Alumni participation: An investigation using relationship marketing principles

This study investigated in what ways alumni relations officers use relationship marketing principles, concepts, and bonding levels to strengthen the ties between alumni and their alma maters. Alumni programs and services at select high intensive research institutions of higher education were explored and an explanation was offered for how using relationship marketing in alumni relations might be beneficial. A literature synthesis, drawn from an extensive examination, evaluation, and interpretation of alumni relations and relationship marketing literature, helped to inform this exploratory study. Using a qualitative method of study, data was gathered through interviews with senior alumni relations officers, by observing their department\u27s web page, and by reviewing specified applicable documents. Themes, patterns, and categories emerged providing meaningful findings from this study. The researcher found that relationship marketing principles were used by select alumni relations officers in higher education. These alumni relations officers designed programs and services that apply relationship marketing principles, concepts, and bonds at the financial, social, and structural level to strengthen the relationship between alumni and alma maters, much like that seen in business literature. What differs from in business were the emotional and intellectual bonding levels found in the university setting. Emotional bonds, as seen through strong passion and a sense of belonging alumni, also seem to elicit alumni wanting to give back to their alma mater. Intellectual bonds seem important to alumni, as well, when alumni engage in educational experiences with fellow alumni and with their alma maters. Treating prospective students as valued customers before students first arrive on campus until their graduation and well beyond apply relationship marketing in a higher education setting. This application helps to strengthen ties that bind alumni to their alma maters. This study should assist the development of comprehensive and consistent alumni programs and services that encourage alumni to participate at the financial, social, structural, emotional, and intellectual bonding levels. Intended to provide alumni relations officers with a preliminary theoretical framework of relationship marketing, this study should benefit the growth and advancement of institutions of higher education

Gaining Ground on Equal Pay: Empowering Boston\u27s Women Through Salary Negotiation Workshops, A Report on Year One of AAUW Work Smart in Boston

This report is a case study, not an evaluation. Its focus is on a particular program, AAUW Work Smart in Boston, over a defined period of time (September 2015 – October 2016) in order to understand the program’s impact on the women who participated in it. This report explores several key questions: In what ways do AAUW Work Smart in Boston workshops have an impact on the women who complete them? What are the main barriers that prevent women from addressing their compensation level and/or achieving pay equity? What are primary factors that facilitate women’s capacity to achieve successful salary negotiation and ultimately pay equity? What types of learning and, importantly, what kinds of actions are taken as a result of completing the workshop and how do the women perceive their own worth and value? The analysis presented in this report is based primarily on in-depth interviews with 52 women who completed workshops. Supplemental data were collected to understand the perspectives and experiences of individuals involved in workshop implementation. While the research questions were focused on understanding the impact of the workshops, including whether participants were able to ask for and/or secure a pay increase following the workshop, the case study method allows for the development of a deeper analysis of the experiences women had during and following the workshop

Recovery for All? A Snapshot of Women’s Economic Status in New England

This November 2016 report, based on pre-recession and post-recession earnings data from the American Community Survey, demonstrates that while women’s overall earnings are now higher than pre-recession levels, other key indicators demonstrate a growing wage gap for many women—especially minorities and low-wage workers. Minority women in New England who are employed full-time, year-round earned 62 percent as much as white men, both before and after the recession. While the gap between minority women’s and white women’s earnings decreased in Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island after the recession, it stayed the same in Massachusetts and widened in Connecticut and Vermont. Also, the percentage of female workers earning less than $20,000 a year is on the rise. Thirty percent of female workers across the region fall into this category, and in every New England state except for Maine, the proportion of women with these low annual earnings increased in the post-recession period. Data on the low-wage, female-dominated occupations of retail and direct care show that annual earnings for female workers employed in these occupations have decreased in every New England state from the pre-recession period

The Iowa Homemaker vol.28, no.8

Grapplers Provide Mat Thrill, John Marousek, page 3 Can Science and Religion Mix?, Barb Allen, Janet Sutherland, page 4 Teach Home Economics, Pat Close, page 7 It’s Merrill-Palmer, Peggy Krenek, page 8 Vicky Steps Out In Cotton, Jo Ann Breckenridge, page 11 What’s New In Home Economics, Peggy Krenek, page 12 Sight-seeing In Peiping, China, Joan Kelleher, page 14 Backstage At the Theatre Workshop, Frances Bosnak, page 18 Beware - Headaches, Margaret Wallace, page 21 Keeping Up With Today, Mary West, page 2

The Iowa Homemaker vol.26, no.2

Alma Mater, J. C. Harris, page 2 Travel With Poise, Mary Ann Hakes, page 3 Report From Athens, Joan Kelleher, page 4 Blanche Pederson Interviews an Aussie Bride, Blanche Pederson, page 5 Coeds are Veterans, Too, Mary Margaret Ryan, page 6 Future Home Economics Classroom, Helen Hochriem, page 7 Vicky Grins at the Sun, Breta Soldat, page 9 What’s New in Home Economics, Marjorie Clampitt, page 10 Wardrobe Worries? Here’s What We Wear, Textiles and Clothing Club, page 12 “I Have a Dozen Bosses”, Genevieve Callahan, page 14 Albino Rats Get in on the Ground Floor, Margaret Waterland, page 17 Alums Prove Chemistry can Pay, June Welch, page 18 Education Begins Egyptian Modernizing, Lois Bronson, page 19 Across Alumnae Desks, Mary Neff, page 21 Keeping Up With Today, Joyce Edgar, page 22 How Does Your Garden Grow?, Irene Meyer, page 23 Alums in the News, Goldie Rouse, page 2

Practising lawyers in Nova Scotia: cognitive style and preferences for practice

The Cognitive Style Index and a demographic survey were administered to 524 practising lawyers in Nova Scotia. Results indicate that lawyers, as a group, have a more analytical than intuitive cognitive style. Differences between men and women and between partners and associates were nonsignificant statistically. This finding suggests lawyers are a more homogeneous group in terms of cognitive style than other groups such as law students and various groups of business managers. However, lawyers differed significantly in cognitive style across various preferred areas of practice. For example, those preferring criminal law scored statistically significantly lower on the Cognitive Style Index than those who preferred Real Estate and Construction law. Organizational behavior implications are discussed

Telephone delivered incentives for encouraging adherence to supervised methadone consumption (TIES): study protocol for a feasibility study for an RCT of clinical and cost effectiveness

The majority of people receiving treatment for their heroin addiction, are prescribed methadone; for which there is an extensive evidence base. When treatment starts, people take their daily dose of methadone under supervision at a community pharmacy. Supervision guarantees methadone is taken as directed by the individual for whom it has been prescribed, helps to ensure individuals take their correct dose every day, and safeguards against diversion and overdose. However, individuals often fail to attend the pharmacy to take their methadone. Each missed dose is of concern. If a patient misses their daily dose of methadone, they will start to experience opiate withdrawal and cravings and are more likely to use heroin. If they miss three days dose, there are concerns that they may lose tolerance to the drug and may be at risk of overdose when the next dose is taken. Hence there is an urgent need to develop effective interventions for medication adherence. Research suggests that incentive-based medication adherence interventions may be very effective, but there are few controlled trials and the provision of incentives requires time and organisational systems which can be challenging in pharmacies. The investigators have developed the technology to deliver incentives by mobile telephone. This cluster randomised trial will test the feasibility of conducting a future trial evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of using telephone delivered incentives (praise and modest financial rewards via text messaging) to encourage adherence with supervised consumption of methadone in community pharmacies. Three drug services (each with two or three community pharmacies supervising methadone consumption that will enrol 20 individuals, a total of 60 participants) will be recruited and randomly allocated to deliver either i) telephone delivered incentives, ii) telephone delivered reminders or iii) no telephone system. Acceptability, recruitment, follow-up, and suitable measures of clinical and cost effectiveness will be assessed. Findings from this feasibility study will be assessed against stated progression criteria and used to inform a future confirmatory trial of the clinical and cost effectiveness of telephone delivered incentives to encourage medication adherence. ISRCTN58958179 (retrospectively registered). [Abstract copyright: © 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Characterisation of nanovoiding in dental porcelain using small angle neutron scattering and transmission electron microscopy

Objectives Recent studies of the yttria partially stabilised zirconia–porcelain interface have revealed the presence of near-interface porcelain nanovoiding which reduces toughness and leads to component failure. One potential explanation for these nanoscale features is thermal creep which is induced by the combination of the residual stresses at the interface and sintering temperatures applied during manufacture. The present study provides improved understanding of this important phenomenon. Methods Transmission electron microscopy and small angle neutron scattering were applied to a sample which was crept at 750 °C and 100 MPa (sample C), a second which was exposed to an identical heat treatment schedule in the absence of applied stress (sample H), and a reference sample in the as-machined state (sample A). Results The complementary insights provided by the two techniques were in good agreement and log-normal void size distributions were found in all samples. The void number density was found to be 1.61 μm−2, 25.4 μm−2 and 98.6 μm−2 in samples A, H and C respectively. The average void diameter in sample A (27.1 nm) was found to be more than twice as large as in samples H (10.2 nm) and C (11.6 nm). The crept data showed the highest skewness parameter (2.35), indicating stress-induced growth of larger voids and void coalescence that has not been previously observed. Significance The improved insight presented in this study can be integrated into existing models of dental prostheses in order to optimise manufacturing routes and thereby reduce the significant detrimental impact of this nanostructural phenomenon.</p