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    Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball

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    Author Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series

    Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens

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    Author Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library

    Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer

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    Author Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez

    Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner

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    Author Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library

    Qualitative data set for the thesis 'Employability and capitals: the role of socio-economic background'

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    This dataset includes transcripts from 25 interviews conducted in support of the PhD project as above. The interviews were conducted online via Microsoft teams. The transcripts were created in MS Word. </span

    Quantitative data set for the thesis &#39;Employability and capitals: the role of socio-economic background&#39;

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    This dataset supports the thesis entitled: &lsquo;Employability and Capitals: The Role of Socio-economic background&rsquo; and includes results from an online survey.</span

    'You have to work ten times harder’: first-in-family students, employability and capital development’

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    Since the 1990s, UK government policy has sought to increase access to higher education, with a plan to improve social mobility. However, enhancing the employability prospects for all has proven difficult to achieve through widening participation alone. This research explores this paradox, via the experiences of first-in-family undergraduates as they prepare to enter the UK graduate labour market. The concept of capital development is applied to understand the structural disadvantages experienced by students who lack a familial university background. Twenty-five interviews with first-in-family students at a Russell Group university in the UK were analysed thematically, with the application of the Graduate Capital Model. Findings reveal the high value attached by these students to human capital and the barriers they face in accruing social and cultural capital. This research illustrates how students who lack such capital face numerous obstacles in developing the strong career identities necessary to transition to graduate employment. Whilst the Graduate Capital Model gives valuable insight into the experiences of these students, the role of economic capital in shaping prospects is also recognised. Recommendations are proposed as to how universities, careers services and employers might act in support of first-in-family students’ graduate transitions

    Gold standard of UK degrees is lost in translation

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    Inflated marks, overworked staff and politically compromised courses are the price of exploiting offshore UK registered students, says Michael Day

    Michael Rodriguez interviews historian and author Keith Widder

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    Historian and author Keith Widder talks about his move to Michigan from Wisconsin, his career as Curator of History for the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, his research interests, his book "Michigan Agricultural College", and his current projects. Widder is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library

    Dr. Michael Janis, Morehouse College, August 2011, August 2011

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    This video is a conversation with Dr. Michael Janis. Dr. Janis talks about his book, "Africa After Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media and Philosophy". Yolanda Gilmore-Bivins, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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