Henderson State University (HSU) is a public university in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. Founded in 1890 as Arkadelphia Methodist College, it is Arkansas's only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Henderson has an undergraduate enrollment of around 3,000 students. The campus is located on 156 acres (0.63 km2).HSU attracted national attention in June 2022 when it announced that it would be laying off 67 professors.
Through a conceptual analysis of Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025), this article explores how Black men transform suffering into meaning, resilience, and collective healing as a humanistic and liberation-centered praxis. Rather than offering peace, the film invites viewers to confront what peace demands. Leveraging principles of conscientization, cultural healing as resistance, and collective liberation, the article notes how wellness is often earned, not inherited, and is built through sacrifice, memory, and survival. Sinners reframes healing not as closure but as reckoning, the painful and transformative process of becoming whole through what once threatened to destroy. Integrating liberation psychology and humanistic counseling, this manuscript positions wellness as relational, spiritual, and embodied, where joy and pain coexist; and, where the "bite," the "blues," and the "burden together" testify to freedom still worth reaching for. Implications are offered for counselors and educators seeking liberation-centered, culturally grounded, and meaning-oriented practice, specifically for Black men.
Inclusive circular business models (ICBMs) integrate social equity and circular resource management within a single organizational design, yet their theoretical foundations remain underdeveloped. This study employs a structured theory-building comparative case analysis of four ICBM configurations in India and Ghana to examine how inclusion and circularity interact across institutionally differentiated emerging market contexts. Drawing on institutional voids theory, inclusive business scholarship, and circular business model frameworks, the analysis generates four theoretical propositions concerning the role of digital public infrastructure in scalability, hybrid revenue architecture as an evolutionary pathway, sectoral scaling asymmetry, and inclusive-circular complementarity. These propositions are offered as contributions to theory-building at the social-circular nexus and as falsifiable hypotheses for evaluation in future primary-data research.
We report 2 uncommon species of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Lasiochilus hirtellus (Lasiochilidae) and Physopleurella mundula (Anthocoridae), for the first time from Arkansas. This includes the first report of the family Lasiochilidae for Arkansas. Both species were captured in UV light traps set in Clark County. We discuss identification, provide digital images of the voucher specimens and include updated distribution maps (north of Mexico) for both species. With the addition of these 2 species, there are now a total of 7 anthocorid species, among the 3 bug families Lasiochilidae, Anthocoridae and Lytocoridae, known for Arkansas.
Abstract Introduction Sleep disorders and poor sleep quality are prevalent in firefighters (30.49% and 51.43% respectively). Factors associated with poor sleep among firefighters include shiftwork, depression, stress, psychosomatic disorders, and post-traumatic stress. Poor sleep quality, sleep disorders, and insufficient sleep negatively impact physical and mental performance and productivity. Traditional sleep hygiene behaviors (e.g. consistent bed and wake times, comfortable sleeping conditions, reducing caffeine and exercise before bed) are related to better sleep, but can be challenging for firefighters to change due to dynamic schedules and the nature of their jobs. We assessed the relationship between sleep hygiene, sleepiness, sleep quality, and mental health in firefighters focusing on the specific modifiable sleep hygiene behavior of bedtime technology use. Methods 95 firefighters (M = 44.8 years, SD = 11.7; 12 females, 83 males) completed a 20-minute questionnaire packet at a statewide firefighter conference: Pittsburg Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, Sleep Hygiene Index-Technology, Oldenburg Burnout Inventory (Disengagement and Exhaustion), Perceived Stress Scale, and firefighter coping questions. Results Sleep hygiene, sleep and mental health: Poor sleep hygiene was significantly related to greater sleepiness (r(80)=.511, p<.001), poorer sleep quality (r(73)=.539, p<.001), more stress (r(82)=.480, p<.001), greater exhaustion (r(86)=.317, p=.001) , and poorer firefighter coping (r(84)=.239, p=.013). Bedtime technology use, sleep and mental health: Active, but not passive, bedtime technology use by firefighters was significantly related to greater sleepiness (r(88)=.310, p=.001), and poorer sleep quality (r(80)=.353, p<.001). Firefighter active technology use also predicted stress (r(91)=.345, p<.001) and exhaustion (r(94)=.171, p=.048). Additionally, active, but not passive, bedtime technology use by the firefighters’ bed partners was significantly related to greater sleepiness (r(85)=.245, p=.011), and poorer sleep quality (r(77)=.349, p<.001). Bedpartner active technology use also predicted stress (r(88)=.241, p=.011) and exhaustion (r(91)=.215, p=.019). Conclusion Maladaptive sleep hygiene, in particular active bedtime technology use (either by firefighters or their bed partners), was related to sleepiness, poor sleep quality, and poor mental health. Although causation is not clear, it suggests education and incentives to reduce bedtime technology use could improve sleep and mental health in firefighters who would likely have difficulty altering more traditional sleep hygiene variables. Support (if any) The Poling Foundation
