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The Case For Excellence In Diversity: Lessons From An Assessment Of An Early Career Faculty Program, Dorothe J. Bach, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Many colleges and universities have come to understand the added educational value of having a more diverse faculty, and some have created specific programs to enhance recruitment, development, and retention of underrepresented faculty. How do these programs help underrepresented faculty start a successful career? How can they help a diverse faculty build thriving, long-term careers in academia? This chapter addresses these questions by sharing the findings and lessons learned from an internal and external assessment of the Excellence in Diversity Fellows Program at the University of Virginia.

Individual Achievement In An Honors Research Community: Teaching Vygotsky’S Zone Of Proximal Development, Kaitlin A. Briggs

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The years leading up to the 1917 Russian October Revolution must have been a dynamic environment for an emerging young intellectual living in Moscow. Eclipsed by such popular Western cultural representations as David Lean’s 1965 Academy Award winning film, Dr. Zhivago (based on Pasternak’s novel), this milieu included the writers Babel, Gorky, and Nabokov; the poets Mandel’shtam and Tsvetaeva; the composers Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky; the theater director and acting teacher Stanislavsky; and the artists Chagall and Kandinsky (Van Der Veer, 23–4). There we find situated a law student, also studying philosophy, literature, and aesthetics, who went on to become …

Review Of Notes From Texas: On Writing In The Lone Star State Edited By W. C. Jameson, Karl Germeck

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For Notes from Texas, W. C. Jameson compiles essay responses from esteemed veterans of the Texas writing community in an effort to understand how each came to choose a career in writing and succeeded in doing so, as well as the role Texas (its myths and lore, geography, history, and culture) has played in that process. The result is a collection of fourteen personal essays from eleven native, and three transplant, Texans, including such notables as former and co-founding director of the University of North Texas Press, Frances Brannen Vick, novelists Elmer Kelton, Paulette Jiles, James Reasoner, and poet/songwriter …

A Visual Analytics Approach To Understanding Spatiotemporal Hotspots, Ross Maciejewski, Stephen Rudolph, Ryan Hafen, Ahmad Abusalah, Mohamed Yakout, Mourad Ouzzani, William S. Cleveland, Shaun Grannis, David S. Ebert

Cyber Center Publications

As data sources become larger and more complex, the ability to effectively explore and analyze patterns amongst varying sources becomes a critical bottleneck in analytic reasoning. Incoming data contains multiple variables, high signal to noise ratio, and a degree of uncertainty, all of which hinder exploration, hypothesis eneration/exploration, and decision making. To facilitate the exploration of such data, advanced tool sets are needed that allow the user to interact with their data in a visual environment that provides direct analytic capability for finding data aberrations or hotspots. In this paper, we present a suite of tools designed to facilitate the …

Eastern, Winter 2010, Eastern Michigan University

Alumni News: Eastern Magazine

No abstract provided.

Guild's Lake Courts : An Impermanent Housing Project, Tanya Lyn March

Dissertations and Theses

Guild's Lake Courts was built as temporary worker housing for the steel and shipyard industries during World War II. The massive housing development in Northwest Portland consisted of 2,432 units of housing, five community buildings, five childcare centers, a grade school and a fire station. Guild's Lake Courts was the eighth largest housing project built at that time in the United States. The peak population in January 1945 was approximately 10,000 individuals. Archival research, face-to-face oral histories, and resident reunions were used to explore the social, architectural and political history of Guild's Lake Courts. The lens for understanding how the …

Assessing The Feasibility Of An Aerotropolis Around Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Executive Report, Claudette Robey, Daila Shimek, James Wyles, Brian A. Mikelbank, Jim Robey, Kevin O'Brien, Et.Al.

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report provides an assessment of the feasibility of developing an aerotropolis around Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, Ohio. The report describes the methodology used to assess the feasibility, notes the needs and expectations of community stakeholders, profiles the challenges and successes of six emerging and potential U.S. aerotropolises, and discusses the operating experiences and challenges of 12 additional U.S. airports. Further, this report describes the demographic and economic aspects of the study cities, and discusses potential target industry opportunities. The findings suggest that it is feasible to develop CLE as an aerotropolis, and that CLE may not be suited …

Climate Change, Dead Zones, And Massive Problems In The Administrative State: A Guide For Whittling Away, James Salzman, J.B. Ruhl

Faculty Scholarship

Mandates that agencies solve massive problems such as sprawl and climate change roll easily out of the halls of legislatures, but as a practical matter what can any one agency do about them? Serious policy challenges such as these have dimensions far beyond the capacity of any single agency to manage effectively. Rather, as the Supreme Court recently observed in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, agencies, like legislatures, do not generally resolve massive problems in one fell swoop, but instead whittle away over time, refining their approach as circumstances change and they develop a more nuanced understanding of how best …

Selected Cases From The United States Supreme Court’S 2009-2010 Term, Tim J. Davis

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2009–2010 Term ushered in both important federal law clarifications and divisive constitutional pronouncements. The Court performed much work in the realm of civil procedure, doing away with Circuit splits regarding the collateral-order doctrine and diversity jurisdiction, and also explaining what it means to make a mistake for purposes of relation back—decisions sure to affect many a federal practice. The Court also dabbled in employment law under Title VII; decided constitutional challenges to several federal statutes, including an anti-terrorism statute; and attempted to firm up the boundaries that inhere in the constitutional concepts of federalism and separation …

Dispute Regarding Navigational And Related Rights (Costa Rica V. Nicaragua), Coalter G. Lathrop

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Access To Success: A New Mentoring Model For Women In Academia, Amber Dailey-Hebert, Emily Donnelli, B. Jean Mandernach

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The scarcity of women leaders in academia influences policies, procedures, and expectations and in turn perpetuates a climate that deters development of future women leaders. Despite research supporting the need for institutional change to create leadership avenues for women faculty, little evidence of such change exists. The Presidential Leadership Program for University Women was developed as a proactive, integrative mentoring model to link female academics. Crucial to the program’s success are networking opportunities, peer mentoring in a group setting, and a culminating “legacy project” designed to improve the campus climate and services for women.

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 2010, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

Contents include Bridgewater’s conversion from college to university status, the university’s strategic plan, new deans, Swenson Field renovation, and Bridgewater’s campaign for excellence. Also Bridgewater and Alumni News.

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 20, Number 1, Winter 2010, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Contents include the future of math and science in Southeastern Massachusetts, inclusion in the classroom, scripting success, students take charge, and graduate programs hit the road. Also Bridgewater and Alumni News.

Resistance: Contemporary Architecture:Sustaining Identity 2, Jim Roche

Articles

Economic globalisation has facilitated a glut of ‘spectacle’ works of architecture worldwide that often fail to celebrate the genius loci of places or the divergence of human culture. With the current crisis in world capitalism causing a meltdown in the mad rush to overbuild our physical environment it is pertinent to consider once again that architecture can actually contribute to a broader existential understanding.

A recent one-day conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London posited such a proposition. Curated by the Finnish writer and theorist, Juhani Pallasmaa and moderated by Jonathan Glancy, the Architecture and Design Editor of …

Hidden Voices From The Culianary Past: Oral History As A Tool For Culinary Historians, Mairtin Mac Con Iomaire

Conference papers

There has been a growing interest in culinary history and gastronomy in the last three decades (Messer, Haber et al. 2000). Much of the work of culinary historians is centred on written sources, ranging from cookbooks, diaries, or menus. The voices and life experiences of most food workers (both domestic and professional) are hidden, apart from the minority who wrote cookbooks or memoirs. This paper discusses the use of oral history as a tool to un-lock the experiences of food workers and draws on the author’s experiences using oral history in researching the history of Dublin restaurants 1900-2000 for his …

Salute To Faculty Scholarship 2010, Clark University

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Luce, Humphrey Institute And Cts Conference Presentations On Region: Planning The Future Of The Twin Cities (2010), Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Presentations

Presentation of region planning the future of the Twin Cities

Landscape Values As A Determinant In Geotourism Development: A Case Study Of Utah, Usa, E. Papińska, Elzbieta Białkowska-Jelińska

School of Geosciences Student Publications

The state of Utah is located in west-central United States. The area of 219 887 km²is populated by 2.8 million people (in 2009). Population density is relatively low: 12 persons per square km. The main reasons for low population density are unfavourable natural conditions. The most important are topography and climate. Utah’s landscape diversity is a consequence of a variety of terrain types. For that reason, there are 5 national parks (Zion, Bryce, Capitol Reef, Arches and Canyonlands), national monuments, and other lower rank protected areas established in Utah. Each of these places, characterized by unique types of …

Website: 2010 Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium 2010 Website

Contents:

Keynote Speaker

Schedule - Wednesday

Schedule - Thursday

Schedule - Friday

Poster Program

Associated Sessions

Abstracts

Honors Program

Independent Study Projects

Participating Departments/Programs

Online Hyper-Local News Sites Fulfill Classic Functions Of Community Journalism, Jack Rosenberry

Media and Communication Faculty/Staff Publications

A content analysis of story topics published on 70 hyper-local online news sites indicated that these sites may have an untraditional way of delivering the news but they fulfill roles and functions that are very similar to the ones documented in historical research about community press and social organization.

The Right To Counsel In Juvenile Court: Law Reform To Deliver Legal Services And Reduce Justice By Geography, Barry Feld, Shelly Schaefer

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Vortex Of Labor, Thomas Janoski, Christopher Oliver

Sociology White Papers

Three factors constitute the new global division of labor that causes structural unemployment in advanced industrialized countries: (1) Globalization has increased outsourcing and off-shoring with manufacturing jobs and white collar work moving overseas. (2) Lean production has moved throughout the manufacturing industries of the world, with the service industries following behind. Lean production reduces jobs but can also create some jobs. (3) Advanced technologies reduce old jobs (e.g., newspapers, post office, etc.) but also create new jobs. The internet allows jobs to be done from anywhere in the world, which aids off-shoring, and automation reduces jobs but creates a few …

The Process Of Balancing, Oren Gross

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of The Family, Benjamin E. Hardisty

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Biological levels of complexity usually begin with the cell and extend forward to tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, community, and end with ecosystems. The family is a unit of biological complexity is missing. As a result, the evolution of altruism and cooperation from a natural selection perspective has not been produced. In the following chapters, I argue that the family is a unit of biological complexity will illuminate such mysteries as the evolution of eusociality, theories of lifetime fitness—sometimes referred to as Lifetime Reproductive Success (LRS)— cultural learning and its importance as a parallel mechanism of inheritance, finally, the …

Diet Analysis And Community Characteristics Of Lepomis (Sunfish) Species Congregating Near Natural Spring Vents Of The Rainbow River, Florida, Michael S. Sears

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Little is known about the ecology of natural springs and the influence spring vents have on fish populations. This study explores fish population characteristics, such as abundance, diversity, and length distributions near headwater spring vents and downstream away from the spring vents within the Rainbow River, located in central Florida. The population characteristics examined are useful to resource managers when evaluating the possible impacts on fish populations from increased groundwater withdrawals and subsequent lower discharge rates into large spring-fed rivers. Initial field observations led to the hypothesis that Lepomis species feed on organisms expelled from the spring vents. Electrofishing and …

Mapping Soil Moisture At A Regional Scale Using Integrated Remote Sensing, Gis, And Radar Precipitation: A Comparative Study, Shanon M. Connelly

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

This research attempts to develop a methodology to estimate soil moisture content from current weather station radar data (NEXRAD or Next-Generation Radar), a network of 159 high-resolution Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS). The overall goal of the experiment design is to establish a hybrid methodology that will combine Geographic Information System (GIS) with mass-balance methods and pedotransfer functions (PTF) with information technology (such as remote sensing and real-time Stage III NEXRAD-WSR-88D data) to create accurate soil moisture maps at spatial and temporal scales higher than current methodologies. Accurate soil moisture maps will drastically affect agriculture …

Restoration Of Propeller Scars In Seagrass Meadows Using Sediment Tubes And Design Of A Working Prototype Unmanned Surface Vehicle For Seagrass Studies, Karen Leigh Dreger

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Sediment tubes were placed in the unvegetated trenches created in seagrass meadows by boat propellers. The sediment tubes facilitated the natural recovery by stabilizing the sediments and by allowing recruitment of healthy seagrass from the surrounding, undisturbed area. Still images taken of the study sites before and after restoration were assigned a Braun-Blanquet ranking based on the percentage coverage of seagrass. Statistical analysis, using the Mann-Whitney U Test, supported the visual observation that the sediment tubes successfully facilitated natural restoration of the propeller scars. After two years there was an increase in the percent coverage of seagrass at each of …

Patterns Of Indigenous Resilience In The Amazon: A Case Study Of Huaorani Hunting In Ecuador, Flora Lu

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This paper takes a resilience approach to examining human forager-prey dynamics using as a case study Huaorani hunting in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I compare methodologically similar datasets collected in the same Huaorani villages in 1996-1997 and 2001. Rather than assuming that human hunters simply act on prey species and linearly drive them to depletion, a resilience approach views this dynamic as a complex social and ecological system characterized by feedbacks, nonlinearities, uncertainty, unpredictability, and non-equilibrium dynamics. Using a computer simulation of human foragers and prey (published previously), I highlight how even using relatively simple assumptions, the human forager-prey relationship exhibits …

Using Gis And Ecological Variables To Identify High Potential Areas For Paleoanthropological Survey: An Example From Northern Armenia, Charles P. Egeland, Christopher M. Nicholson, Boris Gasparian

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Shaping A Creative Milieu: Creativity, Process, Pedagogy, Leadership, And Place, Tom Borrup

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This paper surveys research in relation to the conditions and processes considered important in fostering creativity in a variety of contexts including cities, organizations, and learning environments. Two established schools of the arts, and their leaders, serve as case studies in the examination of milieu designed to foster creative thinking and work. The paper identifies ten characteristics found to be common in the formation of creative milieu by scholars in psychology, business, economics, anthropology, geography, leadership, urban studies, education, and the arts. Characteristics include exchanges across cultures and domains of knowledge, opportunities for serendipitous interactions and for solitude, risk-taking, stable …