Digital Commons Network^™

A Home Of Her Own: (Writing) A Family Story Of Separation And Second Chances, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

On March 16, 1996, I interviewed my mother, Beth Tillmann, about her parents' divorce and her life as a foster child. From detailed notes taken during our phone conversation and from family stories told to me throughout my life, I constructed a narrative titled "A Home of Her Own." Its structure and tone mimic the way my mother speaks about the dissolution of her family of origin and her attachments to and separations from those who tried to help her rebuild a sense of home. After the story, I discuss what narrative representations of loss offer the writer, the participant, …

The Dawn Drawings Of Anna Zemankova, Jo Farb Hernandez

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

"The Rhythm Of Three Strands": Cultural Braiding In Dorris's A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, David Cowart

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Theory, Science, And 'Micro-Macro' Bridges In Structural Social Psychology, Barry N. Markovsky

Faculty Publications

Social psychology stands to benefit from multilevel theories that link it to both lower and higher levels of analysis. Making the link, however, requires a level of theoretical rigor heretofore relatively uncommon in the social sciences. After refuting several common objections to this brand of theorizing, I offer a rationale and a set of criteria for multilevel theory construction.

Faculty And Career Development, Thomas Berg

Faculty Publications

Within the past decade, strong calls have been made for attention to the professional and career development of faculty in higher education. As highlighted in the report by Bowen and Schuster (1986), these concerns have ranged from the recruitment and preparation of prospective faculty to the revitalization of faculty in mid- and late-career stages. One of the primary assumptions underlying studies of faculty professional and career development is that faculty are the most essential resource (or asset) institutions of higher education possess (Layzell, Lovell, and Gill, 1994). However, not all faculty or their institutions have the same faculty development needs. …

Fostering A Culture Of Teaching, Linda Walsh

Faculty Publications

Teaching always occurs in some cultural context, which may be more or less supportive of teaching. Arrowsmith (1967, p. 58) observed:

"What matters then is the kind of context that we create for teaching and the largeness of the demands made upon the teacher ... At present the universities are as uncongenial to teaching as the Mojave Desert to a clutch of Druid priests. If you want to restore a Druid priesthood, you cannot do it by offering prizes for Druid-of- the-year. If you want Druids, you must grow forests. There is no other way of setting about it."

We …

Distance Education, Linda Walsh

Faculty Publications

Verduin and Clark (1991, p. 8) define distance education as "any formal approach to learning in which a majority of the instruction occurs while educator and learner are at a distance from one another." In all varieties of distance education programs, some form(s) of technology must be used for linking students with instruction. The kind and sophistication of technology used by distance education institutions varies greatly. Arranged by increasing levels of complexity, cost, and potential effectiveness (which depends on factors such as learner characteristics, learning objectives, and instructional design features), the primary means used to deliver distance education include the …

Social Construction And White Attitudes Toward Equal Opportunity And Multiculturalism, Michael W. Link, Robert W. Oldendick

Faculty Publications

As the United States moves from being a predominantly biracial to a multiracial society, racial attitudes continue to become more diverse and more complex. Scholars need to address these changes not only in terms of black and white Americans, but also how these changes involve and affect other racial groups, particularly Asian and Hispanic Americans. This inquiry looks at some of these complexities by examining how social construction differentials in the minds of white Americans affect their attitudes toward the issues of equal opportunity and multiculturalism. The analysis shows that differences in the cognitive images whites hold of minority groups …

The Interactive Effects Of Disability, Race, And Gender On Job Placement Decisions, Dianna Stone, Erik Eddy, Megumi Hosoda, Scott Behson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Instructional Support And Demands: Helping Teachers Help Students Meet Increasing Academic Standards, Amy Strage, Robert G. Curley

Faculty Publications

Suggests a framework for pre-service and in-service teachers to help them think about the constellation of demands new policy initiatives would impose on students. Kinds of instructional supports; Compensations; Theme of problems; Re-examination of data.

A Symposium Precis, Thomas E. Baker

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Higher-Order Associative Processing In Hermissenda Suggests Multiple Sites Of Neuronal Modulation., Ronald F. Rogers, Louis D. Matzel

Faculty Publications

Two important features of modern accounts of associative learning are (1) the capacity for contextual stimuli to serve as a signal for an unconditioned stimulus (US) and (2) the capacity for a previously conditioned (excitatory) stimulus to "block" learning about a redundant stimulus when both stimuli serve as a signal for the same US. Here, we examined the process of blocking, thought by some to reflect a cognitive aspect of classical conditioning, and its underlying mechanisms in the marine mollusc Hermissenda. In two behavioral experiments, a context defined by chemosensory stimuli was made excitatory by presenting unsignalled USs (rotation) in …

Parrēsia In The Pauline Epistles., David E. Fredrickson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Performing In A Racially Hostile Environment, Phoebe Weaver Williams

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The After-Acquired Evidence Rule: The Best Of All Possible Worlds?, Sharona Hoffman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Diphthongization In Spanish Derivational Morphology: An Empirical Investigation, David Eddington

Faculty Publications

The alternation between the mid-vowels / e/, /o/ and the diphthongs /je/ and /we/ is widespread in Spanish, and several rule-based analyses claim to account for it. However, they are founded on a small body of evidence. These analyses are evaluated against data from a large corpus, and cannot account for the non-discrete nature of diphthongization as evidenced in the corpus. The corpus data suggest that diphthongization has a gradient relationship to the derivational suffixes. · A nonderivational account, based on Bybee's model (1985, 1988, 1991), better embodies the scalar relationship between diphthongization and the suffixes. This relationship was tested …

The Psychological Status Of Phonological Analyses, David Eddington

Faculty Publications

This paper casts doubt on the psychological relevance of many phonological analyses. There are four reasons for this: 1) theoretical adequacy does not necessarily imply psychological significance; 2) most approaches are nonempirical in that they are not subject to potential spatiotemporal falsification; 3) phonological analyses are established with little or no recourse to the speakers of the language via experimental psychology; 4) the limited base of evidence which most analyses are founded on is further cause for skepticism.

Indecent Proposals: Reason, Restraint And Responsibility In The Regulation Of Indecency, Allen S. Hammond Iv

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Missouri V. Jenkins And The De Facto Abandonment Of Court-Enforced Desegregation, Bradley W. Joondeph

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Mothers Who Kill: Coming To Terms With Modern American Infanticide, Michelle Oberman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Medical Advocates: A Call For A New Profession, Maxwell J. Mehlman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

God Bless The Child: Poor Children, Parens Patriae, And A State Obligation To Provide Assistance, Kay P. Kindred

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The First Stone In Retrospect: An Outsider's Observations On The Book And Its Critics, Susan Grover

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Children We Abandon: Religious Exemptions To Child Welfare And Education Law As Denials Of Equal Protection To Children Of Religious Objectors, James G. Dwyer

Faculty Publications

The story of children who die because their parents, in observance of their own religious principles, withhold conventional medical treatment from them is a familiar one. In this Article, James G. Dwyer shows that the phenomenon of parents denying secular benefits to their children for religious reasons goes far beyond these few highly publicized cases, extending into the realm of education as well as medical care. Moreover, Dr. Dwyer shows that the federal and state governments endorse this practice by statutorily exempting 'religious objector' parents from otherwise generally applicable compulsory child care and education laws. He argues that courts addressing …

Merciful Juries: The Resilience Of Jury Nullification, Alan Scheflin, Jon M. Van Dyke

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Improving Access To Food In Low-Income Communities: An Investigation Of Three Bay Area Neighborhoods, Edward Steinman, Kenneth Hecht

Faculty Publications

This report seeks to describe and analyze that dysfunction as it manifests itself in three low-income neighborhoods in San Francisco and Oakland. It does not examine the causes nor scope of poverty in those communities nor does it intend to estimate or describe the prevalence of hunger. These measures are amply documented in a 1995 report on hunger and the problem of food "insecurity" commissioned by the California Senate Office of Research and, in 1993 and 1994, reports on hunger from the Alameda County Community Food Bank and San Francisco Food Bank, respectively. Rather, this report treats poverty, hunger and …

Test Wars: Mandatory Hiv Testing, Women, And Their Children, Michelle Oberman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Minor Rights And Wrongs, Michelle Oberman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Statutory Rape Laws: Does It Make Sense To Enforce Them In An Increasingly Permissive Society?, Michelle Oberman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Biologic Argument For Gay Essentialism-Determinism: Implications For Equal Protection And Substantive Due Process, E. Gary Spitko

Faculty Publications

Classifications, like race, that historically have been used to saddle certain people with disabilities on the basis of a characteristic that otherwise would be irrelevant to an individual's ability to contribute to society are inherently suspect as more likely to have been the product of irrational prejudice and, thus, are deserving of heightened equal protection scrutiny. Thus, in adjudicating whether a sexual orientation classification is deserving of heightened equal protection scrutiny, a court should ask only whether gay people have suffered a history of discrimination and whether their sexual orientation says anything about their ability to contribute to society.

The …