Home Economists Overcome Indian Superstition

Katherine Hoffman Reports Home Economists Need to Overcome Indian Superstitio

Ellen H. Richards-Home Economist, Wife, Homemaker

A girl, intense-eyed and quick-witted, stood behind the miscellaneous assortment of merchandise on the counter of her father\u27s general store. She sold tobacco along with the dry goods and groceries, but she fairly hated the stuff. One day a knot of the small town loafers took their purchased tobacco and their pipes and sauntered over to the stove to smoke and gossip while they tipped back their chairs and stuck their feet up

Latest Fashion for a Fall Breakfast

It\u27s autumn-it\u27s football weather- it\u27s breakfast weather! That first sniff of chilly morning air and the sight of leaves just beginning to shade into red and yellow and brown gives one a ready-for-anything feeling and a simply enormous appetite. And with that bounding appetite you\u27re just in the mood to give a lively autumn breakfast

Sally Says, Swinging Shoulders-Swirling Skirts

Ten stiff-jointed wooden mannikins displaying campus togs sat dangling their legs as I brushed by a table in one of the college shops. I stopped, I looked, I airily peered at their ridiculous yellow and red yarn hair, their droll months. And I stayed to examine the clothes they wore, brief replicas of the smart new fall things. Never in all my scoutings had I found anything so jaunty, so utterly casual. ··That was it-they had that casualness, that certain something that is behind the clothes this fall

The Latest in College Dormitories

A mother chair in a room in New Hall, her gloves and purse in her lap, her hat on a -head of white hair. She watched her daughter, the youngest in the family and one who so much had a mind of her own, unpack a few things before they went out to lunch

Toward Socially Equitable Conditions: Change in Complex Regulatory Systems

The purpose of this qualitative participatory action research was to explore how complexity is engaged and experienced in complex regulatory systems, and to understand how cannabis might be regulated in ways that lead to socially equitable conditions. This was accomplished by studying the lived experiences of governmental leaders charged with the responsibility of establishing regulatory frameworks for legalized cannabis where none previously existed. Using the learning history methodology, the study deeply explores the ways that complex systems coexist by capturing the lived experiences of research participants and enhance theoretical understanding of complex regulatory systems. Data collection occurred through reflective interviews, followed by distillation and thematic analysis. This resulted in the creation of a data table and a learning history artifact that were validated by distribution to research participants and used as both an actionable tool for participants and an analytical tool to distill and categorize research findings. The data table and the artifact established three main findings: complexity is both a property and characteristic of systems; complexity is not a behavior, characteristic or action of “leadership” or “leaders” in complex regulatory systems; and the interplay between social justice and social equity is complex and often oversimplified. Rather than directing, participants brought about change by building interactive trust through dialogue and relationship-building in interactive spaces across and between macro, meso, and micro systems levels. Complexity arose from these participatory human relationships when both the properties and characteristics of these systems were engaged, but the theoretical construct of complexity does not explain the presence of agency within this dynamic. By recognizing agency across all systems, structural barriers may be reduced, resulting in regulatory frameworks that may lead to more socially equitable conditions. This research contributes to leadership and complexity scholarship by empirically describing how complexity is engaged in complex regulatory systems, examining whether complexity has any connection to the practice of leadership, and adding to the emerging area of cannabis scholarship as it relates to social equity and the broader impacts of the war on drugs. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu)

Coffee, Courage, and Cannabis: Leading Change in the Regulated Marijuana Market

As Washington approaches another anniversary of marijuana regulation, lessons learned serve as a reminder that courageous leadership is a critical component in successful forward movement in a complex, unstable authorizing environment. What does leadership look like in this context, and how is it experienced? Offered from the perspective of a pracademic and regulatory leader in the nascent marijuana industry in Washington State, this paper explores the underpinnings and practical application of complexity theory in both the public administration and leadership contexts, going beyond theoretical, metaphorical application, and actually engaging scholarship and complexity through the emerging theory of engaged complexity