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24. The Four-Year Police Academy: An Examination of Attrition Rate Patterns in the University of North Georgia’s Public Safety Academy
No full textThe traditional police academy twelve-week model is the subject of reform debate, cited as an inadequate model of training which lacks sufficient education on modern-day policing. In response, University of North Georgia’s Public Safety Academy (PSA) was founded in 2015. The PSA exists as the United States’ first-ever, four-year police academy where individuals earn police certification concurrent with a Criminal Justice Bachelor’s degree. Now in its seventh year, the PSA stands as a trailblazer for a new age of police training. However, the PSA recognizes a new challenge, unencountered by traditional academies: a pattern in withdrawal rates during the first two years of PSA membership. Whereas traditional academies are completed over twelve weeks, the PSA extends over four years with the majority of hands-on training in year three. As the PSA is the first academy of its kind, no established research exists on identifying and improving attrition rates during the first two membership years. This research project seeks to establish research data on PSA voluntary withdrawal rates through collection of survey responses, and methods for retaining current members over an extended period. Furthermore, it forms the basis of a continuing project and future steps. The PSA pilot will not stand alone forever; since inception, police and universities across the U.S. have reached out, looking to begin four-year police academies themselves. By studying this ground-breaking model and making suggestions for incremental improvements to address attrition, foundations will be laid for others to follow and create a new era of police training
WHY NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT IS A UTOPIA
Full text linkAlthough nuclear disarmament is a worldwide aspiration from many nations around the world, this dream has not come true. In fact, the number of countries developing nuclear weapons is gradually increasing. Despite the legal framework in place, no single nuclear-weapon state has totally complied with nuclear disarmament. However, each state’s decision to acquire its own nuclear weapon is based on the fact that the international system is anarchical. Likewise, history has highlighted that nations cannot totally trust one another. Additionally, ever-increasing technology, low social capital among states, partial compliance with the legal framework, and miscalculated state narratives contribute to increasing rivalry among countries. Finally, despite criticism, nuclear weapons have the ability to protect what states consider important. As a result, nuclear disarmament is a utopia
Gainesville Junior College Anchor and Flagpole
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Administration building
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Kate Speaks with Mariela
No full textInteractions and interviews between older adult mentor and University of North Georgia student. Mentor shares lived experiences, talks about living through difficult times, and provides lessons for future generations.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/gen2gen/1047/thumbnail.jp
Christopher Hull: Our Man Down in Havana: The Story Behind Graham Greene\u27s Cold War Spy Novel
Full text linkAge of the Alt-Right: New-Age Media and White Nationalism in Trump’s America
Full text linkThis research will investigate the connections between Donald Trump’s political rhetoric and the Alt-Right\u27s ideology, the way in which new-age media has affected the white supremacist movement in more recent years, and how Donald Trump used the internet to spread his rhetoric across the nation. Many factors contributed to the growth of the Alt-Right. However, the catalyst for the movement was Donald Trump\u27s presidency. With deep ties to the far right, President Trump was the perfect opportunity for the emergence of the Alt-Right, thus creating the Alt-America. This research paper seeks to look at President Trump\u27s role in the emergence of the Alt-Right through his similar rhetoric, use of social media, and involvement with Alt-Right leaders such as Steve Bannon. This paper will find the convergence of the Alt-Right and Trump\u27s ideologies and the use of social media to look at how these two notions helped grow the Alt-Right movement to what it is today
Rising Scholar: An Examination of the Institutionally Oppressive White Savior Complex in Uganda Through Western Documentaries
Full text linkThis paper defines the white savior complex as an institutional social relation comprised of psychological mentalities of individuals that encourage self-serving, condescending actions. Using examples of six American documentaries about Uganda, including “Kony 2012,” “Call Me Kuchu,” “God Loves Uganda,” “Uganda’s Moonshine Epidemic,” and “Inside Uganda’s Unregulated And Overcrowded Child Orphanage Industry,” the paper applies Cudd’s definition of oppression to argue that the white savior complex is an oppressive force because the oppression that comes from the mentality is institutionally structured; causes material and psychological harm to individuals based on their membership in social groups; benefits the oppressors materially and psychologically within an institutional pattern, and exerts direct and indirect forces that violate justice. At the same time, the paper examines the role of documentary journalism in both exposing and reinforcing oppression of the white savior complex. Subsequently, the paper analyzes the cyclical effects and durability of the oppressive white savior complex in the interaction between Western nations and Uganda. Finally, the paper offers ways to address the problems of the oppressive white savior complex in Uganda counter to what makes oppression possible
Extended Commentary: The Devolution of Conservatism: From Edmund Burke to Donald Trump
Full text linkBuilding on the distinction between Burkean and revanchist conservatism, this article examines the component parts of Movement Conservatism—the economic, racial, religious-cultural, national security, and politically strategic—that comprise a diverse coalition of interest groups and ideological dispositions that are united in the conviction that “big government” constitutes the most serious problem of our time. There are both elite and populist elements to this movement, which join the economic interests of corporations and plutocrats with the grievances of common folks, also known as “the base.
