Success strategies of high achieving women: a qualitative phenomenological investigation

According to the latest figures from the U.S. Labor Department, 50% of all managerial posts are held by women, yet few women hold a top position in their organization. Of the 1,000 largest revenue producing, publicly traded companies in the United States, only 20 are led by a woman. Women hold only 15.7% of all senior executive positions in Fortune 500 companies, yet traditional women\u27s leadership styles of open communication and inclusion have been recognized as appropriate and even best practices. Women climbing the corporate ladder face myriad challenges. In addition to the obstacles they face, the very choices women make in pursuit of satisfaction in life are fraught with difficulty and stress. However, a successful business career can also bring with it a feeling of accomplishment and other rewards. How does this affect the life of high achieving women? The purpose of this study was to define the success strategies of high achieving women in the field of business. This entailed determining what obstacles to success these high achieving women overcame and how success affected their life satisfaction. The framework chosen for this study was a qualitative design using a phenomenological approach, which examined the meaning of human experiences from the vantage point of those who actually experienced that phenomenon. The participants chosen held the position level of Vice President or above in Fortune 1,000 companies. The method of sampling was purposive with a maximum variation strategy. The process of data collection was through semi-structured interviews. Content analysis was used to determine common themes and validity and reliability were ensured with the contributions of the Panel of Experts and two interraters. The results of this study identified 18 major and 9 minor success strategies that high achieving women have used in combination to achieve career success and 12 obstacles that had to be overcome. With regard to life satisfaction, this study identified two negative and three positive themes which described the elements their career success has contributed to their life satisfaction. This research was aimed at helping up-and-coming women in their pursuit of career success and life satisfaction

Born-Digital Preservation: The Art of Archiving Photos With Script and Batch Processing

With our IT department preparing to upgrade the University of Georgia’s Alexander Campbell King Law Library (UGA Law Library) website from Drupal 7 to 8 this fall, a web developer, an archivist, and a librarian teamed up a year ago to make plans for preserving thousands of born-digital images. We wanted to harvest photographs housed only in web-based photo galleries on the law school website and import them into our repository’s collection. The problem? There were five types of online photo galleries, and our current repository did not include appropriate categories for all of the photographs. The solution? Expand our archives photo series structure in Digital Commons, write and run scripts to automate the gathering of image file URLs and basic metadata, and then clean up the spreadsheets to batch load it all into the collection

The Ursinus Weekly, April 23, 1934

Juniors to present prom and comedy • Ursinus to engage in transition study • Monod discusses French problems • Yearbook to appear on campus Wednesday • Alumni groups to meet during first week in May • Motion picture machine to be demonstrated • Ursinus Weekly student questionnaire • Recent Music Club meeting presents varied program • Russia\u27s new five year plan to be discussed by IRC • Women debaters close season with Stroudsburg • Sabbath School Association to hold annual convention • Club to discuss plays • Polly Pomeroy speaks on department store work • Brotherhood deputation team conducts services • Rev. Kratz to give talk at Brotherhood banquet • Women debaters meet • Christian associations enact pageant episodes • Regular rehearsals begun for gala pageant on May 12 • Alumni banquet to be held at Harrisburg on May 4 • Fred E. Foertsch addresses men\u27s faculty club meeting • Sorority conducts vespers • Ursinus nine opens season by beating Swarthmore and losing to Villanova • Tennis team holds initial combat against St. Joseph • Girl basketeers given awards at annual banquet last week • Freshman hurlers to open season Tues. afternoon • Brodbeck, Derr and Curtis undefeated in dorm contest • Co-eds begin class baseballhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2020/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, May 28, 1934

Choral group to offer oratorio • Sayre to talk at commencement • Plans for class day completed • Alumni association to meet on June 9 • Prof. Manning makes survey of \u27U\u27 grades • Official calendar for commencement completed • Band awards ordered for delivery by commencement • Woman\u27s Club to sponsor activities for seniors • Goff Brothers\u27 orchestra plays for informal closing dance • June issue of Lantern to make appearance next week • Athletic club to meet • German book collection • Fox to head English group • Combined musical groups present singing pageant • Public speakers hold final after banquet on Wednesday • Evans re-elected head of Hall Chemical Society • Y.W.C.A. lights fires in bidding seniors farewell • Doggie roast at Lost Lake marks last math group meet • Dolores Quay entertains sorority at dinner party • Women\u27s forensic season terminates with banquet • Freshman girls entertain higher classes at party • Student activities group elects Brownback head • Women hold mass meeting to ratify rule changes • Families of faculty picnic • Grizzly baseballers bow to Villanovians • Coaching school to give college credit • Ursinus netters yield to Mules in final combat • Track team loses to F. & M. but leads in field events • Coeds close comparatively successful spring season • Junior coeds take laurels in inter-class baseball • Netwomen close tennis season by walloping Beaverites 4-1 • Students of Dr. Goepp to give last entertainment of year • Reformed Church League to meet here on June 2 • Curtis becomes inter-dorm champs by downing Brodbeck • Open scholarship awards to be announced by end of week • Patterson to head clubhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/2025/thumbnail.jp

The impact of food and nutrition on health and chronic disease: from birth to death

This panel will discuss the importance of nutrition during each life stage, beginning with birth and moving up through aging

New Teacher Perceptions of Induction Programs: A Study of Open-Ended Commentary

The purpose of this study was to learn if teachers believe their experiences with the Ohio Resident Educator Program (OREP) improved their ability to meet the Ohio Standards for the Teaching Profession (OSTP). Two hundred forty-five teachers voluntarily participated in a thirty-three question Likert-based survey with seven open-ended comment sections. For this study, the researchers analyzed the Likert-based survey responses through basic descriptive analysis and ANOVAs and the 456 comments from the seven open-ended comment sections regarding the seven OSTP standards through grounded theory. The findings indicate that the beginning teachers do not believe the Ohio Resident Educator Program improved their ability to meet these standards. However, they reported their teacher preparation programs, classroom experiences, and mentors, colleagues, and administrators did improve their ability to meet the standards

Inhibition of the MEK1/ERK pathway reduces arachidonic acid release independently of cPLA(2) phosphorylation and translocation

BACKGROUND: The 85-kDa cytosolic phospholipase A(2) (cPLA(2)) mediates arachidonic acid (AA) release in MDCK cells. Although calcium and mitogen-activated protein kinases regulate cPLA(2), the correlation of cPLA(2) translocation and phosphorylation with MAPK activation and AA release is unclear. RESULTS: MEK1 inhibition by U0126 inhibited AA release in response to ATP and ionomycin. This directly correlated with inhibition of ERK activation but not with phosphorylation of cPLA(2) on Ser(505), which was only partially inhibited by ERK inhibition. Inhibition of AA release by U0126 was still observed when stoichiometric phosphorylation of cPLA(2) on Ser(505) was maintained by activating p38 with anisomycin. Translocation kinetics of wild-type cPLA(2) and cPLA(2) containing S505A or S727A mutations to Golgi were similar in response to ATP and ionomycin and were not affected by U0126. CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that the ability of cPLA(2) to hydrolyze membrane phospholipid is reduced by inhibition of the MEK1/ERK pathway and that the reduction in activity is independent of cPLA(2) phosphorylation and translocation to membrane. The results also demonstrate that cPLA(2) mutated at the phosphorylation sites Ser(505) and Ser(727) translocated with similar kinetic as wild-type cPLA(2)