Exploring Sydney: An Onsite Orientation Program for Students Studying in Australia

Exploring Sydney: An Onsite Orientation Program for Students Studying in Australia is a four-day onsite orientation program designed for students spending the semester in Australia. In this program design, the students explore Sydney and learn about the country’s history and local culture. The onsite orientation is run by CISabroad, a third party provider based in Northampton, Massachusetts which offers college students affordable study abroad programs. The orientation takes place prior to the start of the five Australia semester programs. The Australian site director leads the onsite orientation and is with the students for the entire program. The program takes place in Sydney because the most of the students fly into the city before traveling to the final semester host school location. Sydney is Australia’s oldest city (Sydney, 2012), making it an excellent place to learn an overview of the country’s history. Activities are designed to acquaint students with the site director, other program participants, the streets and public transportation system in Sydney, and local culture. The activities build on the students’ previous knowledge gained from the online pre-departure program orientations while enabling them to continue learning and growing in Sydney. In order to create an effective, quality, and fun onsite orientation program, several learning theories, journal articles, and current CISabroad onsite orientation programs were researched. Reviews from past students and other staff members were consulted as well. Following implementation of the onsite orientation, the students and site director will evaluate the program through online forms and direct contact with CISabroad staff. The constant evaluation of the onsite orientation will ensure the quality of the program remains consistent throughout the years

Donald Jongeward interview

Donald Jongeward served as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds and Purchasing Agent at Central Washington College of Education (predecessor to Central Washington University) between 1946 and 1974. He passed away in 2000.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cwura_interviews/1120/thumbnail.jp

Overture and Beginners Please! A Call for Performing Arts Metadata at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

In August 1947, Scotland hosted its first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama. Unbeknownst, it simultaneously hosted an uninvited set of eight theatre troupes, whose performances included a staging of Macbeth, alongside Marionette puppet plays. These undeterred artists set into motion what would become the single largest celebration of arts and culture in the world: the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The year 2017 is the Festival’s 70th Anniversary. Yet, little attention has been paid to its documentation and description. The literature suggests that metadata schemas dedicated to performing arts are recent, and none have been explored in the context of the Fringe. This research project conducts a case study of an archival collection entitled Follow the Fringe. It employs qualitative content analysis to explore how well the current metadata schemas modeled for performing arts address the descriptive needs of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Torch, Spring/Summer 2010

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Patricia Highsmith and the Postwar Literary Marketplace: The Middlebrow, Print Culture, and Canonisation

Typically pegged as an author of suspense fiction or crime writing, this dissertation argues that engaging the material artefacts of Highsmith’s history in postwar print culture provides a lens onto the author’s forgotten middlebrow ambitions. Analysing Highsmith’s frustrated attempts to enter the booming postwar market for middlebrow fiction, it draws on resources typically underutilised by literary scholars: rejection slips and abridgements. Tracing her many failures and limited successes within the literary marketplace, the dissertation is also an attempt to understand how Highsmith’s canonisation has provided misleading narratives about the author that overlook her investments in middlebrow culture. It concludes by suggesting that any attempt to define the various cultural practices designated as middlebrow must remain incomplete until the links between print culture, the literary marketplace and canonisation have been carefully articulated

Eat This in Remembrance: The Zooarchaeology of Secular and Religious Sites in 17th-Century New Mexico

This thesis examines the faunal remains from LA 20,000, a 17th-century Spanish estancia near Santa Fe, New Mexico that was inhabited by a family of Spanish colonists and indigenous laborers. The data collected from these specimens are examined to better understand the diet of the site’s inhabitants, especially in conjunction with existing data on the plant portion of the diet at this site. Creating a more complete picture of the diet, the analysis covers Number of Identified Specimens (NISP), Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI), potential meat weight represented by the various species, bone modifications, and ageing and kill-off patterns. These all allow for a deeper understanding of the diet and negotiation of identity through foodways. For more context, the results of the analysis of LA 20,000’s collection are compared to data from Awatovi mission, which was inhabited contemporaneously. The comparison of these two collections reveals differing strategies between the secular and religious households that are affected by identity, politics, food availability, and social structure. This work is one of the first in-depth zooarchaeological analyses of the 17th-century New Mexican diet and it can be used to help understand the various strategies of power that Spanish colonists utilized