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Cedarville Vs. Urbana, Cedarville University

Women's Basketball Programs

No abstract provided.

The Experts Weigh In: Why You Should Pay Attention To Roger, Jill Rodrigues

Featured News Story

History and legal experts debate the merits of Roger Williams’s work and legacy.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Student Life Committee, Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Arts & Sciences Student Life Committee

Student Life Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee Meeting, Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee

Professional Standards Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee Meeting, Tuesday, December 3, 2013, Arts & Sciences Finance And Service Committee

Finance and Service Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

25 Year Club, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

Wmu International News Fall 2013, Haenicke Institute

WMU International News

In this issue:

• Empowering global engagement across the arts and sciences
• Employees abroad: Spanish immersion program expands understanding of international education
• Excelling in public relations key goal for Chinese twinning student
• WMU cultural anthropologist examines migration and lupus in Ecuador
• Ambiguity of borders continues to intrigue alumna from Berlin
• Visits to 35 countries complements global studies major
• Veteran administrator tapped to lead University’s international initiatives
• Future Iraqi engineer discovers the world at WMU
• WMU alumna coach points Japanese tennis player to Kalamazoo

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club: 32nd Annual Gala

December 3, 2013

• New Inductees
• Members
• Retirees

Culture And Power In The Classroom: Educational Foundations For The Schooling Of Bicultural Students, Antonia Darder

Faculty Pub Night

No abstract provided.

Student Internet Speech: Where Does The Schoolyard End In The Cyberworld?, Thomas D. Denny

Theses and Dissertations

This study examines student internet speech that originates off-campus but results in discipline from school. The history of the issue of student speech is explored to set the foundation for the current issue. In the absence of a Supreme Court ruling on student off-campus internet speech, cases reaching the Federal level are explored in search of commonalities. The resulting information is synthesized to create two artifacts. The first is a matrix to summarize the rulings and rationale of the cases. The second is a reference tool to guide administrators in dealing with similar student speech cases.

Centennial Library E-News, November/December 2013, Cedarville University

Centennial Library Shelf Life

Articles in this issue: Digital Commons news, Faculty member presents, Digital Commons Director certified, Return MIS trip planned, Book cart drill team performs, Canoe team races, Library science dinner held, University faculty in print, University alumni in print, Semester break hours

National Physics Association Honors Spalding, Kim Hill

News and Events

No abstract provided.

Art And Symbolism: The Technique Of Applying Hidden Meaning And Communicating Specific Ideas Through Art, Andrea C. Macbean

Senior Honors Theses

Symbolism is an artistic style frequently used in the arts. Through the course of art history, it was its own artistic movement as well. The incorporation of specific symbols, shapes, colors, or identifiable images communicates to the viewer an intended message or statement. Frequently, symbolism appears to be hidden or initially unperceived by the intended audience. In some works, symbolism is so abstract that it needs explanation or clarification to be understood completely by the viewer. This thesis will analyze a few techniques of symbolism that can be incorporated in a work of art to communicate truth, entice thought, point …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 89, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

The Public School Washroom As Heterotopia: Gendered Spatiality And Subjectification, Jennifer C. Ingrey

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This dissertation investigates how secondary school students understand their own gendered subjectivity and the discursive and material processes that contribute to it through visual artifacts (photovoice projects) the students created of school washroom spaces. Drawing primarily on Foucault’s analytics of disciplinary space and the heterotopia (Foucault & Miskowiec, 1986), I view the washroom space as producing and perpetuating gendered power relations that invert, suspect, or neutralize those existing in exterior spaces. Deploying both a Foucauldian and Butlerian analytics, these visual student responses are framed as confessional, queering or (de)subjugating (Stryker, 2006) and cartographic products, and hence, understood in terms of …

Tuning Into The Future: Informal Learning And Music Education, Ruth Wright, Carol Beynon, B. A. Younker, V. Meredith, Jennifer Hutchison, Leslie Linton

Ruth Wright Dr

When adolescents are engaged in learning, research has shown a decrease in alcohol and drug use, higher retention rates and fewer failures throughout high school, lower rates of depression as well as lower rates of anti-social and criminal behaviours. Attention to student engagement with a priority on 21st century learning skills requires the examination of various pedagogies, including using informal learning practices as the foundation for instruction with adolescents in schools. This pilot project targets Grade 7 to 10 students in two school settings where adolescent engagement is a priority; it examines the viability of implementing informal learning practices within …

The Chicago Board Of Education Desegregation Policies And Practices [1975-1985]: A Historical Examination Of The Administrations Of Superintendents Dr. Joseph P. Hannon And Dr. Ruth Love, Michael James

Michael James

The purpose of this study will be to examine the policies and practices of two distinguished superintendents of the Chicago Public Schools: Dr. Joseph P. Hannon and the first African American female Superintendent Dr. Ruth Love. Hannon's four year administration extended from 1975 through 1979. Love' administration encompassed the years 1980 through 1985. The individual administrative approaches used by both superintendents to desegregate the Chicago Public Schools will be discussed. In addition the administrator's effectiveness in equalizing educational opportunities for all students will be a primary focus. Inclusive in this study will be the administrator's development and use of grass …

Implementing Nclb: A Case Study In Local Urban School Leadership And School Improvement, Michael James Chinino

Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study investigated two urban junior high schools that are implementing the mandates of No Child Left Behind. The study addresses the critical issues of building organizational capacity to determine the extent to which two schools utilized five key components of Paul Kimmelman's knowledge framework to support the school improvement process.

Ms Grad Students Contribute To Research Study In Pnas, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Brittany Philpot, Alex Patent, Sonia Flores and Gabby Cailing joined Dr. Dale Bredesen and Dr. Rammohan Rao in laboratory research at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging that shows ApoE4 reduces neuroprotective SirT1 levels. The study’s findings examined the mechanism by which ApoE4 confers risk for the development of Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50th Anniversary Celebration Speech, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda And Minutes, December 2, 2013

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on, December 2, 2013.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 038, Number 15, December 2, 2013, Grand Valley State University

2013-2014, Volume 38

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Appropriations And Audits Committee Meeting Agenda 12-02-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

Unopa Notes Volume 52, Issue 4, December 2, 2013

UNOPA Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Disparity Of Principal Accountability, Mary Kathryn Taylor

Theses and Dissertations

This study begins with a review of court cases that have helped shape public education in America. Following the review is an analysis of federal reform in education from 1965 to the present, paired with educational leadership literature to highlight a disparity in what federal mandates and state policies have in place for accountability measures. The study ends with a state analysis of Illinois and Iowa to find the strengths and weaknesses of state policy in the area of principal accountability.

As policymakers have worked to increase accountability in K-12 education, efforts have focused on a variety of measures to …

Lanthorn, Vol. 48, No. 29, December 2, 2013, Grand Valley State University

Volume 48, July 1, 2013 - June 2, 2014

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Updates In Academic Affairs - 12/02/13, Office Of The Provost And Vice President For Academic Affairs

Updates in Academic Affairs

• New methods for reporting progress on strategic planning
• Transparency reporting

Special Education Teachers' Perspectives On The Implementation Of Functional Behavior Assessment In Schools, Joy Engstrom

Theses and Dissertations

The presence of challenging and violent behaviors that pose risks to the overall safety and the educational learning experience in the public education setting have been on the rise in recent years. Traditional reactive, coercive, and punitive measures to address these behaviors have been futile. Congress responded to the national increase in violent behaviors by implementing several acts, including zero tolerance policies, in an effort to diminish the rise in violent behaviors. Of significance to this study was the inclusion of Functional Behavior Assessment in the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1997. Unfortunately, FBA has the …

Girl Talk, Carey Delauder Bledsoe

Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview

This dissertation is a qualitative study of an all-girls’ advisory in a coeducational,

urban middle school located in a mid-sized city in the northeast.

The advisory group met daily over the course of the 2010-2011 academic year.

Drawing from data collected over one year of fieldwork--including participant

observation, analysis of discourse, dynamic interviews, and the analysis of

social constructs --this study explores how a group of mostly African

American and Latina students created a caring community in order to increase

their academic and social success.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, December 2, 2013, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.