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Shaping A Wellness-Oriented Culture: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Of The Mental Health Training And Stigma Reduction Among College Seminarians, Evan P. Taja-On

Journal of Catholic Education

Mental health is vital to seminarians' holistic development, playing a crucial role in their personal growth and pastoral readiness. Equipping seminarians with mental health training enhances their human formation and addresses stigma, creating a foundation for more compassionate and effective ministry. The study utilized an explanatory research design with 11 college seminarians as the participants. The study reveals that mental health training significantly improved seminarians' knowledge, awareness, and beliefs, leading to a more supportive and informed approach to mental well-being. Seminarians transitioned from initial skepticism to active mental health advocacy, recognizing the importance of psychological support alongside spiritual care. The …

Bridging Cura: Faculty Of Color Socialization At A Jesuit Institution, Norma López, Demetri L. Morgan, Savanna Surprise

Journal of Catholic Education

This research focuses on Jesuit Catholic higher education in the United States because at the heart of this mission is encouraging all involved to navigate the discernment process and then enact considerations that vacillate between cura apostolica (care for institution) and cura personalis (care for people/society). Cura apostolica and cura personalis can be viewed as brands of institutional purposes that consistently emerge at many colleges and universities out of concerns for institutional risk aversion, protection, and sustainability amid hope for supporting people toward success in a humanizing fashion. Specifically, this research is concerned with the toll institutional concern has on …

Exploring Rubrics And Ai, Elizabeth Bailey Phd

TxDLA Journal of Digital Learning

Explore different types of rubrics and how evaluation criteria are created. Learn about levels of performance and how to align those levels with your learning objectives. Discover how AI can help to generate initial draft rubrics.

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William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Who Adds Lc16m8 Mpox Vaccine To Emergency Use Listing

Neurosciences

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Warning: What You Don’T Know May Kill You: Why California Needs Fentanyl-Specific Legislation, Fredrick, Abygail

Santa Clara Law Review

The lack of fentanyl-specific legislation in California is causing an overdose crisis throughout the state. This is partly attributed to the potency of fentanyl with low doses often resulting in death. Despite this increased risk of danger, however, current legislation merely lumps fentanyl punishment with the designated punishment for other controlled substances. Yet, these criminal statutes have consistently proven unsuccessful as the use of fentanyl continues to rise and unintended consequences continue to grow.

The ineffective management of this threat by our legislative branch has caused vigilante prosecutors to use illegal tactics of prosecution. Prosecutors are now charging dealers with …

South To Justice: Using International Law To Defend Against U.S. Border Externalization Policies Through The Example Of Forcibly Disappeared Migrants In Mexico, Cadwalader, Natalie

Santa Clara Law Review

The United States is increasingly employing border externalization controls as a primary means of preventing immigrants and asylum seekers from accessing due process and protection on U.S. soil. From Title 42, to metering, to the Remain in Mexico program, to Texas’s State Bill 4 today, no country has been more instrumental in facilitating or halting this suite of policies than Mexico. In this paper, I address the rise of border externalization policies in the United States, describe key differences between Mexican and U.S. human rights frameworks, and show how U.S. lawyers have mischaracterized enforced disappearances of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico …

Modeling Meaning: Causal Inference Under The California Racial Justice Act, Ball, W. David

Santa Clara Law Review

In order to evaluate claims arising under the California Racial Justice Act (RJA), judges and attorneys need to learn how to draw inferences about racial disparity from data—and, equally importantly, to learn how to avoid drawing inaccurate inferences from data. The key questions in many RJA claims are, first, how to determine what constitutes “defendant[s] who have engaged in similar conduct and are similarly situated” and, second, what might supply race-neutral reasons for those disparities. In other words, how can practitioners learn to distinguish between permissible disparities driven by offender characteristics and conduct and impermissible disparities driven by factors the …

The Disparity In Litigating Racial Disparity Claims: The Need For California Courts To Articulate A Framework For Assessing Racial Justice Act Challenges To Charging, Conviction, And Sentencing, Romo, Lisa M.

Santa Clara Law Review

Under California’s Racial Justice Act (RJA)—codified in Penal Code section 745—the state may not seek or obtain a criminal conviction or sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity, or national origin. There are four pathways to establishing an RJA violation. Two of the pathways proscribe discriminatory or biased conduct or language inside or outside the courtroom by specified criminal legal system actors, including judges, attorneys, law enforcement officers, and expert witnesses. The other two are based on disparities in charging, conviction, or sentencing associated with defendant race, ethnicity, or national origin and alternatively, in the case of sentencing, that of …

The Impact Of Generative Ai On Undergraduate Students During The Scenic Design Process, Tetta M. Askeland

Education Doctorate Dissertations

The landscape of theatre education is rapidly evolving as students immersed in technology are entering education struggling with traditional artistic techniques while gravitating toward digital tools. This pre-experimental one-shot case study investigated the impact of Adobe Firefly on undergraduate theatrical design students' self-perception of their visual communication skills during the scenic design research process.

Thirty-four undergraduate students from six Midwestern universities participated in a three-phase study utilizing Teresa M. Amabile's Componential Theory of Creativity as the theoretical framework. Participants completed traditional scenic design projects for Lily's Purple Plastic Purse, engaged in an Adobe Firefly intervention module, and subsequently completed …

Reimagining The Canvas: Exploring Culturally Responsive Teaching In Art Education, Elice F. Brunnette

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Considering the inequities faced by culturally diverse students inside and outside of art classes, it is crucial to build a greater understanding of the specific challenges they encounter and to creatively implement more effective pedagogical approaches. This thesis seeks to illustrate the links between culturally responsive teaching practices and arts education, in order to foster greater academic and social outcomes for diverse learners within visual arts classes. Art education provides students with specific modes of learning, expression, and connections that differ from what they experience in other educational settings. These experiences lead to impactful culturally responsive teaching strategies that support …

The Efficient Default Rule For Sandbagging In Mergers And Acquisitions: A Limited Pro-Sandbagging Default, Alexis Klimaszewski

Connecticut Law Review

In the area of mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”), a buyer “sandbags” a seller when, knowing the seller has breached—intentionally or unintentionally—a representation or warranty prior to closing, the buyer nonetheless closes the sale and subsequently brings a post-closing indemnification claim. Parties to a merger or acquisition can negotiate a pro- or anti-sandbagging provision; however, the recent trend has been rising instances of silence in M&A agreements. Given the modern majority default rule, the result is that most buyers in the United States hold a sandbagging right; however, default rules are ambiguous, uncertain, and inconsistent across jurisdictions. While sandbagging at first …

Middle School Teachers’ Integration Of Artificial Intelligence Tools And Its Impact On Learning Outcomes In A Suburban School District, Donica Thompson-Chan

Selected Full Text Dissertations, 2011-

Grounded in the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), this study examined middle school teachers’ adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, emphasizing how perceptions, instructional support, and integration strategies shape classroom use. The sample comprised 56 teachers across grades 6–8, representing multiple subject areas. Quantitative analyses revealed notable trends by teaching experience and subject specialization. Teachers with 0–5 years of experience reported the highest mean AI use scores, while those with more than 16 years of experience reported the lowest. Subject-specific differences were also observed, with mathematics teachers demonstrating the most favorable perceptions of AI tools and English teachers reporting the least …

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Inscape

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Orbits, Zach Keali'i

Inscape

Zach Keali’i Murphy is a Hawaii-born writer with a background in cinema. His stories appear in The MacGuffin, Reed Magazine, The Coachella Review, Lunch Ticket, Raritan Quarterly, Another Chicago Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Flash Frog, and more. He has published the chapbook Tiny Universes (Selcouth Station Press). He lives with his wonderful wife, Kelly, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Don't Eat The Raspberries, Janaya Young

Inscape

Janaya Young has an MFA in Creative Writing from BYU and has previously been published in Matchbook Literary Magazine. She currently writes from Boston, though her writing has yet to leave her rocky desert home in the Intermountain West.

Jobs, Benjamin Schmitt

Inscape

Benjamin Schmitt is the Elgin Award-nominated author of four books, most recently The Saints of Capitalism and Soundtrack to a Fleeting Masculinity. His poems have appeared in Sojourners, Antioch Review, The Good Men Project, Hobart, Columbia Review, Spillway, and elsewhere. A co-founder of Pacifica Writers’ Workshop, he has also written articles for The Seattle Times and At The Inkwell. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.

The Family Plot, Ilse Eskelsen

Inscape

Ilse Eskelsen is a BYU English student who has lived just north of Washington, DC; in Stuttgart, Germany; and just south of Washington, DC. She has pieces published or soon-to-be published in literary journals like Rainy Day, Lunch Ticket, and Inscape Journal.

Me And Maya Hawke, Travis Roberson

Inscape

Travis D. Roberson is a New York based writer originally from central Florida. His work appears in The Iowa Review, Pithead Chapel, Juked, Cutleaf, and many other publications. He is both a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as a Porter Fleming Literary Competition winner, in the non-fiction category. He also serves as a CNF Editorial Assistant at CRAFT. You can find more of his work on his website.

Communion Of Saints, Kathleen Fields

Inscape

Kathleen Fields (She/Her/They) lives in Chicago. Her honors include a Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Poet & Author Fellowship, Midwest Writing Center’s Iron Pen prize for poetry and a Kankakee One Act Fest prize for playwriting. Fields is a three time National Endowment for the Humanities teacher fellow. Her poems, creative nonfiction and academic writing appear in literary magazines such as Belt Magazine, The Platform Review, The New York Times, and Terra Foundation for the Arts. She is a poetry reader at Iron Oak Editions and a founding poetry editor of Pine Row Press. She holds an M.A. in …

Three Weeks Ago, I Found A Body, Dead., Christie Gardiner

Inscape

Christie Gardiner is an award-winning author, poet, writer, and performer. Her literary oeuvre includes four ecumenical books (one, currently in its ninth printing), four anthologies, journal publications, booklets, articles, and the writing of her own videocast/podcast. Additionally, Christie has made numerous appearances as a regular media contributor, has cohosted two successful podcasts and serves as a facilitator of writing groups for women. She worked in poetry acquisition for Inscape literary journal, holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Utah Valley University and is an MFA student at Brigham Young University. Recent and upcoming publication credits includes poems and essays …

No Crying In Baseball, John Van Wagner

Inscape

John Van Wagner lives and writes in New Jersey. His work has been recently published in October Hill Magazine, Marrow Magazine, New Pop Lit, and elsewhere.

The Silence Of The Sea, Kendalyn Murdock

Inscape

Kendalyn Murdock is (will be graduated as of June 2024) an English major at BYU. She was born and raised in southeast Idaho and has had a love for the written word since she learned the alphabet. She loves time outdoors exploring and time in books, similarly, exploring.

Don't Cry For All The Loves You've Lost, Rose De Maris

Inscape

Rose DeMaris is a poet and teacher. Her poetry appears in New England Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Image Journal, Narrative, and elsewhere. A recipient of the 2023 Patricia Dobler Poetry Award and Orison Books’ 2022 Best Spiritual Literature Award in Poetry, she holds an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles.

Autoimmune, Jodi Balas

Inscape

Jodi Balas is a neurodivergent poet from Northeast Pennsylvania. A lover of words (salacious, being a favorite – it just rolls off the tongue), her poetry has been accepted in Hole in the Head Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. Jodi’s poem, “His mouth, mine” was selected as a finalist for the 2023 River Heron Review poetry prize and her poem, “Bone Density” won the 2023 Comstock Review Muriel Craft Bailey Award judged by Danusha Lameris. Jodi is in the process of developing her first Chapbook to market to the poetry world. You could follow her musings …

Heavy Fog, Thick Mist, Caleb Jagoda

Inscape

Caleb Jagoda is a poet, journalist, and MFA candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He is managing editor at Barnstorm Journal and has published work with Polaris Literary Magazine, Write on the DOT, and Down East Magazine. He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.

Wintertime, Deborah Bacharach

Inscape

Deborah Bacharach is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Shake & Tremor (Grayson Books, 2021) and After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her poems, book reviews and essays have been published in One Art, New Letters, Poet Lore, and The Writer’s Chronicle among many others, and she has received a Pushcart prize honorable mention. She is currently a poetry reader for SWWIM and Whale Road Review and a mentor with PEN America. She lives in Seattle. Find out more about her at DeborahBacharach.com.

Girl And Dragon, Irina Novikova

Inscape

Irina Tall (Novikova) is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator. She graduated from the State Academy of Slavic Cultures with a degree in art, and also has a bachelor’s degree in design. The first personal exhibition “My soul is like a wild hawk” (2002) was held in the museum of Maxim Bagdanovich. In her works, she raises themes of ecology, in 2005 she devoted a series of works to the Chernobyl disaster, draws on anti-war topics. The first big series she drew was The Red Book, dedicated to rare and endangered species of animals and birds. Writes fairy tales and poems, …

Image 1, Richard Hanus

Inscape

Had four kids but now just three. Zen and Love.

Moonlight By The Dock, Michael Shoemaker

Inscape

Michael Shoemaker is a poet, photographer, and writer from Magna, Utah. He is the author of a poetry and photography collection Rocky Mountain Reflections (Poets’ Choice) and the forthcoming Grasshoppers in the Field. His photography has appeared in Writers on the Range, Sea to Sky Review, the Denver Post, the Salt Lake Tribune, Yahoo, and elsewhere. He lives in Magna, Utah, with his wife and son, where he enjoys looking out on the Great Salt Lake every day. His online photography portfolio is at michaelshoemaker.crevado.com. Michael has been awarded an artist residency at the Wolff Cottage in Fairhope, Alabama, …