Virtual Academic Coaching (vAC): A Practical Technology for Student Engagement

Virtual academic coaching (vAC), distinct from the roles and responsibilities of post-secondary educators or counselors, is a novel method of higher education student development and retention, and is quickly becoming established at both public and private universities throughout the United States and abroad. Although relatively new to the canon of student success in higher education, virtual coaching is foundationally based in longstanding tenets of adult education and relies on principles which educators and counselors have recognized since the formalization of the post secondary classroom. Positive research into efficacy of the virtual academic coaching profession lends credibility to its potential for success with wide implementation, and its forward-facing and high level of engagement with adult students certainly suggests that the role of academic coach will continue to grow in the post-secondary setting, and therefore will continue to be a fruitful area of research and student success programming at the university level

Integral bases for TQFT modules and unimodular representations of mapping class groups

We construct integral bases for the SO(3)-TQFT-modules of surfaces in genus one and two at roots of unity of prime order and show that the corresponding mapping class group representations preserve a unimodular Hermitian form over a ring of algebraic integers. For higher genus surfaces the Hermitian form sometimes must be non-unimodular. In one such case, genus 3 and p=5, we still give an explicit basis

Od Marxa in Engelsa do sinomarksizma s poudarkom na komunističnem in konfucijanskem (rujia) pojmu lojalnosti in samokritike

The paper sketches and compares main components of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, and Sino-Marxism, especially Maoism. In particular, it deals with the relation between Maoism and so-called Confucianism (rujia). It is argued that this relation has been—and still is—characterized by both Maoist criticism of Confucius as well as absorption of ‘Confucian’ ideas. In briefly analysing commonalities and differences between the various theories and ‘practices’, especially the ways the Communist Party of China conceived of and asked for loyalty to the Party, reasons are given for their development, achievements, and failures.Članek vsebuje orise osrednjih komponent marksizma, leninizma in stalinizma ter njihove primerjave s sinomarksizmi, predvsem z maoizmom. Pri tem se osredotoča zlasti na odnos med maoizmom in tako imenovanim konfucijanstvom (rujia). Avtor je prepričan, da je ta odnos temeljil (in še vedno temelji) na maoistični kritiki konfucijanstva, po drugi strani pa je (bil) opredeljen tudi z absorpcijo določenih »konfucijanskih« idej. V kratki analizi vzporednic in razlik med različnimi teorijami in »praksami«, zlasti tistimi, ki so bile povezane s konceptom lojalnosti Komunistični stranki Kitajske, avtor prikaže osrednje razloge za njihov razvoj in dosežke, pa tudi za njihove poraze

From Marx and Engels to Sino-Marxism focusing on communist and confucian (Rujia) notions of loyalty and self-criticism [Od marxa in engelsa do sinomarksizma s poudarkom na komunističnem in konfucijanskem (Rujia) pojmu lojalnosti in samokritike]

The paper sketches and compares main components of Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, and Sino-Marxism, especially Maoism. In particular, it deals with the relation between Maoism and so-called Confucianism (rujia). It is argued that this relation has been—and still is—characterized by both Maoist criticism of Confucius as well as absorption of ‘Confucian’ ideas. In briefly analysing commonalities and differences between the various theories and ‘practices’, especially the ways the Communist Party of China conceived of and asked for loyalty to the Party, reasons are given for their development, achievements, and failures