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Critical Conversations around Hiring Equity and Anti-Racist Search Processes
Full text linkWhen the COVID-19 pandemic shut down institutions in March 2020, many academic programs faced budget cuts and hiring freezes (Friga, 2020). The impact of budget cuts most severely impacted HBCU’s and rural colleges (Kelchen et al., 2021). Yet, as the pandemic restrictions eased and some schools found ways to begin hiring again; however, things were different this time. Many schools conducted their searches entirely virtually (Banks et al., 2020). As many social work educators can attest, a switch from in-person to virtual methods presented unique challenges (Paceley et al., 2021). This 4-person panel included a successful job candidate and three members of search committees. The panel shared tips and tricks that helped the searches run smoothly in the virtual environment. Additionally, there was a focus on making the virtual environment as welcoming and attractive as possible. The panel presented perspectives from rural and urban teaching-focused and research-focused institutions ranging in Carnegie Classifications from “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity” to “Master\u27s College and University”. These perspectives encompassed both PWI and HBCU. Critical conversations around hiring equity and antiracist search processes are an important part of higher education leadership. As social workers, we must act to eliminate racist hiring trends in higher education and bring equity to the front of the table in hiring conversations (Gates et al., 2021). Participants in this panel confronted their own biases related to antiracist search practices and learned new strategies for faculty searches in the landscape of an ongoing pandemic (Fariña et al., 2021)
Leading with a Difference
No full textAn effective leader recognizes the differences of opinions among the team. In addition, the leader should encourage individuals to express their ideas to resolve the problem from their perspective. Their social and economic experiences will contribute to the narrative at hand. An effective leader will empower members to develop confidence in expressing their opinions. A confident leader will not be judgmental of the group\u27s voice, allowing their contribution to be defined and contribute to the solidarity and growth among participants
ASCJ 2022 Annual Conference Paper
Full text linkFinanced by Title III funds, I attended the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (AJCS) 2022 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Conference took place from Wednesday, March 16th through Saturday, March 19th. It was a large conference, attended by over 1500 people, covering an entire floor of the Las Vegas Rio Hotel. Of note, the guest speaker was Father Boyle of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles who spoke on reforming members of criminal gangs. I attended sessions from Wednesday through Friday, presenting at 11:00 AM on Wednesday to about 100 attendees.
In my presentation, I argued that the wave of police protests since Ferguson has produced a “future shock” in most Americans that was caused by the failure of the United States to reform racialized criminal justice policies first put in place at the time of the 1965 Civil Rights Act. I continued on to a deeper analysis of race and criminal justice by showing their historical relationship to colonialism. I then discussed how citizens have organized the recent police protests around anti-colonial narratives produced on new cell phone and internet communication technologies. I then discussed how the resulting “future shock” and the recent protests could have been avoided if more people would have listened to Tofler’s 1979 ideas on the future and Lyotard’s 1979 theory on narratives. I closed by showing how both colonialism and narrative theory can be applied to assist the police and lawmakers to resolve issues resulting from the police protests
The Green Uprising in Mozambique: How Decentralization Supports Democracy in an African Country
No full textDemocracy and development are positively correlated,1 and no democracy has ever suffered a substantial famine.2 Integration of rural masses into national politics is necessary for political stability,3 arguably a precondition of democracy and political development.
Decentralization may deepen democracy, and to the extent that it does, it may increase human and economic well-being, though this relationship must be complex. Decentralization may also more directly effect social and economic development by putting resources into the hands of those on the front lines of providing public services. But there is a paradox in positing decentralization as a development measure because, as many observers have noted, lower levels of government can be overmatched by the demands of complex public policy and large-scale projects. Under what conditions is decentralization good for development?
Analysts have found it difficult to answer this question, and the difficulty of the answering the question has led to an agnosticism on normative issues related to decentralization and development. Instead, analysts have focused on institutional variables affecting decentralization and typologies of forms of decentralization. However, development is not value neutral as we want to see people live more healthy and fulfilling lives through access to basic and extended set of public services. It should be the goal of political science to better relate its findings on decentralization to questions of human well-being.
If decentralization is understood as an institutional measure designed in part to integrate rural areas into national politics—in contrast to more abstract institutional conceptions of decentralization—the paradox of whether decentralization is good or bad for development is lessened. Indeed, some current political science institutional literature on decentralization places mega-city urban municipalities and rural municipalities into one institutional category—‘the periphery’—and contrasts this periphery to the ‘center’ of the political system. This conceptualization perhaps incorrectly lumps together a six-million person mega-city with that of a rural town six hours by bus from the nearest large city. The experiences of these two is, however, very different, and getting this conceptualization right can lead to a better understanding of the relationship of political decentralization to human social development.
Political scientists have provided a useful conceptualization of the integration of rural areas into national politics. The ‘green uprising’ refers to intentional efforts by competing national elites to integrate rural massed into national politics, and there are known patterns of rural/urban political integration.
This article compares decentralization in Mozambique and Colombia, two countries that decentralized in the 1990s. The ‘green uprising’ provides a useful heuristic to understand decentralization in Mozambique and Colombia, and data from fieldwork in each country and ethnographic description can shed light on decentralization and its effect on human well-being, particularly in rural areas. Data from Bolivia and Zambia complement that from Colombia and Mozambique, and the analysis is based on fieldwork in all for countries.
Greenhouse gas emissions and animal protein for human consumption.
Full text linkLivestock is a key to nutrition and food security. Livestock is key to livelihoods, and it is calculated that there are 400 million poor animal keepers.
There are two indicators of gas emissions. One is the GDP in $US per ton of CO2e, and the other is the gobs created per ton of CO2e. For this presentation, the comparison of interest is agriculture vs. other productive activities. So, at the broad word level, around 300% more GDP is produced from other goods than from agricultural goods per ton of CO2e. Even in high-income countries, there is 700% more GDP/CO2e than in the agricultural sector. However, the job scenario is another story. At word broad level agriculture sector generate 0.12 jobs/Ton CO2e vs. 0.06 jobs/Ton CO2e, and in the high-income countries are developed 0.03 jobs/Ton CO2e in the agriculture sector vs. less than 0.01 jobs/Ton CO2e in all other industry of production
Online Teaching Conference - A Blog Post
Full text linkAttended the Online Teaching Conference in Long Beach, California (June 29 – July 1) and got the opportunity to learn about recent trends, new technology, and new challenges in online teaching. Presentations at the conference ranged from narrowly focused topics such as how to create great audio clips to more broad topics on online course design and student engagement. The conference also had sessions for open discussion where anyone could bring up any topic, ask questions, and participate in the discussion. A great conference that certainly helped me as a faculty member in my professional development
Research Updates + Lessons on Science Communication and Outreach from APS March Meeting 2022
Full text linkThe American Physical Society held his first hybrid March Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from Monday, March 14 to Friday, March 18, 2022. Including online and in-person attendees, this massive meeting allowed more than 12000 physicists, engineers and researchers from around the globe to present their research findings, engage in relevant scientific discussions, and address current challenges for the physics community and the advancement of scienc
Blue Tiger Midwest Political Science Association 2022 conference
No full textLincoln University-Missouri, an HBCU, had four undergraduate students and one professor attend the Midwest Political Science Association annual conference in Chicago, IL, in April 2022. Students observed professional researchers presenting and interacting in novel settings, and the students were inspired to present their own research at next year\u27s MPSA conference
Report from the 2022 National Communication Association Annual Convention
Full text linkThe following is a brief descriptive report of some of the work that took place at the 2022 National Communication Association\u27s annual convention
2022 National Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professionals Conference Report
Full text linkThe 76th Annual National Association of Extension 4-H Youth Development Professionals (NAE4-HYDP) Conference was held October 9th through the 13th in Madison Wisconsin. This year’s conference theme Fourward Together reflects the mission of 4-H to be an inclusive education program for youth, teaching life and living skills. Fourward Together is a play on the Wisconsin state motto, Forward.
NAE4-HYDP is the professional association for 4-H staff from all land-grant institutions in the United States. Its mission is to build a positive youth development network by providing up-to-date learning, leadership development, and mentoring opportunities while integrating scholarship, research, and practice. I was one of more than 1,000 youth development professionals who attended this year’s conference