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Attitudes of campus students and campus police personnel toward campus law enforcement at UW-Stout
No full textPlan BCollege and university campuses were traditionally held to be sanctuaries of high learning where violations of university policy were commonly judged and punished by the institution’s administration. The increased outbreaks of campus violence on many campuses during the late 1960’s and the crime trends throughout the United States in general forced colleges and universities to begin to reexamine the safety and security needs of their students, faculty and visitors. Technological, cultural and economic changes in the world directly influenced many of the problems confronting the administrators. Today, college and university law enforcement agencies have many of the same concerns and problems of other law enforcement agencies. Violent crimes, disruptive behavior and property damage can and does occur in their jurisdiction (Neilsen, Pander and Powell 1994). Colleges have discovered the need for and have created enforcement agencies made up of sworn law enforcement officers. The problem of developing an effective and meaningful law enforcement agency is a problem not to be taken lightly. Campus law enforcement officers are responsible for the safety and protection of a community within a community. The officers must perform their duties and enforce the laws in a manner consistent with that of the Constitution. The campus law enforcement officers are responsible for the creation and maintenance of a safe environment for all that choose to utilize the university. The purpose of this study is to compare the attitudes of students and police officers toward campus law enforcement at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. It is hoped that the information gathered in this study can assist the students, police officers and administration in identifying some of the problem and concerns expressed by the participants. Creating a safe environment on a college campus is of the utmost importance. In most instances this is the first time that these young students will be living on their own. Their parents do not want them to be victims of crime. With this in mind the following questions are asked: Where should the campus police focus their attention and resources? What do students and police officers perceive as the present and future function of campus law enforcement? What services and programs are needed to enhance the effectiveness of the police department? Is there communication between campus law enforcement and the students? Do the students feel comfortable going to the police officers when they need assistance and is there a feeling of security on the campus
Paul Lazarsfeld: The Founder of Empirical Electoral Research
No full textThe book continues the editors' and publisher's work of highlighting the contrbution of the most important political scientists. Paul Lazarsfeld, to whom this chapter by D. Campus is devoted, is one of them. Other scholars included are Almond, Aron, Converse, Duverger, Lijpart, Ostrom, Riker, Rokkan and Strange. Lazarsfeld is considered as one of the founders of empirical social research. The chapter shows that, if voting empirical studies and studies of public opinion and political communication have developed so far as they have, much is due to Lazarsfed's contribution
Magic Fish Campus Read Event
No full textLibrary "Campus Read" event with a virtual author visit and in-person and virtual discussion groups. Includes author of "The Magic Fish" Trung Le Nguyen. Includes Director of Libraries Dr. Dana Knott, library supervisor, Robin Buser, and Delaware Campus supervisor, Tim Davis. Includes students Mich Garcia, Elizabeth Blanchard, and Halona Kuang
Campus Author 2016 Event Program
No full textCampus Author 2016 celebrated the 11th year of the Campus Author Recognition Program. The 2016 event celebrated 90 authors and 101 books. This is the event program for the 2016 Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception held Thursday March 9, 2017 in the Atrium of the Summerlee Science Complex, University of Guelph
Campus Author 2015 Event Program
No full textCampus Author 2015 celebrated the 10th year of the Campus Author Recognition Program. The annual reception, held on Thursday November 5, 2015, featured Thomas King, celebrated author and Professor Emeritus, who read an excerpt from his book, The Back of the Turtle, for which he was awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2014. The 2015 event celebrated 94 authors and 121 books. This is the event program for the 2015 Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception held at the Academic Town Square, McLaughlin Library
The Five-Star Movement as a laboratory for leadership consolidation in populist digital parties
No full textDespite being a relatively young party, the Italian Five-Star Movement (M5S) has already experienced so many changes in its leadership arrangement that it may be seen as an ideal case study for studying leadership transformation and consolidation. What insights may derive from the M5S’s experience? And are they relevant to the new demands posed on leadership by the new times? Starting with the analysis of this case, the paper intends to focus on two main aspects that may be central to the study of leadership in the 21st century.
First, the party founded by the former comedian Beppe Grillo in collaboration with the ICT entrepreneur Gianroberto Casaleggio has always adopted forms of collective leadership (Campus, Switek and Valbruzzi, in preparation). It emerged from the collaboration of a tandem of founders; after their departure, the M5S introduced a series of power-sharing arrangements. Therefore, it may help to understand if these leadership structures perform well and can be considered as real alternatives to individual leadership.
Second, M5S’s difficulties in adopting a stable leadership arrangement after the founding phase illustrate the issue of leadership succession in those ‘movement-parties’ (Kitschelt 2006) undergoing a process of institutionalization once the party obtains parliamentary representation and passes the ‘executive threshold’. However, in the case of the Five-Star Movement there are challenges that are absolutely peculiar to this new type of party. In fact, the M5S represents the prototype of what has been recently defined as a ‘digital party’ (Gerbaudo 2019), namely, a ‘digital native’ party organization that has been formed through the diffusion of new technologies. Unlike traditional party organizations, digital parties require the introduction of digital intermediaries into the structure of political parties to facilitate internal communication, engage in political decision-making and transform the overall experience of participation in political parties. In the case of the M5S, digital intermediation is provided by an external association headed by Davide Casaleggio, son of one of the party founders. Although this association operates outside the formal boundaries of the party organization, its control of some of the most crucial functions of the party affects the internal balance of power, the process of decision-making and the composition of the leadership structure.
Thus, the analysis of the M5S will provide new evidence on the transformation of the contemporary political leadership. And, even more importantly, it allows for better understanding the impact that digital technologies may have on leadership formation and consolidation even in cases of more traditional parties that, unlike the M5S, are provided with an organization on the ground, but are incorporating digital platforms as further operative tools
PBStoHTCondor System for Campus Grids
No full textThe campus grid architectures currently available are considered to be overly complex. We have focused on High Throughput Condor HTCondor as one of the most popular middlewares among UK universities, and are proposing a new system for unifying campus grid resources. This new system PBStoCondor is capable of interfacing with Linux based system within the campus grids, and automatically determining the best resource for a given job. The system does not require additional efforts from users and administrators of the campus grid resources. We have compared the real usage data and PBStoCondor system simulation data. The results show a close match. The proposed system will enable better utilization of campus grid resources, and will not require modification in users’ workflows
Organisational Structures for a Functional Campus Community
No full textThis thesis investigates and proposes a new organisational structure for making a step change improvement in the university’s campus community. The study is relevant to all students and to staff, but it is particularly concerned with international students and their social experience whilst on campus in the UK.
The University of Huddersfield data was collected from three years of the International Student Barometer and Student Barometer, where we clearly identified that there was an issue to address. I also used interviews with staff of other universities in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield to gather comparative data used and my own personal experiences of organising and taking part in many campus events whilst working as an Event Coordinator and in the Students’ Union at the University of Huddersfield.
Universities tend to be very thoughtful about the academic experience on campus, but often the social experience gets overlooked. This is a pity, as a strong campus community and a good social experience can contribute so much to supporting the academic experience. My findings show that poor cooperation and communication in the University is currently the biggest problem and is caused by the geographical and structural separation of departments, their students and activities, resulting in a dysfunctional social management structure and not cohesive campus community. The university actively supports individuals and small groups quite well, but in some ways this bottom-up approach is an obstacle to creating a strong, inclusive and more cohesive campus community. In my conclusions I point the way towards many changes in communications, structure, planning of social programmes and cooperation at the University that could improve and build a much stronger campus community from the top-down. More importantly, in order that responsibility for the campus social experience is shared by all, and so that we have a single cohesive programme, the formation of a new Active Campus Team is recommended. This team would be responsible for all social events and projects organised on the campus, whilst supporting many active sub-groups, and this would bring staff and students together into a single cohesive, functioning campus community
Campus Author 2015 Event Photographs
No full textPhotographs taken at the 2015 Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception held Thursday November 5, 2015 at the Academic Town Square, McLaughlin Library
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