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Editorial Introduction: Re-Envisioning Education In A Globalizing World, Hiro Saito

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This special issue focuses on education as a crucial factor mediating the relationship between youth and globalization. Specifically, four papers collectively explore how education can be re-envisioned from the following vantage point: the use of technology to foreground the fundamentally interconnected nature of today’s world; the help of mindfulness to deepen the awareness of such interconnectedness and cultivate acommitment to collective well-being; the role of activism to produce more critical knowledge and transformational solidarity for social justice on a global scale; at the same time, the necessity of reflexivity to examine one’s own ontological and epistemological assumptions before attempting any …

How Scholarship Programs Facilitate First-Generation College Students’ Involvement, Maria C. Restrepo Chavez

Senior Honors Projects, 2010-2019

As a first-generation college student, I am interested in the on-campus involvement and experiences of other first-generation college students. First-generation college students are those whose parents did not receive a university degree and tend to come from low-income families. This project explores programs designed to support and enrich the experiences of such students. The Centennial Scholars Program at James Madison University and the Presidential Scholarship Initiative at Virginia Tech aim to increase the socio-economic diversity on each campus. These programs provide students with full funding for four years, mentorship, professional development and social benefits, among others. In turn, students become …

A Reflective Conversation: Community And Hei Perspectives On Community-Based Research., Niamh O'Reilly, Catherine Bates

Staff Articles and Research Papers

This paper is a reflective correspondence between a community partner and a community-based research coordinator in a higher education institute (HEI). We asked each other questions about our experience of collaborating on two community-based research (CBR) projects, in order to share our learning from our collaboration, and to relate this to the wider context in order to develop recommendations for others – community partners and HEI staff – who would like to initiate CBR projects in the future.

Mismatch In Higher Education: Neoliberal Shortcomings In Intrinsic Value In The University, Jake A. Grahn

Student Research Initiative

This research focuses on uncovering how the neoliberal atmosphere in which we find ourselves has influenced and socialized students to view college as a transaction between a buyer and a seller. Neoliberalism promotes free trade, open markets, and consumerism. How does neoliberal ideology affect student choices (i.e. schools, classes, teachers, etc.) that support and undermine neoliberalism itself? How does the internalization of the student-as-customer model contradict or reinforce neoliberal higher education? Higher education has become a complex institution, and free-market trade may benefit or hinder students. Approximately 31 open-ended interviews were conducted with students at BSU, and I conducted a …

Experiences Of African Refugees Who Transition To University : A Question Of Resilience, Mark Webb

Theses : Honours

First year transition to university for students’ is associated with significant adjustment to tertiary education practices and environment. Universities are frequently considering ways to support and improve this transition for students inclusive of mainstream and equity target groups. African refugees are one equity group that prioritises education and are concurrently experiencing pre-migration trauma and acculturation stress. However we know little about their experiences of support in transition to university. The aim of this present study was to explore the meanings ascribed by African refugees to their experiences of social support in transitioning to university. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on a …

Black And Latino Studies And Social Capital Theory, Pedro Caban

Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies Faculty Scholarship

Three and one-half decades have transpired since the establishment of the first Black, Chicano and Puerto Rican studies programs. Since then, a substantial body of scholarship on the African American and Latino experience in the USA has been produced. One area of recent scholarly interest is the origin, goals and trajectory of the Black, Chicano and Puerto Rican studies movements of the 1960s. New scholarship has generated important insights on the relationship between activist scholarship and community empowerment in the context of the 1960s nation-wide political struggle for social and racial justice. The intellectual and political need to further develop …

Student Participation And Instructor Gender In The Mixed Age College Classroom, Jay R. Howard, Amanda L. Henney

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

This study seeks to fill that void in the literature and contribute to the ongoing debate regarding the impact of student age, student gender, instructor gender, and course level on student participation.

The Effects Of Overcrowded Housing On The Academic Performance Of Student Populations, John D. Turner

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

In the spring and summer of every year the housing offices of many colleges and universities seek to prepare for the fall term. In colleges with increasing enrollments often a problem exists in housing all the students who have applied for housing. This problem is further complicated in colleges and universities where residency on campus is considered to be an integral part of the objectives and philosophy surrounding their educational offering.

The 1963 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Editor-in-Chief: Eric Stoutenburgh

Eileen V. Ayotte

F. Robert Else

Advisor: Mr. Lee Weaver

The 1962 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Editor: Peter Poikonen

Business Manager: Roger S. Pugh

Features: Carolyn Marsis

Adviser: Prof. Lee Weaver

The 1945 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Co-Editors: Alyce Rogers, Louella Gavitt

The 1944 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Co-Editors: Emilia Burnham, Elizabeth Bucolo

The 1943 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Co-Editors: Clair A. Gilfix, Julia H. Scott

Art Director: Mary Ann Steiner

The 1942 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger"

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Editor-in-chief: Nicholas C. Coracci

Assistant Editor: Leger Morrison

Business Manager: Richard Hearn

Advertising Manager: John Renza

Art Editor: Janet Lewis

Assistant Editor: Margaret Diamond

Pictorial Editor: Shirley Dyer

Literary Editor: Leona Mannolini

The 1939 Bryant Yearbook, "The Bryant Ledger", Seniors

The Ledger, 1939-2016, Bryant University Yearbooks

Editor-in-Chief: Edwin B. Briggs, Jr.

Managing Editor: Roland P. Talbot

Advertising Manager: Walter Lee

Circulation Manager: Phyllis Mayo

Photograph Editor: Ralph Dion