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Race, Educational Loans & Bankruptcy
(Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 2010)
This article reports new data from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project revealing that college graduates and specifically White graduates are less likely to file for bankruptcy than their counterparts without a college ...
Dialogue and the Creation of Transformative Social Change: the Case of Social Enterprises
(Informing Science Institute, 2018-04-09)
There is little scholarship about the process of social change creation and the necessary conditions to promote social change over time. Understanding the process of social change creation and the individual, interpersonal, ...
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
(Demographic Research, 2018)
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female favorable gender gap in educational performance, ...
The Effects Of Educational Curricula And Training On LGBT-Specific Health Issues For Healthcare Students And Professionals: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review
(Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2017-07-19)
Poor access of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to healthcare providers with clinical and cultural competency contributes to health inequalities between heterosexual/cisgender and LGBT people. This ...
"Reverse Discrimination" and Higher Education Faculty
(Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 1998)
In this article, the author critiques the use of "reverse discrimination" claims by White plaintiffs to challenge the hiring of Blacks in institutions of higher education. The author argues that "reverse discrimination" ...
The Forgotten Lessons of Civil Defense for the Homeland Security Era
(Journal Of Policy History / Cambridge University Press, 2014-09-01)
Scholars investigating civil defense generally focus on where it fell short of protecting the nation against attack. But civil defenders trained volunteers, organized state and local associations, educated citizens about ...
Methodological considerations in pre- and post-emergency network identification and data collection for disaster risk reduction: Lessons from wildfire response networks in the American Northwest
(Elsevier BV, 2019-11)
While social network analysis continues to enjoy considerable attention, literature on social network data collection often lacks explicit attention to methods. This presents special challenges to approaching the problems ...
Validation of high throughput sequencing and microbial forensics applications
(2014-07-30)
High throughput sequencing (HTS) generates large amounts of high quality sequence data for microbial genomics. The value of HTS for microbial forensics is the speed at which evidence can be collected and the power to ...
States Taking Charge: Examining the Role of Race, Party Affiliation, and Preemption in the Development of In-State Tuition Laws for Undocumented Immigrant Students
(Michigan Journal of Race and Law, 2014)
Immigration policy “continues to command significant attention in state legislatures” across the United States, and in-state tuition benefits for undocumented immigrant students remain near the center of this ongoing debate. ...
Diagrammatic Practices: The Office of Frederick L. Ackerman and "Architectural Graphic Standards"
(University of California Press, 2005-03)
The office of Frederick Ackerman (1878-1950) was the source of the first modern architectural handbook, Architectural Graphic Standards (1932), which was intended as a radical manifesto. Basing his practice on the economic ...