University of Northern Colorado

ABSTRACT The University of Northern Colorado’s (UNC) Career Readiness Faculty Fellows (CRFF) program was collaboratively developed between academic and student affairs professionals to equip faculty with tools and strategies to integrate career readiness competencies into their courses. This case study outlines promising findings from faculty fellows and students who participated in career-embedded courses, including student growth in career readiness competency areas and enhancement of learning through career-related assignments.

This article emphasizes the need for enhanced leadership development across all levels of nursing education, particularly focusing on social change and health equity. While leadership is a core nursing competency, many programs offer limited or late-stage preparation. We review current approaches to leadership development and advocate for embedding leveled competencies throughout nursing curricula using the Social Action, Leadership, and Transformation (SALT) model as a framework to cultivate empathy, critical consciousness, justice, and community engagement. The SALT model supports the development of nurses capable of leading transformative changes in health care systems. It aligns with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials and other established frameworks. By incorporating the SALT model, nursing programs can better prepare graduates to address systemic health inequities and promote social change. The article calls on nurse educators to adopt this model to ensure leadership education is purposeful, equitable, and action-oriented.

ABSTRACT Acculturation is correlated with creativity and the higher‐order cognitive skills identified in the contemporary revision (Krathwohl 2002) of Bloom's taxonomy (1956). The skills supporting bicultural integration are the same skills that engender innovation in entrepreneurial business ventures. Scholars have recognized experiential learning (EL) as an established and effective pedagogy in developing cognitive skills for decades in organizational and professional development disciplines. EL is becoming more widely appreciated for its efficacy in developing advanced cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and abstract conceptualization, which are essential to bicultural integration and innovation. EL is only effective when the cycle of discovery is completed and is most effective when an educator facilitates the process. Learners are less likely to benefit if they do not have support to facilitate their reflection on the experience and how to apply what they have learned to other milieus. A growing body of literature provides evidence of best practices across diverse learning environments.

In zootoxinology, drugs such as anesthetics and secretion enhancers are used to increase venom yields, but it is unclear whether this affects the venom composition. After injection of ketamine and pilocarpine into two non-front-fanged snakes, mass spectrometry confirmed the presence of both drugs and their metabolites in the venoms. The quantified high concentrations raise concerns about potential interference in bioassays and pharmacological studies, highlighting the need to consider extraction additives in venom research to ensure unbiased results.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1038/s41598-025-32525-6.