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View of Downtown Providence from Prospect Terrace Park
No full textThe absence of Fleet Center at 50 Kennedy Plaza is noticeable in this shot of downtown from Prospect Terrace Park and dates the image to pre-1985.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1107/thumbnail.jp
Rehovot: Memorial to the Holocaust at the Weizmann Institute of Science
No full textThis photograph shows Dani Karavan’s 1972 Memorial to the Holocaust. The sculpture, which is a large torah scroll split and inscribed with numbers, is installed at the Weizmann Institute of Science. It is the center piece of a plaza on campus.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1703/thumbnail.jp
Providence India Point Park looking East
No full textSeen here is a view looking East from India Point Park. In the distance stands the old India Point Park Pedestrian bridge. Originally measuring 8 feet wide, the bridge was built in 1971 and then demolished in 2005 to be reconstructed. It was officially replaced in 2007 by a new $9.5 million bridge measuring 48 feet in width, six times larger than the old structure. The bridge, located on I-195, connects the Fox Point neighborhood on Providence’s East Side to the waterfront at India Point Park.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1206/thumbnail.jp
Washington, DC: Trompe l’Oeil Wall Mural
No full textShown on the side of this building is the optical illusion trompe l’oeil. Translated, the term stands for “deceive the eye”. This technique is achieved by using realistic imagery in order to give the optical illusion that the image is in 3D.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1591/thumbnail.jp
Boston: Quincy Market
No full textBoston’s Quincy Market, a 19th century marketplace built in the Greek Revival style. It is American architect Alexander Parris’ most famous building, and is made almost entirely of granite from New England. The Quincy Market fell into decline in the 20th century until it was redeveloped in the 1970s by Rouse Company and Benjamin Thompson and Associates. It continues to sell food, but also houses retail and entertainment facilities. This photograph dates from the mid 1980s.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1627/thumbnail.jp
Collaborative Partnerships to Achieve Equity
Get PDFThe collaborative partnership between most campus laboratory schools and their university or college department of education differs from campus to campus. The dual purpose of this partnership is to provide an education to school aged children as well as to provide college education majors an opportunity to observe and teach in a laboratory environment. The focus on inclusion and providing a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment for students with disabilities is an additional benefit for all of the students. In order for the partnership to be most effective, conversations must occur between general and special education faculty members in both schools as well as between the college and campus school faculties
Eye on Ethics: The Perils of Countertransference
No full textOver the years, I have learned that not all ethical issues take the form of complex dilemmas. Rather, many of them involve ethical mistakes and social workers’ efforts to avoid them. Among the most common, in my experience, are mistakes triggered by social workers\u27 intense reactions to clients\u27 behaviors
Improving Learning Disabled Student Performance Using a Web Based Training Module
Get PDFThis project sought to determine an improved method for providing basic information about learning differences to a variety of learners. A web based format was chosen because it would allow for flexibility of information delivery. This flexibility would greatly benefit the working professionals, parents, and graduate students who need access to the information. Further, by using a web based venue, access to the information would also be provided to professionals and others in underserved areas of the country
Old Made New: Neil Gaiman\u27s Storytelling in The Sandman
Get PDFAn exploration of the narrative and storytelling of Neil Gaiman in his DC Comics series, The Sandman
Part-Time Faculty in Higher Education
Get PDFAt this writing (Fall 2011), two-thirds of the faculty in higher education are contingent part-time or full-time. Only one-third of the faculty is tenured or on the tenure-track. This selected, annotated bibliography is organized by year of publication, from 1977 to 2010. (An earlier version was published in 2008). It is the purpose of this publication to facilitate understanding of the meaning and implications of this major change in the structure of higher education. The annotations in the bibliography were written from the perspective of a part-time faculty member, unlike most of the literature, which is written from a management perspective