Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project

Most high-achieving, low-income students do not even apply to selective colleges despite being highly qualified for admission and success at these institutions. Because they do not apply, these students forgo the generous academic resources, increased financial aid, and better collegiate and career opportunities that selective schools offer. To increase opportunities and improve outcomes for these students, we propose building on the success of an innovative intervention, the Expanding College Opportunities (ECO) Project. At a relatively low cost of about $6 per student contacted, ECO sent the following to high-achieving, low-income students: targeted and personalized information on their college options, information on the process for applying, and details of the financial information relevant to their situations. The intervention had a profound effect on their college application behavior, leading to a substantial increase in their propensity to apply to more-selective colleges commensurate with their academic achievements. Not only did students apply to more-selective schools, but they were accepted and matriculated at such schools in greater numbers, and early evidence points to their academic success in these programs. The promising results of this low-cost program suggest that ECO should be expanded. This paper proposes steps to expand and improve ECO to reach more low-income, high-achieving students across the country by partnering with respected third-party organizations such as the College Board and ACT. ECO can also serve as a model for designing and applying this type of intervention to other populations of students. The success of the ECO Project highlights the importance of researchers being able to access relevant government data to design targeted and effective programs and polici

Pushing Back Against Deficit Narratives: Mentoring as Scholars of Color

In this article we share our lived experiences with mentoring. As tenured women professors of color, we push back against the assumption that institutions of higher education are neutral sites, that we have to change to belong, and that we do not belong. Each of us underscores the importance and value of our realities and the knowledge we generate to address inequality and to counteract negative stereotyping. We argue that rejecting deficit narratives and privileging the narratives of those we mentor and of those who have mentored us is vital to increasing faculty of color diversity, inclusion and belonging in higher education.Educatio

To fight the slow pace of gender equality in the workplace, attack the root cause: invisible, unconscious bias

Gender diversity is correlated with better business results and enormous economic and business value. But unconscious bias continues to negatively affect women in the workplace in a number of ways, writes Caroline Turner. Those who manage teams must actively reveal and uproot these biases

Linking past and future: cultural exchanges and cross-cultural engagements in four Asian museums

Dramatic change, geopolitical, economic and cultural, marked late twentiethcentury Asian countries. In this article I will discuss how four Asian museums — two in China and two in Japan — are participating in cultural exchanges and engaging crossculturally in their exhibition and curatorial programs in ways which negotiate past and future for their communities

A Path Toward an Increased Role for the United States in Patent Infringement Litigation

A number of major statutory schemes implicate federal interests but do not provide for explicit authority for the United States to bring lawsuits for damages or to obtain injunctive relief. The patent statutes provide that the patentee may sue in the case of infringement, and court decisions have extended that right to certain licensees. Accordingly, the United States has participated in cases in which it is not a co-patentee or licensee only as an amicus. Yet the government arguably has an interest in intervening in or instituting, as a co-plaintiff, infringement cases involving certain patents. Recent scholarship has renewed attention on whether, and to what extent, the United States may broadly assert a cause of action that is implied from a statute or is based on an inherent, non-statutory authority. The Supreme Court’s current intolerance of rights implied from statutes in cases brought by private litigants means that the government must rely on a different theory in order to potentially succeed in asserting a cause of action. Because the United States has frequently argued that a unique standard for implying a right to sue from a statute should apply when the government is a plaintiff, this article focuses on the most-invoked decision, Wyandotte Transportation Company v. United States. It concludes that Wyandotte is a fragile cornerstone for actions beyond suits to recover pecuniary loss or remedy damage to government property. The article then turns to a little-understood but broad authority that is not dependent on implication from a statute but rather rests on sovereignty and the effectuation of important federal interests. It suggests that this power, which has been referenced in several Supreme Court decisions and argued in several contexts, should be examined anew as a basis for claims by the UnitedStates in cases involving patent infringement

Tackling health inequalities through developing evidence-based policy and practice with childbearing women in prison: a consultation

A collaborative partnership between the Hallam Centre for Community Justice and the Mother and Infant Research Unit (MIRU) at the University of York was successful in securing funding to conduct this consultation project. This collaboration brought together the knowledge and expertise of researchers working in maternal and infant health and those with knowledge of the prison sector. This consultation scopes and maps the health needs and health care of childbearing women in prison, using the Yorkshire and Humberside region as a case study

Making Connections : Southeast Asian Art @ ANU

The exhibition focusses on the ANU’s specialised interests in the study of Asian civilisations demonstrated by the University collection of art works and complemented by lenders to the exhibition who share enthusiasm for the work of Southeast Asian contemporary visual artists. Making Connections: Southeast Asian Art @ ANU is an exhibition which we hope will make an important contribution to understanding the complexities of our region and highlights the value of the visual arts as a component of interdisciplinary university studies

University of London, Centre for English Studies: Conference Report

George Eliot claimed that Romla was written with her \u27best blood\u27, and her contemporaries certainly knew and appreciated the novel. Until late in the century Romla was even being regularly employed as a guidebook to Florence. But despite contemporary uses and accolades, the text has been largely overlooked by scholars, who have typically relegated the novel to footnotes and fleeting allusions. In response to this neglect, admirers of Romla have begurr to ask why it has attracted so little scholarly attention, given its thematic and theoretical abundance, its cultural and critical complexity. In the spirit of what we perceive as a growing enthusiasm for Romla, we decided to convene a group of scholars at the University of London\u27s Centre for English Studies to revaluate this central Eliot text, and to consider why it might have been so categorically consigned to critical oblivion. The theme of the conference was thus \u27Reviving Romla\u27. Professor Barbara Hardy - whose celebrated studies of George Eliot\u27s fiction will be well known to Eliot readers - opened the conference with a reading of the affective and psychological complexities of Romla. Principally, she explored the relations between Eliot\u27s uses of Florence as a setting for psychological events and the emotional life of the novel\u27s characters, to reveal the subtle connections fashioned between outer and inner worlds. Excepting these moments, however, Hardy argued that Romla was ultimately a laborious text, too densely researched and obtrusively \u27archeologized\u27 to flow easily as narrative