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Supporting A Community Of Pets, Noah C. Madden

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This capstone project highlights a community's efforts to support in-need pets, particularly dogs and cats, as well as their owners. For this project, I organized and executed a multiple-week food drive focused specifically on collecting pet food. The objective of this project was to help diminish the rate of food insecurity found in pets within the Boise community, as well as bring a fresh sense of hope to pet owners who may be facing financial hardship or other personal challenges. Over nearly a month’s time, my pet food drive was able to raise over 750 pounds of food for those …

Helping Hoodies Clothing Drive, Nicole Hawkinson

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This service learning project recognized the needs for warmer clothing for disadvantaged children that they genuinely wanted and would wear. Oftentimes, children who are in the care of the state for any purpose are children that have suffered trauma and loss. Not only loss of their possessions, but their families, friends and stability. I partnered with a non-profit organization, The Closet, that gives these children back their ability to choose clothing items that fit their style and helps them to gain back a piece of their identity. I created the Helping Hoodies clothing drive that ran for a week in …

Missionary Of Faith: Uniting And Educating Catholic Youth Under God, Joshua Ryan Mcgarvie

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Religion, as discussed further in the following research, is clearly not the focus of many people’s lives in our society today. In my opinion, younger generations should be taught Catholicism to develop a solid moral foundation at a young age. For my capstone project, I volunteered to teach a Religious Education (RE) class to 6th-8th graders in my local parish. Through the development of a more robust and engaging curriculum, specifically designed to teach the most profound concepts of the Church, I was able to further the cause of bringing Catholicism to these younger members of society. As a leader …

Bridging The Gapp, Betty Trandem

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

The German American Partnership Program (GAPP) is a short-term high school student exchange program that provides students from both countries to gain perspectives from alternative culture exchanges. The GAPP program is not a school sponsored club or organization. This service-learning project involves assisting coordinators by creating resources to educate individuals regarding cultural and language opportunities and provides support to an already overburdened education staff. Communicating expectations and cultural information allows students to travel safely and remain open to new perspectives.

Creating Homes For Ethiopia's Future, Roxanna M. Dempsay

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

Creating Homes for Ethiopia’s Future is a fundraiser project inspired by my travels to Ethiopia and opportunities to work with Maji’s Miracle, a nonprofit organization in Meridian, Idaho, advocating for vulnerable youth who have aged out of orphanages in Ethiopia. This capstone project was narrowly focused on one specific portion of the Maji’s Miracle intake process identified as a point where having a restricted reserve fund would allow the organization to act more efficiently to get youth into safe, secure housing, reduce delays and pressure on the organization and youth leaving orphanages, and eliminate concerns for potential homelessness while awaiting …

Clothing My Community, Megan Anderson-Way

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

My Capstone project is doing a clothing drive and swap for my community. I was inspired when I was back to school shopping for clothes for my daughter and realizing how expensive it is. I asked myself how do families afford it with multiple children afford clothing in this economy.

Para Educator And Classified Staff Study: Hacker Middle School, Cierra Hunter Donlee Webb

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

The following research and data collection was conducted over the course of 7 weeks during the capstone period of the authors final course for their Interdisciplinary Professional Studies degree. The following content is the interviews, data collection, and experiences of the author on their journey of this project. It establishes the wants and needs of the staff at a local middle school in Mountain Home Idaho. The author’s goal was to establish a foundational path for improvement and communication when it pertains to the classified and para educator staff at the local middle school and how this establishment could be …

A Social Media Marketing Plan For Premiere Property Group, Emma Claire Pittman

IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects

This project took the current stats of Premiere Property Group, LLC’s (PPG) current social media presence and curated a plan to increase both engagement and brand awareness for the company. The social media marketing plan was created to set specific goals for the marketing department and to utilize the techniques and tools of current social media platforms to market the company without a large budget. The current social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, were assessed for followers, likes and views, as well as overall engagement. A social media marketing plan was then created specific to PPG’s target audiences and …

Assessing Attitudes Towards Pediatric Research Participation Across Diverse Populations: Psychometric Properties Of A Novel Tool, Megan M. Hare, Courtney S. Walker, Dustin E. Sarver, Crystal S. Lim, Dustin C. Brown, Robert D. Annett

Pediatrics Research and Scholarship

BACKGROUND: Clinical trials play a crucial role in advancing medical knowledge and improving health outcomes. However, there is a recognized need for greater representation of marginalized groups to ensure that research findings can be generalized and effectively applied to all individuals. While the Pediatric Research Participation Questionnaire (PRPQ) was developed to assist pediatric clinical trials research by identifying benefits and barriers to research participation among children with chronic medical conditions, there is still limited insight into the structure of the PRPQ when administered in diverse samples, including the general pediatric population. Therefore, the current study examined the factor structure of …

Family And School Partnership To Build Homeplace And Protect Black Autistic Joy, Lachan V. Hannon, Michael D. Hannon

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

Researchers acknowledge how the experiences of Black autistic students and their families are virtually absent from educational research and research about autistic people. This chapter offers insights and perspectives from the parents of a Black autistic child, using hooks’ construct of homeplace to understand the need for safety in school spaces. Drawing on tenets of self-study and co-autoethnographic methodologies, the authors provide reflections and recommendations on the ways school personnel can help create homeplace to nurture and protect Black autistic joy through their singular and shared narratives.

Meaningful Work When Work Won't Love You Back: Sociological Imagination And Reflective Teaching Practice (Reports From The Field), Andrea Baer

Libraries Scholarship

This essay explores the tension between pursuing meaningful work in instruction librarianship and the realities of working in a society in which many jobs provide little fulfillment or pleasure, or, as the journalist Sarah Jaffe puts it, “Work won’t love you back.” Drawing on a recent conference keynote by Anne Helen Petersen, C. Wright Mills’s conception of sociological imagination, and an ecological model of teacher agency, I propose that one way librarians can sustain their teaching practices and preserve their well-being is by actively investigating how social structures and relationships influence their teaching roles.

François Libermann, The Savernois Melting Pot Of A Jew Founder Of A Religious Congregation, Mathieu Biala Balu Cssp

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Fy2024 Faculty Salaries Over $50,000, Clemson University

Salary Reports

No abstract provided.

Anderson University Student Handbook, 2023-2024, Anderson University - South Carolina

Handbooks

The Anderson University student handbook for the 2023-2024 school year.

Mass Media Contributes To Athlete Gender Stereotypes -- Social Media And Our Social Lives, Becky Overmeyer-Velasquez, Sociology, Zijie Dang, Madeline Traylor, Natalie Amloian, Sean Cervantes, Yaneli Rosales

First Year Seminars in Project-Based Learning

No abstract provided.

Gender & Sexuality Services Newsletter, October 2023, University Of Northern Iowa. Gender & Sexuality Services.

Gender & Sexuality Services Newsletter

In This Issue:

--- LGBTea Time
--- Safe Zone Ally
--- LGBTQ+ Center Recognition
--- Out & Ally Network
--- Upcoming Events

Imsa’S Equity And Excellence Plan: 3 Year Outcome Report, Adrienne Coleman

Equity and Excellence Plan

The Academy recognizes and acknowledges the historical underrepresentation and marginalization of culturally, linguistically, and economically diverse groups, both universally, and particularly, in STEM education and professions. These disparities also exist in the representation of the Academy’s workforce. We are committed to advancing equity in STEM education and representation and creating a diverse, inclusive community of global citizens who can realize their full potential, and execute our mission to advance the human condition, through a model of Equity and Excellence.

Classified Information: The Newsletter Of The Lloyd Sealy Library, Lloyd Sealy Library, Cuny John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

Reports and Publications from John Jay College

Classified Information was a publication that informed the College about Library services, personnel, upcoming events, new technologies, and available resources.

Catalogs, 2023-2024, Anderson University - South Carolina

Catalogs

The 2023-2024 graduate & undergraduate academic catalog and introduction to the university.

Going Urban: The Jewish Experience Of The Metropolis In Early 20th Century Literature, Ariel Yehudith Pridan

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This study delves into urban Jewish praxis and its impact on the production of urban space in three literary texts composed within the first four decades of the 20th century: the novella “Min HaMeitzar” [“Out of the Depths”] (1908) by Hebrew writer Yosef Haim Brenner, the novel Nokh alemen [“The End of Everything”] (1913) by Yiddish writer Dovid Bergelson, and the novel Hiob: Roman eines einfachen Mannes [“Job: The Story of a Simple Man”] (1930) by German-Jewish writer Joseph Roth. The literary readings presented in this study strive to elucidate the literary production of urban space as a means of …

The Dark Side Of Iconicity: How Controversial Icons Become Lightning Rods For Passionate Audiences, Vanessa Kristin Bittner

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation delves into the dynamic interplay between controversial public figures, audiences, and the creation of icons today. Through three distinct articles, it explores how icons emerge and evolve within contentious political discourse. The first article introduces the concept of "dialectic icons," exemplified by figures like Colin Kaepernick, demonstrating their ability to evoke emotional responses and drive social polarization. The second article examines the role of antagonistic audiences in magnifying negative iconization, using Greta Thunberg as a case study to reveal the conflict potential of these figures. The third article introduces the notion of "iconic extensions" using the MAGA hat …

The Maladaptive And Adaptive Effects Of Trust And Distrust On Externalizing Behavior, Shou-An Ariel Chang

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

A wide range of behaviors, from hostility and defiance to more severe forms ofnorm violations, such as theft and violence, comprise the spectrum of externalizing behaviors. The psychological, physical, and social consequences associated with externalizing behaviors place a significant burden on the individual, their families, and society. Research has made substantial advances in identifying environmental-level and individual-level risk factors for externalizing behavior. However, despite work indicating that both externalizing behaviors themselves and several risk factors associated with externalizing behaviors are related to disruptions in trust and distrust, limited work has considered interactions between environmental- and individual-level risk factors and levels …

Relocating Urban Lives: Negotiating Urban Identities And Urban Culture Beyond The City, Nicholas Payne Kearns

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

During the mid-2010s, I had done participant-observation with Puerto Ricans in Western Massachusetts who had relocated from various cities, attempting to understand their particular experiences and the particular challenges that they had faced. I had spent time with them in a neighborhood with concentrated poverty where they would often meet up to socialize, and through conversations, I had attempted to gain a more meaningful perspective on this demographic about which not that much research has been produced. By engaging with seven men who had relocated from as far away as Salinas, Puerto Rico and Jacksonville, Florida, and more proximate urban …

Specters Of Degradation: Poverty And Uplift In Modern Political Thought, Chris Anthony Chambers

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation traces the imprint of Adam Smith on modern political theories of poverty and uplifting the poor to provide an original account of the surprising synergies between conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives on redressing poverty. Offering the first manuscript-length study of poverty and the poor in the history of political thought since the 2000s, it examines how claims about the degradation of the poor have paradoxically animated while limiting ideas of uplift and perfectibility. I show how, by focusing on the moral condition of the poor and effects of poverty, conservatives, liberals, and radicals alike reproduced hateful stereotypes about …

Beyond Bias: Three Papers On Bias In Social Networks And Mitigating Bias In Social Science Research, Jeffrey K. Sachs

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

The dissertation consists of three relational-based approaches to analyzing bias in socialnetworks and social data. The first study introduces two group fairness metrics that incorporate network structure, revealing its substantial impact on fairness outcomes, which is often overlooked by traditional metrics. The second study investigates information diffusion processes, highlighting the potential for inequality generated by conventional seeding strategies. It focuses on designing equitable network interventions, considering each group’s relative influence. I calibrate the diffusion models to actual diffusion processes to assess various network influence measures and their likelihood of producing equitable outcomes under a set of fairness constraints. The analysis …

Gold & Blue Law Edition, Fall 2023, St. Mary's University - San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue Law Edition

This is the Fall 2023 edition of Gold & Blue Law Edition which is St. Mary's University's official School of Law publication.

After The Criminal Justice System, Benjamin Levin

Washington Law Review

Since the 1960s, the “criminal justice system” has operated as the common label for a vast web of actors and institutions. But as critiques of mass incarceration have entered the mainstream, academics, activists, and advocates increasingly have stopped referring to the “criminal justice system.” Instead, they have opted for critical labels—the “criminal legal system,” the “criminal punishment system,” the “prison industrial complex,” and so on. What does this re-labeling accomplish? Does this change in language matter to broader efforts at criminal justice reform or abolition? Or does an emphasis on labels and language distract from substantive engagement with the injustices …

Knocking On Europe's Door: A Comprehensive Analysis Of The European Response To The 2015 Refugee Crisis And The Ukrainian Refugee Crisis, Jacob J. Mckim

Global Studies Senior Capstone

Europe is, and has long been at the center of refugee reception for many areas of the world due to its geographical position and general security. However, the European response to refugees has varied drastically in different situations. This paper examines the European response to both the 2015 Refugee Crisis and the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis. The focus being on what factors, whether political, racial, or religious, has led for some individuals to be received more favorably in Europe than others. Through examining this, the conditions for successful and long-lasting refugee reception hopefully be more clearly seen.

Dissolving Discrimination: A Study And Critique Of Sexual Violence Against Disabled Individuals In Sub-Saharan Africa, Kaeley Sells

Global Studies Senior Capstone

This paper examines and critiques current sexual violence against disabled individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa by evaluating the social and cultural stigma present that perpetuates cycles of vulnerabilities. Currently, women and girls with disabilities are disproportionally at risk for sexual violence as economic, cultural, and political structures in many Sub-Saharan African countries fail to recognize and adequately protect those with disabilities. Incorporating evidence from journals, books, reviews, and studies, this paper demonstrates the need for non-government and governments actors to recognize the need to provide protection and trauma-informed care for disabled individuals.

The Prevalence Of Socialism In South America: Democracy And Inequality, Ivannav Davila Garcia

Global Studies Senior Capstone

This thesis studies the development of socialism in South America. It engages foreign relations in the 20th century and the development of left-wing government in South America.