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1786 - A New Map Of The Whole Continent Of America - Divided Into North And South And West Indies Where They Are Exactly Described In United States Of North America As Well As The Several European Possessions According To The Preliminaries Of Peace Signed At Versailles, Jan 20, 1783

Pre-1824 Maps

An early map that depicted both the North and South Americans along with the West Indies. It provides a glaring contrast between the known and unknown regions, with the Eastern parts of North America quite well understood, while the mythical River of the West was still shown as a continuous water course from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The map reflects the United States following the American Revolutionary War and included the addition of Spanish discoveries north of Baja California in what has been described as “fantastically detailed” topographical and geographical features. Included on this map is the often-disputed Chinese …

2017-August-18-2017 Ibma Awards, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2017-August-18-Deadly Medicine, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2017-August-18-Writing Boot Camp, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Determinants And Outcomes Of Teachers’ Professional Identity And Organizational Identification: A Comparative Analysis In Charter And Regular Public Schools, Muhammed Fatih Bogrek

Theses and Dissertations

This empirical study compared the organizational identification and professional identity of teachers in charter and regular public schools. The purpose of study was three-fold, the first was to investigate whether charter school teachers differ from their regular public school peers in the study variables (i.e. self-efficacy, perceived organizational support, collective efficacy, organizational identification, professional identity, teacher retention, occupational commitment, and organizational commitment). The next aim was to examine whether teachers’ self-efficacy, collective efficacy, and perceived organizational support influence teachers’ organizational identification and professional identity in both regular public and charter schools. Finally, this study also explored whether teachers’ organizational identification …

Hill Student Center Announces New User And Service Rates, Reporter Staff

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Correspondence; 2017-08-18; Naacp State Conference, Catherine Collins

Correspondence

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School Counselor Transgender Advocacy Development: An Exploratory Qualitative Study, Jack F. Jacobs

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

School counselors have an opportunity to develop as an advocate for their transgender students who face many adversities in life. However, there exists a paucity of research specific to school counselor advocacy and no literature specific to school counselors developing as advocates for transgender students. In an attempt to address the gaps in the literature, the purpose of this qualitative research was to explore how three school counselors in a large urban school district in the southeast United States participating in an inquiry group developed as transgender advocates while completing a passion project. The conceptual framework components of the study …

August 18, 2017: Class Of 2021-Ready To Launch, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Bulletin 2013-2020

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Uab Medicine Listed Among 'Most Wired' Hospitals For 2017, Staff

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Uab Archaeologists Awarded Antiquity Prize For Decade-Long Study Of Looting At Ancient Sites In Egypt, Staff

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Uab Alumnae To Work In France As Teaching Assistants, Staff

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Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

August Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Staff Council Book Scholarship, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Notification of book scholarship winners.

Theological Foundations Of Pastoral Care In Catholic Universities, Thomas V. Gourlay

eJournal of Catholic Education in Australasia

One defining element of life in any Catholic educational institution, whether it be primary, secondary, or tertiary, is the focus on pastoral care for staff and students. This paper provides a distinctly Catholic definition of the term ‘pastoral care’ and briefly examines the theological foundations that underpin this concept, particularly, in relation to its application in the Catholic university. The paper traces the motif of pastoral care through the Scriptures and, building on insights from St. Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities, Ex Corde Ecclesiae (1990) and the broader theological anthropology of the Vatican II Council. The …

A Practical Guide On How To Confront Hate, Staff

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2017-August-17-Motif De Scruffee, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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2017-August-17-Tri-Cities College Fair, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

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Office Of Scholarly Communications, Annual Report Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017), Paul Royster, Sue Ann Gardner, Margaret Mering, Linnea Fredrickson

Institutional Repository Information

This report covers the Scholarly Communications team, and activities involving the institutional repository (IR), library publishing operations, outreach and advocacy, and copyright consulting.

Highlights include services, size, usage metrics, recognition (Ranking Web of World Repositories), Zea Books, journals, and appendices. (32 pages)

$2.2 Million Grant Will Extend Distracted Driving Research At Uab, Staff

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The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

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The Impact Of Hip-Hop Culture On Freshman Student Identity, David Shanks

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation is to explore the impact that hip-hop has on the identity of freshman students at Rowan University during the spring 2017 semester. The survey questions were geared toward answering the primary focus. The survey has 34 items, the first five questions were used to collect demographic information from the students including Gender, GPA, Ethnicity, Class rank, and Age. The next 29 questions divided into three factor groupings, these groups were used to investigate the identity of select freshman, what students believe about their knowledge of hip-hop culture, how committed these students are to hip-hop culture, …

An Examination Of The Effects Of Coaching And Reflection On Instructional Discourse: An Interrupted Time Series Study On Scaffolding Language Occurrences, Felecia Dotson Dotson

Theses and Dissertations

The current study examines the effects that a coaching intervention has on the occurrences of scaffolding language techniques in a teacher’s instructional delivery, in addition to the possible influences that a coaching intervention has on the teacher’s ability to reflect on scaffolding language. More importantly, the study considers whether students benefit academically when teachers use more scaffolding language techniques in their instructional delivery. An interrupted time series design with a between and within-subject variable was used to measure the impact of the coaching intervention on scaffolding language technique occurrences over a six-week period. An independent samples t test was applied …

2017-08-17 Faculty Senate Newsletter, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate newsletter for August 17, 2017.

2017-08-17 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes for August 17, 2017.

Attitudes Toward And Images Of Children With Special Needs, Halah Elhoweris, Mahmoud F. Gharaibeh, Olla Abdulrahman, Wasmeya Al Ahbabi, Marwa Alkaabi, Maryam Saif Alshamsi

International Journal for Research in Education

The media and literature play significant roles in shaping children’s attitudes toward children with special needs. Indeed, several research studies indicate that people with special needs were often portrayed negatively and inaccurately in children’s literature books. To date, no study has been found that investigated the available Arabic and/or English children’s literature books in the UAE to see how people with special needs are portrayed. The aim of this study, therefore, was twofold: a) to analyse children’s literature which feature books with special needs characters, and b) to examine the differences between Arabic and English children’s literature portrayal of people …

The Relationship Between Creative Self-Efficacy And Metacognitive Thinking Among Female Students In The Professional Post Graduate Diploma Teaching Program At Abu Dhabi University, Mustafa Qaseem Heilat

International Journal for Research in Education

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between creative self-efficacy and metacognitive thinking among female students in the professional postgraduate diploma-teaching program at Abu Dhabi University. The research sample consisted of (135) female students. The study was conducted during the academic year 2015/ 2016. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, Schraw and Dennision, (1994) and Abbott (2010) scales were applied for metacognitive thinking and creative self-efficacy, respectively.

The results showed that the means of the sample's members on the creative self-efficacy and metacognitive thinking scales was high (> 3.67 out of 5); also, the results revealed that …

Training Needs For Special Education Teachers In Sultanate Of Oman And Its Relationship With Some Variables., Fatma H. Almaamaria, Heyam Mosa Al-Taj

International Journal for Research in Education

The purpose of this study is to investigate the training needs of special education teachers in Al-brymei governorate in the sultanate of Oman and its relationship with some variables. The sample of the study consisted of (115) male and female teachers, to achieve the aim of this study the researcher adopted the analytical descriptive approach through developing a scale consisted of (60) items distributed into six domains. The findings of the study showed that the degree of training needs of special education teachers in employing technology and educational technologies domain was high and ranked first within the six domains. Followed …

Feeding Problems In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders And Its Relationship With Some Variables, Safa R. Qaraqish

International Journal for Research in Education

The purpose of the current study was to investigate feeding problems in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and its relationship with some variables. Seventy five fathers and mothers of autism children from Riyadh special education institutes participant in the study. Al Tamimi and Said Ali Feeding Problems Scale (2014) were used to collect data for this study. The results indicated that excessive selective eating was a problem that often occurs among children with autism, followed by the problem of refuse food. The results showed also significant relationship between eating problems with autistic children and the variables of gender in favor …