The Impact of Recruitment, Selection, Promotion and Compensation Policies and Practices on the Glass Ceiling

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"Unpredictable symmetries": the discursive functions of early seventeenth-century Scottish romance

This thesis addresses the enduring critical neglect of seventeenth-century Scottish romance. In order to do so, it analyses four texts, namely Patrick Gordon’s Penardo and Laissa (1615), Patrick Hannay’s Sheretine and Mariana (1622), John Kennedy’s Calanthrop and Lucilla (1626) and George Mackenzie’s Aretina; or, the Serious Romance (1661). This study will evidence how Scottish romance pits itself against conventional motifs of the genre, indeed against its own more popular romantic features, and that it arguably instances a male resistance ─ prompted by a particularly Christian bias against sublimating love ─ against what was perceived to be the dangerously ‘feminised’ context of romance. It will indicate how Scottish romance thus sits apart from its contemporary equivalents with their more amatory accents, and how it is instead a canon of disparities, rather than of uniformity. Over and above this, the present study shall address the deliberate use of the genre’s inherently idiosyncratic nature to articulate cultural, literary and political aspects of what it means to be a Scottish seventeenth-century work of fiction, transitional between nations, classes and cultural periods, between local and British politico-cultural paradigms, essences and discontinuities. This study thus foregrounds the deliberate polyvalence of these texts, and identifies those particular aspects of seventeenth-century socio-political history that have rendered these texts so disparate not just from one another, but from the British and Continental romance tradition more generally. It will indicate how a significant shift of address to an implied audience ─ royal to noble ─ as well as the pursuit of appropriate patronage was of particular import for Scottish romancers, for whom the turbulent cultural shifts of the early seventeenth century symptomised in their respective texts a striking level of disunity, fracture, and a series of perplexing multiples

The New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure [Part 2]

Continuing with Depositions and Discovery

An evaluation of a service learning program for at-risk charter high school students

This mixed-methods case study examined the impact of a mandatory service-learning intervention college preparatory elective class on at-risk students in a Southern California charter high school. At-risk was defined as, disadvantaged high school students from low income families and possessing poor health, cognitive problems and/or behavior issues that might hinder educational attainment. The embedded design analyzed two years of archival data from four student cohorts (n = 133), all of whom had the same instructor, who was trained to lead the class. The study included a quantitative survey taken by the students at the program’s beginning and end, demographic information, students’ GPAs, attendance records, and reflective journals and notes from the teacher of the class. The examination of academic achievements of participating students found that student participants increased their school attendance and overall GPA following completion of the class. Including student voice in instructional activities and reflection in writing journals contributed to developing the students’ understanding of leadership capabilities. These leadership capabilities included their change in self-awareness that they and their friends could assume positive leadership roles. Following the class, female students significantly increased their participation in clubs and organizations on campus. During data analyses, the data coders noted that over the course of the study, the instructor became more focused and included more activities into the class. In year one more than 50% of students were unable to participate in the service-learning project (SLP) prior to the semester’s completion. In year two, the program instructor decreased the time spent on formal curriculum to allow students the opportunity to increase their time spent working on actual SLP. Since then, the service-learning program has been embraced by students and administration as these at-risk students build relationships with their peers and identify student leaders based on their experiences in the ACT program. Recommendations include that the SLP increase hands-on activities and seek formal opportunities to engage students in diverse communities. In that process, the SLP should garner student input in the implementation and design of the SLP to ensure that the curriculum, activities and projects remain relevant to at-risk SLP students

Say What You Mean! How Arkansas Courts Are Contradicting the Default Rule of Tenancy in Common

In 2015, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled that a warranty deed with the grantees listed as “Herbert Love and Gloria Love” vested the property in a tenancy by the entirety. There was no language in the deed designating the grantees as a married couple, such as “husband and wife” or “tenants by the entirety.” In fact, the only way someone reading the deed would know that the grantees were married was that the grantees were also the grantors, where it listed them as husband and wife. The court made its decision by looking to precedent case law which states that the words “husband and wife” or “tenants by the entirety” are not necessary to the creation of a tenancy by the entirety

Nominations Sought for 2017 Common Reading Experience

Community invited to suggest books for next year\u27s freshman clas