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Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 3, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

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CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON LIBERAL LEARNING
We THINK We Can, We THINK We Can… -- Sam Schuman
Liberal Education: “Learning to Learn” -- Dale Knobel
That Fine Little House -- Rosalie Otero
Creating a Common Voice for Liberal Arts Education -- Charles F. Blaich and Mauri A. Ditzler
The “Little House” That Can -- John Nichols
Presidents’ Call: Campaign for the Advancement of Liberal Learning -- Carol Schneider

LIBERAL LEARNING AT ITS BEST
Understanding Caesar’s Gallic Ethnography: A Contextual Approach to Protohistory -- Erin Osborne-Martin (Portz Award Winner)

PEDAGOGIES OF …

Editorial Matter For Volume 4, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication (Bernice Braid)
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, And The Authority Of Knowledge By Kenneth Bruffee: A Critical Study, James Kelly

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In his very readable book on collaborative learning, Bruffee tells us, “[f]or a decade or more, reports on the state of American higher education have complained that many undergraduates tend to be authority-dependent, passive, irresponsible, overly competitive, and suspicious of their peers” (8). Bruffee’s hope is to help overcome these ills by arguing that “knowledge is a socially constructed, sociolinguistic entity and that learning is inherently an interdependent, sociolinguistic process” (8). While I tend to agree with this characterization of the state of higher education, I shall argue that Bruffee’s postmodern turn, according to which knowledge is a social construct, …

Great Plains Research Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2002 - Frontmatter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Frontmatter

Latino Families In The Perinatal Period: Cultural Issues In Dealing With The Health-Care System, J. Martin Maldonado-Duran, Maria Manguia-Wellman, Sari Lubin, Teresa Lartigue

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Migration of young Latinos and Latinas has increased in many towns in the Midwest. These young people will experience the perinatal period in a new cultural environment. We focus on the interface between families of Latino origin and the Midwest health-care system, particularly in the care of the pregnant woman or couple and in the care of the infant. Issues of culture are central in the perinatal period, and often the staff in health-care centers is not aware of the importance of several traditional and "folk" health-care beliefs in this period. These beliefs impact the care of the pregnant woman, …

Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 2 - Judicial Candidate Speech After Republican Party Of Minnesota V. White, Jan Witold Baran

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The people want to elect judges. Notwithstanding a typical Washington lawyer’s view of the judiciary enshrined in Article III of the Constitution, the citizens of 39 states insist that judges should be subject to electoral accountability and not be given lifetime appointments by the government elites. For that reason, 53% of state appellate judges must run in contested elections for an initial term on the bench (out of 1,243 judges). Likewise, 66% of state trial court judges (8,489) must first run in contested elections. Eight-seven percent of all state appellate and trial judges face some type of election for subsequent …

Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 1 - Editor's Note

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Most state court judges in the United States stand for election, whether it be one in which an opposing candidate can run or one in which an appointed judge stands for retention. Accordingly, questions concerning what judicial candidates can say during an election campaign are of great significance. At the end of its past term, the United States Supreme Court issued its first decision regarding the tension between the First Amendment and restrictions that have been placed by states on the speech of judicial candidates.

Court Review: Volume 39, Issue 1 - Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Extended Visions March-April 2002

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

No abstract provided.

Course On Engineering Entrepreneurship, Paul Savory

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Instructional Materials

This is the syllabus and course note packet for students in my Engineering Entrepreneurship course. This special-topic class focuses on starting and managing a successful business. Topics will include: marketing, finance, human resources, operations, legal issues, initial public offering, and succession and estate planning. Due to the engineering background of the students, special emphasis will be on exploring the legal issues involved in the process of applying for a patent. The course will enable a student to evaluate his or her own desires and prospects for a career as an entrepreneur. In so doing, it will provide the aspiring entrepreneur …

Alcohol Expectancies And Drinking Behavior In Adults With Social Anxiety Disorder And Dysthymia, Lindsay S. Ham, Debra A. Hope, Cameron S. White, P. Clayton Rivers

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Previous research has found a positive relationship between social anxiety disorder and alcoholism, and that certain alcohol outcome expectancies are related to drinking behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among drinking behaviors and alcohol expectancies in treatment-seeking individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder or dysthymia, as well as normal controls. No significant differences were found across the 3 groups in alcohol consumption. As expected, socially anxious participants had higher social assertiveness expectancies than both participants with dysthymia and normal controls. Participants with social anxiety disorder had greater tension reduction and global positive change expectancies than …

Case-Control Study Of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Maternal Smoking, Alcohol Use, And Drug Use During Pregnancy, Eric Mick, Joseph Biederman, Stephen V. Faraone, Julie Sayer, Seth Kleinman

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Objective: To address the putative association between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking, drugs of abuse, and alcohol attending to potential confounding by familial ADHD, maternal depression, conduct disorder, and indicators of social adversity in the environment.

Method: A retrospective, hospital-based, case-control study was conducted with 280 ADHD cases and 242 non-ADHD controls of both genders. The case and control children and their relatives were systematically assessed with structured diagnostic interviews. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the adjusted effect of prenatal exposure to substance use and ADHD.

Results: ADHD cases …

A Grounded Theory Study Of The Values And Beliefs That Shape The Teaching Strategies Of Middle Level Music Educators, Jeannette R. Young

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This grounded theory was generated from interviews with eighteen middle level music educators with the goal of uncovering the values and beliefs that support those teaching strategies which foster student growth and learning in music education. The eighteen middle level music educators were chosen by purposeful sampling using peer recommendation. The informants were teachers in the states of Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin. Their teaching experiences at the middle level included work with student populations in public schools, private schools and Native American reservation schools. Both vocal and instrumental music educators were interviewed. These …

Mexican-Descent Latinas’ Compliance With Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines, Evelinn A. Borrayo, Awilda Reyes

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

High mortality from invasive cervical cancer among Mexican-descent Latinas living in the Great Plains could be substantially reduced if they would utilize screening procedures regularly. To understand possible influential factors on their screening behaviors, we investigated which variables differentiate women age 50 and older who are most compliant with cervical cancer screening guidelines from those who are less compliant. Of 184 women surveyed, 100 were compliant with a yearly Pap smear while 84 were not compliant. Discriminant function analysis revealed that, apart from the significance of sociodemographic factors and acculturation, women who were most compliant significantly received more health-care provider …

Culture And Ecology Of Latinos On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gustavo Carlo, Miguel A. Carranza, Byron Zamboanga

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The topic of culture is relevant when focusing on Latinos on the Great Plains. It is evident that Latinos, both as individuals and as group members, exhibit various dimensions of culture in their day-to-day lives. What becomes problematic is how culture is defined and/or operationalized in assessing the Latino experience.

Several definitions of culture serve to demonstrate that culture is one of the most difficult terms to describe. One of the earliest definitions comes from E. B. Tylor who perceived culture as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired …

The Economics Of Carcass Weight:, Dillon M. Feuz

Cornhusker Economics

Economists like to use production agriculture as an example of a perfectly competitive industry. The assumption is made that the decisions of an individual firm will not impact the general market price level. However, if a large number of individual firms all have similar cost structures and all make the same economically justified decision to alter production, then collectively this decision will impact the market price level. The result is that the individually correct production decision that was made to increase profits is collectively the incorrect decision, and profits are decreased rather than increased. This is the micro-macro paradox in …

Generalizing The Dynamic Field Theory Of The A-Not-B Error Beyond Infancy: Three-Year-Olds’ Delay- And Experience-Dependent Location Memory Biases, Anne R. Schutte, John P. Spencer

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Thelen and colleagues recently proposed a dynamic field theory (DFT) to capture the general processes that give rise to infants’ performance in the Piagetian A-not-B task. According to this theory, the same general processes should operate in noncanonical A-not-B-type tasks with children older than 12 months. Three predictions of the DFT were tested by examining 3-year-olds’ location memory errors in a task with a homogeneous task space. Children pointed to remembered locations after delays of 0 s to 10 s. The spatial layout of the possible targets and the frequency with which children moved to each target was varied. As …

The Effects Of Defendant Remorse On Mock Juror Decisions In A Malpractice Case, Brian H. Bornstein, Lahna M. Rung M.A., Monica K. Miller

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of defendant remorse on monetary damages awarded to a plaintiff in a malpractice case. In two experiments, the physician-defendant expressed remorse at the time of the incident and again at trial, expressed remorse at trial, explicitly demonstrated a lack of remorse at trial, or made no mention of remorse (or a lack thereof). Participants decided how much money to award to the plaintiff and evaluated both the plaintiff and the defendant on several dimensions. Participants awarded greater compensation when the physician expressed remorse at the time of the incident than …

Documentary Editing, Volume 24, Number 1, March 2002.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

2002 © the Association for Documentary Editing. Used by permission.

Three Approaches From Europe: Waldorf, Montessori, And Reggio Emilia, Carolyn P. Edwards

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Waldorf, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia are three progressive approaches to early childhood education that appear to be growing in influence in North America and to have many points in common. This article provides a brief comparative introduction and highlights several key areas of similarity and contrast. All three approaches represent an explicit idealism and turn away from war and violence toward peace and reconstruction. They are built on coherent visions of how to improve human society by helping children realize their full potential as intelligent, creative, whole persons. In each approach, children are viewed as active authors of their own …

Night Moves: A Qualitative Investigation Of Street-Level Sex Work, Rochelle L. Dalla

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

The subculture of street-level sex work including the social environment, drug use and abuse, and violence was examined. Personal interviews were conducted with 43 women involved in streetwalking prostitution. Data were analyzed using Phenomenological Descriptive Analysis (Colaizzi, 1978). Several participants reported developing emotional relationships and having children with clients, former clients, or pimps; some participants were married to men who pimped them. Supportive relationships with other streetwalkers were largely nonexistent; streetwalking constitutes a solitary business for most. The majority reported drug addiction, although less than half entered prostitution to support an already established drug habit. Financial need propelled many into …

Supporting The Development And External Review Of Course Portfolios, Paul Savory, Dan Bernstein, John Comer, Jennifer Robinson

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

This presentation introduces the Peer Review of Teaching project for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The faculty fellowship program is described and the process by which faculty create course portfolios is explained. How portfolios are used for formative and summative assessment are discussed.

The Civil War On The Internet, John Y. Simon

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

You are about to read a paper on Civil War resources available on the World Wide Web by someone forced to acquire a computer by his dean over his strenuous objections. I now concede that she was right, but I still require assistance with computer problems, sometimes calling out in distress to the young woman in the adjoining office who grew up with and loves computers. What she can't fix requires a call to technical support people in the basement, one of them named Gonzo, and another named Trouble. This paper would be different if Gonzo or Trouble had written …

Birds In Pest Management, M L. Avery

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

As human activity encroaches on wildlife habitats and natural food sources become increasingly scarce, it is no wonder that birds turn to habitats such as crop fields and aquaculture ponds. Where else can large flocks of birds find sufficient, nutritious, readily available food? Agricultural crops create ideal foraging sites for gregarious bird species, and virtually everything that humans grow or raise for food is subject to some level of bird damage. For most farmers, bird damage is a fact of life, but not a major concern. The unlucky few producers for whom depredations are severe, however, do incur substantial financial …

The Development Of A Measure Of Prosocial Behaviors For Late Adolescents, Gustavo Carlo, Brandy A. Randall

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The correlates and structure of prosocial behaviors in late adolescents were examined using a newly constructed, multidimensional measure. In Study 1, 249 college students (145 women; M age = 19.9 years) were administered the Prosocial Tendencies Measure (PTM) which assesses 6 types of prosocial behaviors: altruistic, compliant, emotional, dire, public, and anonymous. Measures of sympathy, perspective taking, personal distress, social desirability, global prosocial behaviors, social responsibility, ascription of responsibility, vocabulary skills, and prosocial moral reasoning were also completed. Test-retest reliability and further validity of the PTM were demonstrated in Study 2 with a sample of 40 college students (28 women; …

Pretrial Publicity And Civil Cases: A Two-Way Street?, Brian H. Bornstein, Brooke L. Whisenhunt, Robert J. Nemeth, Deborah L. Dunaway

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Published pretrial publicity (PTP) research has been conducted almost exclusively with criminal cases and has focused on PTP that is detrimental to the defense. The current research examined the effects of PTP in a civil case to determine if PTP can have a biasing effect against either the defendant or the plaintiff in civil litigation. In Experiment 1, participants exposed to PTP biased against the defendant were more likely to reach a liable verdict than participants who read a control article or PTP biased against the plaintiff. Experiment 2 demonstrated that a judicial admonition did not reduce the biasing effect …

Improvement In Quantity And Quality Of Prevention Measurement Of Toddler Injuries And Parental Interventions, Lizette Peterson, David Dilillo, Terri Lewis, Kenneth Sher

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Injury is the leading killer of children in the United States, yet little research has focused on this vital subject. One of the distinct barriers to injury prevention is the absence of effective assessment devices. Epidemiological aspects of injury have been assessed, but these provide little information at a level sufficient to allow conclusions about potential behavioral prevention methods. This paper describes an alternative, the Participant Event Monitoring (PEM) system. In this paper, the PEM system is used to examine a sample of 170 toddlers (ages 18 to 36 months), over a 6-month period, resulting in data on over 4,200 …

Department Chair Faculty Development Activities And Leadership Practices: University Libraries Faculty Perceptions, Dana Wayne Rippy Boden

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This survey study determined university library faculty perceptions of their department chair’s leadership practices and role in faculty development. Literature on library department chairs has traditionally focused on supervisory and/or management issues. The main focus of the library leadership literature has been deans or directors. Roles of chairs of postsecondary teaching departments have been researched for many years. Academic library faculty differ from teaching department faculty in that: nearly two thirds are female; they enter the profession at an older average age; are employed on a twelve month basis, while being required to meet criteria for a successful bid for …

Visual Predators Select For Crypticity And Polymorphism In Virtual Prey, Alan B. Bond, Alan Kamil

Papers in Behavior in Biological Sciences

Cryptically colored animals commonly occur in several distinct pattern variants. Such phenotypic diversity may be promoted by frequency-dependent predation, in which more abundant variants are attacked disproportionately often, but the hypothesis has never been explicitly tested. Here we report the first controlled experiment on the effects of visual predators on prey crypticity and phenotypic variance, in which blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) searched for digital moths on computer monitors. Moth phenotypes evolved via a genetic algorithm in which individuals detected by the jays were much less likely to reproduce. Jays often failed to detect atypical cryptic moths, confirming frequency- …

The Sequential Development Of Jaw And Lip Control For Speech, Jordan R. Green, Christopher A. Moore, Kevin J. Reilly

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Vertical displacements of the upper lip, lower lip, and jaw during speech were recorded for groups of 1-, 2-, and 6-year-olds and adults to examine if control over these articulators develops sequentially. All movement traces were amplitude- and time-normalized. The developmental course of upper lip, lower lip, and jaw control was examined by quantifying age-related changes in the similarity of each articulator’s movement patterns to those produced by adult subjects and by same-age peers. In addition, differences in token-to-token stability of articulatory movement were assessed among the different age groups. The experimental findings revealed that 1- and 2-year-old children’s jaw …