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Stacy Rodenbeck
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Robert Lawrence
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“Roadblocks and passageways”: Pandemic lessons for helping graduate students survive and thrive in times of crisis
Get PDFGraduate students and universities continue to be challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study explored how U.S. graduate students (n=19) experienced and navigated pandemic challenges to their education using by Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital, and field. Respondents’ abilities to manage changes caused by the pandemic were largely dependent on the capital they or their informal networks had and the field where they positioned during pre-pandemic and pandemic. Institutions’ characteristics and supports greatly influenced students’ habitus and sense of belonging. Study respondents’ ability to maintain their educational trajectories was tied to both their assessment of their institution as caring and inclusive and their own existing resources. Overall, respondents considered themselves “super lucky,” recognizing their privilege and the relative safety that allowed them to continue their education and expressed compassion for people who faced struggles greater than their own. We provide recommendations for how students and institutions can create sustainable and inclusive support systems to enhance graduate students’ abilities to adapt and respond to individual and social crises
Sins of Christendom: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism
No full textEvangelical criticism of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dates back to the earliest days of the Church. Nathaniel Wiewora uses the diverse animus expressed by evangelicals to illuminate how they used an imaginary Church as a proxy to disagree, attack, compromise, and settle differences among themselves. As Wiewora shows, the evangelical practice to contrast itself with the emerging faith not only encompassed but also went beyond religious matters. If Joseph Smith was accused of muddling religious truth, he and his followers also faced accusations of immoral economic practices and a sinful regard for wealth that reflected worries within the evangelical world. Attacks on Latter-day Saints’ emotional religious displays, the Book of Mormon’s authenticity, and the dangerous ideas represented by Nauvoo paralleled similar conflicts. Wiewora traces how the failure to blunt the Church’s success led evangelicals to change their own methods and pursue the religious education infrastructure that came to define parts of the movement
From Streets to Stats: A Statistical Analysis of the Quantity of Illegal Narcotics Seized in the United States
Get PDFThis study aims to determine how seven different variables affect the total quantity of illegal narcotics seized. These seven variables include four dichotomous and three continuous variables, each striving to teach readers how they relate to the quantity of narcotics seized across specific states. My goal for this project is to figure out if there is any relationship to help law enforcement fight the war on drugs. With the continuing apparent rise of this war, this study is crucial in determining potential relationships between a state\u27s characteristics and the quantity of illegal narcotics they forcibly take possession of. I further develop this research by looking at multiple characteristics of states instead of just a singular variable. After running my OLS regression, I discovered that both the total number of overdose deaths and the estimated population of the state are statistically significant. Although these two variables are the only ones that were significant, my study still gives readers useful information through the other variables