15 research outputs found
Address of W.S. Lofton before the First Convention of St. Peter Claver's Catholic Union and Fifth Colored Catholic Congress
No full textMSM Historical Booklet and Pamphlet Collectio
A STUDY OF FACULTY PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING IN THE COMMUNITY-JUNIOR COLLEGES OF MARYLAND AS PERCEIVED BY FACULTY AND EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATORS
No full textThis study focused on decision making in the community-junior colleges of Maryland, meaning the areas of agreement or disagreement between faculty and executive administrators. How did members of faculty and executive administration perceive faculty participation in each of six pre-selected categories: budgeting, general institutional policies, professional personnel policies, and student personnel policies? The importance and degree of faculty participation were explored in each category.The assumption behind the methodology was that organizational effectiveness could be facilitated through identification of areas of agreement and disagreement in regard to the participation of faculty members in decision making.The method employed six null hypotheses. The population consisted of 186 respondent full-time faculty members and executive administrators during 1979-80. Seventeen of the eighteen community-junior colleges in Maryland participated.Data measurements were according to The Joseph A. Malik Decision-Making Questionnaire. The null hypotheses were analyzed using the two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). ANOVA F values were calculated to determine the presence or lack of significant differences between existing and desired degrees of participation.To test the strength of the relationship between groups, based on the ranks assigned to decision-categories, and to determine the importance of faculty participation in decision making, the Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient (rho) was used.Analysis uncovered a basic cleavage. Faculty members indicated a desire for a high degree of decision-making participation in each of the six categories. Administrators were divided in their opinions.Finally, the data indicated that faculty members desired some formal basis for participation in decision making, such as committee structure. The author concluded that these expressions of opinion would grow as the junior colleges moved more fully into the mainstream of American higher education.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-07, Section: A, page: 2252.Ph.D. American University 1982.Englis
Afro-American Perspectives. Lesson 23: Light, Stage, Cinema, Radio, TV
No full text30-program television series on black history and culture, written by William Blackwell Branch. Isaiah Fletcher, Affirmative Action coordinator for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Malkia Roberts, artist and teacher at American University, co-moderators. Roberts interviews Lofton Mitchell, playwright, author, and an early leader of the black theater movement. Fletcher surveys the history of black plays and performers
The Atlanta laboratories: an investigation to determine the political and planning processes involved in erecting the first federally funded housing project in the city of Atlanta, 1971
No full textReligion and the American Celebrity
No full text In American culture, is the celebrity a divine figure, or just another commodity in the marketplace? The author maps a series of strategies for the study of celebrities within the study of religion and America, focusing on the concomitant production of Britney Spears as a religious figure, a religious sacrifice, and a consumer product. </jats:p
Afro-American Perspectives. Lesson 22: Theatre, Opera, the Concert Stage
No full text30-program television series on black history and culture, written by William Blackwell Branch. Isaiah Fletcher, Affirmative Action coordinator for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Malkia Roberts, artist and teacher at American University, co-moderators. Roberts interviews Lofton Mitchell, playwright, author, and an early leader of the black theater movement. Fletcher surveys the history of black plays and performers
A sampling of the treatment of selected issues in the liberator from 1863 to 1865, 1984
No full textThis study consists of an examination of the Liberator from 1863 through 1865 for the purpose of ascertaining the paper's treatment of outstanding issues of that period. No attempt has been made to analyze all the articles on every issue. The issues selected are those related to the changing status of the slaves resulting from the Civil War. What did this abolitionist paper have to say concerning the role blacks should play as soldiers during the War? How would Garrison's paper evaluate the Emancipation Proclamation? What was its position on the care of the exslaves and the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau? The Liberator reprinted articles from various newspapers and other sources which were both positive and negative regarding all of these issues. Garrison, the editor, who founded the abolitionist Liberator in 1831, continued his role as champion of rights for blacks. The primary source for this study was the Liberator, which was on microfilm at the Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center and at the library of Georgia State University. Numerous secondary sources on each of the issues were consulted for background information
Limites ao planejamento sucessório
No full textThis article, without the pretension of exhausting the subject, is intended to investigate whether the institute of legitimate constitutes a limit to succession planning. Through bibliographic research, the tools for the implementation of planning are analyzed, presenting doctrinal and jurisprudential positioning on the subject. Then, the legitimate is analyzed as a possible impediment to planning. The objective is to verify if the institute, as foreseen in the Brazilian Civil Code, represents an obstacle to the exercise of private autonomy. In addition, a critique of the outdated character of Brazilian Succession Law is presented, which demands the need for updating. In conclusion, it is understood that the legitimate constitutes a state interference in private autonomy, restricting the freedom of the author of the inheritance regarding the destination of his assets, and must be made more flexible so that succession planning is, effectively, the result of the self-determination of the owner of the patrimony.O presente artigo, sem a pretensão de esgotar o tema, destina-se a perquirir se o instituto da legítima configura um limite ao planejamento sucessório. Por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica, analisam-se as ferramentas para a concretização do planejamento, apresentando posicionamento doutrinário e jurisprudencial sobre o tema. Em seguida, analisa-se a legítima como possível impeditivo ao planejamento. Objetiva-se verificar se o instituto, tal como previsto no Código Civil brasileiro, representa um óbice ao exercício da autonomia privada. Adicionalmente apresenta-se uma crítica ao caráter ultrapassado do Direito Sucessório brasileiro, o que demanda necessidade de atualização. Em conclusão, entende-se que a legítima constitui uma interferência estatal na autonomia privada, restringindo a liberdade do autor da herança quanto ao destino de seus bens, devendo ser flexibilizada para que o planejamento sucessório seja, efetivamente, resultado da autodeterminação do dono do patrimônio
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
