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Troubling The Niceness Of Social Change In Leadership Education, Erica R. Wiborg Nov 2022

Troubling The Niceness Of Social Change In Leadership Education, Erica R. Wiborg

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This article troubles a culture of niceness that upholds racism, whiteness, and other forms of oppression, as well as challenges the simplistic application of social change in leadership education. Leadership educators have several responsibilities for challenging ideologies, practices, and discourses that secure whiteness when teaching about leadership for social change. The current article begins with situating the relationship of whiteness and niceness, then offers liberatory considerations for troubling niceness in leadership education. Considerations for why leadership educators and students, based on their social identities and lived experiences, might resist addressing social inequality, power, inclusion, and equity in leadership are discussed. …


Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers Sep 2022

Behind The Brick Walls: On “Hearth” And Slavery At The William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers

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Excerpt from the article: "The William & Mary was the second university in the U.S. after Brown University to establish a funded, institutional examination of its dark history of complicity with slavery and Jim Crow segregation. After resolutions from the Student Assembly and Faculty Assembly, the Board of Visitors in 2009 established the Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation, named after Lemon, a man enslaved by the College..."


Writing At The Bray School: Part 2, Terry L. Meyers Jun 2022

Writing At The Bray School: Part 2, Terry L. Meyers

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Excerpt: "In the last several years the contested question of whether Mrs. Wager taught writing at the Williamsburg Bray School has come up anew in several venues. In this follow-up to my earlier piece, “Writing at the Bray School,” I examine these recent developments..."


Moving Beyond Free: A College Affordability Compact For The Next Generation, David H. Feldman, Christopher R. Marsicano Jul 2021

Moving Beyond Free: A College Affordability Compact For The Next Generation, David H. Feldman, Christopher R. Marsicano

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"Free college programs have proliferated at the state and local levels over the past decade, focused primarily on the nation’s community colleges. President Biden’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan includes funding to make community college tuition free for participating states, and the idea of federally supported tuition-free four-year public college education is also back in the spotlight. It is easy to see why: “free college” fits on a bumper sticker, and it offers a simple message that signals to low-income families and first-generation students that achieving a valuable postsecondary credential is possible for them. This can lead families to prioritize …


W&M’S Memorials To Benjamin S. Ewell, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2021

W&M’S Memorials To Benjamin S. Ewell, Terry L. Meyers

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"As far as I can tell, Benjamin S. Ewell, the College’s sixteenth president (1854-1888), has been memorialized at William and Mary more than any other person. That is not surprising given his long tenure as president, his dedication to the College, and his titanic efforts on its behalf, especially in the decades after the Civil War..."


Speculations On Structures Once Near The Site Of Lemon Hall, Terry L. Meyers Feb 2020

Speculations On Structures Once Near The Site Of Lemon Hall, Terry L. Meyers

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"One of the most intriguing views of Williamsburg in antebellum days depicts a series of large and small structures along Jamestown Road, roughly between where Barrett Hall and Lemon Hall stand today.

Made between 1859 and 1862 by James Austin Graham (1814/15-1878), the panorama presents Williamsburg as viewed roughly from where the law school is today and sweeps along the entire southern edge of town, from the Capitol on the east to, on the west, about the site of the College’s Lemon Hall..."


On Joe And The Burial Place(S) Of The Enslaved At William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers Jan 2020

On Joe And The Burial Place(S) Of The Enslaved At William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers

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"It is possible that in the 17th or 18th century W&M opened a burial ground on its 330 acre campus and that it buried there those it enslaved over some 172 years. We have no documentation of that, although we have several references to the College’s providing coffins.1 Since those record no further expenses such as transport to the grave or digging the grave, I presume there would have been no such expenses--other of our enslaved would undertake such tasks as part of their job..."


The W&M Anglo-Saxon Club, Terry L. Meyers Aug 2019

The W&M Anglo-Saxon Club, Terry L. Meyers

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"In my 2008 article “A First Look at the Worst,” I mentioned (p. 1158) the apparent existence at William and Mary of an Anglo-Saxon Club, a unit of a white supremacist organization, the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America. That outfit had been established in Richmond in 1922 with the aid of John Powell, at once a distinguished musician and a deep racist (he managed to include his racist views in his compositions). Among his accomplishments was help in drafting and passing Virginia’s notorious Racial Integrity Act of 1924; the Anglo-Saxon Clubs were accessories to that effort..."

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Implicit Gender Bias, Engagement, And Protective Factors In Stem Faculty, Cheryl L. Dickter, Catherine A. Forestell, Jennifer A. Stevens, Pamela S. Hunt, Christine Porter Apr 2019

Implicit Gender Bias, Engagement, And Protective Factors In Stem Faculty, Cheryl L. Dickter, Catherine A. Forestell, Jennifer A. Stevens, Pamela S. Hunt, Christine Porter

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The present study assessed implicit gender bias and job engagement among STEM faculty at a mid-size liberal arts university. Forty-nine faculty in each of the departments of natural and social sciences were assessed for implicit gender bias and job engagement. We found that men had greater implicit gender bias than women in the natural sciences. In addition, women in natural science departments felt marginally less engaged than women in social science departments. Women’s disengagement was positively associated with imposter phenomenon and perceived lack of control in departmental decisions. However, women who actively participated in a women’s organization or had an …


Investigating The Effectiveness Of A Motivational Interviewing Group Intervention On Academic Motivation, Daniel Gutierrez, Sejal P. Foxx, Elvita Kondili Jan 2018

Investigating The Effectiveness Of A Motivational Interviewing Group Intervention On Academic Motivation, Daniel Gutierrez, Sejal P. Foxx, Elvita Kondili

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This randomized controlled trial examines the effectiveness of a motivational interviewing (MI) group on the academic motivation of students at an alternative school (N = 43). Findings demonstrated that MI groups are effective in increasing extrinsic motivation, whereas both the waiting list control and study skills comparison group did not demonstrate statistical significance. The findings of this study have several implications for school-based motivation enhancement interventions.


Squaring The Circle And Saving The Phenomena: Reading Science In The Greek Language Classroom, Georgia L. Irby Jan 2018

Squaring The Circle And Saving The Phenomena: Reading Science In The Greek Language Classroom, Georgia L. Irby

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Our students live in a world where scientific achievement and knowledge are profoundly significant, just as they were to the Greeks, and it becomes increasingly important to ensure that the language requirement is as enriching an experience as possible for all students, not only for students in the humanities, but also for those pursuing STEM tracks. Here we explore the significance of science in Greek culture together with the incorporation of Greek scientific texts in the beginning and intermediate Greek language classroom. Science (knowledge) was a seminal component of the Greek intellectual experience, and approachable “scientific” texts can be found …


Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers Nov 2015

Writing At The Williamsburg Bray School?, Terry L. Meyers

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"I’ve become interested recently in whether writing was taught to the pupils in the Williamsburg Bray School. I had assumed all along that it was, and that the discovery of 40 some slate pencils at the Bray School Dig was confirmation of that.

I’d not been alone in my assumption about the teaching of writing, for the great majority of those interested in the Bray School have affirmed that the curriculum included writing..."


Squaring The Circle And Saving The Phenomena: Reading Science In The Greek Language Classroom, Georgia Irby Jan 2015

Squaring The Circle And Saving The Phenomena: Reading Science In The Greek Language Classroom, Georgia Irby

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Developing Talent Among Low-Income Gifted Learners: A Review Of Recent Research, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Darlene Wiggins Dockery Oct 2014

Developing Talent Among Low-Income Gifted Learners: A Review Of Recent Research, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Darlene Wiggins Dockery

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Identification Of Low-Income Gifted Learners: A Review Of Recent Research, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Darlene Wiggins Dockery Sep 2014

Identification Of Low-Income Gifted Learners: A Review Of Recent Research, Jennifer Riedl Cross, Darlene Wiggins Dockery

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Student And Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness In A Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case For Conducting A Needs Assessment, Jennifer Riedl Cross Jan 2013

Student And Teacher Attitudes Toward Giftedness In A Two Laboratory School Environment: A Case For Conducting A Needs Assessment, Jennifer Riedl Cross

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Economic Returns To Early Education For Disadvantaged Children: Lessons From The Highscope Perry Preschool Program (In Russian), James Heckman, Seong Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, Adam Yavitz Jan 2010

Economic Returns To Early Education For Disadvantaged Children: Lessons From The Highscope Perry Preschool Program (In Russian), James Heckman, Seong Moon, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev, Adam Yavitz

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That Ain’T Workin’: That’S The Way You Do It: Teaching Greek Through Popular Music, Georgia Irby Jan 2009

That Ain’T Workin’: That’S The Way You Do It: Teaching Greek Through Popular Music, Georgia Irby

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