Assessing the landscape of payments fraud

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will host its eighth payments conference on June 5–6, 2008. The conference will highlight threats to the security of the payments system and explore solutions to those challenges. This article previews issues that will be covered at the conference.Payment systems ; Fraud

Remixed, Remastered: Investigating Organizational Adaptation in Higher Music Education

Higher music education presents a unique opportunity to examine change within higher education due to the digital revolution in the music industry over the past two decades. The purpose for conducting this study was to describe, map, and explain the strategies that higher music education programs are using to adapt to the digital revolution in the music industry. This study was grounded in organizational adaptation theory, drawing upon nine well-established theories: population ecology, life cycles, strategic choice, isomorphism, symbolic action, resource dependence, cybernetics, and network theory. Critical concepts of the turbulent environment, environmental perception, and organizational adaptation strategy emerged from these theories. An organizational adaptation strategy typology consisting of five strategies; decentralization, generalization, specialization, formalization, and inaction; was additionally constructed to create a tool for the measurement and explanation of organizational behavior. Music leaders of accredited institutions and programs that grant four-year degrees (N = 570) were surveyed via email using a survey instrument I designed. This instrument contained 57 items created to measure environmental perception (EP), organizational adaptation strategy (OAS), and characteristics of the institutions and music leaders. Data were collected over a four-week period in February 2021 and produced a response rate of 18.4% (n = 100). The most important result of this study was the observation that higher music education is undergoing a great generalization whereby organizational functions have dramatically expanded over the past five years. Furthermore, the environmental perception abilities of music units were found to be positively correlated with the total amount of organizational adaptation, indicating consistency with major tenants of organizational adaptation theory. These findings demonstrate that while expansionist trends in the field are promising for stakeholders, higher music education must navigate the many pressures of a turbulent music industry environment while balancing unique organizational constraints within higher education. Finally, this study provides empirical evidence for furthering theoretical concepts of organizational adaptation in higher education at the single-discipline level

The Great Generalization: Organizational Adaptation Strategies as Entrepreneurship in Higher Music Education

This study sought to measure how higher music education has evolved in response to the music industry’s digital revolution. I utilized a framework of organizational adaptation theory to synthesize five distinct organizational adaptation strategies: decentralization, generalization, specialization, formalization, and inaction. Music leaders were surveyed (n = 100) to assess adaptations across ten common domains in higher education. Higher music education was found to have undergone a great generalization through the expansion of activities in nearly every domain. Consistent with elements of organizational adaptation theory, and like individual musicians, higher music education has been entrepreneurial in response to the digital revolution

Jeanette Banker (Class of \u2753), interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Jeanette Banker was in the SUNY Brockport Class of 1953. She studied in the Elementary Education program. In this program, she was placed at Brockport\u27s campus school as well as Rochester\u27s #35 school. She worked in the Rochester City School District for a short period before taking a position in SUNY Brockport\u27s campus school, and continued to work at SUNY Brockport until her retirement. Jeanette Banker passed away in February 2020

Andrew D. Virgilio, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Andrew D. Virgilio graduated from SUNY Brockport in 1949. He served in the Air Force in World War Two and was part of the large group of veterans who attended Brockport in the late forties. Virigilio worked in an East Rochester elementary school as a teacher and principal until 1960, and taught at St. John\u27s University for one year before becoming Principal of the Campus School at Brockport. He retained that position until the closure of the Campus School in the late sixties, and then served in an administrative roles at SUNY Brockport until 1987. During this later period he also served in various roles in the New York State Legislature

George and Rosie Rich, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Rosie A. Rich worked at SUNY Brockport for six years from 1958 to 1964. She taught health and served as a faculty advisor for women\u27s bowling, field hockey, swimming, water ballet, and in many more sports in Brockport\u27s athletics and physical education department. George Rich is an alumnus of SUNY Brockport, and was in the Class of 1954 and Class of 1962 for his BS, MS, and his CERT. He attended the Campus School as a child, as he is a Brockport native. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Brockport as well as his Master’s Degree in Education. He was inducted into the Hall of Heritage in 2004. He served as the President of the Brockport Alumni Association from 1998-2004. He has also served on the Board of the Association

Orlo A. Derby, interviewed by Bruce Leslie

Dr. Orlo A. Derby served on the Brockport faculty from 1941 to 1974. He came to Brockport Normal in June 1941 as an Instructor of English. He held that position until June 1942 when he left to serve in the army. In June 1946, after he served as an Infantry Captain, he came back to Brockport, then the Brockport State Teachers College, as an Assistant Professor of Education. In 1948 he received a full professorship position. From 1969 to 1971 he served as Director of Graduate Programs for the Development of Curriculum and Instruction