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Degrees Of Inequality: Culture, Class, And Gender In American Higher Education - Book Review, Karen Bradley
Degrees Of Inequality: Culture, Class, And Gender In American Higher Education - Book Review, Karen Bradley
Sociology
No abstract provided.
Universal Design For Learning In Library Instruction, Rebecca M. Marrall
Universal Design For Learning In Library Instruction, Rebecca M. Marrall
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
The purpose of this poster session was to prompt discussion on how to incorporate Universal Design for Learning principles into undergraduate library instruction curricula.
Open-Source Based Solutions For Processing, Preserving, And Presenting Oral Histories, Mark I. Greenberg, Barbara I. Lewis, Richard R. Bernardy Jr.
Open-Source Based Solutions For Processing, Preserving, And Presenting Oral Histories, Mark I. Greenberg, Barbara I. Lewis, Richard R. Bernardy Jr.
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
For more than a decade, the University of South Florida Library's Oral History Program has sought to develop cost-effective, open-source solutions to improve workflow management, increase public access, and preserve oral history collections. Recently, it established two open-source solutions to meet these goals. Bull-OH-Base enables Oral History Program staff to manage its many oral history projects and associated data in a secure and efficient manner. OHPi (its oral history player interface) offers researchers the ability to access and search its collections through a web-based application that synchronizes audio and video files with a full-text transcript. USF continues to improve upon …
Value Of Community Partnership For Understanding Stress And Coping In Rural Yup’Ik Communities: The Canhr Study, Inna Rivkin, Ellen Lopez, Tonie M. Quaintance, Joseph E. Trimble, Phd, Scarlett Hopkins, Candace Fleming, Eliza Orr, Gerald V. Mohatt
Value Of Community Partnership For Understanding Stress And Coping In Rural Yup’Ik Communities: The Canhr Study, Inna Rivkin, Ellen Lopez, Tonie M. Quaintance, Joseph E. Trimble, Phd, Scarlett Hopkins, Candace Fleming, Eliza Orr, Gerald V. Mohatt
Psychology Faculty and Staff Publications
Stress and trauma can compromise physical and mental health. Rural Alaska Native communities have voiced concern about stressful and traumatic events and their effects on health. The goal of the Yup’ik Experiences of Stress and Coping Project is to develop an in-depth understanding of experiences of stress and ways of coping in Yup’ik communities. The long-range goal is to use project findings to develop and implement a community-informed and culturally grounded intervention to reduce stress and promote physical and mental health in rural Alaska Native communities. This paper introduces a long-standing partnership between the Yukon-Kuskokwim Regional Health Corporation, rural communities …
What Research Should Be Done And Why? Four Competing Visions Among Ecologists, Mark W. Neff
What Research Should Be Done And Why? Four Competing Visions Among Ecologists, Mark W. Neff
Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications
Information we collect about our planet depends, in part, on the questions scientists ask regarding the natural world. Asking other questions might lead to different innovations and alternative understandings of policy problems and their potential solutions. With a seemingly infinite number of potential study subjects but limited resources with which to study them, why have we chosen to focus on the topics that we have? Here, I present a Q-method study that explores ecologists' thought processes as they evaluate the merits of potential research topics. The participants, ecologists attending the Ecological Society of America's 2008 Annual Meeting, nominally agreed with …
Review Of: "Escape From The Ivory Tower: A Guide To Making Your Science Matter", By Nancy Baron, Mark W. Neff
Review Of: "Escape From The Ivory Tower: A Guide To Making Your Science Matter", By Nancy Baron, Mark W. Neff
Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications
Collectively, ecologists produce a staggering amount of information each year. Using the Web of Science Journal Citation Reports subject classification to define the field of ecology, our discipline comprises 129 ecology-specific journals that in 2009 published an astounding 14 280 articles. How much of that information is being used by policymakers? How much is potentially useful to those audiences? The message in Nancy Baron’s new book, Escape from the ivory tower: a guide to making your science matter, is that all of it could be taken up by the media, publicized, and utilized by policymakers if only we could …
Clash Of Coverage: Cultural Framing In U.S. Newspaper Reporting On The 2011 Protests In Bahrain, Brian J. Bowe, Jennifer Hoewe
Clash Of Coverage: Cultural Framing In U.S. Newspaper Reporting On The 2011 Protests In Bahrain, Brian J. Bowe, Jennifer Hoewe
Journalism Faculty Publications
Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilizations paradigm was established after the Cold War to explain an emerging new world order and was utilized in the cultural framing hypothesis’ explanation of U.S. news coverage of conflicts. Through content analysis of three major U.S. newspapers’ coverage of the 2011 protests in Bahrain, this study uses the cultural framing hypothesis to determine if a clash of civilizations shaped news stories. The results largely support the hypothesis and Huntington’s paradigm.
Cosmopolitanism And Suppression Of Cyber-Dissent In The Caucasus: Obstacles And Opportunities For Social Media And The Web, Brian J. Bowe, Michigan State University, Robin Blom
Cosmopolitanism And Suppression Of Cyber-Dissent In The Caucasus: Obstacles And Opportunities For Social Media And The Web, Brian J. Bowe, Michigan State University, Robin Blom
Journalism Faculty Publications
Around the world, social media offer an informal virtual space for citizens who feel disenfranchised to connect socially. But for those who live in countries such as the three former Soviet republics of the Caucasus — where free expression is curtailed and official news outlets are under government censorship — information and communication technology (ICT) offers an increasingly important alternative vehicle for political expression. Recent developments in Tunisia, Egypt, and Iran demonstrate how blogging and social media tools may fulfill a crucial role for non-journalists and oppositional groups that journalism serves in more democratic societies. This article considers the use …
Moving "Eco" Back Into Socio-Ecological Models: A Proposal To Reorient Ecological Literacy Into Human Developmental Models And School Systems, Nicholas Stanger
Moving "Eco" Back Into Socio-Ecological Models: A Proposal To Reorient Ecological Literacy Into Human Developmental Models And School Systems, Nicholas Stanger
Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications
Socio-ecological models contribute to the understanding of how context influences human development and construction of worldviews. However, the claim that socio-ecological models represent the “true” influencers of an individual might be a misrepresentation of the complexity of whole ecological systems. This paper explores the possibility of adapting the use of the “socio-ecological model” to better represent the ecological influencers, rather than the primary focus of human and social factors. With reference to the new trends in environmental education, this paper explores the definitions of ecologically-based language, outlines the current domain of socio-ecological models, and proposes a re-orientation of socio-ecological models …
Cascadia Reconsidered: Questioning Micro-Scale Cross-Border Integration In The Fraser Lowland, Patrick H. Buckley, John Belec
Cascadia Reconsidered: Questioning Micro-Scale Cross-Border Integration In The Fraser Lowland, Patrick H. Buckley, John Belec
Environmental Studies Faculty and Staff Publications
Cascadia has been promoted as the premier cross-border region (CBR) along the western US-Canada border. However, most studies of this CBR have a strong normative inflection that assumes a great desire by the actors to emancipate themselves from dominance by the nation-state. Unlike as in other regions of the world such as Europe, little micro-level empirical investigation has been done of this hypothesis. This study seeks to address that issue by focusing on a proposed power plant in the heart of Cascadia which was to integrate resources and services between the border towns of Sumas, Washington and Abbotsford, British Columbia …
Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation And The Policing Of Protest Since The 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Patrick F. Gillham
Securitizing America: Strategic Incapacitation And The Policing Of Protest Since The 11 September 2001 Terrorist Attacks, Patrick F. Gillham
Sociology
During the 1970s, the predominant strategy of protest policing shifted from “escalated force” and repression of protesters to one of “negotiated management” and mutual cooperation with protesters. Following the failures of negotiated management at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstrations in Seattle, law enforcement quickly developed a new social control strategy, referred to here as “strategic incapacitation.” The U.S. police response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks quickened the pace of police adoption of this new strategy, which emphasizes the goals of “securitizing society” and isolating or neutralizing the sources of potential disruption. These goals are accomplished through …
Community, Survival And Witnessing In Ravensbruck, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Community, Survival And Witnessing In Ravensbruck, Jeanne Armstrong Ph.D.
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Name Disambiguation – Learning From More User-Friendly Models, Bob Thomas
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Library catalogs do not provide catalog users with the assistance they need to easily and confidently select the person they are interested in. Examples are provided of Web services that do a better job of helping information seekers differentiate the person they are seeking from those with similar names. Some of the reasons for this failure in library catalogs are examined. This article then looks at how much information is necessary to help users disambiguate names, how that information could be captured and shared, and some ways the information could be displayed in library catalogs.
Creating A Specialized Music Search Interface In A Traditional Opac Environment, Bob Thomas
Creating A Specialized Music Search Interface In A Traditional Opac Environment, Bob Thomas
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Undergraduate music majors often search for resources in a limited number of formats. This developed a specialized search interface which might better support the needs of undergraduate music majors. The aim of this paper is to improve music resource discovery now, without spending any additional funds.
"Change Or Perish: Implementing Aeon In The University Of South Florida Tampa Library's Special Collections", Mark I. Greenberg, Barbara I. Lewis
"Change Or Perish: Implementing Aeon In The University Of South Florida Tampa Library's Special Collections", Mark I. Greenberg, Barbara I. Lewis
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Creating New Partnerships: An Examination Of Two Collaborative, Grant-Funded Digitization Projects, Jenny K. Oleen, Livia Olsen
Creating New Partnerships: An Examination Of Two Collaborative, Grant-Funded Digitization Projects, Jenny K. Oleen, Livia Olsen
Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications
Many agriculture professors are also avid photographers. Throughout their careers, they photograph the unique, the mundane, and the fantastic. Their photographs and slides range from beautiful roses and champion bulls to wheat covered in rust and sickly sows. During their academic years, they use the slides for class lectures, at conferences, and at presentations to the public. Many professors and researchers also collect print materials, amassing huge collections of pamphlets, research reports and books. These items, though old or out of print, often are unique and have great historic value. They document the progress and results of a professor’s research …
Testing A Reconfiguration Of Fast At The Blaine Poe, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson
Testing A Reconfiguration Of Fast At The Blaine Poe, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
In prior articles we have described problems with efficacy of the Free and Secure Trade (FAST) trusted-shipper program at the Blaine, Washington, port-of-entry (POE). At Blaine, state and provincial transportation agencies invested in the construction of highway lanes dedicated to FAST trucks, but there has been relatively light usage of those lanes. In a 2009 field study we found that 23 percent of southbound trucks and just 2 percent of northbound trucks used the FAST lanes. Of the southbound FAST traffic, 73 percent of the trucks were empty. Southbound, the FAST lane seems primarily to be a rapid path by …
Scholars' Views On Improving Border Policy, Donald K. Alper
Scholars' Views On Improving Border Policy, Donald K. Alper
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
On April 29, the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University hosted a conference, Bridging Distances: Past and Future Perspectives on Canada-US Relations, to mark the program’s 40th anniversary.* Participating scholars and practitioners were asked to comment on future trends, opportunities and challenges in the relationship. Plenary remarks were given by Ian Brodie, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Harper, and the luncheon address was delivered by David Emerson, chair of the Energy Policy Institute of Canada and former minister in two governments. Panelists were convened to discuss issues covering the following areas: • Both Sides Now: Parallel …
Advancing Program Symmetry For Us-Canada Investment In Cross-Border Transportation, Hugh Conroy
Advancing Program Symmetry For Us-Canada Investment In Cross-Border Transportation, Hugh Conroy
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
Reviewing the 17 years since the enactment of NAFTA, the U.S. and Canada have undertaken many initiatives to improve cross-border connections. While the range of issues that receive dedicated treatment is broad, this article focuses on crossborder transportation. Since NAFTA, both countries have set up multi-year federal investment programs for cross-border transportation – the U.S. Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program (CBI) in 1998 and the Canadian Border Infrastructure Fund (BIF) in 2002. In 2000, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and Transport Canada (TC) signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) on transportation issues which led to the creation of the U.S.-Canada …
Eliminating The Fast Lane At The Pacific Highway Crossing: Results Of A Pilot Project, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Eliminating The Fast Lane At The Pacific Highway Crossing: Results Of A Pilot Project, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
A 2010 study of the Southbound Pacific Highway Crossing (PHC) focused on alternative configurations for an under-utilized approach lane and inspection booth (Springer, 2010). At the time of the study, both the lane and the booth were restricted to enrollees in the FAST, or Free and Secure Trade, program (USCBP, 2005). The FAST program was designed to encourage members of the trucking industry to increase freight security by rewarding qualifying participants with shorter travel times. To qualify for FAST, carriers, drivers, and shippers are required to follow certain security procedures which enhance the safety and security of the border. Trucks …
Cross-Border Freight Flows At The Two Land Borders, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Austin Rose
Cross-Border Freight Flows At The Two Land Borders, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Austin Rose
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
This article provides an overview of the flow of goods between the U.S. and its two NAFTA neighbors, Canada and Mexico. It is the job of border agencies to facilitate these flows, and this article seeks to explain some aspects of the scope of the job. There is much regional variation in the volume and composition of freight flows, and this variety inevitably has implications for border management policies.
Advancing U.S.-Canada Border Transportation Planning And Programming, Hugh Conroy
Advancing U.S.-Canada Border Transportation Planning And Programming, Hugh Conroy
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
Since NAFTA, the United States and Canada have initiated programs to address cross-border transportation and anticipated increases in North American trade and travel. In 1999, The United States, through its multi-year transportation authorization act, began the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program (CBI). This program, focused on border transportation investments, also established federal support for regional, binational planning coalitions. In 2000, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater and Canadian Minister of Transportation David Collenette signed a memorandum of cooperation to collaborate on transportation issues of mutual interest. This quickly led to the formation of the U.S.-Canada Transportation Border Working Group (TBWG) in …
Borders, Barriers, And Breakthroughs In The Cascadia Corridor, Troy D. Abel, Jenni Pelc, Lauren F. Miller, Jacqueline Quarre, Kathryn Mork
Borders, Barriers, And Breakthroughs In The Cascadia Corridor, Troy D. Abel, Jenni Pelc, Lauren F. Miller, Jacqueline Quarre, Kathryn Mork
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
This project focused on dilemmas of political biogeography through a case study of wildlife conservation and management efforts in the transboundary Cascadia region. Our team examined the interface of political science and biogeography, or “political biogeography,” through its manifestations in the evolving opportunities and barriers to regional wildlife conservation in the shared terrestrial ecosystems of British Columbia and Washington. Our research combined content analysis of policy documents and semi-structured stakeholder interviews and questionnaires.
Seminar Proceedings: Perimeter Security And The Beyond The Border Dialogue: Perspectives From The Pnw-Western Canada Region: Special Report, Border Policy Research Institute
Seminar Proceedings: Perimeter Security And The Beyond The Border Dialogue: Perspectives From The Pnw-Western Canada Region: Special Report, Border Policy Research Institute
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
The Harper-Obama Washington Declaration of February 4, 2011 stated: "to preserve and extend the benefits our close relationship has helped bring Canadians and Americans alike, we intend to pursue a perimeter approach to security, working together within, at, and away from the borders of our two countries to enhance our security and accelerate the legitimate flow of people, goods, and services between our two countries." As of June, 2011, there were no details on what "perimeter security" might look like. What was clear is that whatever form it takes will likely depend on the Ottawa and Washington, DC intergovernmental Beyond …
Field Observations Of Northbound Truck Traffic At Pacific Highway, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Susannah Edwards, Yijun Zhang
Field Observations Of Northbound Truck Traffic At Pacific Highway, David L. (David Lindsay) Davidson, Susannah Edwards, Yijun Zhang
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
This report pertains to a field project designed to collect data suitable for development of a simulation model of commercial vehicle operations (CVO) in the northbound direction at the Pacific Highway border crossing in Blaine, Washington. The project complements a recently completed effort that generated similar data for trucks moving southbound at Pacific Highway.
Comparing A Year Of Legal Inbound Travel: The United States And Canada- 2009, Dylan Medina, Yijun Zhang, Susannah Edwards, Austin Rose, Christopher Miller
Comparing A Year Of Legal Inbound Travel: The United States And Canada- 2009, Dylan Medina, Yijun Zhang, Susannah Edwards, Austin Rose, Christopher Miller
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
This study initially set out to compare the cross-border flow of people into the U.S. and Canada over the course of one year. The research team at the BPRI chose to look at cross border flow for 2009, finding it to be the most recent comparable year. To begin this research, we set out with several general questions such as “who is crossing?”, “how many?”, “from where?” and “why?” We intended to first collect the quantitative data and then look at how the flow of people reflects or perhaps complicates the border and immigration policies, as well as the values, …
2011 Pacific Highway Southbound Fast Lane Study: Final Report, Border Policy Research Institute
2011 Pacific Highway Southbound Fast Lane Study: Final Report, Border Policy Research Institute
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
In the spring of 2011, a pilot test was conducted at the U.S. commercial port of entry (POE) at Blaine, Washington. The test was designed to determine whether a reconfiguration of operations at the POE would lead to improved southbound freight mobility. This report documents the methods and results of the pilot test.
Eliminating The Fast Lane At The Pacific Highway Crossing: A Simulation Analysis, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Eliminating The Fast Lane At The Pacific Highway Crossing: A Simulation Analysis, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
A recent study by Springer (2011) analyzed the results of a 2011 pilot project at the Southbound Pacific Highway Crossing (PHC) for commercial freight traffic. The goal of the study was to gauge the impact of opening the FAST booth, which was restricted to enrollees in the FAST, or Free and Secure Trade program (USCBP, 2005), to general purpose (GP) commercial freight traffic. To qualify for FAST, carriers, drivers, and shippers are required to follow certain security procedures which enhance the safety and security of the border. Trucks enrolled in FAST were then allowed to use the dedicated lane and …
Regional Freight Capacity Management: Free And Secure Trade (Fast) Program Optimization At The Pacific Highway, Southbound Crossing, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Regional Freight Capacity Management: Free And Secure Trade (Fast) Program Optimization At The Pacific Highway, Southbound Crossing, Mark (Mark Christopher) Springer
Border Policy Research Institute Publications
In the spring of 2011, a pilot project at the southbound Pacific Highway Crossing (PHC) tested the impact of opening the previously restricted FAST lane at the PHC to all commercial freight traffic. The FAST, or Free and Secure Trade program (USCBP, 2005), was designed to increase the security of southbound commercial freight into the United States. To qualify for FAST, carriers, drivers, and shippers are required to follow certain security procedures which aim to enhance the safety and security of the border. Trucks enrolled in FAST are then allowed to use the dedicated lane and inspection booth at the …