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Interview with Isabel Potter
Isabel Potter
Jan 01, 0001
In her April 22, 1980 interview with Jeff Clark, Isabel Potter shares her experience as a Biology instructor during the Depression. Potter recalls how budget changes affected her classes and the general atmosphere on campus....
Published by: Winthrop University
Digital Barriers and Individual Coping Behaviors in Distance Education During COVID-19
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have played a pivotal role in facilitating knowledge acquisition and enabling distance education. Yet, knowledge about digital divide in distance education remains limited. This...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework
This chapter presents a case study of how an academic library supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) employees with funding so these workers can find counterspaces (spaces where they can feel safe in community...
Gender & Diversity Library and Information Science Library Science Social Sciences and Humanities Education
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Levelling Up Language Learning
This study examines the use of gamification as an innovative assessment approach to foreign language learning with 12–14-year-old students. A mixed methodology has been applied. Quantitative data have been collected from...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Winthrop English Majors Recognized at International Conference
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Senior Alex Muller, president of the Winthrop Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta and editor of the Winthrop Literary Magazine The Anthology, was awarded the $4,000 Sigma Tau Delta Senior Scholarship for his outstanding scholarly...
Published by: Winthrop University
Women & Science: Supporting the Advancement of Women in Science
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
Under the leadership of President Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller made an institutional commitment in the mid- 1990s to increase the number of women on its faculty and to do all that it could to support women scientists, at all...
Torsten Wiesel Lydia Forbes Isabel Furlaud Nancy Kissinger Sydney Shuman Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
Published by: The Rockefeller University
Online Collaborative Learning Using Microsoft Teams in Higher Education Amid COVID-19
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most universities needed to move to online teaching and learning, in some cases with very limited knowledge or experience in running online programmes. Engaging students online has become an...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The Grizzly, September 25, 2003
Lindsey Fund, Lauren A. Perotti, Tori Wynne, Quinn Dinsmore, Meghan Jarrett, Bart Brooks, Amanda Bryman, Ellen Calhoun, Defne Sarsilmaz, Stephanie Tammany, Nicole Frates, Monica Delaney, Nicole Borocci, Crystal McCarney, Eden Swick, Kyle Kauffman, John Herting, Maria Rivera, Kristen Grimmel, Patricia Gruver, Ray Baker, Kimberly Salmon
Jan 01, 0001
The State of Iraq: "Critical, but not Hopeless" says Trudy Rubin Family Day Celebrates Students' Second Home The Journey of a Lifetime Aftermath of Isabel: A Photo Essay SERV Serves Students During Campus Emergencies ...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper Football field hockey Soccer Amanda Young William T. Parsons study abroad Lisa Jones Philip Zwerling CIE student emergency response volunteers Watson Fellowship Family Day Trudy Rubin cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
Missing the missing values
Abstract: Nowadays, there is an increasing concern in machine learning about the causes underlying unfair decision making, that is, algorithmic decisions discriminating some groups over others, especially with groups that are...
Triggers of the Postural Display of Courtship in Drosophila persimilis Flies.
D. persimilis courtship shows some flexibility and courting males sometimes perform an elaborate postural display in addition to the standard courtship behaviours shared by most Drosophila species. This postural display includes...
Pride and Prejudice: A Modern, Queer Retelling for the Stage
Kate Isabel Foley
Jan 01, 0001
In the course of studying LGBTQ topics in a queer drama class, I noticed that there was a glaring omission in our readings: the "B." However, this lack of bisexual representation wasn't due to a poor syllabus, but to a dismaying...
Theatre Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Bisexuality Playwriting Adaptation Arts and Humanities Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Literature in English, British Isles Playwriting Theatre and Performance Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Exploring ICCS 2016 to measure progress toward target 4.7
The objective of this report is to analyse data from the last cycle of the International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS 2016) (Schulz et al., 2017) in order to demonstrate its potential for monitoring specific aspects of the...
Published by: UNESCO
A Measurement Strategy for SDG Thematic Indicators 4.7.4 and 4.7.5 Using International Large Scale Assessments in Education
The aim of this document is to describe and implement a measurement strategy for the SDG Thematic Indicators 4.7.4 and 4.7.5 using International Large-Scale Assessments (ILSAs) in Education. Building on two reports previously...
Published by: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The relationship between cultural capital and the students’ perception of feedback across 75 countries
This paper employs Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital theory to examine the extent to which students' cultural capital is related to teacher-student interaction in the context of feedback. The study uses PISA (2018) data to...
Imprints from idea origin on innovation and the development environment
This study builds on the evolutionary and organization literatures to explore how the nature of innovation outcomes was influenced by the innovation’s original idea and the environment in which it was developed. We use data from...
Young Citizens Participation
A growing body of literature from different disciplines addresses concepts and measurement of citizenship. The present article seeks to contribute to this field by examining the issue of youth citizenship from a comparative...
What Influences the Prevalence and Intensity of Haemoparasites and Ectoparasites in an Insular Lizard?
Island biogeography theories predict that characteristics such as island size, age, and isolation interplay in host-parasite dynamics. In this study, we analyzed haemogregarines of the Aegean wall lizard, Podarcis...
Published by: Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe
European countries were economically and politically separated during the Cold War, but since its end processes of globalization and the formation of the European Union have contributed to blur the borders. Previous studies...
The relationship between cultural capital and the students’ perception of feedback across 75 countries
This paper employs Pierre Bourdieu's cultural capital theory to examine the extent to which students' cultural capital is related to teacher-student interaction in the context of feedback. The study uses PISA (2018) data to...
Combining Deep Generative and Discriminative Models for Bayesian Semi-Supervised Learning
Generative models can be used for a wide range of tasks, and have the appealing ability to learn from both labelled and unlabelled data. In contrast, discriminative models cannot learn from unlabelled data, but tend to...
Exploring trends in the relationship between child labour, gender and educational achievement in Latin America
Participation in child labour, in both household and non-household activities, gender effects and low educational attainment remain challenges for countries in Latin America. Through hierarchical linear modelling of data from...
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