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2012.09.20 - Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2012

Meeting materials for the NEIU Board of Trustees

Into The Bush, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Montana Kaimin, September 20, 2012, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Twombly In Context: Why Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 4(B) Is Unconstitutional, E. Donald Elliott

Florida Law Review

Rule 4(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure delegates to private parties state authority to compel a person to appear and answer civil charges in court without any preliminary state review or screening for reasonableness. This is argued to be unconstitutional as a unreasonable seizure of the person, a deprivation of private property without due process, and a standardless delegation of state power to a private party with a financial interest.

The history of the writ of summons is reviewed. From the Founding until 1938, federal courts reviewed the grounds proposed for suit prior to service of a summons …

Spartan Daily September 19, 2012, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 139, Issue 11

The Lumberjack, September 19, 2012

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Multi-Level Opinion Dynamics Under Bounded Confidence, Gang Kou, Yiyi Zhao, Yi Peng, Yong Shi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

Opinion dynamics focuses on the opinion evolution in a social community. Recently, some models of continuous opinion dynamics under bounded confidence were proposed by Deffuant and Krause, et al. In the literature, agents were generally assumed to have a homogeneous confidence level. This paper proposes an extended model for a group of agents with heterogeneous confidence levels. First, a social differentiation theory is introduced and a social group is divided into opinion subgroups with distinct confidence levels. Second, a multi-level heterogeneous opinion formation model is formulated under the framework of bounded confidence. Finally, computer simulations are conducted to study the …

September 19, 2012, Library Advisory Board

Booth Collaborative Advisory Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee Meeting, Tuesday, September 18, 2012, Arts & Sciences Academic Affairs Committee

Academic Affairs Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, September 18, 2012, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The September 18, 2012, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin. Included are articles on the 2012 presidential campaign.

Report: The Illinois State University Faculty-Staff Newsletter, September 18, 2012, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Report (1966-2012)

Illinois State University bi-weekly employee newsletter.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 17, 2012), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Current, September 17, 2012, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Advancing The Vincentian Tradition Through Strategic Service And Research, Richard Sinatra, James J. Maher

Journal of Catholic Education

This article reveals how St. John’s University implemented mission-focused programs to advance its unique Catholic perspective, that of the Vincentian tradition to serve the poor and remedy social inequities. Heeding the 1986 call of Pope John Paul II to Vincentian institutions, all levels of the university from incoming freshmen to the board of trustees have embraced the Pope’s message to serve the poor and needy. Major program initiatives have included an expanded and enriched academic service-learning (ASL) program with a Discover New York service component for all incoming freshmen; the creation of a Vincentian Institute for Social Action to coordinate …

Teaching A Catholic Philosophy Of Interpersonal Communication: The Case For “Soul Friendship”, Kathleen Glenister Roberts

Journal of Catholic Education

While social justice education has a rich and ancient history within the Catholic Church, academic disciplines have only recently begun to make the idea of social justice relevant within courses for undergraduates. In the communication discipline, debate about social justice has been lively and varied over the last two decades, and has provided rich entry points for philosophical interpretation. This paper considers interpersonal communication from the vantage point of social justice in the Catholic intellectual tradition. While the importance of friendship for society is nothing new (Aristotle addressed this issue in the Nicomachean Ethics), contemporary cultural hindrances to a just …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, September 17, 2012, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Education Policies Committee Annual Report
• Library Advisory Council Report
• Parking Committee Report
• EPC Items
• Code change for clarification Section 402 dealing with committee membership

What Is The Predictive Power Of The Colobine Protein-To-Fiber Model And Its Conservation Value?, Jan F. Gogarten, Melissa Guzman, Colin A. Chapman, Aerin L. Jacob, Patrick A. Omeja, Jessica Rothman

Publications and Research

Predicting variation in animal abundance across time and space has proven very difficult; however, a model exists to predict the biomass of small folivorous primates that has considerable correlative support. This model suggests that the protein-to-fiber ratio of leaves in a habitat can predict folivore biomass. Here we present an experimental test of this protein-to-fiber model to assess if the number of infant monkeys per female and group size can be predicted based on the leaf chemistry of a habitat. We expected regenerating forest in Kibale National Park, Uganda to have leaves with higher concentrations of crude protein and lower …

Why Do Women Have More Children Than They Want? Understanding Differences In Women's Ideal And Actual Family Size In A Natural Fertility Population, Lisa Mcallister, Michael Gurven, Hillard Kaplan, Jonathan Stieglitz

ESI Publications

Objectives—We develop and test a conceptual model of factors influencing women’s ideal family size (IFS) in a natural fertility population, the Tsimane of Bolivia. The model posits affects of socioecology, reproductive history, maternal condition, and men’s IFS. We test three hypotheses for why women may exceed their IFS despite experiencing socioeconomic development: (H1) limited autonomy; (H2) improved maternal condition; and (H3) low returns on investments in embodied capital.

Methods—Women’s reproductive histories and prospective fertility data were collected from 2002 to 2008 (n = 305 women). Semistructured interviews were conducted with Tsimane women to study the perceived value of …

September 15, 2012: Fall Keynote Talk Features Perryman-Clark, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.

2012 Latino/A Heritage Calendar, Illinois State University, Latin American And Latino/A Studies Program

Latinx Heritage Month Posters

Schedule of events for Illinois State University's Latino/a Heritage Month celebration

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Humanities And Social Sciences, September 14, 2012, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology (SSWA) department in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences proposes a minor in Criminal Justice (CJ).

The Daily Gamecock, Friday, September 14, 2012, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

September

No abstract provided.

College Senate Minutes September 13, 2012, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on September 13, 2012.

Blog Post, The Best Job I'Ve Ever Had, 'Burg Blogs, September 13, 2012, Bill Hogarth

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

A blog post by Interim Regional Chancellor Bill Hogarth of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg thanking everyone for their efforts launching the University Student Center.

The Legacy, September 12, 2012, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

In-Text And Out-Of-Text Engagement: Interactional Features In Students' Academic Writing And Academic Engagement, Florette Press

Theses and Dissertations

While student engagement theory recognizes writing as an engaging activity, there have been few studies that explore the levels of engagement within college students' academic writing. Analyses of in-text interactions between writers and their imagined reader(s) can uncover writers' attitudes about themselves as writers and as participants in the academic community. This study looked specifically at students' in-text interaction in the context of overall student engagement. Making a connection between interactional features in writing and overall student engagement provided a new perspective by which professors and administrators can evaluate students' academic integration. This study combined text analysis and interviews with …

September 12, 2012 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Kenyon Collegiate - September 12, 2012

Kenyon Collegiate

No abstract provided.

Lesula: A New Species Of Cercopithecus Monkey Endemic To The Democratic Republic Of Congo And Implications For Conservation Of Congo’S Central Basin, John A. Hart, Kate M. Detwiler, Christopher C. Gilbert, Andrew S. Burrell, James L. Fuller, Maurice Emetshu, Terese B. Hart, Ashley Vosper, Eric J. Sargis, Anthony J. Tosi

Publications and Research

In June 2007, a previously undescribed monkey known locally as “lesula” was found in the forests of the middle Lomami Basin in central Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). We describe this new species as Cercopithecus lomamiensis sp. nov., and provide data on its distribution, morphology, genetics, ecology and behavior. C. lomamiensis is restricted to the lowland rain forests of central DRC between the middle Lomami and the upper Tshuapa Rivers. Morphological and molecular data confirm that C. lomamiensis is distinct from its nearest congener, C. hamlyni, from which it is separated geographically by both the Congo (Lualaba) and the Lomami …

September 11, 2012, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.