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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 21, February 17, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Lessons I'Ve Learned Along The Way, Betty Montgomery

Leadership Hour at Otterbein University

In her distinguished career with many 'firsts', Betty has taken nuggets of knowledge from each experience. Find out how you can apply this to your leadership journey.

The Legacy, February 17, 2015, Lindenwood University

The Legacy (2007-2018)

Student Newspaper of Lindenwood University

Spartan Daily, February 17, 2015, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 144, Issue 10

Chuan Leekpai [Thailand, Prime Minister], Leekpai Chuan

Digital Narratives of Asia

Chuan Leekpai is a two-time Thai Prime Minister. He shares with DNA the thinking behind some of his policies, as well as gives his take on the recent political turmoil Thailand has been embroiled in.

Thinking Ahead: Dissertations & Theses, Maira Bundza

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

Thinking Ahead: Dissertations & Theses

• Find other dissertations in their field from the U.S. and internationally
• Understand depositing options for their dissertations in ProQuest and in ScholarWorks, the WMU institutional repository

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 33, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Crumbie, Trey. Snowed Out – Winter, Weather
• Wright, Samantha. Professors Produce New Books
• Rogers, Shelby. Dance Professor Steps Down as Coordinator – Clifton Brown, Theatre & Dance
• Henderson, Andrew. WKU Group Advocates Education, Protection for Renters – WKU Student Coalition for Renters’ Rights
• Love for the Mountains Photo Spread – Protest Movements, Demonstrations
• French, Jackson. Fifty Shades of Grey An Unpleasant Color Palette – Movie Review
• A New Way of Life: Protecting Your Digital Self – Anthem, Computer Hacking, Identity Theft
• Coalition for Social Justice. Rape Defense Program Only …

Hidden Gems Of The Library, Maria A. Perez-Stable

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

Hidden Gems of the Library

• Become more conversant with searching library catalogs, especially for books and electronic books
• Select and explore relevant databases in their respective disciplines
• Do more thorough literature searches on their topic by using advanced features and techniques

Hacking The Stacks: The Inside Scoop On Library Resources For Graduate Level Research From Wmu's Research Experts, University Libraries

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

Flier for workshop with schedule and description of sessions.

2015-02 Library Impact Statement For Cmb 320 Introduction To Computational Biology, Michael Cerbo

Library Impact Statements

Library Impact Statement submitted in response to new course proposal for CMB 320 Introduction to Computational Biology. This class was supported with no need for additional resources. Responding library faculty member: Michael Cerbo. Requesting faculty member: Ying Zhang.

Nebraska Libraries - Volume 3, Number 1 (February 2015)

Nebraska Libraries

No abstract provided.

Comparing Time And Event Based Prospective Memory: Effects Of Delay, Angela Conte

Theses and Dissertations

Prospective memory (PM) is the act of remembering to perform a future intention (Einstein & McDaniel, 2005). Time-based PM is remembering to retrieve that future intention at or after a specific time has elapsed. Event-based PM is remembering to retrieve the future intention when a specific cue or event is encountered (Sellen et al., 1997). The current project was designed to compare time- and event-based PM performance within a laboratory context. Previous research suggests that time-based tasks are more difficult to carry out because a decrease in performance (or PM cost) is often found compared with event-based tasks (e.g., Sellen …

Citation Management & Avoiding Plagiarism, Kate Langan

Hacking the Stacks: The Inside Scoop on Library Resources for Graduate Level Research

The Ethics of Writing & Citation Management

• Identify the benefits and usefulness of citation management software (CMS)
• Learn how to get the most out of CMS to organize different research projects
• Define plagiarism and various forms it takes and where to go to help avoid plagiarism
• Discuss the ethics of writing, plagiarism in particular, and how CMS can help you
• Learn how to fold ethical writing practices into your research in order to avoid plagiarism

Artfest 2015 Begins This Week: High School Students Invited To Explore Art & Design, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Andrews University’s Department of Visual Art & Design hosts their first-annual, weekend-long ArtFest. Details of the ArtFest are provided in the article.

Visibility Feminism, Alyssa Froehling

Audre Lorde Prize

An invented feminist theory based off of existing theories and personal experience.

Medicaid And The Labor Supply Of Single Mothers: Implications For Health Care Reform, Vincent Pohl

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands Medicaid and introduces health insurance subsidies, thereby changing work incentives for single mothers. To undertake an ex ante policy evaluation of the employment effects of the PPACA, I structurally estimate a model of labor supply and health insurance choice exploiting existing variation in Medicaid policies. Simulations show that single mothers increase their labor supply at the extensive and the intensive margin by six and five percent, respectively. The PPACA leads to crowding-out of employer-sponsored health insurance of about 40 percent and increases single mothers' welfare by about $190 per month.

The Walking Deadwood? The Western And The Post-Apocalyptic Tale, Amanda R. Keeler

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

The Prospector, February 17, 2015, Utep Student Publications

The Prospector

Headline: Happiness is a Warm Gun

The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance, Mark Cassell, Odeh Halaseh

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This study examines faculty unions’ impact on the organizational efficiency and effectiveness of public four-year institutions of higher learning. The article theorizes the causal connections between faculty unions to higher education performance. The study also presents results of a cross-sectional time series analysis and a cross-sectional analysis of higher education performance using data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Post Secondary Data System (IPEDS) spanning more than two decades and over 430 public universities and colleges. We find support for the view that unionization improves organizational efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time the research raises important methodological and substantive …

From Ivory To Babel To A New Foundation, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

During my 12 years at the NationalCenter for Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions, I observed with increasing frustration the inability of administration and faculty leaders—union and governance—to fully grasp, analyze, and find pathways out of public higher education’s current existential crisis.

My many years of observing leaders of public higher education lead me to the inescapable conclusion that together the leaders share a culture that shorts strategic planning, thinking, and boldness and instead favors ad-hoc, incremental acceptance of the ever-changing, slimmed-down state of affairs. The rarified bubbles of presidential cabinets and union boards symbiotically promote policies that, …

Lanthorn, Vol. 49, No. 44, February 16, 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.

Columbia Chronicle (02/16/2015), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 16, 2015 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 44 pages and is listed as Volume 50, Number 19. Cover story: "Mayoral candidates get candid about Chicago" Editor-in-Chief: Tyler Eagle

The Cross In My Closet, Ann M. Sasala

SURGE

All this changed when I turned fourteen. Suddenly the quiet peace was shattered by my raucous, rebellious response to the “Adam and Eve Not Ann and Eve“ chanted by my neighbors, teachers, and family. The solace I once felt during prayer became a black hole of hate; instead of listening for words of kindness, instead of finding serenity, I spit in the faces of my family, friends, and religion. Hoping to purge my body of its new found, fiery anger, I turned to a priest who told me there could be no salvation: “man shall not lie with man…it is …

Investigating The "Small World" Of Literary Archival Collections: The Impact Of Eac-Cpf On Archival Descriptive Practices – Part 1: Relationships, Description And The Archival Community, Katherine M. Wisser

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

This article opens an exploration of the description of relationships between entities made possible by the new standard, Encoded Archival Context - Corporate bodies, Persons and Families (EAC-CPF). Presents the results of a survey conducted in 2013 to gauge the archival descriptive community's perceptions of the significance of contextual information, relationship types, and other aspects of relationship description. Survey results indicate that the archival descriptive community has just begun to think about relationships in a formal way.

Number 2 - The Role Of Western Democratic System Of Governance In Exacerbating Ethnic Conflicts In Africa: The Case Of Ghana's Democratic Dispensation, 1992-2012, David Kwasi Bansah

Peace and Conflict Management Working Papers Series

This paper interrogates the influence of Western forms of democracy on ethnic conflicts in Africa through a case study of Ghana’s adoption of multiparty democracy between 1992 and 2012. It discusses the transition of African traditional systems of government before, during, and after colonization. The paper also shows how democracy, by definition and in terms of governance, cannot solely be a Western idea since many African societies had democratic elements in their systems of government before the arrival of the Europeans. Relying on qualitative secondary data, and the analysis of fierce and acrimonious competition that have characterized multiparty democratic elections …

American Indian/Alaskan Native College Dropout: Recommendations For Increasing Retention And Graduation, David A. Patterson-Silver Wolf, Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, Carol Van Zile-Tamsen

Center for Social Development Research

Throughout the United States, the college dropout rate among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) students in public universities is the highest compared to any other student group. Researchers have identified this problem and offered reasons for it, but few have made specific efforts to disrupt the continued dropout rates. This article identifies and discusses three recommendations to address the dropout problem from a systems, rather than individual, perspective: (1) living and learning communities, (2) social belonging intervention, and (3) self-regulated learning activities. Studied with minority students, these endeavors show promise for retaining underrepresented students, specifically AI/AN students. To disrupt the long-term …

The Right To Dream: Assessing The Spatiality Of A Homeless Rest Site In Portland, Oregon, Stephen Przybylinski

Dissertations and Theses

The continued increase in homelessness in Portland, Oregon is in part a result of the systemic restructuring of the welfare state as well as a shift in local governance purviews. Primarily this has eradicated the affordable housing stock in the city which is compounded by the limited availability of emergency shelter spaces. These and other financial constraints have left a depleted service support system to cover a rising homelessness problem. In response to this, contemporary social movements have been focusing attention on economically marginalized groups such as the homeless, calling for rights to access resources in cities such as housing. …

Megan Burke, Charlie Schlenker

Interviews for WGLT

Illinois Wesleyan University Sociologist Meghan Burke studies the way people talk and think about race. She has always been interested in how that shapes their desire to get involved in their communities. Her first book looked at that question among people in liberal diverse communities in the Chicago area. She has now focused on TEA party people in Illinois and neighboring states.

The book is "Race, Gender, and Class in the TEA Party." She tells GLT's Charlie Schlenker that the movement reflects much of America on these issues.

The Salience Of University Dressors In The Work For Social Justice, Esmeralda C. Chapa

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

Social justice work is as relevant in the 21st century as it has ever been. Society abounds with inequalities in the various facets of life. In today’s society some continue to believe in the influence of universities to promote social justice work, however this work may be cast as the responsibility of those that need the change and not of those who know how to get change accomplished. The research questions for this study are: what are the institutional constraints to Dressor engagement in social justice work? How do Dressors overcome institutional constraints to social justice work? The theoretical basis …

Leaning Into Autoethnography: A Review Of Heewon Chang’S Autoethnography As Method, Martha M. Snyder

The Qualitative Report

To lean in means to press forward or to move toward something. Leaning in is a deliberate way to approach something whether it is a strong wind or a new skill. Leaning in describes my stance toward autoethnography. I am making a step forward to understand what autoethnography is and how I might be able to use it in my personal research agenda. In reviewing the various approaches to autoethnography, I have found that Autoethnography as Method by Heewon Chang offers a comfortable entry point. Her methodical approach and practical guidelines for doing autoethnography are appealing and useful in creating …