Cross-Cultural Mentoring: What Education Needs Now

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A Sage on Two Stages: What a Black Academic Taught a White Scholar About Cross-Cultural Mentoring

Cross-cultural mentoring can be loosely defined as a reciprocal mentoring relationship where the mentor and mentee do not share any one of many personal identities. In this study, personal narratives convey what a White scholar learned about cross-cultural mentoring from a Black academic, focusing on two events. Critical findings and reflections include the necessity for White allies in cross-cultural mentoring relationships to anticipate difference rather than discomfort, to commit to paying analytic and holistic attention to their mentor, and to seek opportunities to mitigate any cultural taxation that people of color may pay inside and outside of the relationship.Educatio

Where Do Students with Disabilities Enroll in Texas Postsecondary Institutions?

Although a wealth of research has explained how postsecondary institutions can support students with disabilities, no studies have articulated which postsecondary institutions are best suited to enroll students with disabilities through quantitative measures over long periods of time. Given the contentious history of special education in Texas, it is critical to investigate how Texas postsecondary institutions support students with disabilities and which institutional characteristics best predict the enrollment of these students. This study explored which Texas postsecondary institutions have enrolled students with disabilities over a five-year period (2013-2017), ultimately informing how Texas education policies could be changed to support greater postsecondary access for this population. Data suggest institutions of lower research intensity and private non-profit postsecondary institutions in Texas have enrolled greater percentages of students with disabilities from 2013 to 2017. Additionally, instructional expenses and institutional grant aid positively predicted enrollment from 2013 to 2017, suggesting Texas postsecondary institutions could strategically spend funds to increase postsecondary access for students with disabilities. Implications for research, practice, and policy are addressed.Educatio

Web (In)Accessible: Supporting Access to Texas Higher Education for Students with Disabilities

Beginning January 18, 2018, Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act required all U.S. postsecondary institutions receiving Title IV funds to publish accessible websites, adherent to Level AA Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This case study examines the web accessibility of all postsecondary institutions in Texas immediately after the January 18, 2018 deadline. Findings suggest the average institutional website read at the 11th-grade English comprehension level, public institutions published more readable websites than private peers, 96% of the websites provided English-only content, and 0% of institutions were entirely Level AA web accessible by the January 18th deadline. This study concludes by providing suggestions for future research and offering practitioners simple, cost effective, and practical solutions to render online content accessible, equitable, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant for a wide audience.Educatio

Are The Rich Getting Richer? How School District Wealth Predicts Website Traffic Expenditures

Although considerable education research has focused on how K-12 school districts spend money, no extant literature has specifically examined how these districts invested in online endeavors, most notably website traffic cost. As the Internet and school district websites have become a crucial source of information for many educational stakeholders, it is important to investigate how school districts spend money to host and direct traffic to their website, which in turn may drive interest in a school district. As a result, this study analyzed the cost of generating traffic to 764 randomly selected K-12 school districts in Texas. Controlling for many school district characteristics, results suggest K-12 school districts levying higher local tax rates spend more money on generating traffic to their website (p < 0.05). Yet, many Texas Education Agency (TEA) regions were also predictive of the amount of money districts spend to generate traffic to their websites, indicating that both a school district’s location and its ability to raise tax rates or drive tax revenue may influence the amount of money that a school district spends on generating traffic to their website. Implications for school district choice, competition, and equity are addressed.Educatio

Translating Financial Wellness: Practicing Linguistic Equity for Diverse Language Populations

This session will accomplish two main goals. First--using decades of empirical research--the speakers will articulate the importance of translating financial wellness and aid materials for minoritized non English speaking populations on campus. Second, the speakers will provide an in-depth overview of how one public university collaborated with minoritized students from diverse language populations on campus to translate financial wellness materials

Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance (HEFWA) Survey of Financial Wellness Programs in Higher Education 2020

In January 2020, the Higher Education Financial Wellness Alliance conducted a nation-wide survey to capture the landscape of financial wellness-related programming in colleges and universities nation-wide. For the purposes of the survey the term financial wellness refers to a range of programs and resources that support college students’ overall financial health and aid students in making well-informed financial decisions

Screened Coulomb interactions in metallic alloys: II Screening beyond the single-site and atomic sphere approximations

A quantitative description of the configurational part of the total energy of metallic alloys with substantial atomic size difference cannot be achieved in the atomic sphere approximation: It needs to be corrected at least for the multipole moment interactions in the Madelung part of the one-electron potential and energy. In the case of a random alloy such interactions can be accounted for only by lifting the atomic sphere and single-site approximations, in order to include the polarization due to local environment effects. Nevertheless a simple parameterization of the screened Coulomb interactions for the ordinary single-site methods, including the generalized perturbation method, is still possible. We obtained such a parameterization for bulk and surface NiPt alloys, which allows one to obtain quantitatively accurate effective interactions in this system.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figure

Tensor Correlations Measured in 3He(e,e'pp)n

We have measured the 3He(e,e'pp)n reaction at an incident energy of 4.7 GeV over a wide kinematic range. We identified spectator correlated pp and pn nucleon pairs using kinematic cuts and measured their relative and total momentum distributions. This is the first measurement of the ratio of pp to pn pairs as a function of pair total momentum, $p_{tot}$. For pair relative momenta between 0.3 and 0.5 GeV/c, the ratio is very small at low $p_{tot}$ and rises to approximately 0.5 at large $p_{tot}$. This shows the dominance of tensor over central correlations at this relative momentum.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR

Measurement of the nuclear multiplicity ratio for Ks0K^0_s hadronization at CLAS

The influence of cold nuclear matter on lepto-production of hadrons in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering is measured using the CLAS detector in Hall B at Jefferson Lab and a 5.014 GeV electron beam. We report the $K_s^0$ multiplicity ratios for targets of C, Fe, and Pb relative to deuterium as a function of the fractional virtual photon energy $z$ transferred to the $K_s^0$ and the transverse momentum squared $p_{T}^2$ of the $K_s^0$. We find that the multiplicity ratios for $K^0_s$ are reduced in the nuclear medium at high $z$ and low $p_{T}^2$, with a trend for the $K^0_s$ transverse momentum to be broadened in the nucleus for large $p_{T}^2$.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Lett.