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Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 56, April 7, 2008, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Rising Popularity Of University Rankings: Lessons And Implications, Ellen Hazelkorn

Other resources

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Movement Of The People: The Relationship Between Black Consciousness Movements, Race, And Class In The Caribbean, Deborah G. Weeks

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines Black Power in Jamaica, Trinidad, and The Bahamas, comparing and contrasting the ability of the movements to garner the support of the people in these different locales. The primary focus of this work is the Caribbean Black Power movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Detailed responses to the movements are presented as those responses relate to not only race, but also class, and the response of local political leadership to the presence and methods of the movements. Following a brief overview of the history of European colonialism and the drive of the colonized for independence from colonial …

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Georgia Southern University honors local businessman
• Workshop at Georgia Southern University will focus on “Improving Corporate Performance”
• Performing Arts Center season will conclude with “Rent” on April 22
• Phi Kappa Phi symposium features student research
• President Bush nominates Georgia Southern University alumnus to SEC
• College Office of Undergraduate Research symposium is April 9
• Georgia Southern University honors local Augusta man
• Georgia Southern University honors local Statesboro man
• Georgia Southern University selects Frank Hook as Alumnus of the Year
• Georgia Southern University honors Georgia Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture with President’s Medal
• Georgia Southern University honors local Albany woman
• Georgia Southern University …

April 7, 2008, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Workshop: Healthcare Engineering And Health Services Research: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers;, Stephen Roberts, Reha Uzsoy, Julie Ivy, Brian Denton

RCHE Publications

Few would dispute that the rapidly escalating cost of health care is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation today. Even a cursory review of the media reveals intense public concern over a healthcare system that can use the most advanced technology to miraculous therapeutic effect, but whose emergent behavior is far from ideal. Rapidly rising healthcare costs threaten the competitiveness of U. S. manufacturing and service companies in the global econmy, creating intense pressure to move offshore. Indeed one can make the case that the best way to help competitiveness prospects for U. S. industries as a …

Mustang Daily, April 4, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Sandspur, Vol 114, No 20, April 04, 2008, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Towards Regenerative Development: A Methodology For University Campuses To Become More Sustainable, With A Focus On The University Of South Florida, Richard Keirs Mcdonald Iii

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The administrations of several universities have developed strategies to reduce the negative environmental effects created by their institutions. Because no single, comprehensive methodology to guide institutions to sustainability exists, these strategies range widely in scope. As well, the definition of "sustainability" differs for these various institutions, resulting in strategies ranging from small-scale recycling programs to major initiatives to incorporate green building and revamping curricula. This study attempts to create the first comprehensive methodology to guide university campuses and processes to become regenerative. Regenerative systems "produce more resources than needed, provide resources for other projects, and enhance [the] environment" (Bernheim 2003), …

Quebrada Communities In The Palmarejo Valley, Northwest Honduras, William A. Klinger

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The spatial relationships that exist between ancient and modern settlement and natural resources have the potential to suggest ways in which humans organized themselves into communities. This study evaluates the applicability of the concept, "quebrada community," for understanding human-environmental relationships in northwest Honduras during the Late Classic period (AD 650-900). Existing archaeological, quantitative, and geological evidence for quebrada communities are linked with spatial data on two contemporary local communities, Palmarejo and Palos Blancos. A geographic information system (GIS) is constructed and implemented in order to achieve this goal. It is argued that there are specific relationships that exist between ancient …

Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for April 3, 2008

Vista: April 3, 2008, University Of San Diego

USD Vista (1965-)

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“To Know Where I Have Got To”: The Postmodern Chronotope In Beckett’S Malone Dies And Coetzee’S Foe, Brian J. Mcallister

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study addresses two works of fiction--Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies and J. M. Coetzee's Foe--and is separated into two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the indeterminate nature of postmodern space within the two novels as related to M. M. Bakhtin's idea of the chronotope found in his work The Dialogic Imagination. The second chapter addresses the self-reflexive creation of this postmodern space within each novel's hypodiegetic narratives and discussions of narrative creation within each respective diegetic narratives.

In each novel, characters as authors create or discuss "inner" narratives that reflect upon the way chronotopes are created in fiction …

The Cord Weekly (April 2, 2008)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Census Enumeration Districts, Robert G. Cromley

UCCGIA Census Geographic Data Initiative

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A Digital Archive Of Historical Railroad Property Valuation Maps, Dean Chauvin

UCCGIA PAPERS AND PROCEEDINGS

This paper describes the creation of a digital archive of railroad property valuation maps created for a railway line operated by the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company. The original maps were created by the railroad company in 1915 for the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Commission took data on railroad property into account in calculating passenger and freight rates. Property title schedules for parcels along the railway are provided with the maps. Linen copies of close to 3,000 original maps were donated to Archives and Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries by the …

The Daily Gamecock, Wednesday, April 2, 2008, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

April

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The Bg News April 2, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. April 2, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 131.

April 2, 2008 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

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Proceedings Of The 64th Annual Meeting - Great Expectations: Managing The Graduate School's Roles And Responsibilities, Midwestern Association Of Graduate Schools

Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools

Great Expectations-Managing the Graduate School's Roles and Responsibilities

St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark St. Louis, Missouri April 2-4, 2008

Plenary Sessions Plenary I: The Place for the Graduate School in a University

Keynote: Brian L. Foster

Plenary II: Trends in Graduate Education

Ph.D. Completion and Attrition: Analysis of Baseline Data

Trends in Graduate Education

Plenary III: What Graduate Students and Faculty Want from a Graduate School

The Role of the Graduate Dean in Professional Development

Professional Science Master’s (PSM) Programs Introduction

A Graduate Dean's Perspective

The Program Director's Perspective

Recent Trends in PSM Development

Academic Support & Online Learning …

Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Meeting, April 2, 2008, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. College Of Business. Undergraduate Curricula Committee

Kate Tiedemann College of Business Undergraduate Curricula and Assessment Committee

Minutes of the April 2, 2008, meeting of the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

Electoral Abuse In The Late Roman Republic, Howard Troxler

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Escalating abuse of elections was a hallmark of the collapse of the Republic that governed at Rome for nearly 500 years before it was swept away and replaced by emperors and Empire. The causes of the Republic's fall are well-explored, but electoral abuse was one of the agencies by which it was brought low - a "how" that helps explain the "why." The abuse of regular electoral form, practiced by all parties, inured the Romans to further and ever-widening abuse. In the end their elections - and the Republic - lost both meaning and independence. This is a controversial claim …

Indigenous Ecology And Chicanada Coalition Building In The Dramatic Works Of Cherríe Moraga: “Living Models” For A Sustainable Future, Paula Straile-Costa

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

This study focuses on three recent dramatic works by Cherríe Moraga’s written in the same period as her essay and poetry collection, The Last Generation. Heroes and Saints, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, and Circle in the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto draw from indigenous ecology and the historical archive of Chicano struggle that provide models for a sustainable future she envisions. The author shifts from poetry and essay - the lyrical, reflective mode of self-inquiry and expression for which she is so well known – to a collective dramatic dialogue allowing her to …

Too Mex For The Masses: Bringing Mexican Regional Music To Market, Amanda Maria Morrison

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

This article explores the exclusion of Mexican regional music from major marketing and promotional efforts within the domestic music industry, and what that elision reveals about dominant and competing claims on “Latino” ethnic identity. Despite being the bestselling Latin music genre in the U.S., regional Mexican music receives the least development backing and attracts the fewest corporate sponsors. Unlike the suave salseros and Latin-pop divas of previous “Latin booms,” no Mexican regional artist, save for Selena, has ever been primed for mainstream “crossover” success. I argue that what is at stake in promotion of various Latin genres is the …

Chicana Photography: The Power Of Place, Ann Marie Leimer

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

The concern with space, location, place, and geographic site has received heightened attention from artists and theorists from the 1960s onward. For critics and creators engaged with these concepts, the analysis of the interaction between of the processes of spatialization, identity formation, and memory has emerged as an important aspect of critical discourse. Lucy Lippard defines space as a physical site, understood as landscape or nature, while place implies intimacy, a familiarity with a certain geographic location. For Lippard, human interaction and, most importantly, the infusion of memory into space or a geographic site produces place. Michel de Certeau …

The Oak Park Redevelopment Plan: Housing Policy Implications For A Community Undergoing Early Stage Gentrification, Joaquin Castañeda

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

With the reemerging discussion of gentrification in the urban landscape, an exploratory case study of the Oak Park Redevelopment Plan in Sacramento, CA, was conducted in order to better understand the community’s gentrifying characteristics and the implications once the redevelopment goals are met. In addition, a Conceptual Framework [CF] was formulated in order to unpack the components and processes of gentrification. The findings suggest that the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency’s redevelopment polices act as a catalyst for gentrification that exclusively favors the in-migration of middle- and upper-income residents into the area at the expense of lower-income residents. These …

Looking Beyond “Mow, Blow And Go”: A Case Study Of Mexican Immigrant Gardeners In Los Angeles, Alvaro Huerta

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

Abstract:

Recent research on Mexican immigrants focuses on the working conditions of farm workers, garment workers, janitors and day laborers. This coincides with successful efforts by organized labor and immigrant advocacy groups to organize these marginalized workforces. Little attention, however, has been given to Mexican paid gardeners. As part of the household service economy, paid gardeners represent a difficult labor sector to organize and research because they typically operate as independent contractors in the informal economy. This paper seeks to provide a more holistic picture of this dynamic, informal workforce. Drawing primarily upon ethnographic techniques, the paper documents how this …

Summer Session '08 Student Handbook, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

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Williams Directs Diversity Initiatives

This Month

Dr. Carmaletta Williams was named the first executive assistant to the president, diversity initiatives, at JCCC.