Established theories and constructs long associated with student success, including involvement, engagement, integration, provide common language a body of knowledge to inform understanding the challenges currently facing higher education. This paper examines how terms have evolved, explores are used, considers their legacy for contemporary concerns about development success.

This paper examines the relationship between campus racial climate and graduate student attitudes about benefits of diversity. Grounded in frameworks proposed by Hurtado, Carter, Kardia (1998) Milem, Chang, Antonio (2005), authors build a case for documenting how diversity may be influenced environments. Multi-level regression analysis is applied to data from survey administered students (N = 1052) at large, public, research-based university. Findings support authors’ hypothesis, that influences

A new crown and root rot disease of landscape plantings the malvaceous ornamental common rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) was first detected in Washington State 2012. The main objectives this study were to complete Koch’s postulates, document symptoms photographically, identify causal agent using multilocus molecular phylogenetics. Results pathogenicity experiments demonstrated that Fusarium sp. could induce vascular wilt on H. moscheutos ‘Luna Rose’. Maximum-likelihood maximum-parsimony...

Professionalized movement organizations today rely on outside expertise in fundraising, recruitment, lobbying, management, and public messaging. We argue that the risks accompany development have less to do with experts’ mixed loyalties than tendency of expert discourse remake political problems into technical ones, thereby obscuring dilemmatic choices groups must make. focus around personal storytelling, a strategy has become popular for raising funds, advocating policy, building support....

This study sought to explore labor and delivery (L&D) nurses' experiences caring for women undergoing induction intrauterine fetal demise (IUFD) or termination anomalies, characterize reluctance towards participation in abortion care - conversely the commitment provide services.Researchers conducted a qualitative that consisted of open-ended, semistructured interviews with 15 registered nurses who on L&D at large metropolitan hospital. We analyzed these data content themes.Labor struggle...

Abortion work has changed in the decades since Roe v. Wade, and concerns over efficiency cost reduction have resulted increased specialization compartmentalization of duties among health workers. This study examines current state surgical abortion at a clinic southern California. Drawing on 18 months ethnographic fieldwork an clinic, I use theories dirty intimate to examine how is organized allocated staff. find that best understood as existing two intersecting spectrums intimacy dirtiness....

Reviewed by: University, Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education Kelly Ward (bio) and Tami Moore Jennifer Washburn. American Education. New York: Basic Books, 2005. 326 pp. Cloth: $26.00. ISBN: 0-465-09051-6. In a well-written journalistic exposé, Washburn in Inc. explores the evolution "corporate corruption higher education." does an impressive job detailing growing role commercial interests education how these challenge production transfer knowledge. She provides examples past...

Reviewed by: How Universities Work by John V. Lombardi Anita Cory and Kelly Ward Work. Lombardi. 2013. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 220 pp. Paperback ISBN: 978-421411224 ($24.95). E-book 978-1421411231 For higher education scholars of a certain age, it’s hard not to look at Lombardi’s book, Work, have Robert Birnbaum’s (1988), Colleges Work: The Cybernetics Academic Organization Leadership, come mind. book presented four models organization describing different types college...

Previous scholarship has documented women of color’s experiences in professions such as law and medicine, but less research explored how color experience the process becoming members professions. Using academia a case I draw from interviews with thirty at single research-intensive university to demonstrate that have different orientations professional membership compared white women. These differences are made evident by extra work justify make sense inclusion profession, their beliefs about...

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Reviewed by: Rethinking Faculty Work: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative Kelly Ward (bio) Judith M. Gappa, Ann E. Austin, and Andrea G. Trice. Imperative. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007. 373 pp. Cloth: $40.00. ISBN: 0-7879-6613-4. Education's offers readers an analysis of the current changing context academic work, a framework for understanding faculty very comprehensive set recommendations to guide administrators in their prioritization decision making regarding faculty. Trice...

Reviewed by: Paths to the Professoriate: Strategies for Enriching Preparation of Future Faculty Susan K. Gardner (bio) and Kelly Ward Donald H. Wulff, Ann E. Austin, Associates (Eds.). Faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004. 300 pp. Cloth: $38.00. ISBN: 0-7879-6634-7. Many aspects undergraduate experience receive considerable attention in policy research circles. The graduate experience, contrast, is often overlooked. Wulff Austin as editors this volume remedy situation by pulling...