77 research outputs found
Small Steps for Building More Inclusive Classrooms
No full textInclusive instruction is critical to build welcoming and equitable experiences for diverse learners. Addy demonstrates through an interactive session how instructors can take small steps toward creating inclusive environments for their students.
“Dr. Addy is a leading voice on inclusive teaching and faculty development,” said Laura Taylor, associate professor of theology at CSB and SJU, who is director of the Center for Learning and Teaching. “It is a big deal that she is coming to work with our faculty. I feel so fortunate that we are able to host her on campus as part of this series.”
Addy received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University, then earned a master’s in philosophy from Yale University and a Ph.D. in science education at North Carolina State University. She also taught at the undergraduate level for 10 years. At Lafayette, she is responsible for working with instructors to develop and administer programming. She is director of the Center for the Integration of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship. The Center focuses on inclusivity for instructors and integrating students as partners.
Addy’s work has been featured in academic journals and other publications, like Inside Higher Ed and University Business. She is co-author of What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, printed in 2021 by Stylus Publishing
The Cash Value of Racism in America—and Its Schools
No full textAfter journalist Tracie McMillan began reporting on the material advantages of racial privilege in America, she ended up in the public schools of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Using the story of two millennial sisters—the Becker girls—as a starting point, McMillan pieces together a seventy-year history of the school district. In this talk, McMillan will use the Becker girls’ story to explore how racism has shaped our public institutions—and ultimately weakens them for everybody. Tracie McMillan has covered America’s multiracial working class as a journalist with publications ranging from the New York Times to Mother Jones, from National Geographic to the Village Voice. She is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The American Way of Eating and The White Bonus: Five Families and the Cash Value of Racism in America. A one-time target of Rush Limbaugh, McMillan currently oversees coverage of worker organizing for the online publication Capital & Main. A graduate of New York University, McMillan grew up on a dirt road outside Flint, Michigan. She splits her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Detroit
Battling moralities: competing for medical marijuana legislation
No full textIn the 2012 election cycle, Massachusetts became the 20th state (including Washington, DC) to pass legislation favoring medical marijuana. As momentum builds for more states to pass medical marijuana laws, the federal government continues to classify the drug as a Schedule I, illegal narcotic that has a high likelihood of abuse and dependence and that should continue to be treated punitively. In this work, I take a holistic approach to uncover some of the larger, national patterns that have allowed for some states to pass legislation favorable to medical marijuana in a relatively hostile federal climate. This work will demonstrate that the battle over medical marijuana legislation is about much more than just the drug’s medical efficacy. Medical marijuana policy is symbolic of the nation’s attitudes toward illicit substances and medical science, an illustration of the power of rhetoric and the struggles between different moralities, and an example of the forces at work in the battles over morality policies. Put simply, these legislative battles are contesting the moral meaning of marijuana itself. The complex nature of these morality policy struggles necessitates a varied methodological approach. By analyzing the battles between science and morality and the path to medicalization, the historical constructions of the drug and its associated policies, the statistical differences between those states that have passed medical marijuana and those that have not, and the rhetoric and ideological arguments used in the media (and elsewhere) that serve to bound the marijuana debate, patterns of partially changing morality surface that suggest a level of inconsistency and ambiguity in the national understanding of the drug. In order for the construction of marijuana to shift from a criminal to a medical designation, this research highlights the four battles within which medical marijuana legislation is fought: federal vs. state control, entrepreneurial struggles for bureaucratic power, constructing an image of the marijuana user, and moral vs. scientific struggles over the meaning of the drug. As these battles are being waged, multiple marijuana moralities are emerging, giving shape to the changing landscape of medical marijuana legislation.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Tracie L. Witt
What Inclusive Instructors Do: A Book Review
No full textIn the book, What Inclusive Instructors Do (published in 2021), authors Tracie Addy et el focus on principles and practices for excellence in college teaching and offer several recommendations for creating an inclusive classroom. In the preface, they explain to the reader that this book emerged as a result of changes to the educational landscape as a result of COVID and online instruction. This book was also a courageous response to the racial tension and violence that escalated during the pandemic
State of Disaster Recovery Efforts
No full textPanelists Tracie L. Washington (Louisiana Justice Institute), Reilly Morse (Mississippi Center for Justice), and John M. Barry (author, Rising Tide) discuss the successes and failures of the recovery effort after Hurricane Katrina including the role of individuals, non-profit organizations, and pro bono lawyers. Also discussed are the implications of Katrina and its aftermath on both domestic and foreign policy, and the role of the federal government in assisting recovery efforts. One of several academic activities held at the University of Mississippi preceding the first presidential debate of 2008
Development and Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Medical Triage Protocol to Reduce Emergency Room Visits Among Adults in North Carolina Geriatric Facilities
No full textTitle: Development and Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Medical Triage Protocol to Reduce Emergency Room Visits Among Adults in North Carolina Geriatric Facilities Author: Tracie Jones DNP Project Advisor: Dr. Margarita David DNP Project Team Member: Dr. Gina Webb Emergency department (ED) utilization among elderly individuals is an increasing trend in North Carolina (NC). In 2022, elderly ED visits accounted for 22% of ED utilization, according to the NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health, recommending reduced ED visits. In finding a solution to this problem, this quality improvement (QI) project focused on the utilization of medical triage protocol in a geriatric facility in NC that assisted in reducing ED visits among the facility's residents. The protocol involved using a standardized assessment tool and a trained medical triage team to effectively identify individuals with acute or urgent medical needs to provide appropriate interventions. In an effort to reduce emergency room utilization, collaboration among facility staff, administrations, healthcare professionals, and patients and their families was imperative for the protocol's success. This project showed that other improvements, such as reduced healthcare costs, alleviating the burden on EDs, increased utilization of outpatient community services, and enhanced patient outcomes, can also be attained by decreasing emergency room utilization
Against Gender Discrimination In Tracie Peterson And Judith Miller’s Novel A Tapestry Of Hope (2004): Feminist Approach
No full textThe object of the study is a novel entitled A Tapestry of Hope written by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller that is published in 2004. The study is to analyze how women discrimination is reflected in A Tapestry of Hope novel. The
objective of the study is to analyze the structural elements in the novel and to analyze women discrimination of this novel using feminist approach. The writer uses the descriptive qualitative research as a type of the
research. The data sources are divided into two, namely primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data sources of the study are Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller’s Tapestry of Hope novel and its translation by Yeri
Ekomunajat. The secondary data sources are books and other sources, such as the biography of the author, the websites on the internet that support the analysis. The method of collecting data is library research and the technique of analyzing data is classifying the obtained data by selecting the necessary ones. Then, analyzing data based on Feminist theory. The results of the study are as follows. First, based on the structural analysis, the authors deliver that women in that time (19th century) are still being discriminated. The structural elements are related each other and form a unity. Second, based on the feminist analysis, the authors reflect gender discrimination
in the society that places women as subordinate and most of them are enslaved
The fate of the cyanide ion in the aquatic environment
No full textThe fate of the cyanide ion in aqueous environments is an area of concern as exampled by an accident on the Danube River in 2000. A mining company accident in Romania spilled thousands of cubic meters of waste slurry that included cyanide and unspecified heavy metals into the Sasar River in Romania, which eventually flowed into the Danube River in Hungary. Thousands of fish died in the incident and agriculture was damaged. The population that depended on the rivers for their livelihood was devastated. There was no investigation into the fate of the spill, and eventually life forms near the origination of the spill began to re-emerge. This thesis investigates hydrolysis and volatilization as possible fates of the cyanide ion in the aqueous environment. Ion selective electrodes were used to analyze the disappearance of cyanide and the appearance of ammonia (the end product of hydrolysis). If these could be measured simultaneously the rate of the hydrolysis of cyanide in a neutral aqueous environment could be determined.The hydrolytic pathway for the cyanide ion has been investigated for the reaction catalyzed with cyanidase, and enzyme found in some bacteria and fungi. The products of the enzyme-catalyzed hydrolysis are formate and carbon dioxide or formate and ammonia, depending on the organism. A two-step reaction has been proposed for cyanide hydrolysis without a catalyst in which formamide is an intermediate. The limiting step in this reaction is the initial hydrolysis of cyanide to formamide and investigations into the appearance of ammonia were used as a surrogate to the formation of this intermediate.Hydrogen cyanide gas is extremely volatile and will escape into the environment at room temperature. The experiments conducted for this thesis showed a consistent loss of cyanide during a timed reaction from an aqueous solution without a corresponding increase in an equivalent amount of ammonia. From additional experiments on the effects of temperature, ultraviolet radiation and aeration, it was concluded that volatilization was the most probable fate of cyanide in these investigations. Confirmation of volatilization was achieved by infrared spectrometry of the vapor phase above aqueous potassium cyanide solutions.M.S.Includes bibiographical references (p. 72-75)
Development and Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Medical Triage Protocol to Reduce Emergency Room Visits Among Adults in North Carolina Geriatric Facilities
No full textTitle: Development and Evaluation of an Advanced Practice Nurse-Directed Medical Triage Protocol to Reduce Emergency Room Visits Among Adults in North Carolina Geriatric Facilities Author: Tracie Jones DNP Project Advisor: Dr. Margarita David DNP Project Team Member: Dr. Gina Webb Emergency department (ED) utilization among elderly individuals is an increasing trend in North Carolina (NC). In 2022, elderly ED visits accounted for 22% of ED utilization, according to the NC Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health, recommending reduced ED visits. In finding a solution to this problem, this quality improvement (QI) project focused on the utilization of medical triage protocol in a geriatric facility in NC that assisted in reducing ED visits among the facility's residents. The protocol involved using a standardized assessment tool and a trained medical triage team to effectively identify individuals with acute or urgent medical needs to provide appropriate interventions. In an effort to reduce emergency room utilization, collaboration among facility staff, administrations, healthcare professionals, and patients and their families was imperative for the protocol's success. This project showed that other improvements, such as reduced healthcare costs, alleviating the burden on EDs, increased utilization of outpatient community services, and enhanced patient outcomes, can also be attained by decreasing emergency room utilization
NEFDC Exhange, Volume 27, Fall 2014
No full textContents
President\u27s message - Deborah J. Clark, Quinnipiac University
Embracing the Changing World: Incorporating Team-Based Learning in an Upper Level General Education Course - Mei-Yau Shih, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Susan Han, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Information Literacy: From Today’s Critical Challenges to Tomorrow’s Critical Thinking Opportunities - Kisha G. Tracy, Fitchurg State University and Jennifer Fielding, Northern Essex Community College
Preparing Future Faculty: By Chance or Design? - Keith Barker, University of Connecticut
Encouraging Crosstalk: What Higher Education Can Learn from the Next Generation Science Standards - Tracie Marcella Addy, Quinnipiac University
Spring 2015 Conference Announcement
The College Student Whisperer - Denise Marchionda, Middlesex Community College
NEFDC Board Members, 2014-210
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