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Managing Transition And Student Support Services For Ethnically Diverse College Students With Learning Disabilities, Sunday O. Obi

Educational Considerations

Postsecondary transition for students with disabilities continues to be challenging.

Building Successful Multicultural Special Education Programs Through Innovative Leadership, Festus E. Obiakor, Floyd D. Beachum, Darrell Williams, Carlos R. Mccray

Educational Considerations

Across America’s schools, administrators are faced with various educational challenges.

Abusive Administration: A Case Study, Anne L. Jefferson

Educational Considerations

In the academic world, there is an assumption of reasonable administrative conduct. In fact, to ensure such conduct, universities, like other public institutions, may have collective agreements to reinforce this assumption.

Educational Considerations, Vol. 34(1) Full Issue, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 34(1)-Fall 2006-Full issue

Musical Chairs: Preparing Extension Communication Units For Inevitable Change, Margaret Herring, Thomas Knecht, Ashley Wood, Carol Whatley, Erik Anderson, Ken Spelke

Journal of Applied Communications

What happens when a new university administration doesn't know what Extension does or why an Extension communication unit exists? In this paper, a group of Extension administrators and faculty examines several reasons university administrators might seek to downsize Extension services or eliminate their communication units. This paper identifies strengths inherent in communication units that will help university administrators understand the importance and contributions of Extension communicators. The paper also explores how to prepare a communication unit for inevitable change, especially if there will be one less chair at the table when the music stops.

Who Is An Ace Member? Results From A 2005 Ace Member Survey, Rebecca Mcgovney-Ingram, Tracy Irani, Ricky Telg

Journal of Applied Communications

This study describes the demographics of the population of current, active, U.S.-based agricultural communications practitioner respondents in the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) in an effort to gain a better understanding of membership demographics. In fall 2004, the researchers mailed questionnaires to 510 ACE members. Returned questionnaires were accepted through January 2005 and processed in the following months. The overall response rate was 35.1% (n = 179). Analysis of demographic results showed that the majority of U.S. respondents were female (58.8%, n = 104) and Caucasian (95%, n = 168). More …

On Twain, Typewriters, And Technology, Mark Tucker

Journal of Applied Communications

For many ACE members, our feelings about the bundle of electronic innovations we call "communication technology" depend on the day you ask us. On good days, we're thankful for progress; on bad days, some of us long for simpler times.

Ace Membership Information; The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Search System., Joan Thomson

Journal of Applied Communications

ACE membership information; the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center search system.

Valuing Exceptional Ethnic Minority Voices: New Leadership For A New Era, Festus E. Obiakor

Educational Considerations

Educators and school leaders have continued to look for new ways of thinking and doing as they confront changes and shifts in paradigms and power. [Introduction to this special issue.]

The Role Of Administrators In Paraprofessional Supervision To Support Ethnic Minority Students With Special Needs, Betty Y. Ashbaker, Jill Morgan

Educational Considerations

The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 provided a clear mandate to school administrators to provide additional training for professional and paraprofessional staff.

Social Studies Methods Students Engaged In Service-Learning: Reciprocity Is The Key, Saundra Wetig

Educational Considerations

As a social studies educator, I have found myself at the end of each semester reflecting on my preservice teachers’ practicum experiences.

Impact Statements: So What? Who Cares?, Bob Rost, Dennis Brown, Dennis Hinkamp

Journal of Applied Communications

The growing importance attached to impact reporting at landgrant universities around the United States in recent years has made the development and distribution of impact statements a major annual priority in most land-grant university communication offices.

Life Is Fast, Research Is Slow, Dennis Hinkamp

Journal of Applied Communications

Would you conduct research if your job advancement and tenure were not dependent on it? What percentage of ACE members are on the tenure track? Does the JAC need a readership survey or a nonreadership survey?

What Are Agriculture Industry Professionals Trying To Tell Us? Implications For University-Level Agricultural Communications Curricula, David L. Doerfert, René P. Miller

Journal of Applied Communications

Two recent activities have solicited the input of professionals on the future of agricultural communications within the agriculture industry. This paper reexamines these industry-based information and research activities for potential themes that could impact the current and future direction of communications-related activities within the agriculture profession. A reexamination of the outcomes of these two activities may provide insight and guidance for curricular and degree changes being considered by university-level agricultural communications educators. The four themes identified and discussed in this article are as follows: (a) the rapidly changing communication needs, wants, and expectations of the agriculture industry; (b) the new …

Bridging Borders: Organizing Short-Term Agricultural Communication Exchange Programs, Emily Rhoades, Roslynn Brain, Ricky Telg, Tracy Irani, Owen Roberts

Journal of Applied Communications

This paper describes the efforts of the University of Florida (located in Gainesville, Florida) and the University of Guelph (located in Ontario, Canada, near Toronto) to jointly develop a unique pilot exchange program for undergraduate and graduate agricultural communication students. The program was designed to encourage students to think critically about agriculture, agricultural communications, and culture in each other's countries. During this exchange, nine University of Guelph students traveled to Florida for one week during their winter breaks and six University of Florida students traveled to Canada during their spring breaks. The exchanges took place in back-to-back weeks. Students met …

Newspaper Coverage Of The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Outbreak In The United States: A Content Analysis, Jamie M. King, D. Dwayne Cartmell Ii, Shelly Sitton

Journal of Applied Communications

Objectivity is a hallmark of good journalism. Objective news writing is particularly important when covering agricultural issues. In this study, researchers used the Hayakawa-Lowry news bias categories to examine the objectivity of news coverage of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak that occurred December 23, 2003, in the United States. The study looked at 149 articles published in USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Seattle Times, dating from the day of the outbreak to February 10, 2004, when the USDA concluded its investigation of the outbreak. Based on the findings, the three newspapers studied were more objective than judgmental …

Table Of Contents, Editorial Board, And Other Front Matter, Joan Thomson

Journal of Applied Communications

Editorial front matter and table of contents for vol. 90, no.2 (2006) of Journal of Applied Communications

Daring To Be Dumb - And Hoping Others Will Join Us, Mark Tucker

Journal of Applied Communications

An introduction from executive editor Mark Tucker.

Podcasting Agriculture News: Producing Portable Audio News For Farmers And Ranchers, Blair L. Fannin

Journal of Applied Communications

This article focuses on an emerging technology called podcasting as a new source of Web audio news distribution. Podcasting derives from the words iPod (Apple Inc.'s MP3 audio player) and broadcasting. Audio content, such as news, is compressed into MP3 audio file format and can be automatically downloaded to a computer by subscribing to a Web site's RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed. The audio file can be transferred to a portable MP3 player, which can be listened to at the user's convenience in just about any setting. The audio files can also be burned onto a CD-ROM and played in …

Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life, Virginia Morgan

Journal of Applied Communications

Book review of Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott.

Ace Membership Information; The Agricultural Communications Documentation Center Search System., Joan Thomson

Journal of Applied Communications

ACE membership information; and information on the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center search system.

Going Under: The Metro And The Search For Oneself In Julio Cortázar's "The Pursuer" , Patricia E. Reagan

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Johnny's metaphysical experience on the metro in Julio Cortázar's "The Pursuer" catalyzes his perception. The metro incident and the ensuing commentary propel all the elements of the narrative. The metro facilitates the development of Johnny's character; relates his character to Charlie Parker; aids our comprehension of the relationship between the metro and Johnny's music; and establishes the metaphysical difference between Johnny and Bruno. The subway is also physical space in which Cortázar reveals a view of time perception in which chronological time succumbs to subjective time. Johnny's metacognitive search for the yonder marks a change in Cortázar's narrative preoccupations and …

Reviews Of Recent Publications

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Julian W. Connolly, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Nabokov. Thomas Seifrid

Simon Franklin and Emma Widdis, eds. National Identity in Russian Culture: An Introduction. Keith Livers

Sander L. Gilman. Franz Kafka. Esther K. Bauer

Jill Robbins, ed. P/herversions: Critical Studies of Ana Rossetti. Roberta Johnson

Jennifer Warburton. John Fowles: A Life in Two Worlds. John Fowles. The Journals, Vol. I. Ed. Charles Drazin Gerd Bayer

Front Matter, Vol. 30, Issue 2

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Editorial board and Advisory Council, masthead, and contents

Real Estate And Stating The Real In Jean Echenoz's L'Occupation Des Sols, Philip G. Hadlock

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Through its extremely minimal account of the aftermath of an apartment fire, Jean Echenoz's L'Occupation des sols raises intriguing questions about the grounding of property—its occupation des sols—in Western consciousness. The narrative situation allegorizes the longstanding convention in which man is associated with property ownership while woman is associated with property itself. Though seeming to uphold this paradigm, Echenoz presents a challenging perspective of the functions that gendered scenarios of property perform in sustaining symbolic relations and anchoring the "real" in Western thought.

Dead Center: Berlin, The Postmodern Gothic, And Norman Ohler's Mitte, Steffen H. Hantke

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Cultural critics often frame present-day Berlin as a space of historical discontinuities, a nexus of modernity and postmodernity that, in its orientation toward the future, represents post-reunification Germany in all its complexity. However, this framing tends to suppress Gothic imagery, of which traces can be found in the critical discourse on the city. Recuperating such Gothic tropes from critical discourse, and then consciously and strategically re-deploying them, can be a valuable strategy for opening up new venues of thinking about the lingering presence of the past, the high cost of modernization, and the uncanny emotional and affective dimensions of urban …

The Rewriting Of History In Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes , Carine Bourget

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This paper analyzes the narrative strategies that shape Maalouf's rewriting of the history of the Crusades, examines why considerations of the problems inherent to the historiographical act are relegated to the background, and how Maalouf links his text to politics contemporary to its writing. I argue that while Maalouf brilliantly deconstructs the Western image of the Crusades as a heroic time by documenting the barbarity of the Crusaders without falling into the pitfall of simply inverting the terms of the dichotomy, the agenda driving his rewriting of this historical period leads him to partially repeat what his book is supposed …

Expressionism, Futurism, And The Dream Of Mass Democracy, Douglas Brent Mcbride

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

This essay throws new light on a radical tendency in cultural modernism by analyzing the role of a single metaphor—the figure of politics as a stage—in political debates among German Expressionists and Italian Futurists before World War I. As the essay argues, this trope was used to critique liberalism's limited notion of popular rule and envision how disenfranchised masses might develop the political subjectivity needed to create a truly mass democracy. While the essay demonstrates that Futurists and Expressionists failed to develop a clear vision of what form mass democracy might take, it concludes that they agreed on one point. …

Expressions Of National Crisis: Diamela Eltit's E. Luminata And Pablo Picasso's Guernica , Gisela Norat

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Diamela Eltit emerged as a writer during the 1980s when Chile was ruled by the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973 -1989). The obscurity of her first book, Lumpérica (trans. E. Luminata) reflects that period of national repression. Despite the negligible attention she received for her first novel, Eltit has since published six other novels and managed to carve out a place for herself within Chile's predominantly male literary establishment. Her writing challenges its mainstream cultural apparatus with a female-centered postmodern writing very different from that of compatriots like best selling authors Isabel Allende in the United States …

Texts Of Light And Shadow: Dickens And Lautréamont In Alejandra Pizarnik's Sombra Poems , Beth Zeiss

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In her poetry, the Argentinean Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-72) persistently explores the transformations that the poetic subject undergoes in language. She articulates a cycle wherein the subject's desire to (re)create herself as a presence in language is followed by the desire for death, the absence of the self, when her desire becomes frustrated by language's inadequacies. As yet, the importance of the theme of the fluctuating self in language as developed by Pizarnik in a series of poems protagonized by Sombra, has not been analyzed. The character Sombra appears in six fragment-like poems published posthumously in Textos de Sombra (1982) and …