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Aesthetic Mind-Meditative Mind: Reflections On Art As Yoga And Contemplative Practice, Michael A. Franklin

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

This dissertation examines visual art as a form of yoga and contemplative practice through the lens of art-based research (ABR) and methods of meditation. Essentially, yoga joins together cognitive, somatic, and socially engaged practices that illuminate a synergistic view of our finite physical self with our infinite Self (Atman) as embodied consciousness. Included in this discussion are contemplative seeing (darshan), art as worship (rasa), the Shaivite view of creation (spanda), theophanic imagination, and the origins of images. This research was further catalyzed by the author’s diagnosis of prostate cancer. As physical disease progressed from diagnosis through treatment, art and meditation …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

May Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Ua35/11 Arête May 2010, Honors College

Arête: Honors College at WKU Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Educational Role Of The Art Museum And Its Collections In The Teaching Of University Undergraduate And Graduate Student, Lanette Mcneil

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to gain understanding of the types and purposes of art museum educational programs, services and collaborative projects that have been developed by art museum educators for university audiences. Additionally, this study examines the challenges in creating and sustaining these educational experiences. This study presents results from an exploratory qualitative web survey administered to art museum educators from public, private, and university art museums. This study provides insight into the relationships between the art museum educators and the university audiences. Additionally, this study underscores the importance of understanding theoretical differences from which art museum educators …

Spring Commencement Program, May 8, 2010, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 8, 2010, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Vignesh Alamanda, Hong Ting Chiu, Maria Domino, Brianna Girton, Jody Kelly, Alla Kireeva, Molly McCann, Michael Montuno, Akash Parekh, Nathan Quecan, Sarah Ranes, Janine Villot, and Danielle Weaver-Rogers; Honorary Doctor of Human Letters - R. Gil Kerlikowske; Outstanding Senior - Kristen Corpion

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Graduate, May 8, 2010, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

President's Global Leadership Award - Allan Goodman

School Of Law Commencement: May 8, 2010, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

School of Law Commencement program from May 8, 2010.

University Of Mississippi Commencement, 2010, University Of Mississippi, Daniel W. Jones, Morris H. Stocks, Ray Mabus

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Peter L. Berger's Early Conception Of Agency: Exposition And Evaluation., James Greene

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Peter L. Berger's conception of agency in his earliest writings (c.1954-1960) is logically and empirically inadequate. At the root of this inadequacy is an idealism that prevents him from providing a compelling account of actual empirical agency. Chapter 1 asserts that Berger's earlier works warrant analysis. Chapter 2 discusses Berger's earliest influences, particularly Max Weber and The Swedish Lund School of motif research. Chapter 3 identifies a unique commitment to Christian Humanism at the base of Berger's conception of agency. Chapter 4 clarifies how Berger's Christian humanism interacts with his Weberian, and Parsonian-inspired functional analysis of the American religious establishment. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 85, No. 52, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles:

• Wilson, Laurel. Value of a Degree: Students Confident About Life After College – Chase McNulty, Kristin Guthrie
• Alleyne, Zirconia & Katherine Wade. Students Uncertain About Post-graduation Plans – Amanda Brown, Allison Taylor
• Wadley, Emily. Student Government Association Gives Most of Organizational Aid
• Barczak, Mary. Bowling Green Crews Clean Up After Flood – Weather, Rain
• Simpson, Mandy. Barbara Burch Just Focusing on Tomorrow – Provost, Educational Leadership
• Erskine, Anne. Editorial Cartoon re: Marsupial Awards – Kangaroo & Big Red
• Marsupial Awards
• Kriz, Lindsay. Laura Chaney Memorial Set for Tuesday …

Faculty Newsnotes 2010 No. 416, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

The Setonian, May 6, 2010, Seton Hall University

2010

No abstract provided.

Quaker Campus, May 6, 2010 (Vol. 96, Issue 26), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegian - May 6, 2010

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Cwu Faculty Senate Minutes - 05/05/10, Janet Shields

Faculty Senate Minutes

These are the official Central Washington University Faculty Senate minutes for the 05/05/10 meeting.

Minutes Of The Faculty Senate Meeting, May 5, 2010, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Lumberjack, May 05, 2010

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

The Places Of Birth: Navigating Risk, Control, And Choice, Hannah E. Emple

Geography Honors Projects

Through qualitative research in the Twin Cities, Minnesota and a literature review grounded in health and feminist geography, this paper analyzes how women, their families, and health care providers view and navigate places of birth. Over four million births occur annually in the United States, making birth the most common reason for hospitalization of women. Although 99% of women in the U.S. give birth in hospitals, a small but vocal minority seek alternative places to birth – primarily at home. Where to give birth is a contested subject infused with social and political significance. I suggest that place is highly …

Cinema’S Scarlet Letters: The Mpaa Rating System And Film Education In The Christian University, Carey Martin

Christian Perspectives in Education

Christian film educators face challenges in instruction when a film’s Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating falls outside their institution’s acceptable range. The origin of the system and the meaning of each rating are explained. Policies of comparable evangelical institutions regarding student film viewing are detailed. The resultant difficulties in film education are examined. Arguments for and against inclusion of R-rated films in the curriculum are considered. Recommendations are made for future courses.

Preliminary Pages, No Author

Verbum

No abstract provided.

"The Life And Miracles Of Fisher Alumnus Peter Santandreu", Peter Santandreu

Verbum

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay's first paragraph.

"What can one say about life with a degree in Religious Studies from St. John Fisher College?

Well, it's almost been a year since graduation and I can say that things are definitely different but ever the same. I am now at the Faculty of Theology at the University of St. Michael‟s College (USMC) in Toronto, Ontario. When people ask me what I am doing with my life now, I do sometimes answer using the acronym. Of course, to an American, it is first heard as the branch of …

The Violences Of Capitalism: Privatization And Land Tenure In Uganda, Minnesota, And Mexico, Nicole S. Kligerman

Latin American Studies Honors Projects

This project analyzes the relationship between land privatization and violence in societies that previously employed non-capitalist land tenure systems. Exploring the cases of the Dakota in Minnesota, the Acholi in Northern Uganda, and indigenous communities in southern Mexico, I examine how the state forcibly incorporated collective land systems into capitalism through a combination of physical, structural, and intra-community violences. This results in the disintegration of previous means of agricultural production and the accompanying community-based cultural systems. Communities resist this process, however, as they battle for natural resource sovereignty and sustainable peace in their homelands.

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

May 2010, Volume 3, Issue 2

160th Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

God Among The Gods: An Analysis Of The Function Of Yahweh In The Divine Council Of Deuteronomy 32 And Psalm 82, Daniel F. Porter

Masters Theses

The importance of the Ugaritic texts discovered in 1929 to ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies is one of constant debate. The Ugaritic texts offer a window into the cosmology that shaped the ancient Near East and Semitic religions. One of the profound concepts is the idea of a divine council and its function in maintaining order in the cosmos. Over this council sits a high god identified as El in the Ugaritic texts whose divine function is to maintain order in the divine realm as well on earth. Due to Ugarit's involvement in the ancient world and the text's …

Academic Program, 2010-2011: Graduate Program In Marian Studies, International Marian Research Institute

IMRI Course Listings, Program Guides, and Assorted Academic Materials

No abstract provided.

Commencement 2010, Sacred Heart University

Commencement Programs

Program for the Graduate and Undergraduate ceremonies held May 15-16, 2010.

Habitat Variables, Mammal Interactions, And Recovery Approaches Important To A Rare, New Mexican Butterfly, Euphydryas Anicia Cloudcrofti (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Julie Lincoln Mcintyre

Biology ETDs

This research investigated three study topics pertaining to the habitat and ecology of the Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas anicia cloudcrofti) with the goal of contributing to effective conservation for this rare species. In the first study, abiotic and biotic habitat variables were found to be different between occupied and unoccupied habitat. Connectivity, host plant resource concentration, and plant structural diversity corresponded with butterfly presence at the scales of landscape, meadow, host plant patch, and natal host plant. High habitat quality, low isolation, broad host plant patch area, and high host plant patch density were associated with occupied habitats. Adults …