Testimony of Judith A. Scott Before the Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations

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Lessons from the Field: Striving for Transformative Change at the Stuart Foundation

The Stuart Foundation's Child Welfare Program provides a compelling example of what can be accomplished by a foundation that has clear goals, coherent, well-implemented strategies, and relevant performance indicators. This case study describes how Stuart implements its strategy to achieve its goal to improve life outcomes for foster youth

Compton scattering from the proton at NLO in the chiral expansion

We present calculations of differential cross sections for Compton scattering from the proton, using amplitudes calculated to fourth order in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory. We compare with available data up to 200 MeV. We find that the agreement for angles below 90 degree is acceptable over the whole energy range, but that at more backward angles the agreement decreases above about 100 MeV, and fails completely above the photoproduction threshold.Comment: 13 pages RevTeX, 7 eps figures. Revised version correcting some errors, principally in the coding of 3rd order contributions; figures changed slightly and contribution from diagram 1h revised. Conclusions are largely unchanged, but the failure of the chiral expansion is visible at rather lower angles than appeared previously to be the cas

Aiming for Excellence at the Wallace Foundation

Describes Wallace's efforts to improve its communication and interactions with grantees in response to a Grantee Perception Report, the resulting progress in subsequent reports, and the challenges of interpreting and applying comparative assessment data

Calling Dick Tracy! Or, Cellphone Use, Progress, and a Racial Paradigm

The hero and phone-watch from Dick Tracy are evoked regularly in news and studies of cellphone use. This paper argues that the racial paradigm of White law enforcer and Dark law-breaker in the comic strip resonates in contemporary evocations and in discussions of cellphone use and crime. Representations of mobile communication and racialized criminality in Dick Tracy were inspired by the 1930s “war on crime” that intersected with wireless innovations and with lynching. This paper interprets that repeated evocation of the comic strip is a “perverse nostalgia” for an old-fashioned form of law and order premised on racialized violence and viewing

Outreach 2002: A collaborative schools project

In 2002, QUT Library conducted Outreach 2002, a collaborative trial project in which teaching staff from the Library and MacGregor SHS (MGSHS) developed models for the design, development and delivery of information literacy within the senior school curriculum

Reinventing the Reference Librarian: Information Literacy as a change agent

With information literacy as their ticket, academic librarians have an opportunity to re-enter the teaching and learning arena in a new guise and carve out a challenging, unique role in the world of academia - that is, to reinvent themselves in a new image. As the emphasis shifts from discipline-rich teaching to one of process-oriented learning which emphasises the development of generic skills, academic librarians must accept and seize a more proactive teaching and learning role, and shoulder greater responsibility for pedagogical leadership in higher education. The change in their role will affect all those in the tertiary community as surely as it will affect the profession of librarianship itself. As librarians strive to re-engage as educators with educators, the traditional beliefs, understandings, expectations and practices of all involved will be challenged. It is now critical to re-examine the issues which arise as a result of such a transformation, and the strategies which must be considered in order to overcome some of the more entrenched complexities of the task ahead. This paper investigates, in greater detail, those processes, structures and procedures within library organisations and academic institutions which hinder, facilitate or create opportunities for the librarians who teach information literacy in higher education

Lessons From the Field: Becoming Strategic: The Evolution of the Flinn Foundation

Describes the foundation's process of becoming strategically focused -- setting goals, defining metrics, implementing and communicating changes, partnering for greater impact, and measuring progress -- and the challenges and criticisms it faced