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Board Of Directors Meeting Minutes (September 8, 2025), File 1, Dmacc

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

This file contains the minutes from the Des Moines Area Community College Board meeting held on September 8, 2025.

A Qualitative Study Of Cash Welfare Assistance Recipients’ Preparedness For Economic Self-Sufficiency, Kimberly Pickens

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Single mothers receiving cash welfare assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, may not be prepared for economic self-sufficiency due to TANF’s primary focus on employment and limited focus on self-sufficiency barriers. Past studies have found that cash welfare assistance recipients may not become self-sufficient due to low-wage employment, limited education, and the lack of a public policy-based standardization of the concept of economic self-sufficiency. The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of single mother TANF recipients pursuing economic self-sufficiency through the lens of the capabilities approach, life chances theory, and the feminization of …

Integrative Analysis Of Lung Adenocarcinoma Across Diverse Ethnicities And Exposures, Shankha Satpathy, Natalie M Clark, Yi-Ju Chen, Noshad Hosseini, Ya-Hsuan Chang, Yi Hsiao, Jonathan T Lei, Francesca Petralia, Jin-Shing Chen, Yifat Geffen, David I Heiman, Indranil Paul, Hanbyul Cho, Michelle Hollenberg, Giacomo B Marino, Kuen-Tyng Lin, Rahul Mannan, C Jackson White, Joe Allen, Shayan C Avanessian, M Harry Kane, Ashley Wolfe, Miloni Kinarivala, Wenke Liu, Shankara Anand, Mong-Wei Lin, Moe Haines, Erik J Bergstrom, Grant Hussey, Ginny Xiaohe Li, Deepak C Mani, Hao Fang, Eric J Jaehnig, Hasmik Keshishian, Brecca Miller, Kang-Yi Su, Yi-Jing Hsiao, Hsao-Hsun Hsu, Min-Shu Hsieh, Kuo-Hsuan Hsu, Alexi Monovoukas, Simone Gohsman, John R Thorup, Yamei Deng, Yo Akiyama, Eden Deng, Eric Sheng-Wen Chen, Azra Krek, Rodrigo Espinoza, Weiping Ma, Daniel Charytonowicz, Robert Sebra, Jyun-Hong Lin, Yan-Si Chen, Yin-Chen Hsu, Ze-Shiang Lin, Kun-Chieh Chen, Chang-Wei Yeh, Yu-Tai Wang, Alexander J Lazar, Mehdi Mesri, Eunkyung An, Xu Zhang, Karl R Clauser, David Fenyö, Arul M Chinnaiyan, Bing Zhang, Li Ding, Kelly Ruggles, Chelsea Newton, Hui Zhang, Pei Wang, Galen Hostetter, Gilbert S Omenn, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, Mathangi Thiagarajan, Ramaswamy Govindan, Paul Paik, Abhijit Parolia, Qing K Li, Avi Ma'ayan, Gad A Getz, Saravana M Dhanasekaran, Ana I Robles, Gee-Chen Chang, Pan-Chyr Yang, Sung-Liang Yu, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Alexey I Nesvizhskii, Steven A Carr, D R Mani, Marcin P Cieslik, Yu-Ju Chen, Michael A Gillette, Taiwan Cancer Moonshot Program, Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Lung adenocarcinomas (LUAD) are a pressing global health problem with enduring lethality and rapidly shifting epidemiology. Proteogenomic studies integrating proteomics and post-translational modifications with genomics can identify clinical strata and oncogenic mechanisms, but have been underpowered to examine effects of ethnicity, smoking and environmental exposures, or sex on this heterogeneous disease. This comprehensive proteogenomic analysis of LUAD tumors and matched normal adjacent tissues from 406 patients across diverse geographic and demographic backgrounds explores the impact of understudied driver mutations, prognostic role of chromosomal instability, patterns of immune signaling, differential and sex-specific effects of endogenous mutagens and environmental carcinogens, and pathobiology …

Tracing Carceral Continuities: A Review Of Recent Works On The Incarcerations Of The "Bhima Koregaon-16", Saumya Dadoo, Shailza Sharma

Socio-Legal Review

This systematic review analyses three recent books that focus on the incarceration of the “BK-16”—sixteen activists who were detained in the aftermath of a 2018 gathering to celebrate the bicentenary of the Battle of Koregaon: (1) Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia’s How Long Can the Moon Be Caged (Pluto Press 2023); (2) Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India (Harper Collins India 2024); and (3) Sudha Bharadwaj’s From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada (Juggernaut 2023). The authors argue that, read together, the three works help situate the political and legal …

Cyclical Matters: Black Labor, Temporality, And The Incomplete Reconstructions Within African American Literature, Courtney Walton

Dissertations

This dissertation examines the role literature plays in understanding black life post-reconstruction and post-civil rights movement. Specifically, I explore the continuation of injustices and mistreatment for black workers, the role black labor plays during the first and second post-reconstructions, and how literature can be used in framing this discussion. The similarities between these periods help us to better understand the cycle of racist societal expectations and the challenges black workers face integrating into society, discriminatory mandates required of black workers, the unfair job market, and forced labor. These periods interact cyclically in that the second post-reconstruction models the first post-reconstruction. …

The Invisibility Of Race In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu: The Gracies Versus Capoeira And Judo, Benjamin Penglase

Anthropology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This research article examines why the racialization of Brazilian jiu-jitsu has so often been invisible to non-Brazilians. It argues that Brazilian jiu-jitsu emerged in a highly racially stratified context and looks in particular at challenge matches that the Gracie family engaged in with fighters who practiced capoeira or judo.  It argues that through these competitions, not only was Brazilian jiu-jitsu located within Brazil’s racial hierarchy, but it was often positioned as ‘white,’ though usually in an unspoken manner. The ‘invisibility’ of Brazilian jiu-jitsu’s racialization is connected to Brazil’s hegemonic racial system where race is both of central social importance, yet …

Restoring Chevron Deference By Statute, Scott Dodson

Duke Law Journal Online

This paper details a solution for legislatively restoring Chevron deference: amend the APA to direct lower federal courts to give deference to reasonable agency decisions but retain nondeferential judicial review by the U.S. Supreme Court. This solution restores most of the practical benefits of Chevron by giving agencies flexibility to implement congressional policy directives with the expertise they have acquired, by maintaining stability in administrative regulation, and by relieving lower federal courts of the burdens of nondeferential review. And retaining nondeferential judicial review in the Supreme Court will preserve the constitutional role of the judicial branch to say what the …

Wright V. Talamantes, Center For Rights And Justice

2025–2026 Flyers

Carolyn Kubitschek, Robert Mantel and Professor Alex Reinert will serves as moot judges for Michael Moore, an attorney who will be arguing an appeal in Wright v. Talamantes, a civil right case in the United States Courts of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Wright involves the constitutionality of an intrusive strip search of a minor without parental consent.

Crj Moot: Wright V. Talamantes, Center For Rights And Justice, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2025 Event Invitations

Carolyn Kubitschek (founding partner, Lasner & Kubitschek), Robert Mantel (Crowell and Moring), and Professor Alex Reinert will serve as moot judges for Michael Moore (Law Offices of Michael Garth Moore), an attorney who will be arguing an appeal in Wright v. Talamantes, a civil rights case in the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Wright involves the constitutionality of an intrusive strip search of a minor without parental consent.

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 09.08.25, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law School to host Second ASLH Graduate Legal History Colloquium in 2025-2026
• Religious Liberty Clinic Represents Religious Communities and Organizations in Support of Religious Minorities’ Free Exercise of Religion in Prison
• Program on Law and Economics welcomes new fellows for academic year

Faculty Briefs

• Fr. John Paul Kimes
• Paolo Carozza
• Roger Alford
• Mary Ellen O'Connell
• John Meiser
• Nicole Garnett
• Diand Desierto
• Jimmy Gurulé
• Rick Garnett
• Carter Snead

ND Law in the News

• NDLS's partnership with Harvey AI was featured in stories by Law.com, Open Tools, and Law Fuel.

Events

• Law and Economics Workshop: Francesco Parisi, …

Coping Self-Efficacy, Acculturation, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, And Perceived Discrimination As Predictors Of Depression Among Nigerian Immigrants In The United States, Olatunde O. Osibote

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Nigerian immigrants represent one of the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the United States. Relocating to a new country can be a major source of stress, often increasing individuals’ vulnerability to mental health challenges. While considerable research has examined predictors of depression in the general population and among certain immigrant groups, limited attention has been given to these factors in the context of Nigerian immigrants in the U.S. This study aimed to address that gap by applying Berry’s acculturation theory to investigate predictors of depression within this population. A quantitative, cross-sectional, correlational survey design was used to examine whether acculturation, socioeconomic …

The Jokowi Effect On The Victory Of Prabowo: Do People Vote For Continuity?, Cakra Yudi Putra, Dyah Ayu Febriani, Andri Tantyo Cahyo Nugroho, Teguh Dartanto

Economics and Finance in Indonesia

The 2024 Indonesian presidential election marked a striking realignment as Prabowo Subianto—a former opposition leader—secured victory with the tacit endorsement of outgoing President Joko Widodo (Jokowi). This study investigates how the enduring popularity and policy achievements of Jokowi shaped voter preferences in favor of Prabowo, effectively positioning the election as a referendum on political continuity. Building on theories of economic voting and retrospective performance evaluation, the analysis explores the impact of district-level economic indicators, social media penetration, ideological orientation, social assistance distribution, and sociocultural characteristics on electoral outcomes. Employing Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression on data from 481 administrative regions, …

A Progressive Response: Judicial Delegation Of Authority To Federal Probation Officers, Jacy Owens

Florida Law Review

Federal probation officers supervise millions of offenders who must each comply with a multitude of probation conditions. These officers need enough flexibility to deal with the evolving needs of each offender, without having to clog the court system with repeated requests for modifications. Yet federal courts differ in the amount of discretionary authority they grant to federal probation officers. In fact, some courts find a violation of the judiciary's Article III sentencing power when a court grants any discretionary authority to a probation officer. This Note argues, however, that federal courts can delegate a large degree of discretionary authority to …

Bullied To Death: Cyberbullying And Student Online Speech Rights, Jocelyn Ho

Florida Law Review

In the age of online social networking, photo and video sharing, blogs, text messaging, and other forms of communication technology, bullying among teenagers has reached a whole new level. It has transcended the traditional schoolyard context and crossed into cyberspace, leaving victims of bullying more vulnerable than ever. Recent headline-grabbing suicides, such as the cyberbullying-related suicides of Megan Meier, Phoebe Prince, Tyler Clementi, and Jamey Rodemeyer, have launched the issue of cyberbullying into the national spotlight.

With so many recent cases of suicide, school officials, legislators, teachers, and parents are struggling to curb cyberbullying among students without infringing their First …

Electoral Lies And The Broader Problems Of Strict Scrutiny, R. George Wright

Florida Law Review

States often attempt to regulate political speech in the form of deliberate lies related to ballot initiatives, referenda, candidates, or their political positions. Some courts focus on the various harms of electoral lies, while others focus more on the risks of bias and partisan abuse involved in such speech regulations; the cases are in disarray.

This Article argues, however, that the most important problem underlying this case confusion is inherent in the widely utilized constitutional standard of strict scrutiny. Strict scrutiny typically requires a compelling governmental interest, "narrow tailoring," and some causal relation between the regulation and the compelling interest. …

Safeguarding The Safeguards: The Aca Litigation And The Extension Of Indirect Protection To Nonfundamental Liberties, Abigail R. Moncrieff

Florida Law Review

As the lawsuits challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have evolved, one feature of the litigation has proven especially rankling to the legal academy: the courts' incorporation of substantive libertarian concerns into their structural federalism analyses. The breadth and depth of scholarly criticism is surprising, especially given that judges frequently choose indirect methods, including the structural and process-based methods at issue in the ACA litigation, for protecting substantive constitutional values. Indeed, indirect protection of constitutional liberties is a well-known and well-theorized strategy, which one scholar recently termed "semisubstantive review" and another theorized as "judicial manipulation of legislative …

Practicing Proportionality, William W. Berry Iii

Florida Law Review

At the heart of the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause are two concepts of proportionality—absolute and relative. Absolute proportionality ("cruel") asks whether the sentence is commensurate with the state's purposes of punishment. Relative proportionality ("unusual"), by contrast, asks whether the sentence is relatively similar to the outcomes of similar cases. Absolute proportionality sets limits on punishment based on the relationship between the punishment and the intended punitive goal; relative proportionality sets limits on punishment based on the sentencing outcomes in similar cases.

In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has used the concept of absolute proportionality to …

The Missing Jury: The Neglected Role Of Juries In Eighth Amendment Punishments Clause Determinations, Meghan J. Ryan

Florida Law Review

A recent study of death penalty cases has revealed that judges, who are ordinarily thought of as the guardians of criminal defendants' constitutional rights, often impose harsher punishments than jurors. This may be unsettling in its own right, but it is especially concerning when one considers that judges are the individuals charged with determining whether punishments are unconstitutionally cruel and unusual under the Eighth Amendment and that these determinations are supposed to be based on society's evolving standards of decency. The study suggests that judges are out of step with society's moral norms, raising the question of why our justice …

From Relic To Relevance, The Resurgence Of Tariffs, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, Doron Narotzki, Tamir Shanan

Law & Economics Working Papers

Modern legal scholarship has largely relegated tariffs to economic analysis, overlooking their legal and policy significance. This article challenges that view by examining tariffs as a potential pillar of fiscal policy, exploring their viability as a revenue source alongside or in place of traditional income and corporate taxation. While historically central to U.S. government funding, tariffs diminished in importance with the rise of income taxation and trade liberalization. However, their recent resurgence as a tool for trade protection raises broader questions about their role in national economic strategy. This article critically assesses the feasibility of a tariff-based tax system, drawing …

The Next Frontier In The Study Of Noncovalent Bonding: Transition Metals, Steve Scheiner

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

As work continues unabated in the study of noncovalent bonding, particularly σ-hole bonds, new challenges have emerged as the participation of transition metals in interactions of this sort is fast becoming appreciated. While there are certain similarities with the halogen, chalcogen, etc, bonds, in which the main group elements participate, there are certain unique properties of these metal atoms that must be analyzed before a complete understanding can be attained. As one example, these atoms tend to act simultaneously as both electron donors and acceptors, a synergistic action that amplifies the overall bond strength. Ideas are expressed in this paper …

Staying Alive: Negotiating Life With The Contamination Of Kitchener Drain., Zein Hassib

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how rural communities in Kafr El Sheikh governorate, Egypt, negotiate everyday life with the contamination of Kitchener Drain, the largest agricultural drain in the central Nile Delta. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in three villages at the tail-end end of the drain, the study explores how water contamination shapes social and ecological, social life for farmers living in the catchment of the drain. The thesis situates the farmer’s present experience within the broader history of colonial and modernist national irrigation reforms and developments highlighting how systemic neglect and uneven governance reproduce conditions of vulnerability. At the same time, …

Spectrum, Volume 55, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University

Newspapers (Obelisk & Spectrum)

Highlights include: SHU Nationally Ranked by Princeton Review - Campus Reactions on the Death of Charlie Kirk - Student Ambassadors Prepare for Tour Season- Women’s Field Hockey is Working Overtime

Encountering The Sublime: Early Hermit Lifeways, Visual-Spatial Worlds, And The Global Recluse, James Brown

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper will assess the degree to which reclusion in the early period can be labeled a global phenomenon and will examine three key areas, the institutional ambits of reclusion, the visual-spatial world of the eremite, and the enduring cultural canon associated with eremitisms across both geographical and temporal distances. In addition, the author will perform an epistemological and phenomenological exercise in deriving humanistic insight from the experiences of recluses, as gleaned through deep consideration of their environments and cultural products.

Divinity And Royalty In The Writings Of Motoori Norinaga, Chad Totty

The Ozark Historical Review

This paper concerns the kokugaku movement as seen through the philosophy of Motoori Norinaga. Specifically, it looks at Norinaga’s view of the divine and its connection to his philosophy regarding Japanese royalty, the emperor, and the imperial line. It will examine the qualities of Norinaga’s thought that linked his philosophy of the divine with his views of the emperor, served to formulate his world view, and his idea of Japan’s place in the world.

Fashioning A Political Identity: French Women And The White Neoclassical Dress, Michele Dobbins

The Ozark Historical Review

This essay seeks to probe the question of women’s neoclassical dress – how was it represented in art, why did it maintain longevity, and what did it mean for the hundreds of women who decided to wear the ideals of Greek and Rome upon their very bodies?

Ozark Historical Review, V.45, 2016

The Ozark Historical Review

No abstract provided.

From Heroic Imagination To Heroic Action: The Legacy Of Philip Zimbardo In Portugal, Mariana Reis Barbosa, Ana Mafalda Guimarães, Mafalda Gomes Santos

Heroism Science

This article presents the development and implementation of the Heroic Imagination Project (HIP) in Portugal, tracing its evolution from inception to expansion across educational and community contexts. In 2018, the authors attended the Hero Round Table in San Francisco, receiving training from Zimbardo on the bystander effect and strategies to counteract it. Recognizing the absence of HIP curricula for younger audiences and the importance of fostering prosocial behavior early, the team created tailored programs: HIP Kids for children and HIP Teens for adolescents. Since 2018, these programs have been implemented in schools and social centers, reaching approximately 1,200 participants. Developed …

Let Them Speak: The Case For Parental Rights As Educative Speech, Tavia Bruxelles Mcallister

Nebraska Law Bulletin (Selected Issues)

Outlines a case for parental rights as educative speech.

What Stories Do The Numbers Tell? A Data-Driven Narrative To Seek Women’S Equal Opportunity In The Higher Judiciary In India, Jayna Kothari, Nithya R. Rajshekhar, Naibedya Dash

Socio-Legal Review

This article offers an empirical account of how the higher judiciary in India continues to exclude women in ways that are structural, cumulative, and intersectional. Using official records from the Supreme Court, High Courts and the Department of Justice, the study traces how women are not only excluded from judicial appointments, but also systemically discriminated during their entire life-cycle in the higher judiciary. The findings show that entry routes matter: women are far less likely to be elevated from the Bar than men and face higher rates of non-confirmation even when recommended. Later appointments further compress women’s tenure on the …

Recognizing And Reclaiming Indigenous Peoples’ Constitutional Land Rights In Brazil, Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Book Chapters

In 2011, the Brazilian Government began dismantling the country’s robust framework for Indigenous land rights by enacting measures to deny Indigenous Peoples’ access to their ancestral lands. From 2019 to 2022, the government did not recognize or title a single hectare of Indigenous lands, despite more than 700 pending requests for demarcation (or formal designation and titling). A change in government and six land demarcations in 2023, however, show signs of a new era for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and relationship with the state. This chapter analyzes evolving Indigenous land rights pre- and post-constitutionalization in 1988, the result of intense political …