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The Green Building Project: Promoting Political Science Learning through a Collaborative Research Approach

Political science faculty members often seek innovative ways to promote civic participation and encourage students to connect theory with practice. In this paper, we review and analyze one such approach to teaching political science concepts while promoting community service. This method uses Dewey's concept of civic participation-learning how a community works and how to help it work better (Dewey in Ehrlich 1999, 246)-in applying principles of sustainability [e.g., meets the of the present without comprising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development in Rosenbaum 2002, 372)] to a local problem. For this project, a political science faculty member organized a graduate and undergraduate student research team to conduct service-learning activities to address community and to conduct campus and community outreach. Additionally, the two graduate and four undergraduate team members pursued collective and individual independent research projects. The service-learning and research team improved their campus and larger community by providing a model of how to approach the prevalent and often neglected issue of achieving a sustainable community, while individual team members gained necessary expertise for their future professional and civic participation. The historic peninsular city of Charleston, South Carolina has many aging buildings and homes that are neither resource efficient nor have occupanthealthy environments. Unlike aging buildings in other cities, local historic preservation laws that require maintenance of the historical integrity and appearance of structures challenge the Charleston community in making buildings more energy efficient. Situated in the heart of the Charleston peninsula is the College of Charleston. As the College has expanded, it has utilized historic buildings by remodeling them into campus department offices. In this way, the buildings of the College of Charleston serve as a microcosm for

Career Placement Concerns of International Graduate Students: A Qualitative Study

This qualitative study investigates the career placement concerns of international graduate students returning to their home countries, heading to other countries, or remaining in the United States after their education. Using a phenomenological framework, structured interviews were conducted with 24 participants (i.e., 18 international students, 1 naturalized status student, 3 faculty members, and 2 career counselors). Assertions that emerged suggested that the students possess diverse career plans influenced by numerous unique factors. Major, gender, and geography were not salient factors affecting the students' career placement needs. Students used contacts in their academic fields far more than they used campus career services, due to negative perceptions of or limited services that the center could provide. Based on these findings, more outreach to the international student community and collaboration between the career counseling and placement center and other campus departments are recommended.

Personality of Law Enforcement Officials: A Comparison of Law Enforcement Officials' Personality Profiles Based on Size of Community

This research was designed to assess the personality profiles associated with law enforcement officials from communities of varying size. Participants were from three separate law enforcement agencies (N=40). The agencies were selected based on their community size/type. Participants were from an urban department, a rural department or a college campus department. All participants were administered the Employee Personality Inventory (EPI) to assess their personality characteristics. Analysis revealed a significant difference among departments on three of the five personality dimensions measured by the EPI.

Nativelike enzyme properties are important for optimum activity in neat organic solvents.

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunicationNEXTNativelike Enzyme Properties Are Important for Optimum Activity in Neat Organic SolventsKai Griebenow, Michael Vidal, Carlos Baéz, Angelica M. Santos, and Gabriel BarlettaView Author Information University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus Department of Chemistry, P.O. Box 23346 San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3346 College in Humacao, Department of Chemistry CUH Station, Humacao, Puerto Rico 00791 Cite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 22, 5380–5381Publication Date (Web):May 12, 2001Publication History Received27 March 2001Revised3 May 2001Published online12 May 2001Published inissue 1 June 2001https://doi.org/10.1021/ja015889dCopyright © 2001 American Chemical SocietyRIGHTS & PERMISSIONSArticle Views300Altmetric-Citations41LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InReddit Read OnlinePDF (32 KB) Get e-AlertsSupporting Info (2)»Supporting Information Supporting Information SUBJECTS:Macrocyclic compounds,Peptides and proteins,Protein structure,Solvents,Theoretical and computational chemistry Get e-Alerts

A Medical Library's Role in Web Development in an Academic Environment

ABSTRACT Librarians at the Norris Medical Library, located on the Health Sciences Campus of the University of Southern California, are involved in all levels of World Wide Web development from the overall university to the library's own pages. At the university level, librarians participate in a development group to establish policy, determine style and structure of the campus-wide Web site, and maintain the software and hardware required to publish Web materials. At the health sciences level, Norris librarians are involved in a Health Sciences Web Team charged with maintaining the overall Web site for the USC Health Sciences. The team also solicits participation from campus organizations and departments through an outreach program. In addition Norris librarians provide UNIX account administration and maintenance, Web authoring workshops, and technical support for campus Web developers. Finally, the library has developed and maintains its own Web site. As the Web becomes an increasingly important means of information distribution for the university, it is crucial for the library to be actively involved in maintaining its role as the key information provider in the institution.

Comparing campus and municipal police: the human resource dimension

At present there is little comparative information available regarding campus and municipal police agencies and their personnel. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to examine the similarities and differences between municipal and campus police agencies with respect to various human resource characteristics and policies. The following research question guided the analysis: how do municipal and campus police agencies compare regarding the following human resource characteristics and policies: the proportion of sworn personnel, gender and race of sworn officers, salaries and benefits, educational requirements, levels of training required, drug testing policies and the extent of collective bargaining/unionization. The database is nationwide in scope. The findings of this study support the general notion that city and campus police departments are similar at least with respect to the human resource characteristics identified. Many campus departments have advanced well beyond the watchman era of campus policing. In a number of human resource areas such as use of civilians, education and training requirements, the campus police have progressed very well based on the comparisons made.

Solving the job puzzle: A workshop on using the web to find career resources

Campus-wide access to the Internet at the University of California, Santa Barbara inspired the Library and Counseling & Career Services to collaborate on “Net-ing a Job”, an Internet-based workshop for student job-seekers. When Web access became available in 1995, the workshop was redesigned to reflect a career advising process. This column describes the design and presentation of the workshop, showing how it reflects the resources and expertise of both campus departments.

Professionalism and campus police officers

Survey research was conducted to examine the effects of education, perceptions of community attitudes, and career commitment upon overall job satisfaction of campus law enforcement officers in North Carolina. Thirteen (13) campus departments participated in the 1984 study. Findings revealed both significant and insignificant relationships. The attained level of post-secondary education was not significantly related to an officer’s perception of having his/her authority questioned, nor was education related to an officer’s feeling of boredom with the job. However, significant relationships were found between several variables including an officer’s willingness to recommend the job to another person and his/her perceptions of community attitudes and the rank of the officer and his/her commitment to the current position.(1)