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Once upon a time not far away, there lived four brothers and their mother on a small farm

Improving Social Service Systems in Ghana

Global Independent Study, Summer 2017 -- Ho, Ghana -- Partner Agencie(s): Cross Cultural Solutionshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/139005/1/Wilson_Poster.pd

The Empire of Charles Williams

Outlines the geography of the Empire in Williams’s Arthuriad, and the symbolic meaning of its parts

A matrix representation of graphs and its spectrum as a graph invariant

We use the line digraph construction to associate an orthogonal matrix with each graph. From this orthogonal matrix, we derive two further matrices. The spectrum of each of these three matrices is considered as a graph invariant. For the first two cases, we compute the spectrum explicitly and show that it is determined by the spectrum of the adjacency matrix of the original graph. We then show by computation that the isomorphism classes of many known families of strongly regular graphs (up to 64 vertices) are characterized by the spectrum of this matrix. We conjecture that this is always the case for strongly regular graphs and we show that the conjecture is not valid for general graphs. We verify that the smallest regular graphs which are not distinguished with our method are on 14 vertices.Comment: 14 page

Senior Recital, Simone Monroe, clarinet

The presentation of this senior recital will fulfill in part the requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree in Education. Simone Monroe studies clarinet with Dr. Tiffany Valvo

Brain Science and Parent-School Relationships in a Title 1 Elementary School in Massachusetts: A Basic Qualitative Study

Bandura\u27s (1977) social cognitive theory contends that people think, learn, and perform based upon a sum of personal (e.g., beliefs, emotions, behaviors), social (home-school relationships), and environmental (school culture). Also, research has already determined that collaboration between home and school leads to better children\u27s social-emotional learning (SEL) (August, Anderson, & Bloomquist, 1992; Cooper & Redfern, 2016; Grant & Ray, 2018). Thus, a basic qualitative research tradition was used to better understand elementary public-school parents\u27 perceptions of the impact of parent-school relationships on children SEL development in a Title 1 school in Massachusetts (MA). Thru the lenses of brain science, a broad research question guided the inquiry: What social and cultural factors, if any, may impact parent-school relationships in a Title 1 school in MA from a brain science perspective? The researchers used two forms of data collection: (a) open-ended interviews with five parents, and (b) field notes. The data was collected, transcribed, member checked, coded and thematically analyzed. Results indicated that all parents have a genuine interest and desire to support the social and emotional growth of their kids and establish good relationships with the school. The overreaching themes derived from the analysis indicated that the following may impact parent-school relationships: 1) lack of culturally sensitive information, 2) teachers\u27 attitudes and beliefs, and 3) rhetoric utilized in school communications (e.g., language and tone of school policies). Interestingly, the reflective process did not only allow parents to gain more expansive understandings of the major social and cultural challenges that hinder strong rapports with teachers, but also provided them with insightful suggestions for possible partnerships efforts such as, creating a communication effort, and creating a welcoming environment

Leadership and Spirituality: Conceptualization, Definition and Future Directions in Higher Education

This conceptual paper addresses the increased need to better conceptualize and define leadership and spirituality in higher education. Over the past decade, empirical research related to spirituality and leadership has gained momentum and has attracted interest from scholars, worldwide. With the increasing diversity of cultures and beliefs, particularly in western societies, the academia\u27s acknowledgment of spirituality and leadership\u27s importance not only present potentialities but also to reveal challenges; since some researchers support a religion-based perspective of the concept, while others indicate that the concept goes beyond religiosity. Therefore, this systematic literature attempts to reconcile diverse viewpoints into a more cohesive conceptualization and definition in the higher education context

The Arthurian Myth in Modern Literature

Discusses Moorman’s work, which analyzes how Arthurian legend is treated by Charles Williams, T.S. Eliot, and C.S. Lewis