chapman University, along with a M.A. and a B.A. in Communications with an emphasis in public relations from Cal State Fullerton.

We chose Dr. Assaf to interview because her studies overlap with our research topic about college students, mental health and the stereotypes that surround it. We want to study and discover which elements have contributed to the rise of mental health issues within college students since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020. Assaf offers amazing advice and insight about how to study the mental health space. For word count purposes we have shortened her answers below. 

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Martina Baldwin is a professor at California State University, Fullerton in the department of Cinema and Television Arts. She has a Ph.D. in Media Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. She has conducted research in topics such as television studies and audience studies. As a full time lecturer, her teaching areas include critical media studies, television studies, and media literacy. We sat down with her to discuss the lack of representation and misrepresentation of BIPOC women in television. 

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Robin Gurien, Ph.D. is the Administrator of OCDE Academy, Orange County Department of Education’s In-house Professional and Organizational Development and Training Center Coordinator, as well as a part-time Human Communication Studies Professor at Cal State Fullerton.

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