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Joining Hands: Constructing Childhood Agency In The Context Of Ageism, Brittnay Churchill

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Childhood scholars argue that children’s perspectives are systematically underestimated and silenced (James & James, 2004). Sociocultural constructions of children as fragile beings in need of protection cause youth to have few opportunities to exercise their own agency. In Change 4 Good, a youth Participatory Action Research (yPAR) program, dominant narratives regarding the capabilities of young people were challenged. The purpose of the program was to create an empowering setting where youth and adults partnered to make change, as opposed to hierarchical mentorships. The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze relationships between adults and young people within this program. …

Ua42/3/2 Commencement Program, Wku Glasgow

WKU Administration Documents

Commencement program for WKU Glasgow Graduand Ceremony.

Congratulations To Graduates, Jolynne Lyon

Blog Posts

Blog post is congratulating CPD employees who are graduating.

Faculty Senate Chronicle For April 6, 2017, Jon Miller

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes for the regular faculty senate meeting of April 6, 2017.

A Novel Approach: Fictional Prose As Imagined Contact For Counselors-In-Training Working With Cultural Others, Bryant Logan Satterlee

Educational Specialist, 2009-2019

Meeting with clients for the first time provokes anxiety in many counselors-in-training, which can be exacerbated when working with clients from differing cultural backgrounds. This heightened anxiety can limit the capacity of beginning counselors to empathize with cultural others, which decreases the chance of powerful, therapeutic relationships being established. In addition, many counseling programs offer limited multicultural experiences that might actually prompt intergroup anxiety. It is suggested within this article that fictional prose be used as an additional resource in the classroom that acts as an imagined contact experience to aid in the cultivation of cultural empathy while potentially assuaging …

Minutes From The May 4, 2017 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the May 4, 2017 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

Justice-Involved Women And Redemptive Narratives: The Role Of Personal Resources And Environmental Factors On The Desistance Process, Elizabeth K. Allen

Doctoral Dissertations

The rate of incarceration in the United States is six to ten times higher than in countries with similar living standards. There are currently more than seven million Americans who are justice-involved. Women are the fastest growing sector, with more than one million women currently under some form of correctional supervision. Community reintegration after incarceration is challenging and the needs of women are specific and distinct, differing in intensity and multiplicity from men. Frequently, women’s histories include poverty, abuse, and involvement with mental health and child service agencies which have profound implications for incarceration and reintegration. Therefore, all levels of …

A Mixed Methods Study Of Beliefs, Behaviors, And Experiences Of Advanced Practice Nurses With Lesbian And Gay Patients, Marianne Snyder

Doctoral Dissertations

APRNs are increasingly providing more of the primary care services to diverse populations in the United States. The population includes persons of non-heterosexual identities who often encounter barriers when seeking health care. Given the minuscule focus in nursing education about these patient populations, a clearer understanding of APRNs’ beliefs, behaviors, and experiences caring for lesbian and gay patients was essential.

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to explore and identify the beliefs, behaviors, and experiences of APRNs with lesbian and gay and patients. Social constructionism was the theoretical perspective that guided this study, and the philosophical perspective of …

Yusef Steele V. Warden Cicchi

2017 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Current Criminal Justice System Policy Reform Movements: The Problem Of Unintended Consequences, Robert D. Crutchfield

Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality

The history of criminal justice reform in the United States has numerous examples of both good and negative consequences. Frequently the latter have been unintended and unexpected. In this article, I point to several potential unintended consequences of the current, bipartisan push for criminal justice reform and how they may be exacerbated by the failure of policy makers to heed the knowledge of both academic criminologists and criminal justice system practitioners. Criminal justice reform can minimize the possibility of unintended negative consequences by using this knowledge and by following time honored principles of justice.

Warrior To Civilian: The Impact Of Social Identity And Emotional Well-Being On The Community Reintegration Of Us Service Members And Veterans, Mary E. Fortson-Harwell

Doctor of International Conflict Management Dissertations

In this dissertation, the author explores the relationship between the social identity and emotional well-being of military service members and veterans when transitioning to civilian roles following deployment(s) and/or the end of military service. This mixed-methods study uses participant observations, survey measures, and semi-structured interviews to answer the following questions: How does social identity impact the emotional well-being of military service members when transitioning to civilian roles following deployment(s) and/or end of military service? How does participation in formalized or ad hoc community reintegration “rituals” influence the service member’s felt sense of return? By combining Social Identity Theory with Maslow’s …

Structural Factors And Voting Decisions By Recipients Of Means -Tested Government Assistance Programs, Who Are Enrolled In Community Colleges, Adelaide K. Sandler

Doctoral Dissertations

This qualitative study explored how recipients of means-tested government assistance programs, who are enrolled in community colleges, make decisions about voting, and how structural factors affect their decision to vote. It used a grounded theory approach to generate knowledge about why some recipients of means-tested assistance vote and others choose not to vote. The qualitative design provided the framework to unpack motivations for voting or not. There have been no social work studies on this topic, and few political science studies have been conducted using qualitative data.

Several major findings were discovered in this study. Distinct voter types emerged of …

You Yanquis, Erna Fergusson

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, University Of New Mexico Press

New Mexico Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Financial Reports Of The Dwc, 1984-1994, American Society Of Criminology. Division On Women And Crime

Division on Women and Crime Documents and Correspondence

No abstract provided.

Roles And Responsibilities Of Deans And Directors In Digital Initiatives And Campus Irs, Kathlin Ray, Gale Etschmaier, John Ulmschneider

Digital Initiatives Symposium

Abstract: Panelists from both public and private institutions will discuss their experiences with digital initiatives and institutional repositories from the perspective of a library dean or director. Library leaders will share lessons, successes (and failures) associated with their digital initiatives/IR journeys.

Learning outcomes: Attendees will understand why libraries create IR programs, the role of the IR in a library’s strategic mission, opportunities and challenges of campus collaborations and the future trajectories of digital initiatives and institutional repositories.

Gsu View, 2017-05-02, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

No abstract provided.

Rural Emergency Nurses’ Suggestions For Improving End-Of-Life Care, Renea L. Beckstrand, Kelly E. Smith, Karlen E. (Bethy) Luthy, Janelle L. B. Macintosh

Faculty Publications

Introduction: Many patient visits to emergency departments result in the patient dying or being pronounced dead on arrival. The numbers of deaths in emergency departments are likely to increase as a significant portion of the U.S. population ages. Consequently, emergency nurses face many obstacles to providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care when death occurs. The purpose of this study was to identify suggestions that emergency nurses have to improve EOL care, specifically in rural emergency departments.

Methods: A 57-item questionnaire was sent to 53 rural hospitals in 4 states in the Intermountain West, plus Alaska. One item asked nurses to identify …

The Diamond, May 2, 2017, Dordt College

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: April, A Time to Consider Sexual Awareness; Engineers Use Skills in Concrete Ways
• News: Bread's Carbon Footprint Requires Conscious Eating; Six Students Contract Crypto; Reflections on a Semester in the Windy City; Miscommunication about Food Communication; Nursing Students Abroad Face Obstacles and Opportunities; My Genetic Journey; Allowing Coffee to "Work Smarter, Not Harder"; Jobs, Internships, Adulthood, Oh My!; One Year Later, Tension Remains over Faculty Departure; Disagreements over Trump Rally Still Linger; Sunday Singing Connect Students with Elderly; Ideafest: Science Fair on Steroids; In Memory of Dr. Charles Adams
• Features: The Educational Journey of Walker Cosgrove; William Tjeerdsma …

The Prospector, May 2, 2017, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: The Graduation Issue

May 2, 2017, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Anxiety And Depression On College Students’ Academic Performance: Exploring Social Support As A Moderator, Katherine H. Bisson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to explore how social support is related to the overall well-being of college students. Literature suggests social support buffers a negative effect of distress on academic performance. This study attempts to provide practical information for a program called Student Opportunities, Advocacy, and Resources (SOAR) at Abilene Christian University (ACU), which assists students and connects them to resources available to support their path to success. A multiple linear regression was conducted to examine the association between anxiety, depression, social support, and academic performance using a sample of 93 students enrolled in this program in Fall …

The Critique Of Deliberative Discussion. A Response To “Education For Deliberative Democracy: A Typology Of Classroom Discussions", David I. Backer

Democracy & Education

My response to Samuelsson’s (2016) recent essay offers a different paradigm with which to think about education, deliberative discussion and democracy. I call this paradigm the critique of deliberative discussion. Following Ruitenberg’s application of Mouffe’s critiques of deliberative democracy to education, the critique of deliberative discussion focuses on what Jameson called the “political unconscious” of deliberative discussions like those presented by Samuelsson. There is literature that critique traditionally moderate-liberal notions of deliberative discussion, which Samuelsson defines his typology: reason, willingness to listen, and consensus. While others, like Ruitenberg, have developed this critique of deliberative-democratic citizenship education, the critique of deliberative …

Teaching Trans*: Transparent As A Strategy In English Language Arts Classrooms, Joseph D. Sweet, David Lee Carlson

Occasional Paper Series

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how to incorporate a popular television series about being trans*gender into the secondary English Language Arts curriculum. The authors conduct a series of two-hour interviews with the creative and writing teams of the popular television show, Transparent, and examine how to incorporate this material in the English Language Arts classroom along with their combined 16 years of teaching experience. The paper discusses how to incorporate fuse writing assignments and literature activities with adolescents in order to educate young adults about the experiences of being trans*gender as well transform teaching practices as they …

Where Students Start And What They Do When They Get Stuck: A Qualitative Inquiry Into Academic Information-Seeking And Help-Seeking Practices, Eamon Tewell, Susan E. Thomas, Gloria Willson

Brooklyn Library Faculty Publications

This study investigates two questions key to academic library resources and services: Which sources are students most likely to use to begin their academic work? Whom do students tend to consult for research assistance? In-depth interviews conducted with 15 undergraduate and graduate students were thematically analyzed through a three-step process. The findings indicate that students are most likely to consult faculty and peers for assistance and are largely unaware of librarians' roles, while they tend to begin research using library databases and do not necessarily start with Google. In addition, student use of small study groups as learning networks and …

Children’S Rights: Why The United States Should Ratify The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Alexandra Gardiner

Graduate Student Independent Studies

This thesis examines children’s rights in America and specifically addresses why the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, otherwise known as the UNCRC. After presenting the history of children’s rights in America, this project examines the controversy over conflicting interpretations of children’s rights as defined by the UNCRC and the subsequent issues that have impeded its ratification in the United States. This thesis argues for the United States to ratify the UNCRC so that more changes can be made to protect the best interests of children in America.

Faculty Senate Minutes | 2016-2017, Jsu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Pittsburg State University Annual Commencement, May 2017, Pittsburg State University

Commencement, 1903-Present

Program of undergraduate and graduate commencement exercises at Pittsburg State University on May of 2017

Healthcare And Homelessness: How Can We Better Service The Health Needs Of Homeless Individuals? A Case Study Of The City Of Worcester, Ma, Kali Adams

Sustainability and Social Justice

Health care for the homeless is a major problem in American communities. Understanding the gaps, barriers and limitations in this system is imperative to providing homeless populations appropriate care. This research aims to understand the gaps in the homeless system of Worcester, Massachusetts through interviews with hospital staff and employees of agencies working with the homeless population. Analysis revealed an extremely divided system between provision of health care and provision of social services to Worcester’s homeless population. Across these two systems there was limited to no collaboration, communication and understanding. In order to provide more adequate care to homeless individuals, …

Trafficking Of Women In Nepal And Their Vulnerabilities, Sushmita Diyali

Sustainability and Social Justice

ABSTRACT

TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN IN NEPAL AND THEIR VULNERABILITIES

Sushmita Diyali

Around the world, women are marginalized and their liberty has been violated despite women rights and movement. The women and girls are still treated as subhuman. They are subject to sexual exploitation, sexual slavery, and a forced labor. The problems of women based discrimination are widespread all over the world and trafficking of women issues is taken as the most intolerant criminal activity in the earth. Though the world is advancing but Nepal is still dragging behind and its one of the problem is sex exploitation. Human rights of …