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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 18, January 25, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 18, January 25, 2010, Grand Valley State University
2009-2010, Volume 34
Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 36, January 25, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 36, January 25, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 7, 2010
Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 35, January 21, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 35, January 21, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 7, 2010
Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.
Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 17, January 18, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 17, January 18, 2010, Grand Valley State University
2009-2010, Volume 34
Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 34, January 18, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 34, January 18, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 7, 2010
Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 33, January 14, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 33, January 14, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 7, 2010
Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.
Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 16, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Grand Valley Forum, Volume 034, Number 16, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University
2009-2010, Volume 34
Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 32, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Lanthorn, Vol. 44, No. 32, January 11, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Volume 44, July 8, 2009 - June 7, 2010
Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.
Cohabiting, Family And Community Stressors, Selection, And Juvenile Delinquency, Christopher A. Kierkus, Brian R. Johnson, John D. Hewitt
Cohabiting, Family And Community Stressors, Selection, And Juvenile Delinquency, Christopher A. Kierkus, Brian R. Johnson, John D. Hewitt
Peer Reviewed Publications
Prior research has established that children from traditional, two-parent nuclear families experience a lower risk of delinquency than children raised in alternative family structures. However, many studies have ignored the effect of parental cohabiting on delinquent development. A growing body of research suggests that cohabiting (even among biological parents) may be harmful to children. This study tests the hypothesis that cohabiting is associated with four different types of delinquent behavior. It examines two theoretical models, a family stress model and a community stress/selection model, as possible explanations of ‘‘the cohabiting effect.’’ The analysis reveals that cohabiting is generally associated with …
Methamphetamine Use And Criminal Behavior, Michael C. Gizzi, Patrick Gerkin
Methamphetamine Use And Criminal Behavior, Michael C. Gizzi, Patrick Gerkin
Peer Reviewed Publications
This research seeks to broaden our understanding of methamphetamine’s (meth’s) place within the study of drugs and crime. Through extensive court records research and interviews with 200 offenders in local jails in western Colorado, this research contributes to the creation of a meth user profile and begins to identify the place of meth in the drug–crime nexus. The study compares the criminal behavior of meth users with other drug users, finding that meth users are more likely than other drug users to be drunk or high at the time of arrest and claim their crimes were related to drug use …
The Impact Of Race, Gender, And Age On The Pretrial Decision, Tina L. Freiburger, Carly M. Hilinski
The Impact Of Race, Gender, And Age On The Pretrial Decision, Tina L. Freiburger, Carly M. Hilinski
Peer Reviewed Publications
There is an abundance of studies that examine judicial discretion in the final sentencing stages; however, few have examined discretion in the early stages of court decisions. Pretrial release is especially concerning as it has been strongly correlated with a final sentence of incarceration and deprives defendants of their freedom. This study examined whether race, gender, and age influence judges’ decisions to detain or release a defendant prior to trial. The results indicate that females and younger defendants were less likely to be detained. Race was not significant after economic variables were included. When examining males and females separately, race …
The Burden Of Pursuing Treatment Abroad: Three Stories Of Medical Travelers From Yemen, Beth Kangas
The Burden Of Pursuing Treatment Abroad: Three Stories Of Medical Travelers From Yemen, Beth Kangas
Peer Reviewed Articles
This case study features stories of patients from Yemen, a low-income country in the Arabian Peninsula, who traveled abroad for medical care. Their stories, drawn from interviews with Yemeni medical travelers in India, highlight the economic and emotional burden of pursuing treatment abroad. These stories of chronic non-communicable diseases and serious injuries depart from the common portrayal of medical tourists as wealthy elective patients from the North traveling for cosmetic surgery. The stories center on the demand and benefit of technological medicine for patients from low-income countries and raise questions about what constitutes ‘health’ when non-communicable conditions often entail ongoing …
Augustine’S Contribution To The Republican Tradition, Paul J. Cornish
Augustine’S Contribution To The Republican Tradition, Paul J. Cornish
Peer Reviewed Articles
The present argument focuses on part of Augustine’s defense of Christianity in The City of God. There Augustine argues that the Christian religion did not cause the sack of Rome by the Goths in 410 ce. Augustine revised the definitions of a ‘people’ and ‘republic’ found in Cicero’s De Republica in light of the impossibility of true justice in a world corrupted by sin. If one returns these definitions to their original context, and accounts for Cicero’s own political teachings, one finds that Augustine follows Cicero’s republicanism on several key points. First, civil rule differs from mastery over slaves. Second, …
Houses Of Worship As Restorative Environments, Thomas R. Herzog, Pierre Ouellette, Jennifer R. Rolens, Angela M. Koenigs
Houses Of Worship As Restorative Environments, Thomas R. Herzog, Pierre Ouellette, Jennifer R. Rolens, Angela M. Koenigs
Peer Reviewed Articles
This study of the restorative benefits of visiting a house of worship was based on questionnaire responses by 781 participants. Factor analysis of motivations for visiting yielded five factors, three of which matched those from a previous study (spirituality, beauty, and being away) and two new ones (contemplation and obligation). Factor analysis of activities at a house of worship yielded four factors along a gradient corresponding roughly to degree of organized religious practice: rituals, traditional activities, asking, and nonreligious activities. Spirituality and asking (for help or forgiveness) were the strongest predictors of positive outcomes, whereas nonreligious activities predicted negative outcomes. …
Enacted Support’S Links To Negative Affect And Perceived Support Are More Consistent With Theory When Social Influences Are Isolated From Trait Influences, Brian Lakey, Edward Orehek, Kate L. Hain, Meredith Vanvleet
Enacted Support’S Links To Negative Affect And Perceived Support Are More Consistent With Theory When Social Influences Are Isolated From Trait Influences, Brian Lakey, Edward Orehek, Kate L. Hain, Meredith Vanvleet
Peer Reviewed Articles
Social support theory typically explains perceived support’s link to mental health as reflecting the role of specific supportive actions (i.e., enacted support). Yet enacted support typically is not linked to mental health and perceived support as predicted by theory. The links are examined among enacted support, affect, and perceived support when links reflected (a) aspects of support and affect that generalized across relationship partners and time (i.e., trait influences) and (b) aspects that reflected specific relationship partners (i.e., social influences). Multivariate generalizability analyses indicated that enacted support was linked to low negative affect as predicted by theory only when correlations …
The Impact Of Web-Scale Discovery On The Use Of A Library Collection, Doug Way
The Impact Of Web-Scale Discovery On The Use Of A Library Collection, Doug Way
Scholarly Papers and Articles
Grand Valley State University Libraries implemented Serials Solutions' web-scale discovery tool, Summon, during the fall of 2009. This case study explores whether Summon had an impact on the use of the library's resources during its first semester of implementation. An examination of usage statistics showed a dramatic decrease in the use of traditional abstracting and indexing databases and an equally dramatic increase in the use of full-text resources from full-text database and online journal collections. The author concludes that the increase in full-text use is linked to the implementation of a web-scale discovery tool.
Using Teaching Faculty Focus Groups To Assess Information Literacy Core Competencies At University Level, Jodi Tyron, Emily Elizabeth Frigo, Mary Kathleen O'Kelly
Using Teaching Faculty Focus Groups To Assess Information Literacy Core Competencies At University Level, Jodi Tyron, Emily Elizabeth Frigo, Mary Kathleen O'Kelly
Scholarly Papers and Articles
Grand Valley State University librarians designed and conducted teaching faculty1 focus groups to gauge their response to a new information literacy (IL) core student competencies document created to support a developing library IL programme. Although the competencies were inspired by existing, widely known information literacy standards and guidelines the University Libraries’ Information Literacy Competencies document (ILCC) is unique and written specifically to address the university’s culture and curriculum. The authors of this paper formed a research team to assemble two groups of teaching faculty from various disciplines and to analyse focus group transcripts using a content analysis approach. The resulting …
Reducing Food Insecurity In Kent County: Assessing The Progress, Nichole Rydahl, Stephen Borders Phd, Mshp
Reducing Food Insecurity In Kent County: Assessing The Progress, Nichole Rydahl, Stephen Borders Phd, Mshp
Student Summer Scholars Manuscripts
No abstract provided.
Gvsu Press Releases, 2010, Grand Valley State University
Gvsu Press Releases, 2010, Grand Valley State University
University Press Releases, 1961-Present
A compilation of press releases for the year 2010 submitted by University Communications (formerly News & Information Services) to news agencies concerning the people, places, and events related to Grand Valley State University.
Fifty At Fifty: A Catalogue Of Incunabula In The University Libraries Grand Valley State University, Robert Beasecker
Fifty At Fifty: A Catalogue Of Incunabula In The University Libraries Grand Valley State University, Robert Beasecker
Books and Contributions to Books
No abstract provided.
Children's Understanding Of The Semantics Of Negation, Amanda Hiltz
Children's Understanding Of The Semantics Of Negation, Amanda Hiltz
Honors Projects
The central focus of this project is to discover children’s understanding of the semantics, or meaning, of negation. Children’s knowledge of negation develops, in part, by directing attention away from a word to something else (i.e., contrast classes), yet little is known about to what attention is directed. Two possible relations upon which contrast classes operate are taxonomic and thematic relations. For example, when looking at the concept of a “dog”, a thematic relation could be a dog bone, while a taxonomic relation would be a cat. Two experiments were completed to look at children’s use of thematic and taxonomic …