HUMAN CAPITAL NEEDS OF BLACK LAND-GRANT INSTITUTIONS

Labor and Human Capital, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Paradox for Community College: Education in the '80s

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68210/2/10.1177_009155218401200101.pd

Social Change and Community College Faculty: Is Effective Teaching Becoming Obsolete?

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68069/2/10.1177_009155218601400102.pd

Biological Inventory, Natural History, and Human Impact of Palo Alto National Battlefield

During 1993 a floral and fauna inventory was conducted on the Palo Alto National Battlefield Historic Site . Vegetational associations were mapped, and the impacts of agriculture and ranching were assessed. Attention was given to identifying endangered, threatened, or candidate species present within the site boundaries, and also species which may have been extirpated. An attempt has been made to envision where historic roadways were located and how the 1846 landscape may have appeared

Discrimination Against Women in Formal Credit Markets: Reality or Rhetoric?

Microenterprises receive several forms of aid; however, many are denied access to formal finance. It is often argued that women entrepreneurs are frequently discriminated against in formal credit markets, but these arguments are often based on rhetoric and advocacy rather than rigorous analysis. In this study, the results of a multinomial logit model show that although a smaller total number of women than men entrepreneurs applied for loans, women entrepreneurs represent a higher proportion of applicants. Interestingly, the small probabilities of both male and female entrepreneurs being quantity rationed implies that this form of credit rationing is not widely exercised in special microenterprise programs in Ecuador

Credit Rationing in Small Scale Enterprises: Special Microenterprise Programs in Ecuador

Small scale enterprises receive several forms of aid, but many are denied access to formal loans. A demand and supply model is estimated to analyze the factors lenders use to ration credit in special microenterprise programs. The results reveal that suppliers do not discriminate against less profitable enterprises and entrepreneurs who have not completed their high school education; however, these entrepreneurs have a smaller demand for external finance from the microenterprise programs than more profitable enterprises and entrepreneurs who have graduated from high school

Credit Rationing in Small Scale Enterprises: Special Microenterprise Programs in Ecuador

Small scale enterprises receive several forms of aid, but many are denied access to loans from special microenterprise programs. A demand and supply model is estimated to analyze the factors lenders use to ration credit. Results reveal that suppliers favor long-term loans, profitable enterprises, and highly educated entrepreneurs

The vascular flora of the Palo Alto National Battlefield Historic Site, Cameron County, Texas

A checklist is provided of the vascular plant taxa of the 1,376 ha Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site (PABNHS) in Cameron County of south Texas. PABNHS consists of four plant communities: resacas and tanks, salt flats, brush-grasslands and coastal marshes. Vascular plants of disturbed sites are noted. Two hundred forty-three taxa in 66 families are documented and their community affiliations are given. Three families, Poaceae, Asteraceae and Fabaceae contain 37.5% of the species richness at PABNHS