Academic literature on the topic 'University of New Hampshire. Alumni Association'

The 1989 NEMLA convention will be held 31 March-2 April at the Radisson Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, with the University of Delaware as the host institution. The local committee is chaired by Joan L. Brown and Joan Del Fattore (Univ. of Delaware). Information about the convention may be obtained from NEMLA President F. William Forbes, Dept. of Spanish and Classics, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham 03824.

Between 1915 and 1925, Harvard University conducted the first national public fund-raising campaign in higher education in the United States. At the same time, Harvard Law School attempted the first such effort in legal education. The law school organized its effort independently, in conjunction with its centennial in 1917. The university campaign succeeded magnificently by all accounts; the law school failed miserably. Though perfectly positioned for this new venture, Harvard Law School raised scarcely a quarter of its goal from merely 2 percent of its alumni. This essay presents the first account of this campaign and argues that its failure was rooted in longstanding cultural and professional objections that many of the school's alumni shared: law students and law schools neither need nor deserve benefactions, and such gifts worsen the overcrowding of the bar. Due to these objections, lethargy, apathy, and pessimism suffused the campaign. These factors weakened the leadership of the alumni association, the dean, and the president, leading to inept management, wasted time, and an unlikely strategy that was pursued ineffectively. All this doomed the campaign, particularly given the tragic interruptions of the dean's suicide and World War I, along with competition from the well-run campaigns for the University and for disaster relief due to the war.

Istanbul Think-House (IDE), a self-supported independent research center thatpromotes the free circulation of ideas, analyzed “Islamism in the Post-ArabSpring World” during its October 24-26, 2014, international conference. IstanbulUniversity’s Political Science Faculty Alumni Association and the Associationfor Human Rights and Solidarity with the Oppressed (MAZLUMDER)hosted the event on their premises.In his opening remarks on Friday morning, conference co-chair and IDE’sgeneral coordinator Halil Ibrahim Yenigun (Istanbul Commerce University)introduced IDE and explained its vision of (1) producing and circulating ideaswithout depending on big capital and political power centers and (2) concentratingsolely on the good of humanity, especially that of the subaltern. IDE isthe outgrowth of national conferences on Islamism held during 2012-13, thefirst event of which had sparked an almost year-long debate in Turkey aboutthe revival of Islamism.The morning panel, “New Islamisms,” dealt with with important theoreticalarguments. Gökhan Sümer (University of Essex) began with a central debateon how to reconcile the constitutional system and the Shari‘ah bybroaching such questions as to whether democratic constitutions ensuring thebasic rights and freedoms could have been passed after the Arab Spring andwhat is Islam’s normative status in these new constitutions. He said that such ...

Abstract Objectives Adherence to a Mediterranean Diet (MD) is related to a reduced risk of chronic disease, however, there is limited research related to the MD in young adults. Our objective was to examine MD adherence in a sample of undergraduate college students ages 18–24 and explore its association with cardiometabolic factors. Methods Data (n = 3117, 67% female) were collected between 2012–18 from the College Health and Nutrition Assessment Survey, an on-going, cross-sectional study at a midsized, northeastern university. Dietary and nutrient data were obtained from three-day food records; 2 items from an online questionnaire were used to evaluate fish and alcohol consumption. A modified MD scoring tool examined intake of 9 dietary components; scores ranged from low to high (0–9). MD scores were further divided into 3 categories (low, med, high MD). Anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical measures were obtained in the fasted state and used to examine cardiometabolic risk factors. Mean differences according to MD categories were evaluated via ANCOVA with the use of age, gender, year, semester, daily kcals, and BMI as covariates. Results Most students were categorized as consuming a low MD (40.4%) or med MD (40.1%); only 19.4% were categorized as having a high MD score. Modest but favorable differences in fasting glucose (87.6 ± .4, 86.9 ± .4, 85.5 ± .6, mg/dL P < .02) and diastolic blood pressure were observed (71.6 ± .3, 70.8 ± .3, 69.9 ± .5, mm Hg P < .01) with increasing levels of MD adherence categories, respectively. No differences in fasting triglycerides, HDL-C, waist circumference, or systolic blood pressure were observed between groups of MD adherence. Conclusions Our findings suggest the MD may be linked to some favorable health parameters in young adults. Understanding the relationship between different dietary patterns and development of chronic disease in this population will optimize interventions aimed at reducing disease burden. Funding Sources New Hampshire Agriculture Experiment Station and USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch Project 1,010,738.

The article deals with the educational project «American Talks», implemented during 2018-2019 by the non-governmental organization Ukrainian Association for American Studies and the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Foreign Countries of the Faculty of History, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. A series of meetings, lectures, discussions on topical issues of American history and politics, Ukrainian-American relations, the place of personality in the modern world, the formation of leaders and their role in American society are covered. Lecture-discussion «Education at American Universities» by Associate Professor Alexander Komarenko was devoted to discussing opportunities for Ukrainian youth to study at American universities, financing American university education, system of management and coordination of educational projects, correlation of local and federal educational systems. The event in the Framework event within the American Talks project, organized by the Chairman of the Board of NGOs Ukrainian Association for American Studies, Associate Professor Makar Taran, on «The USA and China in the 21st Century: Global Competition of the Superpower of the Present and the Superpower of the Future», was devoted to the most important aspects of the current relations between the two superpowers, prospects for their development and the implications of these processes for international relations. It was emphasized that the US-China relations are the most important bilateral relations of global importance and their significance for the whole world, and for Ukraine in particular, will only grow. An opportunity to become a woman in the American society as an individual, her prospects for education and professional development, and family attitudes toward women who have a successful career was addressed by an event titled «Women’s Careers in the United States: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities» with American filmmaker, lawyer Sharon Rowven, and producer, director and screenwriter Andrea Blaugrund Nevins. In May 2019, at the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, a lecture-discussion was held by a well-known American journalist, a civil servant of Ukrainian descent, ex-director of the Ukrainian Voice of America service, Adrian Karmazin. This meaningful event was attended by students, studying under the American and European Studies program, as well as alumni, teachers of History Faculty, representatives of the Ukrainian Association for American Studies, specialists in international relations and counteraction to Russian hybrid information warfare against Ukraine. Ukrainian-American Educational Dialogue – a discussion about university-based humanitarian education in Ukraine and the USA between students and teachers of the American and European Studies program at the Taras Shevchenko National University and Nazareth College (State of New York, USA), aimed at informing US colleagues about the history and current development of Ukrainian university education, sharing experience in higher education in the humanities and discussing prospects for cooperation.

Geum peckii (Rosaceae), the Eastern Mountain Avens, is a small herbaceous plant that is listed as endangered federally and provincially. In Canada, this species is found in bogs on Brier Island and Harris Lake, Digby County, Nova Scotia. The only other population outside of Canada is in New Hampshire (USA). To enhance conservation research of this species, a seed sample from the native species seed bank at Acadia University was used to establish a plant tissue culture of G. peckii plants. Survival of out-planted material was then assessed in both the greenhouse and the field. The field test site was within 20km of the existing plant populations in Digby County. Our study also revealed that G. peckii grows in association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). During out-planting, plants received a mycorrhizal inoculum with the goal of enhancing survival. We used either a commercial mycorrhizal inoculum, or a native inoculum. Control plants were left untreated. Survival was 97-100 % among all the treatments by the end of the 2016 planting season. The results to date underscore the potential value of seed banking for protection of endangered native plant species. This study marks the first time in Nova Scotia that an endangered plant species has been successfully retrieved from seed bank storage, propagated by tissue culture, and out-planted back into a natural habitat. Keywords: Conservation, endangered native species, Geum peckii, tissue culture propagation

A Review of: Reed, J. B., & Carroll, A. J. (2020). Roles for health sciences librarians at college and university libraries. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, (94). https://doi.org/10.29173/istl42 Abstract Objective – To examine job postings for academic health sciences libraries to determine if they reflect the changing research needs of institutions of higher education and to compare these postings to similar, existing positions. Design – Mixed methods data analysis of job advertisements collected through relevant job boards and mailing lists. The authors conducted qualitative content analysis using a modified grounded theory approach, completed two cycles of coding using NVivo 12, and calculated statistical significance using Fisher’s exact test. Setting – College and university library and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries job boards and mailing lists between September 1, 2018 and March 1, 2019. Subjects – 104 unique posted job descriptions. Methods – The authors conducted a thorough search of posted position descriptions (PPDs) for academic health sciences librarians across a number of job boards and mailing lists between September 1, 2018 and March 1, 2019. In addition to searching ALA JobLIST, MLA Find a Job, Association of College & Research Libraries Health Sciences Interest Group (ACRL HSIG), MEDLIB-L, and ACRL Science and Technology Section (STS), the authors also hand searched alumni and general library job electronic mailing lists using relevant keyword searching. Inclusion criteria for PPDs included research support and other research-related responsibilities for the health sciences. The authors excluded any PPDs describing administrative or non-professional positions. Following review, the IRB determined that the research design did not qualify as human subjects research. After data collection, the authors categorized the PPDs using the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM) geographic regions and by the type of institution—college and university libraries (C&UL) or Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). Using modified grounded theory, the authors identified emergent themes from the PPDs and applied descriptive coding. Then, the authors merged categories to create overall themes. Using NVivo 12 to facilitate the mixed methods content analysis, the authors ran text queries to identify major themes in the position roles and responsibilities, required and preferred education, and required and preferred qualifications sections. They also noted themes they expected to see that did not emerge in the PPDs, as well as emerging roles for health sciences libraries that are identified in the literature but did not appear as major themes in the included PPDs. Finally, the authors utilized Fisher’s exact test to calculate statistical significance. Main Results – In the quantitative analysis, the authors identified 60 AAHSL and 44 C&UL PPDs out of the 104 total job postings. Positions were available from all 8 NNLM Regions and across 32 states, though they were not all equally distributed. Most of the positions (64 of the 104) were located in the NNLM Middle Atlantic, Southeastern/Atlantic, and Greater Midwest regions. The Southeastern/Atlantic and Greater Midwest regions made up nearly half of the included PPDs. However, the New England region had the most postings per capita. In the qualitative analysis, an ALA-accredited MLIS or equivalent degree emerged as a near-universal requirement across all PPDs. The authors noted that the few PPDs that did not require this degree typically referenced it in the preferred education section or described a proxy to the MLIS. Furthermore, 57% of C&UL positions compared to 27% of AAHSL positions listed preferred education (p=0.0004) that was usually related to health and science disciplines that the position supported. There was significant overlap of required qualifications for AAHSL and C&UL postings. The authors also identified a list of hard and soft skills noted in the PPDs’ required qualifications sections, including experience with specific tools, expertise in library services, and interpersonal skills. However, reportedly emerging skills in data sciences, open science, grant experience, and research impact assessment were absent in many PPDs. The authors found statistically significant differences between two themes in the PPD roles and responsibilities including collection management (p=0.0004) and systematic reviews (p=0.03). Additionally, the authors found no statistically significant differences for required qualifications between AAHLS and C&UL PPDs. They did find statistically significant differences for two preferred qualifications including the Academic of Health Information Professionals (AHIP) credential (p=0.0042) and experience with systematic reviews (p=0.0009). The AHIP credential and experience with systematic reviews were absent in the C&UL PPDs and referenced rarely in AAHSL postings. Though diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) qualifications were frequently referenced in C&UL PPD requirements, the authors noted that research libraries have failed to make meaningful change in diverse candidate hiring and retention, but also pointed to the rapid adoption of DEI qualifications in PPDs within a short period of time. The authors highlighted that the roles and responsibilities reflected traditional librarian duties and referenced more emerging skills and research needs than any other section of the PPD. Assessment and systematic reviews appeared more often in the roles and responsibilities sections of AAHSL and C&UL PPDs in comparison to the combined required and preferred qualifications sections of all the PPDs. A more traditional responsibility, collection management, also appeared more frequently in the roles and responsibilities section of PPDs than in the experience section, suggesting that most hiring committees feel confident that librarians who fill positions will be successful in performing collection management tasks despite experience. The authors noted that collection management, one of the most common themes that emerged from the data analysis, appeared more frequently in C&UL PPDs and theorize that AAHLS may have dedicated collection management departments. Conclusions – While the research literature documents new roles and emerging skills for academic health sciences librarian positions, the authors noted that PPDs do not frequently reflect those emerging roles and skills, and maintain traditional health sciences librarian skillsets. The authors concluded that library administrators should design position descriptions that are user centred and match the changing research needs of the local community. PPDs should reflect changing priorities by including less weight towards the MLIS degree, shifting traditional skillsets from required experience sections to preferred experience sections, adapting the language of PPDs to be more inclusive and welcoming for a diverse pool of candidates, and adding an emphasis on DEI responsibilities. By creating position descriptions that are user focused, library administrators and hiring committees make meaningful investments for their communities and their strategic priorities.

Hugo Verriest (1840-1922) was een West-Vlaamse priester die een legendarische reputatie verwierf in de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging. Romain Vanlandschoot publiceerde hierover in 2014 een uitgebreide en rijke biografie. Verriest was een leerling van de bekende priester-dichter Guido Gezelle in het klein seminarie Roeselare en werd op zijn beurt de mentor van de Roeselaarse scholier Albrecht Rodenbach die omstreeks 1875 de katholieke Vlaamse studentenbeweging in het leven riep. Verriest speelde zelf een actieve rol in die beweging door zijn jarenlange hoofdredacteurschap van het West-Vlaamse studententijdschrift De Vlaamsche Vlagge. Hij had ook nauwe banden met de Oud-Hoogstudentenbond van West-Vlaanderen die sinds de jaren 1880 bijdroeg tot de radicalisering van de Vlaamse beweging in de richting van een taalpolitieke en volksgezinde landdagbeweging. Over de jaren dat Verriest werkzaam was in het onderwijs, als leraar in Roeselare (1867-1877) en daarna als directeur in Ieper (1877-1888), was al veel bekend. De biografie van Vanlandschoot is vooral vernieuwend voor het leven van ‘de rijpere’ Verriest, toen hij pastoor was in Wakken (1888-1895) en vervolgens in Ingooigem (1895-1922). Het weekblad De Nieuwe Tijd waarvan Verriest hoofdredacteur werd vormde een treffende illustratie van manier waarop in de jaren 1890 Vlaamse en sociale beweging in eenzelfde bedding samenvloeiden. Als pastoor in Ingooigem knoopte Verriest vriendschappelijke betrekkingen aan met het Brusselse modernistisch-literaire en overwegend vrijzinnige milieu van Van Nu en Straks. Hij vond voortaan ook een trouwe metgezel in zijn dorpsgenoot en auteur Stijn Streuvels. Hij werd tegelijk zowel het levende symbool als de actieve propagandist van ‘het Westvlaamse trio’ Gezelle-Verriest-Rodenbach waarvoor geleidelijk aan een ware cultus ontstond. Keerzijde van deze evolutie was het weggroeien van zijn besloten West-Vlaamse en katholieke achtergrond. Hugo Verriest komt in dit belangrijke boek van Vanlandschoot naar voren niet enkel als een ‘unieke verbindingsfiguur’ in de Vlaamse beweging maar ook als ‘pluralistische katholiek en verdraagzaam flamingant’.________The Life-Bringer Brought to Life. A New Biography of Hugo VerriestHugo Verriest (1840-1922) was a West Flemish priest who acquired a legendary reputation in the history of the Flemish Movement. Romain Vanlandschoot published a comprehensive and rich biography of him in 2014. Verriest was a pupil of the well-known priest-poet Guido Gezelle in the minor seminary of Roeselare and became in turn the mentor of the Roeselare student Albrecht Rodenbach, who founded the Catholic Flemish student movement around 1875. Verriest himself played an active role in the movement through his years-long chief editorship of the West Flemish student publication De Vlaamsche Vlagge (“The Flemish Flag”). He also had close connections to the university alumni association of West Flanders, which since the 1880s contributed to a radicalization of the Flemish Movement toward a focus on language policy and mass politics.A great deal was already known about the years when Verriest was active in education, as a teacher in Roeselare (1867-1877) and thereafter as a principal in Ypres (1877-1888). Vanlandschoot’s biography is most innovative regarding the life of “the more mature” Verriest, when he was a pastor in Wakken (1888-1895) and then in Ingooigem (1895-1922). The weekly paper De Nieuwe Tijd (“The New Time”) of which Verriest became editor-in-chief forms a striking illustration of the manner in which the Flemish and social movements merged in the 1890s. As a pastor in Ingooigem Verriest established friendly relations with the literarily modernist and overwhelmingly freethinking milieu of Van Nu en Straks (“Of Now and Later”). He later found a faithful companion in his fellow villager and author Stijn Streuvels. He became at once both a living symbol as well as an active propagandist for the ‘West Flemish Trio’ of Gezelle-Verriest-Rodenbach for which a veritable cult gradually developed. The other side of this evolution was the casting away of his narrow West Flemish and Catholic background. In this important book of Vanlandschoot’s, Hugo Verriest emerges not only as a ‘unique nexus of connection’ of the Flemish Movement, but also as a ‘pluralist Catholic and tolerant flamingant’.

This chapter describes the evolution of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Manchester Research Mentor Program, a cross-campus collaboration that trains writing tutors to assist students with information literacy skills. The first half of the chapter documents the first iteration of the Research Mentor Program, describing the recruitment, training, tutoring activities, and evaluation of the writing tutors/research mentors; the integration of the research mentors in First-Year Writing classroom library instruction sessions and writing tutorials; and the results of a three-semester evaluation study of the program's effectiveness at teaching composition students the information skills they will need to develop as writers, researchers, and critical thinkers. The second half of the chapter describes the Research Mentor Program's transformation as librarians, learning center staff, and classroom instructors adapted the program's goals by integrating the vision of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education into their pedagogy.