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Kimberly Brock, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKimberly Brock, a former actor and special needs educator, is a Georgia Author of the Year 2013 nominee. Her debut novel, The River Witch, a southern mystical work, has been chosen by two national book clubs. Kimberly\u27s writing has appeared in anthologies and magazines. When she is not working on her next novel, she is the Blog Network Coordinator for She Reads national online book club
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Divisions, Areas, and Ensembles - Recording Services - Kimberly Cole Luevano Session
No full textCloseup photograph of a microphone on the stage of Kimberly Cole Luevano's session in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater
Disability, Procreation, and Justice in the United States
No full textParenting and procreation have long been contested legal terrain in the United States as exemplified by a history of abuses against marginalized populations including people with disabilities. While some of the most egregious abuses, such as state sponsored sterilization programs, are relics of the past, it remains true that people with disabilities face distinct and at times insurmountable roadblocks to procreation and parenting. This article details ongoing forms of procreative discrimination against people with disabilities, rejects common justifications for that discrimination, and offers proposals for better protecting the rights to procreate and parent for disabled people.Peer reviewe
Procreative Pluralism
No full textThis article offers a modern approach to evaluating the right to non-coital reproduction that centers on the concept of procreative pluralism. Using lessons taught by reproductive justice scholars and advocates, the article reframes reproductive autonomy and reproductive equality so as to avoid the pitfalls of each and offers a justice account of why constitutional protection of assisted
reproduction is critical.
The article argues that the fundamental right to procreate as protected by the Constitution includes a fundamental right to use assisted reproduction. Unlike other scholarship, the article rejects the basis of this right as liberty/autonomy or equality standing alone and posits that a justice framework is best for protecting and balancing the procreative interests at play when people use assisted reproduction. Given the fundamental rights argument, the article argues that justice requires extensive protection of the right to procreate and exacting scrutiny of legislative attempts to interfere with that right. It goes beyond other scholars who have made this claim by also determining that the state may have positive obligations to provide some people with access to assisted reproduction services. To reconcile the importance of the procreative right with the compelling nature of state interests in procreation, the article offers a two-tiered system of constitutional review of the fundamental right to noncoital procreation in which those who wish to procreate and parent receive greater protection than those who wish to procreate for profit. Finally, the article articulates principles for regulation based on the structure of a two-tiered right and offers ideas for how to reconcile the fundamental rights analysis with legitimate justice concerns about potential harms to individuals and society fromthe use of assisted reproduction
Cultivating and Refining Clinical Knowledge and Practice: Relating the Boyer Model to Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarship
No full textThis article discusses the importance of collaboration between faculty members with clinical and research focused doctoral degrees. The barriers to obtaining tenure for clinical faculty members as compared to the research prepared faculty members are presented. Best practice outcomes are accomplished by using a team approach. The team uses the strenths of each of the academic bacgrounds, connecting them in collaboration and professionalism. Support for each other, with the Nursing community, provides empowerment and success in both patient outcomes and clinical excellence.Peer reviewe
“I never hear it talked about”: exploring discourses of whiteness in a predominantly white elementary school
No full textMuch is known about the practices, beliefs, assumptions, and discourses of teachers as they look at issues of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity but little has been done to understand how racial injustice is sustained in these school settings and how whiteness operates in predominantly white educational contexts. White elementary school teachers committed to providing quality education in predominantly white settings offer researchers an opportunity to examine how whiteness operates and how it is sustained or disrupted though the work of these white teachers. The research questions that guided this study were: 1. How do overarching discourses of whiteness operate in this predominantly white elementary school? 2. How do these white teachers resist/disrupt/challenge or perpetuate/contribute to/sustain the discourses of whiteness through their images, practices, and talk? Data for this qualitative study was collected using ethnographic data collection techniques such as critical interviews, participant observation, artifact and document analysis, and field notes in order to focus on whiteness and examine how it is reified or challenged through the discourses of two white male first grade teachers. Whiteness studies and critical theory were used as a theoretical lens to guide interpretative qualitative analysis in order to fully investigate the data within its multiple and varied contexts. In this predominantly white environment it was found that whiteness operated in two fundamental ways. First, it functioned through a discourse of silence that was supported by a pervasive ideology of colorblindness. Second, it functioned through a discourse of hypervisibility/invisibility that utilized a conflation of culture and race to render culture hypervisible, while at the same time making race invisible. What these findings indicate is a need for continued research with white educators a) to investigate how the discourses of whiteness impact their implementation of multicultural education in the classroom and b) to challenge them to critically analyze the unexamined power of whiteness at work in these elementary school settings.Ed. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kimberly A. Heuschke
Kimberly Blaeser Reading
No full textThe current poet laureate for Wisconsin returned to the College of Saint Benedict for a reading and residency Nov. 15-18.
Kimberly Blaeser, a 1977 graduate of CSB, held a reading free and open to the public at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in the Teresa Reception Center Boardroom, Main Building, CSB.
Blaeser works as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she teaches creative writing, Native American literature and American nature writing. She hails from Anishinaabe ancestry and is a native of the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
She is the author of three collections of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice (2007), Absentee Indians and Other Poems (2002) and Trailing You (1994). Blaeser has also edited two other books on Anishinaabe and Ojibwe poetry.
Her current creative project features Picto-Poems, and brings Blaeser\u27s poetry together with her wildlife photography to explore intersecting ideas about Native place, nature, preservation and spiritual sustenance.
Blaeser\u27s poetry dwells deeply on a complex, natural world - which includes the power of human imagination. These poems are small sure lights in the darkness - poems to lead us home, said poet and musician Joy Harjo of Absentee Indians and Other Poems.
Blaeser sees her position as poet laureate of Wisconsin as a gift that needs to be shared to the public.
Sometime in the history of this country, poetry got a bad rap, she said. Those who love poetry, but especially those who read or pen poetry in private, need permission and encouragement to be the shining poetry nerds they may long to be!
She will be residency from Nov. 15-18, visiting classes and working with students from CSB and Saint John\u27s University.
Both events are presented in collaboration with the CSB Literary Arts Institute (LAI) and the Fine Arts Series at CSB and SJU
Ellis wins Sporn Award for Teaching Engineering Subjects at Virginia Tech
No full textKimberly Ellis, of Blacksburg, associate professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech, has won a 2005 Sporn Award for Teaching Engineering Subjects
A multi-level study of human recreational activity and Least Tern (Sterna antillarum) responses: hatching success, behavioral responses, and stress hormone levels
No full textIn New Jersey, Least Terns (Sterna antillarum) nest primarily on sandy ocean beaches, where they must often share their breeding space with beach recreationists. The goal of this study was to determine whether hatching success, behavioral responses, or stress hormone levels in nesting Least Terns vary with exposure to human recreational activity. In particular, I was interested in knowing if birds exposed to more frequent activity exhibit elevated responses or if they habituate to human activity, and whether any such changes have consequences for hatching success. I quantified human activity at multiple sections of beach at a single site where human activity varied with distance from public entrances. Birds were observed for several behavioral responses and were subjected to a capture-stress protocol to measure adrenocortical stress responses. There was no clear relationship between human activity and hatching success. Although a significant negative relationship was found for birds laying early in the season, it was heavily dependent on a single nest. Hatching success was influenced mainly by lay date, due to gull predation on late-nesting birds. Behavioral responses were related to human activity levels. Nests in areas of high human activity had a significantly higher probability of flushing in response to human approaches and were left exposed more frequently than nests in low activity areas. Neither nest failure (all causes combined), nor nest predation specifically, was related to flush probability or frequency of nest departures. Thus the increased flushing did not appear to be sufficient to decrease hatching success. Whether flush rates experienced at beaches with higher traffic would reduce hatching, and whether chick survival is affected differently by such exposure, remain open questions. Successful nests were more aggressively defended than nests that failed. No relationships were found between human activity levels and stress hormone levels, but few birds were trapped (N = 12) and power to detect patterns was likely low. Given that behavioral responses were elevated over the relatively low levels of traffic observed at this beach, and that the consequences of such increases are not fully understood, there should be some sites where recreation is prohibited.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-49)by Kimberly A. Mendill
Anna and Kimberly Henderson, 1968
No full textView of Anna Henderson, wife of Dr. Vivian Wilson Henderson, with daughter Kimberly Anne Henderson
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