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Stark County Court Angel Program: An Evaluation Report
The Stark County Probate Court Angel Program is the first volunteer-based monitoring program by a probate court in Ohio and is designed to confirm the well-being of persons under guardianship. This report presents findings ... -
Beyond the Stacks to Partner for Success: Libraries and TRiO Programs!
Two academic libraries built connections with the federally funded first-generation or low-income student success programs (TRiO Student Support Services) on their campuses to support student success. -
In Perfect Harmony: Libraries and TRiO Programs Partnering for Student Success
The U.S. Department of Education funds TRiO Student Support Services (SSS) on college campuses. With over 70 TRiO programs in colleges throughout Ohio, there is a tremendous opportunity to develop connections between ... -
Cultivating Connection by Caring: Using Empathetic Marketing to Reach Distance Students and Ease Library Anxiety
“Feeling overwhelmed and stressed about your research papers? The librarian can help!” Empathetic marketing is the latest marketing trend—showing students how you can meet their core emotional needs. Meeting these needs ... -
Public schools, public goods, and public work
When determining whether public schools constitute a public good, it’s important to understand what we mean by a public good. An economic definition, common among school choice advocates, focuses on the individual benefits ... -
Secrets to Our Success: Thoughts from the Buckeye State on Leading an Academic Library Organization
Slide for a keynote address on leadership at the MiALA annual board leadership retreat. -
Contemporary Discourses of Citizenship
Meanings of “citizenship,” a concept that has informed teaching practices since nation-states first institutionalized schooling, are shaped over time and through cultural struggles. This article presents a conceptual ... -
Moral perception through aesthetics: Engaging imaginations in educational ethics
Moral "seeing" - the ability to take in the particulars of a moral encounter, and to interpret and imagine its implications - is analogous to aesthetic perception. This article defends and explores the use of aesthetic ... -
What makes a Public School Public? A Framework for Evaluating the Civic Substance of Schooling
Between the banality of the phrase in some contexts and its sacredness in others, it is hard even to ask the most basic question: what makes a public school public? In realms of governance, curriculum, and pedagogy, ... -
Imagining democratic futures for public universities: Educational leadership against fatalism’s temptations
At current rates, almost all U.S. public universities could reach a point of zero state subsidy within the next fifty years. What is a public university without public funding? In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz ... -
Achieving Public Schools
Public schools are functionally provided through structural arrangements such as government funding, but public schools are achieved in substance, in part, through local governance. In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz ... -
Heteroglossia and Philosophers of Education
Essay commentary on Rene Arcilla's question regarding the predicament of the contemporary philosopher of education. I use the example of Cornel West to illustrate how his philosophical work exemplifies the concept of ... -
The Interdependency of vocational and liberal aims in higher education
Our teaching and curricula need to reflect the connected nature of the vocational and the liberal, two differing but interrelated aims in higher education.Most students see their academic lives—their liberal arts classes ... -
Charter schooling and democratic justice
As the mixed achievements of charter schools come under more intense political inspection, the conceptual underpinnings of current charter school reform remain largely unexamined. This article focuses on one moralpolit ... -
Moving Out of the Cellar: A New (?) Existentialism for a Future without Teachers
We employ some of the most recognizable ideas from the existentialism of Sartre and Kierkegaard as a way to understand the current “teacher (human) condition.” In so doing we examine key existentialist concepts—fear and ... -
The War on Public Education: Agonist Democracy and the Fight for Schools as Public Things
Agonistic critiques of democratic theory conceptualize democracy as a site of conflict and struggle; as the fight against privatization escalates, these critiques become more relevant for educational governance. Public ...