Patterns of Business Growth and Survival in a Medium-Sized Community

1957 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Goldstein ◽  
Kurt Mayer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Growth And Survival ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Since 1951 the population, social structure, and economy of Norristown, Pennsylvania, have been the focus of study of an interdisciplinary research seminar at the University of Pennsylvania. Under the over-all theme of technological change and social adjustment, a variety of investigations have been conducted to discover the ways in which the processes of industrialization and urbanization in the twentieth century have operated dynamically to bring about changes in the social and economic structure of the Norristown community.

scholarly journals The Community Champions Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Sophie R. Mintz ◽  
Chantal A. Low ◽  
Ian J. McCurry ◽  
Terri H. Lipman
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Community Members ◽  
School Of Nursing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
The University

The Community Champions program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing provides motivated nursing students with opportunities to partner with the greater Philadelphia community and engage in hands-on learning. With several thriving initiatives, students participate in service learning outside of the classroom, which ultimately strengthens their nursing and leadership skills. Students work to improve health and health education for people of all ages. These experiences help nursing students better understand the social determinants of health and how they impact community members. Dedicated faculty members assist in guiding the students, who work collaboratively to exchange ideas and methods. This program not only has an effect on the community, but also has a profound impact on the students that participate.

The World before (and Shortly after) Wharton

2019 ◽  
pp. 14-52
Author(s):  
Steven Conn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
American Business ◽  
Wharton School ◽  
The Social ◽  
University Degree ◽  
The University

This chapter examines why educational leaders and businessmen in the United States thought it was a good idea to establish business schools in the first place. The answer often offered at the time was that American business itself had grown so big and complex by the turn of the twentieth century that a new university-level education was now required for the new world of managerial work. However, the more powerful rationale was that businessmen wanted the social status and cultural cachet that came with a university degree. The chapter then looks at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, which was founded in 1881 and became the first business school in the United States. All of the more than six hundred business schools founded in the nearly century and a half since descend from Wharton.

scholarly journals MALAYSIAN STUDENTS' SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT TO THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN EGYPT, MOROCCO, AND JORDAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-247
Author(s):  
Wail Muin Ismail ◽  
Zakaria Alcheikh Mahmoud Awad ◽  
Muhammad Azhar Zailani ◽  
Xuan Di
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
University Campus ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Climate ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Adjustment Issues ◽  
Malaysian Students

Purpose of the study: This study examines the social adjustment of Malaysian students studying in Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan. Quantitative, comparative and case study methods were used. Methodology: Through the questionnaire, in which the social adjustment of the students to the university campus was defined, a total of 587 questionnaires were answered by Malaysian students studying in the three countries. SPSS software was used to carry out the calculation of the mean, t-test, ANOVA and Tukey HSD analysis. Main Findings: The outcome of the analysis shows that Malaysian male and female students reached the medium level of social adjustment in the three countries. The differences in the means of female and male responses have no significance. Malaysian student's adjustment to the class climate was higher than that of the environment outside. Malaysian students more adjusted with a university campus in Jordan and Egypt than they are in Morocco. Applications of this study: This study showed a view of conditions Malaysian students in Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt. It will be helpful for students, universities, teachers to be aware of foreign students’ social adjustment issues and pay more attention to this particular problem. Novelty/Originality of this study: This paper found Malaysian students are more adjusted to the university campus in Jordan and Egypt than they are in Morocco. This suggests that Morocco is a better destination for study for Malaysian students as long as the social adjustment is concerned.

Tikal Reports: the series continues

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (345) ◽  
pp. 743-745
Author(s):  
Norman Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Classic Period ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Ancient Maya ◽  
Academic World ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The University of Pennsylvania Museum's Tikal Project of 1958–1968 was one of the great Maya investigations of the twentieth century. It was the most ambitious study of a Maya city so far undertaken, with scores of staff, graduate students and local workers engaged in a range of activities from mapping the site core and its surrounding settlement, to stripping the tropical forest from the colossal temple-pyramids and restoring them, to establishing an occupation history that eventually showed an origin for Tikal in the mid-first millennium BC and abandonment more than sixteen centuries later at the end of the Classic period. The impact of the project's results, publications and cadre of trained Mayanists moving out into the academic world was substantial and led to several decades of a Tikal-centric view of ancient Maya civilisation.

scholarly journals Social and Academic Adjustment of the University Students

2018 ◽  
Vol III (III) ◽  
pp. 378-394
Author(s):  
Asghar Ali ◽  
Mushtaq Ahmad ◽  
Saifullah Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
University Education ◽  
Male Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
Testing Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Adaptation To College ◽  
One Way Anova

The study finds relationship between social and academic adjustments of BS students in University of Sargodha Pakistan. A sample of 550 BS students was selected from different departments through multistage random sampling. Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) was adapted with permission to measure the social and academic adjustments of BS students which has acceptable value of reliability coefficient Cronbach Alpha 0.90 after analysis of pilot testing data. In this correlational study, data collected through survey were analysed using frequencies, percentages, means scores, standard deviation, t-test, and one-way ANOVA. The study finds majority of students have moderate level of social and academic adjustment; Male students have better social adjustment but both have equivalent academic adjustment; boarders have better social adjustment than day scholars, students of 2nd and 8 th semester had equal level of academic adjustment but 8 th semester students have better social adjustment than 2nd semester students. It is recommended that students are provided with the opportunities of group projects, seminars and guidance and counselling regarding values of university education.

scholarly journals Social Acceptability of the Bioremediation Technology for the Rehabilitation of an Abandoned Mined-Out Area in Mogpog, Marinduque, Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Sofia Alaira ◽  
◽  
Cherry Padilla ◽  
Evangeline Alcantara ◽  
Nelly Aggangan
Keyword(s):  
Mycorrhizal Fungi ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Growth And Survival ◽  
The Social ◽  
Planting Materials ◽  
The University ◽  
Rehabilitation Strategy ◽  
Poor Soil

Rehabilitation of mined-out areas poses great challenge because nutrients are depleted and conditions are not conducive for the conditions necessary for the growth and survival of plants. Proper combination of mycorrhizal fungi, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, compost, and lime to support the growth of trees in the poor soil has been discovered by the University of the Philippines Los Baños National Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology. Having established a protocol using this formulation, a plant survival rate of 95% was achieved in a bioremediation project implemented by the Institute in a mined-out area in Capayang, Mogpog, Marinduque, Philippines. The social acceptance and adoption of this rehabilitation strategy was determined through a survey interview in the study area with the use of questionnaire. Six factors and nine variables were considered in the assessment. The bioremediation technology was acceptable to the community as indicated by the high percentage of respondents who gave an overall positive response (90%) and who were willing to adopt and recommend it for implementation in other mined-out areas (90%). Binary logistic regression showed that income and distance of residence from the rehabilitation site significantly influenced the respondents’ decision to accept the technology. Future bioremediation initiatives should also consider the participation and acceptance of stakeholders to ensure sustainability. Indigenous and endemic planting materials should be used in rehabiliation.

THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF SOUND CHANGE11The research reported here was supported by the National Science Foundation under contracts to the University of Pennsylvania SOC-750024-1 and BNC-76-15421. A more complete account of this research is available in W. Labov, A. Bower, D. Hindle, E. Dayton, A. Kroch, M. Lenning, and D. Schiffrin, Social Determinants of Linguistic Change, Technical Progress Report to the NSF (1980). The work reported here is the joint product of these authors and a number of others, most notably Arvilla Payne, Bruce Johnson, Shana Poplack, Gregory Guy, Sally Boyd, and Anthony Kroch. Kroch's study of the upper class of Philadelphia, supported by a post-doctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health [MH-05536], forms an integral part of the data that this report is based on. Kroch has made a number of substantial contributions to the analysis of the Philadelphia data and the general issues of sound change, which are gratefully acknowledged here. A condensed version of this article was prepared for the Ninth International Congress of Linguists at Copenhagen, August 1978.

1986 ◽  
pp. 524-541
Author(s):  
William Labov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Joint Product ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University
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