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Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Student’s Desire for Textbooks & the Library Budget
This chapter provides an overview of how academic libraries can adequately budget for and manage textbooks circulated to students through a print course reserve service. -
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Agonistic critiques of democratic theory conceptualize democracy as a site of conflict and struggle; as the fight against privatization escalates, these critiques become more relevant for educational governance. Public ... -
Weintraub et al. 2018 - JSP - Data and Procedures
This study seeks to disentangle the effect of polychronicity on work-home conflict, home-work conflict, and life satisfaction, by evaluating mindfulness as a moderator. We propose that mindfulness moderates the relationship ... -
Welcome: Introduction to Keynote Speaker
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Wertz Art + Architecture Library
(2013-04-26)The Wertz Art + Architecture Library needs more recognition from the Miami student population. The main objective of my thesis is an awareness campaign for the library, to not only help students find the library but also ... -
What difference does "digital" make to the humanities?
(2012-12-14)In this presentation, the speaker talked about key differences that digital media make in the humanities and debates about those differences were presented and illustrated with specific examples of projects. -
What Do Students Want? Small Group Instructional Diagnoses of STEM Faculty
Small Group Instructional Diagnoses (SGIDs) are informal, mid-semester evaluations of courses, which the instructors request voluntarily. The facilitator of the SGID comes into a class, the instructor leaves, and the ... -
What Information Literacy Means to Me: Collaborating with Faculty to Understand Student Perceptions of Information Literacy
This presentation recounts the experiences of The Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a community of professors and librarians at Miami University (Oxford, OH). Community members created a ... -
What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context
Keywords: prejudice, negativity, stereotypes, social roles, socioeconomic change This chapter contains section titled: Allport's Views on “The Nature of Prejudice”, Developments since Allport: Evidence of Prejudice in ... -
What makes a Public School Public? A Framework for Evaluating the Civic Substance of Schooling
Between the banality of the phrase in some contexts and its sacredness in others, it is hard even to ask the most basic question: what makes a public school public? In realms of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy, ... -
What We Are Taking Away from This Symposium
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What we regret most . . . and why
(2011-02-07)Which domains in life produce the greatest potential for regret, and what features of those life domains explain why? Using archival and laboratory evidence, the authors show that greater perceived opportunity within ... -
What’s pragmatic about community organizing?
In this paper I explore whether and how philosophical pragmatism might be a useful tool for achieving educational reform through social action work such as community organizing. I explore Aaron Schutz’s arguments relevant ... -
When Librarians Rank Last: First-Year Student Research Readiness, Library Intimidation & High School Experiences
What happens when high school students don't have access to librarians? In fall 2021 we conducted a survey of first-year students at two Ohio public universities. We hoped to learn about incoming first-year students' ...