Faculty members\u27 and graduate students\u27 perceptions of multicultural education in the College of Education

The study examined faculty members’ and graduate students’ perceptions of multicultural education and to ascertain which demographic factors had the most influence on participants’ perceptions. This study also examined whether there were any significant differences between faculty members’ and graduate students’ perceptions of the concept. Validity of the quantitative instruments was determined by a panel of experts. Internal consistency and reliability was calculated using factor analysis, Cronbach’s alpha and test/retest reliability. A mixed method research design was used in this study which included a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The surveys were completed by 313 graduate students and 48 faculty members, while 10 faculty members and 13 graduate students participated in semi-structured interviews. Descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were conducted to analyze the quantitative data and the qualitative data collected were transcribed, coded and analyzed. The findings showed that faculty members and graduate students exhibited a positive perception of multicultural education and that there were some significant differences between faculty members’ and graduate students’ perceptions of the concept. The results also showed that no demographic variables had an impact on faculty members’ perceptions while race and department had an impact on graduate students’ perceptions. The findings also revealed that faculty members believed that faculty bore the most responsibility for integrating multicultural education in the classroom.The study showed that a combination of instructional strategies was used to infuse multicultural education in their courses and no formal evaluations were used to assess whether graduate students were receptive to the multicultural content being taught. Faculty indicated that they received little support from their department heads and college administrators to apply multicultural initiatives. Moreover, a number of factors motivated faculty members’ efforts to teach about multicultural education and these included traveling to foreign countries, learning about multiculturalism during their graduate studies and having an interest in the topic. Lastly, recommendations for further research and recommendations for the College of Education were presented in this study

A Model for Emergency Service of VoIP Through Certification and Labeling

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will transform many aspects of traditional telephony service including technology, the business models and the regulatory constructs that govern such service. This transformation is generating a host of technical, business, social and policy problems. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could attempt to mandate obligations or specific solutions to the policy issues around VoIP, but is instead looking first to industry initiatives focused on key functionality that users have come to expect of telecommunications services. High among these desired functionalities is access to emergency services that allow a user to summon fire, medical or law enforcement agencies. Such services were traditionally required (and subsequently implemented) through state and federal regulations. Reproducing emergency services in the VoIP space has proven to be a considerable task, if for no other reason then the wide and diverse variety of VoIP implementations and implementers. Regardless of this difficulty, emergency service capability is a critical social concern, making it is particularly important for the industry to propose viable solutions for promoting VoIP emergency services before regulators are compelled to mandate a solution, an outcome that often suffers compromises both through demands on expertise that may be better represented in industry and through the mechanisms of political influence and regulatory capture. While technical and business communities have, in fact, made considerable progress in this area, significant uncertainty and deployment problems still exist. The question we ask is: can an industry based certification and labeling process credibly address social and policy expectations regarding emergency services and VoIP, thus avoiding the need for government regulation at this critical time?1 We hypothesize that it can. To establish this, we developed just such a model for VoIP emergency service compliance through industry certification and device labeling. The intent of this model is to support a wide range of emergency service implementations while providing the user some validation that the service will operate as anticipated. To do this we first examine possible technical implementations for emergency services for VoIP. Next, we summarize the theory of certification as self-regulation and examine several relevant examples. Finally, we synthesize a specific model for certification of VoIP emergency services. We believe that the model we describe provides both short term and long-term opportunities. In the short term, an industry driven effort to solve the important current problem of emergency services in VoIP, if properly structured and overseen as we suggest, should be both effective and efficient. In the long term, such a process can serve as a model for the application of self-regulation to social policy goals in telecommunications, an attractive tool to have as telecommunications becomes increasingly diverse and heterogeneous

Groundwater Law Sourcebook of the Western United States

91, 153 p.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1027/thumbnail.jp

Groundwater Law Sourcebook of the Western United States

91, 153 p.https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1027/thumbnail.jp

Facilitating Voluntary Transfers of Bureau of Reclamation-Supplied Water: Volume 2: Case Studies

1 v. : maps ; 28 cmhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1080/thumbnail.jp

Facilitating Voluntary Transfers of Bureau of Reclamation-Supplied Water: Volume 1

1 v. : maps ; 28 cmhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1079/thumbnail.jp

The Problem of Federal-Private Split Mineral Estates: Who Has Control?

19 pages. Includes footnotes. Collection of 3 papers presented at the Hot Topics in Natural Resources Law program held on April 23, 1996. Contents: National Park Service regulation of private mineral estates / David B. Shaver -- Recent litigation regarding federal split estates : who has control? what are the limits? / Andrew C. Mergen -- The problem of federal-private split mineral estates / Scott W. Hardt Many federally owned lands overlie privately owned oil and gas and mineral rights. Increasingly, the competition between agency multiple use directives and private interests in resource development has resulted in legal battles between the federal government, which seeks to regulate use of the federally owned surface estate for resource extraction, and the private owner of mineral estates. Andrew Mergen, the Center\u27s 1996 El Paso Natural Gas Law Fellow, will look at problems and potential solutions associated with these split mineral estates

The Problem of Federal-Private Split Mineral Estates: Who Has Control?

19 pages. Includes footnotes. Collection of 3 papers presented at the Hot Topics in Natural Resources Law program held on April 23, 1996. Contents: National Park Service regulation of private mineral estates / David B. Shaver -- Recent litigation regarding federal split estates : who has control? what are the limits? / Andrew C. Mergen -- The problem of federal-private split mineral estates / Scott W. Hardt Many federally owned lands overlie privately owned oil and gas and mineral rights. Increasingly, the competition between agency multiple use directives and private interests in resource development has resulted in legal battles between the federal government, which seeks to regulate use of the federally owned surface estate for resource extraction, and the private owner of mineral estates. Andrew Mergen, the Center\u27s 1996 El Paso Natural Gas Law Fellow, will look at problems and potential solutions associated with these split mineral estates

The Law of the Colorado River: Coping with Severe Sustained Drought

p. 825-836 : map ; 28 cmhttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1053/thumbnail.jp

Discussion Papers on Irrigation Water Supply Organizations

ii, 61 p. ; 28 cm Irrigation organizations and the reallocation of western water / Rodney T. Smith -- Issues in water conservation / Bruce Driver -- Irrigation districts and water quality / John H. Davidson -- Some thoughts on governing special districts / Tim De Younghttps://scholar.law.colorado.edu/books_reports_studies/1085/thumbnail.jp