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Ua3/9/5 Hall Of Distinguished Alumni Speech, Wku President's Office

WKU Administration Documents

Speech written and delivered by Gary Ransdell on his and his wife, Julie Ransdell's induction into the WKU Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.

The Youth Employment Solution: From Universal Healthcare To Universal Employment, Timothy Lang

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This short commentary examines youth unemployment in Canada and offers four solutions for increasing youth employment and creating a stronger, safer society: (1) increase participation rates in post-secondary education; (2) provide employment readiness and job placement through youth employment services programs; (3) enhance high school curriculums to better prepare youth for employment; and (4) adopt best practices and policies from leading nations and organizations.

All In - And More! Gambling In The James Bond Films, Pauliina Raento

UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal

Scholarly analysis of gambling in the James Bond films is rare, despite the multitude of topics in Bondology and the fictional agent’s global fame. The odd commentary in gambling scholarship criticizes the franchise from the perspective of harm prevention. This article counters both groups of scholars with a qualitative interpretation of Bond’s gambling habits and the role of gambling and risk taking in the film series. A basic toolkit of visual methodologies is applied to the 24 EON-produced Bond films released in 1962–2015. The examination shows the critical importance of gambling to character identity, power hierarchies and communication, atmosphere, and …

Dataferret: An Analytical Tool For Census Pums Data Mining, Extraction And Tabulation, Weiwei Zhang

South Dakota Demography Conference

This session will cover the basics of the Census Bureau’s DataFerrett tool. We will go through steps to select variables, recode variables, create custom value ranges, and build up a table in different ways. Participants will learn how to manipulate microdata files such as ACS PUMS to create our own data and report results using customized tables.

Excel Advanced Tips And Tricks: Filter, Data Sort, Pivot Table, And Graphics, Wei Gu, Shuang Li

South Dakota Demography Conference

This session will use the spreadsheet that contains the 2015 Small Area Health Insurance Estimates for all counties and states of the United States to demonstrate several functions and tools in EXCEL for data tabulation, analysis, and presentation. The functions and tools include advanced sorting, filtering, and pivot table. The session will also include a demonstration of using graphic tools in EXCEL to present the data. Data visualization is a simple tool for sharing a dataset's story with an audience, no matter what their background. Trends and population percentages are just two items that can be creatively displayed in EXCEL. …

Demonstration Of Census Data Tools: American Factfinder, David Schuler

South Dakota Demography Conference

As a Data Dissemination Specialist, US Commerce Department, Bureau of Census, David is one of 26 in a Bureau of 15,000, engaging citizens and connecting them with Census business, economic, trade and demographic data. He teaches workshops and presentations to data users on how to use Census data tools to mine government data. This high quality data supports business plans, grant opportunities and critical discussion making.

Labor Market Data At Your Fingertips: Exploring The Virtual Labor Market Data System, Brenda Weishaar

South Dakota Demography Conference

This session includes a brief introduction to the types of Labor Market Information available through the Labor Market Information Center. The majority of this workshop will guide you through the most commonly used data sets for workforce and economic analyses found in the Virtual Labor Market Data System.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 14 [15], Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Miller, Callie. Strategic Planning Process Kicks Off
• Ziege, Nicole. Setting Sail – Theatre & Dance
• Waters, Adrianna. Alumna Publishes Novella Revenge in the Bluegrass – Carol Maupin
• Ziege, Nicole. Garrett Conference Center Renovations Aim to Be Relevant to Students
• Kast, Monica. Status Conference Requested in College Heights Herald Lawsuit
• Johnson, Kalyn. Insensitive Halloween Costumes – Blackface
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartton re: Synthesis
• Hormell, David. Digital Junk Food: Social Tools Gone Wrong
• Johnson, Kalyn. The Las Vegas Shooter: He’s Not a Lone Wolf – Stephen Paddock …

The Punishment Marketplace: Competing For Capitalized Power In Locally Controlled Immigration Enforcement, Daniel L. Stageman

Publications and Research

Neoliberal economics play a significant role in US social organization, imposing market logics on public services and driving the cultural valorization of free market ideology. The neoliberal ‘project of inequality’ is upheld by an authoritarian system of punishment built around the social control of the underclass—among them unauthorized immigrants. This work lays out the theory of the punishment marketplace: a conceptualization of how US systems of punishment both enable the neoliberal project of inequality, and are themselves subject to market colonization. The theory describes the rescaling of federal authority to local centers of political power. Criminal justice policy activism by …

In Place: October 11, 2017, Place

PLACE Historical Documents

In PLACE is a newsletter designed to keep the Linfield College community apprised of information related to PLACE activities, as well as ways to bring the program into classes. Included in this issue:

• A Message to Faculty
• Spotlight On: Jonathan Rauch & Cheryl Harris
• Upcoming Events
• PLACE in the News
• Last Week in PLACE

The Social Change Model Of Leadership Development: A Service-Learning Reflection, Kayla Taylor

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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How Service Learning Inspired Student Leadership And Sustained Global Engagement, Caroline Olsen, Danielle Elliott

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Paid Versus Unpaid Internships: Perspectives Of Students And Nonprofit Directors, Megan Capek, Jonathan Klein, Julianne Gassman

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Robert Shumer's Where's The Wisdom In Service Learning (2017): A Reflective Review, Jamie Opdyke

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Editor's Notes, Joyce Fields

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Table Of Contents Iujsl Volume 7 Issue 1 Fall 2017

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Delving Into Service Learning: A Case Study Of Fairfield University’S New Medical Spanish Course, Shauna Dresel, Ariana Fernandez

The International Undergraduate Journal For Service-Learning, Leadership, and Social Change

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Healthy Grandparenthood: How Long Is It And How Is It Changing?, Rachel Margolis, Laura Wright

Sociology Publications

Healthy grandparenthood represents the period of overlap during which grandparents and grandchildren can build relationships, and grandparents can make intergenerational transfers to younger kin. The health of grandparents has important implications for upward and downward intergenerational transfers within kinship networks in aging societies. Although the length of grandparenthood is determined by fertility and mortality patterns, the amount of time spent as a healthy grandparent is also affected by morbidity. In this study, we estimate the length of healthy grandparenthood for the first time. Using U.S. and Canadian data, we examine changes in the length of healthy grandparenthood during years when …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 13 [14], Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Kast, Monica. Campus Mourns Death of Professor – Lloren Foster
• Alvey, Rebekah. Campus Reflects on 100 Days with Timothy Caboni
• Kast, Monica. Andy Beshear, Timothy Caboni Commit to End Domestic Violence
• Kast, Monica. Poetry Contest Takes Place This Weekend – Jim Wayne Miller
• Daniels, Katie. Students Participate in Poverty Simulation
• DeLetter, Emily. Committee Discusses Academic Freeze Option – University Senate
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Gun Violence
• No Simple Solution: No Quick Fix to Our Gun Violence Issue
• Leonard, Nicole. Using Art to Flip Femininity …

Adversity And Academic Performance Among Adolescent Youth: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study, Sukhdip Purewal Boparai, Tiffani Marie, Eduardo Aguayo, Jordan Brooks, Estefany Juarez, Sheana Soriano, Alasia Waters, Jaquez Donaldson, Joseph Reagans, Gracee Anguiano, Allison Ipsen

Journal of Adolescent and Family Health

Researchers and youth stakeholders devised a survey on 27 adversities based on youth expertise, clinical practice, and adversity literature. The aim of the study was to understand the prevalence of individual and cumulative adversities, and association of adversities to age, gender, race/ethnicity and academic performance among a community sample of urban high school students. All participants experienced two or more adversities and experienced greater overall adversity than youth in population-based studies. Youth-proposed stressors were among the most prevalent, and females, older youth, and African American youth reported disproportionately greater number of adversities. Specific types of adversities were endorsed differentially based …

A Metaphorical Analysis Of Employment Barriers And Support Needs In Psychosis, Margaret E. Hampson Dr., Richard E. Hicks Dr, Bruce D. Watt Dr

The Qualitative Report

This study uses metaphor analysis to explore the employment-related experiences of people living with psychosis and those around them such as family, community members, professionals and employers. Data was derived from transcripts of 14 focus groups and 31 interviews conducted during a qualitative study of the employment barriers and support needs of people living with psychosis. The sample comprised participants drawn from six key stakeholder groups, namely people diagnosed with a persisting psychotic disorder, care-givers, health professionals, employers, employment providers and local community members. Transcripts from focus groups and interviews were imported into NVivo 10 and explored through the lens …

Researching Peers And Disaster Vulnerable Communities: An Insider Perspective, Stern M. Kita

The Qualitative Report

Conducting research among peers and communities that a researcher also serves may be both daunting and rewarding. Researching peers may make the researcher feel uncomfortable raising certain questions that are sensitive or that could be construed to be testing their competencies. This paper is inclined more towards showing that it is advantageous to be an insider, whose position can facilitate collection of information that could not have been accessed, or revealed to an outsider. The paper reports on fieldwork conducted in a low-income country in Sub-Sahara Africa as part of a doctoral study with communities affected by disasters and those …

The "Native" As Ethnographer: Doing Social Research In Globalizing Nsukka, Chidi Ugwu

The Qualitative Report

Researchers have noted how local attitudes that connect research to the external world could affect findings differently in different contexts. How this played out for an indigenous researcher is the new perspective presented in this paper. Although an indigene of the study area, I became an outsider of sorts as soon as I began to show interest in malaria in a way that suggested to locals that the results of my investigation could eventually get to the government or the Western world – locals saw those two entities as embodying power and material abundance. Although I worked as an insider, …

Ua12/2/1 Wkuherald321, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter recapping the top stories of the week.

“I’Ve Risen Up From The Ashes That I Created”: Record Clearance And Gendered Narratives Of Self-Reinvention And Reintegration, Elsa Chen, Ericka Adams

Faculty Publications

Record clearance allows some individuals to redesignate or remove certain minor convictions from their criminal records. This interview-based study finds that both men and women seek opportunities for personal gain through record clearance, but women are more motivated by moral and religious influences and concern about reputation. Women are also more likely than men to acknowledge personal flaws, and to desire to replace criminal identities with law-abiding identities. As women redefine their identities, caregiving is especially important as a personal obligation and professional aspiration. Record clearance is particularly compatible with women’s motivations, willingness to change, and personal and professional goals.

Slave Rebellion, Fugitive Literature, And The Force Of Law, Jeffrey Hole

First-Year Honors Program Research Seminars

From the Stono Rebellion in 1739 to the revolt aboard the ship Amistad in 1839, from Nat Turner’s uprising in 1831 to the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859—on land and on sea, in U.S. territory and international spaces—slaves and abolitionist allies resisted the legal doctrines and martial enforcement of the slave system. In this presentation, we will explore how nineteenth-century literature imagined and depicted slave rebellion, particularly in the decade before the Civil War and in the aftermath of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act. A component of the Great Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act strengthened a set …

A Social Network Study To Improve Collaborative Partnerships Among The Southeastern Health Equity Council (Shec), Candace Forbes Bright, Hannah Scott, Braden Bagley, Jonathan Dennis

Faculty Publications

This report presents research conducted on the relationships among and attributes of members of the Southeastern Health Equity Council (SHEC, herein Council) to provide recommendations for partnerships, collaboration, and the recruitment of new members. The background, methods, results, and recommendations are outlined in detail throughout this report. Social networks are measured and defined as connections among people, organization, and/or other units. SNA is a valuable and innovative tool for recognizing strengths and weaknesses in collaborative partnerships. The evaluative study presented herein can be replicated in other councils within the Regional Health Equity Councils to improve collaborations not only among SHEC …

Gender Differences In Virologic Response After Antiretroviral Therapy In Treatment-Naïve Hiv-Infected Individuals: Results From The 550 Clinic Hiv Cohort Study., Andrea Reyes-Vega, Alejandra Loban, Kavitha Srinivasan, Stephen P. Furmanek, Conner English, Mary Bishop, Cathy Spencer, Daniel Truelove, Julio A. Ramirez, Anupama Raghuram, Paula Peyrani

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Background

Controversy still exists regarding gender differences in virologic response between treatment-na•ve HIV-infected individuals. The objective of this study was to evaluate gender difference in virologic and immunologic response to antiretroviral therapy in treatment-na•ve HIV-infected individuals. Methods

This was a retrospective, observational study of treatment-na•ve HIV-infected individuals managed at the 550 clinic who started antiretroviral therapy (ART) between January 1st, 2010 and December 31, 2015. Patients with available viral load and CD4 counts before and one year after initiating ART were included in this study. Virologic suppression was defined as < 48 HIV-1 RNA copies/mL, and mmunologic recovery was defined as a CD4 count increase of at least 150 cells/mm3. Dichotomous variables were reported in number and percentages and analyzed using Chi-squared tests and Fisher’s exact (whichever was appropriate). Continuous variables were reported as median and interquartile range (IQR) and analyzed using Wilcox rank-sum tests. Multivariate analyses performed were logistic regressions with adjustment for other covariates. P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. R version 3.3.2 was used for the statistical analysis. Results

A total of 70 women and 90 men were included …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Yaacoub, Sarah. Cultures Combine – International Festival
• Kast, Monica. Future Teachers Face Pension Uncertainty
• Stahl, Matt. Local Taco to Come to Town This Month
• Coyle, Cameron. Campus Police Chief to Form Advisory Council – Mitchell Walker
• DeLetter, Emily. Timothy Caboni Announces Strategic Planning Committee
• King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Football Protests
• Mays, Remi. Review of Mother – Movies
• Johnson, Kalyn. Pointless Protest – Burning NFL Jerseys
• Murrer, Erick. The Long Haul of Becoming a Professional – Journalism
• Heichelbech, Evan. NCAA Shakeup Is a Troubling Motif …