Survival Strategies for Tusculum College: An Ethnographic Evaluation of Enrollment, Student Recruitment and School Image

Many institutions of higher education have experienced a decrease in their student enrollments. One such institution, Tusculum College of Greeneville, Tennessee, has seen a drastic 55% decline in its enrollment over the past ten years. Unless this trend is reversed, Tusculum College faces a very uncertain future. The purpose of this study was to develop a strategy which would help Tusculum College attract a greater number of students. To accomplish this, it was necessary to (1) analyze the college\u27s current enrollment trends, (2) identify those geographic areas where the college currently attracts its greatest number of students, (3) determine the educational needs of prospective students living in these particular areas, and (4) measure the perceptions these students have of Tusculum College. An ethnographic research methodology was utilized to investigate these issues and to measure the degree of cultural congruency that exists between sample populations. In this study the following sample populations were examined: (1) Tusculum students, (2) local high school seniors, and (3) Greeneville community residents. Four data collection techniques were utilized to investigate the relationship between these groups. These techniques were (1) participant observation, (2) the analysis of archival records and historical documents, (3) questionnaires, and (4) formal interviews. The research revealed that Tusculum College has experienced a pronounced shift in its enrollment. As a result of this shift, the college can no longer depend upon its once large northern student population to offset its consistent, yet small, southern student population. If the college hopes to increase its student enrollment it should (1) focus more recruitment energy upon the local, southern students, (2) reduce its recruitment territory, (3) provide more information to local students, (4) restructure the curriculum, (5) reduce local student tuition, (6) implement a series of local student scholarships, and (7) improve Tusculum\u27s social image. By utilizing this particular strategy, the college can not only attract a larger number of local students, but it can also begin to move more closely toward a culturally congruent relationship with the entire Greeneville community. This research is useful for Tusculum College and any institution which seeks to develop a more complete profile of itself and determine how it is perceived within a selected community. School administrators need reliable data upon which to base policy decisions. Likewise, community members deserve the opportunity to participate in those decisions which may have an eventual effect upon themselves and their families. The future for Tusculum College and other institutions with declining enrollments is promising only when the resources of the college and the needs of their communities of service are in mutual accord

Superconducting Bearing Design for Outer Rotor Flywheel Using Lumped Parameter Techniques

This paper describes the application of lumped parameter modeling techniques to designing high temperature superconducting bearings for outer-rotor flywheel energy storage systems. The lumped parameter models decrease computational time by 99% compared to Finite Element Analysis (FEM) without compromising fidelity needed to capture the non-linear and hysteretic force-displacement behavior between a levitated permanent magnet and bulk superconductor. The techniques formulated can be used to quickly evaluate lifting capacity and translational stiffness for a superconducting bearing design. The validity of the modeling approach has been verified by comparing results from FEM studies and experimental tests.Center for Electromechanic

Review of research on tachistoscopic means of increasing visual perception.

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

Theoretical and experimental studies of error in square-law detector circuits

Square law detector circuits to determine errors from the ideal input/output characteristic function were investigated. The nonlinear circuit response is analyzed by a power series expansion containing terms through the fourth degree, from which the significant deviation from square law can be predicted. Both fixed bias current and flexible bias current configurations are considered. The latter case corresponds with the situation where the mean current can change with the application of a signal. Experimental investigations of the circuit arrangements are described. Agreement between the analytical models and the experimental results are established. Factors which contribute to differences under certain conditions are outlined

Transnational reflections on transnational research projects on men, boys and gender relations

This article reflects on the research project, ‘Engaging South African and Finnish youth towards new traditions of non-violence, equality and social well-being’, funded by the Finnish and South African national research councils, in the context of wider debates on research, projects and transnational processes. The project is located within a broader analysis of research projects and projectization (the reduction of research to separate projects), and the increasing tendencies for research to be framed within and as projects, with their own specific temporal and organizational characteristics. This approach is developed further in terms of different understandings of research across borders: international, comparative, multinational and transnational. Special attention is given to differences between research projects that are in the Europe and the EU, and projects that are between the global North and the global South. The theoretical, political and practical challenges of the North-South research project are discussed

Expropriation risk by block holders, institutional quality and expected stock returns

We study the asset pricing implications arising from imperfect investor protection using a new governance measure. This is defined as the product of institutional quality in a country and the proportion of free float shares, which captures the impact of controlling block holders. Using monthly returns of 4756 blue chip firms from 50 international equity markets for 13 years, we show through tests of variants of the augmented-CAPM, that a two factor CAPM augmented with a factor mimicking portfolio based on our new investor protection metric yields the highest explanatory power, especially for markets that exhibit true variation in ownership types

A note on the polarization of the laser field in Mott Scattering

In the first Born approximation and using an elliptically polarized laser field, the Mott scattering of an electron by a Coulomb potential is investigated using the Dirac-Volkov states to describe the incident and scattered electrons. The results obtained are compared with the results of S.M. Li \textit{et al} \cite{1} for the case of a linearly polarized laser field and with the results of Y. Attaourti \textit{et al} \cite{2} for the case of a circular polarization.Comment: 9 pages, Latex, 2 figure

Subtropical Real Root Finding

We describe a new incomplete but terminating method for real root finding for large multivariate polynomials. We take an abstract view of the polynomial as the set of exponent vectors associated with sign information on the coefficients. Then we employ linear programming to heuristically find roots. There is a specialized variant for roots with exclusively positive coordinates, which is of considerable interest for applications in chemistry and systems biology. An implementation of our method combining the computer algebra system Reduce with the linear programming solver Gurobi has been successfully applied to input data originating from established mathematical models used in these areas. We have solved several hundred problems with up to more than 800000 monomials in up to 10 variables with degrees up to 12. Our method has failed due to its incompleteness in less than 8 percent of the cases

For Joan:Some letters with reverence, an honorary degree, and a dialogical tribute

In 2012, I co‐taught, with Anne‐Charlott Callerstig, a master's course module at Linköping University in Swedenentitled ‘Intersectional Gender, and Institutional and Organizational Work’. Towards the end of the course I was emailed by Donald Van Houten asking for contributions to a text to be presented at a reception on International Women's Day, 8 March 2012, at the University of Oregon, honouring Joan Acker and her remarkable career. The reception was part of the Lorwin Lecture Series on ‘Civil Rights and Civil Liberties’ and the Wayne Morse Center symposium on ‘Gender Equity and Capitalism’. To honour Joan and her legacy, I was asked to send a personal statement testifying to Joan's impact on her life and work, to be collected together in a small book. We were using some of Joan's writing as key texts on the module, so it seemed appropriate to do something collectively, and accordingly I asked the students to write short ‘letters’ to Joan. I sent off our letters, which we called ‘Some Letters Written with Reverence’; I trust Joan received them and liked them. Therefore, here in this writing for Joan there are three parts. In the first, the ‘letters’ are reproduced; the next is the edited proposal I wrote for Joan to be awarded an honorary doctorate at Hanken School of Economics, the Swedish‐language business school in Helsinki, Finland; she received the honour in 2011; and for the last part, I add an additional personal tribute and reflection from the vantage point of now, today