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2007 Ursinus College Commencement Program, Ursinus College

Ursinus College Commencement Programs

This Ursinus College Commencement program from 2007 contains the list of speakers and order of events for the day.

Spring Commencement: May 12, 2007, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Spring Commencement program from May 12, 2007.

Fayetteville State University 140th Spring Commencement 2007, Fayetteville State University

Graduation Exhibit

Fayetteville State University 140th Spring Commencement May 12th 2007

2007 Spring Commencement, Harding University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Commencement on May 12.

Commencement Speaker: Mike Beebe

Changing Woman And Yeshe Tsogyel: A Comparison Of Womens Roles In Din4 And Tibetan Tantra Buddhist Traditions', Jean Martinez-Welles

UNM Gallup Faculty Publications

The solace of finding mother provides comfort in most Buddhist societies. The Diné follow the mother in proximity of all life. This abstract considers parallel significance for two mothers of tradition, who lead their respective followers to a life of spreading knowledge and wisdom. Yeshe Tsogyel is significant in spreading the teaching of Tantra Buddhism, and Changing Woman provides the Din4 the importance of reproduction.

Large Visions And Complete Communities, Prexy Nesbitt

Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches

Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist and educator, delivered this commencement address to the College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago. 4 pages.

A Seat At The Table? Racial/Ethnic & Gender Diversity On Corporate, Hospital, Education, Cultural & State Boards, Carol Hardy-Fanta Phd, Donna Stewartson

Publications from the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy

As part of its larger Diversity Initiative, the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies at UMass Boston has undertaken a number of projects. The first was a public opinion survey conducted around the time of the November 2006 elections. The report, Transformation and Taking Stock: A Summary of Selected Findings from the McCormack Graduate School Diversity Survey, included a comprehensive look at race relations in the Commonwealth at a time of significant transition—demographically and politically. This report was followed by A Benchmark Report on Diversity in State and Local Government, which focused on the percentage of positions filled …

Honors Day, May 11, 2007, Murray State University

Honors Day Programs

Honors Day Programs, Murray State University. (Digitization and metadata processed by Madison Erwin.)

Program Evaluation Report For: Nevada Child Seekers, Nori Evans, Raymond Keeler, Lisa Pletz

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

A program evaluation of the Nevada Child Seekers (NCS) organization was conducted from October 2006 through April 2007. The evaluation consisted of a qualitative assessment of the organization's volunteer recruitment and retention program. The evaluation was conducted by performing a series of interviews of staff and by conducting a web-based survey of available volunteers. Information gathered from the interviews and surveys was compared with benchmarking data from multiple scholarly and community sources.

Illinois State University, One Hundred And Forty-Eighth Annual Commencement, May 11, 2007, Illinois State University

Commencement Programs

Normal, Illinois
Illinois State University
One Hundred and Forty-Eighth Annual Commencement
May 11 and 12, 2007

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for May 10, 2007

Gender Issue And Water Management In The Mediterranean Basin, Middle East And North Africa, Giulia Minoia

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international level, it is therefore necessary to identify relations between the academic literature, the institutional framework and the field-based research. This document has been inspired by the Nostrum DSS project (Network on Governance, Science and Technology for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean), a Co-ordination Action funded by the European Commission, which involves eighteen partners from the North and South shores of the basin. …

Western News, May 10, 2007, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: John M. Dunn is WMU's eighth president; School of Art named for Gwen Frostic; Betsy Kuhle is MAC Coach of the Year (again); On Campus with Sharon Wagner.

Commencement Program 2007 May, University Of Texas At Arlington, The University Of Texas At Arlington

Commencement Programs, Photos, and Video

No abstract provided.

How The Public Library Contributes To Community Building: A Case Study, Barbara J. Snyder

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate how one local New Jersey public library contributed to the revitalization efforts of its community by building social networks that benefitted all members of the community. Because the nature of the study dealt with conditions that were social, the qualitative method of research was chosen. A personal interview was used to collect information on how the library built social networks within the community it served by identifying and connecting the library's assets to the community's. The data were compared to a model developed from a previous study, The Engaged Library: Chicago Stories …

Rural Children Increasingly Rely On Medicaid And State Child Health Insurance Programs For Medical Care, William P. O'Hare

Carsey Publications

Despite a flurry of reports on health insurance coverage for children, virtually none of them have examined the unique situation of rural families where one-fifth of all the nation's poor children live. This brief takes an in-depth look at the health insurance programs, such as SCHIP and Medicaid, which rural children rely on for medical care.

The Development Of The Remarital Assessment Questionnaire For Divorced Persons (Raq-D), Derrel Jay Higgins

Theses and Dissertations

The development of the Remarital Assessment Questionnaire for Divorced Persons (RAQ-D) is presented. Steps of development of the questionnaire are outlined: a review of remarital literature, interviews with remarried couples, the creation of a pool of items, review of the items by clinicians, and the development of a preliminary questionnaire. Data were collected through the internet. An Exploratory Factor Analysis of the data yielded scales relating to adjustment areas that are specific to remarital couples. The resulting scales exhibited acceptable level of internal consistency. Psychometric properties of the resulting scales are reported. Implications and recommendations of further development of the …

Spring 2007 Graduation Speech San Jacinto College, George C. Wright

President Emeritus George C. Wright Speeches

No abstract provided.

May Term 2007 Theme "Sustaining Self And Society•, Teresa Sherman

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Information Literacy At Augustana: A Programmatic Approach, Nancy E. Goebel, Paul J. Neff

Communications in Information Literacy

Information literacy programs, and the factors that influence their development and structure, can vary significantly from institution to institution. Credit-bearing discipline-specific information literacy courses are a rare and valuable component of an undergraduate educational experience and form the basis of Augustana's information literacy program. This article provides an overview of the development, implementation, successes, and drawbacks of the credit-bearing discipline-specific information literacy courses at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta (Camrose, Alberta, Canada). Additional program components including Augustana's annual information literacy workshop, information literacy awards, information literacy DVD, and marketing/branding, are discussed.

Nine Students Joining The Teach For America Corps, Rachel Hatch

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Exploring Strategies For Integrated Information Literacy: From "Academic Champions" To Institution-Wide Change, Claire Mcguinness

Communications in Information Literacy

In this paper, the author critically reviews the strategies that have been adopted by librarians to secure academic support for curriculum-integrated information literacy (IL) instruction, and questions whether the popular approach of targeting individual academics offers a suitable foundation for the establishment of long-term IL programs. The paper suggests that librarians should instead align their IL objectives with the overall academic mission of their institutions and seek out the means to effect a more wide-ranging change in the academic culture, where IL is recognized as a core educational value. Several strategies are suggested by which this aim may be achieved.

Spartan Daily, May 9, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 55

It's Happening At State: May 08, 2007

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents Minutes For May 08, 2007, University Of New Mexico Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the May 8th, 2007 Board of Regents Meeting

Spartan Daily, May 8, 2007, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 128, Issue 54

Do Social Relations Affect Economic Welfare? A Microeconomic Empirical Analysis, Giacomo Degli Antoni

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Over the last few years, many studies have shown that social networks affect the socioeconomic development. This paper presents evidence, through the Italian microdata representative of the entire Italian population, that the quality and quantity of interpersonal relations of agents can increase their economic welfare. Two proxies of interpersonal relations at an individual level are considered: a proxy for the density and one for the quality of network structure of personal contacts. Both seem to have a positive effect on the level of household economic welfare of agents. This result proves robust to the inclusion of a variety of control …

The Neoliberal Myth In Latin America: The Cases Of Mexico And Argentina In The ‘90s, Veronica Ronchi

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

During the ‘90s most Latin American countries were submitted to neoliberal structural reform policies. Neoliberal policies imposed market supremacy, reduced the State’s role in the economy and deregulated the markets. This paper aims at describing how these policies affected the most important macroeconomic indexes, with special emphasis on Argentina and Mexico, the two countries that suffered most from the economic crises of the ‘80s and ‘90s, and where the neoliberal policies were applied with greater orthodoxy. In spite of a slight improvement in some macroeconomic indexes, in Latin America neoliberalism failed to reduce poverty and unemployment, and was unable to …

Racial Disparities In Mortality Risks In A Sample Of The U.S. Medicare Population, Yijie Zhou, Francesca Dominici, Thomas A. Louis

Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers

Racial disparities in mortality risks adjusted by socioeconomic status (SES) are not well understood. To add to the understanding of racial disparities, we construct and analyze a data set that links, at individual and zip code levels, three government databases: Medicare, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and U.S. Census. Our study population includes more than 4 million Medicare enrollees residing in 2095 zip codes in the Northeast region of U.S. We develop hierarchical models to estimate Black-White disparity in risk of death, adjusted by both individual-level and zip codelevel income. We define population-level attributable risk (AR), relative attributable risk (RAR) and …

Commencement Convocation Program, Lakeland Campus, May 7, 2007, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Kristen Dailey