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Duranczyk, Irene, and Elena Pishcherskaia. "Bridging Countries and Cultures through Accessible Global Collaborations." Education Sciences 8, no. 4 (November 14, 2018): 199. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci8040199.
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This paper discusses and provides two case studies on a postsecondary, accessible, global project among students in Russia, China, and the United States. The project design was to engage diverse students in an international conversation to explore their place in the world and envision their future as individuals, innovators, workers, and/or leaders in this globalized world. The three countries chosen, Russia, China, and the United States, are world powers and are pivotal countries for building international bridges. This paper highlights the evolution of the project and students’ vision for developing ongoing student-centered international research projects. It is the hope of the authors that educators reading this article will be inspired to embark on other accessible global projects designed to enhance language and cultural competence with and among all college students.
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He, Kai, Huiyun Feng, Steve Chan, and Weixing Hu. "Rethinking Revisionism in World Politics." Chinese Journal of International Politics 14, no. 2 (March 30, 2021): 159–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cjip/poab004.
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Abstract Revisionism is an important concept in international relations discourse, and it is especially prevalent in discussions about relations between China and the United States in the context of a possible power transition. Yet, this concept has until recently not received the systematic research attention that it deserves. We present in this essay different strategies that a revisionist state may pursue. It builds on recent scholarship by other colleagues and is drawn from a larger project of ours to study revisionism historically and develop it conceptually. We argue that military conquest and subversion—or in our terminology, hard revisionism—have become less likely in today’s world compared to the past. Instead, different approaches of soft revisionism intended to advance institutional changes should be given more attention. We provide a typology of these soft revisionist strategies and offer examples from recent Chinese and US conduct to illustrate them.
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Leybourne, Stephen A., Vijay Kanabar, and Roger D. H. Warburton. "Developing and teaching of a world-class online project management curriculum." Journal of Project, Program & Portfolio Management 2, no. 2 (December 30, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/pppm.v2i2.2231.
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The evolution of the internet and collaboration tools have made it possible to enhance the range of online education, and make it universally accessible and eminently affordable. Around 2000, the faculty at Boston University’s Metropolitan College proposed an online master’s degree in project management, using the emerging learning management systems. The program grew quickly from 40 to 200 students, and was one of the first in the United States to be accredited by the Project Management Institute’s Global Accreditation Committee. This academic model has now been extended to other disciplines and programs.It was expected from the outset that the BU online and classroom academic experiences would be completely equivalent. This presented several challenges, the first of which was developing online equivalents for the face-to-face pedagogical course components. Second, writing online courses, recording videos and developing innovative discussion topics is time-consuming, and we quickly realised that only fulltime faculty had the commitment and motivation to devote the required effort to produce quality courses. Finally, the technological resources associated with course development and course operation required significant investment, beyond the faculty time, currently estimated at around $60,000 per course.We surveyed our students and alumni every two years and now have enough data to describe accurately the evolution in attitudes to online education.As one of the earlier and premier adopters of a rigorous academic online education model, BU has a vested interest to contribute to the growing debate about the academic quality and rigour of online education, the application of high pedagogical standards, and the innovative use of online teaching frameworks and tools. This paper will address and document these issues and assist in raising awareness of emerging “best practice” in the online education domain.
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Ndi Okalla, Joseph-Marie. "The Arts of Black Africa and the Project of a Cfmstian Art." Mission Studies 12, no. 1 (1995): 277–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338395x00312.
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AbstractThis essay is in honour and in memory of the late Prof. Dr. Engelbert MVENG Sf. Born in Cameroon on May 9, 1930, Fr. Mveng has been found murdered in Yaoundé on April 23, 1995 before he would turn 65 years old. In the last thirty years, he was professor at the University of Yaoundé/Cameroon, Department of History. As a historian and theologian, he has enormous contributions to African culture and history, especially in the realm of cultural and religious anthropology as well as in iconology, which have won a wide acclaim. The internationally renowned artistic work of Fr. Mveng which can be found in different churches, chapels and educational centers the world over, underlines the iconographic contribution of Africa to the world and to Christianity. See, for example: Our Lady of Africa in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth/Israel; the Jesuit Hekima College in Nairobi/Kenya; Uganda Martyrs Altar at Libermann, Douala/Cameroon; Our Lady of the Yaoundé Cathedral/Cameroon; the decoration of the chapel of the Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé/Cameroon ... and various centers in Africa and in the United States ... I have presented the first version of this essay on the occasion of a visit of John Paul II to Cameroon. I enclose a selected bibliography of the writings of Fr. Engelbert Mveng.
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Williams, Richard J., and James Mulherin. "The Development of Advanced-Technology Automated/Robotic Telescope Systems and the Future of Small-Telescope Astronomy." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 183 (2001): 95–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100078672.
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AbstractDuring the 1990s groups at universities around the world developed small working automated/robotic telescopes that proved the feasibility of using such systems for education and research projects. A few of the more successful projects such as the Bradford Robotic Observatory in the United Kingdom and the University of Iowa’s Automated Telescope Facility (AFT) and Iowa Robotic Observatory (IRO) programs proved how useful and powerful these systems can be in practice. This paper describes how one company, Torus Technologies, developed hardware and software technologies to create the most advanced integrated small automated/robotic telescope systems in the world. These systems were designed from the “bottom up” to be automated/robotic telescopes capable of operating an entire observatory including domes, CCD cameras, and other peripheral equipment.Automated/robotic telescopes can play a major role in enabling small colleges and universities, especially in developing countries, to actively participate in serious “hands on” research and education projects that otherwise would not be practical. A commercially available affordable, high-precision, and proven turnkey automated/robotic small telescope system capable of operating remotely via the Internet is crucial for bringing this technology into widespread use. Today Torus Technologies telescopes are installed at locations worldwide as primary instruments for research programs, discovery and monitoring programs, and education programs. This paper describes some of the current applications for using these telescopes and how these telescope systems will be used in the future in standalone installations and in global networks.
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Vij, Dhruv. "FINANCIAL LITERACY : A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE YOUTH OF INDIA AND USA." International Journal of Advanced Research 8, no. 10 (October 31, 2020): 734–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/11897.
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Financial literacy is a critical aspect of our lives. When taught early, it provides life skills for young adults to make use of now as well as in the future. It can help individuals go from surviving to thriving. Financial education isnt taught in schools and colleges but is very essential to live in these times. A person not only learns how to survive in a capitalist world, but also how to grow and preserve their money. This project focused on what young adults currently know about money management and to provide recommendations to increase their financial acumen. The research also compares the responses of several questions from students in India (New Delhi) and students in the United States (Massachusetts).The goals of this project were three -fold: 1. Conducted research on the literacy models used to assess knowledge and skills regarding financial literacy in general 2. Created a survey instrument based on the research and administered the survey to participants 3. Created a set of recommendations and observations based on the survey results in the form of an infographic.To accomplish this goal a simple questionnaire, created from a composite of several internationally known literacy programs, was administered to individuals of ages 18-22. A series of 15 recommendations resulted from the analysis of the survey results and were disseminated through the use of an infographic. One of the results was that only 50% of the indian population knew in detail about the concept of interest and inflation rates.
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Bockman, Johanna, and Michael A. Bernstein. "Scientific Community in a Divided World: Economists, Planning, and Research Priority during the Cold War." Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, no. 3 (June 25, 2008): 581–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417508000261.
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During the Cold War, economists utilizing mathematical methods in both the Soviet Union and the United States found they shared a common research project. After the Stalinist years in which they could communicate very little, they found that they had much to learn from each other. Mathematical economics came to bridge the divide between East and West even though the meetings and collaborations between American and Soviet colleagues were fraught with tension and misunderstanding. The Cold War excitement about mathematical economics and the East-West cooperation it allowed, however, dwindled with the end of détente, the global shift in economic science away from mathematical economics, and the end of state socialism in the East Bloc. To understand the rise and fall of this cooperation and convergence, we examine the case of the connection between Tjalling C. Koopmans, a Dutch economist living in the United States as a result of World War II, and Leonid V. Kantorovich, a Russian scientist living in the Soviet Union. These two men jointly won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in 1975. Their scientific connections reflect the broader experiences of East-West scientific collaboration during the Cold War. At the same time, they offer insights for scholars regarding struggles over scientific research priority and the potential for convergence between capitalism and socialism during the Cold War era.
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Seawright, Leslie E. "Teaching Technical Writing: Opportunities for International Collaboration." International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP) 4, no. 2 (March 17, 2014): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v4i2.3438.
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Globalization of our modern economies requires a workforce that can move easily between time zones and cultures. Professors cannot ignore the drastic impact globalization has and will place upon engineering students. In order to be prepared for a competitive job market and the actual requirements of many engineering positions, students need to understand the constraints and challenges of working with colleagues that may live and work in different cultures, countries, languages, and contexts. However, engineering education rarely offers students an opportunity to practice the realities of our digital and intercultural working environments. This paper outlines one way to offer engineering students with collaborative, international, and intercultural writing projects. Students from a technical writing course in the United States were paired with engineering students in Qatar to develop a set of instructions using multimedia methods. Students learned a great deal from the real-world experience of writing and creating a project across two continents.
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De Block, Greet, and Bruno De Meulder. "Iterative Modernism." Transfers 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 97–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2011.010106.
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This article traces the implicit spatial project of Belgian engineers during the interwar period. By analyzing infrastructure planning and its inscribed spatial ideas as well as examining the hybrid modernity advocated by engineers and politicians, this article contributes to both urban and transport history.Unlike colleagues in countries such as Germany, Italy and the United States, Belgian engineers were not convinced that highways offered a salutary new order to a nation traumatized by the First World War. On the contrary, the Ponts et Chaussées asserted that this new limited access road would tear apart the densely populated areas and the diverse regional identities in Belgium. In their opinion, only an integration of existing and new infrastructure could harmonize the historically fragmented and urbanized territory. Tirelessly, engineers produced infrastructure plans, strategically interweaving different transport systems, which had to result in an overall transformation of the territory to facilitate modern production and export logics.
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Illston, Bradley G., Jeffrey B. Basara, Christopher Weiss, and Mike Voss. "The WxChallenge: Forecasting Competition, Educational Tool, and Agent of Cultural Change." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 94, no. 10 (October 1, 2013): 1501–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-11-00112.1.
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The WxChallenge, a project developed at the University of Oklahoma, brings a state-of-the-art, fun, and exciting forecast contest to participants at colleges and universities across North America. The challenge is to forecast the maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and maximum wind speeds for select locations across the United States over a 24-h prediction period. The WxChallenge is open to all undergraduate and graduate students, as well as higher-education faculty, staff, and alumni. Through the use of World Wide Web interfaces accessible by personal computers, tablet computer, and smartphones, the WxChallenge provides a state-of-the-art portal to aid participants in submitting forecasts and alleviate many of the administrative issues (e.g., tracking and scoring) faced by local managers and professors. Since its inception in 2006, 110 universities have participated in the contest and it has been utilized as part of the curricula for 140 classroom courses at various institutions. The inherently challenging nature of the WxChallenge has encouraged its adoption as an educational tool. As its popularity has grown, professors have seen the utility of the Wx-Challenge as a teaching aid and it has become an instructional resource of many meteorological classes at institutions for higher learning. In addition to evidence of educational impacts, the competition has already begun to leave a cultural and social mark on the meteorological learning experience.
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Arcand, Kimberly, and Megan Watzke. "Bringing the universe to the street. A preliminary look at informal learning implications for a large-scale non-traditional science outreach project." Journal of Science Communication 09, no. 02 (April 28, 2010): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.09020201.
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“From Earth to the Universe” (FETTU) is a collection of astronomical images that showcase some of the most popular, current views of our Universe. The images, representing the wide variety of astronomical objects known to exist, have so far been exhibited in about 500 locations throughout the world as part of the International Year of Astronomy. In the United States, over 40 FETTU exhibits have occurred in 25 states in such locations as libraries, airports, nature centers, parks and college campuses. Based on preliminary evaluations currently underway, this project – a large-scale, worldwide astronomy outreach in non-traditional locations – has unique opportunities and implications for informal science learning. We present some early findings from the observational section of the exhibit’s formal evaluation in five selected locations in the U.S. and U.K., including emphasis on inter-organizational networking, visitor attention and participant make-up as well as generative aspects of the exhibit.
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Creek, Jennifer. "A Standard Terminology for Occupational Therapy." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 69, no. 5 (May 2006): 202–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802260606900502.
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A standard terminology is the authorised system of words and phrases used in a definite sense within a science or subject. The need for a standard terminology for occupational therapy in the United Kingdom was identified in relation to three projects: the Garner Project (College of Occupational Therapists 1999), the Systematised Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine — Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT) and Occupational Therapy Defined as a Complex Intervention (Creek 2003). In May 2004, the College of Occupational Therapists commissioned the development of a standard terminology for occupational therapy, to include definitions of between 5 and 12 key terms plus the term occupational therapy. Two sources of data were used: occupational therapy literature and a panel of expert practitioners. The primary literature sources were the College of Occupational Therapists' publications, the European Network of Occupational Therapists in Higher Education's website and the World Federation of Occupational Therapists' website. A Delphi approach was chosen as an appropriate method for obtaining consensus on the definitions among 42 expert occupational therapists. It was found that the Delphi approach, whilst appropriate for producing a set of six definitions of key terms, failed to produce a single definition of occupational therapy. Instead of the number of possible definitions decreasing in each round, it expanded as panel members struggled to find a way of capturing the complexity of occupational therapy within a short definition.
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Baur, Nicole, Carlos Centeno, Eduardo Garralda, Stephen Connor, and David Clark. "Recalibrating the ‘world map’ of palliative care development." Wellcome Open Research 4 (May 2, 2019): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15109.1.
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Background: Despite growing interest from policy makers, researchers and activists in the global development of palliative care, there is still little science to underpin it. This study presents the methods deployed in the creation of a ‘world map’ of palliative care development. Building on two previous iterations, with improved rigour and taking into account reviewers’ feedback, the aim of this recalibrated version of the study is to determine the level of palliative care development in 198 United Nations recognised countries in 2017, whilst ensuring comparability with previous versions. We present methods of data collection and analysis. Methods and analysis: Primary data on the level of palliative care development in 2017 was collected from in-country experts through an online questionnaire and, where required, supplemented by published documentary sources and grey literature. Data relating to the total population of each country as well as per capita opioid consumption were derived from independent sources. Data analysis was conducted according to a new scoring system and algorithm developed by the research team. Ethics and dissemination: The study was approved by the University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences Research Ethics Committee. Findings of the study will be disseminated in peer-reviewed journals, as a contribution to the second edition of the Global Atlas of Palliative Care at the End-of-Life, and via social media, including the Glasgow End of Life Studies Group blog and the project website. Limitations of the study: There are potential biases associated with self-reporting by key in-country experts. In some countries, the identified key expert failed to complete the questionnaire in whole or part and data limitations were potentially compounded by language restrictions, as questionnaires were available only in three European languages. The study relied in part on data from independent sources, the accuracy of these data could not be verified.
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Mashevskyi, Oleh, and Olga Sukhobokova. "“American Talks” – Educational and Scientific Project of the Ukrainian Association for American Studies and the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv." American History & Politics Scientific edition, no. 8 (2019): 88–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2019.08.09.
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The article deals with the educational project «American Talks», implemented during 2018-2019 by the non-governmental organization Ukrainian Association for American Studies and the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries of the Faculty of History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. A series of meetings, lectures, discussions on topical issues of American history and politics, Ukrainian-American relations, the place of personality in the modern world, the formation of leaders and their role in American society are covered. Lecture-discussion «Education at American Universities» by Associate Professor Alexander Komarenko was devoted to discussing opportunities for Ukrainian youth to study at American universities, financing American university education, system of management and coordination of educational projects, correlation of local and federal educational systems. The event in the Framework event within the American Talks project, organized by the Chairman of the Board of NGOs Ukrainian Association for American Studies, Associate Professor Makar Taran, on «The USA and China in the 21st Century: Global Competition of the Superpower of the Present and the Superpower of the Future», was devoted to the most important aspects of the current relations between the two superpowers, prospects for their development and the implications of these processes for international relations. It was emphasized that the US-China relations are the most important bilateral relations of global importance and their significance for the whole world, and for Ukraine in particular, will only grow. An opportunity to become a woman in the American society as an individual, her prospects for education and professional development, and family attitudes toward women who have a successful career was addressed by an event titled «Women’s Careers in the United States: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities» with American filmmaker, lawyer Sharon Rowven, and producer, director and screenwriter Andrea Blaugrund Nevins. In May 2019, at the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a lecture-discussion was held by a well-known American journalist, a civil servant of Ukrainian descent, ex-director of the Ukrainian Voice of America service, Adrian Karmazin. This meaningful event was attended by students, studying under the American and European Studies program, as well as alumni, teachers of History Faculty, representatives of the Ukrainian Association for American Studies, specialists in international relations and counteraction to Russian hybrid information warfare against Ukraine. Ukrainian-American Educational Dialogue – a discussion about university-based humanitarian education in Ukraine and the USA between students and teachers of the American and European Studies program at the Taras Shevchenko National University and Nazareth College (State of New York, USA), aimed at informing US colleagues about the history and current development of Ukrainian university education, sharing experience in higher education in the humanities and discussing prospects for cooperation.
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Jacobs, Jeffrey P. "Introduction." Cardiology in the Young 16, S3 (September 2006): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1047951106001107.
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As I have emphasized in previous supplements, Florida is the fourth largest state in the United States of America. The programme for care of children with congenital cardiac malformations at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the largest, and most prestigious and comprehensive in the world. The Congenital Heart Institute of Florida is the largest programme providing services for patients with congenital cardiac disease in Florida. “Heart Week in Florida”, the joint collaborative project sponsored by the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia together with the Congenital Heart Institute of Florida, has now become recognized as one of the major planks of continuing medical and nursing education for those working in the fields of diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in neonates, infants, children, and young adults. In 2006, however, we broke from our previous mould, since the component of our “week” organized by the group from Philadelphia was organized in Phoenix, Arizona, thanks to the support provided by our colleagues working at Children's Hospital in Phoenix. It was a huge success, diminished only slightly by the inclement weather facing those who needed to journey back from sunny Arizona and Florida to the frozen and snowy northeast coast of the United States. All institutions involved with the organization of the events of 2006, nonetheless, are very grateful to Bob Anderson, and the team at Cardiology in the Young, for their support of “Heart Week in Florida”, and for the opportunity to publish this Supplement.
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Balkin, E. Asher, Salil Kumar, Volodymyr Manko, Michelle A. Jahn, Joey So, and Christopher Antonik. "Robot-Assisted Surgery and the Nature of Remote Work." Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care 3, no. 1 (June 2014): 71–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2327857914031010.
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The result of a multi-year, multi-lab, interdisciplinary research project examining the impact of the introduction of robot-assisted surgical (RAS) technology into modern operating rooms, this presentation explores intra-corporeal RAS as a highly specialized, but not entirely unique working technique. Hundreds of hours of direct in-room observation, interviews with RAS surgeons at all levels of expertise from almost total novices to world-renowned experts have allowed the authors to recognize specific commonalities, particularly those dealing with changes in operator perspective, altered team roles, and coordination processes. In particular analogs between RAS, areal refueling, tower-crane construction work, and robotic arm control in space are presented. Most fundamentally, these four work situations are united by thee factors: the inability of the primary control operator to directly see the worksite, the need for high-precision coordination with colleagues, and the loss of situational awareness created by working in such environments. While RAS is relatively new, refueling teams, construction crews, and astronauts have been working under such conditions for much longer. As a result, this paper offers a series of best practice suggestions derived from other fields’ experiences similar working conditions.
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Sutcliffe, David. "Impelled into Experience: The United World Colleges." Journal of Experiential Education 8, no. 1 (May 1985): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105382598500800102.
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Ahmad, Lina, Marco Sosa, and Karim Musfy. "Interior Design Teaching Methodology During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic." Interiority 3, no. 2 (July 30, 2020): 163–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7454/in.v3i2.100.
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In March 2020, the World Health Organization officially announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a global Pandemic (WHO, 2020). During this time, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced national preventative measures to slow the spread of the deadly virus by announcing the closure of schools and higher education institutions, and the commitment of online learning. Teaching faculty at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises (CACE) at Zayed University were suddenly facing the challenge of teaching design through a distance learning approach. As educators of interior design, the authors were part of the team tasked to find ways to teach design without physical contact with the students nor access to campus facilities traditionally used to run the program and its associated courses. This paper charts the pedagogy approach that the authors adopted as a response to the national lockdown. As design faculty, the authors felt that, despite the restrictions imposed on society because of COVID-19 pandemic, it was still possible to explore other alternatives for a particular course, the senior capstone project. The main intention was to successfully fulfil the course learning outcomes and provide students with a suitable pedagogy continuity to the learning process commenced prior to the lockdown.
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Mag, Alina Georgeta, Sandra Sinfield, Tom Burns, and Sandra Abegglen. "The joy of teaching and learning in academia – teachers’ perspectives from three countries." MATEC Web of Conferences 343 (2021): 11007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/202134311007.
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All over the world, the educational landscape has changed dramatically over the last year, impacting the way we teach and learn. It is time for reflecting and searching for new ways to support each other, during these pandemic times and beyond; time to co-construct creative partnerships and to innovate new ways to co-create. Change is an inevitable part of teaching and learning but the adaptations currently required are of unprecedented scale. How can we teach and learn with joy in today’s academia? How can we support each other, as teachers, in more creative ways? These two reflective questions were at the base of the study, which was conducted by university teachers from three countries: “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania; London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom; and University of Calgary, Canada. The methods used included interviews, focus groups and free writing with colleagues in each university. Findings revealed the challenges faced by each participant due to the emotional pressure caused in these supercomplex times, and the struggle to bring joy of teaching and learning in creative ways. This small ethnographic project reveals a need to shift our thinking about emotions and how we may facilitate the greatest success of all our students, by continually inventing new solutions and teaching with enthusiasm.
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Lea-Cox, John D., and Laurie F. Ruberg. "BioBLAST—A New Approach to Teach High School Biology." HortScience 31, no. 4 (August 1996): 589b—589. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.31.4.589b.
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BioBLAST is a NASA-funded multimedia curriculum supplement, targeted to enrich high school biology classes. It is modeled after the CELSS scenario and currently is being developed by the Classroom of the Future at Wheeling Jesuit College. Through innovative applications of educational technologies and interactions with active researchers in life sciences based at the various NASA centers and by incorporating alternative assessment measures, the BioBLAST project seeks to improve student learning and assist biology teachers. The studentsed life-support system, which uses biological processes to supply astronauts with recycled food, water, and oxygen. The students will be encouraged to formulate hypotheses, devise hands-on experiments to investigate key processes, and use computer simulations to investigate what systems are required to achieve stability of these life-support systems in a simulated lunar base. To succeed in their mission, students will learn basic principles in plant physiology, microbiology, human physiology, nutrition, and the interdependence of systems, and the impact of physical constraints such as temperature, light, and water availability on biological system functioning. BioBLAST will be supported by extensive interactive CD-ROM-based materials and World Wide Web and other internet resources, together with intelligent tutor, frequently asked question lists, and mentor networks that will include the ability to contact NASA and other scientists on-line. An early version of this software will be prototyped to selected schools throughout the United States in Fall 1996.
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Shibata, Takanori. "Artificial Emotional Creature Project to Intelligent Systems." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 8, no. 4 (August 20, 1996): 392–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.1996.p0392.
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I came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in September, 1995, intending to stay as a researcher at its Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for two years. Cambridge and the environs of Boston where MIT is located is dotted with a number of universities and colleges, including Harvard University and Tuft College, and also with businesses related to universities. In addition, the area is full of venture-capital enterprises related to computers. Because of the presence of numerous universities and colleges a large number of people are gathered here from all over the world.
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Perez, Angel B. "Mission Alignment and Operationalization: The Case of the United World Colleges." International Research in Higher Education 3, no. 4 (November 7, 2018): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/irhe.v3n4p55.
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This research study explored how a large, complex global educational organization operationalizes its mission and socializes its constituents to support its mission and values. The study’s unit of analysis was the United World Colleges (UWC), a group of complex international schools whose multi-campus and multinational structure shares a values-driven and activist-oriented mission. With an interest in exploring causation, the researcher employed case study methods to understand how this large organization brings its mission to life on a daily basis.Extensive interviews, observations and document analysis at five units of the organization led to eight themes consistent across all data collected. The research study revealed that the following factors play a significant role in mission operationalization and alignment: (1) The entrance and exit strategy for members of the organization; (2) selection of the organization’s members; (3) curricular choice and teaching methods; (4) use and structure of the physical space; (5) programming; (6) residential life; (7) reflection; and (8) simplicity and tangibility of the mission statement.The study has implications for international schools and organizations keen to create strategic alignment between their mission and daily operations. The findings in the study are generalizable and could inform international organizations in their attempt to implement best practices and make resource allocation decisions to maintain mission fidelity.
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Tang, Cara. "COMMUNITY COLLEGE CORNERCommunity colleges in the United States and around the world." ACM Inroads 8, no. 1 (February 17, 2017): 21–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3007576.
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Clinch, Peter. "FLAG Project: Survey Results." Legal Information Management 1, no. 2 (2001): 45–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147266960000044x.
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The Foreign Law Guide (FLAG) Project, which aims to build a Web inventory to the holdings of foreign legal materials in university and college libraries throughout the United Kingdom, is one of about 12 collection management projects, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). It is believed to be the only project which included within its research proposal the requirement to carry out a survey of user needs to assist in the design of the end-product of the project: the Web inventory.The purpose of the survey, as stated in the bid document, would be to:establish the present and future requirements for foreign, comparative and international legal materialsdiscover what information researchers need on foreign law, how they obtain it and what they expect libraries to provideprovide essential information for decision-making on collection development and influence the production of the law Web map.The Project Management Committee considered it important to attempt to obtain the views of as wide a range of users of foreign legal materials as possible. Attempts were made to include (a) non-lawyers working in related disciplines, (b) research support staff and PhD. students as well as academics, and (c) law librarians and information officers.
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Volz, Stephen W. "Project Management Education in Online Environments." International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications 7, no. 4 (October 2016): 110–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsita.2016100104.
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This exploratory case study included a mixed methods approach using both qualitative and quantitative methods to review project management education programs in online environments in the United States. Accredited education programs through the Project Management Institute's Global Accreditation Center formed the basis of the research. The focus of this study was on the project management content used by online colleges and universities to teach project management to students. The findings help to provide recommendations for project management education to improve its delivery to students.
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Israel, John. "The Beida-Tsinghua Connection: Yenching in the World of Beijing’s Elite Universities." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 14, no. 1-2 (2007): 61–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656107793645096.
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AbstractYenching University did not exist in isolation but was part of several overlapping educational networks, international, national, sectarian, and local. Internationally, it was a modern Christian liberal arts university, comparable to Christian higher educational institutions in the United States and elsewhere in the world. Nationally, it was one of the colleges under the aegis of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in China and, more broadly, part of a modern higher educational network, centered in the large cities of eastern China. Locally, it was a component of a super-elite North China complex of higher education located in Beijing and Tianjin. This complex, as Yeh Wen-hsin has pointed out in her taxonomy of Republican-era higher education, stood in contrast with Guomindang universities such as National Central and Sun Yat-sen, as well as with teachers colleges, provincial universities, diploma mills, and other less renowned institutions.
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Leon, Raul A., and Jamie Chmiel. "Counseling International Students: Clients from Around the World." Journal of International Students 3, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 190–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v3i2.511.
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International students have emerged as a student population that plays a critical role in the internationalization efforts of institutions of higher education across the world. Currently, the United States leads the world in the number of international students on local campuses. In 2000, a total of 547,867 international students were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. According to the Open Doors report, the number of international students reached 764,495 in 2011 (Institute of International Education, 2012).
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Quintero, Elizabeth P. "In a World of Migration." Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 71–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/jemms.2009.010106.
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This article has evolved from teaching future teachers about literacy and language in multilingual contexts. The examples are taken from contexts in the United States with learners from around the world. Professionals in the classrooms, in the teacher development programs, and in schools and colleges of education have been doing responsible research for many years, and have learned much regarding the learning of multilingual people who represent a multitude of histories. In this article the focus is on rethinking literacy, languages (home languages and target languages of host countries), the connections between personal and communal history and learning texts, and how all of the above relate to the curriculum in various learning arenas.
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Turner, Charles C. "Civic Engagement in the Capstone: The “State of the Community” Event." PS: Political Science & Politics 47, no. 02 (April 2014): 497–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049096514000444.
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ABSTRACTPolitical science departments often require a senior-capstone course as part of the major. The Wahlke Report (1991) recommended including such a course more than 20 years ago, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities considers it a high-impact practice. Colleges and universities are also advocating broad efforts of civic engagement—an approach to academic work for which political science majors are uniquely qualified. This article describes the successes and failures of partnering a senior-capstone course with seven public agencies in a small city. By developing a multistage process for interacting with agencies, city officials, and the public, this “State of the Community” project provides students with a real-world opportunity to serve as political consultants. By emphasizing the importance of timeliness, teamwork, presentation skills, and professionalism, this project can be a turning point for political science students who must soon transition from students in the undergraduate world to citizens in the community.
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Tran, Tuan. "The First Annual National Vietnam Medical Education Conference “Preparing the 21st Century Physician”." MedPharmRes 2, no. 1 (April 2, 2018): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.32895/ump.mpr.2.1.1/suffix.
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President of University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Department of Pediatrics - UMP We are delighted to introduce the Special Issue for the medical education derived from the 1st National Vietnam Medical Education Conference: “Preparing the 21st Century Physician”. The First Annual National Vietnam Medical Education Conference was held on 2-3 December, 2017, by the Vietnam Ministry of Health, University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, and the Improving Access, Curriculum and Teaching in Medical Education and Emerging Diseases (IMPACT-MED) Alliance, which is supported by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by Partnership for Health Advancement Vietnam, a collaboration between Harvard Medical School, the Brigham & Women’s Hospital and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. It has attracted approximately 300 leaders in the medical education, faculties and students from Vietnam and around the world. This conference comes at an exciting time in the socio-economic development of Vietnam. The Vietnamese health sector has made enormous strides in the control of communicable diseases, increasing the life expectancy and increasing access to the health care for its population over the past 40 years since the reunification of the country. In July 2017, Vietnam became a middle-income country, and with this new status comes new health challenges, which if not addressed, will impede the continued development of the country. Non-communicable diseases, a rapidly aging population, emerge threats of pandemics, environmental pollution, and climate change are all at our doorstep. Additionally, an increasingly connected society that demands a high-quality healthcare, the government’s plan for Universal Health Care, and the desire for regional and an international integration all represent the challenges and opportunities that we must tackle. Addressing these challenges and opportunities starts with transforming the health workforce. There is an urgent need to update the country’s system of health education including university curricula and transforming approaches to teaching and learning to train health professionals who can adapt and react to the health challenges and realize the opportunities that are presented. A comprehensive curriculum reform is difficult. However, we can build upon the experience of previous, smaller-scale reform projects, and capitalize on the investments and support from the highest level of government to transform our health education system. We have built strong partnerships among the network of universities and colleges in Vietnam to support each other, and we also have support from international partners. Education reform is a necessity for Vietnam. The conversations and discussions that we have at this inaugural conference will pave the way towards the transformation of our health education system. The conference aims to provide a forum for sharing innovations and advances in the medical education, stimulate discussions among medical education leaders, inspire further innovations, and foster a community of medical educators invested in advancing medical education research and quality improvement. This entire volume is devoted to select the manuscripts, which was generated from the conference. We hope that it will be productive, and you will be inspired, energized and motivated to continue the efforts towards health education reform for your university/college, and for the country of Vietnam.
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Hendricks, Lutz, Christopher Herrington, and Todd Schoellman. "College Quality and Attendance Patterns: A Long-Run View." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 13, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 184–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.20190154.
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We construct a time series of college attendance patterns for the United States and document a reversal: family background was a better predictor of college attendance before World War II, but academic ability was afterward. We construct a model of college choice that explains this reversal. The model’s central mechanism is that an exogenous surge of college attendance leads better colleges to be oversubscribed, institute selective admissions, and raise their quality relative to their peers, as in Hoxby (2009). Rising quality at better colleges attracts high-ability students, while falling quality at the remaining colleges dissuades low-ability students, generating the reversal. (JEL I23, J12, N32)
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Yang, Xiao Yan. "Research on the Development of College Sports Architecture." Applied Mechanics and Materials 644-650 (September 2014): 5129–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.644-650.5129.
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With the development of higher education, college sports architecture is no exception in the revolution. Due to many factors, such as economic, sports science and technology, the development of Europe and the United States and Japan and other countries of the sports building has been at the forefront of the world. At the same time as the Europe and the United States, Japan and other countries recognize in the mass sports, competitive sports and school sports are abundant, and established a relatively perfect sports club system, at the same time, many large-scale sports events and commercial events are held in Colleges and universities. These are vigorously promoting the construction of college sports architecture. Many college students in Europe and the United States, in the school the sports entertainment facilities in Colleges and universities are available as an important condition for the choice of schools, the quantity and quality of sports facilities has become one of the window to show the strength of the competition, promote the sports facilities in Colleges and universities to develop.
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Weaver, Lawrence C. "Pharmacy in a Smaller World." Drug Intelligence & Clinical Pharmacy 20, no. 9 (September 1986): 716–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106002808602000924.
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Health care is a business. Pharmacy is in the health business. The health care delivery system in the U.S. is rapidly becoming a managed system by corporations. Further, these corporations are moving toward international markets where some already have considerable experience. There are many parts of the world not participating in these developments in health care. Some are just off our shores in the Caribbean Basin. A review of activities occurring in recent years by various groups suggests that more could be done. Two modest approaches are presented. Support of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's “Pharmacy School Twinning Project” through which U.S. pharmacy schools would work with pharmacy schools in Central and South America is recommended. Also, national pharmacy associations jointly with pharmaceutical companies would work together using their expertise in continuing pharmacy education to develop new education models for the needy areas of the world.
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Kranendonk, Henry. "Country Data Project." Mathematics Teacher 100, no. 4 (November 2006): 284–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.100.4.0284.
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The article describes a six week program developed for summer school class of 8th grade students with low achievements. The program targeted deficiencies in interpreting information from graphs and tables, working with percents and constructing responses to open-ended tasks. Activities were designed around data obtained from the United States Census Bureau. Analyzing, interpreting and comparing population data from 16 countries students develop understanding of targeted topics and connections to an understanding of selected countries of the world.
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Kranendonk, Henry. "Country Data Project." Mathematics Teacher 100, no. 4 (November 2006): 284–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.100.4.0284.
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The article describes a six week program developed for summer school class of 8th grade students with low achievements. The program targeted deficiencies in interpreting information from graphs and tables, working with percents and constructing responses to open-ended tasks. Activities were designed around data obtained from the United States Census Bureau. Analyzing, interpreting and comparing population data from 16 countries students develop understanding of targeted topics and connections to an understanding of selected countries of the world.
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Hewlett, Katherine. "25. Using Technology for Tutor and Student Learning Exchange." Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching 5 (June 19, 2012): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.22329/celt.v5i0.3354.
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This project built upon the AchieveAbility initiative, which develops materials and training for teaching specific learning difference learners in schools and colleges. AchieveAbility devised the concept for the ‘InCurriculum’ Project and brought together a consortium of United Kingdom higher education institutions to deliver the practice: Norwich University College of the Arts, the University of Westminster, and De Montfort University. All partners delivered a range of art and design courses, using a variety of complementary learning techniques.The project was set up to investigate how changing teaching and assessment practice could be beneficial to different learning styles. The contextual justification for this action research project was to investigate effective practice to retain students within their higher level courses and to support their successful attainment. The project was funded by the Higher Education Academy for a three year period, during which the United Kingdom educational landscape changed rapidly from a widening access perspective to a more business-orientated model of delivery. To make these changes, technology was shown to be essential to the negotiation that evolved for the learning exchange between the student and staff.
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Hoxha, Luli, and Cheryl McMahan. "The Influence of Project Manager’s Age on Project Success." Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management 9, no. 1 (January 1, 2019): 12–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jeppm-2019-0003.
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Abstract The world population is aging rapidly. The United Nations listed aging as one of the main social transformations of the twenty-first century. Aging impacts project managers as well. The most prevalent form of discrimination in workplaces is age discrimination. This study evaluated how project managers’ age influences project success. The population was 108 active or former project managers working in Albania or Kosovo. By using quantitative analysis, it was demonstrated that project managers’ age did not significantly predict project success. Therefore, there is a need to increase awareness among employers, so older project managers are not discriminated based on age.
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Dewes, Kate, and Commander Robert Green. "The world court project: How a citizen network can influence the United Nations." Pacifica Review: Peace, Security & Global Change 7, no. 2 (January 1995): 17–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14781159508412800.
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Carroll, Janet. "Maryknoll China Symposium: Celebrating the Pastoral Renewal and Development of the Catholic Church in China." International Bulletin of Mission Research 41, no. 2 (February 3, 2017): 128–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939317692966.
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An account of an academic symposium held at Maryknoll, NY, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the China Educators and Formators Project, sponsored by Maryknoll Society. This project brings to the United States young leaders of the Catholic Church in China, chiefly women religious and priests, for graduate studies in US colleges and universities. Selected by their local bishops and superiors, they are to equip themselves with requisite skills and capacities that, upon their return to China, resource the life of dioceses, parishes, communities, and ecclesial programs for the flourishing of the faith of the people and upbuilding of the church.
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J. Potter, Sharyn, Nicole Fox, Delilah Smith, Nora Draper, Elizabeth A. Moschella, and Mary M. Moynihan. "Sexual Assault Prevalence and Community College Students: Challenges and Promising Practices." Health Education & Behavior 47, no. 1_suppl (April 6, 2020): 7S—16S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198120910988.
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Recently, much research has been dedicated to understanding how to prevent and address the aftermath of sexual assault (SA) on traditional 4-year college and university campuses in the United States. However, less scholarly attention has been paid to 2-year institutions, commonly known as community colleges. This review illuminates the different situational contexts faced by community college students, compared with students at 4-year colleges. These differences are shaped by community college characteristics, student demographics, and geographic location of their students. Community colleges enroll a higher percentage of women, first-generation students, and low-income students than 4-year colleges. Furthermore, community colleges are academic homes to the most racially and ethnically diverse student population, with higher numbers of African Americans, Latinos, immigrants, and nonnative English speakers. These populations (e.g., women, racial minorities, first-generation, low-income) are at a greater risk for SA; yet, 2-year institutions have less funding and resources available to address SA on their campuses. Thus, this article reviews the problem of campus SA on community colleges and highlights the challenges that 2-year institutions face in comparison with those that 4-year institutions face when implementing SA prevention and response strategies. Then, a case study of a 3-year project on one nonresidential and seven community colleges is presented, which illustrates how 2-year institutions can forge relationships with community professionals to address SA on their campuses.
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Siau, Keng, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Brian E. Mennecke, and Shu Z. Schiller. "Co-creation and Collaboration in a Virtual World." Journal of Database Management 21, no. 4 (October 2010): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jdm.2010100101.
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One of the most successful and useful implementations of 3D virtual worlds is in the area of education and training. This paper discusses the use of virtual worlds in education and describes an innovative 3D visualization design project using one of the most popular virtual worlds, Second Life. This ongoing project is a partnership between IBM and three universities in the United States: the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Iowa State University, and Wright State University. More than 400 MBA students have participated in this project by completing a creative design project that involves co-creation and collaboration in Second Life. The MBA students from the three universities worked in pairs to create designs to represent concepts related to IBM Power Systems, a family of IBM servers. The paper discusses observations and reflections on the 3D visualization design project. The paper concludes with a discussion of future research directions in applying virtual worlds in education.
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Morgan, Eric J. "The World Is Watching: Polaroid and South Africa." Enterprise & Society 7, no. 3 (September 2006): 520–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1467222700004390.
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This article examines the Polaroid Corporation’s “experiment” in South Africa during the 1970s, which began after African American workers pressured the company to pull its operations out of South Africa in protest of the white minority government’s apartheid policies. It argues that Polaroid’s initiatives, little studied until now, led other American companies to question their presence in South Africa and inspired both student divestment movements at Harvard and other colleges and universities and the efforts of Leon Sullivan, whose 1977 “Sullivan Principles” urged American companies to treat their workers in South Africa as they would treat their counterparts in the United States in an effort to battle racism and apartheid. Despite Polaroid’s efforts, engagement with South Africa and apartheid proved futile, which initiated a larger movement to completely disengage from South Africa.
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Novak, Gregor M., and Evelyn T. Patterson. "World Wide Web Technology as a New Teaching and Learning Environment." International Journal of Modern Physics C 08, no. 01 (February 1997): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0129183197000047.
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Since the introduction in 1993 of the World Wide Web and the associated multimedia technologies numerous projects are underway introducing the new tool into introductory physics teaching. This paper will describe two such undertakings: The Cockpit Physics project at the United States Air Force Academy and the WebPhysics project at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis.
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Cate, Rachael, and Darlene Russ-Eft. "Expanding circles of solidarity: A comparative analysis of Latin American community social justice project narratives." Power and Education 12, no. 1 (August 27, 2019): 55–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757743819871320.
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LatinX student enrollments in community colleges in the United States are rapidly growing, yet LatinX student success rates have not matched this growth. There is a need for community college programs that serve LatinX student populations more effectively and incorporate multicultural educational practices. Using Anzaldúa’s Mestiza consciousness theory, this study analyzed community learning testimonios written by Latin American movement leaders and identified common themes applicable to a process of critical consciousness development in critical educational programs. The themes common across the four testimonios were (a) collective motivation for learning; (b) organizational dynamics, practices, and values; (c) critical social consciousness; and (d) transcendent communal awareness of identity.
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Akaev, Askar A., Yuri A. Golubitskiy, and Ivan V. Starikov. "The Project of Crating a New World Logisticsю Part I. History and Economics of the Project." Economic Strategies 144, no. 4 (August 20, 2021): 36–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33917/es-4.178.2021.36-47.
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The article presents one of the most promising and ambitious in socio-economic, political, humanitarian aspects of the Russian scientists’ project: “United Eurasia: Trans-Eurasian Belt of RAZVITIE — Integrated Eurasian Transport System (United Eurasia: TEBR-IETS)”. The main purpose of the project is to ensure the connectivity of the territories of the Russian Federation and their active development, first of all, the deep integrated development of Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic. The role of the project in the partnership of the progressive world community is great; the radically modernized Trans-Siberian Railway — the backbone of the project — is designed to connect the Far East, including Japan, with Western Europe and the USA in the future. This fact will make it possible to carry out on the territory of the Russian Federation and the countries included in the project, the systemic coordination of all types of transport, including river and nautical, to create a single world logistics complex of advanced technical and managerial development. The creation of the IETS will consolidate Russian geopolitical position as a transport bridge between the world economic and civilizational regions. It will create conditions for mutually beneficial cooperation with Austria, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India; will open up new opportunities for cooperation with North Korea, Canada and USA in the future. It will arouse interest from the PRC in the integration of a similar Chinese project, the "Silk Road" with the Russian Megaproject. The implementation of the Megaproject will allow Russia to offer the world a new effective version of a non-confrontational way of solving international problems, become a geo-economic and geopolitical integrator on the Euro-Asian continent, lay the foundations for the solidarity development of all civilizational centers around Russia as a civilization state, make it senseless and impossible to impose sanctions on Russia, and raise to a qualitatively new level of authority and the role of the Russian Federation in the modern world.
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Schuller, Mark. "Working with Students on a Mixed-Methods, Social Justice Approach to Understanding Haiti's Internally Displaced Persons Camps." Practicing Anthropology 35, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.35.3.c8nq412h7331mm6n.
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Haiti's earthquake inspired one of the most generous outpourings of aid ever. Over half of United States households and 80 percent of African American households contributed something to the effort. In addition to an astonishing $1.3 billion contributed in cash donations, many people wanted to volunteer their time and efforts. To accommodate this demand, daily flights to Haiti doubled, and a new air carrier joined the two major United States companies. I was at one of the schools with the highest percentage of Haitian students, York College, so I fielded dozens of requests-from Haitian Americans as well as others, students as well as faculty and staff-to take them with me on a trip to Haiti. Would this have been useful? I pondered. In addition, echoing similar concerns of the National Science Foundation (NSF) program officer, would they be safe? More basically, is this desire to help useful, beyond the tangible results seen in a local effort accompanied by the good feelings of having done something? Also, from the perspective of an applied anthropologist employed as an academic, would the benefits of undergraduate student participation in a research project outweigh the risks? In the end, I would have to say yes.
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Roberts, Joni R., and Carol A. Drost. "Internet Reviews." College & Research Libraries News 78, no. 11 (December 4, 2017): 621. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.11.621.
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CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project: A Collaborative Digital History Project of the California State University LibrariesWater Resources of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)World Energy Council
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Leo, Aaron. "Aspiration and Opportunity: First-Generation Immigrants and Refugees at Community College." Community College Review 49, no. 4 (June 21, 2021): 435–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00915521211026680.
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Objective: This article explores the experiences of 32 first-generation immigrant and refugee students as they transition into and out of community college. The challenges students face and the resources on which they draw in their educational pursuits are viewed through Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital. Method: This project utilizes an applied ethnographic approach that primarily elicited participant-observation and interview data. Results: Findings demonstrate that prospective community college students articulated uncertainty about the college process and concern over the quality of community colleges. Current and former community college students validated these concerns as they described their struggles to overcome both in- and out-of-school challenges. In many cases, such obstacles resulted in the leveling of previously high aspirations. Contribution: Although the growing number of immigrant and refugee students in the United States are disproportionately represented at community colleges, little is known about their experiences in these institutions. This article adds to our understanding of immigrant and refugee students’ experiences in community colleges through their own words.
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Homan S.J., Ken. "An Opportunity for Conversion: American Jesuits and the Response to Laudato si’." Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 4 (September 30, 2016): 645–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00304006.
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In May 2015, Pope Francis published Laudato si’, and since then Jesuits throughout the world are seeking to respond to the encyclical. In the United States, however, much of the responses came from the twenty-eight Jesuit colleges and universities. Despite these efforts, tremendous work and challenges await the Jesuits communities in the United States. This essay describes and evaluates the American Jesuits’ efforts prior to and in response to Pope Francis’s call for an integral ecology. Furthermore, it recommends an integral ecology examen to help the Society of Jesus move from comfortable participation in injustice to hope-filled missionary vigor.
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Lappan, Glenda. "Review: Goals, Goals, and More Goals." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 19, no. 2 (March 1988): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.19.2.0184.
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In 1968 in the Netherlands, the Commission for Modernization of rhe Mathematics Curriculum started a new project—Wiskobas—whose goal was the improvement of mathematics education for ages 6–12 through instruction at reacher training colleges. Three Dimensions reviews the first 10 years of the Wiskobas effort. In particular, it focuses on an elaboration of the interplay between curriculum development at Wiskobas, mathematics education issues in Europe and the United States, and the setting of goals that guide and explain the view of mathematics teaching and learning that evolved at Wiskobas between 1968 and 1978.