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Homeland Comfort in an Alien Land: The Role of the Huiguan in Exclusion Era Los Angeles
Get PDFChinese immigrants in the mid 1800’s faced legislative discrimination as well as a brutal race-riot to establish themselves in Los Angeles. The organizations called huiguans they had developed to support travelers in China played an important role in supporting them in America. These organizations helped Chinese immigrants face many obstacles in Los Angeles, including legal exclusion from emigrating to America
Refinement of Metrics: Erdős Number, a Case Study
Get PDFWe introduce a concept called refinement and provide two different ways of refining metrics. By applying these methods we produce several refinements of the shortest-path distance on the collaboration graph and hence a couple of new versions of the Erdős number
The Coloring Graph of Complete Graphs
Get PDFWe study the coloring graph of the family of complete graphs and we prove that Cn(Kt) is regular, transitive, and connected when n>t. Also, we study whether Cn(Kt) is distance transitive or strongly regular, and find its diameter
The Sexualized Image of Soldaderas Using Propaganda from the Mexican Revolution: 1910-1920
No full textThe Mexican Revolution of 1910 was a war fought by rebels wanting to establish a democracy in Mexico after being ruled by a dictator for nearly 30 years. Once the country was fully in war and divided in two, women had only two choices. The first was to stay behind and struggle with finding food and earning money. Their other choice was to follow their men to battle and assist them with their needs on the battlefield. These women would cook, do laundry, acted as nurses for those wounded in battle, and would fight alongside the men on the battlefield when needed. This paper will explore the significant roles of soldaderas during the Mexican Revolution and how propaganda from the Mexican Revolution sexualized the image of soldaderas. The paper will also attempt to explain why were these women being romanticized for doing the same chores they had when they lived at home and why it was that both armies began getting rid of soldaderas from their ranks after having allowed their participation since the beginning of the war
Collaboration and Connections: Investigating the Use of Teacher Candidate-Created Protocols to Connect Research to Classroom Practice in an Educator Preparation Program
Get PDFThis study investigated the effects of using teacher candidate-created observation protocols based on current research on classroom practices to connect research to practice. The study examined the extent to which mentor teachers modeled current research-based practices as measured by the protocols and explored the frequency with which the practices were observed. Findings indicated that teacher candidates had a positive experience applying research to practice, that utilization of the protocols created an awareness of best practices being used, and the importance of individualizing the practices to meet student needs. Individualization of utilization based on mentor teacher personalities was also observed and many practices the teacher candidates selected were utilized in the mentor classrooms, particularly in the areas of lesson planning and reading instruction
CURES: Ventura County Prescription Data
Get PDFCURES is a database of Schedule II, III and IV controlled substance prescriptionscommitted to the reduction of prescription drug abuse without affecting legitimate medicalpractice or patient care. Given a subset of data from California’s Prescription Drug MonitoringProgram, we are focusing our efforts on Ventura County. With general patient information suchas age, zip code of pharmacy where the prescription is filled as well as the prescription itself, weare analyzing our dataset in order to spot potential drug abuse. We are interested in finding acorrelation, if it exists, between age, zip of pharmacy, or gender and how this relationship mayaffect prescriptions provided within our county. Through creating classification targets in orderto simplify our given attributes of zip code of pharmacy, prescriptions provided, and drugstrength, we aim to fit a set of attributes to a linear regression model
The Center for Community Engagement and Faculty: A Collaboration For Making a Better Service Learning Experience
Get PDFThe Center for Community Engagement (CCE) is one of four centers that are designed to promote California State University Channel Islands’ mission. Specifically, the CCE provides resources to faculty, community partners, and students who are involved in service learning courses. The CCE is integral to fulfilling the mission since it connects students to the broader community and promotes learning through experience and service. Although most research on service learning focuses on the students’ experience and how students are transformed by their service, much less is devoted to faculty experiences. However, understanding faculty experiences with service learning is vital since faculty are the ones that organize and facilitate these courses on a day-to-day basis. Thus, it is important to recognize what resources faculty use when planning these courses and what constitutes some of the best practices to make service learning successful. This research project seeks to identify, describe, and analyze the best teaching practices of faculty in service learning courses and which resources faculty use in order to create a service learning course at CSUCI. Through our in-depth interviews with 12 faculty who taught service learning courses within the academic year of 2015, we find that faculty are utilizing the suggested best practices but are doing so in individualized ways. These faculty feel overwhelming supported by the CCE but would like to see some sort of faculty support or mentorship group for service learning faculty
When Management Defines Leadership: High Demand x High Support in a Rural Community College
Get PDFDrawing upon a diversity of data from efforts across almost four decades – the last two in the same rural community college – devoted to developing, implementing and studying the impact of a High Demand x High Support (HDxHS) teaching pedagogy, this paper addresses four topics: First, we briefly address the values and perspectives informing the HDxHS effort. Second, we sketch the HDxHS pedagogy and describe case exemplars, situating these in the context of a rural community college (CC). Third, we describe different leadership responses to HDxHS in terms of the use of strategic ignorance strategies (SIS), suggesting that these likely function more as a barrier than a conduit for understanding the challenges facing rural communities and CCs. Fourth, acknowledging that CCs are currently at a crossroads facing an uncertain future as legitimate public post-secondary institutions, we outline elements of a re-scripted more democratic CC leadership model. Part overview and part summary, the conclusion addresses the strengths and weaknesses of the HDxHS approach and the various bodies of knowledge to which it might contribute