Latinx Culture Centers at Utah Universities: An Analysis of Services and Web Presence

Many universities offer culture centers for their minority students to support them as they navigate school. The purpose of this research is to see what student services are being offered to minority students, specifically Latinx students, at public universities in Utah. The universities analyzed were Utah State University, Weber State Univeresity, University of Utah, and Utah Tech University. The argument is framed using an analysis of the websites of the centers at these 4 universities, and interviews of staff and faculty overseeing these centers in the state of Utah. The findings of this research should push for future discourse about what services are being most utilized and best support Latinx students at Predominantly White Institution\u27s (PWI), as well as how they are advertised and recommendations about how they should be advertised.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fsrs2022/1071/thumbnail.jp

Cities After Crisis

Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de-growth and the re-wilding of cities, from a homogenizing globalism to a new localism that values what is distinctive and nearby, from the privatization of the public realm to the commoning and self-governance of urban resources, and from top-down to bottom-up processes based on the engagement and empowerment of communities. Through examples from cities around the world and a detailed look at the London neighbourhood of Dalston, the book shows designers and planners how to incorporate residents into the decision-making process, design inclusive public spaces that can be permanently reconfigured, reimagine obsolete spaces to accommodate radically contemporary uses, and build gardens designed and maintained by the community, among other projects

Chicanos\u27 Negotiation of Language and Culture With Standard English in Cache Valley, UT

Gloria Anzaldúa theorized that the Chicano English, which she felt best depicted her identity, is seen by educators and American society as an illegitimate, bastard language (1987). The stereotypical view on various language variations and vernaculars has contributed to this idea that non-standard English is illegitimate or wrong. A Chicano\u27s first language is essentially both English and Spanish. They typically begin speaking Spanish at the beginning of their lives and shortly after they begin to learn English at school. However, this new language is introduced before they can learn the first—which produces a mix of both languages and is commonly referred to as code-switching, a communication style that combines both English and Spanish words in a single conversation. This language is not accepted as a proper form of communication despite being the language that best expresses Chicano culture. Chicano English is typically something that will be corrected by educators, as they offer a Standard English form of expressing the same words. This limits Chicanos\u27 abilities to accurately express themselves in their spoken and written work. Speech and language are the very essence of community and culture. Correcting Chicano English induces erasure of cultural identity. In this sense, negotiating language can become detrimental to identity and self-expression. This article reports research from an IRB approved study (#12787), in which Chicano participants were interviewed about their experience with their Chicano English, codeswitching, and their ability to express culture.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/fsrs2022/1077/thumbnail.jp

Temporal disorder in up-down symmetric systems

The effect of temporal disorder on systems with up-down Z2 symmetry is studied. In particular, we analyze two well-known families of phase transitions: the Ising and the generalized voter universality classes, and scrutinize the consequences of placing them under fluctuating global conditions. We observe that variability of the control parameter induces in both classes "Temporal Griffiths Phases" (TGP). These recently-uncovered phases are analogous to standard Griffiths Phases appearing in systems with quenched spatial disorder, but where the roles of space and time are exchanged. TGPs are characterized by broad regions in parameter space in which (i) mean first-passage times scale algebraically with system size, and (ii) the system response (e.g. susceptibility) diverges. Our results confirm that TGPs are quite robust and ubiquitous in the presence of temporal disorder. Possible applications of our results to examples in ecology are discussed