The Importance of Recruiting and Retaining International Students

A steady decline in enrollment among postsecondary institutions and cuts in educational funding, both at the state and federal level, have caused these institutions to look for alternative sources of revenue. With postsecondary institutions struggling to financially survive, international enrollment has become the focus of higher education. The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding on the importance of recruiting and retaining international students. This study used a phenomenological approach and epistemology was used to provide the conceptual framework of the study. Qualitative methods were used to conduct this study. A series of semi-structured interviews provided the data for this study and was collected from a group of higher education administrators. The results from the data were coded and emergent themes identified from the data. The themes from the data provided awareness on how administrators and institutions view the impact international students have on postsecondary institutions. Although five participants from five separate institution participated in this study, the responses from the participants were strikingly similar. Due to the participants’ similar views regarding international students, the implications and recommendations from this study can provide invaluable insight to administrators and U.S. postsecondary institutions

Spacecraft design project: Low Earth orbit communications satellite

This is the final product of the spacecraft design project completed to fulfill the academic requirements of the Spacecraft Design and Integration 2 course (AE-4871) taught at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. The Spacecraft Design and Integration 2 course is intended to provide students detailed design experience in selection and design of both satellite system and subsystem components, and their location and integration into a final spacecraft configuration. The design team pursued a design to support a Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) communications system (GLOBALSTAR) currently under development by the Loral Cellular Systems Corporation. Each of the 14 team members was assigned both primary and secondary duties in program management or system design. Hardware selection, spacecraft component design, analysis, and integration were accomplished within the constraints imposed by the 11 week academic schedule and the available design facilities

Eco-politics beyond the paradigm of sustainability: A conceptual framework and research agenda

This contribution sketches a conceptual framework for the analysis of the post-ecologist era and outlines a research agenda for investigating its politics of unsustainability. The article suggests that this new era and its particular mode of eco-politics necessitate a new environmental sociology. Following a review of some achievements and limitations of the paradigm of sustainability, the concept of post-ecologism is related to existing discourses of the ‘end of nature’, the ‘green backlash’ and the ‘death of environmentalism’. The shifting terrain of eco-politics in the late-modern condition is mapped and an eco-sociological research programme outlined centring on the post-ecologist question: How do advanced modern capitalist consumer democracies try and manage to sustain what is known to be unsustainable

Kibar Çevrecilik'le İlerlemek Imkânsız

Bütün veriler gezegenimizi kaybetmekte olduğumuza işaret ederken, siyasetçilerle kibar konuşup 'ne koparırsak kârdır' yaklaşımını sürdürmenin hiçbir faydası yok. Lobi faaliyetleri Senato'yu fosil yakıtlar konusunda etkilemediyse, kibarlığı bırakıp sesimizi yükseltmek zorundayız

Reading: Bill McKibben

In this audiovisual recording from March 19, 1997 as part of the 28th annual UND Writers Conference: “Writing Nature: The Nature of Writing,” Bill McKibben reads a selection of his essays. McKibben reads “The Adirondack Mountains, New York” from Three Essays (co-collected with essays by William Least Heat-Moon and Terry Tempest Williams and published by the Nature Conservancy), excerpts from The Age of Missing Information, his recent introduction Beacon Press\u27s edition of Thoreau\u27s Walden. Introduced by Libby Rankin

Excerpts from McKibben\u27s keynote speech at the Sustainable Island Living Confere

Excerpts from McKibben\u27s keynote speech at the Sustainable Island Living Conference in which he discusses how thinking like islands, in other words, thinking in terms of local, small-scale, self-sufficient economies, might not be enough to combat the dire effects that climate change will have on our world. With a sidebar on the one-year pilot project known as STORMS, Students and Teachers Observing and Recording Meteorological Systems, which has evolved into a new project called WeatherBlur

La crisis del carbono: El CO2 de los combustibles fósiles permanece en la atmósfera, por lo que el calentamiento global es un proceso imparable. Pero su aceleración podría mitigarse si se toman medidas a tiempo.

Las cosas son más o menos así. Antes de la revolución industrial, la atmósfera terrestre contenía unas 280 partes por millón de dióxido de carbono. Era una buena proporción, si definimos «bueno» como «aquello a lo que estábamos acostumbrados». Puesto que la estructura molecular del dióxido de carbono retiene cerca de la superficie del planeta un calor que de otro modo sería irradiado al espacio, la civilización se desarrolló en un mundo cuyo termostato quedó determinado por esa cifra. El resultado fue una temperatura media mundial de 14 grados centígrados, que a su vez determinó los lugares donde construimos nuestras ciudades, las plantas que aprendimos a cultivar y comer, los suministros de agua que aprendimos a aprovechar e incluso la sucesión de las estaciones que, en las latitudes altas, configuró nuestros calendarios mentales. Cuando empezamos a quemar carbón, gas y petróleo para poner energía en nuestras vidas, ese número 280 comenzó a aumentar. Cuando empezamos a medirlo, a finales de los años cincuenta, ya había subido a 315. Ahora está en 380, y crece aproximadamente en dos partes por millón al año