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Scholarly Achievement, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton sociologist Jamie Longazel's recent book on the politics of immigration laws interviews The New York Times , BBC News, CNN Money, Univision and, most recently, a front-page story in The Washington Post, among other national international media outlets.

Faculty In The News: January 10, 2017, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The role religion plays in today's society was recently discussed by faculty Sandra Yocum and Joshua Ambrosius. Read these and other highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

Rhetorics, Rights, (R)Evolutions, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The 11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference in October at the University of Dayton will explore the teaching, practice and activism of persuasive speech, as well as written and visual texts, amid the ongoing upheaval of American civic discourses and political debates.

Nowreadseehere This: Unwritten, Gita Balakrishnan

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

A podcast produced by several alumni and directed by UD professor Chris Burnside ’09

This Gift Is Personal: Bombecks Donate $20,000; Campaign Tops $60,000, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Some of the biggest enthusiasts of the University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop have a heartfelt reason for supporting the workshop's endowment fund. To the Bombeck family, Erma's legacy is personal.

Welcome To Ilead: An Introduction To Intercultural Communication For Intensive English Program Students, Sharon Tjaden-Glass

Center for International Programs Publications and Presentations

Presentation introduces participants to the rationale, curriculum, and outcomes of the iLEAD intercultural communication program.

Honorslink, Issue 2017.1, University Of Dayton. Honors Program

HonorsLINK Newsletter

News and notes from the University of Dayton Honors Program. Articles include Introducing John McCombe, Changing Perspectives and Class Notes.

Lesson 1: Lesson Plan, Margie Pinnell, Shannon Driskell, Mary-Kate Sableski

Lesson 01: If I Built a House

Students design a home along the coast of Florida that can withstand the extreme weather that occurs.

A Handbook And Materials For Ilead: An Intercultural Communication Program Between Intensive English Program And Teacher Education Students, Sharon Tjaden-Glass

Center for International Programs Publications and Presentations

iLEAD is an intercultural communication program for university students that focuses on developing intercultural competence through guided conversations and shared activities. iLEAD stands for “International Language Exchange and Dialogue.” It was developed through a partnership between the Intensive English Program and the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Dayton.

The educational context: There is a stark difference in how domestic and international students experience the university. The majority of university students fit into the description of traditional, residential students. However, many international students do not fit the traditional, residential student demographic. Many of our international students who come …

2017 Bibliography, Sebastien B. Abalodo

Marian Bibliographies

No abstract provided.

A Sociolinguistic Profile Of English In Lebanon, Fatima Esseili

English Faculty Publications

This article provides an overview of the historical presence of foreign languages in Lebanon, focusing on language contact from the eighteenth century to date. Through sociolinguistic profiling, the paper describes the users and uses of English, as well as Lebanese attitudes towards English. The article begins by offering a general overview of the country, its languages and cultures, and its ethnic and religious groups. It presents a description of users of English along with a characterization of how the interpersonal, instrumental, regulative, and innovative functions of the language are manifested, while the final section of the article discusses attitudes to …

Learning While Teaching: Disability And Religion In The Classroom, Meghan Henning, Kirk Vangilder

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This article serves as an introduction to themes explored in the special issue of the Journal of Disability and Religion on disability and religion in the classroom. Dr. Kirk VanGilder (Gallaudet University) and Dr. Meghan Henning (University of Dayton) share their reflections from two academic workshops focusing on pedagogical strategies for teaching at the intersection of disability studies, religion, and theology. Rather than limiting the concept of classrooms only to higher education environments, the authors explore the variety of sites where teaching and learning about disability and religion occur. Challenges, resources, and future directions are mapped out for transdisciplinary teaching …

I Am A Brook, Mike Nartker S.M.

Musical Compositions about the Marianist Charism

Chaminade is persistent like a brook; it never gives up

The Botany Of Empire In The Long Eighteenth Century, Yota Batsaki, Sarah Burke Cahalan, Anatole Tchikine

Marian Library Faculty Publications

This book brings together an international body of scholars working on eighteenth-century botany within the context of imperial expansion. The eighteenth century saw widespread exploration, a tremendous increase in the traffic in botanical specimens, taxonomic breakthroughs, and horticultural experimentation. The contributors to this volume compare the impact of new developments and discoveries across several regions, broadening the geographical scope of their inquiries to encompass imperial powers that did not have overseas colonial possessions—such as the Russian, Ottoman, and Qing empires and the Tokugawa shogunate—as well as politically borderline regions such as South Africa, Yemen, and New Zealand.

The essays in …

Learning Transfer: The Missing Link To Learning Among School Leaders In Burkina Faso And Ghana, Corinne Brion, Paula A. Cordeiro

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

Every year, billions of dollars are spent on development aid and training around the world. However, only 10% of this training results in the transfer of knowledge, skills, or behaviors learned in the training to the work place. Ideally, learning transfer produces effective and continued application by learners of the knowledge and skills they gained through their learning activities. Currently, there is a limited body of research examining the factors that hinder and promote learning transfer in professional development, particularly the professional development of school leaders in developing countries. This qualitative exploratory study sought to address the gap in the …

Positive Solutions Of Boundary Value Problems For Ordinary Differential Equations With Dependence On Higher Order Derivatives, Ahlam Abid, Paul Eloe

Mathematics Faculty Publications

In this paper, the compression contraction fixed point theorem is applied to a right focal boundary value problem for a second order ordinary differential equation to provide sufficient conditions for existence of solutions in a cone. The nonlinear term is a function of three variables and singularities are allowed. A cone is defined in the Banach space C1[0, 1] and concavity of derivatives of solutions plays a key role. A family of examples is provided in which explicit sufficient conditions are exhibited.

Does Self-Enhancement Facilitate Task Performance?, Erin M. O'Mara, Lowell Gaertner

Psychology Faculty Publications

Self-enhancement is a pervasive motivation that manifests broadly to promote and protect the positivity of the self. Research suggests that self-enhancement is associated with improved task performance. Untested, however, is whether that association is causal. The present research experimentally manipulated self-enhancement to examine its causal effect on task performance. Participants in 5 experiments were randomly assigned to self-enhance or not before completing a creativity task (Experiments 1–4) or pain-inducing cold-pressor task (Experiment 5). Results indicate that self-enhancing (but not self-effacing) on a dimension relevant (but not irrelevant) to the task facilitated performance. Furthermore, the data were consistent with the possibility …

Jews In Medieval England: Teaching Representations Of The Other, Miriamne Ara Krummel, Tison Pugh

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

This volume examines the teaching of Jewishness within the context of medieval England. It covers a wide array of academic disciplines and addresses a multitude of primary sources, including medieval English manuscripts, law codes, philosophy, art, and literature, in explicating how the Jew-as-Other was formed. Chapters are devoted to the teaching of the complexities of medieval Jewish experiences in the modern classroom. Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other also grounds medieval conceptions of the Other within the contemporary world where we continue to confront the problematic attitudes directed toward alleged social outcasts.

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Spring 2017

Metaphorical, Punitive, And Pedagogical Blindness In Hell, Meghan Henning

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

What is the role of the blind body in hell? Does it gesture to broader cultural conceptions of physical impairment? Can the blind be healed in places of eternal punishment? Does this ‘healing’ function similarly to the understandings of blindness available in contemporaneous medical texts? This article will examine the depictions of the blind in the extra-canonical apocalypses that describe hell. We will begin with a discussion of the apocalyptic tours of hell that describe blindness, paying special attention to the different roles (metaphorical, punitive, and pedagogical) that blindness plays in each text. We will also consider the impact that …

Remedies For Regulatory Takings (Constructive Expropriations), Deprivations, Expropriations Or Custodianship In South Africa And The U.S., Christopher J. Roederer

School of Law Faculty Publications

Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the Court in Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon (1922), started the regulatory takings tradition in the U.S. with his famous line that “if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking” deserving of just compensation. As this paper will show, how far is too far depends on where you are. Under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, regulations do not need to go as far as they once did, and under the law in states like Oregon and Florida, regulations do not need to go very far at all before one …

In The News: Dec. 27, 2016, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

A Carol A Day, Johann Roten S.M.

Marian Library Blog Archive

December 24: He the source, the ending He

Boosting Student Retention Rates, Alex Burchfield

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton has seen a nearly 8 percent increase in student retention rates after launching a course to provide undeclared first-year students with skills and resources for academic success.

A Carol A Day, Johann Roten S.M.

Marian Library Blog Archive

December 15: Follow the star

The Road Trip Dialogues (Excerpt), Jass Richards

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

An excerpt from the author's book.

The Faithful Flyer, 12-11-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.

The Greatest Gift, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

If truth be told, as I drove from a downtown meeting to campus, I felt as if were 10 years old again and heading down the stairs to see what was under the Christmas tree. I had tremendous anticipation for what this evening would bring.

In The News: Dec. 7, 2016, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

The Faithful Flyer, 12-04-2016, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

No abstract provided.