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Against Teleology In An Honors Great Books Curriculum, Sarah Harlan-Haughey

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Chronologically presented courses that span centuries often catalyze unwitting buy-in to unexamined narratives of progress. While useful for helping students make connections between the human past, present, and future, Great Books honors curricula like the one used at the University of Maine have a few inherent problems that require careful navigation. Both students and faculty tend to discard—or misinterpret—the values, cultural products, and successes of older cultures in favor of newer ones. Instead of valuing the uniqueness of a foreign place and time, we often emphasize transformation for the sake of narrative coherence in a program that needs focus to …

Assessment Of Land Use Dynamics And The Status Of Biodiversity Exploitation And Preservation In Nigeria, Abiodun Elijah Obayelu

Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies

Land is the most important natural resource that affects every aspect of human life, while biodiversity constitutes the most important working component of a natural ecosystem. Land use and biodiversity are agricultural and ecological challenges presently facing Nigeria in her efforts at addressing the issue of agro-ecosystem transformation and sustainable land productivity. This study employed secondary sources of information to assess land reform act in Nigeria, the methodological framework to analyze the linkages between land use change and biodiversity, effects of land use on biodiversity, status of biodiversity and suggests ways to solving land use problems and biodiversity loss. Findings …

15.1 About The Authors, Nchc Monographs And Journals

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

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Public-Private Honors Success At Community Colleges Of Spokane, Lisa Avery

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Many community college honors programs have seen steep budget cuts in recent years, affecting the number of honors students that can be served at the 1,200 community colleges in the United States. Many excellent, longstanding honors programs at community colleges have recently struggled with enrollment and resources. NCHC-member colleges have often described their challenges in filling honors classes and their ongoing struggles with resourcing honors programming. Especially at the community-college level, honors programs in the United States are often being asked to do more with less.

The Profit Motive In Honors Education, Gary Bell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The following report appeared recently in the British media regarding the “privatization” movement:

UK rail passengers pay the price of privatization

Rail privatization has led to the UK having the most expensive fares in Europe, serious overcrowding and train operating companies entirely reliant on public subsidies, according to a study.

Long distance, day return and season tickets are all about twice the price of similar tickets in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, which have publicly-run rail systems, the study for the TUC [Trade Unions Congress] by academics at the University of Manchester said. Average train fares in the UK increased …

Honors And The Completion Agenda: Identifying And Duplicating Student Success, Jay Trucker

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For better or worse, longitudinal studies that track student persistence each semester serve as the primary measurement of an institution’s success or, as the findings are often received at many of the country’s community colleges, an institution’s failure. These studies take place at the institutional and state-wide levels as well as nationally through grant-based organizations such as Complete College America. At the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC), where I have served as a faculty member and honors program director for the past eight years, these studies consistently reveal low college-wide retention and graduation rates. According to Maryland’s state-wide longitudinal …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2014 (Complete Issue)

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Forum on Honors for Sale

Forum Articles

Gary Bell

Benjamin Moritz

Lisa Avery

Sam Schuman

Jeffrey A. Portnoy

Destenie Nock, Justice Plummer, Ashleigh R. Wilson, and Michael K. Cundall Jr.

Annmarie Guzy

Barbra Nightingale

Brian C. Etheridge

Research Essays

Ted M. Brimeyer, April M. Schueths, and William L. Smith

Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd

Hallie Savage, Rod D. Raehsler, and Joseph Fiedor

Kate Wintrol

Navigating The Kokosing: A Comparison Between Honors And Private Liberal Arts Colleges, Scott Carnicom

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The Kokosing is a small river, barely a stream after a storm, which meanders its way through the gently undulating hills and farmland of central Ohio. The Kokosing takes its name from a Native American word meaning “place of owls.” Like an owl, Kenyon College is nestled among the trees atop a hill near the Kokosing. Kenyon is a private, selective, liberal arts college of about 1600 undergraduate students founded by an Episcopal bishop named Philander (yes, Philander) Chase in 1824. During the 2011–12 academic year, I had the good fortune to complete an American Council on Education Fellowship at …

Q Methodological Study Of Subjectivity And Objectivity, Maria Karimova

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

Research has shown not only that subjectivity and objectivity are two very important concepts when it comes to scientific studies, but also that human tendencies towards duality have reinforced the opposition of these concepts. It is evident that objectivity and subjectivity differ, but this study was designed to evaluate how much the concepts really differ and how they are defined in the thinking of people. The study uses a Q methodological approach to measure the viewpoints of the faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Eastern Michigan University by having them sort a list of potential viewpoints on …

Unpunished Criminals: The Social Acceptablity Of White Collar Crimes In America, Joseph P. Martinez

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

White collar crime is a serious issue in the United States of America, responsible for an estimated $250 billion to $1 trillion in economic damages each year. White collar crimes include: bank fraud, blackmail, bribery, counterfeiting, credit card fraud, embezzlement, extortion, forgery, insider trading, insurance fraud, investment schemes, securities fraud, tax evasion, advanced fee scams, service and repair scams, as well as Ponzi & pyramid schemes just to name a few.

There are a number of factors to consider regarding crimes, both street and white collar level including: the total cost of the damages and ripple effects that will reach …

A Survey Of Willow Metropark, Wayne County, Michigan, Ashlee Ann Jed

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

There has been little archaeological research on prehistoric settlement patterns for Southeast Michigan with which to understand how humans interacted with their environments and landscapes. Based on James Krakker's hypotheses on agricultural settlements and limited-use prehistoric components (PCs) in Southeast Michigan, agricultural settlements should be associated with well-drained soil adjacent to arable soil suitable for cultivation, and they should be located within 1 km of a river while limited use PCs should be located further inland. This thesis uses survey data from the 20092012 Eastern Michigan University Archaeology Field School seasons to test Krakker's hypotheses in the Willow Metropark, Wayne …

Charles A. Beard & The Columbia School Of Political Economy: Revisiting The Intellectual Roots Of The Beardian Thesis, Ajay K. Mehrotra

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

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Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2014, Seaall

Newsletters

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Population Briefs, Vol. 20, No. 1, Population Council

Population Briefs

IN THIS ISSUE: “Anything can happen anytime”: Perceived lack of safety among girls in South Africa | Expanding contraceptive options for breastfeeding women: Introduction of the progesterone contraceptive vaginal ring | Reducing unmet need for contraception: Helping women to continue effective use | Estimating the size of key populations in Nairobi, Kenya

Editors

Intertext

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Asia-Pacific, Justin G. Persuad, Golsa Ghamari, Steve Saunders, Jung Soo Kim, Stephen Sukjoon Pak, Albert Vincent Yu Chang, John Wilson

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Bulletin 2014-2015, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2014-2015

The Economic Perspective On Sentencing, Joshua B. Fischman

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

Although economists have been actively engaged in research on criminal sentencing, the synergies between the two fields are hardly obvious. This Essay considers what economists have to contribute to the study of sentencing. One common explanation—that economists’ use of rational choice modeling has applicability to the study of deterrence—does not adequately account for much of the sentencing research that economists are producing. This Essay considers two alternative explanations. First, empirical research in both fields is predominately observational. Due to practical limits on controlled experimentation, economists have developed a variety of tools for making causal inferences from observational data, many of …

Graduate Bulletin 2014-2015, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2014-2015

Proving A Violation: Rhetoric, Research And Remedy, Alan N. Young

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

This paper explores the uses and abuses of relying upon legislative fact evidence to prove a violation of a claimant’s constitutional rights. The Supreme Court of Canada has stated that, in the criminal law context, an accused is entitled to challenge a law that violates the constitutional rights of third parties but that applies in a constitutionally sound manner with respect to the accused. This principle spawned the conventional wisdom that in order to obtain a declaration that a statute is invalid, a litigant must present voluminous legislative fact evidence to demonstrate that the statute unjustifiably limits rights of third …

How Socio-Legal Norms Emerge Within Complex Networks: Law And (In)Formality At Ipanema Beach, Pedro R. Fortes

FIU Law Review

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Goodbye To All That! : An Accomplished Teacher's Last Year In The Chicago Public Schools: Juried Ethnodramatic Performance For The 35th Annual Ethnography In Education Forum The University Of Pennsylvania Graduate School Of Education Philadelphia, Pa March 1, 2014, Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

This session uses verbatim theatre techniques (Favorini, 1995; Saldaña, 2011) to expand stories from four narrative interviews shared by an accomplished, middle school teacher in the Chicago Public Schools. These stories were spoken the summer after the teacher’s tenth year and describe students she cared for and the challenges of her work. Audience members are given excerpts from the verbatim texts that make up the playscript when they walk in the door, and they are asked to use this material to discuss the show’s guiding question before and after the performance: “Can a teacher care too much and instruct too …

Preserving The Oral History Of Modern America : A Collection Development Initiative At The University Of South Florida, St. Petersburg, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Goodbye To All That!: Juried Ethnodramatic Performance For The 35th Annual Ethnography In Education Research Forum, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Vanover, C. & Babson, A. (2014). Goodbye to All That! : A Teacher’s Last Year in the Classroom. Juried performance for the 35th Annual Ethnography in Education Forum, University of Pennsylvania. Performance by Alexandra Miletta, Mercy College, Brandi Slider Weekley, West Virginia University & Charna Lacey, Saint Mary’s Public Schools. Score and musical performance by Andrew Babson, University of Pennsylvania. Written and Directed by Charles Vanover, University of South Florida Saint Petersburg. March 1, 2014, 4:30-5:15 pm Room 121 GSE

This session uses verbatim theatre techniques (Favorini, 1995; Saldaña, 2011) to expand stories from four narrative interviews shared by an …

Annual Report, Public Services Department, 2011-2012, Tina Neville, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Public Services Department of the Nelson Poynter Library at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

Annual Report, Technical Services And Collection Development Department, 2013-2014, Patricia C. Pettijohn, Kaya Van Beynen

Library Department and Committee Reports

Annual report for the Technical Services and Collection Development Department at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library for the period July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014.

Modeling Collapse: Analysis Of The Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition At Two Near Eastern Sites, William Nutt

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

This project tests a three-step model for archaeological collapse, by analyzing assemblages from two museum collections, Alisar Hüyük and Tell el Fakhariyah. Focusing on three categories of artifacts, namely biological remains, tools and weapons, and objects of personal adornment, the model evaluates change over a brief time in order to investigate the transitional period during a collapse. As the sites used for this research were excavated during the first half of the twentieth century, the project assesses the possible utility of old museum collections in light of probable biases.

Growing Community By Growing Food: A Comparative Study Of Two Community Gardens In North Texas, Rebekah Rupel

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

Community Gardens are a burgeoning trend in the U.S., blooming in many different cities and for different reasons including social activism, sustainability, health, education, ecology, and community. Their popularity also reflects a current trend where people are more attentive to their relationship with food and concerned about where it comes from. This thesis examines two community gardens in North Texas, University of Texas at Arlington Community Garden in Arlington and Deep Ellum Urban Garden in Dallas. Despite community gardens' popularity, no studies on community gardens have been done in Texas. However, North Texas is home to the 4th largest metropolitan …

How Does The Sudden Impact Of A Disability Within The Immediate Household Affect Siblings?, Vanessa Lashae Cantu

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

AbstractThis paper examines the relationship amongst siblings when they are impacted with a crisis. The crisis in this paper is a spinal cord injury. The theoretical framework for the paper is based on family systems theory. This theory incorporates how the self, roles and identities are created and impacted by the family in how they interact and communicate with one another. The paper examines how the family interacted and communicated prior to the crisis, during the crisis and how they currently interact and communicate. Respectively these time periods are labeled as; prior to crisis, onset of disability and adjustment phase. …

Legislating Innovation: Why Charter Schools Can't Fix Public Education, Richard Cordrey

Sociology & Anthropology Theses - Archive

How do we account for the fact that, despite myriad school reform and counterbalancing resistance efforts, the education system in America seems to be in a constant state of disrepair? Some observers attribute this to the introduction of accountability measures and voucher programs, while others claim that common curriculum standards, and accompanying standardized tests, are to blame. In the face of constant opposition to non-traditional educational venues by various special interest groups, there are a growing number of educational leaders opening schools that aim to challenge institutional norms and ever-growing numbers of parents choosing to enroll their children in those …