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1924, Soil Survey Of King City Area, California

State and Federal Documents Relating to Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties

1924 report by E. J. Carpenter, A. E. Kocher and F. O. Youngs on the King City area of Monterey, California, including location and boundaries, climate, agriculture and the classes of soil.

1893 - Resources Of California, H. H. Markham

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

This 1893 publication that highlights the resources of the State of California was prepared in response to State legislation requiring that the report be prepared for distribution at the World's Columbian Exposition. It includes a description of each county, including area, population, chief industry, climate and soils, that would assist the intending settler "in forming his judgment as to which part of the State offered immediate advantages in the pursuit of the vocation he chose to follow."

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 57 Number 3, Summer 2016, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

26 - CAN’T THREAD A MOVING NEEDLE To tackle sexual assault on college campuses, a playwriting project comes to the screen. By Danae Stahlnecker ’15.

28 - MISSION CRITICAL When three students fell ill from meningitis-causing bacteria—which can be fatal—it meant the clock was ticking. And to get through this, it would take everybody’s help. By Harold Gutmann.

36 - “WHERE ARE THEY TAKING US?” A journal from the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece. By Colleen Sinsky ’10.

40 - NO STRANGERS HERE Refugees, home, and work by Ameera Naguib ’16 from Jordan to Silicon Valley. …

Index Cards Of Maps Of Mexico And California

National Archives Documents

Handwritten and typed index cards providing location in National Archives and details regarding maps of Mexican and Californian:

Early Spanish map embracing frontiers of his majesty's (Spanish) territories in North America

1804 General map of the Kingdom of New Spain

Second edition (1846) of 1832 map of the United States of Mexico Republic

1849 California, Chart of the coast from San Blas to San Francisco, James Imray

1916 Map of Mexico issued by Southern Department of Army Continental Command for War College

Only 45 Minutes Away, Guadalupe Astorga Contreras

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

Being a part of an immigrant family, photographer Astorga has not had the chance to travel much even within her home state of California. Trips through class, clubs and events sponsored by Loyola Marymount University have provided her with the opportunity to visit places like Catalina Island right off the coast of L.A. and see things she and her family had only talked and dreamed of.

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 57 Number 2, Spring 2016, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

20 - LET THERE BE LIGHT Frank Cepollina ’59—the NASA maverick who saved Hubble. By Robert Zimmerman.

28 - LIKE NO PLACE ON EARTH Talking with John A. Sobrato ’60 about building Silicon Valley—literally. By Michael S. Malone ’75, MBA ’77.

32 - DISRUPTION IN THE HOUSE Allison Kopf ’11 just won one of the premier startup competitions on the planet. She’s making the Google Analytics of greenhouses. By Ed Cohen.

34 - AN AMERICAN STORY A few words from the remarkable life of Francisco Jiménez ’66. By Steven Boyd Saum.

38 - DR. JEROME HE was a man of …

The Redwood, V.112 2015-2016, Santa Clara University

The Redwood

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Voices Of Female, Rural Superintendents As They Implement California's Local Control Funding Formula Policy, Claudia Coughran

Doctoral Dissertations

Improving American schools, and as a result, the educational leaders who guide and oversee American schools, has an historic background; yet research to accomplish the improvement is rooted in urban schools and male educational leaders, particularly the superintendent of schools. National and state leaders have used education policy as a means to improve student achievement for decades. California played a pivotal roll in the national trend for numerous years; most recently with the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) policy passed in 2013. The purpose of this study was to listen to the voices of female, rural superintendents as they implemented …