Quality Assurance Services

The Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Quality Assurance (QA) Program provides a full range of affordable QA services including records management, document and data control, training, and auditing. The program was regularly audited by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) to ensure strict compliance to regulatory requirements for nuclear facilities. The NSHE QA Program is staffed by knowledgeable professionals who specialize in assisting smaller organizations who have no previous quality assurance experience

Several Sigourneys : Circulation, Reprint Culture, and Sigourney’s Educational Prose

In her now-famous essay Reinventing Lydia Sigourney, Nina Baym argued that Sigourney\u27s literary range inevitably allows for the construction of several Sigourneys who are unknown to modern criticism. 1 Since 1990, when Baym revealed Sigourney as a student of history and a writer of historical prose, scholars have filled the gap she identified with a variety of Sigourneys, identifying her generic plurality\u27\u27 as a means to achieve multi-positionality as a woman poet, as Paula Bernat Bennett writes, and noting that Sigourney\u27s wide-ranging oeuvre does not readily lend itself to a reading of the author as a sentimental poetess. 2 Subsequently, scholars like Bennett, Wendy Oasler Johnson, and Elizabeth Petrino have taken up the call to reinvent, reconsider, or, as Dasler Johnson strives to do, revive Sigourney as a complex poet worthy of scholarly consideration. But while such scholars acknowledge Sigourney\u27s range of genres, few have focused on her prose. Even as they acknowledge it, they leave it, as Allison Giffen says, all but overlooked. 3 In this chapter, I fill this gap by focusing on the reinvention of Sigourney as an educator who used her prose to advance her educational causes. Many scholars have remarked on her educational program, and she herself was admittedly always the teacher, identifying herself as a schoolmistress and a literary woman. 4 For example, in chapter 12, Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso pays similar attention to Sigourney\u27s didactic use of history and biography, which connects hers to the educational projects of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the other transcendentalists. In From School to Salon, Mary Loeffelholz offers perhaps the most extended attention to the centrality of schooling to Sigourney\u27s writing and life. Loeffelholz suggests that we consider the school as the common social location ... of Sigourney\u27s poetic and prose genres, inseparable from their matrix of republican ideas. 5 That is, she frames schooling and Sigourney\u27s identity as a teacher-rather than the home and motherhood-as central to the writer\u27s work as a whole. 6 In her attention to the school, Loeffelholz raises a question that is central to my own essay: Is the authority of the teacher modeled on that of the mother, or that of the mother on the teacher? She answers, For Lydia Sigourney, the role of the teacher came first, nor just biographically but historically, ideologically, and almost, it seems ontologically. 7 I would add that, while Sigourney positioned herself in relation to domestic culture in her early work, she developed an increasingly professional authorial persona in relation to education that drew on the authority of mothers but was increasingly distanced from the home. In other words, she spoke to maternal teachers in her earlier essays; but by the late 1830s and 1840s, as the schoolroom became an accepted site of practice for women students and teachers, she increasingly intervened in conversations about formal, extra-domestic schooling. Further, in Sigourney\u27s broad circulation of her educational essays, we can clearly trace the evolution of her ideas about education and gender and about herself as a woman educator, which changed as the cultural terrain around women\u27s education shifted, particularly in regard to what Loeffelholz calls the emergence of the domestic- tutelary regime, in ways she did not always control.

A Portrait of Preteens in Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties: What We Know About 9- to 13-Year Olds

This report, commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and the Preteen Alliance, presents a profile of the preteen population in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in California. Data compiled from a wide variety of sources depict the demographic and economic characteristics of the preteen population in the two counties, as well as detailed information about their emotional, behavioral, physical and academic health compared to available data on preteens in the state and the nation. Recommendations to increase community awareness about the particular issues and needs of youth in this age range and to address gaps in available data are offered

Beginning at the End: Reimagining the Dissertation Committee, Reimagining Careers

In this article, we forward a perspective on interdisciplinarity and diversity that reconsiders the notion of expertise in order to unstick discussions of graduate education reform that have been at an impasse for some fortyfive years. As research problems have become increasingly complex so has demand for scholars who specialize narrowly within a discipline and who understand the importance of contributions from other disciplines. In light of this, we reimagine the dissertation committee as a group of diverse participants from within and beyond the academy who contribute their knowledge and skills to train the next generation of scholars and researchers to be members of interdisciplinary teams. Graduate students, then, are not expected to be interdisciplinary themselves, but to work in interdisciplinary and diverse teams to discover new insights on their research areas and to prepare for careers interacting with a range of academic and non-academic stakeholders

Stability of the proton-to-electron mass ratio

We report a limit on the fractional temporal variation of the proton-to-electron mass ratio as, obtained by comparing the frequency of a rovibrational transition in SF6 with the fundamental hyperfine transition in Cs. The SF6 transition was accessed using a CO2 laser to interrogate spatial 2-photon Ramsey fringes. The atomic transition was accessed using a primary standard controlled with a Cs fountain. This result is direct and model-free

Increasing Opportunities for Older Youth in After-School Programs

Few after-school programs have developed strategies for attracting large numbers of teens, especially older and harder-to-serve youth. In response to this need, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in New York City and Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston participated in a three-year initiative to enhance services to underserved teens. This report documents the successes and challenges the Clubs experienced as the initiative unfolded. They recruited large numbers of teens, involved them in a variety of activities, and provided them with emotional support, leadership opportunities, and programming in two critical areas: academics and job training