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License to Spill: Credentialing in 20th Century Journalism Education
Get PDFThis study begins with a war of words between industry insiders and journalism educators in 1947 regarding the establishment of the American Council on Education for Journalism (ACEJ). Although the accrediting agency for journalism education was still a year away from announcing its first list of accredited programs, discussions surrounding how to elevate the status of journalism and regulate entry into the profession had been ongoing since at least 1923, involving metropolitan newspaper editors and journalism educators. This study explores a plan formulated during the interwar period, involving metropolitan newspaper editors affiliated with the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) and journalism educators from prestigious programs known as Class A programs within the American Association of Schools and Departments of Journalism (AASDJ). This plan proposed to introduce a credentialing system that would privilege graduates of accredited journalism programs in metropolitan newspaper work
\u3ci\u3eEuscorpius sulfur\u3c/i\u3e sp. n. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae), a new cave scorpion from Albania and northwestern Greece
Get PDFA new species of cave scorpion, Euscorpius sulfur sp. n. (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) from Albania and northwestern Greece is described, fully complemented with color photographs of both live and preserved specimens, as well as their habitats
Recognizing Ableism and Practicing Disability Humility: Conceptualizing Disability Across the Lifespan
Get PDFDisability culture is often misunderstood by counselors who lack extensive training in working with individuals with disabilities (IWDs) (Stuntzner & Hartley, 2014). This quantitative study used the Counseling Clients with Disability Survey (CCDS) to explore the beliefs and perceived knowledge of counselors-in-training (CITs), counselors, and counselor educators regarding preparation to counsel IWDs, which is particularly important as disability status can change across the lifespan, and given that the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) Standards Review Committee provided a guide to the draft standards incorporating the infusion of disability concepts. Results indicate that counselors were competent regarding disability awareness and use of microskills but lacked specific knowledge regarding disabilities. Findings suggest that faculty members need to intentionally infuse cultural humility and assess for readiness when working with IWDs. The manuscript concludes with specific suggestions of integrating disability content into varied coursework
Therapy dog utilization on a university campus and the effects on stress, anxiety, and university connection
Get PDFThe purpose of this non-experimental, descriptive study was to determine the effects that regular, brief visits with therapy dogs may have on the stress, anxiety, and university connection of college students who live in the residence halls via a qualitative research design involving the use of observations, questionnaires, and individual interviews. The study involved a sample (n = 6) of undergraduate students who engaged in observed visits with therapy dogs and their handlers over the course of three to four weeks. Students completed a pre-and-post Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) questionnaire and a final interview. Based on the findings of this study, university connection provides one of the more significant areas for discussion and further investigation. Regular visits with therapy dogs appeared to have a stronger effect on stress reduction in participants than on anxiety levels. The findings of this study support the utilization of therapy dogs in stress reduction on a university campus. Even though the majority of participants perceived that the visits lessened their anxiety and stress, the DASS questionnaire did not support the self-assessment of at least one participant. Data collected from this study indicate that the two to four 20- to 30-minute visits over the course of four weeks had no consistent effects on anxiety
Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry
Get PDFPerishable artifacts are invaluable tools for reconstructing past lifeways of hunter-gatherers, and when preserved in arid settings, they can inform on dynamic interactions between communities and the environment. Many such materials were recovered from early archaeological surveys in Utah and Nevada but were largely excluded from contemporary analyses because of small sample sizes, their fragmentary nature, and insecure proveniences. This synchronic reanalysis of cordage and coiled basketry from 10 late Holocene sites in the Great Salt Lake Desert utilizes newer approaches to perishables analysis so as to collect data more conducive to statistical comparisons of subsistence and craft traditions absent from earlier Great Basin studies. Regional trends of conformity of fine cordage contrasted with a diversity of basketry manufacture suggest contemporaneous social stressors directing the production of materials and two potentially gendered subclasses of utilitarian objects. Feminine and masculine perishable crafts in the Bonneville Basin follow separate manufacturing traditions, observable despite small sample sizes and poor dating of these curated collections.
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Los artefactos perecederos son herramientas invaluables para reconstruir formas de vida pasadas de cazadores-recolectores, y cuando se conservan en entornos áridos pueden informar sobre las interacciones dinámicas entre las comunidades y el medio ambiente. Muchos de estos materiales se recuperaron de los primeros estudios arqueológicos en Utah y Nevada, pero se excluyeron en gran medida de los análisis contemporáneos debido al pequeño tamaño de las muestras, su naturaleza fragmentaria y procedencias inseguras. Este reanálisis sincrónico de cuerdas y cestería enrollada de diez sitios del Holoceno Tardío en el Desierto del Gran Lago Salado utiliza enfoques más nuevos para el análisis de productos perecederos para recopilar datos más conducentes a comparaciones estadísticas de tradiciones artesanales y de subsistencia ausentes en estudios anteriores de la Gran Cuenca. Las tendencias regionales de conformidad del cordaje fino en contraste con una diversidad de fabricación de cestería sugieren factores estresantes sociales contemporáneos que dirigen la producción de materiales y dos subclases de objetos utilitarios potencialmente diferenciados por género. Las artesanías perecederas femeninas y masculinas en la Cuenca de Bonneville siguen tradiciones de fabricación separadas, observables a pesar del pequeño tamaño de las muestras y la fecha deficiente de estas colecciones seleccionadas
