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The Grizzly, September 29, 2022, Layla Halterman, Amelia Kunko, Julia Paiano, Chase Portaro, Gianna Mccarthy, Tatiana Kent, Ava Compagnoni, Sean Mcginley, Isabel Wesman Sep 2022

The Grizzly, September 29, 2022, Layla Halterman, Amelia Kunko, Julia Paiano, Chase Portaro, Gianna Mccarthy, Tatiana Kent, Ava Compagnoni, Sean Mcginley, Isabel Wesman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Meet the New Editors of The Lantern • First-Year Enrollment Down 12% From Last Year • Class of 2026 Move-In Day • Welcome Dr. Jay Shelat! • Meet Ursinus Rapper, D-BONE • Opinions: College Culture Shock Could be More Shocking • NARP Review of Fitness Center • Women's Volleyball Kill Streak


Deconstructing Consciousness In Art, Leila Kincaid Sep 2022

Deconstructing Consciousness In Art, Leila Kincaid

Journal of Conscious Evolution

To the extent that art mirrors consciousness, what does the art of any age have to tell us about where we are as a species and civilization? In this paper, I suggest that modern and postmodern art reveals the tendency toward deconstruction, of our identities, as selves, as cultures, and as a civilization. Through this process of deconstruction, there is a space offered to us through the experience of art, of freedom to recreate ourselves, our identities, and our sense of purpose and meaning in the cosmos. Grounding the inquiry in texts from various authors in the field of art …


Volume Cxlii, Number 1, September 23, 2022, Lawrence University Sep 2022

Volume Cxlii, Number 1, September 23, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


The Grizzly, September 22, 2022, Layla Halterman, Erin Corcoran, Ava Compagnoni, Jenna Smith, Sean Mcginley, Isabella Villegas, Chase Portaro, Isabel Wesman, Julia Paiano Sep 2022

The Grizzly, September 22, 2022, Layla Halterman, Erin Corcoran, Ava Compagnoni, Jenna Smith, Sean Mcginley, Isabella Villegas, Chase Portaro, Isabel Wesman, Julia Paiano

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Fire in Wicks • Rush Week Changes: Yay or Nay? • Class of 2026: Sentiments on Family Weekend • New Exhibitions at the Berman • A Presidential Check-In: Robyn Hannigan • New Clubs Announcement • Opinions: Anyone for Junior Class Council? Bueller?; Diminished Ursinus Traditions • Golf and Cheerleading Coaches?


The Grizzly, September 15, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Isabella Villegas, Zach Devita-Paulson, Ava Compagnoni, Tatiana Kent Sep 2022

The Grizzly, September 15, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Isabella Villegas, Zach Devita-Paulson, Ava Compagnoni, Tatiana Kent

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Local Thunderstorm Destroys Ursinus' TriCaster • Editor's Letter • New Organization on Campus: UC VFOR • The (Kerr)tain Will Never Close on Jim • The Berman is Back! • Opinions: The Parking Lottery...For Sophomores Only!; Styrofoam - So Last Year! • The New D-III Mindset • Wellness Hears Cry for Mental Health


"I Am Who I Am": Lgbtq+ Student Experiences At A Baptist Liberal Arts University., Edwin Pavy Aug 2022

"I Am Who I Am": Lgbtq+ Student Experiences At A Baptist Liberal Arts University., Edwin Pavy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Though studies exploring the experiences of LGBTQ+ students on Christian college and university (CCU) campuses are increasingly prevalent, research continues to demonstrate that CCU environments are often unwelcoming. Gender and sexual minority students often face additional challenges or risks in attending a faith-based institution. To drive meaningful change, recommendations need to be tailored to individual institutions. This study sought to make meaning alongside LGBTQ+ students at a single institution – Baptist Heritage University (BHU) – with a decidedly appreciative approach. Grounded in Bronfenbrenner’s ecology of human development, we conducted an arts- based action research study to gain a deeper understanding …


A Reflection On Writing Methods: Where Am I Going? Where Have I Been?, Kia Jane Richmond Jul 2022

A Reflection On Writing Methods: Where Am I Going? Where Have I Been?, Kia Jane Richmond

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

The author, an eminent scholar and practitioner of writing teaching methods, reflects on the growth and development of the community and scholarship of writing teacher education and highlights several key trends as discussed in this issue.


Teaching Priorities As Both Durable And Flexible: Writing Pedagogy Classes Across International Contexts, Charlotte L. Land, Jessica Cira Rubin Jul 2022

Teaching Priorities As Both Durable And Flexible: Writing Pedagogy Classes Across International Contexts, Charlotte L. Land, Jessica Cira Rubin

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This article developed from a year-long inquiry into our practices as writing teacher educators. As new university faculty in two different countries, we drew on a previous literature review project to identify enduring priorities for teaching writing pedagogy. We then analyzed our developing practices in these unfamiliar places, specifically noting what also felt flexible enough to work across contexts, leaving space for local adaptation. For each of our classes, we explore how we expressed those priorities: discussing teaching practices as connected with theories and discourses of teaching writing, supporting teacher-student experiences through a cycle of writing, and facilitating appreciative views …


Writing Methods Key In Preparing Hope-Focused Teacher-Writers And Teachers Of Writing, Nicole Sieben Jul 2022

Writing Methods Key In Preparing Hope-Focused Teacher-Writers And Teachers Of Writing, Nicole Sieben

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This manuscript emphasizes the need for positioning students (preservice and inservice teachers) in methods courses as both teacher-writers and teachers of writing. It demonstrates the importance of teaching writing methods with a hope-focused, process-driven approach grounded in social justice reasoning and includes ways of positioning students in methods courses as teacher-writers with valued professional presence in the field of English education. By way of example, the piece includes a description of a specific “Professional Writings” assignment from a methods course for pre- and inservice teachers and models the value of choice and voice for writers at all levels. It then …


The Evolution From Mentor Texts To Critical Mentor Text Sets, Margaret O. Opatz, Elizabeth T. Nelson Jul 2022

The Evolution From Mentor Texts To Critical Mentor Text Sets, Margaret O. Opatz, Elizabeth T. Nelson

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This article chronicles how two teacher educators changed the mentor text set assignment--one component of a larger writing unit plan--from a simple list of texts to a critical mentor text set that includes intentionally selected, culturally and linguistically diverse texts. The goal of the critical mentor text set was to support preservice teachers’ understanding of how to implement culturally sustaining writing pedagogy through developing students’ identities, skills, and intellect as writers, and students’ abilities to read texts through a critical stance that evaluates the privilege and power within the texts while working towards anti-oppression.


Humanizing The Teaching Of Writing By Centering The Writer, Naitnaphit Limlamai Jul 2022

Humanizing The Teaching Of Writing By Centering The Writer, Naitnaphit Limlamai

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

In this work, the author explains how she prepared preservice secondary teachers to consider themselves as writers and to teach writing in more humanizing ways. She first describes how preservice teachers were guided to cultivate identities as writers and broaden ideas of “writing.” With new knowledge about themselves as they developed writerly identities, they surfaced and unpacked existing ideas about learning how to write and built knowledge about teaching writing, creating teaching artifacts like unit and lesson plans, interacting with local adolescent writers in pen pal letters, and participating in simulated feedback sessions with adolescent writers. Asking preservice teachers to …


Teaching Writing As A Metacognitive Process, Heather Fox Jul 2022

Teaching Writing As A Metacognitive Process, Heather Fox

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

In a writing methods course for future K-12 educators, preservice teachers examine the intersections of their experiences as writers, students, and future teachers through three interdependent projects. Completed between Fall 2019 and Spring 2022, this empirical study (n=138) includes Elementary Education, Middle Education, and (Secondary) English Teaching majors and focuses on the first project, Writing Memory, to examine how teaching writing as a metacognitive process facilitates preservice teachers’ understanding of how they and their future students developed, and are continuing to develop, as writers. The project analyzes students’ reflections on how they select and arrange previously written text to …


Variations On A Writing Methods Course: Two English Educators Across Four Decades, Amber Jensen, Deborah Dean Jul 2022

Variations On A Writing Methods Course: Two English Educators Across Four Decades, Amber Jensen, Deborah Dean

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

This article draws on the intersecting autoethnographies of two writing methods instructors over the course of nearly 40 years as undergraduate students, secondary English teachers, and English educators to map the evolution of the undergraduate writing methods course at Brigham Young University (BYU). It identifies five foundational principles that have shaped the course curriculum, learning activities, and assessment, integrating artifacts and student examples to demonstrate the way they enact these principles with the preservice teachers in their classes. The authors conclude by identifying revisions and future directions for the course in its coming years.


On Writing Teacher Education, The Writing ‘Methods’ Course, And The Evolution Of A Community, Jonathan E. Bush, Erinn Bentley Jul 2022

On Writing Teacher Education, The Writing ‘Methods’ Course, And The Evolution Of A Community, Jonathan E. Bush, Erinn Bentley

Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education

No abstract provided.


Homage To Eleanora: A Musical Journey Through The Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames Jun 2022

Homage To Eleanora: A Musical Journey Through The Billie Holiday Songbook, Keith A. Dames

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Billie Holiday was a singer, songwriter, vocalist, bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of production. This study will explore a secondary content analysis of Billie Holiday’s music, musicianship, musicality and compositional skills within the American jazz mainstream, broader jazz audience and world at large. This project will take an analytical look at the structure and form of the compositions of Billie Holiday. Billie Holiday is credited with composing …


Volume Cxli, Number 24, May 27, 2022, Lawrence University May 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 24, May 27, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


A Qualitative Study On Nurse Facilitators Of Mind-Body Skills Groups, Paula D. Blake-Beckford May 2022

A Qualitative Study On Nurse Facilitators Of Mind-Body Skills Groups, Paula D. Blake-Beckford

Mindfulness Studies Theses

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM), founded by Dr. James Gordon, provides communities with evidence-based Mind-Body Skills Groups (MBSGs) that foster self-care, self-awareness, and self-expression. MBSGs range from 8 to 12-week series on various mind-body practices wherein group members meet, practice, and reflect on the impact of mind-body skills in their lives. Research has demonstrated that participants in MBSGs have positive outcomes. Healthcare professionals (HCPs), especially nurses, gain resiliency from MBSGs. As facilitators of MBSGs, nurses develop essential skills transferable to clinical and educational settings. MBSGs are therapeutic for adult participants with chronic stress. Prior to this thesis, only one …


Table Of Contents May 2022

Table Of Contents

Early College Folio

Table of Contents, Early College Folio, Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2022).


Contributors May 2022

Contributors

Early College Folio

Contributors, Early College Folio, Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2022)


Review: Last Call On Decatur Street By Iris Martin Cohen, Nemesio Gil May 2022

Review: Last Call On Decatur Street By Iris Martin Cohen, Nemesio Gil

Early College Folio

Book Review: Iris Martin Cohen’s Last Call on Decatur Street (Park Row, 2020), a novel set in pre-Katrina New Orleans. Cohen, who grew up in the French Quarter, is a Simon’s Rock alumna.


“Digital By Necessity”: An Interview With Dr. Jane Wanninger, Julia Carey Arendell, Jane Wanninger May 2022

“Digital By Necessity”: An Interview With Dr. Jane Wanninger, Julia Carey Arendell, Jane Wanninger

Early College Folio

In the summer of 2020, Dr. Jane Wanninger participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute hosted by Agnes Scott College to learn about implementing digital storytelling in the classroom, which ironically, had to be completed digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her experience was the inspiration for this issue of Early College Folio as she pitched her ideas using the phrase “digital by necessity.” Issue Editor Julia Carey Arendell interviewed Jane, captured here, on all that she learned to think more deeply about using the virtual tool of digital storytelling as a teacher, a student, and …


Volume Cxli, Number 23, May 20, 2022, Lawrence University May 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 23, May 20, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


Volume Cxli, Number 22, May 13, 2022, Lawrence University May 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 22, May 13, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


A Cleave Within The Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University And How Racial Integration Divided The Town And Gown, Caitlin Hornback May 2022

A Cleave Within The Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University And How Racial Integration Divided The Town And Gown, Caitlin Hornback

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Stephen F. Austin State University was once the pride and joy of the city of Nacogdoches, Texas. When the Texas State Legislature began to look for a location for their new state normal school, the people of the East Texas town fought to have it built there and the Stephen F. Austin Teacher’s College opened its doors in September 1923 to a proud community. Through the trials and tribulations of early twentieth century events, the school managed to stay afloat and grow in numbers. Dr. Ralph W. Steen became the president of the college in 1958 and he oversaw a …


Volume Cxli, Number 21, May 6, 2022, Lawrence University May 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 21, May 6, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


Volume Cxli, Number 20, April 29, 2022, Lawrence University Apr 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 20, April 29, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


The Grizzly, April 28, 2022, Layla Halterman, Vaughn Dibattista, Chase Portaro, Cici Chagnon, Phoebe Tompkins, John Murray, Morgan Mason, Steven Weissman, Marie Sykes, Ava Compagnoni Apr 2022

The Grizzly, April 28, 2022, Layla Halterman, Vaughn Dibattista, Chase Portaro, Cici Chagnon, Phoebe Tompkins, John Murray, Morgan Mason, Steven Weissman, Marie Sykes, Ava Compagnoni

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

The New Normal: A Spotlight on Women's Wrestling • A Conversation with the New Division of Inclusion and Community • Note from the News Editor • Dancing the Night Away: UCDC's Spring Concert • That's All, Folks: Goodbye Dr. Throop! • The Man Behind the Grizzly: Doron Taussig • A Note from the Features Editor • Opinions: Bring Back the Old Jazzman's • A Note from the Opinions Editor • A Note from the Sports Editor • D3 Baller to D1 Coach • Ballin' in Europe


Press Any Button To Get Started: Approaching Japanese Culture And Society Through Video Games, Amanda Weber Apr 2022

Press Any Button To Get Started: Approaching Japanese Culture And Society Through Video Games, Amanda Weber

East Asian Studies Honors Papers

This project argues for inclusion of video games into the liberal arts curriculum alongside more traditional texts. Three Japanese-developed video games are analyzed in terms of their appropriateness for the Ursinus Quest curriculum while also exploring their appropriation of characters, themes, and values from Japanese mytho-history. My approach incorporates the methodology introduced by the scholar James Paul Gee who studies video games through the lens of semiotics and gaming theory. Gee defines key elements presented in video games as ‘lifeworld domains,’ which incorporate cultures, societies, and individual and group experiences. The value of video games resides in the players’ development …


Volume Cxli, Number 19, April 22, 2022, Lawrence University Apr 2022

Volume Cxli, Number 19, April 22, 2022, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.


The Grizzly, April 21, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jenna Smith, Erin Corcoran, Cici Chagnon, Steven Weissman, Vaughn Dibattista Apr 2022

The Grizzly, April 21, 2022, Layla Halterman, Chase Portaro, Marie Sykes, Jenna Smith, Erin Corcoran, Cici Chagnon, Steven Weissman, Vaughn Dibattista

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

A Look Into Ursinus's "Quest" for an Inclusive Campus • Contact Without a Trace! • Get to Know Dr. Carol Dole • Meet Eva Wright! • Opinions: Club Sports Should Have Athletic Trainers • Trophy Brophy • The Get-Back: Ursinus Softball