778 research outputs found
Measuring Merit: The Shultz-Zedeck Research on Law School Admissions
No full textLaw schools profess a commitment to racial diversity both for the educational benefits diversity confers and for its contribution to the profession. But they admit students based on standards that, while not discriminatory in a legal sense, undeniably favor white applicants. Today the question of who belongs in any given law school, or law school at all, turns almost exclusively on an applicant’s score on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). Law schools are not blind to the racial impact that accompanies this narrow measure of merit. But rather than taking a hard look at whether legal educators have adequately, or accurately, identified what qualities best qualify students for law school, the admissions process largely relies on affirmative action to ameliorate the current process\u27s negative effects. That approach is imperfect for a whole host of reasons, not least of which is that affirmative action’s legal use in higher education may be about to end. Should race-conscious admissions practices be banned, every law school that truly values diversity will have to explore race-neutral means of achieving it. The good news is that research conducted by Marjorie Shultz and Sheldon Zedeck suggests that this is possible - that qualities relevant to effective lawyering can be defined and predicted without recreating the LSAT\u27s disparate impact. This essay describes that research and the promise that it holds for improved, race-neutral, admissions processes
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Marjorie Shultz Interview, Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, "Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s."
No full textMarjorie Shultz Interview, Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, "Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s."
No full textLetter from Marjorie McQuillan to Ralph B. LeCocq, ca. 1971-72
No full textLetter to describe thanks for the kind letter Ralph LeCocq had sent to Marjorie, author of the article about his brother John. Marjorie tells a few other stories of John as well as some of the other brothers she got to know.https://nwcommons.nwciowa.edu/lecocqdescendants/1014/thumbnail.jp
Measuring law library catalog website usability
No full textAlthough there is a proliferation of information available on the World Wide Web and law professors, students, and other users have a variety of channels to locate information and complete their research activities, the law library catalog still remains an important source for offering users access to information that has been evaluated and cataloged by experts. The usability of the catalog needs to be effectively measured before any necessary improvements can be made.
This study was undertaken to investigate the information retrieval patterns of users of the Rutgers Law Library Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC), and to develop the catalog into a more effective search tool for these users. This study used an experimental approach to measure the usability of our catalog by analyzing the transaction logs from the OPAC system and the results from the Google Analytics. The findings provided not only important information on user demographics and their computer systems, but also more insight on the search behaviors of users. The specific findings included the following: 1) The Google Analytics as a Web analytic tool provided extensive information on the OPAC and the navigational behaviors of users. 2) Fifty-eight percent of our users visited the Website regularly. 3) The most popular search method, which was employed by thirty-seven percent of our users, was by Title. 4) Most patrons used computer systems that had high resolution and color depth monitor, and used high speed Internet connection to visit the catalog Website. 5) Suggestions were made by the authors to improve the users’ search experience of the catalog Website. This study is significant to libraries with Web catalogs, because it demonstrates the potential value of using the Google Analytics as a Web analytics tool in combination with the OPAC transaction logs to measure catalog usability.Peer reviewe
Marjorie Sandor, 25th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMarjorie Sandor is the author of a book of stories, A Night of Music, and a book of essays, The Night Gardener. Her new story collection, Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime, will be published by Sarabande Books in 2003. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Five Points, and The New York Times Magazine, as well as several anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories 1985 and 1988, The Pushcart Prize XIII, The Best of Beacon 1999 and In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal. Sandor teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Oregon State University in Corvalis. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Associated Writing Programs
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Author Meets Reader Panel on Brown, Carnoy, Shultz et al, Whitewashing Race: The Myth of A Color Blind Society.
No full textProfile of retired cookbook writer Marjorie Standish, author of Keep Cooking th
No full textProfile of retired cookbook writer Marjorie Standish, author of Keep Cooking the Maine Way
Review of Cooking Down East, with a profile of the author, Marjorie Standish,
No full textReview of Cooking Down East, with a profile of the author, Marjorie Standish, 88, of Hallowell
Assessing New Jersey's Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: A Companion Report to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel Report
No full textThe New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Advisory Committee requested that Rutgers University convene a Science and Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) to synthesize for practitioners the most recent climate science needed to inform efforts to increase the resilience of New Jersey’s people, places, and assets (including infrastructure, communities and natural resources) to regional sea-level rise (SLR), changing coastal storms and the resulting flood risk. This companion report to the STAP report provides context for New Jersey citizens, practitioners, and decision makers to better understand how New Jersey municipal decision makers and municipal professionals consider the use of coastal hazard data; how climate change impacts from sea-level rise and changes in coastal storms are being addressed in some other areas of the Northeast; and the degree to which coastal climate change impacts are currently being addressed in New Jersey.Please cite this report as: Kaplan, M., M. Campo, L. Auermuller, and J. Herb. 2016. Assessing New Jersey’s Exposure to Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Storms: A Companion Report to the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance Science and Technical Advisory Panel Report. Prepared for the New Jersey Climate Adaptation Alliance. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University.
Support for this work was provided by Kresge Foundation; New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium; and Rutgers Climate Institute
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