Finding Voice: A History of the Minnesota Two-Year College Faculty Union

A comprehensive history of the Minnesota two-year college faculty union was compiled with emphasis placed upon union organization, leadership, activities, events, faculty satisfaction levels, and relationship to national education labor movements. The Hirschman exit, voice, and loyalty theory provided the conceptual framework of the project. Total faculty satisfaction was determined by the combination of academic, working conditions, and governance factors experienced in the profession. Faculty satisfaction was influenced by intrinsic and extrinsic factors coupled with a procedural and distributive justice evaluation. When total satisfaction dropped to unacceptable levels faculty faced a dilemma. Highly dissatisfied faculty either exited the profession/institution or pursued voice to mitigate their dissatisfaction. Unionization and collective bargaining represented voice used to mitigate faculty dissatisfaction. The choice to engage in voice demonstrated loyalty to the profession/institution. The history of the Minnesota two-year college faculty union explored faculty total satisfaction during critical moments in union history

PREDICT-CP: study protocol of implementation of comprehensive surveillance to predict outcomes for school-aged children with cerebral palsy

Objectives: Cerebral palsy (CP) remains the world’s most common childhood physical disability with total annual costs of care and lost well-being of $A3.87b. The PREDICT-CP (NHMRC 1077257 Partnership Project: Comprehensive surveillance to PREDICT outcomes for school age children with CP) study will investigate the influence of brain structure, body composition, dietary intake, oropharyngeal function, habitual physical activity, musculoskeletal development (hip status, bone health) and muscle performance on motor attainment, cognition, executive function, communication, participation, quality of life and related health resource use costs. The PREDICT-CP cohort provides further follow-up at 8–12 years of two overlapping preschool-age cohorts examined from 1.5 to 5 years (NHMRC 465128 motor and brain development; NHMRC 569605 growth, nutrition and physical activity). Methods and analyses: This population-based cohort study undertakes state-wide surveillance of 245 children with CP born in Queensland (birth years 2006–2009). Children will be classified for Gross Motor Function Classification System; Manual Ability Classification System, Communication Function Classification System and Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System. Outcomes include gross motor function, musculoskeletal development (hip displacement, spasticity, muscle contracture), upper limb function, communication difficulties, oropharyngeal dysphagia, dietary intake and body composition, participation, parent-reported and child-reported quality of life and medical and allied health resource use. These detailed phenotypical data will be compared with brain macrostructure and microstructure using 3 Tesla MRI (3T MRI). Relationships between brain lesion severity and outcomes will be analysed using multilevel mixed-effects models. Ethics and dissemination: The PREDICT-CP protocol is a prospectively registered and ethically accepted study protocol. The study combines data at 1.5–5 then 8–12 years of direct clinical assessment to enable prediction of outcomes and healthcare needs essential for tailoring interventions (eg, rehabilitation, orthopaedic surgery and nutritional supplements) and the projected healthcare utilisation

New criticism approach to unique narrative structures in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

12 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 12).Paper presented at the 2008 Nature, Art, Self Conference by Todd Mueske (University of Wisconsin-River Falls) in which he examines the reasoning behind the choices Jonathan Safran Foer's makes in the structuring of the narrative in his work Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Things now gone and things still here: a collection of essays

2013 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.Included in this collection of essays are four works: "Bare Ground," "The Hawk," "The Car Crash," and "The Terrible Sublime." Two of the pieces--"Bare Ground," and "The Hawk," depict my life growing up on an apple orchard/farm in Southeastern Minnesota. "The Hawk," is a piece in which the narrator, myself, tries to come to terms with the fact that his father, as well as himself, are only human, and focuses on a traumatic incident in the narrator's life in which his father was forced to shoot a beautiful creature, a hawk, and the meanings the narrator attached to this creature. "Bare Ground," on the other hand, is a piece which chronicles the history of my family's apple orchard and is an exercise in conciseness which attempts to capture the family dynamics of a rural family. "The Car Crash" is a work that does not deal with my life growing up on the farm. Instead, it depicts a moment in which a narrator observed a rather horrifying head on collision and in its presence did nothing. The piece revolves around sketching out the moral consequences that arise from a life of fear and inaction in the aftermath of not only one tragedy that the narrator could have intervened in, but many. The last piece, "The Terrible Sublime," revolves around the narrator's continued dependence on sleeping medication as well as his continued struggled with manic-depression. It's mainly about coming to terms with an affliction and finding a way to go on in spite of crushing disappointment

Myosteatosis in adolescents and young adults treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Myosteatosis refers to fat deposition within muscle and is linked to risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders. Though these comorbidities are common during and after therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), little is known about tissue distribution, including myosteatosis, in this population. Using quantitative computed tomography, we assessed the impact of ALL therapy on bone, muscle, subcutaneous, and muscle-associated (MA) fat in 12 adolescents and young adults (AYA) treated for ALL as compared to a healthy control group without ALL (n = 116). AYA had a marked loss of muscle with a gain in MA fat between ALL diagnosis and end of induction. These changes persisted throughout intensive therapy. Lower bone and muscle and higher MA fat were also observed during and after treatment in comparison to controls. Altered lower extremity tissue distribution, specifically myosteatosis and sarcopenia, may contribute to functional declines and increased risk of metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases