Minutes 1998-1999

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections

Minutes 2007-2008

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections

Minutes 2004-2005

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections

Healthcare Reform & the Missing Voice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Given the high prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by Americans, coupled with the emphasis placed on prevention in many of the healthcare reform proposals, this article argues that CAM should play a role in the healthcare reform conversation. Part I provides the background information on CAM including its definition, CAM use, and its cost. This section also broadly outlines the contours of the early healthcare reform proposals, those in existence as of January 2009. Part II describes how CAM would ideally be integrated into the United States healthcare system. Part III outlines the reasons CAM has been excluded from the healthcare reform debate and describes the brief references made to CAM in the healthcare reform conversation. Part IV concludes by identifying an area where CAM can positively contribute to healthcare reform initiatives and recommends ways that evidenced-based CAM modalities can support efforts focused on prevention and wellness through corporate wellness programs

Minutes 2005-2006

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections

Minutes 2009-2010

The records of the Administrative Staff Council (UA-022) are available in print in the Center for Archival Collections

CONFSYS2: a redesigned web-based multi-conference management system

This thesis presents the design and implementation of ConfSys2, an advanced redesign of ConfSys system, with additional features to help conference/journal organizers to manage the processes of academic conferences/journal, and to provide related services for author and conference participants. The ConfSys2 uses the same Tomcat - Java Servlet/JSP - MySQL platform as ConfSys, but redesigned database structure, software framework, and user interfaces. The features of ConfSys have been retained and improved both in user friendliness and efficiency in ConfSys2, and the lessons learnt from developing and using ConfSys have been incorporated. ConfSys2 not only implements better user interface for ConfSys's useful functions, such as automatically/manually allocating paper to reviewers, debating and rating paper, but also introduces new concepts, such as conference/journal series management, user-group-function management, and smart daemon in conference management to improve data sharing, reduce repetitive work and make management work more flexible. Furthermore, the redesign of databases and software framework provides clear structure and flexibility, thus making the maintenance and expanding of the software system easier

A Bridge Builder or a Raconteur? How Japan Manoeuvres the Global Development Discourse within the TICAD Process

Japan has been a major actor in the field of development cooperation for five decades, even holding the title of largest donor of Official Development Assistance (ODA) during the 1990s. Financial flows, however, are subject to pre-existing paradigms that dictate both donor and recipient behaviour. In this respect Japan has been left wanting for more recognition. The dominance of the so called ‘Washington Consensus’ embodied in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank has long circumvented any indigenous approaches to development problems. The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a development cooperation conference that Japan has hosted since 1993 every five years. As the main organizer of the conference Japan has opted for the leading position of African development. This has come in the wake of success in the Asian region where Japan has called attention to its role in the so called ‘Asian Miracle’ of fast growing economies. These aspirations have enabled Japan to try asserting itself as a major player in directing the course of global development discourse using historical narratives from both Asia and Africa. Over the years TICAD has evolved into a continuous process with ministerial and follow-up meetings in between conferences. Each conference has produced a declaration that stipulates the way the participants approach the question of African development. Although a multilateral framework, Japan has over the years made its presence more and more felt within the process. This research examines the way Japan approaches the paradigms of international development cooperation and tries to direct them in the context of the TICAD process. Supplementing these questions are inquiries concerning Japan’s foreign policy aspirations. The research shows that Japan has utilized the conference platform to contest other development actors and especially the dominant forces of the IMF and the World Bank in development discourse debate. Japan’s dominance of the process is evident in the narratives found in the conference documents. Relative success has come about by remaining consistent as shown by the acceptance of items from the TICAD agenda in other forums, such as the G8. But the emergence of new players such as China has changed the playing field, as they are engaging other developing countries from a more equal level.Siirretty Doriast