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Rio Grande Valley Student Completion Rates In University Schools Outside Of The Rio Grande Valley
Get PDFThe goal of this study is to create understanding of why Hispanic students from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas have trouble completing their higher educational goals once they leave the area. This study applies communication accommodation theory to better understand how students adapt their communication styles in their academic, personal, and social lives. This study also applied standpoint theory to see how growing up in the Rio Grande Valley impacts the students’ sense of selves. Ethnographic research was conducted with five students attending four different universities around Texas. Through observations and interviews, the researcher found several ways that the students accommodated their communication styles to adapt to the culture of higher education including using phrases not traditional to the Hispanic culture to create a bond between multiple cultures and how it varies from gender with the use of the different languages. Suggestions for how to prepare Hispanic students for higher education are discussed as a focal starting point to create solutions for these students
Communication Education Curriculum For A Multicultural Learning Context
Get PDFThis study investigates the socio-academic experiences of international students in higher education through the review of existing research and conduct of original research. There is a need for interpersonal communication curriculum in higher education that addresses a multicultural learning context to meet the growing needs of an internationalized workforce (Qing, 2009). Curriculum that addresses a multicultural learning context should meet the needs of internationalization across the globe (2009). The growing number of international students learning in foreign contexts has increased by nearly 50% in the last 10 years. In order to meet the changing needs in higher education, this study aims to develop a curriculum to meet the needs of the student in a multicultural learning context. The first phase of the research takes a close look at existing research by exploring concepts that affect the social and academic success of international students like: Maslow’s (1954) hierarchy of basic needs, Cornell West’s philosophy of ethics (Griffin, 1999), the goals of communication education (Vangelisti, 1999), cultural intelligence (Botton et al., 2013), culture shock (Lee, 2011), learning shock (Lee, 2011), and power distance (Qing, 2009). The second phase of the research gathers original research from a purposive sample of community college students that represent the international student and domestic student perspectives as well as qualitative interviews of the campus’ faculty to get the instructors’ perspective. Quantitative research was conducted on the students using a series of self-evaluations on a purposive sample of 26 students. For this project’s purposes, only one of the three evaluations that were conducted during the original research phase is explored in this study. The students’ and instructors’ participation was voluntary
The Lamb As Leader: Identifying The Influence Of Communication Apprehension On The Leader-Subordinate Relationship
Get PDFThe current study examined the influence that self-awareness of one’s own level of communication apprehension (CA) has on the leader-subordinate relationship. Specifically, the study considered how trait-like CA influences this relationship in the context of the organizational staff meeting. Participants were selected based on their roles as either leader or subordinate (some served as both) in their particular organization. Each participant was asked to complete a questionnaire, including McCroskey’s Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA-24). Follow-up questions were asked to assess the participants’ perception of their communication exchanges with either their leader or subordinate and the role they believed their own level of CA plays in this relationship. Finally, participants were asked if they thought their approach to staff meetings would change as a result of increased awareness of their level of CA. The results of this study support previous research showing that a quality relationship between leader and subordinate is often connected to positive leader-member exchanges (Madlock et al., 2007). The findings of this study also demonstrated that individuals who were confident in their self-awareness of CA prior to the study did not anticipate a significant change in the leader-subordinate relationship
Uniting the Right: Anti-Immigration, Organizing, and the Legitimation of Extreme Racist Organizations
Get PDFThis article analyzes the use of anti-immigration rhetoric and organizing efforts by extreme rightwing racist groups to present themselves as political actors. The authors analyze this process through a case study of the Keystone State Skinheads/Keystone United, a Pennsylvania-based hate group. The authors identify the manner in which this countercultural group uses anti-immigrant rhetoric to frame itself as a political organization. White racist organizations utilize issues such as the opposition to immigration to minimize stigma associated with their beliefs. This strategy has allowed them to participate at the forefront of anti-immigration organizing over the course of the last decade. By engaging in such organizing activity, extreme groups often present themselves to a more mainstream audience as nonviolent organizations working merely to uphold immigration law. Additionally, the participation of white supremacists in the immigration debate shifts rhetoric further to the right and legitimizes expressions of racist senti- ment by mainstream political actors
From Thrill to Defensive Hate Crimes: The Impact of September 11, 2001
Get PDFFor a period of time following the original usage of the term “hate crimes” in the late 1980s, there existed a gap in the literature of criminology and social science generally regarding important factors underlying the motivation of hate crime offenders. Researchers recognized that certain criminal behavior had its basis in hostility toward people who were different in socially significant ways from the perpetrator. Yet little was systematically articulated to connect various hate crimes with relevant sociological and social psychological explanatory variables. As a result, those practitioners who deal with hate crimes on a daily basis—for example, prosecu- tors and law enforcement personnel—were at a loss to identify the distinguishing characteristics of hate-motivated offenses. Recognizing this gap in the literature, my colleague Jack McDevitt and I sought to establish an exhaustive typology of offender motivations and to elucidate the range of factors associated with these motives
A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring the Relationship Between Servant-Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Get PDFIn today\u27s frenetic ever-changing world, organizations face ambitious destinies, and leaders who aspire to meet and exceed lofty financial goals often find themselves in corrupt terrain. A demand exists in society for more ethical, people-centered leaders (Barbuto, Gottfredson, and Searle 2014; Page and Wong 2000; van Dierendonck 2011 ). A resounding call is emerging for effective leadership embedded in an ethical framework that gives precedence to developing relationships with followers (Page and Wong 2000; van Dierendonck and Patterson 2010). Although the servant-leadership model is the less travelled road in leadership (Sendjaya 2010, 39), its characterfocused approach centering on collaboration and a moral mindset may fill the void and lead to more ethical and effective leadership
Cultural Concept: Is Silence Golden?
No full textThis research examined how some of the graduate students and instructors from a small western university interpreted the meaning of online silence and how this concept affected their overall online academic experience. This thesis used an organizational ethnographic study in which the graduate students and instructors formed subcultures in the overall online graduate program. The Cultural Approach to Organizations was used as the theoretical basis to discover the meanings attributed to this topic from the perspective of the members of this community. Previous research of this topic primarily focused on comparing online educational classes to face-to-face classrooms. These perspectives focused on face-to-face as superior to online education and was used as the baseline for judging what was considered problematic. In this study online silence was defined somewhat differently by the informants and participant observer. These included a lag in response time, a lack of engagement/interaction and as a nonverbal cue. In spite of the differences, there appeared to be a consensus between students and instructors on the meaning of silence as primarily a lack of presence. When viewed from the perspective of the actual online community, this lack of presence was demonstrated by an excessive response time after sending important messages/assignments. The informants and participant observer also felt that it was not silence itself that was problematic, rather it was the lack of cues to help interpret what the silence meant. It appeared that both subcultures felt that there were some relatively easy methods that could be employed to help overcome some of these negative connotations. A few potential solutions mentioned were to develop methods to keep instructors/students informed of when work was received and approximately how long it might take to receive a response and in actively engaging and having consistent interaction on the discussion board. Results of this study further suggested that, although most of these informants Abstract were satisfied with their educational experience, they felt it could be improved by developing a norm for both of these subcultures of responding within 24 hours unless otherwise specified in the syllabus, an announcement and/or e-mail
NOW 2014-12 December
No full textCorpus of News on the Web data for December 2014.
The TAR folder contains linguistic data in three formats: Database: This is the format allows for the most robust searches and allows for powerful JOINs across corpus, lexicon, and source tables but requires knowledge of SQL. See Full-text corpus data for more information on how to use the database format. Linear Text: This format provides a textID for each text, and then the entire text on the same line. In this format, words are not annotated for part of speech or lemma. In addition, contracted words like can\u27t are separated into two parts (ca n\u27t) and punctuation is separated from words (eye level . As her). Word, Lemma, Part of Speech: Texts are separated by a line with ## and the textID