Community Colleges Meeting Students’ Basic Needs

https://sites.google.com/view/dsp-community-college/home Of the students currently enrolled in post-secondary education institutions, more than 50% of college students are attending community colleges. Of these students, 36% are nontraditional students who are between the ages of 22 and 39, 29% first-generation students, and 20% are disabled students. Community colleges and their students are transforming what it means to participate in higher education by providing resources for students with diverse identities, overcoming exclusionary practices that sacrifice students’ physical, mental, and financial wellbeing. As part of a digital storytelling project, we aimed to think critically about injustice in higher education by focusing on a special population or concept, explore these topics through critical theoretical lenses, analyze existing research and best-practices, and present our work in a creative, digital medium. We decided to focus on how community colleges serve low-income students by supporting some of their basic needs: food, housing, healthcare, and technology. Drawing on our research and examples of community colleges who have led the way, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, we developed a website as an attempt to demonstrate some of the ideal ways that community colleges could support some of students’ basic needs, thus constructing our ideal community college. Resisting the long history of elitism, exclusion, and sacrifice in higher education is difficult but community co leges are leading the way. Dismantling these oppressive structures by elevating community colleges and their practices that support the basic needs of students is a first step in a revolutionary reimagining of student success

Lawyer - Winter 2002

• McGee Fulbright Fellowship • Graduates Named Super Lawyers • Law and Politics Honorees Take a Bow • ABA Official Gets Honorary Degreehttps://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/thelawyer/1024/thumbnail.jp

Lawyer - Winter 2002

• McGee Fulbright Fellowship • Graduates Named Super Lawyers • Law and Politics Honorees Take a Bow • ABA Official Gets Honorary Degreehttps://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/thelawyer/1024/thumbnail.jp

Journalist / The Ledger 2003

UWT leaders speak out about war coverage by Karie Anderson Chechnya: Road blocks on information by Elena Racheva War as a TV-action by Rafel Saakov Internet lacking credibility by Yevgeniya Dulo Unnecessary blocking: Foundation says censorware needs to go by Tolena Mahlum Politics driving economic pressure for journalists by Anton Maniashin, Galina Tischenko, Anna Tolokonnikova, Natalie Vyalkina Financial pressures changing today\u27s newsroom by Karie Anderson Television: A news source or entertainment? by Natalie Varentsova The most famous Americans in Russia by Rafael Saakov Free press becoming global by Tolena Mahlum Do we trust the media? by Yevgeniya Dulo Baby Sophia makes long journey home by Karie Anderson Two newspapers meet as strangers, leave as friends by Karie Anderson, Galya Tischenko, Anna Tolokonnikova, Rafael Saakov, Maria Schoor, Tolena Mahlumhttps://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/journalist/1002/thumbnail.jp

Mapping State Cultural Policy: The State of Washington

State-level funding for the arts, humanities, heritage, and allied forms of culture is an important source of financial support, dwarfing the aid provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. This investigation, underwritten by the Pew Charitable Trusts, shows that states support culture through policies and programs scattered across state government and through means that go beyond direct funding

Public Policy and Funding the News

Illustrates how declining government support and recent regulatory decisions have affected the viability of periodicals and other news outlets. Proposes a policy framework for indirect, content-neutral funding and investment in innovation and new models

Locating Art Worlds

This paper uses a varied literature to define “art” as literary, musical, or visual creations, and theatrical, dance, or musical performances that: are not motivated by utility; play some role in interpreting a culture or place; and are recognized as art by some number of audiences, vendors, producers, and critics. Thus, art benefits cultures and places through its interpretive value. The production and dissemination of artistic creations requires a constellation of materials, standards, techniques, producers, and vendors that is called an “art world” relevant to that type of art. Though the impulse to create art is universal, art worlds are manifested unevenly across cities within a country and across districts within a metropolitan area. These distributions differ for different types of arts and artists, but have some dependence on the division of labor and on economies of scale. Therefore it is not surprising that New York and Los Angeles dominate (different types of) art worlds and art creation in North America. However, some much smaller metropolitan areas exhibit proportional concentration in specific art fields. In addition, large metropolitan areas contain quite-separate districts of art production and dissemination. This paper concludes with a brief case study of visual-arts districts in New Orleans

Attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Process of Tacoma’s Globalization

This qualitative research project aimed to provide a comprehensive review of a deficiency in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Tacoma, the causes of that insufficiency, and the possible resolutions that could change the stagnation and attract more FDI. By analyzing the data collected mainly via interviews and survey, the paper revealed reasons Tacoma has lagged behind other similar cities in attracting FDI, where the gaps exist, and what kinds of educational programs could be applied to enhance the FDI literacy and competency. Case studies on other similar cities offer Tacoma lessons and experience on how to grow FDI. This project emphasized the importance of FDI in Tacoma’s globalization and highlighted the necessity of Tacoma adapting changes and transformation to develop FDI, which is a way to establish Tacoma’s place in a global economy. The study developed the conceptual frameworks to explain the perspectives of viewing FDI favorably as an integral element of overarching local economic development strategies. Also discovered was Tacoma’s tendency to derive incoming FDI from developing countries rather than the developed countries. Further exploration posited that a friendly city culture and favorable policies accelerated the progress of forging a welcoming environment for FDI. Based on the recommendations to boost FDI coming into the city, the paper concludes that, the constructive approaches are to find the potential investors by applying international educational exchange as an antecedent vehicle, and to cultivate the local work force serving FDI by conducting the designed adult educational program to enhance FDI literacy