University High Highlights 2/12/1964

This is the student newspaper from University High School, the high school that was on the campus of Western Michigan University, then called University High Highlights, in 1964

Of Flyers and Free Speech: How Student Activism Defined the Contours of One University’s 21st-Century Hate and Bias Policy

Since 1999, The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) operated under a Student Policy on Race Relations when handling hate and bias incidents. In February 2017, an anti-Muslim flyer was posted near campus, prompting UT administration to hold a town hall for UT student activ-ists to vocalize their concerns. Through Kezar’s (2010) description of modern student protests and Barnhardt’s (2014) framework for modern student protests, this study analyzes the marginal-ized UT Austin student voices of that town hall meeting, demonstrating how modern student activism influenced presidential rhetoric and a new Hate and Bias Incidents Policy, the first in nearly two decades at UT Austin.Educatio

Pushing Back Against Deficit Narratives: Mentoring as Scholars of Color

In this article we share our lived experiences with mentoring. As tenured women professors of color, we push back against the assumption that institutions of higher education are neutral sites, that we have to change to belong, and that we do not belong. Each of us underscores the importance and value of our realities and the knowledge we generate to address inequality and to counteract negative stereotyping. We argue that rejecting deficit narratives and privileging the narratives of those we mentor and of those who have mentored us is vital to increasing faculty of color diversity, inclusion and belonging in higher education.Educatio

Bush Approval Drops to New Low in NH 2/12/2007

President Bush’s job approval ratings in New Hampshire have dropped to the lowest level of his administration. Unhappiness with the war in Iraq is now cutting into Bush support among core Republicans. These findings are based on the latest Granite State Poll,? conducted by the University of New Hampshire Surve

Assessment and self-assessment of project manager

The activities for projects preparation and progress are run within a hard and hostile environment, requiring the project management to perform an assessment/self-assessment before getting involved in activities specific to investment and production processes. The paper presents a series of criteria that must be taken into account, such as: the health degree and the efficiency, social obligations towards family (parents, children, relatives, etc.), the training degree within business, efficiency within run activities, past incisiveness and initiatives, capacity to plan an action, to lead and make decisions: flexibility degree, accommodation to new situations, perseverance degree and complex approach of the business, capacity to observe the principles of business ethics.project manager, ethics, competition, objectives, prices

The Credit Crunch and the High Street: 'Coming Like a Ghost Town'

Drawing on primary visual data and secondary sources this rapid response piece speculates on the changes to the British high street as a consequence of the credit crunch. The changes are much more profound than simply the loss of a place to shop. For both individuals and wider society the changes to the British high street carry implications for issues of self-identity, social contacts and social exclusion.Credit Crunch, High Street, Visual Sociology, Urban, Consumerism, Social Exclusion

Epistemic Communities Facing a New Type of Agora? Centres of Science, Technology and Innovation as Defining the New Research Landscape in Finland

We analyse the question of what role and positions epistemic communities have in the agora, and more specifically in the new mediating organizations that are established at the interface of the state, businesses and universities. These new organizational structures embody the present politics of knowledge that reign in national science policy globally. The new organizational structures, as potentially new agoras, also epitomize several of the changes that have taken place in the science and industry landscape of the past decades all over Europe and the world. We are interested in understanding how epistemic communities are situated vis-�-vis agora in knowledge production. The empirical example comes from Finland, where major new institutional reforms in science policy, the new strategic centres of science, technology and innovations, have been implemented to create possibilities for new knowledge creation and new product and service development. These centres of science, technology and innovations (CSTIs) were originally planned as functioning agoras, open, simultaneous and joint platforms for the state, businesses, researchers and universities. In the article we show how the organizational structure and decision making processes adopted in the CSTIs have changed the original idea of agora, thus changing also the position of epistemic communities involved. In the process, we evaluate Nowotny\'s interpretation of agora.Epistemic Communities, Agora, Science Policy, Finland, Research Landscape, STS Studies, Critical Research, Qualitative Study, Company, Power

National Identity and Intercultural Outlook: a Critical Review of Hong Kong's Civic Education Since the 1980's

This paper argues that in the new landscape of a postmodernist world, civic education would need to nurture national identity and promote intercultural outlook hand in hand. This article reviews development of Hong Kong’s civic education development in this light. In the case of post-colonial Hong Kong, a sensible balance is most needed as the city is to continue as an international city that functions as one of China’s windows to the world.Civic education; National identity; Intercultural outlook.

Integrating Market Based Instruments for Pollution Control - Strategic Option for Enhancing Competitiveness within Energy Industry -

The paper aims to emphasize the efficiency of using market based instruments for both reducing pollution and enhancing competitiveness within the energy industry. Given the previous experience of European countries, as well as the characteristics of the main market based instruments, the paper is focused on developing two alternatives for combining green certificates schemes, white certificates schemes and emissions trading schemes (black certificates schemes) in strategic options, aiming to increase the competitiveness of the energy industry and to decrease the emissions generated within this field. Each strategic option presented includes an integration scheme, as well as the main advantages and disadvantages deriving from the implementation of these mechanisms. The paper also demonstrates that an integrated market based instruments’ scheme is more efficient and even cost-effective than using single instruments. The whole analysis places a higher focus on white certificates, as these are the more recent market based instrument for enhancing competitiveness within energy industry.competitiveness, energy industry, green certificates, market based instruments, pollution control, white certificates.

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