Collaborative Governance: A Guide for Grantmakers

Provides a framework for understanding the different tools and approaches within the emerging field of collaborative governance. Includes case examples that illustrate how the process works, and how it can be applied in specific situations

Their Culture Against Them: The Assimilation of Native American Children Through Progressive Education, 1930-1960s

The failure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to successfully assimilate Native Americans, especially Native children through education tactics such as boarding schools, led to a shift in the mid-twentieth century for pro-Indian reform. From the 1930s through the 1950s, BIA education reformers pursued progressive education. They imagined progressive education would allow the BIA to use Native American traditions and culture to educate and mold Native students into modern contributing American citizens. To appeal to students, the BIA commissioned a series of educational materials, primarily children’s books, designed to use Native culture to teach children how to adapt to life in modern America. Despite the BIA’s decision to move away from assimilation tactics and incorporate Native culture into the classroom, white officials still manipulated and Americanized Native culture. This study examines how these materials undermined Native culture and promoted whiteness in Navajo, Sioux, and Mississippi Choctaw communities, under the false pretenses of uplifting and celebrating Native traditions. This thesis extends the discussion of Native American assimilation and education in the mid-twentieth century through a thorough investigation of education materials, and the vocal Native response to education policy. A collection of primary sources ranging from assimilation-driven education materials, like The Indian Life Readers Collection, along with native written documents from the National Congress of American Indians, enhances the historical value and contribution of this study. While literature and anthropological scholars have addressed these materials, no scholarly historical perspective has investigated the use of these educational materials

Dolomitization and diagenesis of the lower Muschelkalk, Northeast Spain

The Lower Muschelkalk crops out in the Catalan Coastal Ranges (the Catalan Basin) and eastern Iberian Ranges (the Valencia-Cuenca Basin) and occurs extensively in the subsurface of the Ebro Basin. The Lower Muschelkalk forms a carbonate platform that was deposited on red Buntsandstein siliciclastics and locally-developed evaporitic and calcareous shales. The Middle Muschelkalk rests with a sharp contact on the underlying Lower Muschelkalk and in contrast to it, exhibits marked regional thickness and facies variations. The Triassic of northeast Spain generally subsided during the Mesozoic and was uplifted during the early Paleogene. Tertiary subsidence was important in the Ebro Basin and the Neogene basins of the Catalan Coastal Ranges. The Lower Muschelkalk has a maximum thickness of about l(X)m in the Catalan Basin and southeastern Valencia-Cuenca Basin, but thins towards the northwest before pinching out completely. The lower part of the Lower Muschelkalk consists of peri tidal carbonates (El Brull Unit) passing upwards into bioclastic lagoonal sediments (Olesa Unit) and lagoonal to oolitic sand-belt deposits (Vilella Baixa Unit) interpreted as broadly transgressive sediments deposited on a homoclinal ramp which form a Transgressive Systems Tract (TST). The TST is overlain by locally-developed shallow subtidal to intertidal deposits and by intertidal to supra tidal dolomicrites (Lower Member and Upper Member of the Colldejou Unit). This aggradational to retrogradational package constitute a Highstand Systems Tract (HST). The Olesa Unit and Vilella Baixa Unit pinch out towards the northwest of the Valencia-Cuenca Basin and the Ebro Basin and the succession becomes dominated by peri tidal sediments. Lateral facies changes in the Olesa Unit and Vilella Baixa Unit indicate a downramp transition from northeast to southwest of the Catalan Basin. Paleokarstic surfaces are locally important in the Vilella Baixa Unit and the Lower Member of the Colldejou Unit and the underlying sediments appear to have been subjected to meteoric stabilization with early aragonite dissolution and replacement. These horizons have locally resisted later dolomitization. Subsurface paleokarsts are locally important in the Catalan Basin and may be related to Paleogene uplift and intraformational dissolution. Sulphates and evidence of former sulphates are common in the Lower Muschelkalk. Most sulphates were syndepositional but others were related to shallow-burial fabric-replacive dolomitization. Sulphate dissolution occurred in two phases; during burial diagenesis related to hydro thermal fluids; and in association with uplift into meteoric phreatic and vadose environments when dolomites suffered calcitization. Three types of dolomite are recognised in the Lower Muschelkalk: peritidal dolomite occurring in the Upper Member of the Colldejou Unit and in the peritidal facies of the El Brull Unit; fabric-replacive dolomite occurring in the TST; and baroque dolomite as a late cement and locally mosaic-forming phase. Trace element and isotope geochemistry indicates consistently greater depletion in strontium and (^18)O in the fabric-replacive dolomite than in the peritidal dolomite and differing trends in iron and manganese. These features are consistent with downwards-migrating fluids acting on contrasting precursors. The fabric-replacive dolomite and peritidal dolomite are considered to have formed as a result of Middle Muschelkalk evaporite-related brines migrating downwards through relatively homogeneous, unstable aragonite-rich peritidal sediments of the Colldejou Unit into more heterogeneous, partially stabilised calcitic limestones of the TST. Sequence stratigraphy allows easy comparison with other similar brine-reflux models of dolomitization. The baroque dolomite is geochemically distinct with depleted δ(^18)O values and high iron and manganese contents indicating precipitation at elevated temperatures from reducing fluids associated with local hydrothermal mineralization. Calcitization has locally affected the Lower Muschelkalk dolomites producing a wide variety of fabrics. Geochemistry and petrography indicate that dedolomitic calcite formed as a result of uplift- related dissolution of sulphates by near-surface, soil-influenced meteoric-derived groundwaters

Simmons HAB frame painting operations

Issued as Final letter report, Project no. A-325

Lakeside homes around Tuttle Creek Reservoir: An element in the local settlement fabric

\u27l\u27he construction of several large reservoirs in the Midwest has brought about the growth of innumerable ancillary developments. The increased number of new homes, located adjacent to the reservoirs represents a growing component of our settlement fabric. Geographers have done studies on recreational developments, (Wolfe, Roy L., Summer Cottages in Ontario 1 Howes, Robert· M., Recreational Opportunities Arising from Reservoir Construction, 2) but little published investigation has been done in the Kansas, or Nebraska area. How important are the lakeshore homes now, and what part will they play in future housing? Who are the people currently occupying these structures? Where do they come from? These and others form relevant questions. This investigation will hopefully bring into sharper focus the role of the lake home development in this one area in Kansas, and perhaps be indicative of what to expect in similar situations in other areas

Experiment Vs Nature: Using Amphiboles To Test Models Of Magma Storage And Pre-Eruptive Magma Dynamics Preceding The 2006 Eruption Of Augustine Volcano, Alaska

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2013This study investigates magmatic conditions preceding the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano through the use of amphibole compositions and textures. Due to their restricted stability region and common occurrence in calc-alkaline magmas, amphiboles are important for investigating pre-eruptive magmatic conditions at subduction zone volcanoes. Chapter 1 presents a study into geochemical and textural variations of natural amphibole phenocrysts in the erupted magmas. Magnesiohornblendes in the high- and low-silica andesites exhibit limited compositional variability. Intermediate-silica andesites and quenched mafic enclaves contain amphiboles that vary in composition and classification (magnesiohornblende-magnesiohastinsitetschermakite). Compositional variations are controlled by temperature-dependent substitutions. Both high-and low-silica andesites represent magmas that were stored in the shallow crust at 4-8 km depth, remaining distinct due to a complex sub-surface plumbing system. Intermediate-silica andesites and quenched mafic inclusions represent newly formed hybrids of resident high- and low-silica andesite magmas and an intruding basalt. Chapter 2 presents the results of a phase equilibria study the refines the model for high-silica andesite storage. The natural phase assemblage was reproduced between 860-880�C and 120-200 MPa. Experimental plagioclase and groundmass glass compositions most closely replicate natural samples at ~130-140 MPa. Estimated storage conditions fall within the ranges suggested by natural petrological data and modeled storage depths from geodetic data. The high temperature stability of experimental quartz and biotite (not identified in natural samples) may reflect the high f 02 of the Augustine system as well as the rapid kinetics associated with the crystal-poor sintered starting material of some experiments. Chapter 3 presents results of the first experimental study to target heating-induced amphibole reaction rim formation. Experiments show that reaction rims form on remarkably short timescales. They share mineralogical and textural features with natural reaction rims previously thought to represent decompression processes. Reaction rims cannot be simply classified on the basis of semi-quantitative observations. Rather, in-depth data collection (e.g. X-rap mapping), and the calculation of kinetic parameters (e.g. crystal nucleation rates), is necessary. Chapter 4 presents a new MATLABRTM based program that performs mineral formula recalculations and the associated propagation of analytical uncertainty

An examination of William Notcutt\u27s reply to H.B\u27s vindication of R. Barclay\u27s apology

Wherein the deceit of the said W.N. is father manifested; his many abuses of the people call\u27d Quakers detected; and the genuine sense of their writers asserted; against his gross and palpable perversions of them.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerbooks/1054/thumbnail.jp

First-Year Writing Program Assessment at Small Liberal Arts Colleges

This project examines first-year writing program assessment practices at small liberal arts colleges and universities in an effort to understand how these practices resemble or diverge from prevailing scholarship on writing program assessment. There is extensive literature on best practices in writing program assessment, but nearly all of it by scholars and researchers working at public comprehensive universities who assume that type of institution as their model. At the same time, scholarship on writing program assessment at small liberal arts institutions is scant, amounting to fewer than ten publications in the last twenty years, even as these schools are structurally and philosophically different enough from public comprehensive universities that prevailing best program assessment practices often do not fit their contexts and needs. Small liberal arts institutions are historically important to higher education in United States, remain numerically significant, and serve hundreds of thousands of students per year. To better understand how they engage with best practices in writing program assessment, the author distributed a survey to more than 120 institutions, ultimately receiving responses from 42. Using these responses and in-depth interviews with the directors of first-year writing programs at three other small liberal arts universities, the author tested his hypothesis that these schools are either not engaging in writing program assessment or are not doing so in ways that are consistent with best practices. The combined results ultimately reveal that (1) the responding schools are shifting, including in their approaches to first-year writing and in their assessment of those programs; (2) many assessment projects show signs of interference from upper-level administrators; and (3) these institutions are engaging in writing program assessment, but often in ways that are out of line with prevailing scholarship. The study examines the possible reasons for these themes, makes suggestions for how the directors of first-year writing programs at small institutions can gain better control of and improve their program assessment efforts and for how program assessment scholars might consider the small liberal arts experience, and closes with suggestions for further research

Using AR to Teach AR: Learning Outcomes of a Guided, Augmented Reality Hearing Loss and Auditory Rehabilitation Simulation with SLP Graduate Students

Recent research has found that practicing speech-language pathologists report feeling underprepared to provide services for individuals with hearing loss. At the same time, graduate SLP programs report that students have fewer training opportunities with low-incidence populations. This study examines learning outcomes for a cohort of graduate SLP students using a novel application of an immersive, augmented reality, hearing loss simulation. Results show encouraging outcomes for the simulation experience’s effects on empathy, knowledge, and clinical skills. This simulation offers a unique way to provide training related to auditory rehabilitation in SLP