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Closing The Gap Between College Students: An Intergroup Dialogue Program To Reach Understanding And Reduction Of Disparities, Lilly Zhou

Honors Theses

The goals of the intergroup dialogue program are exploration and collective action. The goal of exploration is to spread awareness by presenting the situation. Several students are not aware that disparities between students exist, so this dialogue provided awareness of the issue. With increased understanding of each other, collective action can be taken. Actions by a small number of students are still steps taken to reduce the gap between the financially supported and not financially supported students. Action can look like spreading awareness of the issue, advocating for policy changes, and more.

The structure of the intergroup dialogue program required …

Addressing The Harms Of Pornography, Gillian Allison

Honors Theses

Within this paper I look at the existing philosophical work on pornography, from scholars like Catherine MacKinnon, Ronald Dworkin, and Rae Langton to show the current state of the pornography debate that I intend to enter by presenting my own argument about the morality of pornography. I argue that while pornography is harmful, these harms are best resolved through increased sexual education and the popularization and production of more inclusive pornography. The harms pornography causes are so great because pornography is where a lot of people learn about sex. Pornography was never designed to depict an average sexual experience. If …

Why Does The Importance Of Education For Health Differ Across The United States?, Blakelee R. Kemp, Jennifer Karas Montez

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The positive association between educational attainment and adult health (“the gradient”) is stronger in some areas of the United States than in others. Explanations for the geographic pattern have not been rigorously investigated. Grounded in a contextual and life-course perspective, the aim of this study is to assess childhood circumstances (e.g., childhood health, compulsory schooling laws) and adult circumstances (e.g., wealth, lifestyles, economic policies) as potential explanations. Using data on U.S.-born adults aged 50 to 59 years at baseline (n = 13,095) and followed for up to 16 years across the 1998 to 2014 waves of the Health and Retirement …

Review Of E-Learning Environment At The Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology, Ghana, Richard Tawiah, Richard Bruce Lamptey, Gabriel Asare Okyere, William Oduro, Michael Oko Thompson

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study explores the policies for e-learning and examines the awareness of teaching practices that incorporates e-learning among educational managers, librarians, teachers, IT experts and students of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana. The study is based on a survey data extracted from the KNUST-based BSU Project. The results revealed that 84.1% of the educational managers and 87.1% of the teaching participants claimed the university has no policy for introducing e-learning, while 63.6% of the IT experts reported otherwise. The participants outlined a few teaching practices that involves e-learning, some of which are frequently and …

Author's Guide For University Of Nebraska Experiment Station Publications, G. I. Johnson, J. P. Holman, R. J. Graham

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Publication of findings of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station staff is an important part of the work the Station is doing for Nebraska. Since staff members usually are researchers first and authors by necessity, they often seek assistance in preparing their findings for publication. This manual presents a concise guide for publication preparation.

Author's Guide For University Of Nebraska Experiment Station Publications, R. J. Graham, J. P. Holman

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Publication of findings of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station staff is an important part of the work the Station is doing for Nebraska. Since staff members usually are researchers first and authors by necessity, they often seek assistance in preparing their findings for publication. This manual presents a concise guide for publication preparation.