Intersectional agencies: Navigating predominantly White institutions as an administrator of color

Administrators of color in predominantly White institutions (PWI) navigate from dual positions of privilege and marginalization. Within PWIs, administrators of color experience marginalization in terms of their racial/ethnic makeup. Specifically focusing on the administrative level, 95.8% of executive provosts and 86.2% of deans of academic colleges are White. At the faculty level, nearly 10% of full professors are people of color. However, even with such exclusionary practices, 87.7% of chief diversity officers are racial minorities. The current study seeks to understand how highly educated administrators of color work for diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives while navigating from their dual positions of marginalization and privilege. Using the theoretical lenses of co-cultural theory, dominant group theory, and intersectionality, the study seeks to understand how privilege and marginalization ebbs and flows depending on particular contexts. Findings indicate that optimizing privilege through co-cultural praxis and impeding through mentoring are two common strategies used by administrators of color.     

Immigrant perpetrators in the news: A terror management approach to resultant hostility,perceived vulnerability,and immigration issue judgment

This study found that mortality salience in TV news activated more hostile attitude toward the perpetrators and negative judgment on the immigration issue. Social group difference influenced news viewers’ immigration issue judgment, but did not affect their resultant hostility and perceived vulnerability. More negative attitudes emerged toward the immigration issue when immigrant perpetrators were portrayed negatively in the news. News viewers with exposure to mortality salience in TV news reported more negative toward immigrants. Exposure to mortality-related elements in TV news could lead to social conflicts that were viewed as a severe threat by U.S. government and policymakers.     

基于轴辐式网络的长江集装箱航运枢纽港选择

为解决目前长江集装箱运输组织模式不符合"大船配大线,小船配小线"的问题,通过调查长江集装箱运输现状,综合考虑航线、船型、运量和服务频率等因素,提出集装箱运输轴辐式网络模型。模型以总成本最小为目标,最终选取武汉港为枢纽港,即以武汉港—上海洋山港为轴,其他各港口到武汉港为辐。研究结果表明,较传统运输组织方式而言,新的轴辐式网络运输组织方式广义总成本(包括运输成本和时间成本)节约15%,具有良好的经济效益。     

不同关系港口间的博弈

为研究港口间存在的领导-追随、竞争-竞争、合作-合作和合作-竞争等多种关系对港口吞吐量和收益的影响,构建博弈模型分析比较不同关系下的港口的吞吐量和收益.研究结果表明:(1)对于处于领导地位的港口而言,在领导-追随关系下的收益和吞吐量大于在竞争-竞争关系下的吞吐量和收益;对处于追随地位的港口而言,情况恰好相反.(2)在主从关系中,虽然处于领导地位的港口有较大的先发优势,但港口双方也有合作的积极性.由于背叛行为可能会出现,政府应该加强对港口的监管.     

How does education have an impact on ethnocentrism? A structural equation analysis of cognitive,occupational status and network mechanisms

Previous studies have distinguished cognitive, occupational status and network mechanisms in the relation between education and ethnocentrism. Hypotheses on these mediating mechanisms are derived from socialization theory, realistic group threat and contact theory. In the current study we use structural equation modeling to investigate the explanatory power of these three mechanisms simultaneously. The analysis is based on a representative population survey from the Netherlands (NELLS 2009, n = 1910). The results show that more than half of the initial association between education and ethnocentrism can be attributed to cognitive ability and occupational status mechanisms. The remaining part of the overall association, however, still has to be modeled as a direct relationship between education and ethnocentrism. This direct association can be attributed either to social desirability or to a direct liberalizing effect of education on social and political attitudes. Our analysis tentatively suggests that the rise of average education levels in Western societies might lead to less ethnocentric attitudes via the cognitive sophistication mechanism.     

The Cultural Attitudes Towards Cooperative Learning: What Proverbs Can Offer

ABSTRACT

Cooperative Learning (CL) is acclaimed for its effectiveness, but is not widely used, partly because the role of culture in its implementation is overlooked. To fill this gap and to introduce an alternative methodology for the study of culture, this interdisciplinary paper examines Iranian proverbs to see how Iranians' culture feels about group work and what psychosocial factors contribute to their attitudes. The findings suggest Iranians’ culture, notwithstanding its potentiality for cooperation, is relatively non-cooperative. This ambivalence was observed to originate culturally from distrust, egoism, antipathy towards reciprocal altruism, and diffusion of responsibility. These findings substantiate the functionality of this alternative methodology.     

高职院校机械设计与制造专业群建设初探--以滁州职业技术学院为例

专业群建设是现阶段衡量高职院校办学水平的重要指标。结合滁州职业技术学院的机械设计与制造专业群建设实例,阐述了在课程体系改革、师资队伍建设、实训条件完善、“现代学徒制”培养模式等方面进行的探索与实践。专业群的发展促进了机械类专业人才培养质量的提高。     

2019年篮联世界杯广州赛区小组赛对中国队的启示

2019年国际篮联篮球世界杯在中国圆满举行,广州作为分赛场,承接了西班牙、波多黎各、突尼斯以及伊朗四支代表队的小组比赛6场。通过对广州赛区四支队伍在小组赛中的表现技术进行分析,并对比中国队在本次赛事中的表现,发现中国男篮在备赛与参赛阶段,存在大赛目标不清晰,心理训练与细节训练不足,教练团队执教水平不稳定,篮球基本功不扎实等一系列问题,反映出我国篮球的发展正处于困境。系统地分析广州小组赛中四支队伍的赛况,并与中国队做出对比,有针对性地提出建议,为中国篮球的发展提供参考。     

清前期天地会的社会合法性危机——以嘉庆年间广东省的天地会为例

清前期,广东省的天地会一直面临着严重的社会合法性危机,这一危机引发的主体是士绅集团和普通社会公众。这一危机是由多种因素综合造成的,其中既有社会结构方面的因素,也有天地会自身的因素。     

课堂小组讨论与教学效果的实证研究

课堂小组讨论的教学模式在国外高等教育中被广泛应用,我国高校也在尝试这种新的教学模式,然而对这种教学模式的教学效果一直存在争议.本文设计了实验,采用实证的方法,分别检验了课堂小组讨论对记忆性知识和理解性知识的教学效果,同时对其他可能影响教学效果的因素进行了测量,并对结果进行了分析,得出基本结论:由于东西方传统教育模式的不同,课堂小组讨论对提高学生理解性知识的掌握没有显著作用.