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Paul Lim on the Trinity in Early Modern England
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Professor Paul Lim about his book Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England.Divinity Schoo
Dodd-Frank's Say on Pay: Will It Lead to a Greater Role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance?
Get PDF"Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new legislation may have changed the dialogue and give-and-take in the shareholder-management relationship at some companies, particularly on the question of executive pay.
We study the evolution of shareholder voting on "say on pay" - beginning in 2006 as a fledgling shareholder movement to get "say on pay" on the corporate ballot, evolving as a handful of companies and later the financial firms receiving TARP funds conducted "say on pay" votes, and leading to Dodd-Frank’s extension of the process to all public companies.
Using results from an empirical analysis of data from the pre-Dodd-Frank period, we project that the new mandatory management-sponsored "say on pay" proposals will attract strong shareholder support at most companies, while poorly performing companies with high pay levels can expect shareholder dissent. These projections are confirmed by early results in the first year of post-Dodd-Frank experience with "say on pay".
Our empirical analysis of the pre-Dodd-Frank data supports the potential importance of third party voting advisor recommendations, particularly by the ISS, on executive pay proposals. The raw data show 20 percent swing in shareholder support for management "say on pay" proposals associated with a negative ISS recommendation. However, once we take into account the different recommendations issued by management and ISS, the net effect of an ISS negative recommendation on the overall shareholder vote is relatively small at most companies. Nevertheless, the early Dodd-Frank results show that all 37 companies that failed to obtain majority support in these advisory votes had received negative ISS recommendations.
The early results show that companies that initially received negative "say on pay" recommendations by the ISS often modified their disclosure filings or changed their pay practices. This may indicate a growing role for shareholders in influencing executive pay practices and corporate governance more generally
Vanderbilt Political Review; Fall 2012
No full textVanderbilt's first academic journal featuring essays pertaining to political, social, and economic events that are taking place around the world
The Peabody Reflector; Vol. 80, No. 2, 2012
No full textThe Peabody Reflector is published biannually by Vanderbiltâ s Peabody College of education and human development in cooperation with the Vanderbilt Office of DAR Communications.Vanderbilt University. Peabody Colleg
Constitution and by-laws of the Colored Association, no.1, of the Friends of Temperance : organized in Knoxville, April 1850
No full textThe Western casket : devoted to religion and literature
No full textA collection of sermons and religious writings. Edited and published by Rev. S.A. Hodgman, St. Louis, MO
The “Universal Cannibalism” of Things: A Historical, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Melville’s Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd
Get PDFEnglish Department Honors Thesis. Merrill Moore Co-winner 2012, Best Honors ThesisThis study will evaluate Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener, Benito Cereno, The Encantadas, and Billy Budd as evidence of Melville’s embrace of an historical view of the U.S. and will further analyze these novellas using a methodological framework that attempts to synthesize a historical lens and psychoanalytic perspectives. While the historical and psychoanalytical approaches may sometimes appear to resist reconciliation, they will generally complement each other. It is only through analysis that takes into account both the psychoanalytic and the historical that we can comprehend how intensive is Melville’s sense of a social degeneration that affected both the internal subjective demands on citizenship and the external evidence of history.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Roadblocks to Publishing Obscenity and Blasphemy in Ulysses and The Satanic Verses
Get PDFEnglish Department Honors Thesis.The publishing industry is in such turmoil—thanks to digital publishing platforms which offer higher royalties and instant gratification to authors—that nearly every day a new story comes to light of a bookstore closing, or a digital publishing success, giving doomsayers foretelling the death of the industry and the downfall of publishing houses endless material. While their claims are, in part, correct—the industry cannot go back to the way it was before the introduction of e-readers and Amazon—a glance backward to self-publishing in the past suggests that the industry is constantly in flux, and changes, whether in the realm of obscenity, blasphemy, or technology, inevitably impact the industry. Of course, even using the words “self-publishing” brings to mind a very specific definition, yet this definition has changed over time. Once, it brought to mind images of vanity presses, but now most of the buzz surrounding self-publishing is in the digital world. These developments have given rise to a number of anxieties in the publishing community: how will publishing houses make themselves relevant in the digital publishing world? What is the future of the publishing industry? Does a text carry the same weight as “literature” when published online as when published in print? Do we value literature less when it’s sold at discount prices? While I don’t presume to have the answers to these questions, my hope is that examining cases of self-publishing in the past will shed light on the new developments in the industry. With these issues in mind, in the following pages I will turn to Ulysses, examining three different written texts that appear: Martha’s letter, Deasy’s published letter, and Stephen’s unpublished verse. Turning next to The Satanic Verses, we see that blasphemy, not obscenity, forced Salman Rushdie to evade the traditional publishing system, even though his novel was initially much heralded in literary circles. Then, in a brief final discussion, I will reflect on how these issues of obscenity, blasphemy, and self-publishing play out today in the digital realm.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Between Professionalism and Polemics: Historian Frank L. Owsley Writes his South
No full textHistory Department Honors Thesis, 2012. Awarded Highest Honors.Department of HistoryCollege of Arts and Scienc
How to Integrate Sentence Combining/Decombining Effectively
Get PDFTeaching and Learning Department Capstone ProjectFor decades, research has shown that traditional grammar instruction taught in isolation in
secondary English language arts classrooms is ineffective in both improving student writing and
also in grammar recognition. Sentence combining/decombining is the grammar practice of
putting together pieces of kernel, or basic, sentences to form syntactically complex sentences.
Since the 1960s, research studies have shown that sentence combining/decombining exercises
improve student writing significantly, compared to students who solely receive generative
grammar lessons in isolation. Teachers can give students an explicit purpose for learning the
grammar, therefore making the instruction meaningful to students. By teaching sentence
combining/decombining in the context of writing, students can connect the grammar skill to
meaningful writing to see the benefits and purpose of learning the skill. Because teachers today are working with digital natives, grammar lessons need to incorporate digital tools to not only enhance instruction but also interest and motivate students to learn.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen