"How do university finances really work? From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts colleges, there are few aspects of these institutions associated with more ...confusion, myths or lack of understanding than how they fund themselves and function in the business of higher education. Using simple, approachable explanations supported by clear illustrations, this book takes the reader on an engaging and enlightening tour of how the money flows. How does the university really pay for itself? Why do tuition and fees rise so fast? Why do universities lose money on research? Do most donations go to athletics? Grounded in hard data, original analyses, and the practical experience of a seasoned administrator, this book provides refreshingly clear answers and comprehensive insights for anyone on or off campus who is interested in the business of the university: how it earns its money, how it spends it, and how it all works."
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends ...in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national discourse--Wenger calls it "religious freedom talk--that cannot possibly be separated from the evolving politics of race and empire.More often than not, Wenger demonstrates, religious freedom talk worked to privilege the dominant white Christian population. At the same time, a diverse array of minority groups at home and colonized people abroad invoked and reinterpreted this ideal to defend themselves and their ways of life. In so doing they posed sharp challenges to the racial and religious exclusions of American life. People of almost every religious stripe have argued, debated, negotiated, and brought into being an ideal called American religious freedom, subtly transforming their own identities and traditions in the process. In a post-9/11 world, Wenger reflects, public attention to religious freedom and its implications is as consequential as it has ever been.
The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no ...major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, this book documents the decline in the 1990s in American crime as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, the book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the drop in the 1990s. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. A combination of factors rather than a single cause produced the decline. It is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural change, but that smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success.
Medical experts on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic provide recommendations for governments, health agencies, and schools to prepare for the next outbreak.Another pandemic is coming. The type, ...severity, and spread are unknown, but governments, public health agencies, schools, and all other organizations must be prepared in order to minimize damage and save lives. We need to identify the lessons learned from our successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic to plan better for our future response.In Preparing for the Next Global Outbreak, David C. Pate, MD, JD, and Ted Epperly, MD, combine their decades of experience as doctors and health care leaders who have led their organizations through numerous public health challenges to create an extensive list of practical recommendations for a variety of organizations and agencies to better prepare for the next pandemic. They worked together in the fight against COVID-19 and the misinformation that devastated so many communities across the country. From the exam room to the public health board meeting room to the state capitol, Pate and Epperly use their expertise to craft 117 specific recommendations that organizations and governments can implement now in order to better prepare for the future. They divide these recommendations into checklists specific to different contexts: schools, hospitals, public health agencies, state governments, and the federal government. Public health officials, medical practitioners, state and local officials, school board members, disaster management leaders, and anyone with a stake in preparing their communities against future outbreaks will benefit from the recommendations Pate and Epperly outline.This is the first book to apply lessons learned in real time during a pandemic while chronicling which responses did and did not work and why. The authors examine the global, national, and local responses to COVID-19 and illustrate how we can learn from the mistakes of this pandemic so as not to repeat them during the next.
Following the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the presidential
election of 2016, many prominent scholars and political pundits
argued that a successful Democratic Party in the future must
abandon ...identity politics. While these calls for Democrats to
distance themselves from such strategies have received much
attention, there is scant academic work that empirically tests
whether nonracial campaigns provide an advantage to Democrats
today. As Christopher Stout explains, those who argue for
deracialized appeals to voters may not be considering how several
high-profile police shootings and acquittals, increasing evidence
of growing racial health and economic disparities, retrenchments on
voting rights, and the growth of racial hate groups have made race
a more salient issue now than in the recent past. Moreover, they
fail to account for how demographic changes in the United States
have made racial and ethnic minorities a more influential voting
bloc.
The Case for Identity Politics finds that racial
appeals are an effective form of outreach for Democratic candidates
and enhance, rather than detract from, their electability in our
current political climate.
The tenth-anniversary edition of a foundational text in digital media and learning, examining new media practices that range from podcasting to online romantic breakups. Hanging Out, Messing Around, ...and Geeking Out , first published in 2009, has become a foundational text in the field of digital media and learning. Reporting on an ambitious three-year ethnographic investigation into how young people live and learn with new media in varied settings—at home, in after-school programs, and in online spaces—it presents a flexible and useful framework for understanding the ways that young people engage with and through online platforms: hanging out, messing around, and geeking out, otherwise known as HOMAGO. Integrating twenty-three case studies—which include Harry Potter podcasting, video-game playing, music sharing, and online romantic breakups—in a unique collaborative authorship style, Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out combines in-depth descriptions of specific group dynamics with conceptual analysis. Since its original publication, digital learning labs in libraries and museums around the country have been designed around the HOMAGO mode and educators have created HOMAGO guidebooks and toolkits. This tenth-anniversary edition features a new introduction by Mizuko Ito and Heather Horst that discusses how digital youth culture evolved in the intervening decade, and looks at how HOMAGO has been put into practice. This book was written as a collaborative effort by members of the Digital Youth Project, a three-year research effort funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Southern California.
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, at the high tide of imperial struggles in North America, an indigenous empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American ...Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This p.
A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long
list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for
Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini,
...Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber's works have
since become standard concert repertoire and continue to flourish
across high art and popular culture.
Acclaimed biographer Howard Pollack ( Aaron Copland ,
George Gershwin ) offers a multifaceted account of Barber's
life and music while placing the artist in his social and cultural
milieu. Born into a musical family, Barber pursued his artistic
ambitions from childhood. Pollack follows Barber's path from his
precocious youth through a career where, from the start, the
composer consistently received prizes, fellowships, and other
recognition. Stylistic analyses of works like the Adagio for
Strings , the Violin Concerto, Knoxville: Summer of
1915 for voice and orchestra, the Piano Concerto, and the
operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra , stand
alongside revealing accounts of the music's commissioning,
performance, reception, and legacy. Throughout, Pollack weaves in
accounts of Barber's encounters with colleagues like Aaron Copland
and Francis Poulenc, performers from Eleanor Steber and Leontyne
Price to Vladimir Horowitz and Van Cliburn, patrons, admirers, and
a wide circle of eminent friends and acquaintances. He also
provides an eloquent portrait of the composer's decades-long
relationship with the renowned opera composer Gian Carlo
Menotti.
Informed by new interviews and immense archival research,
Samuel Barber is a long-awaited critical and personal
biography of a monumental figure in twentieth-century American
music.
In the early 1920s, when the New York Yankees' first dynasty was
taking shape, they were outplayed by their local rival, the New
York Giants. Led by manager John McGraw the Giants won four
...consecutive National League pennants and two World Series, both
against the rival Yankees. Remarkably, the Giants succeeded despite
a dysfunctional and unmanageable front office. And at the center of
the turmoil was one of baseball's more improbable figures: club
president Charles A. Stoneham, who had purchased the Giants for $1
million in 1919, the largest amount ever paid for an American
sports team. Short, stout, and jowly, Charlie Stoneham embodied a
Jazz Age stereotype-a business and sporting man by day, he led
another life by night. He threw lavish parties, lived
extravagantly, and was often chronicled in the city tabloids.
Little is known about how he came to be one of the most successful
investment brokers in what were known as "bucket shops," a highly
speculative and controversial branch of Wall Street. One thing
about Stoneham is clear, however: at the close of World War I he
was a wealthy man, with a net worth of more than $10 million. This
wealth made it possible for him to purchase majority control of the
Giants, one of the most successful franchises in Major League
Baseball. Stoneham, an owner of racehorses, a friend to local
politicians and Tammany Hall, a socialite and a man well placed in
New York business and political circles, was also implicated in a
number of business scandals and criminal activities. The Giants'
principal owner had to contend with federal indictments, civil
lawsuits, hostile fellow magnates, and troubles with booze,
gambling, and women. But during his sixteen-year tenure as club
president, the Giants achieved more success than the club had seen
under any prior regime. In Jazz Age Giant Robert Garratt
brings to life Stoneham's defining years leading the Giants in the
Roaring Twenties. With its layers of mystery and notoriety,
Stoneham's life epitomizes the high life and the changing mores of
American culture during the 1920s, and the importance of sport,
especially baseball, during the pivotal decade.
The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future scientists and engineers. Evidence from research about how students learn science and engineering ...shows that teaching strategies that motivate and engage students will improve their learning. So how do students best learn science and engineering? Are there ways of thinking that hinder or help their learning process? Which teaching strategies are most effective in developing their knowledge and skills? And how can practitioners apply these strategies to their own courses or suggest new approaches within their departments or institutions? "Reaching Students" strives to answer these questions. "Reaching Students" presents the best thinking to date on teaching and learning undergraduate science and engineering. Focusing on the disciplines of astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geosciences, and physics, this book is an introduction to strategies to try in your classroom or institution. Concrete examples and case studies illustrate how experienced instructors and leaders have applied evidence-based approaches to address student needs, encouraged the use of effective techniques within a department or an institution, and addressed the challenges that arose along the way. The research-based strategies in "Reaching Students" can be adopted or adapted by instructors and leaders in all types of public or private higher education institutions. They are designed to work in introductory and upper-level courses, small and large classes, lectures and labs, and courses for majors and non-majors. And these approaches are feasible for practitioners of all experience levels who are open to incorporating ideas from research and reflecting on their teaching practices. This book is an essential resource for enriching instruction and better educating students.
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