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Assessing A Coalition For Outreach And Enrollment In Minnesota’S Health Insurance Exchange, Kim Nichols Dauner Mar 2015

Assessing A Coalition For Outreach And Enrollment In Minnesota’S Health Insurance Exchange, Kim Nichols Dauner

The Qualitative Report

Using a case-study approach, representatives of the Insure Duluth coalition were interviewed in order to evaluate processes, strengths, challenges and outcomes associated with using a coalition approach to community outreach and enrollment in health insurance via the new state marketplace, which is part of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Overall, interview participants cited numerous strengths to the coalition approach as well as technical challenges with enrolling persons in health insurance. They also felt such challenges had the unintended effect of strengthening the relationships between coalition organizations. Community level outcomes were identified as being associated with the coalition’s work. …


Big Philanthropy’S Unrestrained Influence On Public Education: A Call For Change, Noelle Quam Feb 2015

Big Philanthropy’S Unrestrained Influence On Public Education: A Call For Change, Noelle Quam

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Examining The General Global Competence Of Students Enrolled In An International Dimension Course: An Attempt To Internationalize Undergraduate Education In A College Of Agriculture, Samba Moriba, M. Craig Edwards Feb 2015

Examining The General Global Competence Of Students Enrolled In An International Dimension Course: An Attempt To Internationalize Undergraduate Education In A College Of Agriculture, Samba Moriba, M. Craig Edwards

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Many U.S. colleges and universities are concerned with how best to prepare students to become globally competent citizens. Therefore, the need existed to examine the general global competence of students enrolling in international dimension (ID) courses at Oklahoma State University. This investigation was a census study; the target population included all undergraduate students (N = 147) enrolled in three ID courses offered in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) during the fall semester of the 2010–2011 academic year. General knowledge instruments were used to gather pretest and posttest data to measure differences. Although students’ post-course scores were …


Admissions Report - Detailed Data - February 2015, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University Feb 2015

Admissions Report - Detailed Data - February 2015, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Detailed report of applicants to Wright State including data on county of residency, intended major, and ethnicity for Fall Semester 2015.


Least Restrictive Means: A Clear Path For User-Based Regulation Of Minors' Access To Indecent Material On The Internet;Legislative Reform, Anthony Niccoli Feb 2015

Least Restrictive Means: A Clear Path For User-Based Regulation Of Minors' Access To Indecent Material On The Internet;Legislative Reform, Anthony Niccoli

Journal of Legislation

No abstract provided.


Session B-3: Modern Germany: Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability, Rachel Sykora Feb 2015

Session B-3: Modern Germany: Social Responsibility & Environmental Sustainability, Rachel Sykora

Professional Learning Day

This session will present the political, social, and economic philosophies that have allowed modern Germany to emerge as a global leader in environmental sustainability. This subject raises numerous ethical questions with real-world applications that are of high interest to students in history, global studies, and human geography classrooms. Topics of discussion include the Deutsche Bank model of corporate responsibility, “green growth” economic initiatives, and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP). Participants will leave with practical classroom activities utilizing thought-based inquiry, primary source documents, and case study examples that help inspire classroom conversations beyond the traditional context of the Holocaust and World …


Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman Feb 2015

Session A-3: Indian Ocean Trade Basin: Global Trading And The Consequences Of Those Encounters, George Haldaman

Professional Learning Day

Using an interactive website at indianoceanhistory.org, we will examine how history can be more hands on for a time period and region students know very little about. This lesson can be used to explore and compare different time periods in history and are great for comparison and contrast as well as the continuity and change over time essays. The workshop will explore how global economies were developed and the consequences of those encounters.


Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell Feb 2015

Race, Power, And Education In Early America, John Frederick Bell

Education's Histories

Craig Steven Wilder. Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. 423 pp. $30.00.


Salinas Castro Presents On Rise Of Auto-Defense Against Mexican Cartels, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Feb 2015

Salinas Castro Presents On Rise Of Auto-Defense Against Mexican Cartels, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.


Energy Efficiency And Conservation Attitudes: An Exploration Of A Landscape Of Choices, Mersiha Spahic Mcclaren Feb 2015

Energy Efficiency And Conservation Attitudes: An Exploration Of A Landscape Of Choices, Mersiha Spahic Mcclaren

Dissertations and Theses

This study explored energy-related attitudes and energy-saving behaviors that are no- or low-cost and relatively simple to perform. This study relied on two data sources: a longitudinal but cross-sectional survey of 4,102 U.S. residents (five biennial waves of this survey were conducted from 2002 to 2010) and a 2010 cross-sectional survey of 2,000 California residents. These two surveys contained data on two no- and low-cost behaviors: changing thermostat setting to save energy (no-cost behavior) and CFL installation behavior (low-cost behavior). In terms of attitudes, two attitudinal measures emerged from these data following a Cronbach's alpha and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA): …


Mixing It Up: Poetry For The Goose, Camilla Nelson Feb 2015

Mixing It Up: Poetry For The Goose, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Poetry Editorial by Camilla Nelson


Four Poems, Roger L. Nash Feb 2015

Four Poems, Roger L. Nash

The Goose

Poetry by Roger Nash


From 'Forced Fingers', Dan Eltringham Feb 2015

From 'Forced Fingers', Dan Eltringham

The Goose

Poetry by Dan Eltringham


Reading Wordsworth In The Tar Sands, Stephen S. Collis Feb 2015

Reading Wordsworth In The Tar Sands, Stephen S. Collis

The Goose

A report, in the form of a long poem, on the author's participation in the 5th annual Tar Sands Healing Walk, organized by the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, in Fort McMurray Alberta.


Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley Feb 2015

Two Poems, Nicholas Bradley

The Goose

Poetry by Nicholas Bradley


Five Poems, Erin Robinsong Feb 2015

Five Poems, Erin Robinsong

The Goose

Poetry by Erin Robinsong


Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener Feb 2015

Editor's Notebook, Lisa Szabo-Jones, Paul Huebener

The Goose

Editorial introduction to The Goose Volume 13, Issue 2 (2014).


Le Printemps De L’Écocritique Francophone Au Canada : Un Appel Aux Contributions En Langue Française Pour The Goose, Mariève Isabel Feb 2015

Le Printemps De L’Écocritique Francophone Au Canada : Un Appel Aux Contributions En Langue Française Pour The Goose, Mariève Isabel

The Goose

French language editorial for The Goose Volume 13, Issue 2 (2014).


Three Poems, Angela Waldie Feb 2015

Three Poems, Angela Waldie

The Goose

Poetry by Angela Waldie


Shopping Cart Pastorals And A Nature Poem, Gary Barwin Feb 2015

Shopping Cart Pastorals And A Nature Poem, Gary Barwin

The Goose

Poetry by Gary Barwin


The Rooster And The Lemon, Luis Mario Guerra, Connie M. Morey Feb 2015

The Rooster And The Lemon, Luis Mario Guerra, Connie M. Morey

The Goose

'The Rooster and the Lemon' is a collaborative work of critical-creative writing and photography between artists-writers Luis Mario Guerra and Connie Michele Morey. The text and image is a part of a larger body of work that emerged from a trip to Havana in December 2013 and is still in the process of unfolding through additional visual forms. The prose and photographs question the im/possibility of stasis and taxonomical containment in an ecological continuum where the processes of death and life and interdependent and imperceptibly entangled.


Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Paula Even Feb 2015

Sigma Gamma Epsilon Student Research Poster Session, Geological Society Of America Meeting 2014, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Paula Even

The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon

The 2014 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Poster Session) took place during the 2014 Geological Society of American annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Tuesday, 21 October 2014. Fifty-two posters were presented at the SGE poster session. The National Council of Sigma Gamma Epsilon awarded the Austin A. Sartin Best Poster Award to Megan Flansburg a student at the College of William and Mary. Emily Lubicich, a student at the State University of New York - New Paltz, was awarded the National Council Best Poster Award.


College Senate Minutes February 26, 2015, Bronx Community College Senate Feb 2015

College Senate Minutes February 26, 2015, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on February 26, 2015.


Review Of "Paramilitarism And The Assault On Democracy In Haiti," By Jeb Sprague, Jean-Germain Gros Feb 2015

Review Of "Paramilitarism And The Assault On Democracy In Haiti," By Jeb Sprague, Jean-Germain Gros

Political Science Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Comment, February 26, 2015, Bridgewater State University Feb 2015

The Comment, February 26, 2015, Bridgewater State University

The Comment

No abstract provided.


The Cord (February 25, 2015) Feb 2015

The Cord (February 25, 2015)

The Cord

No abstract provided.


Volume 106 Issue 17, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Feb 2015

Volume 106 Issue 17, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.


Indigenous Poetics In Canada Edited By Neal Mcleod, Kelly Shepherd Feb 2015

Indigenous Poetics In Canada Edited By Neal Mcleod, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

Review of Neal McLeod's Indigenous Poetics in Canada.


Montana Kaimin, February 25, 2015, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula Feb 2015

Montana Kaimin, February 25, 2015, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.


The Production Of Pollution And Consumption Of Chemicals In Canada, Dayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris, Troy Dixon Feb 2015

The Production Of Pollution And Consumption Of Chemicals In Canada, Dayna Nadine Scott, Lauren Rakowski, Laila Zahra Harris, Troy Dixon

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.