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Ideas About Internship Placement Process, Jozefina Lantz

Internship Program

Contains a layout of ideas regarding the Guided Internship and Professional Development program, from placement to process and coordination.

Local Organizations For Internships (#2), Jozefina Lantz

Internship Program

Contains another document regarding various local organizations for possible internship placement. This spreadsheet is more detailed than #1, providing detailed information on each organization listed.

Jozefina Lantz was the co-convener for the Integration and Belonging Hub up until her retirement.

This PDF was converted from an Excel sheet. The "Notes" column on page two corresponds to the rows on page one and so on and so forth.

Local Organizations For Internships #1, Jozefina Lantz

Internship Program

Contains a list of local Worcester organizations for possible internship placements.

Jozefina Lantz was the co-convener for the Integration and Belonging Hub up until her retirement.

This PDF was converted from an Excel sheet. The "Notes" column on page two corresponds to the rows on page one and so on and so forth.

'Seeding An Integration And Belonging Hub', Academic Innovation Fund Application, Integration And Belonging Hub

Vision, Mission, & Funding

Contains the application that was submitted for Clark University's Academic Innovation Fund, outlining a proposal for the Integration and Belonging Hub.

Destination Diploma: How Chinese Upper-Middle-Class Families “Outsource” Secondary Education To The United States, Siqi Tu

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This research examines the emerging phenomenon of Chinese urban upper-middle-class families sending their only children, the so-called “parachute students,” to American private high schools in a triple framework of transnational elite education, the emerging global middle class, and the complicated formation of citizenship, membership, and identities across borders. This study draws from data collected through multiple qualitative research methods, including content analysis of online advertising materials of educational agents, ethnographic participant-observation of school recruitment and application consulting workshops, and in-depth interviews with Chinese parents, students, and educational consultants.

I investigate why and how Chinese urban upper-middle-class families make educational decisions …

Universal Design For Belonging: Living And Working With Diverse Personal Names, Karen E. Pennesi

Anthropology Publications

There is great diversity in the names and naming practices of Canada’s population due to the multiple languages and cultures from which names and name-givers originate. While this diversity means that everyone encounters unfamiliar names, institutional agents who work with the public are continually challenged when attempting to determine a name’s correct pronunciation, spelling, structure and gender. Drawing from over a hundred interviews in London (Ontario) and Montréal (Québec), as well as other published accounts, I outline strategies used by institutional agents to manage name diversity within the constraints of their work tasks. I explain how concern with saving face …