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Through Generations: The History of Boarding Schools and the Important Journey Toward Healing”
No full textJoseph LaGarde is the founder and executive director of the Niibi Center, a repository of Anishinaabe culture and knowledge to protect our prophecy, sovereignty, and cultural survival. LaGarde has also served as the Chief of Staff to the White Earth tribal chairwoman, the tribal archivist, and tribal consituent services coordinator. Joe has played a key role in bringing fair elections and accountable government to White Earth, and has served on the Minnesota Historical Society’s Native American Advisory Committee, the Science Museum of Minnesota’s Native American Advisory Committee, the University of Minnesota’s President’s Advisory Council on Out of School Time, the University of Minnesota’s College of Human Ecology Dean’s Advisory Council, and ongoing cultural advisor to the University of Minnesota on appropriate, respectful relationships with tribal nations and wild rice research. Joe is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation.
This event is sponsored by the McCarthy Spring Residency
Origami: Doing Math and Science without Scissors or Glue
No full textOrigami, the art of paper folding, has been practiced in Japan and all over the world for centuries. However, the past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in using origami for science. Applications in robotics, airbag design, deployment of space structures, and even medicine are appearing in the popular science press. Videos of origami robots folding themselves up and walking away or performing tasks have gone viral. What\u27s more, the National Science Foundation has found origami valuable enough to fund millions of dollars towards studying engineering and science applications of origami art. But if the art of paper folding is so old, why has there been an increase in origami applications now? One answer is because of math. Advances in our understanding of how folding works has arisen due to success in modeling origami mathematically. In this presentation we will explore why origami lends itself to mathematical study and see how origami-math has inspired science applications as well as influenced origami as an artistic medium
To Buy or Not to Buy: The Ethics of College Clothing
Get PDFLook back and consider your past and current wardrobe. If you are a college graduate, most likely along the way you owned an article of college apparel. It could be something as simple as a pair of socks with your school’s logo on it. Have you ever considered where you received that piece of clothing from? Have you considered who made it for you? In this essay, research will be conducted to figure out and establish where the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference colleges source their clothes from, how ethically made they are, and suggest sustainable alternatives
The Value of Sensing
Get PDFThis is a nonfiction essay about a topic which the author believes in. It was written for the class Creative Nonfiction (ENGL 311)
The Relationship Between Workplace Diversity Climate, Turnover Intention, and Thriving in College Counseling Centers
Get PDFCollege and university counseling centers need a more diversified staff to provide services that accommodate the needs of the increasingly racially and ethnically diverse student body (Kitzrow 2023). This study hypothesized that 1) positive workplace diversity-climate is negatively correlated with turnover intention, 2) workplace diversity-climate is positively correlated with thriving at work, and 3) thriving at work is negatively correlated with turnover intention. An online survey was sent out to a sample of counseling staff (e.g., psychologists, therapists) working at college counseling centers across the U.S. and Canada (N = 488). Participants completed modified versions of the Thriving at Work scale (Porath et al., 2012), Workplace Diversity Climate scale (Mor Barak et al., 1998) and Turn Over Intention scale (Ducharme et al., 2008). Results confirmed the hypotheses. Higher levels of positive workplace diversity-climate were associated with lower levels of turnover intention (r = -0.46). Higher levels of workplace diversity-climate were also associated with higher levels of thriving at work (r = 0.48). Finally, increased levels of thriving at work correlated with decreased levels of turnover intention (r = -0.59; all p\u27s \u3c .001). Overall, these findings suggest that a welcoming workplace-diversity climate relates to feeling thriving in the workplace and less intention to leave the job for college counseling staff
Bright Anane
No full textThe Emerging Scholars program is a one-of-its-kind program designed specifically for first-year students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in higher education or their field of study.
The program makes available three high-impact practices over the course of a student’s firstyear at CSB/SJU: undergraduate research,learning in community and meaningful oncampus student employment.
Students selected to become Emerging Scholars are paired with a faculty mentor who is committed to making undergraduate research accessible. Emerging Scholars are offered a full-time, paid, on-campus research position (10-12 hours per week) for the entire academic year under the mentorship of their faculty mentor. Students assist their mentor with hands-on research or creative work, participate in personal and professional development and networking opportunities, and are part of a unique learning community of students and faculty that nurtures their sense of belonging on campus
Frontline Insights on Climate Resilience and Adaptations in SIDS
Get PDFClimate resilience and adaptation in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been global models since the earliest signals of the climate emergency yet the tools needed for SIDS to overcome this growing crisis have not been sufficiently provided. This deficiency is a common problem among SIDS which is becoming more severe in proportion to the climate crisis. According to the report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, launched by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): “Small islands present the most urgent need for investment in capacity building and adaptation strategies (high confidence) but face barriers and constraints which hinder the implementation of adaptation responses.” My research corroborates this truth. It is informed by a review of relevant literature and four interviews conducted with experts and youth activists on themes of climate resilience in SIDS at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) hosted in Sharm El Sheikh Egypt in November 2022
An Exploration of the Distinct Narratives of Mark and Matthew in the Gospels
Get PDFIntroduction: Reading the New Testament, people can divide the Gospels into two groups: the first group is the Synoptic Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke; the second one is the gospel of John which seems to be very different compared to the first one. The first group is named Synoptic Gospels (Synoptic in Latin means “seen together”) because of the great similarities among them such as plots, words, and even some order of events. However, by deeply studying each synoptic gospel, readers will recognize huge differences among the three synoptic gospels. What is the purpose/ theological interest in each gospel? Because of the limited length of this paper, I will focus on the theological and narrative differences between Mark and Matthew among the three synoptic gospels. I will answer the question of how Mark and Matthew express the Christological and theological interests of each Gospel community
The Relationship between Marital life and Celibacy in the Catholic Church
Get PDFDespite the inordinate number of debates on celibacy, there is still a widely-held notion that celibacy is a problem in the church which needs reform in relation to the status quo proposed by the twenty first century. This paper seeks to shed light on the topic by juxtaposing its reality with that of marriage in light of church teaching. Analyzing the works of Evert, Skudlarek, Salzmann and Kelly, this paper seeks to shine theological light on the reality of the priestly celibacy with the assertion that it is a reality not clearly outlined to the world and that this reality envelopes a way of life that stems from the Love of Christ for his bride. By contextualizing marriage in its natural form, it is the attempt of this work to bring forth the reality of many religious who devoutly enter a life of total service and surrender and whose bountiful sacrifice and brave testimony are overshadowed by the prevalence of moral evil present even in the church
Robin Wall Kimmerer Lecture: Indigenous Knowledge and Spirituality for Sustainability
No full textRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology, bryophyte ecology, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens both cultivated and wild