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Three Questions for Community Engagement at the Crossroads
Unfortunately, a decade of “calls to action,” begun by the Kellogg Commission’s report on university engagement and the 1999 Wingspread Declaration on Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University, has not produced a flowering of transformed institutions….This is not because engagement does not work….And it is not for lack of knowledge on how it can be implemented….Rather, engagement is difficult work. It gets to the heart of what higher education is about and as such, it requires institution-wide effort, deep commitment at all levels, and leadership by both campus and community. (Brukardt, Holland, Percy, & Zimpher, N., 2004, p. ii)
[T]he civic engagement movement seems to have hit a wall: [I]nnovative practices that shift epistemology, reshape the curriculum, alter pedagogy, and redefine scholarship are not being supported through academic norms and institutional reward policies that shape the academic cultures of the academy. There are limits to the degree of change that occurs institutionally, and the civic engagement work appears to have been accommodated to the dominant expert-centered framework. (Saltmarsh & Hartley, 2008, p. 12)
Full participation incorporates the idea that higher education institutions are rooted in and accountable to multiple communities—both to those who live, work, and matriculate within higher education and those who physically or practically occupy physical or project spaces connected to higher education institutions. Campuses advancing full participation are engaged campuses that are both in and of the community, participating in reciprocal, mutually beneficial partnerships between campus and community….Yet, while higher education as a sector has publicly acknowledged that it has an important public mission, there remains a gap between intention and practice. The problem lies in the incongruity between institutions’ stated mission and their cultural and institutional architecture, which is not currently set up to fulfill that mission
Taking a Stand: Community-Engaged Scholarship on the Tenure Track
This article assesses the journey to tenure among higher education faculty whose scholarship focuses on community engagement. It provides examples for two categories of action—contextual interventions and structural interventions—that agents of the university enact in order to create space for their approach to scholarship. It also describes structural transformation, which is the product of strategically conceived and deployed structural interventions that fundamentally alter university reward structures and culture so as to promote and support community-engaged scholarship. Finally, this piece describes a contextual intervention by the author that has allowed him to work within local communities while meeting standards of research and teaching that move him toward tenure
Real-time observation of epitaxial graphene domain reorientation.
Graphene films grown by vapour deposition tend to be polycrystalline due to the nucleation and growth of islands with different in-plane orientations. Here, using low-energy electron microscopy, we find that micron-sized graphene islands on Ir(111) rotate to a preferred orientation during thermal annealing. We observe three alignment mechanisms: the simultaneous growth of aligned domains and dissolution of rotated domains, that is, 'ripening'; domain boundary motion within islands; and continuous lattice rotation of entire domains. By measuring the relative growth velocity of domains during ripening, we estimate that the driving force for alignment is on the order of 0.1 meV per C atom and increases with rotation angle. A simple model of the orientation-dependent energy associated with the moiré corrugation of the graphene sheet due to local variations in the graphene-substrate interaction reproduces the results. This work suggests new strategies for improving the van der Waals epitaxy of 2D materials
An Analysis of the Feasibility of a Joint Economic Development District between the City of Brunswick and Hinckley Township
WOS: 000243429200002PubMed ID: 17373092We determined the monthly percentage values of biochemical components in paracentrous lividus, for a 6-month period, and evaluated the findings in relation to seasonal fluctuations in water temperature and weather. Our study is the first to present a long-term biochemical profile of p. lividus in Turkey. They contained an average varied between 78.36 and 80.93 7% for moisture, 1.5 and 1.7% for ash, 2.37 and 4.27% for lipid, 9.26 and 11.75% for protein, and 1.95 and 2.53% for carbohydrate. Significant seasonal differences ill sea urchin weight were noted between the winter and the summer months. Biometrical height measurements were done according to four criteria: total height, main height, diameter and width. Weight measurements were done according to two criteria: living weight and weight of the roe. Also chemical composition analyses have been done in the parallel time periods of measurements. As a result of this study it has been determined that the spawning period of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is in the time period between February and July. Amino acid contents of the Paracentrotus lividus were also determined
IN-SYNC. V. Stellar kinematics and dynamics in the Orion A Molecular Cloud
The kinematics and dynamics of young stellar populations enable us to test
theories of star formation. With this aim, we continue our analysis of the
SDSS-III/APOGEE IN-SYNC survey, a high resolution near infrared spectroscopic
survey of young clusters. We focus on the Orion A star-forming region, for
which IN-SYNC obtained spectra of stars. In Paper IV we used these
data to study the young stellar population. Here we study the kinematic
properties through radial velocities (). The young stellar population
remains kinematically associated with the molecular gas, following a
gradient along filament. However, near the center
of the region, the distribution is slightly blueshifted and asymmetric;
we suggest that this population, which is older, is slightly in foreground. We
find evidence for kinematic subclustering, detecting statistically significant
groupings of co-located stars with coherent motions. These are mostly in the
lower-density regions of the cloud, while the ONC radial velocities are
smoothly distributed, consistent with it being an older, more dynamically
evolved cluster. The velocity dispersion varies along the filament.
The ONC appears virialized, or just slightly supervirial, consistent with an
old dynamical age. Here there is also some evidence for on-going expansion,
from a --extinction correlation. In the southern filament, is
-- times larger than virial in the L1641N region, where we infer a
superposition along the line of sight of stellar sub-populations, detached from
the gas. On the contrary, decreases towards L1641S, where the
population is again in agreement with a virial state.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures, ApJ accepte
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