“As Falcons, We Are One Team!” Launching a Grassroots Institutional Change Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion Through Sport at an NCAA Division I Institution

Colleges and universities across the nation are grappling with issues related to diversity and inclusion on their campuses. This case study approaches diversity and inclusion efforts on college campuses from a student perspective. It outlines a grassroots initiative, developed by students and supported by student-athletes, that illustrates the powerful voice students can have in shaping institutional culture. This case study describes the success of We Are One Team, the 2017 recipient of the NCAA’s Award for Diversity and Inclusion, the Association’s highest award for institutional efforts for diversity and inclusion in intercollegiate athletics. Informed by institutional theory, the case study provides students with action steps toward promoting diversity and inclusion through sport and explains how We Are One Team succeeded at driving inclusive excellence on campus.

Evidencing the need for psycho-socio-economic action to support the rural upskilled youth to cope with the COVID-19 health crisis: a state-wide audit

Background: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic extends beyond morbidity and mortality to social, psychological, and economic implications. This study aims to determine the grouping of modifiable impacts of COVID-19 among the rural poor youth working in unorganized sectors in Kerala, India. Methods: We conducted a state-wide telephonic survey, in the context of a COVID-19 national lockdown with 14430 youth, who had been trained through the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY), a skill development program of the Government of India, in the last year. Economic, health and health care, social and emotional issues, basic amenity needs, and interpersonal issues were explored in detail. We further prioritized the needs of vulnerable subgroups; pregnant women, people living alone, and those living with comorbid health conditions within this population. Results: All the participants were aged between 18-35 years and were economically poor rural residents. Only 28% had a permanent job and 6.8% of the participants were not working due to the COVID-19 related lockdown. Among the issues shared, the five domains with the highest frequency were financial toxicity, such as loss of income (32.99%), poor financial backup and debt (31.29%), concerns regarding the future job opportunities (23.92%) and fear of losing their current job (14.75%). 98% of the respondents expressed interest in following up with supportive engagements. Conclusion: This research aims to voice students’ needs to the concerned authorities to design a multi-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, and multi-systemic approach to reduce their distress in the context of pandemic outbreak.

‘Turn up the volume and listen to my voice’: Students’ perceptions of Music in school

Music teachers are often faced with students’ negative attitudes towards Music as a school subject, and dilemmas of what would be most important to teach and at the same time interesting, useful and relevant to students. Looking at music teaching and learning through the eyes of students can play a key role in re-shaping the condition of learning and promoting a positive and motivating musical learning environment. The aim of this study was to ‘turn up the volume’ of secondary students’ views of their music lessons in secondary school, including what they value and how they would have liked lessons to be if they had the opportunity to change things. A self-report questionnaire was devised for the purposes of the study and was administered to 749 secondary school students in schools in Cyprus. Our findings reveal that participants enjoyed Μusic, ranking it as their second favourite out of 15 secondary school subjects. However, there was a reported discrepancy between the activities students are engaged with and what they would like to be engaged with. Students called for more focus on singing, to play a greater variety of instruments besides the recorder (i.e., drums, guitar and piano) and to play the music they like. Building on students’ perspectives, recommendations are made for music teachers and policy makers.

The Contest Piece as a Probe of Memory

At the end of the school year at the Paris Conservatory each class or studio held a contest. How a student did in the contests could determine whether or not he or she could continue in that class, advance to a higher class, or be dismissed. In the harmony contests, students would be unlikely to win any sort of prize if they could not reproduce the contrapuntal schemas suggested by patterns in the given basses or melodies. That is, a student was provided with just one of the four parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and required to complete the rest of the parts. The test typically lasted six hours, with the student shut in a room without any keyboard instrument. By being sensitive to the cues in the given voice, students could retrieve from their memories the other voices of the appropriate marches harmoniques. These were descendants of the movimenti (bass motions) taught in the Naples conservatories.

AN ERROR ANALYSIS ON ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE ON STUDENTS’ WRITING

This study is aimed to find out and describe the students' error on active and passive voices on students’ writing skill especially in local errors, inter-lingual errors and intra-lingual errors. Everybody who considers English has precisely made a few blunders, particularly the students in Junior secondary school or in Senior High School.. Active contrasts with passive mainly. For most active clauses, there is a corresponding passive clause, which has almost exactly the same meaning, but a different emphasis. The research was done at public senior high school in CISEENG, BOGOR, and it was done on March 2018. The researcher did the research in the science class on 12th grade. The method, which was used in this research, is the qualitative method. In this case the researcher asked the English teacher on that school to get the students’ writing result. The data used in this research is the error on active and passive voices on students’ writing at public senior high school. To get the data, the students wrote their own text. The result shows that active voice errors are more than passive voice errors. It means that the students still have difficulties to make the correct English structure in active voice.Keywords: Error Analysis, Aactive-Passive Voice, Students’ Writing.

AN ERROR ANALYSIS OF THE STUDENT’S WRITING IN PASSIVE VOICE AT SMK PASUNDAN 1KOTA SERANG

In constructing correct passive voice, students need to master grammar. In this case, learning passive voice always creates errors. The objectives of this research were to know the types of Passive Voice that taught in SMK Pasundan 1 kotaSerang ateleventhgrade and to find out the causes of errors made by the student’s Writing Passive Voice especially Simple Past Tense. The subjects of this research consisted of 15 students at eleventh grades of SMK Pasundan 1 Kota Serang. The method of this research was Qualitative by using Case Study Method. To collect the data the writer used test as an instrument, while the writer was analyzed errors of the students it is based on the Surface Strategy Taxonomy. The results of this research are Misformation errors consisted 41 errors or 58,57 %, followed by Omission errors consisted 23 errors or 32,58 %, Misordering error consisted 5 errors or 7,14 % and Addition error consisted 1 errors or 1,43 %. Based on the result of the research the dominant errors was Misformation consisted 58,57%. The conclusion of this research was this research related to a cause error made by the students and one of the cause was less understanding about grammar especially Simple Past Tense.

Blended Learning Voice: Students’ Perceptions Of Mid Transitioning Into Digital Needs Of Academic Reading

Blended learning is one of the e- learnings to be concerned its improvement and it can not be apart from the digital learning practices. Moreover, the application of blended learning itself is such of educational innovation in the 21st century era not only in Indonesian setting but also in the worldwide spread. In fact, the deployement of blended learning which is covered by e-learning in Indonesia is not good enough in higher education setting. The present study investigated students’ perception of applying it in an academic reading class as part of demand in digital era. The descriptive study was employed to analyze the students’ questionnaire toward the application of blended learning during classroom practices with the 30 participants took part in the research. The students’ positive responses and interpretation from students revealed of implementation of it though some troubles occured during teaching and learning process. From the result of the data, it indicates that blended learning can be one of the educators’ choices of classroom practices in order to improve the quality of higher education and it provides innovation of education in digital era. The study provides the limitations and pedagogical suggetions.

IMPROVING STUDENTS� MASTERY OF PASSIVE TROUGH EGRA METHOD

This research aims at finding out whether or not EGRA method can improve students� mastery of passive voice in one of Public Senior High Schools in Kuningan. A quasi-experimental design was employed in this research to test the objective theories by examining the relationship between two variables. Pre-test, post-test, and questionnaire were used to collect the data. The data were then analyzed by using SPSS 20.0. Before conducting pre- and post-test, the tests were tried out to check its validity and reliability. From 60 items, it was found that 40 items were valid and reliable because the items� correlation coefficient (rxy) were higher than rtable and their Cronbach Alpha were higher than 0.07, so the researcher used them as pretest and posttest instruments. The t-test result was 0.000 which means that it was lower than 0.05 (0.000<0.05) so that the null hypothesis is rejected and alternative hypothesis is accepted. Then, the mean score of pre-test and post-test in experimental group were significantly different (55.77 up to 81.79). To confirm the result of this research, questionnaires were used. From the questionnaire, it was found that in affective aspects, 58.9%, 64.1% and 53.8% of the students agreed with the use of EGRA method. In behavioral aspects, 33.3%, 56.4% and 43.5% of the students agreed with the use of EGRA method. While in cognitive aspects, 56.4%, 56.4%, 51.2% and 58.9% of the students agreed with the use of EGRA method. So, it can be concluded that EGRA method can improve students� mastery of passive voice.Keywords: EGRA method, passive voice, students

Contribution of Glottic Insufficiency to Perceived Breathiness in Classically Trained Singers

Breathiness in the singing voice is problematic for classical singers. Voice students and singing teachers typically attribute breathiness to breath management issues and breathing technique. The present study sought to determine whether glottic insufficiency may also contribute to breathiness in a singer’s voice. Studies have revealed a relationship between insufficient vocal fold closure and inefficiency in the speaking voice. However, the effect of insufficient vocal fold closure on vocal efficiency in singers has yet to be determined. Two groups of voice students identified with and without breathiness issues underwent aerodynamic and acoustic voice assessment as well as laryngeal stroboscopy of the vocal folds to quantify the prevalence of insufficient vocal fold closure, also known as glottic insufficiency. These assessments revealed four groups: 1) those with glottic insufficiency and no perceived voice breathiness; 2) those with glottic sufficiency and perceived voice breathiness; 3) those with glottic insufficiency and perceived breathiness; and 4) those with glottic sufficiency and no perceived breathiness. Results suggest that previously undiscovered glottal insufficiency is common in young singers, particularly women, though the correlation with identified breathiness was not statistically significant. Acoustic and aerodynamic measures including noise-to-harmonics ratio, maximum phonation time, airflow rate, subglottal pressure, and laryngeal airway resistance were most sensitive to glottic insufficiency.