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The Helsinki Accords Turned Fifty. How Should We Celebrate It?
No full textIn 2023, Lech Walesa spoke at BSU. More than anything else that night, I remember the ovation. The cheering lasted so long that at one point Walesa slowly checked his watch, as if to ask How long will this go on? Walesa is probably one of the few human beings who merits such adulation. His stubborn defiance in organizing non-communist trade unions eventually forced his government to concede and recognize them in the Gdansk agreement of 1980. A Nobel Peace Prize followed in 1983, and he was elected Polish president in free elections in 1990
Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 34, Number 2, Winter 2025
Full text linkON THE COVER: Sophia MacQueen Pooler, ’25, works in the university’s photonics/optical engineering lab. photo by Paul Connors
IN THIS ISSUE: we highlight several key innovations that generous benefactors have helped make possible for our students – past, present and future. This comes at a time when BSU embarks on Without Exception: The Bridgewater Campaign for Success through Innovation, the largest campaign in the institution’s history.https://vc.bridgew.edu/br_mag/1087/thumbnail.jp
Promoting Women’s Leadership in Climate Resilience: A Strategy for South Asia
Full text linkSouth Asia is acutely vulnerable to climate change due to its heavy dependence on agriculture, forestry, and ocean resources. Women in this region are disproportionately affected by climate change due to systemic inequities. Despite these vulnerabilities, women possess critical ecological knowledge and leadership potential that can transform climate resilience efforts. However, their participation in climate governance remains significantly constrained by entrenched digital exclusion, tokenistic political representation, inequitable land ownership policies, and the invisibility of women’s unpaid labour in climate adaptation. This study highlights current constraints on women’s participation and the future potential of women leaders to shape inclusive and effective climate policies in South Asia. We examined the intersection of gender and climate governance across four South Asian countries—India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka—using a mixed-methods approach comprising legal doctrinal analysis, quantitative evaluation, and secondary data review. A comparative approach reveals that Nepal’s progress with gender quotas contrasts with stagnation in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, underscoring regional disparities. The key findings reveal that integrating women’s leadership into climate governance enhances climate strategies of inclusivity, equity, and effectiveness. Women’s lived experiences and community-centred approaches foster innovative solutions to environmental and socio-economic challenges. To replicate successes uncovered in our findings, this study emphasises the need for structural reforms such as mandatory gender quotas, gender-sensitive budgeting, capacity-building programs, and equitable access to resources. By integrating feminist theories such as ecofeminism and feminist political ecology, this study provides a replicable model for embedding gender equity into global climate action frameworks
Collaborative University Business Experiences (CUBEs): Innovative Course Redesign to Improve Students’ Career Readiness
Full text linkIn December 2019, a team of business faculty members (led by Dr. Xiangrong Liu, Dr. Yihong Xiao, Dr. Kathleen Ferris and Dr. Karen Hamilton) in the Ricciardi College of Business (RCOB, led by Dr. Jeanean Davis-Street), in partnership with BSU’s Career Services Office (led by Mr. John Paganelli), developed a new initiative that aimed to bring realworld business problems directly into the classroom through the utilization of client-based projects, thereby allowing the business college to emphasize key learning outcomes such as: acquisition of business knowledge; critical thinking/quantitative reasoning skills; professional communication; and teamwork/ leadership abilities
BOOK REVIEW Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
Full text linkFew academic authors are as compelling as Pulitzer Prize winner Matthew Desmond. His footnotes alone are impressive, his arguments are engaging, and his data is f lawless. In 2016, Desmond was the keynote speaker at the annual National Alliance to End Homelessness conference in Washington DC, which I attended, just after the release of his best-selling book Evicted! Poverty and Profit in the American City. Desmond was at the top of his game, and his presentation was riveting. Moved by his own early childhood experiences with housing instability, Desmond now writes from a position of privilege, as a white, male faculty member at Princeton, where the average salary is over $250,000 and the teaching load is 1:1. With this level of support, his data had better be f lawless
Factors Affecting Public Knowledge about OCD Mental Health Literacy
Full text linkThis research project aimed to examine how varying portrayals of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) influence public mental health literacy (MHL). Our research questions focused on the impact of multidimensional vs single portrayals of OCD on OCD MHL, as well as the influence of certain sociodemographic factors on OCD MHL. Additional exploratory questions were investigated and aimed to explain the relationship between OCD MHL and media, as well as OCD MHL and education levels. To investigate these questions, the study employed a combination of experimental and survey-based methods. By fostering greater awareness of misinformation about OCD, the study not only aimed to improve accuracy in understanding OCD, but also to cultivate critical thinking skills and enable participants to evaluate information about mental health more broadly. The results of our study were mixed, as some hypotheses were supported and some hypotheses were not supported. Given these mixed results, we have identified several areas where future research is needed to further advance knowledge in the field about OCD MHL