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Diversity And Technology: Classroom Implications Of The Digital Divide, Maya Kalyanpur Phd, Mubina H. Kirmani Ed.D.

School of Leadership and Education Sciences: Faculty Scholarship

This paper analyzes the intersection of technology and diversity in classrooms with reference to the implications of the inequity of access and usage for under-represented groups including low-income, minority students, students from culturally diverse backgrounds, students with disabilities, and female students. Strategies at national and individual levels to facilitate a process of digital inclusion for all children are identified.

Alcalá View 2005 22.01, University Of San Diego Publications Office

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

Committee Gives Employees Their Space; Staffer Honored for Always Putting Students First; A Big Tip for Restaurant Leader; Off the Clock; USD Partners Pass Along Savings; It's A Date! Walk to Your Heart's Content; Construction Corner; SEA Snippets; Women Peacemakers Program; Summer Camps & Conferences Needs Your Help; Milestones; Classifieds

Faculty Newsnotes 2005 No. 380, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.09, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Usd Magazine Fall 2005, University Of San Diego

University of San Diego Magazine (1992- )

Contents; Editorial License; Letters to the Editor; Around the Park; Torero Athletics; Alumni Update; Point of View; Finding Daniel; Five Degrees of Motivation; Put Me in; Coach! Class Notes; USD Reflection

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.08, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Everything I Know About Marriage I Learned From Law Professors, Brian H. Bix

San Diego Law Review

Lawyers and legal academics routinely offer their views on social and political issues. This article considers whether legal academics add any special expertise to the current marriage debates, or whether legal academics should defer to others better suited to answer the questions raised in the marriage debates. The marriage debates involve questions concerning the regulation and definition of marriage, the legal requirements for marriage, and the presence of children. Because of their familiarity with legal analysis, family law doctrine and practice, legal academics and lawyers offer answers and views not available in the rhetoric of the political and media debates …

Liberals And Libertines: The Marriage Question In The Liberal Political Imagination, Nomi Maya Stolzenberg

San Diego Law Review

Liberalism and marriage are not easily separated from anti-libertine and libertine ideas. This article frames the meaning of marriage question by comparing Tolstoy’s anti-libertine novella, The Kreutzer Sonata with Roth?s libertine novella, The Dying Animal. Both novellas impale marriage and liberalism to reveal the strains of ambivalence toward freedom of love, sex, and personal attachments. In Tolstoy’s novella, Pozdnyshev reviles marriage because it is nothing more than licensed prostitution. In Roth’s novella, Kepesh despises marriage because it dampens sex and subjects the individual to constraints. The author offers two readings of these novellas, one that emphasizes the boundaries between liberal, …

Traditionalism And Rationalism In The Courts, Gail Heriot

San Diego Law Review

Same-sex marriage might pose an unbridgeable issue between rationalist and traditionalist thinking. This article responds to Professor Wax by fitting the legislature and courts into Wax's rationalist/traditionalist paradigm. Like the traditionalist, the court must be cautious, conservative, and avoid egregious errors. The court must decide which party legal tradition already supports. In contrast, the legislature can be viewed as a conduit for rationalist ideas. Like the rationalist, the legislature can break with tradition and choose competing legal reforms that will improve society. Thus, the author concludes that the legislature, not the courts, should decide same-sex marriage issues because when courts …

Marriage, Pluralism, And Change: A Response To Professor Wax, Maimon Schwarzschild

San Diego Law Review

There is no formula for assessing social change and resolving the traditional, conservative opposition to same-sex marriage. To augment Professor Wax's argument, this article offers a solution to the current marriage debate. Under a value pluralism approach, a solution to same-sex marriage would entail enacting different state laws that reflect diverse values. Value pluralism suggests that there are competing and conflicting ideals in life, none of which can be reduced and answered consistently. However, value pluralism ushers in other uncertainties. This author concludes that a successful case for same-sex marriage will not arise through a formula, but rather through persuading …

Alcalá View 2005 21.10, University Of San Diego Publications Office

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

Cowboy Hats Off to USD for Hosting a Jumpin' Jamboree; Introductions Are In Order; Jamboree; Working Behind the Scenes; Thanks For Your Support; Dining Services Summer Hours; Ask H.R.; SEA Snippets; USD Partners Pass on Savings; Classifieds; Milestones

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.07, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Managing Susceptibility To Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer, Cynthia E. Perry Phd, Msn, Rn

Dissertations

The recent identification of Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) and BRCA2 genes offers an opportunity for high-risk individuals to learn whether they may be genetically predisposed to develop breast and/or ovarian cancer. The purpose of this study was to examine how unaffected women, identified as BRCA positive and variant of uncertain significance (VUS) mutation carriers, managed their susceptibility to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC). Thirty North American women ranging in age from 22 to 60 years responded to open-ended interviews. These interviews were analyzed using constant comparative method to generate a grounded theory. Managing Susceptibility was identified as the basic …

The Chief Prosecutor, Sai Prakash

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

Since Watergate, legal scholars have participated in a larger debate about the President’s constitutional relationship to prosecutions. In particular, many legal scholars sought to debunk the received wisdom that prosecution was an executive function subject to presidential control. Revisionist scholars cited early statutes and practices meant to demonstrate that early presidents lacked control over prosecution. Among other things, scholars asserted that early presidents could not control either the federal district attorneys or the popular prosecutors who brought qui tam suits to enforce federal law. In fact, many of the revisionist claims are wrong and others are beside the point. Despite …

The Paradox Of Omnipotence: Courts, Constitutions, And Commitments, David S. Law

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

Sovereigns, like individuals, must sometimes make commitments that limit their own freedom of action in order to accomplish their goals. Social scientists have observed that constitutional arrangements can, by restricting a sovereign's power, enable the sovereign to make such commitments. This paper advances several claims about the commitment problems that sovereigns face. First, constitutions do not necessarily solve such problems but can instead aggravate them, by entrenching inalienable governmental powers and immunities. Second, sovereigns and other actors face two distinct varieties of commitment problems - undercommitment and overcommitment - between which they must steer: an actor that can bind itself …

The Judge As A Fly On The Wall: Interpretive Lessons From The Positive Political Theory Of Legislation, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, Mathew Mccubbins

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

In the modern debate over statutory interpretation, scholars frequently talk past one another, arguing for one or another interpretive approach on the basis of competing, and frequently undertheorized, conceptions of legislative supremacy and political theory. For example, so-called new textualists insist that the plain meaning approach is compelled by the U.S. Constitution and rule of law values; by contrast, theorists counseling a more dynamic approach often reject the premise of legislative supremacy that is supposed by the textualist view. A key element missing, therefore, from the modern statutory interpretation debate is a conspicuous articulation of the positive and empirical premises …

Alcalá View 2005 21.09, University Of San Diego Publications Office

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

It Was Dirty Work, But They Were Glad to Do It Two USD Staffers Planted Gardens and Much More; Looking Ahead with Planned Giving; New Name for School of Education; It's A Date! Jammin' at the Jamboree; Construction Corner; Dining Services Summer Hours; Open House; Open Budget Meeting; The Alcalá View Wants You; SEA Snippets; Ask H.R.; Milestones; Classifieds

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.06, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

Essential Features Of Cultural Proficiency In American International Schools In Latin America: A Delphi Study, Rebecca Mcbride Bustamante Edd

Dissertations

American international schools in Latin America can play a vital role in preparing future leaders to effectively interact with people of diverse cultures. These schools provide ideal settings for exploring how policies, programs, and practices that reflect diverse perspectives and encourage intercultural learning might enhance global leadership development. Multidisciplinary reviews of the literature reveal a dearth of studies examining culture and leadership development in American international schools in Latin America. The model of cultural proficiency provides a comprehensive framework for exploring how these schools might proactively and effectively respond to diversity in a cross-cultural environment and develop globally competent leaders. …

High School Principals' Values And Their Symbolic And Cultural Leadership Approaches To Character Education In China, T.C. Kao Edd

Dissertations

Relatively little is known about the symbolic and cultural leadership practices and approaches used to imbed character education in high schools in China. In addition, there is a lack of published studies and reports investigating the revival between character and moral education in the Chinese school system. Without additional information, it is impossible to understand and develop effective leadership approaches that will shape and mold school cultures to effectively support both character and moral education. The literature reviewed in this study revealed little information about if, and in what form, there is a return to moral education focusing on traditional …

The Web Of Law, Thomas A. Smith

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

Scientists and mathematicians in recent years have become intensely interested in the structure of networks. Networks turn out to be crucial to understanding everything from physics and biology, to economics and sociology. This article proposes that the science of networks has important contributions to make to the study of law as well. Legal scholars have yet to study, or even recognize as such, one of the largest, most accessible, and best documented human-created networks in existence. This is the centuries-old network of case law and other legal authorities into which lawyers, judges, and legal scholars routinely delve in order to …

Social Choice, Crypto-Initiatives And Policy Making By Direct Democracy, Thad Kousser, M D. Mccubbins

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

The initiative process was created originally to enable citizens to enact public policy directly and in so doing to overturn the dominion of interest groups and of state and local party machines. In recent years, initiatives have been thought to serve as a check on legislative authority and to provide the people with a means to pressure the legislature into adopting more public regarding policies. Indeed, the general consensus emerging from the most recent academic research is that, at their worst, initiatives are benign, while at their best, they serve to further the interests of electoral majorities.

A few scholars, …

Procedural Justice, Lawrence B. Solum

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

"Procedural Justice" offers a theory of procedural fairness for civil dispute resolution. The core idea behind the theory is the procedural legitimacy thesis: participation rights are essential for the legitimacy of adjudicatory procedures. The theory yields two principles of procedural justice: the accuracy principle and the participation principle. The two principles require a system of procedure to aim at accuracy and to afford reasonable rights of participation qualified by a practicability constraint.

The Article begins in Part I, Introduction, with two observations. First, the function of procedure is to particularize general substantive norms so that they can guide action. Second, …

Descriptive Trademarks And The First Amendment, Lisa P. Ramsey

University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series

The protection of exclusive rights in descriptive trademarks is an unconstitutional restriction of speech under the First Amendment. Trademark laws that prohibit a competitor from using trademarked descriptive words to sell a product fail to satisfy the Central Hudson test for evaluating the constitutionality of commercial speech regulations. The use of a descriptive term to accurately describe a product is not misleading expression regardless of whether another business claims trademark rights in that term. Although the government has a substantial interest in protecting the ability of consumers to identify and distinguish among the products of a business and its competitors, …

Faculty Newsnotes 2005 No. 379, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

Vista: May 5, 2005, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

No abstract provided.

Alcalá View 2005 21.08, University Of San Diego Publications Office

Alcalá View (1985-2006)

There's Something Fishy Going On at USD; It's A Date! Say Goodbye to the Class of 2005; Taking Action to Reach USD's Long-Term Goals; Are You a Little Bit Country?; Brush with Fame; Expanded Services at Health Center; Bike to Work Day; SEA Snippets; Construction Corner; Dining Services Hours; Service Awards; Community Event; Faculty and Curriculum Development; Specialty Bar; Outdoor Adventures; Doughnut Mania at Manchester; Milestones; Classifieds

University Of San Diego News Print Media Coverage 2005.05, University Of San Diego Office Of Public Relations

Print Media Coverage (1947-2009)

Printed clippings housed in folders with a table of contents arranged by topic.

The Role Of The Chief Instructional Officer Within The California Community Colleges, Patrick M. Schwerdtfeger Edd

Dissertations

California community colleges enroll one out of ten public college students in the United States. The Chief Instructional Officer (CIO) serves as leader within each college. Research examining CIOs in California is limited. This study investigates work performed by CIOs and the organizational factors which support or impede that work. Four questions guided this study. What is the role of the CIO—what do they do? What are the organizational factors which support or impede CIO effectiveness? How do the CIOs influence the enhancement of learning and instruction? What changes would CIOs suggest to become more effective leaders? This study relied …

To Be Or Not To Be: Status Of Guam's Middle Schools, Judith T. Won Pat Edd

Dissertations

In an effort to help middle school programs respond to the unique developmental needs of their students, in 1995 the National Middle School Association issued their influential list of twelve essential characteristics for a developmentally sound middle school. Although this paper spawned a significant amount of research regarding the importance of these essential characteristics, there has been little, if any, research in the last decade describing the extent to which these characteristics have been implemented in middle schools outside of the continental United States. To remedy this situation, this study surveyed all 471 middle school teachers on Guam as well …