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The effects of father absenteeism on the Socio-Emotional development in African-American females, 2016
No full textThis quantitative study examined the impact of father absenteeism on the socio emotional development of 71 African-American female students at two undergraduate colleges in the Southeastern region of the U.S. All participants were administered a 28 item anonymous, online survey comprised of various questions from the following scales: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and Ryffs Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB). In addition, participants were asked socio-demographic questions in regards to their age, ethnicity, current year of college, and whether their father was present. Participants whose father was absent also specified the reason for father absenteeism (Death, Prison, Divorce, Unknown, or Other). The independent t-Test (p=.104) and One-Way ANOVA (p=.796) revealed that there was no statistically significant differences between the groups with regard to levels of socio-emotional development. The results starkly contrast previous research and holds implications for social work that the information gained can help explain why some females are less affected by father absenteeism
Author Interviews Panel: Faculty Involvement via Self-Promotion, 2012
Get PDFAcademic librarians are constantly in search of ways to draw faculty into a more involved relationship with the library. Robert W. Woodruff Library, AUC (RWWL, AUC) librarians are no different in this regard. Many a casual and formal setting has been devoted to this effort. The link is obvious. If we can get the faculty interested in and integrated with the library we will in turn get their students interested and integrated with the library. The stumbling block, as often as not, is a matter of priorities. Faculty have all matter of commitments pulling at them. Committee attendance, assignment grading, classroom time, professional development, and research are only a few of their pressing concerns. How to make a library event rise to the top of that ever growing list is akin to the search for the Holy Grail. This paper will discuss RWWL, AUCs own search for that Holy Grail and our successful outcome.The ATLA Summary of Proceedings is copyrighted by the American Theological Library Association. Contributors grant to ATLA the exclusive right of first publication of their submitted work, as well as ongoing and perpetual right and license to reuse and republish the work. Contributors continue to retain ownership, including copyright rights of their individual submissions and may republish their work in any format at any time after the date of publication of the Summary of Proceedings. In all subsequent publications of the work, contributors should acknowledge that the work was first presented at the ATLA annual conference and first published in the ATLA Summary of Proceedings
Faculty-student unrest at San Francisco State College and the Black studies issue of 1968-1969, 1977
No full textThe objectives of this thesis are to examine the events and issues which were a part of the strike against San Francisco State College during the 1968-1969 academic year. Led by the Black Students Union, students and faculty joined forces against local San Francisco State administrators, the trustees of the college, the Chancellor, and Governor Reagan, those, students and faculty charged were not being responsive to their needs. San Francisco State faculty complained that their rights were being usurped by their governing board. Students wanted the college to be more responsive to the times of a fast- changing world. The Black Students Union's charge was racism. The Black Students Union's demand for a Black Studies Department, under the guise of control, and by extension, freedom, at a time when the cry for "Black Power was being reverberated all over the country, makes the activities at State particularly important. The implications of State's 1968-1969 strike is especially important when one considers the aims of the larger Black Liberation Movement to rid the country of racism and all forms of injustice. It was at San Francisco State that the first notion of a Black Studies Department at a pre-dominantly white campus was heard. It was at State that a protracted struggle, with the aid of thousands of faculty, students and members of the adjacent communities, was waged. In spite of the daily encampment of several hundred police, and the insistence by Governor Reagan that the campus remain open, the student-faculty coalition succeeded in bringing the normal activities of the college to a screeching halt. After four months of "non-negotiable" demands by Black and Third World students, as well as those from the faculty, the strike ended. With the strikes end, a Black- Studies Department was officially established. However, those most instrumental in initiating and maintaining the strike were either imprisoned or run out of the state. With the rights enjoyed by faculty and students before the strike substantively harnessed with the strike's end, Reagan and his allies seemed to have scored the last and greatest victory. But strike strategists argue that although repressive measures launched by the state legislature and San Francisco local administrators seriously undermined many of the basic strike issues, they argue that the radicalization of thousands of faculty and students made the four-month long struggle worth it all
Analysis of demographic trends in the state of Georgia 1940-1985, 1993
Get PDFIt is well known that the South since 1960, is experiencing the most rapid population growth of the four census divisions of the U.S.A. This population growth in the South is occurring more in the State of Georgia. The purpose of this study is to determine whether Georgia population increase is due to natural increase or migration. In this study, fertility, mortality, and migration in Georgia were analyzed from 1940-1985. The major finding of this study is that natural increase affects population growth of Georgia more in the rural areas, whereas migration favors the urban areas. The significance of this study is that it will add to the existing knowledge concerning population growth and trends of Georgia, South and United States as a whole. The main sources of information for this study were obtained from books, journals, Georgia Department of Human Resources, and U.S. Bureau of the Census
The implementation of consent decrees in correctional institutions: a case study of Fulton county jail, Georgia, 1987
Get PDFReflections Yearbook 1971
Get PDFThe Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the project: Our Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions.</em
Spelman Messenger March 1924 vol. 40 no. 6
No full textThe Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of historic collections as part of the projectOur Story: Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions
