Chosen Career Path Research Articles

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (review)

Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority (2008) Directed by Kimberlee Bassford Distributed by Women Make Movies www.wmm.com 56 minutes In 2011, the recently perennial biopic genre maintained its weighty presence in mainstream and art-house cinemas. Notably, films depicting the life of historical heavyweights like J. Edgar Hoover, Margaret Thatcher and Marilyn Monroe have been released, critically noted and consumed by viewers. But is the main purpose of biographic films simply to reinforce the presence and knowledge of individuals already well established in the cultural and political national consciousness? Or should the biopic be used to illuminate the lives of those who have been both impactful and groundbreaking, but also heretofore largely ignored or forgotten? Director Kimberlee Bassford attempts to use the biographic film for the latter purpose with her film Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority, which focuses on the life and achievements of the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives. Patsy Mink is a competently informational primer on the groundbreaking figure, and relies largely on reliable, if predictable, documentary techniques. But surely a subject as radical and sui generis as Mink could have lent itself to a far more incisive, complex and daring ways of presenting her story - much in the same way that Mink exhibited all of those qualities when blazing numerous trails in her political and personal life. With Patsy Mink, what the viewer is left with is a lesson in originality wrapped in a structurally and aesthetically restrained package. Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority traces the trials and achievements of the groundbreaking Congresswoman. Connecting her early years in Hawaii to her formative years in the continental United States, Bassford traces Mink's evolution from an idealistic young girl to a fiercely independent politician. The film begins Mink's portrait by establishing her as emblematic of the minority experience in 1950s America, as she faced discrimination both due to her gender (in her chosen career paths) as well as her ethnicity (at school). While establishing Mink's raft of unique achievements - including a brief run for president, being instrumental in attaining statehood to Hawaii, and being a rare, early and vocal opponent of both the Vietnam War and the War on Terror - Bassford makes the case that, while running up against entrenched interests and societal barriers, Mink was a stern but happy warrior. The most engaging sequences of the film are when Mink herself is present - either through filmed interviews, voiceover segments or in found footage of her time on the House floor. The assertion that Mink is a cultural and political warrior, as Bassford is quick to point out throughout the film, is most clearly evidenced by the sheer will and grit of Mink, both through her presence and the indelible mark she left on others. …

Acceptance of the Society of Economic Geologists Ralph W. Marsden Award for 2010

President Enders, members, and guests: It is, indeed, a pleasure to honor Ralph W. Marsden. Ralph Marsden made substantive and long-lasting contributions to our knowledge of Lake Superior region geology, doing so as a professional and as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. It is especially humbling to receive this award here in Minnesota, where Marsden performed so much of his work. The fact that the University of Minnesota-Duluth has now developed the Ralph W. Marsden Chair in Economic Geology further endorses his importance and impact on our chosen career paths in mining geology. Ralph’s contributions to the Society of Economic Geologists, directly in his various volunteer roles for the Society and as professional and faculty member, were broad and substantive; as such, this award in his honor will …

Latinos/as' Mathematical Experiences: A Review of <i>Latinos/as and Mathematics Education</i>

s a Latina mathematics educator, I was eager to read Latinos/as and Mathematics Education: Research on Learning and Teaching in Classrooms and Communities. During my undergraduate training in mathematics, I developed a deep interest in sharing my passion for mathematics with children from nondominant communities, especially Latino/a children. As one of three Latinas in a group of nearly 300 mathematicians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this commitment to my community was strengthened when I noticed how underrepresented Latinos/as were within my chosen career path and the struggles we shared. My own difficulty in being successful at my undergraduate institution, coupled with the observation that many of my Latino/a friends struggled to finish their careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) made me realize that something needed to be done to ensure future generations of underrepresented students continue to enter STEM fields, and that the spaces in which non-dominant students learn mathematics needed to be attuned to meeting the needs of diverse groups of student learners. I became involved in mathematics education when, as an undergraduate student, I founded an outreach program for local middle school children who were from traditionally marginalized groups. This program exposed children from the local urban community to STEM disciplines and matched them with undergraduate mentors that held similar backgrounds and interests. The program also held workshops for the parents of the participants that informed them of local resources and addressed concerns parents had about their children’s education. Additionally, as an undergraduate, I went through a newly established teacher educa

Perceptions of employment stability among working professionals within the global economic crisis

A survey was designed and formally tested via multivariate statistical analysis of working professionals, representing the service sector from the Pittsburgh, PA, metropolitan area to testing assumptions concerning the effectiveness of governmental intervention, demographics and strategies for coping with the potential of unemployment in terms of personal and overall economic employment security. It was found that most professionals are generally optimistic about their personal employment security, regardless of if they perceived their chosen career path to be recession-proof. Although there were no gender differences, younger, more technologically savvy professionals were more confident in the economy and their personal security than their older counterparts. Overall, governmental financial bailouts were not perceived as good strategies for economical and employment stability. Employers should expect to enjoy a continued increase in employee productivity and efficiency through the current recession.

Providing an Applied-Learning Exercise in Teaching Fraud Detection: A Case of Academic Partnering with IRS Criminal Investigation

ABSTRACT: This paper describes the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation’s (IRS CI’s) “Adrian Project.” Through a partnership with a college or university and IRS CI, the Adrian Project provides an applied-learning exercise that enables accounting majors to apply their classroom learning by solving hypothetical financial tax fraud crimes. This interactive exercise organizes students into small working teams with oversight and teaching points provided by an assigned “coach,” who is an IRS CI special agent. Using pre- and post- questionnaires, we find that students report significant improvement in the development of fraud detection skills and abilities related to: (1) gathering, organizing, and evaluating evidence; (2) employing various investigative tools to identify evidence of fraud; (3) conducting interviews for evidence-gathering purposes; and (4) communication. These skills and abilities are not only essential in fraud detection, but many of them are also invaluable to all accounting students regardless of their chosen career path.

An Anthology of Voices: an Analysis of Trainee Drama Teachers’ Monologues

ABSTRACT This paper reports on research undertaken into the processes through which student teachers begin to formulate an identity as a professional teacher. Using Fuller's investigations into the attitudes of trainee teachers towards their courses (1969) as a baseline, a discussion is established on the place of the student voice in contemporary initial teacher training programmes. In order to further investigate the potential importance of affording student teachers the opportunity to reflect on and express their thinking and feeling as they embark on their chosen career path, the concerns of a group of student drama teachers were recorded and interpreted. The vehicle for this exercise involved writing and subsequently performing reflective monologues. These were analysed by using The Listening Guide as composed by Gilligan et al. (2003). This paper illustrates how the methodology revealed distinct yet generally harmonious voices at work in the group in the first few weeks of their training year. Subsequent analysis suggests a model for the initial formation of a teaching identity built on aspects of self, role and character. Recognising the relative values and relationships between these factors for student teachers may, it is argued, provide greater security for them while affording their tutors insights which could help them to re‐shape initial teacher training programmes.

Arctic scientist, gulag survivor: the biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991

A. M. Ermolaev and V. D. Dibner. Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991. William Barr, trans, and ed. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009. xiv, 591 pp. Glossaries. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $44.95, paper.This biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev is an affectionate tribute to a man who lived a fascinating and eventful life. Written jointly by his son, A. M. Ermolaev, and a close friend, V. D. Dibner, it tells the story of an scientist who made a major contribution to various important fields (geology, physics, and oceanography) and helped Soviet exploitation of the country's northern territories (particularly the Novosibirskie O strova, No vaia Zemlia, and the Onega region). The book also recounts his personal fate: awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour at a ceremony presided over by Stalin in January 1934, Ermolaev was arrested in 1938 and spent the war years inside Stalin's Gulag.Born in 1905 into a family of eminent military engineers, Ermolaev was influenced in his chosen career path by his sister's husband, R. L. Samoilovich, himself the leader of the Northern Scientific/Commercial Expedition in Leningrad (later the Institute for the Study of the North), who hired the young Ermolaev as a lab assistant and took him on his first polar voyage in 1925. Soon Ermolaev was establishing his own reputation and went on several more trips over the coming years, including the ill-fated 1937 trip in which the vessel Sadko, under the leadership of Samoilovich, ran out of coal and fresh water and, along with two other ice-breakers, was grounded over the winter. It was this fiasco which led to the immediate arrest of both Ermolaev and his mentor.During the Second World War, this veteran of arctic expeditions found himself once more in northern wilderness, this time as a prisoner. His value to Soviet science was such that after a year of forced labour, Ermolaev joined one of the sharashki working on plans to extend the Vorkuta railway line. His post-war life was particularly curious: released as early as 1944, although not rehabilitated until 1954, Ermolaev was nonetheless able to reestablish an academic career, working for almost a decade at the Northern Geological Administration in Arkhangelsk. His fate shows some of the absurdities of the Stalin era: in Arkhangelsk, the family had a three-room apartment and Ermolaev held the position of chief geologist, but each time he travelled to Moscow or Leningrad, even if it was for a meeting with a Minister, he did so illegally as restrictions on his place of residence were still in place (pp. …

Career Aspirations and Perceived Level of Preparedness Among Marriage and Family Therapy Doctoral Students

The authors conducted a survey of marriage and family therapy (MFT) doctoral students in programs accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). MFT doctoral students (N = 82) from across the United States responded to a web-based survey that focused on career aspirations, training opportunities, and the level of preparedness they experienced during their doctoral education. Results of this survey indicated that students felt they were well prepared for many aspects of their chosen career path. Some respondents desired more training to prepare them for careers in academia. More men than women indicated a career in academia as their primary career aspiration. While most of the respondents perceived that their internship experiences were beneficial, some expressed the desire for more opportunities to supervise master's-level students, to write grants, and to teach graduate-level MFT courses. The authors conclude with a discussion of how these findings may influence the development of core competencies specific to doctoral education in MFT.

BUILDING THE PROFESSION: OUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In the January 2008 edition of The Academy of Management Review, Linda Trevino expressed her disappointment in realizing that some colleagues had declined editors’ requests to review (Trevino, 2008). She continued by stating that reviewing is both a professional and ethical responsibility for all of us. I could not agree more with Professor Trevino. Her critical assessment of the state of reviewing in our profession is a wake-up call. If we want our profession to continue growing in quality and be members in good standing in our chosen career path, then we should all act professionally and ethically in our treatment of each other’s work. After all, as Professor Trevino states, the Golden Rule works in all possible directions. So, please, next time you receive a request to review, do not discard it. If you have a valid reason for declining, please let the editorial team know as soon as possible. You may even help identify able and willing reviewers. Similar professional and ethical attitudes are expected of all involved in the submissionpeer evaluation-publication process: authors, editors, associate editors and others. Furthermore, sponsoring institutions must recognize the value of all aspects of faculty participation in this endeavor. We are privileged to be engaged in something we love to do. To paraphrase one of the original SNLs: Academia has been very good to us! The rise of management fields to today’s professional status has especially been good to us! Let’s make it even better by helping each other! This issue would not have been possible without the contributions of the many professionally and ethically acting manuscript reviewers. I want to thank them on behalf of the authors, the editorial team and the profession. The first article is contributed by Linda Niehm, Nancy Miller, Mack Shelley and Margaret Fitzgerald. Their study, Small Family Business Survival Strategies for Coping with Overlapping Family and Business Demands, deals with a critical topic in the success of a family venture. What is the right balance between home and work? The authors analyze the homework place balance achieved by surviving and non-surviving firms. The implications of their work are both interesting and of great importance not only for family businesses, but also for an economic system that depends so heavily on them.

Trainee Forum. Beyond the Bench: Exploring Career Opportunities and Striving for Success.Rebecca C. Bott

Given the current economic situation, SSR trainees are expanding their job searches more than ever. The 2009 Trainee Forum has been designed to explore career opportunities and to help trainees understand how to position themselves for success in their chosen career paths. Our panel will consist of two expert career counselors, Joe Tringali and Bill Lindstaedt, as well as highly successful representatives from government, large research institutions, small teaching and research institutions, and industry. Mark Mirando, Peter Sutovsky, Olga Bolden-Tiller, and Marjorie Faust will share their experiences--including how they chose their respective careers, what it takes to be successful in their chosen paths, and what they are looking for in potential colleagues. The panel structure of the forum will allow for a great deal of interaction and discussion. All trainee and regular members of SSR are highly encouraged to attend and participate!

Protecting an Endangered Species: Training Physicians to Conduct Clinical Research

The Program in Clinical Effectiveness (PCE) at Harvard School of Public Health is a postgraduate program emphasizing clinical research. The authors sought to evaluate the research careers of physician graduates and to determine correlates of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant funding. In 2006, all 1,489 graduates from 1986-2005 were sent a 48-item survey that collected information on demographics, program experience, chosen career path, grant awards, and research pursued postprogram. Reported NIH grants were verified on the NIH Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects Web site. Cox proportional hazard regression was used to determine participant and program features associated with NIH grant funding. Overall, 994 of the 1,365 located graduates (73%) responded to the survey. Graduates pursued research in the following areas: 437 respondents (44%) pursued clinical trials, 537 (54%) pursued epidemiology, and 408 (41%) pursued health services research. A total of 156 respondents (24%) were principal investigators on an NIH grant. Correlates of receiving NIH grant funding included age less than 40 years at time of program enrollment (hazard ratio [HR] 1.87, CI 1.03, 3.41), generalist status (HR 1.57, CI 1.14, 2.16), and publishing research begun as course projects (HR 1.65, CI 1.19, 2.31). Gender, academic status at enrollment, ethnicity, tuition sponsorship, and earning an advanced degree were not associated with receipt of NIH grant funding. Physicians who enrolled in the PCE at an early age and generalist physicians were particularly successful in establishing careers as clinician-investigators. Programs such as the PCE can help to sustain the workforce of physician-investigators.

Medical engineering at Cardiff University. Part 1: Undergraduate programmes of study

Cardiff University has offered a medical engineering undergraduate programme since 2001 and hence delivers one of the longest-running and most established medical engineering programmes within the UK. It currently offers BEng (Hons) and MEng (Hons) programmes that are both accredited by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and include the option to undertake a year in industrial employment. The admissions policy ensures that the intake consists of a diverse range of students and is typically very successful in attracting female students. The programmes consist of six key academic threads which ensure that the content is both relevant and continuous, with all threads tailored to provide a patient-focused learning environment. Students initially learn core and fundamental principles in years 1 and 2, supported by a range of laboratories and practical experimentation. The latter years then encourage the students to corroborate and apply this knowledge, including involvement in a range of project-based learning exercises. The programme is delivered by a core of experienced academic medical engineers, with support from other engineering colleagues, as well as colleagues from the School of Biosciences, the School of Medicine, and the National Health Service. Thus, the programme delivers a wide range of modules which guarantee that graduating students have a thorough understanding of all possible career options. These two factors are significant in making it possible for students to follow their chosen career path upon graduation.

Investigating the experiences of male student English teachers in a traditional non-gender profession

The research for this paper aims to investigate the viewpoints and career plans of male student teachers of English entering a gender non-traditional field in a university in Turkey. The study has found that the driving motivator for the participants was the strong determination and commitment to the profession and the anticipation of moral satisfaction as well as the desire to be effective role models for their students. Despite the fact that they soon realized the high level societal stigma attributed to the teaching profession, they decided not to get out of the chosen career path.

Validation of a Multivariate Career and Educational Counseling Intervention Model Using Long‐Term Follow‐Up

In this study, the author sought to validate the effectiveness of a multivariate career and educational counseling intervention model through long‐term follow‐up of clients seen in private practice. Effectiveness was measured by clients' commitment to and enjoyment of their chosen career paths and the relationship of these factors to adherence to program recommendations. Findings indicated that 65% of clients adhered to program recommendations. Those who adhered to program recommendations were significantly more committed to their careers; however, no significant difference was found in clients' enjoyment of their careers. Additionally, 85% of clients reported that the program met their needs, and 95% would recommend the program.

Post-Postmodernism and the Archive

THE DISCOVERY Early in 2005, a dramatic discovery was made in attic and basement of a home in Southern California. It was complete archive of a photographer apparently active in mid- to late-nineteenth century. A battery of prints, negatives, logs, and equipment constituted this surprising discovery and revealed a previously unknown chapter of photographic history. The findings were contained in numerous trunks and crates containing crumbling platinum prints and well-preserved glass negatives along with volumes of logs and journals detailing journeys and activities of one Timothy Eugene O'Tower. From these notes it is known that O'Tower explored West in era of Manifest Destiny's westward expansion. The archive was transferred to Terry Towery, a distant relation of O'Tower's, who is a professor of photography at Lehman College of City University of New York and Parsons School of Design in New York City. Towery, who teaches History of Photography as well as other courses, says that one of most startling aspects of discovery was familiarity of so many of images. In reviewing archive, one notes images that scream photo history from images that are similar (to extent of almost exact framing) to seminal images from 1860s and '70s by Mathew Brady, William Henry Jackson, Timothy O'Sullivan, and like. Many were labeled with locations but very few with dates, leaving chronological identification to text of logs and more often to conjecture. O'TOWER'S STORY The following biography is excerpted from a catalog produced by Towery and Peer Gallery where first exhibition of O'Tower's work was held in Fall of 2006: Timothy Eugene O'Tower (1829-1900) grew up in shadow of Tower of Eire. At ten years of age he was apprenticed to a gentleman scholar interested in optics and chemistry as well as philosophy and aesthetics. In his youthful apprenticeship, he spent his days making lenses and mixing chemicals and his evenings discussing philosophy and aesthetics with his master. In 1841, he attended to his master at Henry Fox Talbot's presentation to Royal Society on The Pencil of Nature. Although much of his history is lost, it is known that he explored American West and Far East at approximately same time as those photographers in the Canon, but his imagery went mysteriously undiscovered until now. In early 1860s, he fled Ireland after shooting his wife for allegedly having a torrid adulterous affair. He went eastward in 1865 and simultaneously discovered photography as his chosen career path. After making an undetermined number of images in East he made his way to America and continued in tradition of American exploration photographers. His close friends included both Edweard Muybrige and Timothy O'Sullivan. While Mathew Brady was away on one of his many extended journeys, Timothy Eugene had an affair with Mathew Brady's wife. Because of affair, Brady refused to include O'Tower in official exploration group. Unbeknownst to Brady, O'Sullivan hired O'Tower as an assistant for his expertise in both technical and aesthetic matters. In this manner he traveled with O'Sullivan and Muybridge, thus revealing frequent similarity in imagery. News items and his death certificate reveal little about his demise. O'Tower's body was found both stabbed and shot. Never claimed by friend or family, he was buried anonymously in a public cemetery and he effectively disappeared from history. (1) THE FICTION O'Tower never existed. He is an identity and fiction created by photographer Terry Towery as a vehicle for presenting a body of work that engages questions of authenticity, authorship, originality, contemporary sublime, and postmodern obsession with simulacra of past. …

Interview with Matthew R. Simmons

The Way Ahead Interview - A conversation with energy investment banker Matthew R. Simmons. What was your first job, and what were your impressions of the oil and gas industry when you started working? I accidentally stumbled upon my first job. When I was in my second year at Harvard Business School, I reluctantly signed up for a course called Manufacturing Policy. I say reluctantly because of all of the courses I took in my first year, Manufacturing Operations was singularly the most boring. But during a conversation with a finance professor, he recommended this as the best finance course of the second year. A few days later, the school paper listed all the secondyear courses, and Manufacturing Policy was rated as the course with the hardest workload in all second-year courses, so it was with great reluctance that I signed up. Upon completion of the course, before our grades were issued, I was asked to meet with the professor—I was positive I had flunked the course. I was astonished when the professor asked if I would stay on and work at the school as a research associate to rework the case studies in this particular course. This detour is what stopped me from returning to Utah and becoming a commercial banker, which had been my chosen career path when I enrolled. As it turned out, several of the case studies I worked on during this two-year program were on oil companies. The first was on Phillips Petroleum betting its future on building the world's largest ethylene plant. I then did a case on a new refinery being built in Come-by-Chance, Newfoundland, and another on a merger between three very tiny exploration, production, and refinery companies based in Wyoming called Tesero Petroleum. Frankly, none of this work heavily influenced me in getting interested in oil and gas. I was actually nearing the end of my second year as a case writer when I was on my way to Los Angeles to write a case on American Cement and I stopped in Palm Springs for the weekend. My father, a commercial banker in Utah, was in Palm Springs attending a mergers and acquisitions seminar. When I arrived to spend the weekend with my parents, Dad told me about a really interesting young guy in our class who was apparently a deep-sea diver. When I heard "deepsea diver," I assumed he was probably a treasure diver and I was really keen to meet him. So, the next day during the seminar coffee break, I introduced myself to Laddie Handleman. Unknown to me at the time, this chance introduction became my introduction to the oilfield service industry. It turns out that Laddie had founded a company called Californian Divers ("Cal Dive"). The company had grown so fast that they were running out of money and were talking about being acquired by Santa Fe. I asked him why he was considering selling and if he had instead thought about raising some venture capital. I told him that I could probably find a few investors who could put enough capital into his company to give it 2 or 3 more years of growth, and then he could sell the business.

‘Because it’s boring, irrelevant and I don’t like computers’: Why high school girls avoid professionally-oriented ICT subjects

The current paper details results from the Girls and ICT survey phase of a three year study investigating factors associated with low participation rates by females in education pathways leading to professional level information and communications technology (ICT) professions. The study is funded through the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Linkage Grants Scheme. It involves a research partnership between Education Queensland (EQ), industry partner Technology One and academic researchers at ( affiliation removed for review purposes). Respondents to the survey were 1453 senior high school girls. Comparisons were drawn between Takers ( n = 131) and Non Takers ( n = 1322) of advanced level computing subjects. Significant differences between the groups were found on four questions: “The subjects are interesting”; “I am very interested in computers”; “The subject will be helpful to me in my chosen career path after school”; and “It suited my timetable”. The research has demonstrated that senior high school girls tend to perceive advanced computing subjects as boring and they express a strong aversion to computers.

The Imposter Phenomenon in Physician Assistant Graduates

Graduate schools and medical residency programs have identified a subgroup of individuals who tend to doubt their competency to excel in their chosen career paths. The imposter phenomenon (IP) implies the strong feeling of “intellectual phoniness” that is experienced among some “high-achieving” individuals. These individuals live in fear of “being found out,” and forced to abandon their professions. Results from a pilot study identified a high percentage of students to have feelings of imposture. Our study suggests IP may be a transient phenomenon. Further national studies involving the physician assistant profession are needed.

Organising research

There are several reasons for undertaking formal research—to sample academic medicine, explore further an area of interest, or more commonly because your chosen career path demands publications, an MD, or even a PhD. These suggestions will hopefully make the process a bit easier.

ASHP’s CareerPharm

ASHP launched CareerPharm in June 2003 to meet the unique recruiting needs of pharmacy employers and job seekers. Since its launch, CareerPharm has experienced exponential growth. The site now logs an average of over 500,000 monthly page views and boasts more than 5,000 registered pharmacy candidates and over 1,000 pharmacy employers all connecting daily with one another. In addition to the Web site, CareerPharm includes “In-print” recruitment advertising in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) and CareerPharm’s PPS, the largest “in-person” pharmacy recruiting event, offered at each ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting. Distinct competitive advantages for ASHP’s CareerPharm are the multiple channels offered and the means of connecting pharmacists with opportunities. More importantly to the profession of pharmacy, ASHP’s CareerPharm not only connects pharmacy candidates with employment opportunities and vice versa, but CareerPharm serves as a trusted resource to which pharmacists can turn for guidance and advice as they move along their chosen career paths.