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Finding George Eliot in Prison: Reflections on its Moral Life
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Practical Evaluation Tool and Logic Model Framework for Extension Educators and Grant Writers
Get PDFExtension evaluation is a relatively young field of knowledge. Much of what we know today in program evaluation comes from the public education and health fields resulting in difficulties in adapting the methods to agricultural Extension. This article is based on long-term evaluation experiences of the authors that established a strong feedback system for two large grant-based programs in the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (ACES). Discussion on steps to evaluation strategy and electronic polling systems for data collection should appeal to new and experienced Extension educators. Several ideas for reporting are also included along with thoughts on improving response rates and capacity-building.PublishedYe
George Eliot and the Country House
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Loving George Eliot: Her Life in Biofiction
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Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum: IWAC at 25
No full textDeveloped from presentations at the 2018 International Writing Across the Curriculum conference, this collection documents a key moment in the history of WAC, foregrounding connection and diversity as keys to the sustainability of the WAC movement in the face of new and long-standing challenges. Contributors reflect on the history and ongoing evolution of WAC, honoring grassroots efforts while establishing a more unified structure of collaborative leadership and mentorship. The chapters in this collection offer a rich variety of practices, pedagogies, mindsets, and methodologies for readers who are invested in using writing in a wide range of institutional and disciplinary contexts. Boldly engaging such pressing topics as translingualism, anti-racism, emotional labor, and learning analytics, the 18 chapters collected here testify to WAC's durability, persistence, and resilience in an ever-changing educational landscape.Publishe
Mindfulness to Manage Workplace Stress and Microaggressions
Get PDFNavigating workplace stress and microaggressions—verbal and non-verbal messages that are invalidating or demeaning—can be difficult in any profession, but is especially challenging in service-oriented professions like librarianship. In addition to identifying and naming stressors and microaggressions, various tools can be employed to mitigate the negative effects of these encounters. This session will provide attendees with a framework—mindfulness—that can be used to help process the often-fraught interactions that may take place in our libraries. The webinar will be recorded
The Formation of a Professional Organization for Writing Across the Curriculum
No full textIn this chapter, we describe the rationale for and development of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC), which held its first meeting for members at the 2018 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. We first provide a historiography of previous WAC/WID-related efforts, including the specific contributions of each one, leading up to the more formalized process of establishing this new organization. Finally, we explain our aspirations of AWAC’s role in supporting a sustainable and inclusive scholarly WAC/WID community.PublishedYe
Impact Gardening as a Constraint on the Age, Source, and Evolution of Ice on Mercury and the Moon
Get PDFWe update an analytic impact gardening model (Costello et al., 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.05.023) to calculate the depth gardened by impactors on the Moon and Mercury and assess the implications of our results for the age, extent, and source of water ice deposits on both planetary bodies. We show that if the water presently on the Moon has a primordial origin, it may have been 4-15 m thick. If ice deposits are buried, they may be as shallow as 3 cm or as deep as 10 m and provide a gradient of probability for ice gardened into a column. Our calculations for gardening on Mercury show that thermal lag deposits will be reworked into the background over 200 Myr, and, thus, the most recent large-scale deposition of ice on Mercury must have occurred no more than 200 Myr ago. We also find that gardening mixes incremental layers of ice with underlying regolith and prevents the growth of pure ice deposits by continuous supply. We conclude that ice deposits on the Moon and Mercury are likely the result of sudden and voluminous deposition. Plain Language Summary The Moon and Mercury have water ice in permanently shadowed regions at their poles; however, while Mercury's poles are rich in water ice, the Moon's are relatively sparse. Impact cratering mixes surface material, bringing buried ice upward to a relatively hostile surface in a process called impact gardening. We apply a revised impact gardening model to investigate the depth from which ice is mixed upward by impacts as a function of time and discover the following: (1) Ice on the Moon may have been mixed with underlying regolith or buried under many meters of dry regolith; (2) the most recent large-scale delivery of water to Mercury happened no more than 200 Myr ago; (3) what ice exists at the poles of the Moon and Mercury was probably delivered suddenly and voluminously; and (4) the differences between the abundance of water ice on the Moon and Mercury will only become more pronounced with time as impact gardening destroys surface ice on the Moon and only scratches the surface of Mercury's extensive deposits.PublishedYe
Queen Victoria & George Eliot; Lives & Afterlives, 1819–2019. Loughborough University, 24 May 2019
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