The role of mentoring on the development of ethnic identity as it relates to body image concerns in ethnic minority women

Emerging literature emphasizes the importance of mentoring in the development of minority youth. In particular, mentoring influences the development of youths\u27 sense of self and self-concept. By examining the conceptual frameworks of both mentoring and racial socialization, this study summarizes the theoretical processes associated with youth development and how such development relates to young women\u27s ethnic/racial identity including their body image. The mentoring relationship is examined with a small pool of ethnic-minority, college-aged female participants to explore whether there is a relationship between having received positive mentoring and the participant\u27s current body image perceptions

Fiscal Determinants of Graduation Rates of African-American Students in Long Island Districts

The aim of this research was to examine the influence of fiscal determinants on high school graduation rates for African-American students in Long Island public schools during the 2019- 2020, 2020-2021, and 2021-2022 school years, within the context of various federal initiatives and educational equity policies. Utilizing ANOVA and linear regression analysis, the study investigated the relationship between independent variables such as per pupil expenditures, teacher experience, class size, district enrollment, poverty rate, and graduation rates among African-American students in Long Island school districts. The analysis involved quantitative correlational analysis using data from the New York State Department of Education NYSED), New York State Division of Budget, and publicly accessible websites. The multiple regression analysis revealed a highly statistically significant model (F(8, 83) = 19.36, p \u3c .001) that accounted for 62% to 65% of the variance in high school graduation rates (R2 = .65, Adjusted R2 = .62). The results identified three significant factors influencing graduation rates: per pupil expenditures (β = .51), teacher experience (β = .41), and total district enrollment (β = -.19). The findings suggest that improving graduation rates among African-American students in Long Island public high schools requires attention to budgetary allocations, teacher experience, and total enrollment. The study\u27s implications extend to school funding and educational policy, providing insights into New York\u27s fiscal distribution process and its potential impact on measurable student outcomes

A thumbnail dipped in tar: The resuscitation of a remote rural community newspaper using the Distributed Newsroom model

Residents of the remote central-western Queensland town of Blackall (pop. 1,833) watched their last locally reported and produced newspaper close in 2001. The nearest newspapers in the intervening years had been and continue to be controlled and produced from Longreach, 200km to the north-west, and in Charleville, another 300km to the south-east. In 2002, a group of Blackall residents formed a committee and asked local officers of the Queensland Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to help them in a project to start a new locally controlled and produced newspaper. Through the DPI, they also approached journalism lecturer John Cokley at James Cook University, Townsville, for advice and assistance. This article documents subsequent preparation for, and publication of, a pilot newspaper called The Barcoo Independent on October 24, 2003, and evaluation by survey, email and telephone interview

Runway incursions: Airport movement area driver training demographics suggests revisions to airport driver training methods

This paper examines the problem of runway incursions at the (OEP-35) U.S. towered airports. According to the FAA Runway Safety Report (2004), vehicle deviations accounted for 20% (291 events) of all runway incursions during the period of 2000 through 2003. The focus of this quantitative correlational study is whether demographic characteristics are a significant factor in the airport movement area driver training that employees receive at Operational Evolution Plan (OEP-35) US towered airports. Airport driver training officials at the OEP-35 airports were surveyed using a five-point Likert-type survey. The data from this study suggested that demographic characteristics are significant factors in the airport driver training that employees receive at Operational Evolution Plan (OEP-35) US towered airports, and vary by geographic region, as well as ethnic and cultural influences prevalent in each region. The data from this study may assist airport operators in identifying significant demographic characteristics that affect the outcomes of their driver training programs, and potential improvements that may enhance airport movement area driver training programs in various geographic regions

The social reality of blogging and empowerment among Malaysian bloggers

The study focuses on the issue of empowerment among Malaysian bloggers. In Malaysia, there are issues considered as taboo and are not discussed openly in the mainstream media. The rise of blogs in the earlier part of the 21st century has led to the discovery of a new platform of interaction. Malaysia is unique in the sense that it has its own interpretation of press freedom, a multicultural society and Islam as the official religion. Though there is a general awareness on 'what is illegal offline, should be illegal online', there are those who found new freedom in this new realm. The new world of blogosphere is considered as a haven for self-experimentation, discourses and sharing of opinions where it allows individuals to express themselves openly with or without considering the legal, religious or even cultural restrictions. Some people have used the new avenue positively and found empowerment which they would never have found if the blog had never existed while others may take advantage of this new platform for malicious activities. Forty Malaysian bloggers were interviewed during the course of this study where they share their personal blogging experiences and how blogging has brought about changes to their lives

The Case for a Core Anti-racist Course for Counselors in Training

Historically, counseling programs in the United States have been rooted in whiteness and white supremacy. Despite this historical context, counseling programs fail to teach students about the varied ways that anti-Blackness and systemic racism show up in society, classrooms, and clinical settings. Given the systemic murders of Black folks by the state, the health disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the refusal of white voters to abandon white supremacist patriarchy in the 2020 presidential election, the counseling field must reconsider how it prepares trainees to embrace anti-racism in their personal and professional lives. The purpose of this article is to propose a core anti-racist counseling course to assist students in developing an anti-racist counseling identity including pedagogical practices, course learning objectives and assignments. Implications will be provided for counselor preparation programs, counseling students, and counselor educators to employ

Cost saving delivery of training

Effective, viable, and cost saving methods for delivering the South Carolina Department of Social Services' training programs that were different from the delivery methods currently utilized is the purpose of this project. Better use of the Agency's existing technological capabilities might be one avenue to explore. Additionally, computer-based training has been a recurring suggestion from training program participants

Property inspection automation : work write-up form

The objective and/or purpose of this assignment is to research the feasibility of designing the Work Write-Up forms used by the Housing Trust Fund and HOME programs in such a manner that all cost related entries associated with new construction, rehabilitation and emergency repairs of multiple and single family residential structures in the State of South Carolina will be automatically audited to determine how reasonable the costs of material, labor and overhead are for any given project

Challenging the critical impact of the internet

Reviewed book by: Natalie Fenton Publication date: May, 2011 "There are many in journalism, in both the academy and in practice, who on reading New Media, Old News, will shout, 'See, I told you so!' because the conclusions can be used to back up a very institutional, traditionalist approach to our profession. For me, as a researcher who teaches and continues to practise reporting and editing, this book is a difficult dish, rather challenging and exciting but—like my first Périgord black truffle— just a little dissapointing...

The mirror-ball effect: Investigating channels, messages and participation levels

Journalists have always used equipment which has been generally available in the communities in which they worked. This has been a result both of economy and necessity, since they found they had to connect with their audiences using means that were available to the audience, not just to the sender. Newspapers sold on street corners in the very early media days; SMS and email have become the rule for the early 21st century. This development also admits the possibility of the roles of the communication professional and the community merging during the “public journalism” process, and has become most recently evident in the areas around the Bay of Bengal, struck by the tsunami on December 26, 2004, especially in the Indonesian province of Banda Aceh, and in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where tiny portable radios, featuring solar panels and hand-cranked dynamos, have suddenly become part of a vital news media channel. In this article participant-observation and personal interview techniques are used to record and compare many of the digital channels used by news and information senders up to 2005. It also investigates the level of genuine participation which these new technologies have brought to the communications process