(1994). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (77th, Atlanta, Georgia, August 10-13, 1994). Part IX: Magazines. The Magazines section of this collection of conference presentations contains the following 15 papers: "'National Geographic Magazine' and the Vietnam War: Did We Just Get Pretty Pictures?" (John W. Williams); "Free Speech at All Costs: A Short History of 'The Masses'" (Chris Lamb); "Newspapers Locally Edited Magazines Seek Ways to Maintain Place in Market" (Ernest C. Hynds); "Patriotism and Profits: A Content Analysis of World War II Magazine Advertising Containing War Themes" (Mike Sweeney); "Journalistic Standards Reflected in Letters to the Editor, News Articles, and Editorials of the Muckraking Era" (Brian Thornton); "Effects of Exemplification in Magazine Journalism on the Perception of Social Issues" (Dolf Zillmann and others); "Economic Coverage of China before and after the Cold War in 'Time,"Newsweek' and 'U.S. News & World Report.'" (Shang-Fen Huang); "The Information Society under… [PDF]
(2005). The New McCarthyism in Academe. Thought & Action, p103-118 Fall. Ellen Schrecker is professor of history at Yeshiva University. Recognized as one of the nation's leading experts on McCarthyism, she has published many books and articles on the subject. Here she writes that while it would be difficult to deny that America's colleges and universities are under siege at the moment, it is hard to tell whether they are facing a replay of the academic freedom violations of the McCarthy era. Shrecker asserts in this article that although it is unlikely we will see an exact replay of the anticommunist furor that roiled the nation's campuses during the early Cold War, external forces are currently challenging the traditional freedom and autonomy of American higher education. Inspired by a cohort of dedicated activists, many politicians, talk-show hosts, and ordinary citizens are questioning both the mission of today's universities and the political affinities of their faculties. While heads have yet to roll, intellectual freedom faces challenges that seem… [Direct]
(1999). Eleventh Amendment Immunity and Academic Freedom. NEA Higher Education Research Center Update, v5 n3 Oct. This "Update" discusses the impact of the "Seminole Tribe v. State of Florida" decision on higher education. In essence, the Court in this decision rescinded the doctrine of "Eleventh Amendment immunity" and ruled that Congress has only limited power to enact laws that apply to state governmental entities, including public colleges and universities. This means that Congress may not have the constitutional power to extend some federal job protections and benefits to persons employed by public institutions of higher education. Congress doesn't have the power to give employees of public colleges and universities the right to sue their employers in federal court. However, this power is partially restored through the Fourteenth Amendment. Some court decisions related to higher education are reviewed with regard to age discrimination suits by faculty members, family and medical leave entitlement, disability discrimination, and other federal civil rights laws…. [PDF]
(1997). Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning. These essays address education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. The collection offers examples of efforts to create among students a new set of what Alexis de Tocqueville called "mores" or culturally defining "habits of the heart" that enhance citizenship, foster a sense of connectedness to a community, and support the practices, basic values, and institutions necessary for the democratic process. An introduction entitled "Some Themes from Recent Innovations and Questions for the Future" is given. The 13 essays following the introduction are: (1) "Teaching American Politics through Service: Reflections on a Pedagogical Strategy" (Craig A. Rimmerman); (2) "Service Learning as Civic Learning: Lessons We Can Learn from Our Students" (Richard M. Battistoni); (3) "The Urban Agenda Project" (Otto Feinstein; James D. Chesney); (4) "Citizenship Courses as Life-Changing Experiences" (William D. Coplin); (5)…
(2004). Brain Correlates of Stuttering and Syllable Production: Gender Comparison and Replication. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, v47 n2 p321 Apr. This article reports a gender replication study of the P. T. Fox et a. (2000) performance correlation analysis of neural systems that distinguish between normal and stuttered speech in adult males. Positron-emission tomographic (PET) images of cerebral blood flow (CBF) were correlated with speech behavior scores obtained during PET imaging for 10 dextral female stuttering speakers and 10 dextral, age- and sex-matched normally fluent controls. Gender comparisons were made between the total number of voxels per region significantly correlated with speech performance (as in P. T. Fox et al., 2000) plus total voxels per region that were significantly correlated with stutter rate and notwith syllable rate.Stutter-rate regional correlates were generally right-sided in males, but bilateral in the females. For both sexes the positive regional correlates for stuttering were in right (R) anterior insula and the negative correlates were in R Brodmann area 21/22 and an area within left (L)…
(2005). Professors Join the Fray as Supreme Court Hears Arguments in File-Sharing Case. Chronicle of Higher Education, v51 n31 pA27 Apr. U.S. Supreme Court justices struggled in a lively debate with how to balance the competing interests of the entertainment industry and developers of file-sharing technology. Some justices sharply questioned whether it was fair to hold inventors of a distribution technology liable for copyright infringement, while others suggested that it was wrong for a business to thrive on illegal copying. In the case, \MGM Studios Inc. vs. Grokster Ltd.\, movie and recording companies hope to put an end to the swapping of songs and videos online by holding the producers of peer-to-peer file-sharing software responsible for the copyright violations of users. The suit is one of the most significant copyright cases to come before the Supreme Court since 1984, when the justices ruled on the legality of the Betamax videocassette recorder. In legal briefs filed in support of Grokster, scholars and technology experts asked the court to judge file-sharing software using the same standard it applied to the… [Direct]
(2001). Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment in our Schools. A Handbook for Parents, Students, Educators, and Citizens. This book presents the views of educators, intellectuals, students, and community activists to show that most students expelled from schools under new disciplinary measures are sent home for nonviolent violations; that the rush to judge and punish disproportionately affects black and Hispanic students; and that the new disciplinary ethos is eroding constitutional protections of privacy, free speech, and due process. The papers are \Introduction: Resisting Zero Tolerance\ (William Ayers, Rick Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn); \Ground Zero\ (Gregory Michie); \Two Punches, Expelled for Life\ (Rick Ayers); \Arturo's Case\ (Steven Drizin); \From the Jail Yard to the School Yard\ (Tony DeMarco); \Racial Profiling at School: The Politics of Race and Discipline at Berkeley High\ (A. A. Akom);\Decatur: A Story of Intolerance\ (Valerie Johnson); \America Still Eats Her Young\ (Gloria Ladson-Billings); \'Look Out Kid/It's Something You Did': Zero Tolerance for Children\ (Bernardine Dohrn); \How…
(1996). The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925. This book looks at education, ideology, and industrial relations in West Virginia in the context of mobilization for World War I, postwar social instability, and national economic expansion. World War I consolidated the dominant positions of businessmen, professional educators, and political capitalists as arbiters of national values. Alarmed by widespread labor conflict and fears of communism, these leaders used propaganda and public relations tactics refined during the war to make free-market principles synonymous with patriotic citizenship and therefore, immune to debate in the political arena. West Virginia educators and schools played a major role in this movement, which coincided with the centralization of educational authority in state agencies and the rise of "scientific management" principles and the "factory model" of schooling. State administrators and teacher educators believed in the virtues of a vocational education that would prepare the great…
(1992). The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Higher Education: A Twenty Year Retrospective. Proceedings of the Annual Conference (20th, New York, New York, April 13-14, 1992). This publication contains 17 papers on the impact of collective bargaining on higher education over the past 20 years. The papers are grouped in four sections on the state of unions in higher education, individual and collective rights in the academy, bargaining in the trenches, and overviews of past and present legal issues. The papers are: (1) "Robust Unionism and Unions in Higher Education" by Arthur B. Shostak; (2) "Can Collective Bargaining Help Institutions During a Period of Constrained Resources?" by T. Edward Hollander; (3) "Is Unionization Compatible with Professionalism?" by David M. Rabban; (4) "Changes in the U.S. System of Industrial Relations: Its Impact on Collective Bargaining in Higher Education" by James P. Begin; (5) "Unions in a Battered Academy" by Irwin H. Polishook; (6) "The Impact of the Constitutionalization of Higher Education on Collective Bargaining: Individual Rights vs. Collective Action" by… [PDF]
(2001). Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (84th, Washington, DC, August 5-8, 2001). International Communication Division. The International Communication section of the proceedings contains the following 15 selected papers: "'News Aid', the New Aid: A Case Study of Cambodia" (J. L. Clarke); "Development of Public and Private Broadcasting in Post-Communist Estonia: 1991-1996" (Max V. Grubb); "Revealing and Repenting South Korea's Vietnam Massacre: A Frame Analysis of a Korean News Weekly's Engagement in Public Deliberation" (Nam-Doo Kim); "Echoes in Cyberspace: Searching for Civic-Minded Participation in the Online Forums of 'BBC MUNDO,"Chosun Ilbo,' and 'The New York Times'" (Maria E. Len-Rios, Jaeyung Park, and Dharma Adhikari); "Going Global: Choosing the Newspapers We'll Need To Read in the Digital Age" (Richard R. Gross); "The Private and Government Sides of Tanzanian Journalists" (Jyotika Ramaprasad); "Readers' Grievance Columns as Aids in the Development of India" (David W. Bulla); "Supreme Court Obscenity Decisions in… [PDF]
(2004). Cyberspace Off-Campus Student Rights: A Legal Frontier for School Administrators. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. Schools and, more specifically, school administrators, have been charged with balancing the expressive rights of students while maintaining a safe school environment. Recently, student created websites have become the chosen method in which students have voiced their opinions about schools, teachers and school administrators. Many school administrators have been quick to discipline students for off-campus Internet speech because they feel the content may be socially inappropriate. Quite simply, the shootings at Columbine gave school administrators all the reasons they needed to trounce the First Amendment rights of public school students in the name of preventing violence. Absent, however, of any "true" threat or substantial disruption to the educational environment, student off-campus Internet speech is protected under the First Amendment. In some of the litigated cases, there were out of court settlements as well as summary judgments that included significant costs to the… [Direct]
(1993). Voices of Leadership: Essays on Challenges Facing Public Higher Education. This book presents speeches given and articles written by State University of New York presidents concerning issues confronting public higher education in the State of New York today. Essays and speeches are categorized under the following topics: (1) the development of the State University of New York; (2) public higher education in society; (3) quality, access, diversity, and relevance; (4) financial constraints; (5) values and freedoms; and (6) the role of leadership. Essays and their authors are as follows: "The Founding of the State University of New York" (Sanford H. Levine); "History of the Community College" (Eduardo J. Marti); "The University: Image and Reality" (John H. Marburger III); "The Emerging Work Force and Community Colleges" (Joseph J. Bulmer); "Technology and the Human Condition" (James W. Hall); "NIMBY/NIMBY Revisited" (John O. Hunter); "Issues of Optometric Ethics for the '90s" (Alden N…. [PDF]
(1995). The Academic's Handbook. Second Edition. This book's 29 chapters by various authors are designed to provide immediately useful advice for college and university teachers concerning current higher education issues, employment, teaching and advising, funding research, publishing research, and academic communities and administrations, The chapters are: "A Taxonomy of Colleges and Universities" (Robert F. Gleckner); "Small Is…Different" (Samuel Schuman); "The Morality of Teaching" (Stanley M. Hauerwas); "Women in Academia" (Emily Toth); "Minority Faculty in [Mainstream White] Academia" (Nellie Y. McKay); "On Being a Political Animal in the Academic Zoo" (Peter Burian); "Fads and Fashions on Campus: Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization" (Craufurd D. Goodwin); "Free Speech and Academic Freedom" (Ronald R. Butters);"Anticipating and Avoiding Misperceptions of Harassment" (Judith S. White); "The Responsible Conduct of Academic…
(1997). CNN Newsroom Classroom Guides. June, 1997. These classroom guides, designed to accompany the daily CNN (Cable News Network) Newsroom broadcasts for the month of June, provide program rundowns, suggestions for class activities and discussion, student handouts, and a list of related news terms. Topics include: France gets a new government and Prime Minister as the Socialist Party defeats the Conservative Party, widow of Malcolm X in critical condition after sustaining injuries in fire, Oklahoma City bombing case jury finds Timothy McVeigh guilty on all 11 counts, evacuations in Sierra Leone, Ireland peace talks resume, worldwide demonstrations mark the eighth anniversary of China's crackdown in Tiananmen Square, and international observers monitor parliamentary elections in Algeria (June 2-6); election results for the Republic of Ireland, Algerian election marred by controversy, Mideast peace talks revived, U.S. President Clinton proposes 5-year ban on human cloning, violence in the Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), South…
(2004). Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians. Facing History and Ourselves While focusing on the Armenian Genocide during World War I, this book considers the many legacies of the Armenian Genocide including Turkish denial and the struggle for the recognition of genocide as a "crime against humanity." The book can be integrated into courses dealing with multiple genocides, human rights, as well as history courses covering the late 19th century and World War I as well as U.S. international relations. This book contains six chapters. Chapter one, Identity and History, contains the following readings: (1) What's in a Name?; (2) Multiple Identities; (3) Am I Armenian?; and (4) Generations. Chapter two, We and Why, contains the following readings: (1) The Ottoman Armenians; (2) Iron Ladles for Liberty Stew; (3) Organizing for Change; (4) Humanity on Trial; (5) The Sultan Responds; (6) Seeking Civil Rights; (7) Humanitarian Intervention; (8) Showdown at Bank Ottoman; and (9) The Rise of the Young Turks. Chapter three, The Young Turks in Power, contains… [Direct]