Claremont Graduate University Research Articles

Youth violence and positive psychology: Research potential through integration.

Positive psychologists can study the relation between some of the discipline's core dimensions and aversive outcomes, including youth violence. Dimensions such as gratitude, forgiveness, sense of meaning, altruism (or at least apparent altruism), prudence, and humility have received attention within positive psychology, and evidence is reviewed suggesting that these may also deserve empirical attention in terms of their relation to youth violence and even their potential to reduce youth violence. Keywords: positive psychology, violence, youth, character strengths Positive psychology as a field of study has shown remarkable growth over the last 15 years. The field now has its own journal (Journal of Positive Psychology); graduate programs (e.g., University of Pennsylvania, University of East London, Claremont Graduate University); dedicated scholarships and research grants; international conferences each year; researchers from Europe, the United States, and other regions; and wide sales for some of its textbooks (e.g., Peterson, 2006; Snyder & Lopez, 2007). One topic receiving little if any attention within this growing field is the application of positive psychology to research on youth violence. However, a positive psychology approach to youth violence research may not only be possible, but beneficial. We will argue for research explicitly linking some core constructs from positive psychology with research on youth violence. These constructs may reduce or at least predict reduced levels of youth violence. Admittedly, positive psychology and youth violence research may initially seem incompatible. Definitions of positive psychology tend to focus on the scientific study of positive traits and well-being (and sometimes positive institutions; e.g., Seligman, 2002). This definitional focus may seem to exclude a focus on youth violence. Bringing Balance to Positive Psychology by Studying Aversive Outcomes However, applying positive psychology to youth violence research may help bring balance to positive psychology. A persuasive case has been made by Wong (2009, 2010; see also Linley, Joseph, Harrington, & Wood, 2006) that more balance is needed in positive psychology. In particular, he argued that positive psychology focuses on the human appetitive system. In other words, the discipline tends to focus on goals that motivate approach, goals such as happiness and character strengths. These foci, of course, have value. However, Wong has argued that a balanced approach must also integrate the aversive system that helps people avoid or cope well with undesirable outcomes. Well-being requires not only approaching positive goals, but also avoiding negative outcomes or at least dealing well with negative outcomes. An exclusive focus on strengths and positive emotions ignores significant parts of human life. All humans must not only approach appetitive outcomes, but also avoid aversive outcomes. Building a sustainable future for individuals (O'Brien, 2008) requires not only building the good, but also avoiding the bad. In a sense, the tendency to ignore human tragedy and pain within positive psychology is surprising given the fact that resilience research (which presupposes the existence of tragedy that must be overcome) has been accepted by some to be within the domain of positive psychology (e.g., Yates & Masten, 2004). Furthermore, if positive psychology studies only appetitive constructs, the discipline may overrepresent concerns and causal agents especially relevant for the societal elites and ignore the social issues and barriers to the good life that are more common among the nonelite (e.g., poverty, hunger, violence; Wong, 2007). Thus, a balanced positive psychology will seek to promote strengths and happiness while simultaneously reducing aversive outcomes. Youth violence is clearly an undesirable outcome. As such, it has been largely ignored within positive psychology. …

Health Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Use-Inspired Research and Practice

Rapid advances in information and networking technologies have greatly expanded the modes for conducting business and science. For the past two decades, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has been supporting efforts to develop a comprehensive cyberinfrastructure with the goal of transforming the nature of scientific investigations. More recently, the NIH began supporting efforts to develop a cyberinfrastructure of healthcare research and practice. However, the best structure and applications of cyberinfrastructure in health care have yet to be defined. To address these issues, the NIH and the Kay Center for E-Health Research at Claremont Graduate University sponsored a symposium on “Cyberinfrastructure for Public Health and Health Services: Research and Funding Directions.” The symposium convened researchers, practitioners, and federal funders to discuss how to further cyberinfrastructure systems and research in the public health and health services sectors. This paper synthesizes findings of the symposium, the goals of which were to determine the dynamics necessary for executing and utilizing cyberinfrastructure in public health and health services; examine the requirements of transdisciplinary collaboration; and identify future research directions. A multi-faceted conception of use-inspired research for cyberinfrastructure is developed. Use-inspired research aims to further basic theory but is grounded, inspired, and informed by practical problems. A cyberinfrastructure framework is presented that incorporates three intersecting dimensions: research–practice, health services–public health, and social–technical dimensions. Within this framework, this paper discusses the ways in which cyberinfrastructure provides opportunities to integrate across these dimensions to develop research and actions that can improve both clinical outcomes and public health.

The Drucker lectures: essential lessons on management, society, and economy

Previously unpublished talks from the Father of Modern Management Throughout his professional life, F. Drucker inspired millions of business leaders not only through his famous writings but also through his lectures and keynotes. These speeches contained some of his most valuable insights, but had never been published in book form-until now. The Drucker Lectures features more than 30 talks from one of management's most important figures. Drawn from the Drucker Archives at the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University, the lectures showcase Drucker's wisdom, wit, profundity, and prescience on such topics as: Politics and economics of the environment Knowledge workers and the Knowledge Society Computer and information literacy Managing nonprofit organizations Globalization During his life, Drucker well understood that over the last 150 years the world had become a society of large institutions-and that they would only become larger and more powerful. He contended that unless these institutions were effectively managed and ethically led, the good health of society as a whole would be in peril. His prediction is unfolding before our eyes. The Drucker Lectures is a timely, instructive book proving that responsible behavior and good business can, in fact, exist hand in hand. Praise for The Drucker Lectures Peter Drucker shined a light in a dark and chaotic world, and his wordsremain as relevant today as when he first spoke them. Drucker's lecturesand thoughts deserve to be considered by every person of responsibility,now, tomorrow, ten years from now, fifty, and a hundred. -Jim Collins, author of Good to Greatand How the Mighty Fall Wartzman has brought Drucker alive again, and vividly so,in his own words. These samples of his talks and lectures, because theywere spoken not written, will be new to almost all of us. A great andunexpectedtreat. -Charles Handy, author ofMyself and Other More Important Matters Peter Drucker's ideas continue to resonate powerfully Hislectureson effectiveness, innovation, the social sector, education and so muchmore provide fresh insights that extend beyond his other writings andprovide lessons for us all. This book is a gem. -Wendy Kopp, CEO and founder of Teach for America Wartzman has performed a great service in pulling together TheDrucker Lectures. The collection is as far-ranging as Drucker's thinkingandwriting. If you have sampled Drucker before, you will find things youhaven'tseen. Peter's ideas live on. You will be energized by reading themanew. -Paul O'Neill, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Peter Drucker inspires awe. From the 1940s until his death a few yearsago, he displayed a combination of insight, prescience, and productivitythat few will ever match. This superbly edited collection captures boththerange of Drucker's thinking and the sweep of history that informed it.TheDrucker Lectures is a riveting read that reveals the depth and subtletyofone of America's most remarkable minds. -Daniel H. Pink, author ofA Whole New Mind and Drive Wartzman really has brought to life in The Drucker Lectures.Reading this book, I practically felt as though I were seated in theaudience,listening to my friend and hero, Drucker-truly one of thegreat geniuses of management. These lectures are as vital today as theywere when delivered them. They cover significant territory, fromtheimportance of faith and the individual to the rise of the globaleconomy.It's a classic collection that belongs on every manager's bookshelf. -Ken Blanchard, coauthor ofThe One Minute Manager and Leading at a Higher Level Thank you, Rick Wartzman, for the pleasure of learning from the witty,informal Drucker as his ideas unfold and his remarkable mindgrappleswith challenges of management that are still with us today. -Rosabeth Moss Kanter,Harvard Business School Professorand author of Confidence and SuperCorp:How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation,Profits, Growth, and Social Good

Call for Papers: “Followercentric Approaches to Leadership”

Free AccessNews and AnnouncementsCall for Papers: “Followercentric Approaches to Leadership”A Topical Issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of PsychologyMichelle C. Bligh and Jeffrey C. KohlesMichelle C. Bligh Claremont Graduate University, CA, USA Guest Editor Search for more papers by this author and Jeffrey C. Kohles Center for Leadership Innovation and Mentorship Building (CLIMB), California State University San Marcos, CA, USA Guest Editor Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:February 28, 2015https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000058PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditE-Mail SectionsMoreOver the past several decades, scholars have focused increased attention on followers’ needs, motivations, and attributions as critical aspects of the leadership relationship. These findings suggest that, just as not all leaders are the same, followers vary, sometimes dramatically, in their needs for certain types of leaders and leadership (e.g., toxic, authoritarian, charismatic, authentic, paternalistic, servant) as well as their susceptibility and responsiveness to certain types of leadership (authentic, transformational, dictatorial, directive vs. participative, etc.). For this topical issue, we invite contributions that may include one or more of the following:followers’ characteristics and potential biases that influence attributions of leadership, including attributions for organizational success and failure and the “Romance of Leadership”;the role of followers’ characteristics, perceptions, and motivations in interpreting leadership ratings, as well as the potential impact of situational factors such as the role of crisis and follower uncertainty or fear on these processes; andthe social construction of leadership, including social contagion processes and other interfollower processes.The focus of this topical issue of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology on “Followercentric Approaches to Leadership” is not limited to the topics listed, but seeks to encompass a broad view of what a focus on followers brings to the study of leadership; the goal of this topical issue is to bring together a set of papers that represent new directions in leadership that stem from the examination of followers and followership. We are looking for original empirical articles that advance knowledge concerning one or more of these topics, as well as review-type articles that focus on the interpretation of existing trends in followercentric approaches and where we should go from here.The topical issue invites submissions of empirical, theoretical, and review papers. Please submit contributions electronically to:Michelle C. Bligh (mailto:michelle.bligh@cgu.edu)For additional information, please contactMichelle C. Bligh (mailto:michelle.bligh@cgu.edu) orJeffrey C. Kohles (mailto:jkohles@csusm.edu)There is a two-stage submissions process. Initially, authors are requested to submit only abstracts of their proposed papers. Authors requested to submit full papers should then do so. All papers will undergo full peer review.Deadline for submission of abstracts is October 15, 2011.Deadline for submission of full papers is February 15, 2012.The journal seeks to maintain a short turnaround time, with the final version of the accepted papers being due by May 15, 2012. The topical issue will be published in autumn 2012.The Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology was founded in 1890 and is the second oldest psychology journal in the world. One of the founding editors was Hermann Ebbinghaus. Since 2007, it is published in English and devoted to topical issues that provide state-of-the-art overviews of current research in psychology.Guidelines for Article PreparationFor detailed author guidelines, please see the journal’s website at www.hogrefe.com/journals/zfp.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 219Issue 2January 2011ISSN: 2190-8370eISSN: 2151-2604 InformationZeitschrift für Psychologie (2011), 219, pp. 128-128 https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000058.© 2011Hogrefe Publishing

The 2009 Claremont Debates: The Promise and Pitfalls of Utilization-Focused and Empowerment Evaluation

Background: Hundreds of evaluators visit the Claremont Colleges in southern California each year to discuss a wide range of topics related to improving the quality of evaluation practice. Debates between thought leaders in the field have been one of the most popular and informative ways to advance understanding about how best to practice evaluation in contemporary times. Purpose: The purpose of this article is to provide a written transcript of the 2009 Claremont Evaluation Debates. The first debate is between Michael Quinn Patton and Michael Scriven on the promise and pitfalls of utilization-focused evaluation. The second debate is between David Fetterman, Michael Quinn Patton, and Michael Scriven on the promise and pitfalls of empowerment evaluation. Setting: The debates occurred at the Claremont Graduate University on August 23-24, 2009. Several hundred evaluators from around the world also viewed and participated in the debates via a live webcast. Intervention: Not applicable.Research Design: Not applicable.Data Collection and Analysis: Not applicable.Findings: Not applicable.

Peter Drucker's leap to faith

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and interpret the spiritual foundation that permeates all Drucker's contributions, and to show that his convictions served as his internal compass, thus helping him to develop and articulate a coherent and unequivocally ecological view of the nature of management.Design/methodology/approachThe paper makes use of primary data by focusing on Drucker's published works, as well as private correspondence found at the online Drucker Archives of the Drucker Institute in Claremont Graduate University. It also makes use of materials written about Drucker and his views by former students and colleagues.FindingsThe paper presents Drucker as a lifelong learner, as the excellent student who used his personal lens to observe, synthesize, and purposefully distil his experiences into what would become the practice of management. The paper examines his contributions to the field of management from a personal perspective by presenting Drucker as the spiritual philosopher, the social ecologist, the learning teacher, and the refracting bystander.Practical implicationsThe paper suggests that Drucker's views achieve greater clarity, poignancy, and relevance when contextualized within his personal philosophy. This foundation humanizes his phenomenal contributions, and increases respect for a man who exemplified what he preached.Originality/valuePresenting Drucker as a pragmatist alone devalues his overall contributions to management and society. In an era of reported spiritual decline and commodization of the individual, Drucker's spiritually‐aligned contributions remind readers that doing the “right thing” is both simple and complicated, but always a timelessly human right and responsibility.

The Science of compassionate love: theory, research, and applications

Preface and Acknowledgments : Beverley Fehr (University of Winnipeg), Susan Sprecher (Illinois State University), and Lynn Underwood (Hiram College). Part I: Definitions, Theory, and Measurement . 1. Compassionate Love: A Framework for Research: Lynn G. Underwood (Hiram College). 2. Compassionate Love: Conceptual, Measurement, and Relational Issues: Beverley Fehr (University of Winnipeg) and Susan Sprecher (Illinois State University). 3. Measuring Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, and Compassionate Love on US Television: Stacy L. Smith (University of Southern California), Sandi W. Smith (Michigan State University), Katherine M. Pieper (University of Southern California), Edward Downs (Penn State University), Jina H. Yoo (University of Missouri St. Louis), Becka Bowden (Michigan Bankers Association), Amber Ferris (Kent State University), and Matthew C. Butler (Office of Health and Human Services, State of Michigan). Part II: The Sociodemographics of Compassionate Love . 4. Love and Caring in the United States: Trends and Correlates of Empathy, Altruism, and Related Constructs: Tom W. Smith (University of Chicago). 5. Compassionate Motivation and Compassionate Acts across the Adult Life Course: Evidence from US National Studies: Nadine F. Marks (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Jieun Song (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Part III: Compassionate Love in Close Relationships . 6. Empathy and Compassionate Love in Early Childhood: Development and Family Influence: Brenda L. Volling, Amy M. Kolak, and Denise E. Kennedy (all University of Michigan). 7. Compassionate Love in Early Marriage: Lisa A. Neff (University of Toledo) and Benjamin R. Karney (University of California, Los Angeles). Part IV: Compassionate Love for Non-Close Others . 8. A Behavioral Systems Perspective on Compassionate Love: Mario Mikulincer (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya), Phillip R. Shaver (University of California, Davis), and Omri Gillath (University of Kansas). 9. Compassionate Acts: Motivations for and Correlates of Volunteerism among Older Adults: Allen M. Omoto (Claremont Graduate University), Anna M. Malsch (Portland State University), and Jorge A. Barraza (Claremont Graduate University). 10. Compassionate Love for Individuals in Other Social Groups: Salena Brody (Collin County Community College), Stephen C. Wright (Simon Fraser University), Arthur Aron (State University of New York at Stony Brook), and Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe (Boston College). Part V: Compassionate Love in Health Care and Other Caregiving Contexts. 11. Compassionate Family Caregiving in the Light and Shadow of Death: Linda J. Roberts, Meg Wise, and Lori L. DuBenske (all University of Wisconsin-Madison). 12. Compassionate Clinicians: Exemplary Care in Hospital Settings: David R. Graber (Medical University of South Carolina) and Maralynne D. Mitcham (College of Health Professions). 13. Caregiving in Sociocultural Context: Norman D. Giesbrecht (University of Calgary). Part VI: Compassionate Love in an Intercultural Context. 14. Testing Aspects of Compassionate Love in a Sample of Indonesian Adolescents: Julie Vaughan, Nancy Eisenberg (both Arizona State University), Doran C. French (Illinois Wesleyan University), Urip Purwono (Universitas Padjadjaran), Telie A. Suryanti (associate consultant), and Sri Pidada (deceased). Part VII: Commentary. 15. Compassionate Love: Concluding Reflections: Daniel Perlman (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Rozzana Sanchez Aragon (National Autonomous University of Mexico). Index

Winners Without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More About Global Economic Policy by Edward J. Lincoln

Journal Article Winners Without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More About Global Economic Policy by Edward J. Lincoln Get access Winners Without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More About Global Economic Policyby Edward J. Lincoln. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2007. 267pp. $27.95. Thomas D. Willett Thomas D. Willett Claremont Graduate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 124, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 205–206, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb01866.x Published: 25 March 2013

Introduction

The purpose of this panel is to honor the many contributions of Rosemary Radford Ruether in the field of feminist theology, focusing on her most recent book America, Amerikkka: Elect Nation and Imperial Violence. Rosemary Radford Ruether is the Carpenter Emerita Professor of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion and the GTU, as well as the Georgia Harkness Emerita Professor of Applied Theology at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is currently a visiting professor, part-time, at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University. Rosemary has enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a scholar, teacher, and activist in the Roman Catholic Church, and is well known as a groundbreaking figure in Christian feminist theology. She has published numerous books, including Sexism and God-Talk, In Our Own Voices: Four Centuries of American Women's Religious Writing (ed. with Rosemary Skinner Keller), and The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Herman J. Ruether). Her more recent books include Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History (May 2005), Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions (Nature's Meaning) (June 2005), a collaborative multi-volume Encyclopedia of Women in American Religion, with Rosemary Skinner Keller (April 2006), and Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to `Radical Orthodoxy' (ed. with Marion Grau (January 2006). Rosemary's new book America, Amerikkka was published in 2007.

The Jezebel Letters: Religion and Politics in Ninth-Century Israel (review)

Reviewed by: The Jezebel Letters: Religion and Politics in Ninth-Century Israel Beth Alpert Nakhai The Jezebel Letters: Religion and Politics in Ninth-Century Israel, by Eleanor Ferris Beach. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005. 220 pp. $19.00. Eleanor Ferris Beach’s new book about Jezebel, the ninth-century BCE Israelite queen, contributes to the growing body of research into the roles women fulfilled in ancient Israelite society. Beach, who teaches biblical studies at St. [End Page 163] Ambrose University, received her doctorate from Claremont Graduate University and has worked on several archaeological projects. That she writes in a popular style, creating a fictitious archive of personal correspondence, detracts from the book’s scholarly value—but makes it accessible to the non-specialist. So, too, does the author’s website, with its FAQ’s and Study Aid questions designed with the non-academic reader in mind. Beach presents Jezebel as a creative social and political force in ninth-century Israel, who used her intelligence and ingenuity to improve the lives of Israelites, Phoenicians, and Judaeans alike. The Jezebel Letters addresses several issues pertinent to the reconstruction of ninth-century Israel and its neighbors. Most important is the role of women, and here Beach counters traditional ideas about ancient women as passive and powerless. Foregrounding Jezebel, Beach explores the position of the royal woman and presents an interesting, if controversial, reconstruction of the ways in which she functioned within the king’s court. According to the Bible, Jezebel was a villain infamous for subverting justice, perverting religion, corrupting Israel’s king Ahab (her husband), and contributing to the downfall of the Dynasty of Omri (her father in-law). Beach takes an alternate perspective, writing that “[t]he destiny of kings is shaped as much by strategies in the women’s quarters as by tactics on the battlefield” (p. 139). Utilizing research by Susan Ackerman and others, which explores the role of gevira or queen mother in Israel and Judah, she has the protagonist capitalize upon familial connections with Phoenicia (as the daughter of Ethbaal, king of Tyre) and Judah (as the mother of Atalyah, who married a Judaean king and then ruled independently for a brief period of time). Whether the ancient gevira exerted as much authority as does Beach’s Jezebel is uncertain. Where Beach depicts the gevira as kingmaker, the Bible emphasizes the role of the prophet. Other aspects of The Jezebel Letters are intriguing, as well. Highlighting Israel and Judah’s separate trajectories, it places them within the political configuration of the ninth-century Levant and emphasizes their many complex interactions. Indeed, the contextualization of the many small city-states and nations of the region, interacting with each other and reacting to the growing Assyrian menace, is one of the strengths of this book. Beach’s reconstruction of Jezebel as a mediator among rulers from three nations is speculative, but the complexity of international affairs that this reconstructed role underscores is authentic. Similarly intriguing is the fact that The Jezebel Letters privileges Israel over the biblically favored Judah. The Bible speaks with the voice of Judaeans, Jerusalemites, Davidic loyalists, and Temple priests. Here, though, the story is presented from the perspective of the northern nation, its capital Samaria, its [End Page 164] kings non-Davidic, its religion not Temple-based. Beach goes further, portraying Jezebel as the protector of not only her own Tyrian and Israelite royal families, but also of the Jerusalemite House of David. The Jezebel Letters effectively evokes a sense of time and place. Its epistolary device allows the author to present details of daily life that are often neglected in traditional histories. Particularly effective is Beach’s evocation of the natural setting in which Israelites and their neighbors lived, and the ways in which those varied ecological niches supported varied subsistence communities. Urban and rural centers, including Samaria (the capital of Israel), Jezreel (the royal summer palace), and Jerusalem (the capital of Judah) also figure into the narrative. The book incorporates ancient documents, and they provide historical grounding for the fictional narrative. The primary resource, of course, is the Hebrew Bible, especially passages from I–II Kings and I–II Chronicles. The former is our...

A new proof of geometric convergence for general transport problems based on sequential correlated sampling methods

In [J. Halton, Sequential Monte Carlo, Proc. Comb. Phil. Soc. 58 (1962), J. Halton, Sequential Monte Carlo Techniques for the Solution of Linear Systems, J. Sci. Comp. 9 (1994) 213–257] Halton introduced a strategy to be used in Monte Carlo algorithms for the efficient solution of certain matrix problems. We showed in [R. Kong, J. Spanier, Sequential correlated sampling methods for some transport problems, in: Harold Niederreiter, Jerome Spanier (Eds.), Monte-Carlo and Quasi Monte-Carlo Methods 1998: Proceedings of a Conference at the Claremont Graduate University, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000, R. Kong, J. Spanier, Error analysis of sequential Monte Carlo methods for transport problems, in: Harold Niederreiter, Jerome Spanier (Eds.), Monte-Carlo and Quasi Monte-Carlo Methods 1998: Proceedings of a Conference at the Claremont Graduate University, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000] how Halton’s method based on correlated sampling can be extended to continuous transport problems and established their geometric convergence for a family of transport problems in slab geometry. In our algorithm, random walks are processed in batches, called stages, each stage producing a small correction that is added to the approximate solution developed from the previous stages. In this paper, we demonstrate that strict error reduction from stage to stage can be assured under rather general conditions and we illustrate this rapid convergence numerically for a simple family of two dimensional transport problems.

Poems

Title(s): Unremitting Behavior, Voice for the Body, Sin-eater Shayda Kafai is completing her master's thesis at California State University Northridge, where she co-founded the Scribbling Poets, a group that brings nondisabled and disabled communities together through art (www.scribblingpoets.com). In the fall, she will begin doctoral work in cultural studies at Claremont Graduate University.

Women and Technology: Reversing the Trends of Attrition and Obtaining a Balance

Women's Studies An inter-disciplinary journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713654228 Women and Technology: Reversing the Trends of Attrition and Obtaining a Balance Gondy Leroy a; Kristin M. Tolle b; Linda Perkins c a Assistant Professor, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA b Program Manager for Biomedical Computing, External Research @ Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA c University Associate Professor and Director of Applied Women's Studies, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, USA

Worst of the worst: dealing with repressive and rogue nations

Repressive regimes tyrannize their own citizens and threaten global stability and order. These repositories of evil systematically oppress their own people, deny human rights and civil liberties, severely truncate political freedom, and prevent meaningful individual economic opportunity. Worst of the Worst identifies and characterizes the world's most odious states and singles out which are and, hence, can truly be called rogues. Previously, determinations have been based on inexact, impressionistic criteria. In this volume, Robert Rotberg and his colleagues define the actions that constitute repression and propose a method of measuring human rights violations. They offer an index of nation-state repressiveness, classifying gross repressors, high repressors, and aggressive repressors or on a ten-point scale. Based on arms and drug trafficking, support of terror, possession of weapons of mass destruction, and crossborder attacks, this valuable diagnostic tool will guide the international community in crafting effective policies to deal with injustice in the developing world. The and rogues profiled include Belarus, Burma, Equatorial Guinea, NorthKorea, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe. Worst of the Worst offers a transparent way to decide which repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention. Explicitly measuring and labeling these highly repressive states is the first step toward improving the well-being of millions of the poorest and most abused peoples of the globe. Contributors include Margarita M. Balmaceda (Seton Hall University), Mary Caprioli (University of Minnesota Duluth), Priscilla A. Clapp (Safe Ports, LLC),Yi Feng (Claremont Graduate University), Gregory Gleason (University of New Mexico), John Heilbrunn (Colorado School of Mines), Clement M. Henry (University of Texas at Austin),David W. Lesch (Trinity University), Marcus Noland (Peterson Institute for International Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute), Martha Brill Olcott (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Saumik Paul (Claremont Graduate University), and Peter F. Trumbore (Oakland University).

Still Losing the Battle … Still Not Knowing It: An Open Letter to Hank Hanegraaff

Research Article| January 01 2008 Still Losing the Battle … Still Not Knowing It: An Open Letter to Hank Hanegraaff Review of Hank Hanegraaff. The Mormon Mirage: Seeing Through the Illusion of Mainstream Mormonism. Charlotte, NC: Christian Research Institute, 2008. 52 pp. Free with a donation to the publisher. L. Ara Norwood L. Ara Norwood L. Ara Norwood earned an MA in management from Claremont Graduate University, where he studied with Peter F. Drucker. As managing partner of Leadership Development Systems, he writes and lectures widely on leadership and related subjects. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The FARMS Review (2008) 20 (2008) (1): 175–193. https://doi.org/10.5406/farmsreview.20.1.0175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation L. Ara Norwood; Still Losing the Battle … Still Not Knowing It: An Open Letter to Hank Hanegraaff. The FARMS Review 1 January 2008; 20 (2008) (1): 175–193. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/farmsreview.20.1.0175 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressMormon Studies Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2008 FARMS2008 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past (review)

Reviewed by: The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past Rosemary Radford Ruether The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. Edited by Catherine A. Brekus. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2007. Pp. x, 340. $59.95 clothbound; $19.95 paperback.) Forty years ago there was little writing on the history of women in religion. But in recent decades there has been an enormous outpouring of research that has demonstrated how central women are in the actual practice of religions, especially in Christian congregations. In spite of the ample availability of excellent studies on women and religion, Catherine Brekus, professor of the history of Christianity at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, finds that women still continue to be ignored in mainstream histories of America. History is seen as primarily about elite men in public life. Women, non-elites, and people other than white Protestants are still marginalized. Religion also is marginalized. Women historians share this bias, often ignoring religion and women of color. Catherine Brekus has edited this collection of twelve essays on women in American religion in an effort to demonstrate the importance of greater inclusiveness. She argues that one cannot understand American history without seeing the importance of religion, or American religion without seeing the importance of women. These twelve essays by leading women historians cover four centuries from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century. They include four that focus on white Protestants, one on Black Protestants, four on Catholics, which include blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, one on Mormons, and one on Jewish women. A twelfth essay challenges the presumed split between religion and the development of feminism in the late 1960s, showing how religiously committed women predominated in its development. [End Page 173] The four essays on American Catholic women are striking for their diversity. One, by Emily Clark of Tulane University, focuses on the centrality of white and black religious women in the evangelization of blacks in the city. Another essay, by Kathleen Cummings of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, details the struggles of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to found Trinity College in 1897–1900. This was the first Catholic women's college to be founded as a college rather than evolving from an academy. The Sisters' proposal to found such a college raised fears of Catholic conservatives in the United States and in the Vatican that this was a capitulation to Americanism, feminism, and co-education, all anathema in some circles. Cummings shows how Sister Julia McGroarty steered a difficult course between conflicting forces to found the college. A third essay, by Amy Koehlinger of Florida State University, lifts up the racial apostolate of American nuns in the 1960s that not only pioneered new work with African Americans in the rural South and the inner cities, but was able to use the gender and racial ambiguity of habited nuns to cross racial and gender boundaries. A concluding essay, by Kristy Nabhan-Warren of Augustana College, focuses on a Mexican American lay woman of South Phoenix who successfully translated her personal experiences of apparitions of the Virgin Mary into an international movement of Mary's Ministries that founded a K–12 charter school and created a powerful practice of empowerment of women that combines feminist and conservative values, Catholic and evangelical styles of piety. These twelve essays make fascinating reading. Together they make clear how much we miss of American religious history if we ignore the role of women of many ethnic and religious backgrounds. Rosemary Radford Ruether Claremont Graduate University Copyright © 2008 The Catholic University of America Press

The Making of a Sage: A Study in Rabbinic Ethics (review)

Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 395 Reviews formly or exceptionally written plene or defective”; Ginsburg, Introduction, p. 774). Three indices appear at the end of the volume including an index of terms from Appendix 1; an index of terms from Appendix 3; and an index of verses cited throughout the volume. One fundamental principle of working with manuscripts such as the Madrid Codex is the need to consult the original manuscript rather than to rely solely on printed editions. One never knows when an error in transcription might appear or a relevant feature of the original manuscript might be overlooked or omitted. Martín Contreras attempts to overcome this problem by supplying the reader with reproductions of the appendices from the manuscript itself at the end of the volume. Unfortunately, the reproductions are too small to be fully useful, but nevertheless can supply the reader with at least some perspective from the manuscript. Altogether, Martín Contreras has provided readers with an important tool for investigating the development of the Spanish Masoretic tradition, most notably the grammatical treatise Diqdûqê hatt{amîm and the compilation Sefer Okhlah we-Okhlah. Masoretic specialists, linguists, and textual scholars will be in her debt for providing such relatively inexpensive access to these aspects of one of the key manuscripts of the Spanish Masoretic tradition. Marvin A. Sweeney Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University Claremont, CA 91711 msweeney@cst.edu THE MAKING OF A SAGE: A STUDY IN RABBINIC ETHICS. By Jonathan Wyn Schofer. Pp. xiv + 310. Madison, Wisc.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. Paper, $24.95. This revised dissertation, originally completed at the University of Chicago under the guidance of Professor Michael Fishbane, contains many of the strengths and weaknesses of almost any good dissertation. On the positive side, Schofer carefully probes a central rabbinic work, The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan (ARN), in ways that illuminate its history and its meaning both in antiquity and for those living today. While many will no doubt quibble with or seriously contest some of Schofer’s individual arguments, no one can doubt that he has produced an important monograph that brings a prodigious amount of scholarship together, making this a book that any scholar of rabbinic literature will want and need to own. Hebrew Studies 48 (2007) 396 Reviews Schofer explores the various ways that the ancient rabbis, or at least those who edited this anthology, conceived of a spiritually developed human being. He does this through examining various narratives and metaphors found in this rabbinic text that shed light on the way in which these ancient rabbis understood how a life dedicated to Torah, that is a life of study and practice lived in orientation to God and his revelation, transformed those who engaged in it. In particular, he carefully unpacks not only passages that idealize certain rabbis and their behaviors but also materials that touch upon students, or humans more generally, who have not yet reached this ideal state. The book is divided into three major sections. It begins with various introductory essays. First there is a set of theoretical reflections followed by a helpful introduction to ARN. The latter includes an overview of this ancient collection of rabbinic sayings and stories as well as an introduction to the categories that Schofer will employ to analyze it. The following two sections attempt to get at the ethics implicit in this midrashic anthology through tracing out certain tropes or theological ideas including: “Torah and Transgressive Tendencies,” The Heart and Its Formation,” and “Divine Reward and Punishment.” Schofer recognizes how difficult it is to treat a rabbinic text such as ARN systematically and these broad categories are his solution to imposing some order on the ocean of rabbinic thought. On balance, while Schofer is successful in creating a set of maps through this composite anthology, at times one wonders if he might not have been better served by treating a smaller portion of ARN in a more systematic and comprehensive fashion. His thematic approach integrates material from across ARN into discrete and accessible units. However, it necessitates that the reader will already have read through ARN in order to gain some sense...

Congress and the Constitution

Congress and the Constitution Get access Devins Neal Whittington Keith E., eds. Congress and the Constitution. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. vi, 336 pp. $84.95 (cloth). $23.95 (paper). Jean Reith Schroedel Jean Reith Schroedel Claremont Graduate University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2006, Pages 453–454, https://doi.org/10.2307/25469983 Published: 01 October 2006

The 2004 Claremont Debate: Lipsey vs. Scriven

While there is little disagreement about the need for, and value of, program evaluation, there remain major disagreements in the field about best practices. An exchange about the role of randomized control trials in program evaluation practice in educational settings set the stage for the 2004 Claremont Debate. In an effort to seek a deeper understanding of the current dispute, and to possibly discover a middleground or productive resolution, Claremont Graduate University hosted a debate between representatives from both sides.

An Interview with Doris Hall Senior Vice President and CIO BAX Global, Inc.

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJaak JurisonDoris Hall is senior vice president, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of BAX Global, a $2.4 billion dollar worldwide logistics and transportation company. Ms. Hall, who joined BAX in early 2000 with extensive supply chain technology experience, has global functional responsibility for the company's information technology, including strategy, enterprise architecture, software development and infrastructure management.At BAX Global, Ms. Hall initially was Vice President, Global Applications. She was promoted to CIO in December of the same year. Prior to BAX Global, she was with Emery Worldwide for eight years as a senior information technology leader. She also worked for a distribution center of James River Corporation as an analyst and spent ten years in IT project and senior manufacturing operations management for the Gardner Denver Mining and Construction division of Cooper Industries. Ms. Hall reports directly to Joseph L. Carnes, President, BAX Global Inc.Jaak Jurison is Associate Professor Emeritus and former Chair for Information and Communications Systems at the Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, New York. Currently he is Visiting Associate Professor at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California Irvine. He received his MBA degree and doctorate in management from The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Prior to entering academia, he was with Rockwell International Corporation, where he served in various management positions. He has published numerous papers and co-edited two books. He has served several years on the Board of Directors of the Society for Information Management's New York Metro Chapter.