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Leadership From Within: Founders, Advocates, And Organizational Networks Operating In Maine's Immigrant Community, Samuel Robert Kenney May 2019

Leadership From Within: Founders, Advocates, And Organizational Networks Operating In Maine's Immigrant Community, Samuel Robert Kenney

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Much of the discourse surrounding African immigration to Maine has centered on the provision of public services that facilitate community development and integration. This project investigates different types of leadership strategies employed by African individuals in Maine that advance community objectives. When African immigrant leaders are empowered to affect public policy, they re-frame traditional conceptions of aid-dependency and vulnerability commonly applied to African immigrants in media and popular culture. Through leadership in nonprofit and civic spheres, African immigrant community leaders translate grassroots connectivity with informal networks into meaningful influence in the realm of public policy. This project focuses on the …


Bgsu Honors College Social Media Policy And Plan, Joseph Macquarrie May 2015

Bgsu Honors College Social Media Policy And Plan, Joseph Macquarrie

Honors Projects

For my honors project, I want to explore the use of social media by colleges and universities in the processes of recruitment and retention. I want to help the Honors College at Bowling Green State University to recruit and retain high school and honors students. The largest part of my honors project will be formulating a social media policy that will create guidelines for the Honors College social media pages. This way, the social media pages fall into line with BGSU standards while operations of the social media pages remain simple and effective.