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Stonehill Alumni Magazine Summer 2007, Stonehill College Office Of Communications And Media Relations

Stonehill Alumni Magazine

This issue of the magazine includes the following features:

• Attaining the Summit: Later this month, the College will launch a $55 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, Attaining the Summit, which is set to transform Stonehill into one of the top Catholic colleges in the country.
• Salameno Chair Announced: John Rodrigue, a nationally renowned expert on 19th century American history, joined Stonehill as the College's first endowed chairholder. As the Salameno Chair in History, Rodrigue will enhance the Department's already strong reputation for excellence.
• A Lens on History: When photographer Stanley Bauman died in February, he left Stonehill his collection of over …

Celebrating Paradoxes In Christian Leadership, Michael E. Cafferky

Faculty Works

Studying organizations as dynamic, open systems has captured the interest of organizational scholars for several decades. Along with other influences this has led to pr9gressively more sophisticated understanding of how leaders and followers interact and how their organizations interact with the external environment. In turn, as our understanding has improved, scholarly awareness of the complexity of leadership has increased. One might argue that this awareness correspondingly has produced a better understanding of the many tensions that derive from dilemmas and paradoxes that leaders face in their work.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 1, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2007

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 1, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

No abstract provided.

Macalester Today Summer 2007, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni And Friends (Summer 2007), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Summer 2007 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Effects Of Therapy Dogs On Anxiety In Children Participating In Sexual Abuse Forensic Interviews At Children's Advocacy Center, Andra K. Chamberlin

Graduate Theses

This study investigated the effect of therapy dogs on physiological and psychological measures of anxiety before and after a forensic interview in children who may have been sexually abused. A convenience sample consisted of 37 children ages 6 to 12 years who presented at a children’s advocacy center for sexual abuse forensic interviews. Twenty children had a therapy dog present during their time at the Center and 17 did not. Researchers measured systolic blood pressure (SBP) and heart rate (HR) using a Zelwa WS-TS Touch Screen Wrist Blood Pressure Monitor. State- anxiety was assessed using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for …

Longwood Magazine 2007 Vol 08 No 01 Summer, Longwood University

Alumni Newsletters & Bulletins

No abstract provided.

A Bold Plan, A Bright Future, Loma Linda University

Scope

In this issue...

2 | Commencement 2007
Loma Linda University graduates 1,203 during commencement ceremonies in its 102nd year

8 | Leveling the playing field
East Campus Hospital unveils its latest efforts to create a healing environment by opening a park with no boundaries

12 | Loma Linda 360° debuts
LLUAHSC launches new broadcast to share stories of outreach, adventure, and service

14 | Patients benefit from robotic surgery
Loma Linda surgeons use robotic surgery equipment to reduce the impact of surgery

17 | A bold plan, a bright future
The CEO and administrator of Loma Linda University Medical Center …

Cal State San Bernardino Magazine (Spring/Summer 2007), Csusb

CSUSB Magazine

Features:

Update Feature......Page 3
At a new academic center coordinated by CSUSB, intelligence means more than being smart.

Contribution Feature......Page 17
A father's legacy re-emerges in a son's new academic pursuit.

Athletics Feature......Page 21
The winningest coach in CSUSB history is still singing the same song, and that's good.

Student Scapes Feature......Page 24
How many 18-year-olds do you know who knew what they wanted to be at 18-months-old? Meet Annabel, artist, college graduate, bound and determined.

Must Utah Imprison Its Parents And Children?: Alternatives To Utah's Compulsorty Attendance Laws, Gilbert Bradshaw

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Family Functioning As A Risk Factor In The Development Of Juvenile Delinquency, Zeenat Ismail, Zaeema Riaz

Business Review

The purpose of the present research was to determine the difference between the family functioning of juvenile delinquents and non delinquents. After detailed literature review it was hypothesized that score on the variable of Communication, Rigidity in Value and Norms, Affective Expression and Parental Control among family members of juvenile delinquents will be high as compared to non delinquents. Sample of the present research consisted of 240 adolescents divided into two groups of 120 delinquents and 120 non-delinquents from lowsocioeconomic status. Family Assessment Measure-Ill was administered in order to measure level of Communication, Value and Norms, Affective Expression and Parental …

The Voice, Summer 2007: Volume 52, Issue 4, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Finding Their Place: Korean Students Expand the Fishbowl; It Takes a College... ; What Have Graduates Learned?; Playing the Gamelan Broadens Students' Musical Experience; Kuyper Scholars Head to Princeton; Senior Prompts Marketing Emphasis; Siouxland Blood Bank Picks Dordt Designer; Nicaraguan Internship Gives Holtrop a New Perspective on Business; Garry Zonnefeld Retires from Admissions; Altena Spends a Lifetime at Dordt; Faculty News; Wielard Isn't Done with Computers; Senior Design Project: It's About Time; Siblings@Dordt: Five Graduates Leave Campus--and Two Siblings; Football Is Coming; Where Will They Play Football?; Defenders See Post-Season Action; 2007 Distinguished Scholar Recipients Named; Westra Appointed Chair of …

Overweight And Obesity In The South: Prevalence And Related Health Care Costs Among Population Groups, Jerome R. Kolbo, Amal J. Khoury, Wendy Bounds, Jacquelyn Lee

Food Assistance

Overweight and obesity are leading public health concerns in the United States. Although overweight and obesity are preventable conditions in the majority of cases, their prevalence has increased significantly over the past two decades. Recent estimates indicate that 34.1 percent of Americans are classified as overweight, while 32.2 percent are classified as obese [17]. National estimates of obesity-related health care costs are alarming, yet, to date, no such estimates have been published for the Southern region overall or for population groups in the South. The Southern states have some of the highest rates of adult obesity in the nation.

A Quasi-Experimental Design: Multisystemic Therapy As An Alternative Community-Based Treatment For Youth With Severe Emotional Disturbance, Kirstin Painter

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

This study compared multisystemic therapy to usual services in a community mental health setting for emotionally disturbed youth with externalizing disorders. Usual services included the combination of case management with a family skills training curriculum. A secondary data analysis utilizing a pretest-post-test, quasi-experimental design was used. Eighty-seven youth were in each group and were matched based on gender (53% female, 47% male) and ethnicity (34 % African American, 54% Caucasian, 10% Hispanic, and 2% other). Findings of this study suggest that youth who received MST experienced more improved treatment outcomes across the combination of areas in their social ecology than …

Reaching Out To Off-Campus Students Via BlackboardTm: A Consortial Library’S Experience, Niyati P. Pandya

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

Recent changes in information technology have opened new learning opportunities to educational institutions as they strive to serve the information and education needs of the millennial generation. More academic programs are now offered in non-traditional environments, which require a stronger focus on this generation’s information-seeking behavior. This forces librarians to undertake fresh approaches toward library instruction. According to guidelines from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), library resources and services “must meet the needs of all their faculty, students, and academic support staff wherever these individuals are located, whether on a main campus, off campus, in distance …

Evidence-Based Anything: Priorities For Librarians, T. P. Hutchinson, A. J. Meier

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

This paper discusses the key ideas that librarians need to know about the movement for “evidence-based” policy and practice. The most important is the methodological quality of research, particularly the importance of randomized controlled experimentation in estimating the effectiveness of interventions. In the early stages of the spread of evidence-based ideas into a new area, librarians will have clients who have a limited appreciation of these ideas, and who may not be clear about the different interpretations of this phrase (e.g., specifically referring to the pre-eminence of randomization, versus a wish for some empirical data). It may also be …

Learning To Lead In Higher Education: Insights Into The Family Backgrounds Of Women University Presidents, Susan R. Madsen

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences of womcn university presidents related to becoming leaders or learning to lead. This manuscript highlights the research focused on the immediate family backgrounds and influences on these presidents. The research question was as follows: With regard to their family backgrounds and influences, what are the lived experiences of women university presidcnts related to developing into the leaders they have bccome today? According to Rubin (2004, p. 288), "Extraordinary challenges face higher education nationally, and leaders with exceptional capabilities are needed to help institutions meet these challenges." Within this new …

The Effectiveness Of A Virtual Learning Environment On Student Learning About Clinical Skills, Eric Youn

Social Work Dissertations - Archive

The purpose of this study was to explore whether social work students could increase their clinical skills knowledge in a Clinical Skills Virtual Learning Environment (CS-VLE). The evaluation of an online exercise that was developed using experiential learning theory and other learning theories was seen as being the first step in challenging a noted theme within social work academia concerning the effectiveness of online environments in teaching clinical skills. This study assessed changes in knowledge, produced by exposure to a web-based clinical skills environment. Results showed significant changes in knowledge after exposure to the online environment as hypothesized. Results also …

Caring Too Little, Caring Too Much: Competence And The Family Law Attorney, Barbara Glesner Fines

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Kentucky Plan Revisited: Lessons Learned From An Innovative Doctoral Education Program., Joel M. Lee, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Raymond Hill

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Faculty Publications

In the first doctoral education special issue of the Journal of Health Administration Education, the authors presented the University of Kentucky College of Public Health's plans for an innovative new Doctor of Public Health (Dr. P.H.) degree. The degree as designed, prepares graduates for professional practice, and included extensive supervised field experience as part of the academic training linking theory with practice. Based upon the interest that the Kentucky Dr.P.H. degree program received, the authors will share the experience of the degree's initial years of operation through a "lessons learned" paper. As the program evolved there have been many lessons …

Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

Over the past 75 years, tens of thousands of Boise State students have realized their dreams and made a difference in the world, thanks in part to the far-reaching vision of Boise State’s founder and first president, Bishop Middleton Barnwell. This issue of FOCUS looks at some of those who benefited from that vision, as well as those who are shaping Boise State’s future. The photo above is part of a historical mural created by art professor Alma Gomez-Frith to commemorate Boise State’s diamond jubilee (page 24). Cover collage by Andrew Roberts.

Focal Point, Volume 21 Number 02, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute

Research and Training Center - Focal Point

Evidence–based programs produce positive outcomes for consumers, providers, and the greater public. However, not all evidence–based programs have been proven to work with diverse groups. This issue of Focal Point features programs that have been developed specifically to meet the needs of underserved youth such as immigrants, rural or homeless youth, and those from racial or sexual minority groups.

An Open Trial Of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For Compulsive Hoarding, David F. Tolin, Randy O. Frost, Gail Steketee

Psychology: Faculty Publications

The aim of the present study was to provide preliminary data on the efficacy of a new cognitive-behavioral treatment (CBT) for compulsive hoarding. Fourteen adults with compulsive hoarding (10 treatment completers) were seen in two specialty CBT clinics. Participants were included if they met research criteria for compulsive hoarding according to a semistructured interview, were age 18 or above, considered hoarding their main psychiatric problem, and were not receiving mental health treatment. Patients received 26 individual sessions of CBT, including frequent home visits, over a 7-12 month period between December 2003-February 2005. Primary outcome measures were the Saving Inventory-Revised (SI-R), …

Vol. 32, No. 3: Summer 2007, School Of Medicine & Health Sciences

North Dakota Medicine Archive

No abstract provided.

Seed Participant Characteristics And Financial Accumulation, Lisa Reyes Mason, Vernon Loke, Margaret Clancy, Yunju Nam, Youngmi Kim, Soda Lo

Center for Social Development Research

SEED Participant Characteristics and Financial Accumulation

Asset-Building And Investment In Kenya: Small Pilot Project And Directions, Becky Wachera Gitonga, Kenneth Schultz, Matthew Meyer, Francis Ngambi

Center for Social Development Research

Asset-Building and Investment in Kenya: Small Pilot Project and Directions

Dual Incentives And Dual Asset Building: The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan Program In China, Baorong Guo, Jin Huang, Michael Sherraden, Li Zou

Center for Social Development Research

The Hutubi Rural Social Security Loan program is a policy innovation in a rural area of China by loaning savings in social security accounts back to peasants for them to purchase assets for agricultural and other development. In contrast to the nationwide recession in rural social security, this program has shown its success in proliferating rural social security funds and retaining social security participants. With a focus on the administrative data of the loan program, this study aims to provide an in-depth understanding of the loan program and examine how asset building is possible for the poor when institutional incentives …

中国新疆维吾尔自治区资产建设项目初探: 对呼图壁县试点项目参与者的深度访谈 [Asset Building In The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Of China: In-Depth Interviews With Participants In The Hutubi Pilot Study], Li Zou

Center for Social Development Research

Asset-building concepts are being explored by the Chinese government as a possible avenue for socioeconomic reforms that are responsive to President Jintao HU’s calls for scientific development and for a focus on the countryside. We present documentation of an asset-building pilot project in Hutubi County, located in the rural Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. In-depth interviews were conducted with randomly selected program participants to gain a sense of how the program affects individuals and development. The experiences of six families from the region involved in asset building are related in this report. From these experiences, asset ownership is seen …

Seed For Oklahoma Kids: Summary Of Project, Research, And Policy Implications, Michael Sherraden, Margaret M. Clancy

Center for Social Development Research

SEED for Oklahoma Kids: Summary of Project, Research, and Policy Implications