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Unmasking Injustice in Tumultuous Times: Protest Art and Student Agency in a Summer Program
No full textIn today’s political climate, academic freedom is increasingly threatened, and topics that challenge dominant narratives are often censored. Art education faces growing pressure to thoughtfully integrate these critical issues into its curriculum. This paper explores a five-day summer social justice art workshop at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). Using a social justice art education framework, the workshop engaged undergraduate students, including non-art majors, in social justice research through creative expression and protest art making. The author argues that non-visual art students can create impactful visual counter-narratives that confront oppression while engaging deeply with both creative processes and social themes. Student reflections highlighted how art served as a powerful mode of expression when words were insufficient. Incorporating such practices across disciplines can promote critical thinking, foster community dialogue, and cultivate a sense of agency, especially among students of color, by encouraging art as a tool for self-expression and resistance
Faculty, Cyndy Simonson
No full textA photographic print of VCU professor Cyndy Simonson.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1064/thumbnail.jp
Faculty, Rupert Schmidt-Ullrich
No full textA photographic print of VCU professor Rupert Schmidt-Ullrich displaying a radiotherapy accelerator. He founded the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Radiation Oncology in 1988.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1063/thumbnail.jp
Administration, Mary Tyler Cheek
No full textA photographic print of Mary Tyler Cheek. Cheek was a Richmond community leader, activist and philanthropist, and her papers are available via VCU Libraries Special Collections and Archives.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1069/thumbnail.jp
Administration/Faculty
No full textA photographic print of an unnamed VCU administrator or faculty member.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1093/thumbnail.jp
Administration/Faculty
No full textA photographic print of an unnamed VCU administrator or faculty member at a window.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1092/thumbnail.jp
Administration/Faculty
No full textA contact sheet of multiple photographs of an unnamed VCU administrator or faculty member sitting and holding a remote, with multiple medical imaging scans displayed on a screen behind them.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/rg60/1109/thumbnail.jp
Utility-Scale Solar in Virginia – Current Trends and Future Impacts
Get PDFElectricity demand is soaring in Virginia, driven largely by the state’s booming data center industry. As the country’s cheapest source of new electricity supply, utility-scale solar (USS) is crucial to meeting this growing need.
Virginia has become a leading state for utility-scale solar development, and USS is projected to provide a substantial percentage of Virginia’s future electricity supply.
Concerns about the impacts of solar development, particularly on farm and forest land, is among the factors leading some localities to reject USS local land-use permits, and/or adopt more restrictive permitting regimes.
This trend towards more restrictive local permitting may threaten the state’s ability to meet rising electricity demand and accomplish its carbon-reduction goals under the Virginia Clean Economy Act.
The purpose of this report is to help inform public-sector decision-making about state and local-level utility-scale solar policy in Virginia.
The report includes the following components: Analysis of recent USS development trends in the U.S. and Virginia Discussion of the benefits of USS for local communities Identification of future USS development scenarios for Virginia, defined by the potential percentage of statewide electricity consumption provided by USS in the year 2035 Estimation of the impacts of each future USS development scenario, in terms of total disturbed acres, percent of statewide farm and forestland impacted, etc. Review of current local-level USS permitting approaches, and potential state policies around USS permitting refor
Exploring the Development of Students\u27 Calling to the Work of an HOD Practitioner in an Undergraduate HOD Degree Program
Get PDFThis dissertation project consisted of a multiple case qualitative study to explore indications of cross-influences between students’ experiences of learning takeaways as participants in one or more HOD undergraduate degree courses and accompanying experiences (if any) of perceiving and/or living a calling to work as HOD practitioners. This phenomenological inquiry involved four undergraduate students who had completed one or more HOD degree courses at Mid-Atlantic States University (MSU as a pseudonym) during a two-year period. Each participant attended a single interview of about 90 minutes in duration, responded to a short vocational calling survey as a guide for interview questioning, and provided a copy of one or two course-concluding reflection papers they had prepared and submitted for recent MSU HOD coursework. The research objective was to identify associative linkage patterns, if any, between specific elements of the students’ HOD course curriculum content and/or course experiential learning activities and their initial sensing of a calling to HOD work and/or a strengthening of such an already perceived vocational calling. This research was undertaken to address the “dearth of research studies focused on identifying tangible factors that might help university students come to perceive a calling for a particular career” (Ehrhardt & Ensher, p. 327). Given the generally high prevalence of positive outcomes found to accompany this type of work orientation (Dik & Duffy, 2018; Duffy & Sedlacek, 2007; Galles & Lenz, 2013;), this bounded exploratory study was seen as a worthwhile venture to potentially help address this research-based knowledge gap for HOD degree educators seeking improved approaches to better prepare their HOD degree students for service as emerging practitioners. The study results included evidence supporting 14 “suppositions” about specific HOD course content elements and experiential learning experiences identified as associated with calling infusing or calling reinforcing effects for one or more of the participating students
Artist in Residence Recital, Neave Trio, video disc one
No full textVideo Disc one of twoNeave TriopresentsRemembrancesSaturday, March 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.Sonia Vlahcevic Concert HallW.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts922 Park Avenue | Richmond, Virgini