Opening the Door to the American Dream: Increasing Higher Education Access and Success for Immigrants

Describes the demographic and educational characteristics of the immigrant population in the United States, and discusses barriers faced by legal immigrants seeking to enroll in postsecondary education

Corporate Investments in College Readiness and Access

Examines support for college readiness and access initiatives among Fortune 100 companies, best practices in helping disadvantaged students, and case studies. Discusses the importance of higher education to enhancing the U.S. workforce's competitiveness

Creating Change One Step at a Time: Efforts to Improve College Access and Success in Indiana

Offers lessons learned and best practices from the state's successful efforts to raise access to and attainment of higher education through academic preparation, affordability, and a differentiated higher education system and by addressing student needs

From Aspirations to Action: The Role of Middle School Parents in Making the Dream of College a Reality

Looks at the number of parents who have taken steps to prepare for their children's college education by the time their children are in middle school

Het bemesten van de lucht; over stikstof in relatie tot de voedsel, energie en milieu-problematiek

50%), waardoor er veel naar het milieu lekt. Dat gebeurt ook bij de verbranding van fossiele brandstoffen waarbij stikstofoxiden worden gevormd en via de lucht verspreid over grote gebieden. De stikstofemissies naar het milieu hebben grote gevolgen voor de lucht-, water en bodemkwaliteit met gevolgen voor ecosystemen en de menselijke gezondheid. Er is ook een groot effect op het klimaat door de interactie met de koolstofcyclus en de stralingsbalans. Via het luchttransport en de depositie op bossen wordt er meer koolstof vastgelegd. Bij een grote stikstofbelasting kan dit gecompenseerd worden door lachgasemissies en wordt de biodiversiteit en de grondwaterkwaliteit aangetast aldus Erisman. Stikstofmanagement kan een positieve invloed hebben op het klimaat en het milieu. De kennis op dit gebied is echter beperkt. Het doel van de leerstoel Integrale Stikstofproblematiek is deze aspecten nader te onderzoeken om te komen tot nieuw beleid en maatregelen op het gebied van stikstofmanagement om de milieu- en klimaateffecten te beperken met daarbij toch in voldoende voedsel en energie te kunnen voorzien. In zijn oratie gaat Erisman dieper in op de voedsel-, energie- en milieuproblematiek en het onderzoek dat de komende jaren hiervoor nodig is

In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Aviation (1925–1940). Earhart and her contemporaries, however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots whose activities reached back to the earliest days of aviation. These women, too, wrote about aviation, speaking out for new and progressive technology and its potential for the advancement of the status of women. With those of their more recent counterparts, their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the maturation of the airplane, aviation, and women’s growing desire for equality in American society. In Their Own Words takes up the writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the growth of American aviation and the changing role of women. Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), Ruth Law (1887–1970), and the sisters Katherine and Marjorie Stinson (1893–1977; 1896–1975) came to prominence in the years between the Wright brothers and World War I. Earhart (1897–1937), Louise Thaden (1905–1979), and Ruth Nichols (1901–1960) were the voices of women in aviation during the Golden Age of Aviation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), the only one of the eight who legitimately can be called an artist, bridges the time from her husband’s 1927 flight through the World War II years and the coming of the Space Age. Each of them confronts issues relating to the developing technology and possibilities of aviation. Each speaks to the importance of assimilating aviation into daily life. Each details the part that women might—and should—play in advancing aviation. Each talks about how aviation may enhance women’s participation in contemporary American society, making their works significant documents in the history of American culture.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_previews/1068/thumbnail.jp

Frederic Remington

To an entire generation of readers, Frederic Remington was the spokesman for the American West. For almost a quarter of a century, from 1886 until his death in 1909, his drawings and paintings, published in Harper’s Weekly, The Century, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Collier’s, and other large-circulation magazines of the time, gave to many readers their only glimpses of Western life and the western landscape. The popular acclaim for his work was echoed by the American art establishment. During his lifetime, Remington was elected to membership in the National Academy of Design and awarded an honorary Bachelor of Fine Arts by Yale University; in his last years his paintings and bronzes were exhibited and sold by Tiffany’s and Knoedler’s, two of the most prestigious of New York firms. In the years following his death, his stature grew still greater. Three major museums, the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art in Fort Worth, Texas; the Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma; and the Remington Art Museum in Ogdensburg, New York, feature extensive collections of his works, while smaller holdings can be found in museums from the Smithsonian Institution to the Whitney Museum in Cody, Wyoming

Laura Ingalls Wilder

A fluke of geography makes ours a westward-moving culture. Explorers and European settlers, the Atlantic at their backs, necessarily moved westward in their endeavors, and the pattern was begun. Succeeding eras saw new populations, the Gold Rush, and the Homestead Act, steadily pushing the line of settlement westward, until movement to the west became intimately associated in the public mind with the course of “progress” and the advancement of the nation. From this association come two of the most evocative of American cultural myths, those shared stories in a society’s history that provide “a symbolizing function that is central to the cultural functioning of the society that produces them....[and contain] all of the essential elements of our world view” (Slotkin 16). They are the beliefs that bind us together as a culture and that color our view of ourselves, our society, and our nation

In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

Amelia Earhart’s prominence in American aviation during the 1930s obscures a crucial point: she was but one of a closely knit community of women pilots. Although the women were well known in the profession and widely publicized in the press at the time, they are largely overlooked today. Like Earhart, they wrote extensively about aviation and women’s causes, producing an absorbing record of the life of women fliers during the emergence and peak of the Golden Age of Aviation (1925–1940). Earhart and her contemporaries, however, were only the most recent in a long line of women pilots whose activities reached back to the earliest days of aviation. These women, too, wrote about aviation, speaking out for new and progressive technology and its potential for the advancement of the status of women. With those of their more recent counterparts, their writings form a long, sustained text that documents the maturation of the airplane, aviation, and women’s growing desire for equality in American society. In Their Own Words takes up the writings of eight women pilots as evidence of the ties between the growth of American aviation and the changing role of women. Harriet Quimby (1875–1912), Ruth Law (1887–1970), and the sisters Katherine and Marjorie Stinson (1893–1977; 1896–1975) came to prominence in the years between the Wright brothers and World War I. Earhart (1897–1937), Louise Thaden (1905–1979), and Ruth Nichols (1901–1960) were the voices of women in aviation during the Golden Age of Aviation. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001), the only one of the eight who legitimately can be called an artist, bridges the time from her husband’s 1927 flight through the World War II years and the coming of the Space Age. Each of them confronts issues relating to the developing technology and possibilities of aviation. Each speaks to the importance of assimilating aviation into daily life. Each details the part that women might—and should—play in advancing aviation. Each talks about how aviation may enhance women’s participation in contemporary American society, making their works significant documents in the history of American culture.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/psaa/1000/thumbnail.jp

Kringlooplandbouw in de praktijk: Analyse en aanbevelingen voor beleid

Op verzoek van het ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit is een analyse gemaakt van de kringlooplandbouw anno 2019 in Nederland. De opdracht was te onderzoeken welke verschillende vormen van kringlooplandbouw in Nederland in de praktijk voorkomen en wat belemmeringen en succesfactoren zijn voor de kringlooplandbouw om zich verder te ontwikkelen