Look at New Regents Admissions Policy Regent Admission Index: http://www2.state.ia.us/regents/rai/FAQ: http://www2.state.ia.us/regents/rai/FAQ122607.pdf Students from Iowa high schools planning to begin their studies in fall 2009 or later must have a Regent Admission Index score of at least 245 and take the minimum number of required high school courses to qualify for automatic admission to Iowa State …
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May 19
Bourdieuian Framework
Socioeconomic Status and College: How SES Affects College Experiences and OutcomesAccess, Equity, and the Privatization of College Counseling Patricia M. McDonough, Jessica Korn, and Erika Yamasaki Pierre Bourdieu Annette LaReau == leading scholarErin Horvat, Temple UniversityPat McDonoughHigher Education handbook on Theory and research 1999/2000 talks about field level analysis in college access (Charles Oucult) Cultural …
May 19
Interview with Dr. Patricia M. McDonough in RESEV 615 on May 19, 2008
INTERVIEWWhat its been and how it has evolved?Housing project in BostonThings were different at Stanford — students in “my” high school went here and there… students in my hs went to work in the Gillette factory, post office — started to read about class — and my dissertation became the book — what captured my …
May 19
Choosing Colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity
Choosing Colleges: How social class and schools structure opportunity by McDonough First person to Bordeoix with respect to qualitative research on college access Far more importance on social capital showed how the “habitus” of the school matters and works to the idea of a college going culture Concept of cultural capital McDonough, P.M. (1997). Choosing …
May 13
The Barriers: History & Economics
6 Primary Barriers: Organizing the findings Financial Barriers Mission and Advising Services Information on Post-Secondary Information and Financial Aid Admissions Practices and policies College Prep in K-12 Institutions Family Involvement Policy memo with respect to history & economics — get more specific
May 13
Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations
Appropriating the Internet for Social Change: Towards the Strategic Use of Networked Technologies by Transnational Civil Society Organizations Prepared by Mark Surman and Katherine Reilly The goal of this report is to explore the question of how civil society can use – and is using – networked technologies strategically. More specifically, the report reviews a …
May 13
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture by Karaganis, Joe, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.
“Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by SSRC Program Director Joe Karaganis, explores digital technologies that are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia to YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of …
May 12
Budget Reduction at University of Florida
http://www.president.ufl.edu/budget-reduction/proposal.html
May 12
College Access
Higher Education Improves Society povertyracismsexiasmhomophobiahomelessnesshealth & wellnesscurriculumpedagogy
May 01
Final Project for Pedagogy & Dissent by Laura Bestler-Wilcox
The Final Piece: Searching: Online Identity Work http://bestlerwilcox.com/Final_Project/ Searching: Online Identity Work Laura Bestler-Wilcox 615C HGED: Annotated Bibliography Iowa State University May 1, 2008 Project Summary My final project will be a computer graphic piece which explores my personal transformation. This transformation occurred while discovering how traditional aged undergraduate students search to express the intersections …