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How's Crops, Dean? (1932)
No full textVol. 1, No. 4 (2019)
With contributions by McKenzie Boes-Waddell.
This issue of SourceLab presents How’s Crops, Dean?, a film produced by Paramount News Corporation in 1932 to advertise a crops-for-tuition program created by Illinois Wesleyan University.
This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition
Unwell: A Study on the Perception of Black and Aged Bodies, McKenzie Clarke, Spring 2020
Get PDFMckenzie Clarke is a rising senior from Murfreeboro, Tennessee. Her professional goal is to become a tenured professor of English
Learning to See: A Reflection on Intergenerational Experiences, McKenzie Clarke, Spring 2020
Get PDFMckenzie Clarke is a rising senior from Murfreeboro, Tennessee. Her professional goal is to become a tenured professor of English
What Mrs. Callie Terrell Taught Me About Strength and Fragility That I Did Not Know, McKenzie Clarke, Spring 2020
Get PDFMckenzie Clarke is a rising senior from Murfreeboro, Tennessee. Her professional goal is to become a tenured professor of English
What the News Taught Me About Age and Ageism I Did Not Know, McKenzie Clarke, Spring 2020
Get PDFMckenzie Clarke is a rising senior from Murfreeboro, Tennessee. Her professional goal is to become a tenured professor of English
TEU Board of Regents Members H. K. McKenzie and Dean W. Turner, 1976
No full textThis photograph shows regents H. J. McKenzie and Dean W. Turner at a 1976 meeting of the TEU Board of Regents.https://scholarworks.uttyler.edu/bor_photographs/1009/thumbnail.jp
How can we learn whether firm policies are working in africa ? challenges (and solutions?) for experiments and structural models
Get PDFFirm productivity is low in African countries, prompting governments to try a number of active policies to improve it. Yet despite the millions of dollars spent on these policies, we are far from a situation where we know whether many of them are yielding the desired payoffs. This paper establishes some basic facts about the number and heterogeneity of firms in different sub-Saharan African countries and discusses their implications for experimental and structural approaches towards trying to estimate firm policy impacts. It shows that the typical firm program such as a matching grant scheme or business training program involves only 100 to 300 firms, which are often very heterogeneous in terms of employment and sales levels. As a result, standard experimental designs will lack any power to detect reasonable sized treatment impacts, while structural models which assume common production technologies and few missing markets will be ill-suited to capture the key constraints firms face. Nevertheless, the author suggests a way forward which involves focusing on a more homogeneous sub-sample of firms and collecting a lot more data on them than is typically collected.Microfinance,Small Scale Enterprise,E-Business,ICT Policy and Strategies,Banks&Banking Reform
Jill Burrett, counsellor, Sydney, 1978? [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Staff of the Family Court of Australia 1975-86.; Inscriptions: "Jill Burrett counsellor and later DCC Sydney. Now a successful author."--In ink on label.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn5742916
Evaluation of a primer used to orient students and instructors to the role of a sign language interpreter in the classroom: a focus group study
Get PDFPlan BThe Center for Special Needs at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) provides interpreting services to deaf and hard-of-hearing students enrolling in a wide range of classes and programs across the institution. A primer entitled An Interpreter in the Classroom was devised to clearly delineate the roles and responsibilities of students, interpreters, and instructors in a classroom interpreting situation. The manual was printed and found to have numerous errors and shortcomings. The purpose of this study was to develop recommendations for the revision of the primer. Fifteen potential users of the manual were recruited from MATC to attend the focus group sessions. The objectives of these focus groups were to: identify information in the current primer that was incorrect or outdated; develop suggestions for incorporating specific changes in the field of interpreting (or education as a whole) into an update
Impact assessments in finance and private sector development : what have we learned and what should we learn ?
Get PDFUntil recently rigorous impact evaluations have been rare in the area of finance and private sector development. One reason for this is the perception that many policies and projects in this area lend themselves less to formal evaluations. However, a vanguard of new impact evaluations on areas as diverse as fostering microenterprise growth, microfinance, rainfall insurance, and regulatory reform demonstrates that in many circumstances serious evaluation is possible. The purpose of this paper is to synthesize and distil the policy and implementation lessons emerging from these studies, use them to demonstrate the feasibility of impact evaluations in a broader array of topics, and thereby help prompt new impact evaluations for projects going forward.Access to Finance,,Debt Markets,Banks&Banking Reform,Microfinance
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