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The Sanctuary In Polish Hill, Annabelle M. Harsch

Honors Theses

The Sanctuary in Polish Hill, a short story cycle set in the late 1900s to 2008, surrounds a women’s shelter in Polish Hill, Pittsburgh, PA. Ruta Laksa, a second-generation Polish immigrant, moves to the neighborhood named for the influx of Polish immigrants in the late 1800s. Through vignettes of her life, Ruta finds solace in food and community as she struggles with her mental illness. Scattered throughout her own story are vignettes of other women struggling with their own mental illness and those who seek solace and safety. These women build community with each other through food, conversation, and relationship, …

Using A Culturally Proficient Leadership Lens To Effectively Serve Refugee Students, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

This teaching case study takes place in an American middle school and tells the story of Dorah, a refugee student from the Republic of Congo who experienced severe trauma. At Lincoln Middle School, the principal and her teachers encounter difficulties serving their refugee students adequately because of their lack of cultural proficiency. This case aims to help leaders in diverse contexts understand how to embrace and advocate for different cultures, beliefs, and norms to increase the cultural wealth of their communities. To achieve this goal, I provide a cultural proficiency model and a trauma-invested framework.

Mary In The News: April 27, 2021, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

Promoting Equity: Differences In Financial Resources Allocation Between Urban Early College High Schools And Traditional Public High Schools, Steven Hinshaw

Thomas C. Hunt Building a Research Community Day

This exploratory study was designed to analyze the distribution of financial resources to predict student achievement in early college high schools and traditional public high schools. The premise was to discover if there were differences in the predictor variables for allocation. If so, then the allocation could be changed in traditional public high schools to address the needs of those students unable to attend early college high schools thus creating more equity for those underserved students.

This study included 12 of Ohio’s first early college high schools and the 36 traditional public high schools in the public districts where the …

Minutes, April 2021, University Of Dayton. College Of Arts And Sciences

Documents of the College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Minutes from College of Arts and Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Erma, In Her Own Words, Teri Rizvi

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Erma Bombeck chats about traveling, writing, her college days and taking risks in a 1991 interview with Teri Rizvi, founder of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.

Renewals On Repeat: 'But At The Laste, As Every Thing Hath Ende ...', Chris Tangeman

University Libraries Blog Archive

As the pandemic nears its end, so do its few and precious rewards, including OhioLINK's suggested extension of all book renewals.

Home Economics And The African American Experience, Emily Cordonnier

University Libraries Student Projects

What was the experience of Black women in home economics programs during the early 20th century like?

One Day Of Giving For All Flyers, Kathleen M. Webb

University Libraries Blog Archive

The University of Dayton Libraries support students, faculty and staff from all majors, departments and units. A gift of any size to the Libraries impacts the learning experience at University of Dayton, supports student success and strengthens faculty research.

Mary In The News: April 7, 2021, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

University Of Dayton Faculty Develop Courses, Digital Archive To Preserve Paul Laurence Dunbar’S Legacy With $150k Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A University of Dayton initiative to develop interdisciplinary courses and create a digital archive to help preserve the legacy of Dayton native Paul Laurence Dunbar launched its first faculty cohort, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Announcing The 2021 Library Award Winners, University Of Dayton. University Libraries

University Libraries Blog Archive

Congratulations to the 2021 Library Awards recipients: Jinyoung Lim, Mary Morber and Marie Pece.

Orpheus, Spring 2021: Propagation, University Of Dayton

Orpheus: UD's Literary and Artistic Magazine

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Mary In The News: April 1, 2021, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

Out Of Many Faiths, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

Masha Kisel is drawn to the colorful mosaic of Mary in the courtyard outside St. Mary's Hall. "I think of her as a fellow Jewish mother. Even before I was on the faculty, I’d come to that spot to sit and pray," she said.

College Faculty In The News: March 25, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences. Find links to a number of recent stories below.\

Mary In The News: March 24, 2021, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

Proceedings Of The 2021 Global Voices Symposium: Critical Examination Of Our Times — The State Of Race On The University Of Dayton Campus, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Full proceedings document includes a summary of each session of the symposium held March 1-4, 2021. Most sections were composed from the discussion held over Zoom. They are not transcripts. Passages were edited for clarity and length.

These proceedings are available free for download but also available for purchase in print for $6 plus tax and shipping.

Ud In The News March 13-19, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Biofuels Digest, Renewable Energy Magazine, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! News, The Conversation, CNN and The Hill are among the national outlets sharing University of Dayton faculty expertise.

University Of Dayton Music Education Graduates Continue Teaching Careers In International Schools Amid Global Pandemic, Sharon Davis Gratto

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Despite international travel restrictions because of the COVID-19 pandemic, two University of Dayton music education graduates have found new international school teaching positions abroad.

A Tribe Of Loud, Smart, Funny Women, Bonnie Jean Feldkamp

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

The writings of a tribe of loud, smart, funny women are included in a new book published during Women's History Month.

Keynote Address: Why Black Catholic History Matters, Shannen Dee Williams

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

To tell the stories of the nation’s Black Catholic sisters—accurately and honestly—I had to tackle four core myths about the U.S. Catholic experience that have been popularized and wielded to obscure the leading roles that European and white American Catholics played in the social, political, and cultural propagation of white supremacy in the church and wider society. This keynote identifies these four myths and counters them with the facts of Black Catholic history. My address builds on the intellectual and educational traditions of the nation’s Black Catholic sisterhoods, which were the first Catholic congregations to teach and institutionalize Black and …

Setting The Context, Julius A. Amin, Merida Allen, V. Denise James, Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, Thomas Morgan, Joel Pruce

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

Panelists were members of the planning committee of this symposium and began meeting in September 2020.

These proceedings are available free for download but also available for purchase in print for $6 plus tax and shipping.

Faculty And Staff Perspectives, Thomas Morgan, V. Denise James, Jalen Turner, Andrew Evwaraye, Donna M. Cox, Herbert Woodward Martin, Kathleen Henderson

Proceedings: 2021 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

University of Dayton is an employer across all sorts of levels. We are citizens of the University in lots of ways, and what we contribute as faculty and staff creates the place. We have longevity that students do not have. We hope that this will develop into a deeper dive into the University of Dayton's past and thinking about the lives of Black faculty and staff. This isn’t the culmination of a project but rather a beginning of thinking about learning from and remembering that past because if we don’t cultivate these things, we lose them. This is what we’re …

Cameroon's Biya Is Africa's Oldest President: Assessing His 38 Years In Power, Julius A. Amin

History Faculty Publications

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya celebrated his 88th birthday recently, making him the oldest president in Africa. He has been in power for 38 years. Birthday celebrations held across the country were met with protest by the opposition, demanding that he step down. So, how has he acquitted himself in office, and what has been his legacy for Cameroon?

Mary In The News: March 8, 2021, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

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

Doc 2021-04 Converting Criminal Justice Studies Program To Department Of Criminal Justice And Security Studies, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority

Is This Heaven?, Curt Macdougall

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

So here I am watching another Kevin Costner "baseball" movie. Hard to tell which one...maybe Field of Dreams or Bull Durham, or that one where he's an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Actually, I think there were two movies where he played that part. Whatever.

Creche Herald Vol. 25, No. 1, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Spring 2021 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Archiving Catholic Faith On The Web During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler

Marian Library Faculty Publications

In the middle of March 2020, an undergraduate English class from the University of Dayton visited the Marian Library for hands-on learning with primary source materials related to miraculous cures at the Lourdes shrine in France. Students in the upper-level seminar course that focused on narrative, rhetoric, and medicine prepared for the visit by reading an article about the baths at Lourdes, where thousands of pilgrims have traveled annually since the 1870s for a chance to be cured by the holy water from a spring.1 As students examined photographs, copies of case files, and historical narrative accounts, several of them …