The Cowl - v.80 - n.24 - Apr 28, 2016

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 80- No. 24 - April 28, 2016. 32 pages

Pre-Professional College Women’s Perceptions of the Social Implications of Company Sponsored Fertility Postponement

Large corporations, such as Apple and Google, as well as other tech companies, began incorporating fertility postponement in their health benefits to employees through the form of egg freezing and in-vitro fertilization starting in 2014. While some research exists looking at the implications of this policy for women in the workforce, little attention has been given to the perspective of young women about to enter the workforce. This research examines the perceptions of pre-professional women on the implications of potential future employers offering them egg freezing and IVF benefits, revealing contradictory feelings towards such policies. Since these women are in the most ideal fertility state to freeze their eggs, their understanding of company-sponsored egg freezing can help inform the decisions and policies surrounding this health benefit. By utilizing qualitative data gathered through interviews of pre-professional women about to graduate from their undergraduate, this research helps identify the key elements which companies should consider. Building on existing literature, I argue that companies should only offer egg freezing to their female employees if they offer a counterpart for male workers, provide better education on egg freezing and fertility practices, remove all pressures to utilize the service, and offer other family-friendly policies

Exploring the College-Going Scripts of Students Enrolled in a Rural Early College High School

While much has been written about the characteristics of first-generation college students, little has been written about the transformation they undergo on their way to a university education. In my arts-informed qualitative case study, I explored how school-based narratives and family-based narratives about college-going interacted in an Early College High School. I sought to understand how students with hybrid subjectivities perceive themselves within a social institution which has designated them as first-generation college students and how students negotiate multiple discourses to see themselves as college-going. The notion of schema, or life scripts, was a central metaphor. The school and family narratives are scripts that reflect both the lives the students have lived and the lives that others envision for them. I offer the data from this case study as a script, illustrating the discourses I observed and suggesting ways in which students may become authors of their own life narratives

The Twilight Program: A Phenomenographic Study

Alternative schools are an important concept in current education. This research describes the qualitatively different ways in which student’s experienced an alternative program, like Twilight. In these phenomenographic inquiry two current students, two Twilight graduates, and four Twilight teachers discuss the qualitatively different ways that students’ experience Twilight. The analysis yielded an outcome space of three qualitatively different ways of experiencing Twilight 1. Culture, 2. Self-efficacy, and 3, Teacher impact. Based on the findings of this research, the recommendation includes studying the shifting role of administrators in alternative education

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