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The Chat Room, Vol. 42, Eastern Illinois University

The Chat Room (CEPS Newsletter)

The Chat Room is the College of Education and Professional Studies newsletter. This is Volume 42, April 2016.

How Do Household Characteristics Affect Children’S School Dropouts? Analysis Of Survey Data From Bangladesh, Nusrat Farah

2016 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

This paper presents evidence on how children’s educational outcomes are affected by family, social and economic backgrounds in a developing economy by exploiting data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS) 2011. In a developing country like Bangladesh, a child’s educational outcome is not only dependent on government policies but also on the child’s social and economic background. In this paper an attempt has been made to answer the question — how household conditions affect the educational attainments of children. To answer this question an examination of proximate factors associated with school dropouts has been conducted by developing Ordinary …

The Shadow Is Revived: Constructing Narratives In Victorian Literature And Science Fiction With Non-Euclidean Mathematics, Heather Lamb

2016 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity - Documents

“First and foremost, steampunk is about things — especially technological things — and our relationship to them. As a sub-genre of science fiction, it explores the difference an object can make,” says Stefania Forlini in “Technology and Morality: The Stuff of Steampunk” (72). While steampunk literature, and its scholars, focuses heavily upon the anachronistic objects, gadgets, and machines embedded in steampunk narratives, both seem to forget about time itself. Just as Forlini indicates that humans form various relationships to their objects, building identity from and with them, humans must also form a relationship with time. In steampunk, time itself becomes …

Celebrating Excellence 2016, College Of Education And Professional Studies

Celebrating Excellence

Celebrating Excellence notes the milestones (retirements) and achievements (promotions, awards, grants, and publications) of the College of Education and Professional Studies at Eastern Illinois University.

Dust, Drought, And Dreams Gone Dry, Booth Library

Booth Library Programs

Photo galleries and supporting exhibits can be found on the DUST, DROUGHT, AND DREAMS GONE DRY exhibit page.

Exhibit Dates

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library January 11 - February 26, 2016

Spring 2016 Commencement, Eastern Illinois University

Commencement Programs

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Daily Eastern News: April 01, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Spring 2016, Richard Luftig, Bailey Doty, Carter Vance, Joshua Garrett, Gary Beck, Chelsey Hutmacher, James Valvis, James Prenatt, John Grey, Thomas Pescatore, Loren Smith, Mckenzie Dial, Guinotte Wise, D. M. Becker, Robert Joe Stout, Tom Larsen, Daria Radler, Brad Ellis, Maggie Perry

The Vehicle

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Daily Eastern News: March 31, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 30, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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March 29, 2016, Faculty Senate

Minutes

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Daily Eastern News: March 24, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 23, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 21, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 11, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 07, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 02, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: March 01, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Part-Time Faculty: Semantics And The Meaning Of Contingent Teaching, Margaret E. Winters

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The variety of titles for non-tenure-track, part-time, contingent faculty and their semantic meanings are explored. The terms are not random when looked at collectively, but rather form a pattern which is indicative of contemporary post-secondary academic employment and culture. More specifically, these titles reflect several characteristics of the faculty who bear them: among others, the fact that they are not in full-time employment, the fact that their contracts are for shorter periods of time than those of tenure-track faculty, and the fact that their contracts reflect an expectation of impermanence in employment. Also expressed in the titles are more nuanced …

Wage Distribution Impacts Of Higher Education Faculty Unionization, Charles S. Wassell Jr, David W. Hedrick, Steven E. Henson, John M. Krieg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The literature on the effects of unions on the distribution of wages at the macroeconomic and inter-industry levels has given little attention to the effects at the firm level. At the same time, research on collective bargaining impacts in higher education has focused on the overall wage level rather than on the distribution of salaries. Using panel data on individual faculty members, we find faculty unionization to be associated with a significant flattening of the wage distribution across academic disciplines. This has implications for why faculty might choose to unionize, even in the absence of an overall wage premium.

The New Focus Of Academic Organizing: Private Institutions Now Face Academic Collective Bargaining, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr.

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Academic labor unions will likely become a growing presence on the campuses of private colleges and universities in the years ahead due to three main factors. First, the NLRB has agreed to hear a case involving a petition by the United Auto Workers to represent graduate teaching assistants at The New School, and it is quite likely that the NLRB will reverse past precedent and find that graduate teaching and research assistants will have the right to unionize at private institutions. Second, the Board also issued a highly consequential decision in December of 2014 which will make it exceedingly difficult …

Daily Eastern News: Feburary 25, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 24, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 19, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 18, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 17, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 16, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 15, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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Daily Eastern News: Feburary 10, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

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