International Sister Students Today

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-168
Author(s):  
Mary Johnson ◽  
Mary L. Gautier ◽  
Patricia Wittberg ◽  
Thu T. Do
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Religious ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Religious Institutes ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides demographic data on international sisters who are currently studying in the United States. It describes how U.S. Catholic colleges and universities and institutes of women religious collaborate in providing education for these sisters by using two types of qualitative data. The chapter includes interviews with administrators of Catholic universities and religious institutes. It also includes some data from the survey of international sisters who are students in the United States. The chapter describes pathways to the universities and the types of support resources that international sisters receive from universities and religious institutes. It describes the impact that international sisters have on fellow students and, upon their return, on their home countries.

scholarly journals Theorizing a Catholic Hispanic-Serving Institution (C-HSI) Identity Through Latinx Theological Lenses of Lo Cotidiano and Traditioning

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-42
Author(s):  
Gina A. Garcia ◽  
◽  
John DeCostanza Jr. ◽  
Jaqueline Romo ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Hispanic Serving Institution ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Hispanic Serving

As the students entering U.S. colleges and universities become increasingly diverse, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI's) continues to increase. Catholic colleges and universities, similarly, are seeing an increase in student diversity on campus, with an emergence of Catholic HSIs as well. As the number of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States that are HSI-eligible increases they must grapple with what it means to be both Catholic and Hispanic-serving. The purpose of this article is to propose a U.S. Catholic HSI (C- HSI) identity that brings together the extensive literatures on Catholic identity and HSI identity through the lens of decolonial theory and Latinx theologies. We argue that in order to effectively serve students of color who have intersectional identities, Catholic HSIs must intentionally recognize the ways of knowing (epistemologies) and being of these groups, which includes a collective understanding of the theo-political, social, historical, and economic forces that have subjugated them since before the founding of the present day United States and long before the founding of the first Catholic institution in the country. Building off the Catholic Identity and Mission Models (CIMA) currently used by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities to assess mission integration, we propose a C-HSI model.

Does Service and Volunteering Affect Catholic Identity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-122
Author(s):  
Andrew Herr ◽  
Jason King ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Link Service

While many believe that service should be connected to the religious identity of Catholic colleges and universities, little research has been done to see if this is in fact the case. To test this commonly-held belief, we surveyed students at and gathered information about twenty-six different Catholic campuses in the United States. We find no correlation between students’ frequency of service and their perception of Catholic identity. In addition, we find that students perceive their school to be less Catholic the more institutions link service to Catholicism. The only characteristic of service that is positively correlated with Catholic identity is the percentage of service learning courses offered. In other words, students do not see anything intrinsically Catholic about volunteering, but rather that Catholicism means that you should volunteer more. We believe this suggests how Catholic colleges and universities can link service to their Catholic identity.

scholarly journals Defining Catholic Higher Education in Positive Terms

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Catholic Higher Education ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic History

Debates about Catholic higher education in the United States sometimes focus too much on what Catholic colleges and universities should not do, rather than what they should do. This article attempts to reframe those debates away from the negative expressions of Catholic identity (i.e., denying guests a right to speak on campus based on their stance on abortion) and toward more positive expressions, like promoting scholarship on Catholic history, culture, and theology. It reviews some key academic literature that approaches Catholic identity from this positive, proactive perspective, and attempts to categorize that literature into common, identifiable themes.

scholarly journals Estimating the Number of Agricultural Fatal Injuries Prevented by Agricultural Engineering Developments in the United States

Safety ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Salah F. Issa ◽  
Kiana Patrick ◽  
Steven Thomson ◽  
Bradley Rein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Direct Reduction ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
United States Bureau ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Agricultural Safety ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fatal Injuries

Agriculture has been consistently marked as one of the deadliest industries by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While this statistic is widely used in promoting agricultural safety and health, it does not paint a complete picture on the current status of agricultural safety and the advances that have been made in the last century. For example, even with a stagnant rate of injury, the BLS has reported that fatal incidents decreased from a high of 855 incidents in 1993 to a low of 500 incidents in 2013. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact that agricultural engineering developments had on reducing fatal injuries. Agricultural engineering developments are defined as any agricultural improvement that results in a direct reduction in the amount of labor needed. This study uses existing federal agricultural statistical, injury and demographic data to calculate the impact that engineering, in contrast to yield improvements and safety enhancements, contributed to a reduction in the number of fatal incidents. The study found that engineering developments could have contributed to the reduction in the number of fatal injuries by about 170 incidents from 1992 to 2015. This represents 63% of the total reduction in the number of fatal injuries. In conclusion, agricultural engineering developments play a substantial role in reducing the number of fatal incidents by removing and reducing labor exposure to hazardous environments.

scholarly journals Implementing Strengths-Based Programs for Adult Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryon C. Pickens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Adult Student ◽  
Interpersonal Needs ◽  
The Impact

The influx of non-traditional aged, adult students into the student population poses a unique opportunity to colleges and universities throughout the United States. The needs of the adult student population differ greatly from their traditional counterparts, suggesting that institutions must adjust and adapt to the increased adult student population. This article presents justification for programs aimed at the interpersonal needs of adult students and details one possible implementation. The impact on student success and persistence are briefly discussed.

The Church and Catholic Higher Education

Horizons ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Catholic Higher Education ◽  
Catholic Colleges ◽  
Catholic Colleges And Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
Public Church ◽  
The Church ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

AbstractRecurrent debates about the church and higher education in the United States involve differing understandings of the nature and purpose of the church as well as differing understandings of the university. Catholic colleges and universities remain important but underutilized resources for the American church as it pursues its mission. Institutional, communitarian and servant models of the church must be examined more rigorously before they are used to prescribe changes in higher education. None is without problems. In a pluralistic and free society, a public church,” self-consciously mediating the tensions between Christian integrity, Catholic unity, and civic responsibility, provides an altogether appropriate stance for Catholic colleges and universities as well. It points not to a neat resolution of outstanding difficulties but to ongoing dialogue among the publics to which both church and higher education must address themselves.

scholarly journals Redistributing work during COVID-19: Penn State University Libraries’ job bank

2020 ◽  
Vol 81 (8) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Leo S. Lo ◽  
Binky Lush ◽  
Dace Freivaids
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
State University ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Financial Losses

March 2020 became a pivoting moment for higher education in the United States, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to switch to remote delivery of instruction within weeks. The impact of this event is deep and far-reaching. There is already a deluge of articles about how most faculty and students have had to adjust to a new way of teaching and learning--or how administrators have had to brace for financial losses. However, little has been written about the situations librarians and library staff are facing.

scholarly journals Quality of Life (QoL) Is Reduced in Those with Severe COVID-19 Disease, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19, and Hospitalization in United States Adults from Northern Colorado

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11048
Author(s):  
Kim McFann ◽  
Baxter A. Baxter ◽  
Stephanie M. LaVergne ◽  
Sophia Stromberg ◽  
Kailey Berry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
United States ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sf 36 ◽  
Northern Colorado ◽  
Role Limitation ◽  
The Impact

The longitudinal quality of life (QoL) of COVID-19 survivors, especially those with post-acute sequelae (PASC) is not well described. We evaluated QoL in our COVID-19 survivor cohort over 6 months using the RAND SF-36 survey. From July 2020–March 2021 we enrolled 110 adults from the United States with a positive SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) into the Northern Colorado Coronavirus Biobank (NoCo-COBIO). Demographic data and symptom surveillance were collected from 62 adults. In total, 42% were hospitalized, and 58% were non-hospitalized. The Rand SF-36 consists of 36 questions and 8 scales, and questions are scored 0–100. A lower-scale score indicates a lower QoL. In conclusion, hospitalization, PASC, and disease severity were associated with significantly lower scores on the RAND SF-36 in Physical Functioning, Role Limitation due to Physical Health, Energy/Fatigue, Social Functioning, and General Health. Long-term monitoring of COVID-19 survivors is needed to fully understand the impact of the disease on QoL and could have implications for interventions to alleviate suffering during recovery.

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