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Current Scheduling Trends in Minnesota’s Elementary School Library Programs
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Early Intervention: Reducing the Impact of Risk Factors/Early Intervention: Maximizing Developmental Outcomes Through Family-Centered Practices
Get PDFEarly Intervention: Reducing the Impact of Risk Factors
The purpose of this paper was to identify some of the characteristics of children who are at an increased risk for developmental delays and therefore in need of early intervention services. This paper focused on the unique characteristics of two groups of children who are at an increased risk for developmental delays, children who are victims of abuse or neglect and children who are late talkers. Finally, this paper examined barriers to accessing early intervention services and potential solutions which may increase access to early intervention for the children and families who need it most.
Early Intervention: Maximizing Developmental Outcomes Through Family-Centered Practices
The purpose of this paper was to identify highly effective and evidence-based practices that can be used by early intervention providers to maximize the benefit of interventions for children with developmental delays and their families. An area of focus was using caregiver coaching to build a caregiver’s capacity to support their child’s development. Another area of focus was using a family’s naturally occurring routines and activities as the foundation for interventions
Exploring Students with Disabilities Experiences in the Classroom at a Midwestern Community College
Get PDFThis exploratory study featured interviews with students’ with disabilities at a Midwestern Community College. The interviews were created with the guiding research question: What are students’ with disabilities experiences with faculty at Midwestern Community College? Five participants were identified using convenient sampling. Interviews were held via zoom using semi-structured questions that aimed to gain an understanding of students’ experiences with faculty with an emphasis on Universal Design. Participants’ unique narratives provided a wealth of information about their individual experiences, which were transcribed and analyzed using inductive coding and analysis. The findings from this study emphasize the importance of communication, technology, flexibility, structure with an overarching meta-theme of COVID-19, which amplified the other findings, have had on students’ with disabilities experience with faculty. Students indicated both items the students themselves can practice, along with faculty, in order to cultivate a more inclusive education setting for students with disabilities in higher education. Findings have been presented to the Midwestern Community College Disability Support office and will inform ongoing efforts for equitable education
Social Isolation, Religious Affiliation, and Mental Health in Adult Minnesotans
Get PDFProblem or purpose: Social isolation involves an individuals’ social network (i.e., quantity, quality, and structure) and their appraisal of relationships (Wang et al., 2017). Social Isolation has been associated with an increase in mortality (Pantell et al., 2013) and a vulnerability for various mental-health issues (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD, etc.; Achterbergh et al., 2020; Ma et al., 2020), and decrease in cardiovascular health (Knox & Uvnas-Moberg, 1998). Although the psychological and physiological effects of social isolation have been known for some time, there is less known about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on social isolation. Due to isolation and physical distancing recommendations during the pandemic, we are expecting there to be an increase in social isolation during the pandemic compared to previously collected data from a similar pre-pandemic survey. Religious affiliation often involves greater social involvement, while simultaneously being associated with an increase in a sense of belonging (Rote, Hill, & Ellison, 2013), and a decrease in negative emotions (Rosemarin, Pargament, & Mahoney, 2009). An additional goal of this study was to examine the association between religion affiliation and social isolation during COVID-19.Procedure: We measured social isolation with two items from the Lubben Social Network Scale (LSNS-6) and one measure of relationship satisfaction. Telephone surveys were used to collect data from a sample of adult Minnesotans generated through random digit dialing. Preliminary data includes surveys from 216 participants (51% women, 74% white, age mean = 53.01 years, SD = 18.23).Results: Preliminary analyses suggest that the prevalence of social isolation has increased since our last survey that measured that topic. In 2021, 17% of our sample was at risk for social isolation (i.e., had 2 or fewer people they could call on for help), compared to 6% of our sample in 2018. There was a marginally significant relationship between social isolation and mental health in 2021, chi-square = 3.64, p = .06, such that more participants at risk for social isolation reported having a diagnosable mental health condition than those who were not at risk for isolation. Preliminary analyses did not find an association between social isolation and religious affiliation, chi-square = .06, p = .80.Conclusions and implications: Results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk for social isolation, and that social isolation continues to be associated with poorer mental health, highlighting the importance of maintaining meaningful social contact through difficult times
Pop-up Seminar: The Death of Queen Elizabeth
No full textQueen Elizabeth reigned for 70 years (the second longest reigning monarch in history) through wars, crises, political scandals, pandemics, and recessions. [Now] King Charles has inherited a nation divided (Brexit!) and economically unstable with high energy prices on the eve of winter. What lies ahead for him?
In this video, featured presenter Professor of Political Science Dr. Michelle Kukoleca Hammes speaks about the full schedule of events surrounding the Queen’s death and Charles’ accession to the throne. Operations London Bridge, Unicorn, and Spring Tide are also in effect – what are they and what should we watch for? A full U.K. and global analysis awaits!https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/sopa_seminars/1004/thumbnail.jp
Last Chance Liquor \u27Til South Dakota : County Option in Minnesota, 1915 - 1965
Get PDFFrom 1915 to 1965, Minnesota state statute provided for counties the ability to restrict the sale of alcohol within their borders. This paper shows how that story unfolded as part of the broader Temperance movement
Martha Heimdahl Slavin Oral History
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Ralph Heimdahl of Willmar, Minnesota, was born on March 22, 1909. After two years of study, Heimdahl graduated from the St. Cloud State Teacher’s College in 1930 where he studied art, played multiple sports including football and basketball, and participated in a wide variety of campus activities. After graduation, he was the principal at Miltona during the 1930/1931 school year, and he also taught at the State School for the Deaf at Faribault. He also took classes at the Minneapolis School of Art.
Heimdahl is best known as the artist for the Bugs Bunny newspaper daily and Sunday comic strips. While employed by the Western Publishing Company, Heimdahl began drawing the Bugs Bunny Sunday comic strip for Warner Bros. and the Newspaper Enterprises Association (NEA) in October 1947. He drew the new Bugs Bunny daily strip from its inception in November 1948. Heimdahl drew both the daily and Sunday strips until the fall of 1978. At one point, the Bugs Bunny comic strip appeared in over 450 newspapers worldwide.
Heimdahl died on November 12, 1981 at the age of 72. He was a longtime resident of Arcadia, California in suburban Los Angeles where he and his wife, Esther, had three daughters - LaVerne, Linda, and Martha.
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In an interview conducted on March 23, 2022, Martha Heimdahl Slavin, daughter of Ralph Heimdahl, discussed her father, his work, and the material she donated to the St. Cloud State University Archives. Slavin described her father’s life at St. Cloud State and his passion for art. She recalled his time at the State School for the Deaf in Faribault, Minnesota and how later he was hired as an animator for Walt Disney in 1937. Ralph’s job as an animator was the “in-betweener,” drawing action in between major actions of the characters on-screen. In addition, using his background in art and his two year degree from St. Cloud State, trained other animators at Disney.
Ralph left in 1941 Disney and moved to New England. He and his growing family soon moved back to southern California where he was hired by the Western Publishing Company. Martha explained that he was tapped likely to draw the Bugs Bunny comic strip due to his art portfolio. She discussed how Ralph and his writing partner Al Stoffel created the strips, the process and sometime the long hours he had to put in, and how much he loved to draw. He may not have particularly liked to draw the main Looney Tunes characters but enjoyed drawing the background characters and environments. This allowed him to continue to be creative.
Martha touched on what it was like to realize that her father was well-known and that they were often around other creative people. Her father was humble and enjoyed talking to children and others about his work. To end the interview Martha discussed the importance of the drawings that she and her family donated and expressed her hope that these materials will be used.
Interview by Tom Stema
St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Report, Vol. 24, No. 4
Get PDFWe predict the St. Cloud metro area will be in recession within the next 4 to 6 months, based on results of the St. Cloud Area Quarterly Business Survey as well as data on professional employment and the stock prices of area publicly-traded corporations. The St. Cloud Index of Leading Economic Indicators fell 5% in the latest quarter and 9.8% in the last year. Employment growth in the region has slowed dramatically during the fall, lagging gains elsewhere in Minnesota. Survey results showed lower expectations of area business leaders for their own business activity and difficulty finding qualified workers.
In special questions businesses indicated tax burdens were the most common issue for the next legislative session in St. Paul. They also reported that the Federal Reserve’s higher interest rates were having negative effects; this was causing some firms to put off investment and expansion plans and others to pay down their higher-interest rate loans
Solanum scalarium (Solanaceae), a newly-described dioecious bush tomato from Judbarra/Gregory National Park, Northern Territory, Australia
Get PDFA new species of functionally dioecious bush tomato of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum scalarium Martine & T.M.Williams, sp. nov., is a member of the taxonomically challenging “Kimberley dioecious clade” in Australia and differs from other species in the group in its spreading decumbent habit and conspicuously prickly male floral rachis. The species is so far known from one site in Judbarra/Gregory National Park in the Northern Territory. Ex situ crosses and confirmation of inaperturate pollen grains produced in morphologically cosexual flowers indicate that these flowers are functionally female and the species is functionally dioecious. The scientific name reflects the ladder-like appearance of the inflorescence rachis armature of male individuals, the stone staircase that provides access to the type locality at the Escarpment Lookout Walk, and the importance of maintaining equitable and safe access to outdoor spaces. The common name Garrarnawun Bush Tomato is proposed in recognition of the lookout point at this site, a traditional meeting place of the Wardaman and Nungali-Ngaliwurru peoples whose lands overlap in this area
