Tertiary Performance, Field of Study and Graduate Starting Salaries

This paper analyses data from the University of Western Australia (UWA) Graduate Destination Survey linked to information from the University’s Student Records System to explore the determinants of graduates’ starting salaries over the years 2002 to 2004. While the details examined also include age, gender, language spoken at home, country of birth, disability status and high school attended, most emphasis is placed on the impact on starting salaries of students’ academic performance and their field of study. The analyses show that the main determinant of graduates’ starting salaries is the weighted average mark they achieve at university. The salary differentials associated with higher marks in the Australian labour market appear greater than those reported in similar studies of the United States and United Kingdom labour markets. Science graduates are shown to have relatively low starting salaries, casting a shadow over recent suggestions that the supply of this group be increased through lower fee regimes.Starting Salaries, Ability, Field of Study

Keeping Our Bodies and Minds Healthy is Crucial

In my history class, I was asked to submit a part of my paper to the archive. The question asked What would you want future generations to know about what life during the COVID pandemic was like? I responded my offering my observations during the quarantine followed by what I think could be learned from the patterns I experienced during that time

AUTISM IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY OF AN ADOLESCENT WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER AND THEIR PARENT ON CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a unique and often misunderstood diagnosis. Little is known about the experiences of adolescents with ASD. As students with ASD graduate high school, many are under- and unemployed. Career and technical education (CTE) in U.S. schools is intended to prepare all students for careers post-secondary. Agricultural education is one of the predominate career clusters within CTE. This qualitative single case study sought to create a platform for both a student and their parent to share their experiences in agricultural education and CTE. Participants were an adolescent with ASD who had taken at least one year of agriculture education courses and their parent. Findings reveal the meaningful nature of agriculture education courses and the relationship student and parent have with the agriculture teacher. Recommendations from this study include an increase in qualitative studies about ASD in agriculture education, improved education for teachers regarding ASD, and ways to improve upon student-parent-researcher interviews

Dehydration in Nursing Home Residents: A meta-analysis of causes of dehydration, implications, and those most at risk.

Dehydration in nursing home and long term care facility residents is frequently dismissed and not treated as a primary concern. However, research has shown that prolonged dehydration in the elderly can result in serious health and cognitive issues. Due to deteriorating physiological conditions and preexisting diseases, dehydration will further complicate a patient’s health condition and exacerbate certain symptoms, lowering overall quality of life. There are a number of underlying factors which contribute to a patient’s hydration status. Research has identified physical, mental and behavioral factors all play a significant role in the willingness and capability of patients to be properly hydrated. In addition, it has been shown that caretakers are critical when it comes to ensuring patient hydration. If effective hydration screening is implemented and caretakers encourage patients to increase their fluid intake, fewer dehydration episodes will occur and the overall quality of life will be improved

Reverberations of Boarding School Trauma in Upstate New York

The legacy of boarding schools in Upstate New York is one that non-Natives seem to have forgotten. This historical amnesia compounds other acts of genocide, including cultural genocide, of the Haudenosaunee people throughout US history. Established in 1855 at the Cattaraugus Reservation (Seneca), the Thomas Indian School would serve as an institution of forced assimilation and displacement, much like the other Native American boarding schools. While the larger US population has grown to forget these schools\u27 existence, the shadowed legacy of institutions, like the Thomas Indian School, Haskell, and Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the rippling effects of these schools’ practices is glimpsed in Upstate NY’s Native populations. One such way of historical preservation is within the literature of the Native descendants of these schools, for example, within the poetic works of Eric Gansworth (Onondaga). Gansworth brilliantly crafts poems regarding his youth on reservations and within this youth demonstrates the last intergenerational impacts of the US boarding schools

The NCAA and the Student-Athlete: Reform is on the Horizon

This comment examines the NCAA\u27s rules and regulations of student-athletes and explores the possibility that the NCAA\u27s existence, under its current bylaws and manual, is at least immoral and likely unlawful. Additionally, this comment analyzes the idea that the NCAA needs not only internal restructuring but judicial and possibly congressional intervention in order to truly protect young athletes\u27 financial, academic, and basic human interests. Part II of this comment explores the historical development of the NCAA and the current relationship between the NCAA and the student-athlete. Part III discusses the fundamental unfairness in the NCAA\u27s bylaws, which results in the denial of certain rights to student-athletes. Part IV discusses whether student-athletes should be compensated and how compensating student-athletes might help create a fairer system. Part V examines how the NCAA might reform through self-regulation, or more likely, because of government or judicial intervention. Part VI concludes by addressing possible future claims against the NCAA and the means by which reform may come to fruition