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Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 46, February 23, 2015, Grand Valley State University

Volume 49, July 7, 2014 - June 1, 2015

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

My News

My News (2014-2020)

• Nicholas Kristof at the PAC Tonight
• Viral Video Competition Advinup Wins 3 Day Startup
• SGA President Azell Francis wins Regent Willis J. Potts Leadership Award
• Megan Johnson of Savannah Named Miss Georgia Southern 2015
• Georgia Southern Celebrates Arbor Day
• Speaker Invites You to 'Hug An Elephant, Kiss A Giraffe'

Research Express News, Georgia Southern University

Research & Economic Development

• The 2015 Research Symposium

A Case Study Of Teachers' In Professional Learning Communities In A Campus Preschool, Victoria Jacqueline Damjanovic

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this multi-case study was to describe and explain teacher learning within school contexts by exploring the nature of teachers' experiences in learning communities. This study explored the ways in which teachers participated in professional development sessions using the project approach as a framework for facilitating and engaging in professional learning communities by answering: What is the nature of teachers' experiences in inquiry-based professional learning communities? In what ways and under what conditions does documentation play a role in teacher learning? For data collection I used semi-structured interviews, audio recordings of professional development sessions, teacher documentation, teacher daily …

Best Forms Of Involvement For First-Year Student Veterans For Academic Success, Saipraseuth Chaleunphonh

Theses and Dissertations

This study expands the research for the transition of student veterans utilizing the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill enacted in 2008. It presents a quantitative approach to study the relationship between first-time, full-time student veterans and their non-veteran student counterparts in the area of transition to college life and academic success in the first-year of college. Transition to college life is measured through variables that represent pre-entry attributes, skills gained or lost, and student involvement. The results of the study contribute to the efforts of campus professionals to coordinate services and direct resources in order to better serve and increase the academic …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, February 23, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, February 23, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Baseball Set For Two Mid-Week Games, Hosts The Citadel Tuesday, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Baseball Set for Two Mid-Week Games, Hosts The Citadel Tuesday

Georgia Southern Baseball Weekly Report – Week 2, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Georgia Southern Baseball Weekly Report – Week 2

Preventing Preterm Births: Genetic Cause Could Be In The Fetus, Not The Mother, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

New Hpv Vaccine Shows Promise To Dramatically Reduce Cervical Cancer, Staff

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

How To Protect Babies From Measles, Staff

Browse All News

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Search Begins For Uab Graduate School Dean, Traci Bratton

Browse All News

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Search Begins For Uab Graduate School Dean, Staff

Browse All News

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School Culture And The Affective Learning Needs Of Latino Long-Term English Learners, Maureen Ray

Dissertations and Theses

The US Department of Education projects that by the year 2030 the total English Learner (EL) population in US schools will exceed 40 percent. Currently, by the time ELs make it to high school, after 6 or more years in English Language Development (ELD) programs, the majority (59 percent), are Long Term English Learners (LTEL). LTEL students represent a variety of ethnicities and language groups, but the focus of this qualitative study is LTEL students who identify as Latino LTEL. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe and explain recently graduated Latino LTEL's perceptions of the impact of …

Link Racial Past To The Present, Jill Ogline Titus

Civil War Institute Faculty Publications

Americans have been putting a great deal of energy into commemorating the 50th anniversary of some of the key moments of the civil rights movement. This burst of memorialization has inspired one new museum in Atlanta and the redesign of another in Memphis. The Smithsonian and Library of Congress are launching a new oral-history initiative, and films like Selma bring the movement to life for those who rarely read a history book or visit a museum.

This year brings more anniversaries: the Selma-to-Montgomery March, the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and the Watts rebellion. And the commemorative stakes are …

Stem Stories, February 2015, #4, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Featured Event - STEM Career Conference

Rollins Drives In Six To Help Eagles Win Series, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Rollins Drives in Six to Help Eagles Win Series

Tuesday's Baseball Game Moved To A 4 P.M. First Pitch, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Tuesday's Baseball Game Moved to a 4 p.m. First Pitch

A Tres Pasos De La Muerte, Samuel Temblador

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

"A Tres Pasos de la Muerte" tells the story of a son of Mexican immigrants and his search for his roots. Here, Temblador attempts to communicate a bicultural experience through the frame of border literature (Literatura Fronteriza) born out of the intersection between Mexican and American culture.

Applications For Dummies, Carla M. Sanchez

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This poem discusses the overwhelming pressure that is put on students to justify their right to be admitted into universities or to receive scholarships based on their extracurricular activities. Many working-class, first-generation college students are unable to participate in organizations and programs that offer students a more well-rounded college experience. This can lead first-gen students, like the author, to feel isolated, inadequate, or illegitimate. "Applications for Dummies" expresses Sanchez's incessant fear that she will never be able to compete with other students who were given the opportunity to build more worldly resumes, despite her strong academic commitment and intellectual potential.

It's Not Just A Leave, Genesis L. Montalvo

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

In this piece, the author sets out to explore the first-generation college identity through a gothic lens. In the early stages of this project, Montalvo had considered doing research on narratives from other first-gen college students as a way to trace the uncanny and the abject in their experiences. However, as she began reflecting on her own personal history, she realized that in a matter of only two years she had already experienced moments of distance, uncanniness, and confusion, which are recorded here. In presenting these installments in non-chronological order, Montalvo intends to insert a gothic element of disorder, which …

Flashlight, Min-Jung Kim

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

This poem illustrates the struggle of an undergraduate first-generation college student who knew little about the first-gen identity or the experiences she would encounter until she became a First To Go Scholar at Loyola Marymount University. The poet represents the First To Go Program as a flashlight that has helped her to navigate a once dark and unfamiliar environment.

Revelation, Tanya Diaz

First-Gen Voices: Creative and Critical Narratives on the First-Generation College Experience

There can sometimes be a gap between first-gen students and parents who have not experienced the stress of higher education. Children may believe this stress to be a necessary sacrifice for their future wellness; however, they often cannot feel their parents' sacrifices, just as their parents cannot feel their child's mental strain. Diaz creates this poem in an effort to examine her relationship with her mother from an outsider's point of view, in the end realizing that although her parents cannot always understand her experiences, they care and will support her decisions.

Multicultural Leadership Competition Welcome, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

Eagles Set To Battle Presbyterian College Sunday At 2 P.M., Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Eagles Set To Battle Presbyterian College Sunday At 2 p.m.

Baseball Series Finale Moved To A Noon Start, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Baseball Series Finale Moved to a Noon Start

Mountaineers Even Series With 12-4 Win, Georgia Southern University

Athletics: News & Publications

• Mountaineers Even Series with 12-4 Win

The Echo: February 20, 2015, Taylor University

2014-2015 (Volume 102)

A Strong ‘Heart’-Beat – Entrepreneurial spirit growing in small-town Indiana – Top five news events of the week – Meet the candidates – Words become actions – The coming mega drought – ISIL seeking to open new war front in Libya – The great war debate – Philios in the Philippines – How to get a guy’s attention: Never be yourself and other tips – BSU presents: Jam Fest – Burning Questions – The Weekly Nugget – Humans of Upland – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Oscar picks – A couple steps ahead – Gunning for trouble – …

Time For A New Revisionism, Charles Tesconi

Education's Histories

Charles Tesconi provides a multilogue response to Donald Warren's "Waging War on Education: American Indian Versions."