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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes Oct 21, 2016, A-State Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Faculty Senate held on October 21, 2016.

When Your Teachers Fail You: The Necessity Of Improving Teachers Training For Quality Education In Cameroon, Monique Kwachou

Young African Leaders Journal of Development

With the underlying hypothesis that the quality of a teachers’ training is directly proportional to the quality of education pupils eventually receive, this essay explores and critiques the basic education teacher training process in Cameroon, using two notable educational theories to assess the possibility of quality education resulting from Cameroonian government-trained basic education teachers. It was found that there is dire need to improve the quality of teachers we train to ensure that they can deliver the quality of education we seek. A brief outline of suggestions is made towards improving the flawed training system.

In Memoriam

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Back Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Notes

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding meeting attendance, university committees, elections, campus security, nondiscrimination policy, president search and Student Government Association.

Time From Screening Mammography To Biopsy And From Biopsy To Breast Cancer Treatment Among Black And White, Women Medicare Beneficiaries Not Participating In A Health Maintenance Organization, Rebecca Selove, Barbara Kilbourne, Mary Kay Fadden, Maureen Sanderson, Maya Foster, Regina Offodile, Baqar Husaini, Charles Mouton, Robert S. Levine

Sociology Faculty Research

Purpose

There is a breast cancer mortality gap adversely affecting Black women in the United States. This study assessed the relationship between number of days between abnormal mammogram, biopsy, and treatment among Medicare (Part B) beneficiaries ages 65 to 74 and 75 to 84 years, accounting for race and comorbidity.

Methods

A cohort of non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White women residing in the continental United States and receiving no services from a health maintenance organization was randomly selected from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services denominator file. The cohort was followed from 2005 to 2008 using Center …

Dear Lucy: A Multilogue Response To Lucy E. Bailey's "Epistolary Hauntings", Naomi Norquay

Education's Histories

Naomi Norquay provides a multilogue response to Lucy E. Bailey's essay, "Epistolary Hauntings: Working 'With' and 'On' Family Letters."

Division Course Change Proposals 10/20/2016, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 92, No. 15 [17], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Williams, Jamie. Reusable Boxes to Improve Sustainability – Dining Services
• Collins, Emma. Funds Returned to Universities after Months of Debate
• Keltner, Bryson. French Film Festival Returns to the Hill
• Kast, Monica. Faculty Creates Website to Explain Budget – University Senate
• Williams, Jamie. Student Government Association Announces Safety Polls, New Members
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Best Couple
• Ronkainen, Millie. Exorcism Off the Big Screen & in Practice
• Schwab, Edmond. Issues with Billings Office
• Huff, Taylor. Ken Bone and His Question About Energy
• Austin, Emma. Spanish …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 106 [107], No. 14 (Oct. 20, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 106, but it is the 107th volume in the series.

The East Texan, 2016-10-20, Texas A&M University-Commerce

All Issues

A color copy of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

"Vidya Games Are For Nerds Like Us": Identity Deployment In The Gamergate Controversy, Matthew J. Rogers

Master's Theses

In February, 2014, video game developer Zoe Quinn released Depression Quest, a browser game centered on the subjective experience of depression, which met with critical success. In August of the same year, an ex-boyfriend published a vitriolic blog post accusing Quinn of having sex with a reviewer from the gaming website Kotaku in exchange for a favorable review. Users of the site 4chan seized on these accusations and subsequently subjected her to intense harassment, including death and rape threats.

These attacks, later labeled “GamerGate,” are only the latest in a series of attacks on women in the video game …

Infertility And Fertility Intentions, Desires, And Outcomes Among Us Women, Karina M. Shreffler, Stacy Tiemeyer, Cassandra Dorius, Tiffany Spierling, Arthur L. Greil, Julia Mcquillan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Little is known about how the experience of infertility or identification as someone with infertility shapes women’s fertility intentions, desires, or birth outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to help fill this gap in knowledge for fertility-intentions research.

METHODS Using data from the National Survey of Fertility Barriers (NSFB), we use linear and logistic regression methods to assess how infertility and parity statuses are associated with fertility intentions and desires, as well as how statuses at one point in time predict birth three years later.

RESULTS We find that infertility is associated with lower fertility intentions. …

October 20, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Full Proceedings, Nepal Study Center

Himalayan Policy Research Conference

Proceedings and paper abstracts of the Himalayan Policy Research Conference (Eleventh Annual) from the Nepal Study Center. Thursday, October 20, 2016, Madison Concourse Hotel and Governors' Club, Pre-conference Venue of the 45th South Asian Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mythic Moments

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

An exhibition at HKDI this autumn aimed to introduce the power of photography through a series of family portraits that combined simplicity and emotional depth.

Ohio University Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium On Poverty, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

The Rattler (Volume 104, Issue 10, Edition 1), St. Mary's University

The Rattler (Previous issues)

Founded in 1919, The Rattler is the student voice of St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. The newspaper documents campus life, academic and social issues, student opinion, and local and national events as they relate to the University community. Content typically includes news articles, editorial commentary, arts and culture coverage, sports reporting, and advertisements.

Transnational Policy Flows In European Education: The Making And Governing Of Knowledge In The Educational Policy Field, P Kelly

Plymouth Institute of Education

No abstract provided.

The Collegian: October 19, 2016, The Collegian Staff

The Collegian, 2016-2017

Volume 132
Issue 8

Volume 54, Number 10: October 19, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Spectator 2016-10-19, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

E-Cigarette Use Among Students And E-Cigarette Specialty Retailer Presence Near Schools, Georgiana Bostean, Catherine M. Crespi, Patsornkarn Vorapharuek, William J. Mccarthy

Sociology Faculty Articles and Research

Objective. This study examined the association between presence of e-cigarette specialty retailers near schools and e-cigarette use among middle and high school students in Orange County (OC), CA.

Methods. The OC subsample of the 2013-2014 California Healthy Kids Survey (N=67,701) was combined with geocoded e-cigarette retailers to determine whether a retailer was present within one-quarter mile of each public school in OC. Multilevel logistic regression models evaluated individual-level and school-level e-cigarette use correlates among middle and high school students.

Results. Among middle school students, the presence of an e-cigarette retailer within one-quarter mile of their school predicted …

Small Mirales

SIGNED: The Magazine of The Hong Kong Design Institute

A new book that explores the homes of ordinary Hong Kong families reveals that the city's residents have designed intriguing solutions to the challenges of living in tiny apartments. Summar Cao talked to the book's authors and discovered that necessity can be more than the mother of invention.

Exploring Cross-National Incarceration, Evan R. Wiley

MA Research Paper

Incarceration is common to nation-states of all types, yet its use varies greatly. What accounts for these variations? Are certain countries simply more criminogenic than others, or are more complex relations at play? With a sample of 118 countries, and the use of linear regression, the impact of social development, neoliberal politics, and social inequality are explored. Little to no support was found for social development hypotheses, while strong support was found for political variables. Contrary to previous research, unemployment was found to be negatively associated with the use of imprisonment. The relationship between crime and incarceration was discussed and …

Beyond The Land Of Five Rivers: Social Inequality And Class Consciousness In The Canadian Sikh Diaspora, Harmeet S. Sandhu

MA Research Paper

Romanticized visions of Khalistan became emotively embedded in the hearts and minds of Sikh-Canadians following the execution of Operation Blue Star. Today, insurgents residing within the contested homeland continue to draw support from Sikh immigrants and their Canadian-born descendants. Perplexingly, while a sizable proportion of second and third-generation Sikh youth advocate for the creation of the theocratic state of Khalistan, many selectively disregard the righteous way of life envisioned by the founders of the Khalsa Panth. This paper presents a conceptual sociological analysis of the diasporic politics of identity and homeland. Although Marx, and other modern social theorists, had presumed …

Metal In Strange Places, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The University of Dayton will see a heavy influx of "battle jackets" and black T-shirts this week as the campus plays host to a three-day metal music conference that will draw scholars, musicians and enthusiasts from as far away as Canada, England and Finland.

Spartan Daily, October 18, 2016, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily, 2016

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