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Invisible But Essential: The Role Of Professional Networks In Promoting Faculty Agency In Career Advancement, Elizabeth Niehaus, Kerryann O'Meara

KerryAnn O'Meara

The benefits of professional networks are largely invisible to the people embedded in them (O’Reilly 1991), yet professional networks may provide key benefits for faculty careers. The purpose of the study reported here was to explore the role of professional networks in faculty agency in career advancement, specifically focusing on the overall relationship between the social capital gained from networks and faculty agency in career advancement. Findings suggest that off-campus networks are particularly important for faculty agency but that the benefits of networks may take time to develop.

Enabling Possibility: Women Associate Professors’ Sense Of Agency In Career Advancement, Aimee Terosky, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell

KerryAnn O'Meara

In this multimethod, qualitative study we examined associate women professors’ sense of agency in career advancement from the rank of associate to full. Defining agency as strategic perspectives or actions toward goals that matter to the professor, we explore the perceptions of what helps and/or hinders a sense of agency in career advancement. Our participants consisted of 16 women associate professors at a major research university who participated in an institutional intervention program designed to enhance sense of agency in career advancement, and a subset of 12 attendees who also participated in a follow-up focus group 6 months later. Participants …

A Corporation Has No Soul - The Business Entity Law Response To Challenges To The Contraceptive Mandate Under The Ppaca, Thomas E. Rutledge

Thomas E. Rutledge

The most contentious matter in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “PPACA”) is not a question of health care, but rather one of the law of business organizations. The dispute has been over the requirement that group health insurance plans provide, on a no-cost sharing basis, coverage for a variety of procedures and prescription medicines involving contraception and what are described as “abortificants.”

The class of suits subject to this discussion were filed by what are not religious organizations but rather for-profit business ventures, asserting that they should be exempt from the requirements of the …

Faculty Agency: Departmental Contexts That Matter In Faculty Careers, Corbin M. Campbell, Kerryann O'Meara

KerryAnn O'Meara

In a modern context of constrained resources and high demands, faculty exert agency to strategically navigate their careers (Baez 2000a; Neumann et al. 2006). Guided by the O’Meara et al. (2011) framework on agency in faculty professional lives, this study used Structural Equation Modeling to investigate which departmental factors (perceptions of tenure and promotion process, work-life climate, transparency, person-department fit, professional development resources, and collegiality) influenced faculty agentic perspective and agentic action. Results showed that faculty perceptions of certain departmental contexts do matter in faculty career agency, such as work-life climate, person-department fit, and professional development resources. These contexts have …

Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty State Survey, Chesa Boudin

Chesa Boudin

This paper presents a summary of the findings from the first fifty-state survey of prison visitation policies. Our research explores the contours of how prison administrators exercise their discretion to prescribe when and how prisoners may have contact with friends and family. Visitation policies impact recidivism, inmates’ and their families’ quality of life, public safety, and prison security, transparency and accountability. Yet many policies are inaccessible to visitors and researchers. Given the wide-ranging effects of visitation, it is important to understand the landscape of visitation policies and then, where possible, identify best practices and uncover policies that may be counterproductive …

Dual Real Estate Agents And The Double Duty Of Loyalty, Mary Szto

Mary Szto

Our present housing crisis is related in part to practices of real estate agents. This article addresses the top three issues that cause the most disputes for agents. They are dual agency, disclosure, and breach of fiduciary duty. Despite legislative efforts in the past two decades to clarify and reduce the duties of dual agents, agents and consumers are still confused about agents who represent both sellers and buyers. They owe double, not half the loyalty owed to one principal.

The stakes are high because home ownership is critical to our economic recovery and the chief source of wealth for …

Anthropological Perspectives On Colonialism, Globalization And Rural Lifeways: Expanding The Limits Of Archaeological Interpretation In The Lower Rhineland., Karim Mata

karim mata

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Reorienting Feminist Strategies Relating To Adult Transactional Sex, Suzanne Bouclin

suzanne bouclin

Feminist-informed policies around transactional sex continue to highlight and reinforce the ontological, epistemological and aesthetic disagreements between abolitionists and sex workers’ rights advocates. In this paper, I examine the Canadian context to provide some geographic and social specificity to such debates occurring through the global West. I review the anchoring concepts of feminist perspectives on the sale of sexual services by adults. I then suggest an intersectional understanding of sex work and deploy it to provide guidelines for addressing feminist concerns around commercial sex that avoid checkmated arguments and binary distinctions that do little to reduce the conditions of oppression …

Faculty Sense Of Agency In Decisions About Work And Family, Kerryann O'Meara, Corbin M. Campbell

KerryAnn O'Meara

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Yes, I Can: Subjective Legal Empowerment, Martin Gramatikov, Robert B. Porter

Martin Gramatikov

This paper explores critically the notion of legal empowerment and suggests that the currently employed approaches lead to vague concepts which evade measurement and lend little programmatic guidance. Our thesis is that legal empowerment should be sought not in the process of providing legal solutions but in the subjective self-belief that a person posses and can mobilize the necessary resources, competencies and energies to solve particular problem of legal nature. This model rejects the existence of an overall quantity of legal empowerment. People’s beliefs in their ability to solve legal problems differ by type of problem, distribution of power in …

The “Disappearing” Dilemma: Why Agency Principles Now Take Center Stage, Sandra Sperino

Sandra Sperino

In a common magic trick called “The Disappearing Woman,” a magician places his assistant in a box, swirls the box around, and when the door opens, the woman has vanished. In reality, the woman drops through a trap door in the floor, only to reappear somewhere later in the act. Retaliation law is now suffering from its own version of “The Disappearing Woman” trick. According to many scholars and commentators, the Supreme Court revolutionized retaliation law in 2006, when it issued its decision in Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad v. White. After Burlington, so the story goes, one of the …

Capital In Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis And The Social Capital Response, Raymond H. Brescia

Raymond H Brescia

“Capital in Chaos: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and the Social Capital Response,” examines the role of trust and the absence of social capital in the subprime mortgage crisis, with a particular focus on the impact of the subprime crisis on communities of color.