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Equity Council Student Sub-Committee 2009, Joseph A. Santiago, Frank Forleo Dec 2009

Equity Council Student Sub-Committee 2009, Joseph A. Santiago, Frank Forleo

Student Affairs Digital Community Development

The general purpose of this meeting was to continue the dialog we started on 11/18. A second major purpose is to explore the possibility of holding an Equity Council Student Leadership Conference at URI's W. Alton Jones Campus in early February.

The focus of the retreat was to gather data in order to have a sense of the current climate/culture present at URI. To conduct focus groups at Alton Jones. The forums/ focus groups addressed issues revolving around the following areas: Academics/Curricular issues/concerns, Housing and Residential Life, Student Leaders and Student Groups, Faculty Diversity Training/Interventions, and Campus Climate.


What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher Oct 2009

What Color Is Your Paratext?, Geoffrey Bilder, Andrée J. Rathemacher

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

In the final vision session of the 2009 NASIG Annual Conference, Geoffrey Bilder from CrossRef discussed the problem of how to identify trustworthy scholarly information on the Internet. This problem is exacerbated by readers’ growing distrust of intermediaries such as publishers and librarians, by the fact that the Internet lacks the traditions that have developed in scholarly communication to ensure trust, and by the sheer amount of information now readily available. Paratext is understood as anything outside of a text that sets expectations about that text. In the past, paratext, for example a publisher logo, provided important clues as to …


Teaching Sustainable Education And The Energy Conservation Ethic, Pia C. Peterson May 2009

Teaching Sustainable Education And The Energy Conservation Ethic, Pia C. Peterson

Senior Honors Projects

As Rhode Island’s landscape steadily changes and the human population and development expands, we as responsible inhabitants need to be more mindful of our actions and how our decisions impact our environment. This is an especially important value to pass on to our children, who will be around to see how the state and Narragansett Bay are affected by our actions long after we are gone. My project visits approximately 1,300 elementary school students in South Kingstown and spends some time interacting with them and teaching them about energy use in Rhode Island, in their daily lives, and how to …