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The Power Of Resilience: A Theoretical Model To Empower, Encourage And Retain Teachers, Janice L. Taylor

The Qualitative Report

Due to the many challenges that teachers face in today’s classrooms to facilitate the academic success of all children and to meet federal and state accountability standards, having both the competence and the ability to adjust to meet these challenges are required. Teacher retention is an ongoing issue in the United States; teachers who lack these traits may have a negative impact on teacher retention. Resiliency is a critical element that teachers need to meet these challenges and remain in the education profession. In this study, the stories of four female African American teachers who taught in the same school …

Why Are So Many Americans On Food Stamps? The Role Of The Economy, Policy, And Demographics, James P. Ziliak

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

1 in 7 Americans received assistance from SNAP in FY2012, which is a rate 141 percent higher than in FY2000, but only 59 percent higher than in FY1980. In this chapter I describe the socioeconomic and policy climate in recent decades that had bearing on SNAP participation, along with a formal empirical analysis of those determinants and detailed simulations of the relative contributions of the economy, policy, and demographics to changes in SNAP participation over time. The results suggest that SNAP is operating effectively as an automatic fiscal stabilizer—nearly 50 percent of the increase in participation from 2007-2011 is due …

Faculty Senate Committee Book (September 2013), Csusb Faculty Senate

CSUSB Faculty Senate records

No abstract provided.

Integral Review Vol 9. No 3, September 2013 Full Issue, Bahman Shirazi

Founders Symposium

The articles included in this special issue of Integral Review represent a wide range of integral scholarship at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), founded in 1968 in San Francisco by Dr. Haridas and Bina Chaudhuri. Haridas Chaudhuri arrived in the United States in 1951 upon an invitation by professor Frederick Spiegelberg of Stanford University who was charged with directing a newly founded independent graduate school (American Academy of Asian Studies) devoted to introducing Asian studies to American higher education. Spiegelberg had traveled to India in the late 1940s to research the contemporary practices of the ancientspiritual traditions of …

Men's Golf Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Cross Country And Track Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Football Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Men's Soccer Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Volleyball Media Guide 2013, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

Women's Golf Media Guide 2013-2014, Wofford College. Department Of Athletics

Media Guides

No abstract provided.

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxvii, No. 1, Michaelmas), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother: Religious Accommodation Under Title Vii In Adeyeye V. Heartland Sweeteners, Llc, Zeke Katz

Seventh Circuit Review

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provides that an employer must reasonably accommodate an employee's request for a leave of absence due to a religious observance or practice, as long as that accommodation does not present an undue hardship for the employer. The amendments to Title VII, and the Guidelines issued by the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission in response to Title VII, reveal a trend towards a broad interpretation of religious accommodation in the workplace. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals continued and exemplified this trend in Adeyeye v. Heartland Sweeteners, LLC.

In Adeyeye, where an employee …

Plural Policing: The Multifaceted World Of Irish State “Policing” Authorities, Thomas Talbot

Dissertations

aim of this research was to explore the rather undocumented world of the wider policing community acting in an official capacity on behalf of the Irish state in 2013 and to produce a comprehensive empirical mapping of these governance entities. This group was defined as those operating in a coercive manner at the most extreme end of the social control spectrum and the research therefore focused on those organisations actively prosecuting cases in the Irish courts.

A mixed method design was used to maximise both quantitative and qualitative information. As this mapping exercise was the first of its kind, a …

Integration Of Sustainability In Higher Education: Three Case Studies Of Curricular Implementation, David Gosselin, Rod Parnell, Nicholas J. Smith-Sebasto, Shirley Vincent

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The integration of sustainability into higher education academic programs is occurring at an accelerated pace in response to international and national imperatives to rethink the way it serves the needs of society. Three case studies from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Northern Arizona University, and Kean University (NJ) outlines the academic structure, program, resources, the motivation and mechanisms for curricular change, key sustainability-learning outcomes and program goals, curricular changes, and assessment strategies these institutions used to integrate sustainability into their undergraduate curriculum. These three case studies exhibit several commonalities. They emphasize systems thinking and explicitly link human behavior and ecological …

Faculty Fellows 2013-2014, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document provides biographies of PLACE faculty fellows at Linfield College for 2013-2014.

Student Fellows 2013-2014, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document provides biographies of PLACE student fellows at Linfield College for 2013-2014.

Legacies Of War, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

This document explains the PLACE theme at Linfield College for 2013-2014 (Legacies of War).

Acuta Enews September 2013 Vol. 42, No. 9

ACUTA Newsletters

In this Issue...

1 Big Data Means Big Advances

2 Nominations Open for 2014 institutional Excellence Award

2 Seeking Presenters for Winter Seminar

3 Webinar: The Evolution of Control Systems Security Brief

3 Register to Attend Fall Seminar

4 What Exactly Is a Microsoft Lync Phone?

6 Info Links

7 Overheard on the Listserv

8 Board Report

9 Welcome New Members

9 Check It Out

The Facts Of Fiction: Information Literacy For Creative Writing, Melissa Clark

Library Conference Presentations and Posters

Research for creative writing is completely different from conventional research: you need to immerse yourself in cultures and thought patterns not your own in order to develop believable characters and depict them, their actions, motivations, and conversations convincingly. A writer needs to be creative in their research and consult a variety of sources, including primary and archival sources, interviews and personal experience, maps and atlases, art and pictures, and sociological or psychological research. How can Librarians teach writers the information literacy skills they need and relate those skills to their immediate research needs? In this session, I will discuss my …

The Transmission Of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative, Andries Richter, Johan Grasman

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while individual agents face the temptation of higher profits by overexploiting the resource. Agents remain conditionally cooperative, unless other individuals are misbehaving already. We can observe a bubble of conditional cooperators slowly building up followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to …

The Transmission Of Sustainable Harvesting Norms When Agents Are Conditionally Cooperative, Andries Richter, Johan Grasman

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while individual agents face the temptation of higher profits by overexploiting the resource. Agents remain conditionally cooperative, unless other individuals are misbehaving already. We can observe a bubble of conditional cooperators slowly building up followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to …

The Cord (September 1, 2013)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

Scholarworks Statistics - September 2013, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of September 2013, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 25,079 full-text downloads and 14,288 page views.

Undocumented Students: Immigration Issues On Campus, Rick Ryscavage S.J.

Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education

No abstract provided.

Communicator, Sept. 2013, San Jose State University, Department Of Kinesiology

Communicator (Kinesiology)

Volume 26, Issue 1

Fall 2013, Marisela Cadena-Smith

Connection

The Official Community Newsletter for Collin College Connection is the college's award-winning community newsletter published three times a year to inform members of the Collin County community about college news, awards, events, and more.

Once Upon A Midnight Stalker: A Content Analysis Of Stalking In Films, Amy Sides Schultz, Julia Moore, Brian H. Spitzberg

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

Media portrayals of crime have been linked to biased information processing and beliefs about society and personal risks of victimization. Much of this research has either focused on relatively holistic analyses of media consumption, or on the analysis of elements of only a few types of crime (e.g., murder, rape, assault). Research to date has overlooked how media portray stalking in interpersonal relationships. This study content analyzed 51 mainstream movies with prominent stalking themes to compare and contrast such depictions with the actual scientific data about stalking. By considering victim variables, stalker variables, relational variables, stalking behavior variables, victim response …

Mothers, Daughters, And The Transmission Of Memory In Documentaries Directed By Women Of Maghrebi Origin In France, Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

This article compares the treatment of memory and the transmission of memory in Yamina Benguigui’s Mémoires d’immigrés: l’héritage maghrébin (1997) with the treatment of these themes in five other documentaries directed by Maghrebi-French women – all of which were released after Mémoires d’immigrés: Yasmina Kherfi’s Mes voisines mes copines (2002), Djamila Sfaxi’s À ma mère (2003), Rahma Benhamou El Madani’s Du côté de chez soi (2003), Soraya Nini’s 24 heures dans la Life de ma mère (2007) and Fatima Sissani’s La langue de Zahra (2011). It argues that in contrast to Benguigui’s foregrounding of collective experiences of Maghrebi migrant women …

"The Literature Of Prescription: Charlotte Perkins Gilman And The Yellow Wallpaper", Booth Library

Yellow Wall-Paper: Exhibit Booklet

This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library September 23-November 2, 2013