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Dr. Kristin Bezio – Faculty Author Interview
No full textKristin Bezio, Assistant Professor Of Leadership Studies, discusses “Friends & Rivals: Loyalty, Ethics, and Leadership in Dragon Age II,” a chapter in the 2014 book, Identity and Leadership in Virtual Communities: Establishing Credibility and Influence. Dr. Bezio’s teaching and research focuses on the ways in which literature, drama, film, and video games have influenced society and the way people think about issues of leadership and followership. Her chapter explores how video game players can influence their understanding of ethics in terms of human emotion and interactio
Workshop with Kristin Fontichiaro
No full textKristin Fontichiaro is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and a former school librarian, classroom teacher, and district professional development facilitator.
Her most recent edited volumes are Navigating the Information Tsunami: Engaging Research Projects that Meet the Common Core State Standards, K-5 (Cherry Lake, June 2012) and Growing Schools: Librarians as Professional Developers (with Debbie Abilock and Violet H. Harada, Libraries Unlimited, June 2012).
She has edited three eBook compilations of essays, available as free downloads from Smashwords.com: Everything You Wanted to Know About Information Literacy But Were Afraid to Ask; School Libraries: What\u27s Now, What\u27s Next, What\u27s Yet to Come (co-edited with Buffy Hamilton) and Information Literacy in the Wild.
Earlier professional books include 21st-Century Learning in School Libraries; Active Learning Through Drama, Podcasting, and Puppetry; and Podcasting at School. With Sandy Buczynski, she is co-author of Story Starters and Science Notebooking: Developing Student Thinking Through Literacy and Inquiry.
She is series editor for the Makers as Innovators series for Cherry Lake Publishing, to be released in Fall 2013, and co-author of the series\u27 Maker Faire and Raspberry Pi.
She also writes informational texts for middle grade readers, including Know What to Ask: Forming Great Research Questions (with Emily Johnson) and Shared Creations: Making Use of Creative Commons (with Emily Puckett Rodgers).
Additionally, she has written for Principal Leadership, ASCD Express, Teacher Librarian, Synergy, and other publications.
Named an Emerging Leader by the American Library Association, Distinguished Alumna by the Wayne State University Library and Information Science Program, and a 2012 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, she blogs at http://bit.ly/fontblog and writes the “Nudging Toward Inquiry” column for School Library Monthly
The Wake of 2020: Heroes, Saviors & Problems with Power with Kristin Kobes Du Mez
No full textHow can Christians learn to acknowledge abuses of power? Kristin Kobes Du Mez joins Andrew and ICS Junior Member cohost Abbi Hofstede for the next installment in our series on some of the challenges facing philosophy and Christian faith in the wake of 2020. Kristin is the author of the provocative book Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (Liveright, 2020). In this episode, she reflects on her experience writing the book, traces the thread of militant masculinity and racism in evangelicalism's recent history; and invites alternative visions of Christian culture, politics, and power
Self-archiving practice and the influence of publisher policies in the social sciences
No full textAuthors in different disciplines exhibit very different behaviours on the so-called ‘green’ road to open access, i.e. self-archiving. This study looks at the self-archiving behaviour of authors publishing in leading journals in six social science disciplines. It tests the hypothesis that authors are self-archiving according to the norms of their respective disciplines rather than following self-archiving policies of publishers, and that, as a result, they are self-archiving significant numbers of publisher PDF versions. It finds significant levels of
self-archiving, as well as significant self-archiving of
the publisher PDF version, in all the disciplines
investigated. Publishers’ self-archiving policies have
no influence on author self-archiving practice
Karnavaldan büyülü gerçekçiliğe: Berci kristin çöp masallari
No full textWith her different subjects and unique style Latife Tekin is a distunguished author of Turkish literature in the years following 1980s. Having synthesized the reality and the fantasy Tekin seems to have developed a new narration technique. Latife Tekin's Berji Kristin: Tales from Garbage Hills, which was published in 1984, arouse disagreement among some critics on the genre of this work. Since the concept of "magical realism" was not commonly known in Turkish literature of this era, some critics employed unsuitable instruments to interpret Berji Kristin: Tales from the Garbage Hills. It stands out in its unique way of using language, folkloric elements, and containment of supernatural events. In this study, after discussing the arguments based on Berji Kristin: Tales from Garbage Hills, the work will be examined with regard to Bakhtin's concept of carnivalesque novel. Thus, this article will prove that Berji Kristin: Tales from Garbage Hills has carnivalesque spirit with the employment of magic, reality, and fantasy
Sullivan, Kristin. Voter identification
No full text1 online resource (5 pages)"March 1, 2021."Summarizes identification (ID) requirements in Connecticut for registering to vote and for voting in person. Also discusses whether the state has ever had a strict photo ID requirement for voting in person. Updates OLR research report 2008-R-030
Kristin Linklater, Freeing the Natural Voice, in Orkney
No full textThis chapter is based on an interview with Kristin Linklater, master voice teacher for over 50 years in the United States and widely known internationally. On retiring as Emerita Professor after 16 years at Columbia University in New York, Kristin returned to her island birthplace on the Mainland, Orkney, north of Scotland to set up the Kristin Linklater Voice Centre (KLVC). The KLVC opened in 2014 and has offered residential workshops for students from over 35 different countries led by Kristin and increasingly by her fellow teachers and colleagues. The interview explores practice as research, charting how her teaching has developed since her return to her birthplace, drawing students and colleagues from around world to form a workshop laboratory and ‘community of practice’ on this remote island. It highlights how a particular regional landscape, Orkney, has shaped her and how, after returning to live there after 70 years of living away, Kristin is beginning to shape Orkney. © The Author(s) 2020
Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation: Examining a model for long-term housing afordability
No full textThis case study was produced by SCARP Masters Candidate Kristin Patten, under the guidance of a Steering Committee composed of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC, the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, the School of Community and Regional Planning, the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal and the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). The author wishes to thank the following for their time, insights and assistance: Bonnie Rice, Darren Kitchen, David Lach, Garth Davis, Genevieve Bucher, Jill Atkey, Kira Gerwing, Mike Lewis, Penny Gurstein, Susana Cogan, and Thom Armstrong. Thanks to Don McNair of McNair Editing for his help on one of the tables.This case study examines the Vancouver Community Land Trust Foundation (Land Trust), a project being implemented in Vancouver, BC by a consortium of non-profit organizations, social finance1 institutions and the municipal government. The case study was created in order to describe and examine the Land Trust as a potential model for providing long-term affordable housing without senior government funding or ongoing operating subsidies.
Metro Vancouver is experiencing a crisis in housing affordability and there is a need for
innovative solutions to the crisis. It is hoped that this case study will be useful for
governments, non-profit organizations, social finance institutions and other actors that may be interested in replicating the model in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
The Mayor’s Taskforce on Affordable Housing, and a resulting Request for Expressions of
Interest (RFEOI) put forward by the City of Vancouver in August 2012 provided the catalyst for the consortium of non-profit, social finance and professional organizations to come together under the umbrella of the Land Trust. However, in the years prior to the Taskforce, these same actors had all been looking at the big picture of affordable housing in the region,
and putting in place the structures that enabled them to quickly come together with the innovative Land Trust model when the RFEOI was issued. The overall initiative can be seen as the result of strategic actions by and between various actors converging in the emergence of a strategic social-public2 partnership – a collaboration between the
municipality and social actors for the long-term delivery of affordable housing.
The Land Trust project provides 358 units of non-market rental housing on four sites. The
City of Vancouver is leasing the land at the four sites through 99-year leases at a nominal rate. The Land Trust, a non-profit organization established by the Co-op Housing Federation of BC, is the lead proponent in the project. Non-profit and co-operative organizations will operate units for a diverse range of tenants, including low-income families and individuals
with mental health and / or addictions. A key feature of the project is a ‘portfolio approach’ that is enabling efficiencies in developing and operating the site, as well as enabling cross-subsidization from higher rent units to lower end of market units across the portfolio. Units will rent at varying levels of affordability ranging from units for those living on incomeassistance
to units renting at close to market rates. Overall units will rent at an aggregated
maximum of 76% of market; within this aggregate, rents will range from 23% of market rents to 90% of market. The core commitment of the Land Trust to providing affordable housing, and agreements with the City on affordability requirements ensures long-term affordability. Construction is due to start on the first two projects in the spring of 2015, with completion and occupancy in 2017–1018.
No one piece of the financing structure unlocks affordability; rather, it is the collective impact of all the different kinds of investment, combined with the cross-subsidies built into the business model that make it work. In particular, the City of Vancouver’s investment through the discounted land-lease along with the strong participation of social finance institutions stand out as critical features of the project’s funding.
As well, the agreement between the City and the Land Trust anticipates operating surpluses that will be used for future expansion of affordable housing. Surpluses will be split between the Land Trust and the City of Vancouver. In addition to reinvestment in new affordable housing units, surpluses can also be used to deepen affordability for low and moderateincome
people living in the existing Land Trust units.
The potential for replication of the Land Trust model is unfolding in the context of the transfer of provincial land assets to social housing organizations starting in 2014 as well as the end of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s operating agreements and their related mortgages. The Land Trust may provide a model for non-profits, co-ops, municipalities and other actors to leverage under-developed land that is already owned by the community or municipalities for affordable housing without ongoing government subsidies. The case study identified significant strengths in the model as well as some initial lessons learned. In particular, replication of the model will require commitment and leadership from government and social finance institutions collaborating in social-public
partnerships with non-profit and co-operative housing organizations.
In the unfolding provincial context, there is a particular opportunity for non-profit and cooperative associations to redevelop their own properties. Considerable sophistication and capacity is required to manage their own development; there is a gap in experience and equity and some may not be willing to assume the risks of redevelopment. In considering the Land Trust as a potential model for redevelopment, challenges that have emerged to date, such as tensions around decision-making and the reality of the time involved in, will
have to be considered.
Finally, the Land Trust is in early days of implementation; a Development Agreement has
been signed but construction had not yet begun at the time of publication of this case study. As such, the analysis contained in this case study must be read with the caution that this is a promising but not yet proven model.BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) ; Canadian Centre for Community Renewal (CCCR) ; School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia (SCARP) ; BC Non-Profit Housing Association (BCNPHA) ; Co-operative Housing Federation of British Columbia (CHF-BC
Main and Interactive Effects of Diabetes Distress and Stress from Life Events on Overall Psychological Distress
No full textThis study sought to extend previous research by examining rates of three different types of diabetes distress, and whether stress from life events amplified the association between diabetes distress and overall psychological distress in a community-based sample of 119 middle-aged and older adults with type 2 diabetes. Consistent with past research, individuals experienced a moderate level of diabetes distress. However, only some types of diabetes distress were associated with depressive symptoms, independent of stressful life events, whereas all types of diabetes distress were only related to anxious symptoms when stress from life events was also high.This has not been published yet (just accepted). I do not know if there is an embargo period for this journal.Peer reviewe
State faithless elector laws / by Kristin Sullivan, chief analyst
No full text1 online resource (4 pages)"January 11, 2021."Discusses faithless elector laws and which states have them. Also discusses the Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Ac
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