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“In Light Of Real Alternatives”: Negotiations Of Fertility And Motherhood In Morocco And Oman, Victoria E. Mohr

Student Publications

Many states in the Arab world have undertaken wide-ranging family planning polices in the last two decades in an effort to curb high fertility rates. Oman and Morocco are two such countries, and their policies have had significantly different results. Morocco experienced a swift drop in fertility rates, whereas Oman’s fertility has declined much more slowly over several decades. Many point to the more conservative religious and cultural context of Oman for their high fertility rates, however economics and the state of biomedical health care often present a more compelling argument for the distinct differences between Omani and Moroccan family …

Offices Of Goodness: Influence Without Authority In Federal Agencies, Margo Schlanger

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Picturing “Doing Gender”, Danielle Lutz

Photography Senior Thesis Projects

This project explores the idea of “Doing Gender,” a term coined by sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman. The photographic series is comprised of diptychs in which I photographed people performing a feminine gender performance, as well as a masculine one. By exploring gender in this way and capturing it on camera, I have illustrated ways in which gender is a learned performance. This paper details the methods used to create this project, as well as its intentions as an analysis of gender performance.

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2014, Governors State University

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) admissions, degrees awarded, and, demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate.

Profiles Of Academic Majors - 2014, Office Of Institutional Research

Profiles of Academic Majors

The Profiles of Academic Majors (PAM) provides a ten-year longitudinal snapshot of selected enrollment (e.g., headcounts) and demographic (e.g., age) statistics arranged by fall term, fiscal year, or academic year as appropriate.

Questioning Race: Ancestry Dna And Dialogue On Race, Anita K. Foeman, Angela Howard

Communication and Media Faculty Publications

Human genetics and racial identity converge pointedly in the family narrative. Until recently, genetics, racial identity, and family narrative were all rather malleable concepts in the public arena. All were presented in anecdotal form for the most part, and were often based on certain social conventions. The interjection of popularly available ancestry DNA data adds an additional piece of information to the discussion of genetics, race and narrative. Using the framework of both narrative theory and theory of social construction, this work uses quantitative and qualitative data to explore how individuals react to ancestry DNA findings and to consider if …

Engaging Students In Online Courses, Pearl Jacobs

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Online education is gradually being incorporated into college and university programs. It is proving to be an effective educational tool for our rapidly changing global marketplace. The fact that online courses operate differently than on ground courses cannot be ignored. Thus, they require teaching techniques and assessment techniques specifically geared for this educational experience. Group projects are quite familiar to students taking courses in the classroom. They are less familiar and perhaps feared by students taking courses online. The fact that participants in online courses do not physically interact with each other leads some to believe that this approach is …

An Analysis Of The Policy, Research, And Legal Issues Surrounding The Exclusion Of Charter Schools From The Teacher Evaluation Revolution, Preston C. Green Ii, Morgaen L. Donaldson, Joseph O. Oluwole

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Too Rare To Be A Token: An Anthropologist In A Management Department, Alex Stewart

Management Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Editorial, Jillian Inouye

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

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The Imposter Phenomenon Among Emerging Adults Transitioning Into Professional Life: Developing A Grounded Theory, Joel A. Lane

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study qualitatively explored the imposter phenomenon among 29 emerging adults who were transitioning into professional life. A grounded theory was developed that described the imposter phenomenon, internal and external contributing factors, and its impact in terms of performance and affective reactions. Implications for counselors of emerging adults are discussed.

The Relationship Of Socioeconomic Status And Counseling Outcomes, Lisa D. Hawley, Todd W. Leibert, Joel A. Lane

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study examined the relationship between various indices of socioeconomic status (SES) and clinical outcomes among clients at a university counseling center. It also explored links between SES and three factors that are generally regarded as facilitative of client change in counseling: motivation, treatment expectancy, and social support. Regression analyses showed that, overall, SES predicted positive changes in symptom checklists over the course of treatment. Individual SES variables predicting positive change were educational attainment and whether or not the client had health insurance. SES was not associated with motivation, treatment expectancy, or social support. Implications for SES research and counseling …

A Decade Of Self-Discovery Through Service Learning, Donna Dufner, Judith Monarrez Diaz-Kelsey

Presentations

• Introduction
• Best Practices
• Link to Curriculum
• College Student Voices/ Reflections
• Duration and Intensity
• Diversity
• Partnerships
• Monitoring/Debriefing
• Meaningful Service
• Video
• Review of Artifacts
• Q&A

Research: South Dakota State University, Fall 2014, Christie Delfanian, Dave Graves, Emily Weber

State of Discovery South Dakota State University's Research Magazine

CONTENTS:

Dietician seeks to reduce obesity among college-age students [Page] 2
Wind: Support for wind energy based in economic development [Page] 3
Berg leaves legacy of accomplishments [Page] 3
Soil: Improved soil condition increases moisture for crops [Page] 4
Microbial process increases soybean meal's protein power [Page] 5
Medgene develops vaccines using university technologies [Page] 6
BioSNTR funding boosts biotechnology in South Dakota [Page] 8
Scientists collaborate to combat avian influenza [Page] 8
Pharmacy students role-play as part of a health-care team [Page]10
Nursing research seeks to improve health care, reduce costs [Page 10]
Improving organic solar cell efficiency essential …

Building Bridges Lecture To Examine Slavery And The Holocaust, Elizabeth Burgreen

University of Mississippi News

Beverly Mitchell to discuss finding a common theme

Memories Of An Editor, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Essay: The Great Literary Utopias Have A Nightmarish History, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Fall 2014), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Fall 2014 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Response To Comments On 'Addams On Cultural Pluralism, European Immigrants, And African Americans', Marilyn Fischer

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The author thanks Denise James and Charlene Haddock Seigfried for their thoughtful comments on her paper. Although they respond in different ways, they both picked up on questions and uncertainties that arose as she wrote the paper.

For some years, she has been trying to write about essays Addams addressed to African American audiences. For this paper, she decided to deal only with Addams’s writings between 1900 and 1910 in order to compare her essays for African American audiences with what she wrote at the same time for wider audiences. This approach enabled her to sort out when Addams’s writing …

The Problem Of State Intervention In Post-Abolition Slavery: A Critique Of Consensus, Anthony Talbott, David Watkins

Political Science Faculty Publications

Slavery is now illegal by all states and under international law. Contrary to the hopes of abolitionists, this state of affairs has transformed rather than eradicated slavery as an institution. Furthermore, responses by states to post-abolition forms of slavery have often been less than ideal. This paper begins by comparing two state responses to slavery in the early 20th century: the federal peonage trials in Montgomery, Alabama from 1903-1905, and the federal response to an alleged epidemic of “white slavery” from 1909-1910, culminating in the passage of the White Slave-Traffic Act. Taken together, these responses engender pessimism about the state …

Demo 21, Columbia College Chicago

Alumni Newsletters

Alumni newsletter from Fall - Winter 2014 entitled "DEMO21." This issue is 52 pages.

Explaining Violent Extremism For Subgroups By Gender And Immigrant Background, Using Sat As A Framework, Nele Schils, Lieven Pauwels

Journal of Strategic Security

The principal object of this paper is to study the effects of extremist propensity, exposure to extremist moral settings and their interaction effect on political violence in sub groups by gender and immigrant background. The situational action theory, as outlined by Wikström is used as a framework. Although previous studies have found empirical evidence for this interaction effect in the light of general offending, no study so far has applied SAT to the study of violent extremism. In doing so, we will also address the stability of the interaction effect by gender and immigrant background. The present study is based …

A Community Conversation On Adolescent Pregnancy And Parenting Services: Networks Of Support, Gatekeepers To Care, And Non-Compulsory Fathering In A Black Urban Community, Tamara Leech, Elizabeth A. Adams, Marci Littlefield

Department of Public Health Scholarship and Creative Works

This study employed Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) methods to document needs and capacity around adolescent pregnancy and parenting in one predominately Black, low-income urban community. Using an iterative focus group method, we engaged 60 participants in a two-day community conversation. Quantitative data from an enrollment questionnaire and qualitative transcripts of the discussions are analyzed. Our results indicate that the community’s greatest capacity lies in a network of women. Men tend to participate in parenting more holistically once formal paternity is established. Neighborhood women typically introduce adolescents to prenatal care, so delays in revealing the pregnancy to them serve as a …

Contents, Anon

Washington Law Review

No abstract provided.

Improving Public Health Safety Nets After An Economic Recession, Sanjay Basu

Center for Policy Research

When we say ‘here’s what’s going on with our nation’s health,’ how do we know the answer? Where is the data coming from? How can we best evaluate our public health system? We’re talking about it every day on CNN given the Ebola scare. What do we mean by our ‘public health system’? I would argue that we should expand our definition to mean something more than hospitals and clinics, or doctors and nurses. In particular, I’ll argue that some of our non-health programs that we have as part of the safety net actually make a bigger health impact than …

Reading Du Bois On East Africa: Epistemological Implications Of Apartheid Constructions Of Knowledge, Jesse Benjamin

Faculty Articles

This paper "reads" the scholarship of W. E. B. Du Bois and references East African history and historiography, including the broader pan-African tradition of which Du Bois was a leading member. Du Bois and his pan-African colleagues were often more accurate in their analyses and perception of biases and colonial myths than their Western counterparts. What is significant is that biases and myths that existed some fifty or more years before acknowledgement in the academy persist today, which raises important questions about the relationship between epistemology and identity, and between racial consciousness and the politics of academic production.

Dipl 2109 Institutions Of Global Governance, Martin S. Edwards Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

This class will develop answers to the following question: Where does order come from in International Relations? In the first part of the course, we will lay the groundwork to answer this question. First, we will explore the conditions that make cooperation more or less likely. Second, we will discuss actors in international relations: states, international governmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and private sector actors like multinational corporations (MNCs). Third, we will talk about how these actors interact with one another to solve pressing global problems.

The second part of this course is topic specific. In exploring current global …

Taste In Pope’S The Dunciad: A Bourdiesian Reading, Hossein Pirnajmuddin, Ebrahim Zarei

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Alexander Pope as the most representative poet of his age is very much concerned with 'high' and 'low' culture and art. He ascribes socio-cultural decline to vulgar taste in literature and criticism. An exemplar poem in which he addresses the matter of taste is The Dunciad in which the poet traduces and censures some of his contemporary literary figures, excoriating them for producing works which according to him promulgate vulgar taste and aestheticism. Pierre Bourdieu has stressed the overarching significance of taste in classifying people into different strata and social spaces. Arguing for the centrality of the notion of taste …

Game Studies Round Table, Judd Ethan Ruggill, Tobias Conradi, Steven Conway, Ken S. Mcallister, Rolf F. Nohr, Theo Röhle

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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This conversation began as a salon that was convened in February 2014, just after the 35th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA). The theme for the salon was localism, with a principal focus on how the field of game studies is arrayed across countries, institutions, and time. The participants spanned the experiential spectrum from post doctoral researcher to dean, and represented three of the most developed regions in game studies and the industry it analyzes: Europe (Germany), Australia, and the U.S. The questions were prepared in advance by Ken McAllister and Judd Ruggill, who moderated …

Topophrenia: The Place Of The Subject, Robert T. Tally Jr.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Place seems so simple - commonplace, in fact - yet the concept lies at the heart not only of rather complex geographic theory and practice, but also, arguably, of the arts, humanities, and sciences as a whole. Yi-Fu Tuan, in his magisterial Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience, establishes a powerfully spatiotemporal dynamic in which a place becomes distinctive, and this dynamic lends significance to all human experience of the world. For Tuan, a discrete or recognizable portion of otherwise undifferentiated space becomes a place when it occasions a pause, a resting of the eye, at …