UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Reading History in Britain and America, c. 1750–c. 1840 by Mark Towsey (review)
(Project Muse, 2020-08) -
A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation by Beth Barton Schweiger (review)
(Project Muse, 2020-06) -
Critical Cataloging and the Serials Archive: The Digital Making of “Mill Girls in Nineteenth-Century Print”
(Archive Journal, 2019-11) -
St. Louis Mercantile Library Prize Winner Announced
(The Bibliographical Society of America, 2020-01-16) -
Institutional Review Board Rules: Should One Size Fit All Disciplines?
(CGScholar, 2010)Almost every major United States university requires faculty members and students who wish to do research on “human subjects” to submit proposals to Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). These university Boards/committees, ... -
“I Call Them My Little Chinese Kids”: Parents’ Identities and Language Ideologies in a Mandarin-English Dual Language Immersion School
(JCVE, 2020-12-22)Research on bilingual education presents clear advantages for children’s linguistic, cognitive, and social development. However, recent criticism of dual language education programs has led to claims of dual language ... -
Faith Community and Campus Engagement in Immigrant Integration
(IUPUI University Library, 2020-12-18)Immigration is one of the most contentious topics in contemporary American politics. This study presents the planning, implementation and evaluation of a program of faith community dialogues on immigration developed in ... -
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network
(Elsevier, 2020-12-13)ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the diversity and dynamics of forests and to ... -
“It's a lot!” the universal worker model and dementia care in assisted living
(Elsevier, 2020-12-13)The culture change movement aims to create a more home-like environment in long-term care settings, promote person-centered care, and support the well-being of staff and residents. One feature of Culture Change is the ... -
Hierarchical Distance Sampling Reveals Increased Population Size and Broader Habitat Use in the Endangered Bahama Oriole
(2020-01-10)Caribbean is home to over 20 passerine species listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. The Bahama Oriole (Icterus northropi) is listed as critically ... -
Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?
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Judicial Strict Scrutiny and Administrative Compliance: The Case of Public Contracting Preferences
(bepress, 2013-08-28)Synopsis What circumstances determine compliance with or resistance to federal judicial rulings in the United States? Compliance may depend on court unanimity, executive branch concurrence, legislative enactment, and ... -
Deconstructing the Republic: Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Founders’ Republicanism Reconsidered
In this book, Anthony Peacock, who teaches political science at Utah State University, explores political and legal interpretations of the Voting Rights Acts (VRA) which encourage a kind of multiculturalism or identity ... -
ETHICAL IMPERIALISM: INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) are at once both ubiquitous and paradoxical in higher education. Since their creation in 1966 with a limited mandate over medical and behavioral research, IRBs now assert the right to ... -
Gross Presumptions: Determining Group Eligibility for Federal Procurement Preferences
While there has been substantial administrative reformulation of federally-sponsored Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) programs' after the Supreme Court's decision in Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, the key premise ... -
Deconstructing the Affirmative Action Categories
(SAGE, 1998-04-01)Affirmative action preferences have traditionally benefited four racial and ethnic group categories: African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and Native Americans. These categories may be overinclusive, masking ... -
Social science and minority "set-asides"
For the past half century, government agencies and the courts have relied on social scientists to define and measure discrimination. The most famous result was the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, ...