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The Colby Echo (October 20, 2022)
No full textPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present
A New Window Into Children\u27s Memory: Professor of Psychology Martha Arterberry\u27s new study comes with implications for eyewitness testimonies
Get PDFWhen children are eyewitnesses—to an incident, an accident, or a crime— does age matter? Are older kids more precise in recounting an event than the younger ones
For Marginalized Communities, a Need for Environmental Justice Mykela Patton ’22
Get PDFMykela Patton works for Communities for a Better Environment, a statewide organization in California that has an office in her home city of East Oakland, which, she says, “historically has a lot of discriminatory zoning practices and a lot of industry that has just been rubber-stamped into the community with little or no community input or look at collective harms.
The Colby Echo (April 14, 2022)
No full textPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly 1886-1897; and weekly during the academic year, 1898-present
Community Interventions to the Food Insecurity Crisis Inuit Currently Face in Nunangat
No full textInuit living in Nunangat, a northern territory in Canada, are facing unprecedented rates of food insecurity. The increasing impacts of anthropogenic climate change are rapidly changing the Arctic landscape in Nunangat, posing challenges to Inuit hunters who hunt and live completely self-sufficient off of the land. This lack of access to country foods and the impacts these conditions are having on Inuit communities are forcing Inuit to consider aid propositions from the Canadian government. Due to a long history of conflict with white settlers during the colonization of Canada, there is a feeling of distrust and cultural distaste between Canada and Inuit today. Furthermore, these relations and the processes associated with colonialism have created circumstances over time such as increased grocery prices, decreased hunting capabilities and food storage challenges, which are both damaging to Inuit food security as well as directly linked to colonist actions. Without intervention, food insecurity poses a direct and imminent threat to the survival of Inuit culture in the Nunangat region. Outside aid has proven unsuccessful and insulting to Inuit cultural values. Given this, Inuit are relying on self-representation technologies such as community freezer programs and an increasingly strong presence on social media platforms in order to both educate the world on their culture and current struggles as well as directly address food insecurity within Inuit communities across Nunangat
Analyzing Mental Health Curriculums: Recommendations for the Implementation of a Mental Health Curriculum for Middle Grade Students
No full textAdolescent mental health has been an increasingly important topic of conversation in education policy as the American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national state of emergency for child and adolescent mental health in 2021. In this two phase study I work to understand the landscape of what mental health education looks like in the United States through interviews with policymakers, curriculum developers, and classroom instructors as well as literature research. I investigated what mental health education looks like in practice and how it is experienced by middle school students through classroom observation, student surveys, and curriculum analysis. In my research I found a disconnect between policymakers implementing new mandates and funding towards mental health education, and then instructors struggling to find the money, implement the curriculum, and teach mental health using a shared language due to lack of staff education and support and school overwhelm. I found that middle school students specifically are in need of mental health education due to their developmental age, schools being in crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on schools. Additionally, teachers and curriculum developers have different ways of teaching new policies which span deficit and asset based approaches. These findings implicate the importance of having a shared common language around mental health and how to teach it as well as communication between policymakers and classroom instructors regarding what type of reform can be implemented successfully during this time