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The Discipline Of Communication In Higher Education: Mutually Defining And Reciprocal Relationships, James W. Chesebro, David W. Worley

Journal of the Association for Communication Administration

This article discusses the status of communication studies in higher education. Communication and the discipline of communication are partially defined by the ways in which communication principles and strategies are identified and applied in college and university environments. How administrators and colleagues in other departments conceive of and utilize communication principles and strategies provide feedback to us, revealing their conceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about what communication is and what the study and use of communication involves. These applied communication uses constitute part of the meaning that communication possesses within a college or university environment. Using traditions as academic standards, virtually …

Sustainable Living: A Case Study Of Nuns And Their Beliefs, Attitudes And Practices, Mary Catherine Clipson

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation is a case study of monastic nuns in the context of sustainable living. The essential core question is: How has the way of life of nuns in a monastic community been a sustaining one. There are six chapters: Introduction, Historical Context and Overview, Methodology, The Context and People of The Priory of Our Lady of Peace, Analysis of Data, and Synthesis and Interpretation.

The methodology used to get at the case study is, primarily, participant observation and individual interviews with twelve (of the eighteen) nuns; and secondarily, an ecological assessment of the community and buildings, and a questionnaire …

Women's Voice, January 2000, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

Style And Commerce: The Charleston Ceramics Trade In The 1760s, Lisa Hudgins

Faculty & Staff Publications

Date of Award
2000

Department
Art

First Advisor
John M. Bryan

In September 1765, an advertisement in the South Carolina Gazette announced the establishment of a potworks near Charleston. The gentleman in question was John Bartlam, a resident of Stoke-on-Trent Parish in Staffordshire, England, who had been in the potting business for roughly twelve years before immigrating to Charleston. The full impact of Bartlam' s potworks on the colonial ceramics trade is still unknown, as Bartlam's kiln has not been found. But archaeological excavations at Cainhoy, South Carolina (38BK1349), the site of his pottery from 1763 to 1769, have revealed …

The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara: Contemporary Lessons In The Child Welfare Wars, Bruce A. Boyer, Steven Lubet

Faculty Publications & Other Works

No abstract provided.

Every Student A Citizen: Creating The Democratic Self, Educational Commission Of The States

Civic Engagement

Despite 50 years of scientific and technological achievement, unabated wealth creation and gains in health, transportation, medicine, manufacturing a a host of other fields, a sens of "dis-ese" gnaws at the collective American soul. Something feels wrong.

Homo/Hetero/Social/Sexual: Gila In Vélez’S La Serrana De La Vera, Matthew D. Stroud

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

There is an ever growing body of criticism noting the homosocial underpinnings of comedia society in which women serve primarily to cement the relationships among men. Barbara Simerka, Harry Vélez de Quiñones, and others have convincingly begun to establish the homosocial nature of the stage society in which women, often as objects given signification only when they acquire exchange value, frequently have little say in their marriages or in other important aspects of their lives. The dama, to borrow a definition from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, is a character who takes her "shape and meaning from a sexuality of which …

Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2000, Wendy Greenberg, Pete Robinson, Judith Feig, Richard P. Richter, Paul Stern, Andrew Maykuth, Barbara Alderson, Joanna Doyle, John Strassburger

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Symposium highlights the transforming power of art • Nobel Laureate to visit February 17 • Parker Palmer holds Davis Chair • Student report: Oana Nechita 2000 • Bosendorfer grand piano graces Bomberger • Faculty news • Young alumni join staff • Meistersingers complete European tour • Letters to the editor • Ursinus in the news • Ursinus at the turn of the century: Then and now • Looking ahead: The curriculum in the next • Alumni achievement: Joseph Melrose Jr. '66 • Faculty achievement: Dallett Hemphill • Six inducted into …

Federal Habeas In The Information Age, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

One would be hard-pressed to identify a more extolled, and storied, aspect of the Anglo-American legal tradition than the writ of habeas corpus. Tracing its lineage back to the Magna Carta, the Great Writ was so revered by the Framers of the U.S Constitution that they expressly prohibited its suspension except in times of extreme governmental distress. Writing in 1868, Chief Justice Salmon Chase characterized habeas as "the most important human right in the Constitution," the ''best and only sufficient defense of personal freedom." Justice Brennan, writing almost one hundred years later, observed that the history of habeas "is …

Telling Stories In School: Using Case Studies And Stories To Teach Legal Ethics, Carrie Menkel-Meadow

Fordham Law Review

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." -Joan Didion, The White Album (1970) "Their story, yours, mine - it's what we carry with us on this trip we take, and we owe it to each other to respect our stories and learn from them." -William Carlos Williams in Robert Coles, The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination 30 (1989)

Capital Punishment As Human Sacrifice: A Societal Ritual As Depicted In George Eliot's Adam Bede, Roberta M. Harding

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Storyteller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization And Barbarism, Braulio Muñoz

Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Works

In A Story-Teller, Braulio Munoz offers a critical appraisal of Mario Vargas Llosa's literary and political production from a sociotheoretical perspective. He engages the debate concerning the role of the writer in Latin America, the merits and shortcomings of modernist and postmodernist thought, and the differences between neoliberalism and alternative democractic positions.

"We Do Not Preach, We Teach.": Religion Professors And The First Amendment, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Distinctively Vineyard: An Identity In The Making, Christine K. Eubanks

Journal of the American Society for Church Growth

Since the death of the movement's founder John Wimber, many have been wondering about the current state and future of the Vineyard Church movement. This article discusses the identity of the movement.

Are Iq Discrepancies Between Ses Groups Primarily The Result Of Verbal Scale Differences?, Carol Lee Macnaught

Open Access Dissertations

Historically, comparison groups of children from low socioeconomic status (SES) have done less well on intelligence tests than their more well-to-do counterparts. This study was undertaken to explore the contribution of verbal ability to general intelligence and to consider the possibility of developmental change in the relative contributions of the verbal and performance scales. The analyses used verbal, performance, and full scale scores of a subgroup of the standardization sample of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III). The scores used were attained by children in three age groups (7, 11, and 15 years) with four levels …

Protecting Privacy And Free Speech In Cyberspace Symposium: The Unwanted Gaze, By Jeffrey Rosen, Nadine Strossen

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of The Landscape History Of The Northwoods : Human Management Effects On The Landscape At Itasca State Park, Minnesota, Gordon Robertson

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Roles, Acceptance And Utilization Of Nurse Practitioners In Urban And Rural North Dakota, Rhonda Fay Sand

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Zooarchaeology, Susan L. Scott

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Preservice Teachers' Beliefs About Teaching And Learning, Helga M. Gudenschwager

Graduate Research Papers

Research shows that knowing what preservice teachers believe about teaching and learning helps their instructors to reinforce those beliefs that are compatible with current approaches in education and challenge those that promote the perpetuation of antiquated and ineffective teaching practices.

Four main research questions guided this study: 1. To what extent the beliefs expressed by participants aligned with traditional or constructivist perspectives? 2. Do elementary and secondary majors differ in terms of their preference for practices aligned with these perspectives? 3. Do elementary and secondary majors differ in terms of their beliefs about the goals of education and effective strategies …

Design And Implementation Of A University Department Website, Margaret M. Rick

Graduate Research Papers

The website design cycle consists of four important components: (1) planning, (2) production, (3) implementation, and (4) operation. Within these components are a variety of vital tasks ranging from defining the objective and audience to conceptualizing the site, determining content, and creating, testing, and revising the site. Numerous rules or accepted principles guide the design process from color and font selection, to graphic creation, to site navigation layout. Once created, a website must be maintained: content should be updated and outside links verified on a regular basis. A site that is not maintained or kept current is of no benefit …

Diversity In The College Curriculum : Overview Of The Literature, Ruben J. Carrion

Graduate Research Papers

The colleges and universities in the United States that have adopted a proactive commitment to diversity in the curriculum have done so because they understand how their central mission is linked with the future of a diverse society. They are aware that, in the new millennium, most new jobs in the economy require a postsecondary education, and women and racial/ethnic minorities compose a majority of the workforce. One result of this awareness is the transformation taking place at many institutions that links diversity in the curriculum with the development of new teaching practices and learning practices.

This review of the …

Milk Enough For All : Food And Identity In Toni Morrison's 'Beloved', Julie Marie Mcgoldrick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Fortnightly - 2000

Fortnightly Collated by Year

No abstract provided.

The Golden Fields Of Santo Domingo: A Historical Analysis Of America's Obsession With The Dominican Republic During The Nineteenth Century, Dennis W. Pennington

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In this work, the term "Santo Domingo" denotes one of three places: Santo Domingo City, the province of Santo Domingo, or the island country of Santo Domingo. Early history is the history of Santo Domingo City. In the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, the term also meant the provincial division ofland in the southeastern quadrant of the island that incorporated Santo Domingo City. When the Spanish were in control of most, if not all, of the island, the name Santo Domingo designated this kingdom. It not only included Santo Domingo City, the hub of activity in early Spanish American history, …

The Athabaskan Languages: Perspectives On A Native American Language Family, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero

Linguistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Generalizations In Navajo, Theodore B. Fernald

Linguistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Sacred And Secular Issues In Navajo Education, Theodore B. Fernald, P. R. Platero

Linguistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Alone You Are Nobody, Together We Float: The Manuela Ramos Movement, Judith Bruce, Debbie Rogow

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Quality/Calidad/Qualité, a publication of the Population Council, highlights examples of clinical and educational programs which bring a strong commitment, as well as innovative and thoughtful approaches, to the issue of quality care in sexual and reproductive health. The series is based on the philosophy that women and their partners have a fundamental right to respectful treatment, information, choice, and follow-up from reproductive health care providers. This issue discusses improving women’s health and well being through a range of empowerment strategies in rural Peru.

Managing Population-Environment Systems: Problems Of Institutional Design, Geoffrey Mcnicoll

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

In population–environment systems human activity is inherently part of the system rather than something to be minimized in order to maintain or restore “natural” environmental conditions. Issues arising in managing such systems are discussed in this paper. The system’s boundaries must be identified, defining its human participants and its ecological content. Procedures for monitoring demographic and environmental change in the system must be set up and consensus must be reached on how to evaluate that change.