Helping Community College Students Cope with Financial Emergencies: Lessons from Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund Emergency Financial Aid Programs

For low-income students, education can be easily derailed by a temporary financial emergency, like the loss of a job or a car repair. This final report offers lessons from two programs created by Lumina Foundation for Education that provide emergency grants or loans to help students at risk of dropping out. Eleven community colleges participated in Dreamkeepers, and 26 tribal colleges or universities participated in Angel Fund

Letter from O. T. Geckeler as well as a booklet concerning the same

Letter concerning a position in the mathematics department at Utah Agricultural College, as well as a booklet describing O. T. Geckeler\u27s qualifications

Letter from O. T. Geckeler

Letter concerning a position in the mathematics department at Utah Agricultural College

The Clinton-Obama Approach to Medical Malpractice Reform: Reviving the Most Meaningful Features of Alternative Dispute Resolution

An introduction to medical malpractice reform would be incomplete without mentioning the Institute of Medicine\u27s (IOM) 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, which lists medical errors as the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. While much attention premiums, the media\u27s recent interest in the application of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) tactics in medical malpractice cases has increased. The quest for a one-size-fits-all fix to rising health care costs has turned to ADR for guidance in the past, with hopes that binding arbitration and voluntary mediation would resolve the crisis. Recently, the search has unearthed a new and somewhat counterintuitive champion: the early settlement of potential malpractice claims through the combination of medical error disclosure and apology. The IOM\u27s report recommends a strategy for improvement based on health care organizations\u27 ability to learn from errors by developing a nationwide... reporting system and encouraging healthcare providers to develop and participate in voluntary reporting systems. Introduced six years after the publication of IOM\u27s recommendations, Senate Bill 1784, The National Medical Error and Compensation (MEDiC) Act of 2005 stood the best chance of realizing the report\u27s normative advice. The MEDiC Act, introduced by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, is modeled after several successful state programs that have effectively reduced the occurrence of medical errors while simultaneously reducing legal costs. The bill contains incentives for physicians to disclose medical errors to patients and participate in a national medical error reporting system. The remainder of this article will analyze the recurring problems inherent in the medical malpractice environment, explore a portion of ADR\u27s impact on the reformation of this environment, and offer the MEDiC Act as ADR\u27s contemporary solution for a more equitable and sustainable medical malpractice environment

Envelope from O. T. Geckeler containing a letter from the same, as well as a booklet titled \u27Where Educated\u27

Letter concerning a position in the mathematics department at Utah Agricultural College as well as a booklet describing O. T. Geckeler\u27s education

Angle metrology at INRIM in the framework of the EMRP Project SIB58

In the framework of a European Project, focused on the improvement of the traceability of angle measurements to the SI unit radian, the Italian Institute of Metrology (INRIM) will develop three new devices. An angle standard used to calibrate angle artefacts, angular encoders and autocollimators (AC), a small angle generator used to calibrate electronic levels and ACs and a reference interferometer used to measure small tilts. The resolution and accuracy target of the three devices is of the order of 0.01” (50 nrad). The working principle of the three devices and the preliminary results are reported