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Understanding the Current Narrative
Get PDFWhat is the current narrative around higher education in general, and the liberal arts in particular? What are the implications for inclusion, institutional success, teaching and learning, and our economic model? How are we called to lead in this environment? Educators must frame and answer these urgent questions; otherwise, others will do it for us
Saving the Liberal Arts Requires a Renaming Not a Reboot
No full textExtensive Gallup research points to a clear disconnect between the words “liberal arts” and their perceived value and meaning across key constituencies, including prospective college students and the general public. Although the words are not well understood and do not resonate, the underlying pedagogy of liberal arts is as valuable and needed as it’s ever been. In studying the work and life outcomes of liberal arts graduates, there is a clear and contemporary value proposition to made for a liberal education, including key insights for how to strengthen it in practice. But let’s not call it liberal arts
The Challenge of Securing Kenya: Past Experience, Present Challenges and Future Prospects
Get PDFThe dynamic nature of insecurity and mitigation strategies cannot be adequately understood without comparing the present conjuncture and the past experiences. This paper provides a temporal assessment of security in Kenya by scanning convergent and divergent insecurity experiences and mitigation strategies of the regimes of Jomo Kenyatta, Daniel Arap Moi, Mwai Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta. The security dynamics have been shaped by drivers located at local, national and global levels. The convergence of local insecurity and protracted transitional terrorist attacks has produced a high trajectory of insecurity with a negative impact on the economy, social cohesion and stability. The contradiction is that the complexity of the emerging threats has not been matched by the optimal policy, structure and overall security architecture at the national and local levels to mitigate the threats. The paper concludes that different regimes adopted similar national security policies, strategies and institutions to deal with insecurity. The paper concludes that the best way forward for Kenya is to approach security as guided by a holistically sound institutional outlook guided by the bounds espoused by the constitution and by the tenets of governance aimed at building a future society for the good of all
Review of From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis by Hudda Ibrahim
Get PDFWhen I first started studying the Somali diaspora I searched for books to fill the void in my understanding of Somali culture and life. I tracked down a wonderful book that discussed basics of Somali culture, politics, and life. That book, Somalis in Minnesota by Ahmed Yusuf, provided a sense of the Somali experience and helped me understand the journey from Somalia to the state of Minnesota. Although Yusuf’s book didn’t offer the sort of interpersonal detail in Hudda Ibrahim’s book From Somalia to Snow, Yusuf’s book was extremely helpful. Together these books offer those interested in the Somali-American experience an important perspective on an often misunderstood community
Arousal Reappraisal and Interoceptive Awareness: How Awareness of Bodily Changes Facilitates Heightened Performance and Ability to Reappraise
Get PDFThe physiological arousal induced by a stressful situation has historically been viewed as bad; however, recent research has challenged this perspective, arguing that stress-related arousal can be beneficial. Arousal reappraisal is a coping technique that encourages individuals to reinterpret their physiological stress response as a means to help improve performance. Conversely, suppression, a common, yet ineffective coping technique, involves the active effort to stop oneself from expressing an emotional behavior. The current research examined the relationship between coping techniques and interoceptive awareness (IA), the degree to which individuals are aware of their own physiological changes. Comparing arousal reappraisal to both suppression and a control condition, the current research measured physiological changes, as well as performance on tasks intended to induce stress, including a timed math subtraction task and a karaoke singing task, to determine whether individuals with high IA would benefit more from arousal reappraisal techniques. Hypothesis One predicted an interaction between the independent variables, with high IA individuals in the control and suppression conditions performing worse than their low IA counterparts and high IA individuals benefiting more from arousal reappraisal techniques than those with low IA. Hypothesis Two predicted a main effect of coping condition for physiological changes, specifically predicting that individuals in the suppression condition would experience increased levels of physiology when compared to individuals in the other conditions. The results of the study did not fully support either hypothesis. The results suggest that arousal reappraisal did not have a significant effect on performance during a stressful task and found IA to have no significant impact on participants\u27 ability to benefit from reappraisal. However, the results did show a non-significant trend towards an interaction between IA and coping condition for performance on the mathematical stress task. This trend supports our prediction that suppression would hinder performance ability and continues to support the importance of the role of IA. Finally, there was a significant difference between baseline physiology and physiology during the two stress tasks, suggesting the tasks were an effective manipulation. However, physiology did not vary between the coping conditions. The results suggest the need for continued research on this topic
Armed Flapper Moonshiners and Crusading Women: Public Personas of Minnesota Women in the Early 20th Century
Get PDFThis paper examines how women’s gender roles were reinforced in the Twin Cities of Minnesota during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through looking at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and women who were attached to illegal activities during the Prohibition era. Examining these women allows for a glimpse into how some women may have chosen to not follow society’s expectations, but were still fulfilling those expectations in smaller actions. The gender role that was expected of was that they were to remain in the home and not touch the outside world without their husbands help. This is argued after viewing documents like newspapers and club journals that describe what the women were doing publicly in various fashions. This paper reveals that there were women who did not fit the typical mold left for them by society, but that these women were still fulfilling gendered expectations through their public actions
Ensenando Ingles Efectivamente
Get PDFIn the United states, about 6 million children speak Spanish as their first language. For those children it may be hard to learn English easily and/or effectively. Having students learn English effectively gives Spanish speaking students the chance to show all their abilities in English speaking classrooms. In order for students to feel connected and learning English in effective manners, teachers can focus on three methods to help their bilingual students. Specifically, with Spanish speaking students, teachers can focus on connecting with the student through the language, culture, and a good student-teacher relationship. Teachers can help teach English effectively to Spanish speaking students by learning the language, not fluently but enough to help the student with directions and basic phrases needed in a class room. By understanding and even involving the culture in classrooms helps the student form connections to English and Spanish. Once more connections are formed in the classroom, a student can also create a positive and strong relationship with their teacher. With that relationship, their interactions within the classroom change and they feel more confident about their learned English and what they are learning. With just three small factors to apply to a classroom, Spanish speaking students are able to interact and work better in their classrooms