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Focus Emu, February 10, 2009, Office Of Public Information Jan 2009

Focus Emu, February 10, 2009, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

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Gender Mainstreaming In International News: A Case Study Of The Inter Press Service, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh Jan 2009

Gender Mainstreaming In International News: A Case Study Of The Inter Press Service, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

From 1994 to 1999, the global news agency Inter Press Service (IPS) implemented a gender mainstreaming policy in its newsrooms. This study examined organizational changes and news coverage that IPS advocated, as well as methods employed to bring about these changes. It shows that IPS has not been able to mainstream gender into all aspects of the organization and news coverage, and it considers reasons for the lacking implementation of the policy, while documenting IPS's efforts to improve women's access and representation in international news.

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Rethinking Judicial Deference To Legislation Fact-Finding, Caitlin E. Borgmann Jan 2009

Rethinking Judicial Deference To Legislation Fact-Finding, Caitlin E. Borgmann

Indiana Law Journal

It is traditionally assumed that the role of ascertaining and evaluating the social facts underlying a statute belongs to the legislatures. The courts in turn are tasked with deciding the law and must defer to legislative fact-finding on relevant issues of social fact. This simplistic formula, however, does not accurately describe the courts' confused approach to legislative fact-finding. Although the courts often speak in terms of deference, they follow no consistent or predictable pattern in deciding whether to defer in a given case. Moreover, blanket judicial deference to legislative fact-finding would not be a wise general rule. Because social fact-finding …

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No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education And The Essentialist Myth Of Masculinity, David S. Cohen Jan 2009

No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education And The Essentialist Myth Of Masculinity, David S. Cohen

Indiana Law Journal

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Definitions Of Violence: African-American And Iraqi Refugee Adolescents' Perceptions, Beverly M. Black, Barbara L. Peterson, Arlene N. Weisz, Poco D. Kernsmith, Linda A. Lewandowski, Krupa K. Hegde Jan 2009

Definitions Of Violence: African-American And Iraqi Refugee Adolescents' Perceptions, Beverly M. Black, Barbara L. Peterson, Arlene N. Weisz, Poco D. Kernsmith, Linda A. Lewandowski, Krupa K. Hegde

Social Work Faculty Publications

This article explores the perceptions of urban African-American and Iraqi refugee adolescents regarding community violence, school violence, family violence and dating/intimate partner violence. A subset of participants from a larger study on violence and trauma was selected to participate in the current study. Using a card-sort exercise, participants identified situations as violent or not violent. Iraqi youth identified noticeably more behaviors as violence than African-American youth. Few significant gender differences emerged. Findings of important cultural differences provide implications for violence prevention programming.

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The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education Jan 2009

The Journal Of Social Theory In Art Education

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

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One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Art Education And The Symbolic Interaction Of Bodies And Self-Images, James H. Rolling Jr. Jan 2009

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other: Art Education And The Symbolic Interaction Of Bodies And Self-Images, James H. Rolling Jr.

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

This article begins with the premise that self-imagery is constituted as a shape-shifting aggregate of symbolic systems that incorporates the human body itself as one of its representations. At intermittent points of the body's embodiment of visual culture and tacit social experience, alternative representations accrete into varying symbolic systems, the multiple shapes a self-image may take over a lifetime. Given that social identity is derived from the interaction of various symbolic systems, how do some bodies and self-images come to be taken as that of identities incompatible with most others? In this exploration of the self-image and identity, the author …

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Chicago Islamic Microfinance Project, Karen Ahmed, Cynthia Shawamreh Jan 2009

Chicago Islamic Microfinance Project, Karen Ahmed, Cynthia Shawamreh

College of Business Faculty and Staff Works

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Where Is Islamic Finance Going? Ethical Investment Strategies, Karen Ahmed Jan 2009

Where Is Islamic Finance Going? Ethical Investment Strategies, Karen Ahmed

College of Business Faculty and Staff Works

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"Haunting For Hunger" A Halloween Celebration [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud. Jan 2009

"Haunting For Hunger" A Halloween Celebration [Flier], University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services, Uni Proud.

UNI Proud Documents

A flier promoting Haunting for Hunger event.

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Mb 720 Cross Cultural Communication Of Christianity, George G. Hunter Jan 2009

Mb 720 Cross Cultural Communication Of Christianity, George G. Hunter

Syllabi

1. Storti, Craig. The Art of Crossing Cultures, second ed. Intercultural Press, Inc., 2001. 2. _________. Figuring Foreigners Out. Intercultural Press, Inc., 1999. 3. Hunter, George G. III, The Celtic Way of Evangelism. Abingdon Press, 2000. 4. Nydell, Margaret K. Understanding Arabs, fourth ed. Intercultural Press, Sept. 2005. Additional Required Textbooks for MB 720 students (optional for MS 645 students). 5. Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckman. The Social Construction of Reality. Doubleday @ Company, 1967. 6. Nida, Eugene. Message and Mission: The Communication of the Christian Faith, rev. ed. William Carey Library, 1990. Additional Required Readings for both MS 645 …

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Co 730 Advanced Issues In Cross-Cultural Counseling, Javier Sierra Jan 2009

Co 730 Advanced Issues In Cross-Cultural Counseling, Javier Sierra

Syllabi

Schwarzbaum, S. E., & Jones, A. (2008). Dimenssions of Multicultural Counseling: A life story approach. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage Publications, Inc. Sue, D. W., and Sue, D. (2007). Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and practice, (5th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons Mucherera, Tapiwa N. (2005). Pastoral Care From a Third World Perspective: A Pastoral Theology of Care from an Urban Contemporary Shona in Zimbabwe. NY: Peter Lang

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Nt 820 Research Methods In New Testament Interpretation, Fredrick J. Long Jan 2009

Nt 820 Research Methods In New Testament Interpretation, Fredrick J. Long

Syllabi

1. Alexander, Patrick H., et al., eds. The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and Early Christian Studies. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1999. [Henceforth, SBL Handbook of Style]. Download and consult the student supplement version online at http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/SBLHS_SS92804_Revised_ed.pdf 2. Booth, Wayne C., Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams. The Craft of Research. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. [Henceforth, Booth et al., The Craft of Research] 3. By the Professor as PDF files to be sent via email to the seminar participants: a. STEP-UP Exegetical Manuel with Examples [Henceforth, STEP-UP] b. “Areas for Biblical Research …

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2009-10 Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Catalog, Bryn Mawr College Jan 2009

2009-10 Bryn Mawr College Undergraduate Catalog, Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College Calendar

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Whistle Past The Church No More, Perceptions On Added Value To Industrial Tourism In Dublin's Liberties, Tony Kiely Jan 2009

Whistle Past The Church No More, Perceptions On Added Value To Industrial Tourism In Dublin's Liberties, Tony Kiely

Conference papers

Situated in the Liberties area of Dublin, and within a short walk of Trinity College, the Guinness Storehouse serves as an iconic key attractor for up to one million visitors annually. The success of this visitor attraction can be directly attributed to a “brand immersion” strategy, which emotionally links the visitor with the brand through cultural identification alignment. Yet many tourists, in accessing Ireland’s premier tourist attraction, often pass within the shadows of a cluster of lesser known, but nonetheless significant church heritage sites. While acknowledging that at the extreme ends of an experience continuum “brand visitation” and “church visitation” …

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The Bad News And The Good News: The Long-Term Consequences Of Having Used An Alternative Work Schedule, Margaret Padgett, Lynn Harland, Steven B. Moser Jan 2009

The Bad News And The Good News: The Long-Term Consequences Of Having Used An Alternative Work Schedule, Margaret Padgett, Lynn Harland, Steven B. Moser

Scholarship and Professional Work - Business

Research suggests that women who adopt alternative work arrangements may be viewed less favorably than women who work a regular schedule. This study examined whether those negative perceptions persist even after the woman returns to a regular schedule. One hundred twenty-five employed MBA students participated in an experimental study in which work schedule was manipulated. Participants reviewed a personnel file for a female employee who was either on a regular schedule or who had previously been on a reduced-workload schedule. They then completed a questionnaire assessing their perceptions of the target employee. Contrary to the authors' expectations, results revealed that …

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Does Universal Access Mean Equitable Access? What An Information Infrastructure Study Of A Rural Romanian Community Can Tell Us, Cheryl Klimaszewski Jan 2009

Does Universal Access Mean Equitable Access? What An Information Infrastructure Study Of A Rural Romanian Community Can Tell Us, Cheryl Klimaszewski

Library Staff Research and Scholarship

Researchers interviewed villagers to investigate the current state of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development in the village. Ethnographic methods were used to collect data and to assess villagers’ information needs. The information landscape in Viscri is presented and analyzed in local and national contexts. The national policies shaping Romania’s emerging Information Society are discussed and literature on the impact of ICT development at the community level is also reviewed.

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On Account Of Race Or Color: Race As Corporation And The Original Understanding Of Race, Reginald Oh Jan 2009

On Account Of Race Or Color: Race As Corporation And The Original Understanding Of Race, Reginald Oh

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Oh describes this essay as a critique of constitutional and political discourse on "race" and argues that current equal protection doctrine operates under a conception of race that undermines rather than moves forward the goal of achieving racial equality. That understanding defines race solely or primarily as a physical trait or characteristic, and unjustifiably rejects other, more robust notions of race. He argues that the notion of race as physical trait is inconsistent with the historical understanding of race that served as the basis for the Reconstruction Amendments. A careful examination of nineteenth and early twentieth century court decisions, decisions …

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Amendment (2009) Jan 2009

Amendment (2009)

Amendment, 2004-

Amendment is a VCU student-produced progressive literature and art journal that provides a platform for students to promote equality, tolerance, and social progression through artistic expression.

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Democratic Discussion, Kinder R. Donald, Don Herzog Jan 2009

Democratic Discussion, Kinder R. Donald, Don Herzog

Book Chapters

In this piece one of the country’s most accomplished survey researchers joins forces with a major democratic theorist (they happen to be colleagues at the same institution, the University of Michigan)—and together they try to reconcile what might seem irreconcilable: survey research findings about voter ignorance, on the one hand, with John Stuart Mill’s ideal of government by discussion, on the other. Read them carefully to ascertain the basis of reconciliation, for it is subtle: they extrapolate from John Dewey’s concept of “contingent social practices.” That is undoubtedly a mouthful, but it implies—as you will see—that the relative political sophistication …

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Assessing University Strategic Plans: A Tool For Consideration, Shannon Chance, Brenda T. Williams Jan 2009

Assessing University Strategic Plans: A Tool For Consideration, Shannon Chance, Brenda T. Williams

Articles

This article explores the use of rubrics as tools for assessing the quality of university-developed strategic plans. While tools exist for assessing the quality of the planning process, such tools are not readily available for assessing the resulting product or the overall quality of the plan itself. Specifi cally, a rubric is described that has been designed and fi eld-tested for the purpose of evaluating the strategic planning document produced at the university level. This approach builds upon outcome assessment methods developed in the business sector and proposes a tool tailored for use in higher education.

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Media Literacy, Brian O'Neill, Ingun Hagen Jan 2009

Media Literacy, Brian O'Neill, Ingun Hagen

Books/Book chapters

Across Europe and beyond, the promotion of media literacy, for children and adults, has acquired an important public urgency. Traditional literacy is seen to be no longer sufficient for participation in today’s society. Citizens need to be media literate, it is claimed, to enable them to cope more effectively with the flood of information in today’s highly mediated societies. As teachers, politicians and policy makers everywhere struggle with this rapid shift in media culture, greater responsibility is placed on citizens for their own welfare in the new media environment. Media literacy is therefore all the more essential in enabling citizens …

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Benefits Of Using Primary Sources In The High School United States History Classroom, Norene Lee Osborne Jan 2009

Benefits Of Using Primary Sources In The High School United States History Classroom, Norene Lee Osborne

All Graduate Projects

History textbooks have not traditionally included the perspectives of the whole of society. The contributions of non-whites, women, the poor and the illiterate are consistently forgotten or ignored in the history classroom. When the stories of these groups are present, the content is incomplete and minimal, due to the resources available to the teacher within the curriculum provided by the textbook manufacturers or the school districts. Primary sources, or first hand accounts of history, can be used to supplement gaps in the curriculum, allowing students to construct a more authentic and complete knowledge of history. This project includes practical supplemental …

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Targeting Tuberculars: Social Stigma And Public Health Campaigns, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr Jan 2009

Targeting Tuberculars: Social Stigma And Public Health Campaigns, Filomeno V. Aguilar Jr

History Department Faculty Publications

In the fight against tuberculosis one major obstacle is the social stigma associated with the disease. Stigma, which is both relational and contextual, marks the body of the tubercular as a site of danger. This essay reflects on the social history of tuberculosis and proposes that stigma’s contingent history in the Philippines can be traced to public health campaigns carried out during the twentieth century, which sought to segregate and isolate the tubercular to limit contagion but could not provide an effective cure. The stigmatization of tuberculosis persists at present, and public health campaigns may need to address stigma directly.

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Educating Citizens Building Communities: Annual Membership Survey Results - Executive Summary, Campus Compact Jan 2009

Educating Citizens Building Communities: Annual Membership Survey Results - Executive Summary, Campus Compact

Higher Education

Campus Compact conducts an annual survey of its member colleges and universities to—among other things—gauge student and faculty involvement in service and service-learning, assess institutional support and culture for service and service-learning, identify the types of courses and programs offered as well as the issues being addressed through service, and identify the nature of campus-community partnerships. This publication provides an executive summary of our major findings in 2009.

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Community-Engaged Scholarship In Ffigher Education: An Expanding Experience, Judith A. Ramaley Jan 2009

Community-Engaged Scholarship In Ffigher Education: An Expanding Experience, Judith A. Ramaley

Higher Education

Higher education in this country has always been expected to serve the public good. Sometimes, the emphasis is on preparing educated citizens or practitioners in especially critical fields and how public service can deepen and enrich learning and prepare students to lead purposeful, responsible, and creative lives. Sometimes the focus is upon institutions themselves as major intellectual and cultural resources for a community. In this paper, based on the keynote presentation at the Community Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative's invitational symposium, the author explores four levels of engagement: the individual, the academic community and its concepts of scholarship, the institution …

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Serving The Underserved, Nadine Barragan Jan 2009

Serving The Underserved, Nadine Barragan

Whittier Scholars Program

This senior project describes why high school students in Pico Rivera are not going on to pursue higher education. It starts by taking a look at the Pico Rivera community as a whole and later it focuses specifically on high school age youth. It outlines the problems, root causes, and offers a solution. It creates a template that non-profits or other organizations can use to help high school youth understand the college application process better in order to encourage them to pursue higher education. This paper is directed towards community leaders and non-profit mangers to help them understand and address …

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A Success Story In Shifting The Paradigm Together : Partnership Between Service And Education In Building An Onsite Clinical Nurse Leader Program, Enna Edouard Trevathan Jan 2009

A Success Story In Shifting The Paradigm Together : Partnership Between Service And Education In Building An Onsite Clinical Nurse Leader Program, Enna Edouard Trevathan

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Access to advanced academic preparation has been an important consideration in the design of educational programs for the working professional nurse. Nursing education has a history of developing and implementing strategies to respond to their needs beyond the traditional, on campus classroom setting. Nursing programs were early adopters of distance learning technologies, from the first two-way audio, one-way video classes, to satellite, two-way video classes to the recent proliferation of web-based programs. However, an innovative alternative is proposed - bringing the course work to the employment setting and designing the program to be responsive to the learning needs of the …

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Elder Activities: Patterns, Motives, And Interpretation. Massachusetts Lifestyles Study Iii, Francis G. Caro, Jeffrey A. Burr, Eilon Caspi, Jan E. Mutchler Jan 2009

Elder Activities: Patterns, Motives, And Interpretation. Massachusetts Lifestyles Study Iii, Francis G. Caro, Jeffrey A. Burr, Eilon Caspi, Jan E. Mutchler

Gerontology Institute Publications

We are engaged in a continuing effort to understand the scope of elder activity and the implications of activity for well-being. We are particularly interested in the forces that encourage or inhibit multiple forms of activity, the ways in which participation in some activities influences participation in other activities, and the cumulative implications of activities for well being. Our interest in multiple forms of activities sets us somewhat apart from Gerontologists who focus on single forms of activity such as volunteering, taking classes, caring for grandchildren, working, or exercising.

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Elder Economic Security Initiative™ Program: The Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index For Minnesota, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Wider Opportunities For Women Jan 2009

Elder Economic Security Initiative™ Program: The Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index For Minnesota, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Wider Opportunities For Women

Gerontology Institute Publications

This report addresses income adequacy for Minnesota’s older adults using the national WOW-GI National Elder Economic Security Standard Index (“the Elder Index”) methodology. The Elder Index benchmarks basic costs of living for elder households and illustrates how costs of living vary geographically and are based on the characteristics of elder households, including household size, home ownership or renter status, and health status. The costs are based on market costs for basic needs of elder households and do not assume any public or private supports.

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