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Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Foster Cass
No full textPhotograph of Foster Cass taken in 2015. Foster Cass (Class of 1941) was born on February 6, 1919. He graduated from Upper Iowa University (UIU) in 1941 with a degree in math and business administration and a minor in history. Foster's family lived across the street from UIU where he and his brothers and sister attended college. During college, Foster joined the Pi Rho Zeta, national honorary fraternity, sang in the choir, wrote poetry, played football under Doc Dorman, and worked on campus to pay for books and tuition. He met his wife, Maxine Marion Duff, another UIU student, in the library.
World War II began in Europe while Foster was attending UIU. He knew he wanted to earn his degree before the Army drafted him. Foster was one of ten students to graduate from the pilot's training course at UIU in June 1941. As soon as he received his degree, Foster enlisted in the Navy where he became a commissioned officer, primarily serving as watch officer and communications officer on ships, including his time as a “plank owner,” a member of the first crew of the USS Fayette. Foster also had the honor to receive the telegram and announce the end of the war to his shipmates on the Ormsby. During his time on ships at sea, he traveled about 80,000 nautical miles. Foster has continued to support Upper Iowa University. Notably, he has sponsored the Foster Cass Archives Walk which highlights the history of the campus. In addition, he established the Foster Cass Foundation Student Scholarship in honor of his parents, Rev. Frank W. Cass and Carrie Jackley Cass, and family members who are UIU alumni: Edward J. Cass '38, Marjorie Swales Cass '39 and Betty Cass Hersey '43. The Cass family was the University's neighbor for many years, and there is a plaque commemorating the location on Union Street.[Title], Upper Iowa University Digital Archives, [Reference URL]. See 'About' page for more information
Views of children and young people in foster care survey: education
No full textThis paper explores the educational experiences of children and young people living in foster care in Queensland. Findings are drawn from the responses of 845 children and 1180 young people to the 2011 Views of Children and Young People in Foster Care survey, which is a rich source of information about children’s and young people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of their own education. Findings relate to educational status, key markers of educational disadvantage including suspensions and exclusions, and specific problems children and young people experience at school, as well as children’s and young people’s enjoyment of school and aspirations for the future. Information about educational support, including Educational Support Plans and support provided by Child Safety Officers and Community Visitors are also presented. Where relevant, comparisons are made between the 2011 survey results and prior surveys conducted in 2006, 2007 and 2009. Relationships between key educational measures as well as relationships to other important measures of health and placement stability are also explored.
The findings suggest that children and young people continue to experience educational disadvantage, including high rates of suspension and exclusion and a range of problems at school including problems with schoolwork, bullying and behaviour and that these difficulties can be exacerbated by the child protection system, for example, through placement instability. However, there are reasons for optimism. Children and young people are overwhelmingly likely to report that they enjoy school, expect to complete Year 12 and that their teachers generally like their schoolwork. Furthermore, over time, the proportions of young people reporting that they have an Educational Support Plan have grown, and, importantly, they are more likely to report that these plans are helpful. Analyses in relation to a number of educational variables reveal that young people with a plan they consider to be helpful fare better. Children and young people were also positive about the important role that CSOs and CVs are able to play in supporting their education.
While educational disadvantage is an enduring problem, the survey findings provide evidence of progress in key areas and suggestions for how continued improvements may be made
A historical review of the Carrie Steele-Pitts home, incorporated in Fulton county, Georgia, 1979
No full textThis study is a historical review of the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home, Inc., a foster care facility. The Carrie Steele-Pitts Home has been in existence since 1886. Its main purpose was and still is to care for neglected boys and girls. The purpose of this study demonstrates the fact that the Black community has played a very important role in the development of young people through the service of foster care
Letter, 1898, January 11, Rachel Foster Avery to Mrs. Martha McClellan Brown
No full textA letter from Rachel Foster Avery, Acting Chairman of the Program Committee for the National American Women Suffrage Association to Martha McClellan Brown referencing a previous exchange of letters between Carrie Chapman Catt and Brown. The letter discusses a program being already full and that the program committee had an excess of programming that they turned down.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/special_ms147_correspondence/1009/thumbnail.jp
William Foster Collection
No full textWilliam Patrick Foster (1919-2010) was the director of Florida A&M Universitys "Marching 100" and was highly influential as a bandmaster, composer, and author. His book, Band Pageantry, a Guide for Marching Band, introduced new marching styles to the band scene, breaking away from the militarized marching formations, which was the norm in past bands. Foster was appointed to the American Council on the Arts by President Bill Clinton and inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the National Association for Distinguished Band Conductors Hall of Fame, the Florida Music Educators Association Hall of Fame and the Afro-American Hall of Fame among others. He also served as the president of the American Bandmasters Association
What's the Hurry? A Retrospective Study of Former Foster Youth Who Have Transitioned Out of Foster Care and Into Adulthood
No full textABSTRACT\ud
WHAT???S THE HURRY? A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF FORMER\ud
FOSTER YOUTH WHO HAVE TRANSITIONED OUT OF\ud
FOSTER CARE AND INTO ADULTHOOD\ud
by\ud
Sherry Anne Jones-Gore\ud
Master of Arts in Social Science\ud
California State University, Chico\ud
Summer 2009\ud
Numerous researchers have described the processes and transitions that former foster care youth experience. Typically, much of this policy-driven research is focused on negative outcomes (incarceration, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and dependency on public assistance) that effect public institutions. The following study is unique in that it focuses not on the measurements of researchers, but on the memories and emotions of adult former foster children about the foster care system, much of which is funded by a variety of government institutions. This study develops retrospective qualitative data that gives insight into how former foster children viewed their lives growing up in the foster care system and how it affected them as adults. Because this study was conducted within a single family/household, there is an intimacy that is not typically found in previous studies. The author makes recommendations for\ud
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improvements to the system based on analysis of the interviews. These interviews emphasized the relationship of the foster children to what they called ???the system,??? and the pressure such foster children felt to ???hurry??? through childhood as they shifted between many institutions. These issues in turn have an impact on the effectiveness of program delivery while they are in ???the system.??? Such issues also limit the capacity of former foster care children to develop effective skills and plans needed to pursue post-secondary education.\ud
The most important of these recommendations resulting from this study is that any decision-making regarding the lives of these foster children include their own voices, opinions, and desires in the hopes that transiency will be reduced. Ultimately this implies that there needs to be increased government funding. Increasing government funding could provide a positive investment that is a significant aid in the recruitment, training and retention of effective foster parents. Finally one of the last recommendations that this study made was for more options to be provided for foster care youth to obtain higher education. This is needed because they do not have support networks to fall back on. One way these educational options might be provided would be through the establishment of mentoring services within their educational settings.CSU, Chic
Authors' attitudes to, and awareness and use of, a university institutional repository.
No full textThis article reports the findings of an author study at Cranfield University. The study investigated authors' publishing behaviours, attitudes, concerns, and their awareness and use of their institutional repository (IR), Cranfield QUEprints. The findings suggest that despite a reasonable amount of advocacy many authors had not heard of QUEprints and were not aware of its purpose. Once explained, all authors saw at least one benefit to depositing a copy of their work to QUEprints, but many were unsure how to deposit, preferring to depend on the Library to do the work. The authors voiced few concerns or conditions regarding the inclusion of their work in QUEprints, but felt that it would be an extra, inconvenient step in their workload. This research led to the development of the Embed Project which is investigating how to embed the IR into the research process and thereby encourage more authors to deposit their work
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