Strategies to Increase Representation of Students with Disabilities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

As a nation wrestles with the need to train more professionals, persons with disabilities are undereducated and underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The following project was proposed to increase representation of students with disabilities in the STEM disciplines. The program emphasizes an integrated program of interventions for college students with disabilities (SwD) majoring in STEM which centers on a system of continuous student monitoring with rapid access to academic and personal services, as well as professional development and degree enhancing experiences supplied during the entire period of college attendance

WITT National Network Fall/Winter 1993 Newsletter

Issue of the Fall/Winter 1993 WITT National Network newsletter. In this issue the National Coordinator, Marcia Braundy, reports on the upcoming June 1994 conference for women working in trades, technology, operations, and blue collar work. Reporting is provided on the recent activities of the various WITT chapters across Canada as well as successful partnerships which have occurred since the last issue. Announcement is made for a research project on implementation of employment equity initiatives with the plan of creating a best practices guide. Proposals for application/nomination for organizational positions are also included.[Is part of] WITT National Network Newsletter Series; [References] Surviving and Thriving II: Employment Equity Issues for Women; [References] WITT National Network's Directory of Recruitment and Retention Programs; [References] WITT's National Standards and Program Development Guidelines; [References] Beyond the Barriers; [References] Women's Employment and Training Coalition; [References] Women's Employment Advisory Committe

For Better and Worse: The Differing Income Tax Treatments of Marriage at Different Income Levels

Although both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses exist at all income levels under the federal income tax, the system is tilted toward penalties for lower-income couples, toward bonuses for middle-income couples, and back toward penalties for upper income couples. This Article begins by explaining how the tax rules produce these differing treatments of marriage at different points in the income distribution. It then argues that the increase in recent decades in the social acceptability and prevalence of cohabitation makes tax marriage effects a more serious concern--in terms of both behavioral, effects and fairness-than in earlier decades. After demonstrating that Congress has never offered any justification for the differing tax treatments of marriage at different income levels, and that no plausible defense exists for the current distribution of penalties and bonuses, the Article offers several policy recommendations. The most basic and most important recommendation is simply that, whatever Congress does in this area, it should make conscious decisions about the appropriate distributions of penalties and bonuses at various income levels, instead of following its current practice of stumbling into a set of poorly understood and almost-impossible-to-defend effects

Special Libraries, May-June 1978

Volume 69, Issue 5-6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1978/1004/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, April 1978

Volume 69, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1978/1003/thumbnail.jp

The East India Company and southern Africa : a guide to the archives of the East India Company and the Board of Control, 1600-1858

This study's purpose is to locate, select and separate out from the wider India Office Records, the extensive archives of the East India Company and its supervisory state body, the Board of Control, those classes, series, volumes and documents which contain sources on the history of the southern African region. 'Southern Africa' is taken to be the region including those countries which form modern South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola and Mozambique. An extensive survey of the archives was undertaken to address the previous lack of investigation of these sources. The analysis and synthesis of the survey seeks to explain why the sources are there, their extent, and what they are about. The study aims to draw researchers' attention to the range and depth of the sources in these archives, spanning the period of the combined existence of the East India Company (1600-1858) and the Board of Control (1784-1858). The finding aid produced from the survey results aims to improve accessibility to and facilitate greater use of these archives. The thesis begins with a brief description of the context - the history and organisation of the East India Company and the Board of Control. It then focuses on the Company's interest in southern Africa, particularly its agencies at the Cape of Good Hope (1793- 1858). A general presentation of the evolution, arrangement and extent of the India Office Records follows. This leads into a core discussion of sources contained within the relevant classes of the archives. The appendix comprises a detailed descriptive listing of the East India Company's archives on southern Africa. The listing presents the results of the survey of these disparate records in an intellectually accessible form, in order to submit an extensive body of evidence in support of the main part of the study