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Franklin County Youth Needs Assessment, Becky Zwicki

Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success

No abstract provided.

Parenting In The Moment, Luralyn M. Helming, Jordan Helming

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Family time is important to both of us, but a predictable schedule of when it will occur is simply not always possible."

Posting about making adjustments in family life from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world.

http://inallthings.org/parenting-in-the-moment/

Good Governance: A New Perspective For Institutional Reform- A Comparative View Of The Education, Health And Water Sectors In Egypt, Yasmin Khodary

Political Science

Reform of state institutions is a gateway to a country's progress and development. This research seeks to answer the following questions: 'to what extent do institutions, such as water, basic education and primary healthcare institutions, conform to good governance standards in Egypt?' and secondly, 'how can good governance offer a new perspective for institutional reform in Egypt?'. The research presents a comparative assessment for governance within the Egyptian water, basic education and primary healthcare institutions. The assessment is based on nationally-owned governance indicators, which informed the measurement and assessment of governance within the water, basic education and primary healthcare institutions …

Note: Legal Recognition Of The Battered-Child Syndrome

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Alike And Different: My Religion, Your Religion, Liz Kazandzhy

Children's Book and Media Review

David’s friend Zach has invited him to his Jewish bar mitzvah, but David has never been to a Jewish synagogue before. He and his father research more about the Jewish faith and then go to support Zach, learning all sorts of interesting things about the Jewish religion. On Sunday, David and his dad go to their Lutheran church, though he and his mom often go to the Catholic church together. Later he volunteers at a soup kitchen and sees his friend from school helping too, though she doesn’t belong to any church. After learning more about the Muslim and Buddhists …

Alike And Different: My Family, Your Family, Liz Kazandzhy

Children's Book and Media Review

Makayla is waiting for her baby brother to be born, and her parents encourage her to learn more about different kinds of families. She starts off at her friend Mateo’s house, where everyone talks loudly, speaks Spanish, and has lots of fun. Next she passes Ms. Betsy and Ms. Roberta, a couple with no kids, and tells them all about her family. She then has lunch with Olivia and her dad and learns more about divorce and stepfamilies, and she stops by Jake and his grandparents who take care of him. Finally she visits Parker, a boy with two dads, …

A Study Of How Csr Rankings Are Affected In A Globalized Economy, Victoria E. Fisher

McNair Scholars Research Journal

We are in a time of globalization, and as a result there is a “rapid growth in trade, financial transactions, and cross country ownership” of assets (Tengblad & Ohlsson, 2010, p. 653). As globalization has increased, the number of companies in different industries using corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities has grown. Increasingly, companies are communicating their activities through CSR reports that outline corporate initiatives to access and take responsibility for the company’s effect on the global environment and its impact on social welfare. In this paper, we examined how a globalized economy affects Environmental, Social, Governance, and Total CSR rankings …

Learning Is Not Child's Play: Assessing The No Child Left Behind Act, Gwendolyn J. Dean

McNair Scholars Research Journal

This research examines the implementation and impact of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on education quality. More specifically, it outlines how states defined NCLB provisions, including trajectory selection, reporting techniques, confidence interval use, and methods used to inform the public of outcomes. It also discusses NCLB’s impact on education outcomes by assessing changes in fourth grade reading scores under NCLB. This qualitative study includes several demographic variables that will allow the study to control for the impact that NCLB’s implementations has caused and its effect on school districts that have taken on this process.

Brief For Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Anti-Defamation League, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian American Bar Association Of New York, Asian American Legal Defense And Education Fund, Hispanic National Bar Association, Latinojustice Prldef Inc., Metropolitan Black Bar Association, Naacp Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, National Bar Association, National Native American Bar Association, Society Of American Law Teachers, Inc., South Asian Bar Association Of New York, South Asian Bar Association Of North America, And Law Professors In Support Of Defendant-Apellant, Fred T. Korematsu Center For Law And Equality, Attorneys For Amicus Curiae

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

People v. Joseph Bridgeforth

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 6, 2016, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Program Proposals

• Offering a Minor in Applied Economics/Small Firm Management
• Changing the name from AAS-Business Administration to AAS-Small Business Operations
• Offering a Graduate Certificate in Archiving and Public Programming
• Changing the name from Literary Studies to Literature
• Offering a Minor in Native American Studies
• Offering a Minor in Yoga Studies
• Offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Changing the name form Wildlife Science to Wildlife Ecology
• Changing the name from Rangeland Resources to Rangeland Ecology and Management
• Changing the name from Forestry to Forest Ecology and Management
• Adding five areas of emphasis in the Management and …

Setting The Irish State Table, Elaine Mahon

Articles

This year Ireland celebrates the centenary of the Easter rebellion of 1916, the event which is generally regarded as having led to Ireland’s independence six years later. Drawing on Irish government archives, this paper presents the beginnings of Irish state hospitality in the 1920s the emergence of diplomatic dining in the 1930s hosted by the Irish head of state and the first attempts to establish inventories of state owned furniture abroad. The paper then discusses how the Department of External Affairs set out to acquire a dinner service for official entertainment by the Minister of External Affairs as a showcase …

Daily Eastern News: October 06, 2016, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Chanticleer | October 6, 2016, Jacksonville State University

Chanticleer

No abstract provided.

Wsu Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, October 6-7, 2016

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on October 6-7, 2016.

Unh Research Finds Rural Immigrants Twice As Likely To Be Poor Than Workers Born In The U.S., Erika Mantz

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Chronicle For September 1, 2016, Jon Miller

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on September 1, 2016.

Self-Directed Learning Readiness Among Undergraduate Students At Saudi Electronic University In Saudi Arabia, Mousa Sulaiman Alfaifi

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of self-directed learning readiness among undergraduate students at Saudi Electronic University in Saudi Arabia. This study also investigated whether there were relationships between the level of self-directed learning readiness and selected demographic variables such as gender, college, and age in the sample of undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia. This research utilized a quantitative design.

The Self-directed Learning Readiness Scale (SDLRS), which was developed by Guglielmino, was utilized to measure the level of self-directed learning readiness among undergraduate students at Saudi Electronic University on the Riyadh campus. A total of 203 …

October 6, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the October 6, 2016, meeting of the University Senate. 10 pages

October 2016 Faculty Senate Packet, University Of Nebraska At Kearney Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Packets

No abstract provided.

Demographic And Economic Characteristics Of Immigrant And Native-Born Populations In Rural And Urban Places, Andrew P. Schaefer, Marybeth J. Mattingly

Carsey Publications

In this brief authors Andrew Schaefer and Marybeth Mattingly use American Community Survey five-year estimates to document demographic and economic characteristics of the immigrant and native-born populations in the United States by metropolitan status. They focus on a wide range of demographic and economic indicators that relate to immigrants’ ability to assimilate and thrive in rural America. They report that compared to the native-born rural population, rural immigrants are more likely to be of working age (18–64), are more racially and ethnically diverse, are less educated, and are more likely to have children. Working rural immigrants are nearly twice as …

October 6, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

October 6, 2016, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Emil Brunner's Theology Of Preaching, Herbert E. Douglass

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

“I Feel Like I’M Going Extinct”: Conversations About The Confederacy In South Central Virginia, Lauren R. Moore

ASA Annual Conference

Summer 2015 was a time of renewed attention to the persistence and prominence of the Confederate (or rebel) flag in the southern United States. As national attention to the flag increased, I was undertaking eight weeks of preliminary fieldwork in a Virginia town named for general JEB Stuart. This paper examines the conversations surrounding the flag and other Confederate symbols that took place in person and in an online group for county residents. In it, I examine how flag supporters draw on their feelings of cultural and economic marginalization to resist the flag’s removal. While racism undergirds some of the …

Growing Appalachia: Local Foods & Community Development In Knox County, Kentucky, Kathryn Engle, Hannah Bingham, Alex Jones, Angel Hill, John Medlock

ASA Annual Conference

This poster highlights the work of the Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Gardening Program, the Knox County Farmers’ Market, and the “Local Foods, Local Places” grant program. The Lend-A-Hand Center is a nondenominational community service organization in Walker, Kentucky, that was started in 1958 by Irma Gall and Peggy Kemner (ASA Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award Recipients). Grow Appalachia is a program begun in 2009 administered by Berea College to promote gardening and local food systems in Appalachia. The Lend-A-Hand Center Grow Appalachia Project was begun in 2014 to break down barriers to gardening and build community, addressing food security …

The Power+ Plan And Citizen’S Movement For Just Transition In Appalachia And Beyond, Betsy Taylor, Dwight Billings, Eric Dixon, Gabby Gillespie, Mary Anne Hitt, Bill Price, Adam Wells, Jeremy Richardson, Mary Hufford, Adam Hughes

ASA Annual Conference

In January 2015, President Obama announced a five-year plan to direct over $1 billion into economic transition and reclamation in Appalachia and elsewhere. The proposed POWER+ plan draws funds from the Abandoned Mine Lands Fund and from five federal agencies. Through 2015, the Alliance for Appalachia and other grassroots organizations lobbied local governments to support POWER+. Dozens of county governments across Central Appalachia have passed resolutions in support. This roundtable reflects on this remarkably successful mobilization for just transition policy. It analyzes POWER+ in historical context of past macrostructural shifts in the relationship of the Corporate to the Local State. …

Appalachian Identity As Narrative Identity, M Joseph Aloi, Charles Brandon Hayes, Charlee Tidrick

ASA Annual Conference

Much work in the field of Appalachian Studies seems to require the assumption that there is something that it is to be an Appalachian person. This paper draws on Paul Ricoeur’s account of personal identity as narrative identity to attempt to understand what Appalachian identity is. Ricoeur argues that, although there is a pre-narrative quality to human life itself, a narrative is required to synthesize the many different heterogeneous elements that make up our lives into a coherent whole. In creating the narratives that are our life stories, we draw not only on the pre-narrative character of life, but also …

Marginalization And Resilience From Within And Without Appalachia: Views On Place And Disruption In Eastern Kentucky And Washington, D.C., Kirsten L. Crase

ASA Annual Conference

The people who reside amidst Appalachia's misty mountains experience geographical and place-based marginalization in a way that is unique in the American context, and that indeed has long helped define the very notion of geographical "outsider-dom." Yet Appalachians are not alone in experiencing this kind of place-based marginalization, even if it is a more primary source of marginalization here than in other places, where place-based marginalization often intersects more visibly with marginalization on the basis of race, religion, etc. But what might we learn from putting voices from Appalachia’s misty and marginalized mountains in a kind of conversation with voices …

Extending Gaventa: A Foucauldian Reading Of Power And Powerlessness, Judson C. Abraham

ASA Annual Conference

John Gaventa’s Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley uses political science’s “three faces of power” literature to investigate the fraught relations between residents of the Clear Fork Valley (CFV), a subregion of central Appalachia, and the American Association (AA), a multinational corporation holding most of the valley’s land and coal resources. Each face of power describes a different way actors may behave in a power relationship. Gaventa focuses on what Steven Lukes terms the third face of power, which emphasizes how elites use ideology to make the powerless voluntarily act against their own interests to the …

Part-Time Faculty In Rural Appalachia: Not What You Might Think, Ruby Robinson

ASA Annual Conference

Community colleges play an important role in post-secondary education, especially in the rural Appalachian region. Community colleges employ an overwhelming majority of part-time faculty. Part-time faculty are often perceived as having a negative influence on the quality of education within community colleges. They are perceived as temporary employees who are seeking full-time faculty positions and are therefore less committed to the mission of the community college and the rural Appalachian community.

This paper investigated the perceptions of the professional roles and relationships of the English part-time faculty at rural Appalachian community colleges. Part-time faculty were interviewed to identify the multiple …