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Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering October 1 – December 31, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering October 1 – December 31, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- The number of records in the volunteer database increased 8% over last quarter. The database now contains 6,431 records.
- Website activity increased, recording an average of 56,013 hits per month, an increase of 6% from last quarter, with an average of 5,211 pages viewed per month.
- Volunteer fall training has been completed.
- Three National Public Land Day and National Family Events have been completed.
- Two hundred and five people attended the Volunteer Recognition Event.
Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Cultural Site Stewardship Program
• The Cultural Site Stewardship Program reports the first decrease in reported cultural site impacts since program inception.
• Total cultural site stewards trained is 382 for 2008 calendar-year-end.
• Two new Regional Coordinators assigned to Sloan and Eldorado Valley.
An Anonymous Collection Of Poetry, Anonymous
An Anonymous Collection Of Poetry, Anonymous
Commission for LGBT - Reports, Minutes, Events and Other Documents
No abstract provided.
Environmental Evaluation Of A Quaternary Wastewater Treatment Wetland, Olivia Demeo, '09
Environmental Evaluation Of A Quaternary Wastewater Treatment Wetland, Olivia Demeo, '09
Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers
Constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment have become a sustainable alternative to environmentally harmful traditional wastewater treatment methods. This case study evaluated the Schroeder Wildlife Sanctuary, a wetland area constructed for removal of nutrients from wastewater. An environmental evaluation of the wetland was completed that addressed three parameters: the water quality of wetland effluent, the avian biodiversity within the sanctuary, and an assessment of community outreach and education initiatives. Water quality testing was conducted using rudimentary LaMotte and Hach testing kits. The data was contrary to the literature and showed no nutrient removal occurring. However, the results were inconclusive because the …
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Michelle Mouton, Mamie Peers, Shane Bevell
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
Torch (December 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (December 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Growing Food Justice In West Bloomington, Illinois, Daniel Burke, '09
Growing Food Justice In West Bloomington, Illinois, Daniel Burke, '09
Outstanding Senior Seminar Papers
In some places in the United States, guns are more accessible than tomatoes. In a nation where food is in relative abundance, how can this be? Food security is the ready availability of nutritious and safe food and the assured ability to obtain it through normal sources (Morris et al 1992). Food justice asserts that no one should live without enough food because of economic constraints or social inequities. In this way, food justice frames the lack of healthy food sources in poor communities as a human rights issue (People's Grocery 2008). However, in some communities, access to fresh, healthy …
Volunteer Functions, Satisfaction, Commitment, And Intention To Leave Government Volunteering, Gisela R. Salas
Volunteer Functions, Satisfaction, Commitment, And Intention To Leave Government Volunteering, Gisela R. Salas
Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios
Traditionally, volunteerism has been deeply embedded in United States history with citizens showing a high level of social participation. In the United States there are 60.8 million volunteers, however, the supply of volunteer labor has been insufficient to meet the demands of organizations with recent reports showing a decrease. Trends as far back as the 1980s indicated that budgetary constraints coupled with increasing demands makes volunteering the logical alternative to sustain service delivery.
Many community, civic, and governmental organizations need and use volunteers to accomplish their missions. One of the greatest challenges, however, is ensuring that the volunteers remain satisfied …
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 84, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 84, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:
- Bennett, Emily. On Her Toes – Martha Madison
- Ulber, Emily. Bowling Green Benefits from Adult Literacy Program
- Carey, Ryan. Sixth-Seeded Lady Tops Win Sun Belt Title - Volleyball
- Hale, Marianne. Task Force to Evaluate Western’s Growth – Task Force on Quality & Access
- Be Proactive, Not Reactive: University Officials Need to be Policy Driven
- Milam, Dustin. Fight for Rights, Liberation, Equality
- Jones, Ashley. Praxis vs. Western Football – Parking
- Schwab, Edmond. Change I Can’t Believe In
- Stewart, Colleen. Vigil Honors Victims of Transgender Hate Crimes …
Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Tony Allen, Karen Sharp, Mamie Peers, Cate Weeks
Inside Unlv, Shane Bevell, Tony Allen, Karen Sharp, Mamie Peers, Cate Weeks
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
Torch (November 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (November 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering July 5, 2008 – October 5, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering July 5, 2008 – October 5, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Anti-littering Programs
• Take Pride in America in Southern Nevada wins national Take Pride in America Award for best state program and Senate recognition
• Zia Engineering begins work on Recycling Plan
• Name the Mascot contest drawing interest and support
• Dumping and litter prevention information for Northern Nevada added to web site
• Three events conducted this quarter
• Team reaches milestone of 60 events since inception
• Agreement with Spring Mountain Youth Camp finalized
Torch (October 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (October 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering July 1- September 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering July 1- September 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- The number of records in the volunteer database increased 10% since June, 2008. The database now contains 5,706 records.
- Website activity decreased, recording an average of 48,361 hits per month, a decrease of 28% from last quarter, with an average of 4,925 pages viewed per month.
- Fall volunteer training has been scheduled.
- Fall events have been scheduled.
Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Cultural Site Stewardship Program
• The Cultural Site Stewardship Program has now enrolled 376 site stewards
• One training class was held this quarter that adding 12 new volunteers.
• The stewardship had an annual growth of 17.5% during the fiscal year 2008.
• Site Stewards reported 83 significant site impacts in 2008 compared with 63 during the same period last year.
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Michelle Mouton, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Deana Waddell
Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Michelle Mouton, Erin O'Donnell, Mamie Peers, Grace Russell, Deana Waddell
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
Torch (September 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch (September 2008), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project
Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Alcoholic Beverage Sales To Underage Buyers In The Commonwealth Of Virginia: Deterrence And Equality, William L. Goodman
Alcoholic Beverage Sales To Underage Buyers In The Commonwealth Of Virginia: Deterrence And Equality, William L. Goodman
Theses & Honors Papers
The Commonwealth of Virginia relies on the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to enforce laws designed to deter alcohol and cigarette sales to underage persons. ABC employs underage buyers (UAB) who attempt to make controlled purchases of alcoholic beverages and cigarettes.
The primary purpose of this research project is to determine if compliance checks deter alcohol sales to underage persons. Second, this study attempts to find if underage buyer demographics align with state demographics. Finally, this research attempts to determine if businesses are more likely to sell alcohol to underage buyers based on their race, ethnicity, and gender. This …
The Death Of An Accused Scientist - The Reporting On Bruce Ivins And It's Use Of The Mad Scientist Stereotype, Hontas Farmer
The Death Of An Accused Scientist - The Reporting On Bruce Ivins And It's Use Of The Mad Scientist Stereotype, Hontas Farmer
Hontas F Farmer
The mad scientist stereotype seems to be alive and well. This time it is emerging in a disturbing way. A US Army scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, committed suicide at the age of 62. He has been implicated in the Anthrax case from 2001. You remember those letters that started to show up after 9/11 "Death to America, Death to Israel, Praise be to Allah!" (That is another set of stereotypes for another day. Those letters fueled Anti Arab/"Arab looking person" hate crimes and islamophobia for months after 9/11.) Well now that he is dead and cannot protect himself from allegations …
Discoveries: New And Noteworthy Social Research, Ryan Alaniz, Erika Busse, Keith A. Cunnien, Meghan L. Krausch, Wesley Longhofer, Heather Mclaughlin, Chika Shinohara, Jon Smajda, Jesse Wozniak
Discoveries: New And Noteworthy Social Research, Ryan Alaniz, Erika Busse, Keith A. Cunnien, Meghan L. Krausch, Wesley Longhofer, Heather Mclaughlin, Chika Shinohara, Jon Smajda, Jesse Wozniak
Ryan C. Alaniz
No abstract provided.
Ten Years Of Community Profiles In New Hampshire, Charlie A. French, Fabienne Lord-Fonesca
Ten Years Of Community Profiles In New Hampshire, Charlie A. French, Fabienne Lord-Fonesca
Natural Resources & the Environment
Through a program called Community Profiles, the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension has helped 57 New Hampshire communities develop a vision for their future and mobilize local residents to act on that vision. The Community Profile process is based on the premise that communities must engage members in identifying and documenting common and deeply held values from which to craft a vision for the future if they are to build and sustain community vitality. The process also helps communities find new and creative ways to pursue that vision by leveraging resources within and outside of the community. These resources …
Evaluating Children’S Advocacy Centers’ Response To Child Sexual Abuse, Theodore P. Cross, Lisa M. Jones, Wendy A. Walsh, Monique Simone, David Kolko, Joyce Sczepanski, Tonya Lippert, Karen Davison, Arthur Crynes, Polly Sosnowski, Amy L. Shadoin, Suzanne Magnuson
Evaluating Children’S Advocacy Centers’ Response To Child Sexual Abuse, Theodore P. Cross, Lisa M. Jones, Wendy A. Walsh, Monique Simone, David Kolko, Joyce Sczepanski, Tonya Lippert, Karen Davison, Arthur Crynes, Polly Sosnowski, Amy L. Shadoin, Suzanne Magnuson
Sociology
Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) play an increasingly significant role in the response to child sexual abuse and other child maltreatment in the United States. First developed in the 1980s, CACs were designed to reduce the stress on child abuse victims and families created by traditional child abuse investigation and prosecution procedures and to improve the effectiveness of the response. According to several experts (Fontana, 1984; Pence and Wilson, 1992; Whitcomb, 1992), child victims were subjected to multiple, redundant interviews about their abuse by different agencies, and were questioned by professionals who had no knowledge of children’s developmental limitations or experience …
Marginalized By Race And Place: Occupational Sex Segregation In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Sangeeta Parashar
Marginalized By Race And Place: Occupational Sex Segregation In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Sangeeta Parashar
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Racial and gender disparities found in most other societies are particularly magnified in South Africa where the marginalized social group constitutes a numerical majority of the population. These factors, along with region, are dominant axes of inequality in the country. However, empirical knowledge of the interplay between these systems of social inequality in determining employment outcomes remains somewhat scant. This dissertation addresses that gap by studying occupational sex segregation across various racial groups using multilevel modeling techniques. Individual-level data from the 2001 Census and magisterial-level data from survey data aggregations and published sources are used. I first study the influence …
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering April 6, 2008- July 5, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering April 6, 2008- July 5, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Anti-littering Programs
• Take Pride in America in Southern Nevada wins national Take Pride in America Award for best state program
• Team is working to secure consulting firm for recycling plan project
• Don’t Trash Nevada Day event held on May 30, 2008
• Phase II media plan began June 1, 2008
• Formed new partnership with Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful
• Total of 189 people signed the anti-litter pledge
• The Anti-Litter Team conducted nine volunteer clean up events
• The Anti-Litter Team participated in five community outreach events
• Don’t Trash Nevada featured in several newspaper and television news …
Inside Unlv, Grace Russell, Michelle Mouton, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell
Inside Unlv, Grace Russell, Michelle Mouton, Shane Bevell, Diane Russell
Inside UNLV
No abstract provided.
College Males: Keeping Them Engaged On Your Campus, Jason A. Laker
College Males: Keeping Them Engaged On Your Campus, Jason A. Laker
Faculty Publications
There has been much discussion in the popular media over the last few years to the effect that there is a “crisis” with regard to men in higher education. There have been several angles in these reports, including arguments suggesting that men are declining in student ranks, or that women are outpacing their male counterparts. In any case, these reports have asked questions about where the men are if not in college; and what will be the consequences of this problem in terms of the workforce, families, or the potential nature and future of higher education. One could easily be …
The Emerging New Human Being, The Culture-In-The-Self, And Ahp's New Multidimensional Intercultural Initiative, Carroy U. Ferguson
The Emerging New Human Being, The Culture-In-The-Self, And Ahp's New Multidimensional Intercultural Initiative, Carroy U. Ferguson
Carroy U "Cuf" Ferguson, Ph.D.
The emerging New Human Being will need to explore and come to terms with a phenomenon, operating deeply, uniquely, and diversely at a core level of all human beings on the planet. I call this phenomenon the “culture-in-the-Self,” a term coined some years ago by cofounders of Interculture Inc. What we commonly think of as culture is just the surface of this phenomenon, often appearing outwardly in the diverse “forms” of cultural scripts, beliefs, values, behaviors, and customs). I want to call attention to what goes on beneath surface culture(s), and how AHP intends to play a primary role in …
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering April 1- June 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Covering April 1- June 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- The number of records in the volunteer database increased 6% since January 1, 2008. The database now contains 5,171 records.
- Website activity decreased, recording an average of 67,180 hits per month, a decrease of 19% from last quarter, with an average of 6,618 pages viewed per month.
- Spring volunteer training has been completed • Fall events have been scheduled.
- The first Interagency Volunteer Program Bus Tour has been completed.
- The new seed collection events have been completed
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Annual Progress Report, Period Covering July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Nevada Interagency Volunteer Program: Helping Hands Across Public Lands – Phase Ii: Annual Progress Report, Period Covering July 1, 2007 - June 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Get Outdoors Nevada
- The Interagency Volunteer Program (IVP) completed a total of 25 volunteer events contributing a total of 7,270.5 volunteer hours.
- A total of 186 volunteers completed orientations and trainings with the IVP.
- In January, the database manager updated and archived records in the Volgistic data base.
- Since January, the Volgistic database has increased the number of records by 15% containing a total 5,171 records.
- The first annual IVP bus tour has been completed.
- The first event assistant training has been completed. A total of five event assistants have assisted event coordinators at six different volunteer events.
- Website activity this year averaged …
Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending June 30, 2008, Margaret N. Rees
Cultural Site Stewardship Program
• The Cultural Site Stewardship Program has now enrolled 369 site stewards
• Three training classes were held adding 49 new volunteer stewards, an increase of 15% during the fiscal year 2008.
• Site Stewards reported 72 site impacts 2008 YTD compared with 50 during the same period last year.