The Case for Transracial Adoption Rita J. Simon, Howard Alstein, and Marygold S. Melli. Washington, DC: American University Press, 1994. 150 pp. $41.00 hardback, ISBN 1-879383-19-5; $14.50 paperback. ISBN 1-879383-20-9

Social Work ◽  
1995 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Transracial Adoption ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University

America on Stage: the World in the Classroom

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (41) ◽  
pp. 66-71
Author(s):  
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group Presentations ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In this, the third paper originally presented at the ATHE conference in Atlanta in 1992, Caleen Sinnette Jennings, Assistant Professor of Theatre in the American University, Washington, DC, discusses the problems and rewards of introducing American theatre, film, and television studies to a class of sixty students from a wide variety of nations and social backgrounds. Outlining the ideas and intentions behind a wide-ranging syllabus, she quotes from group presentations and individual responses to illustrate how works deeply rooted in American culture and assumptions can stimulate the recognition and discussion of social and cultural similarities and differences among responsive students.

scholarly journals For most of its history, biospeleology has been a poor cousin of the other speleological disciplines

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivo Lucić
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
American University ◽  
Science Approach ◽  
Skill Groups

Our series of interviews with leading karstologists now turns to cave biologist. David Culver, an emeritus professor of environmental science at the American University (Washington DC, USA), talks about his relationship to karst and what subterranean biology has given to the geoscientific disciplines and what it has taken from them. His science approach is well reflected in the statement: “In the last few decades, I have done valuable little completely independent research, and collaboration with people with different skill groups has been critical”.

scholarly journals The Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
Layla Sein
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
American University ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
International Service ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
Muslim Communities

The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) held its thirty first annual conference in Washington, DC, from October 25-27, 2002, with the collaboration of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIID. The conference was cosponsored by the School of International Service, American University, and supported by the university's Ibn Khaldun Chair ofislamic Studies, Dr. Akbar Ahmed. In his welcoming remarks, Dr. Louis Goodman, Dean of the School of International Service, American University, encouraged the use of academic forums to highlight social concerns of the larger world community. Introductory comments by AMSS President Dr. Louay Safi, stressed the need for scholars to examine the different agendas being introduced to address concepts dealing with the fears and concerns faced by the larger Muslim and non-Muslim communities in a post-9/11 world. The Conference Chair, Dr. Amira Sonbol, Georgetown University, OC, hoped that this con­ference would promote debate on how Islam has been studied to date, and encourage Muslims to revisit moments in history to understand their com­munity's position in world history.  The conference theme, "The Muslim World after September 11: Agenda for Change," echoed in the presentations made by over 40 scholars in eight consecutive panels, one roundtable discussion, a plenary session, and a keynote address at the annual banquet. Students, academicians, activists, and intellectuals engaged in a lively debate with the panelists after their presentations. Media coverage was provided by the Washington Post and the Washington Times ...

Localisation, regionalism and the history of ideas in Southeast Asia

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 541-549
Author(s):  
Anthony Milner
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Careful Study ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
American University ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
History Of

Much analysis of Asian regional relations and institutions is written in an historical and cultural vacuum. The impression is often given that security or economic arrangements are comparable with physical structures — creations of engineers rather than social scientists (or even architects). The writings of Amitav Acharya, now Professor of International Affairs at American University in Washington, DC, are a distinguished exception. Already the author of major books on security architecture and community identity in Southeast Asia – including his Constructing a Community in Southeast Asia, which has just come out in a new edition – Acharya has produced a careful study of the diffusion of security ideas and norms in the Asian region, particularly Southeast Asia. He concentrates in particular on the establishing in Asia of the norm of ‘cooperative security’ (as against ‘common security’) and the institution of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). It is a study – dealing especially with the last half century or so – which draws not just on the historical record of Southeast Asia but also on the theoretical insights of historians of that region. Acharya is genuine in his cross-disciplinary endeavour, and, in my view, has developed a methodology that invites a response from historians as well as practitioners in his own field of security studies.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Christian Gütl
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
American University ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Long Time

Dear Readers, It is a great pleasure for me to welcome you to our first regular issue in 2021 covering 3 very relevant and novel articles in various computer science topics. There are also many news and changes with the beginning of the new year that I am excited to report on and share. To start with, we are very happy to welcome two new consortium members and editors-in-chief: California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo represented by Prof. Christian Eckhardt from the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering and the Institute for IDEAS at American University in Washington DC represented by Prof. Krzysztof Pietroszek. On the management side of J.UCS, Dana Kaiser has retired at the end of last year, and on behalf of the journal I want to gratefully thank Dana for her devoted and great work since the foundation of this journal. I also want to give Johanna Zeisberg a warm welcome who will take over the role as Publishing Manager and collaborate and support the whole J.UCS community. On the technical side, our journal has moved to another submission and publishing platform. Since the foundation of J.UCS more than 25 years ago, the journal has offered readers, authors and editors various novel features over the course of the years. In this perspective but also in terms of the visionary view of founding a freely accessibly online journal, I want to express our deep gratitude for the contributions of Prof. Hermann Maurer to the success of J.UCS for almost 20 years. Since beginning of 2021, J.UCS is hosted by Pensoft Publishers Ltd. on the ARPHA Publishing Platform. This allows us not only to offer state-of-the-art publishing features but also to make use of integrated long-time archiving systems and various indexing services. In this context I also want to thank Internet Studio Isser and Photographer Christian Trummer for the kind support in the development of the design update and the J.UCS images. In this first issue of the year, I also want to look back on the journal’s achievements in 2020. We are proud to report a total of 11 issues with 74 articles on novel aspects of various topics in computer science; to be more specific, 51 articles have been published in 7 special issues and 23 articles in 4 regular issues. Since last year, J.UCS publishes under the open access Creative Commons License CC BY-ND 4.0 and therefore provides even more value und openness to a broader community. In 2020, we counted more than 87 thousand unique visits and almost 65 thousand paper downloads. This success is only possible due to the great support of the involved institutions, reviewers and authors, and I want to gratefully thank them all for their valuable support and work. Over the years we have not only offered readers open access to our high-quality journal, but we also do not charge our authors publication fees. This adventurous approach together with a rigorous review process and a broad support by the community resulted in a valuable contribution in the field of computer science, which is reflected in the high number of unique visitors and article downloads. In this context I gratefully thank all consortium members for their financial support of J.UCS. I am looking forward to continuing the cooperation with our editors, the editorial team and the technical support to maintain the success of J.UCS. I would be very grateful for suggestions and feedback on how we can even improve and develop J.UCS in the future. In this regular issue, I am very pleased to introduce 3 accepted papers from 5 different countries. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the J.UCS journal, Nelson Baloian, José A. Pino, Gustavo Zurita, Valeria Lobos-Ossandón, and Hermann Maurer analyze and discuss a bibliometric overview of the first 25 years of the journal in their collaboration between Austria and Chile. In a collaborative research between China and Spain, Xin Liu, Xiaoying Song, Wei Gao, Li Zou, and Alvaro Labella Romero report on their decision making approach based on hesitant fuzzy linguistic-valued credibility reasoning. And finally, Christian Moreira Matos, Vitor Kehl Matter, Marcio Garcia Martins, Joao Elison Da Rosa Tavares, Alexandre Sturmer Wolf, Paulo Cesar Buttenbender, and Jorge Luis Victoria Barbosa from Brazil discuss a collaborative model to assist people with disabilities and the elderly people in smart assistive cities. Enjoy Reading!

scholarly journals Cultural Diversity and Islam

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-131
Author(s):  
Mucahit Bilici
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Excellent Article

As a compilation of papers presented at an international conference (1998)on “Cultural Diversity and Islam” at American University in Washington,DC, this volume brings together the contributions of a wide array of scholars.It has four sections and twelve chapters dealing with diversity and/orpluralism in relation to Islam.The first section, “Cultural Diversity in Civilizational Perspective,”provides a macro (and at times comparative) perspective on Islam anddiversity. In chapter 1, the editors prepare the ground for discussion by providingsome definitions, potential questions, and chapter summaries. Theyalso explain why they prefer the concept of diversity over pluralism.In chapter 2, Seyyed Hossein Nasr discusses what he calls “a theoreticaland practical dilemma” in Islam: unity vs. diversity. Entitled“Unity and Diversity in Islam and Islamic Civilization,” this chaptermakes general statements about the nature of diversity in Islam and howunity and uniformity differ. Nasr argues that “Islam’s refusal to reducethis unity-in-diversity to mere uniformity, far from weakening the faith,has been a major cause of its strength through the ages” (p. 33). Tounderstand more fully how Islam created a unitary civilization that hasthrived on diversity, he looks at different cultural zones within Islam.The issue of Islam and diversity is often discussed in reference to theassertion of Islam’s compatibility with democracy as well as the challengesproduced by globalization, which brought Islam into closer contactwith western and other cultures. It is uncommon for scholars addressingsuch issues to raise the question of power.Sulayman S. Nyang’s excellent article in chapter 3 brings the issueof power into the equation. Looking at what he calls the factors and ...

scholarly journals Are Private Universities Exempt from Student Concerns About Textbook Costs? A Survey of Students at American University

Open Praxis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay Renee Murphy ◽  
David Rose
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private University ◽  
Study Habits ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
American University ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
State Schools

A survey conducted in the fall of 2015 at American University in Washington, DC shows that rising textbook prices similarly affect students at an expensive private university as those at community colleges and state schools. Research on high textbook costs that has demonstrated corollary unwanted behavior changes in students, including not purchasing the book, resorting to illegal online downloads, and poor study habits, were confirmed at American University as well. Solutions that have been proposed to this problem of prohibitive textbook prices, including Open Educational Resources (OER), could have an equally profound impact at American University, and potentially similar private universities, as has been demonstrated at less selective and more affordable counterparts.

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