Developing an Industry-Education Community: The United Auto Workers/General Motors Quality Educator Program

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-390
Author(s):  
Stephen L. Jacobson ◽  
James Walline
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
General Motors ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
College And University ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Educational Professionals ◽  
Community Solidarity

In this paper we review the evolution of the Quality Educator Program (QEP), a program sponsored by the United Auto Workers (UAW)/General Motors (GM) that employs school teachers, administrators, and college and university faculty each summer in GM assembly plants. The QEP provides educators and those in industry the unique opportunity to interact and observe one another in a common workplace for a 4–6 week time period. Participation in the QEP allows educators the chance to observe first-hand the UAW/GM's use of “quality networks.” We argue that quality networks hold promise for improving the day-to-day operation of public schools by allowing new and better relationships to develop among educational professionals, and between educators and the communities they serve. Implicit in this work is the fact that a larger community is being developed, a community of labor and management from industry working closely with educators to improve the quality of public education for their mutual benefit. To better understand the implications of this emerging community, a brief review of conceptual differences in the dominant social relationships characteristic of communities as compared to organizations is developed from Tonnies’ (1887) distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft societal types, Sergiovanni's (1993) distinction between organization and community as dominant school metaphors, and Maxwell's (1994) and distinction between similarity and contiguity as modes of relationship central to community solidarity.

Merging Traffic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Slobin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Auto Industry ◽  
General Motors ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Special Case

This chapter surveys the institutions and movements that brought together the city’s musical life with the aim of merging disparate styles, trends, and personnel. First comes the auto industry, based on archival sources from Ford and General Motors that show how the companies deployed music for worker morale and company promotion. The complementary work of labor follows, through the United Auto Workers’ songs. Next comes the counterculture’s musical moment in the age of the folk revival and the artist collectives of the 1950s–1960s. Motown offers a special case of African American entrepreneurial merging of musical talent and style. The chapter closes with a look at the media—radio and newspapers—with their influential role in bringing audiences together, through music, in a city known for segregation, oppressive policing, and occasional outbursts of violence.

Changes in Health Risks among the Participants in the United Auto Workers—General Motors LifeSteps Health Promotion Program

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louis Yen ◽  
Marilyn Pearce Edington ◽  
Timothy McDonald ◽  
David Hirschland ◽  
Dee W. Edington
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
General Motors ◽  
Health Promotion Program ◽  
Baseline Risk ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Auto Workers

Purpose. To examine health risk changes among participants of a multicomponent worksite health promotion program. Design. A study using health risk changes among health risk appraisal (HRA) participants linked to program participation records. Baseline risk and participation in multiple programs were examined in relation to risk change in multivariate models. Setting. Worksite health promotion programming sponsored by the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM). Subjects. Active employees (12,984) who voluntarily participated in an HRA in each of two program years. Intervention. The nationwide program was a mailed HRA and a 1-800 nurse line. A pilot program (implemented in two cities) added screening, wellness programs, a materials resource, and, for high risk participants, health coaching and vouchers for medical office visits. Measures. Using 13 selected health risk factors from the HRA, changes in overall health risks were measured as program outcomes in three ways: one-directional, net, and risk status change. Results. A greater decrease in the number of health risks was observed with increased program participation. The decrease was significantly related to the number of baseline risk factors and eligibility for high risk programs. Associated with program participation, the number of people at low risk status increased from 70.1% to 71.3% at year 2 among nationwide participants and from 52.4% to 58.9% among pilot participants. Conclusions. Participation was associated with a significant impact on health risk. Baseline risk of participants and eligibility for high risk programs were necessary factors to control when measuring program effects on health risk changes.

Health and Safety Agreement

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
General Motors ◽  
Collective Bargaining Agreement ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Auto Workers ◽  
Environmental And Occupational Health ◽  
Opening Up

Environmental and occupational health and safety are linked to decisions about technology that are frequently made behind closed doors. The most recent collective bargaining agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers provides an instance of that process opening up to parties usually excluded from technology policy. Here, we reproduce the New Technology section, including italicized explanations from the Memorandum of Understanding between General Motors and the United Auto Workers.

The General Motors-United Auto Workers Agreement of 1950

1950 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 397-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick H. Harbison
Keyword(s):  
General Motors ◽  
United Auto Workers ◽  
Auto Workers

scholarly journals Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Lerner ◽  
Antoinette Schoar ◽  
Jialan Wang
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Ivy League ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
College And University ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Investment Returns ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data

University endowments have received much attention recently for their superior investment returns compared with other institutional investors. This study documents trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005 using data on over a thousand schools. Such endowments have generally performed well over this time period, with a median growth rate of 7.4 percent per year and median return of 6.9 percent. This sector has been dominated both in size and performance by the endowments of elite universities such as the Ivy League schools. The top 20 endowments grew more than 9 percent annually on a real basis between 1992 and 2005. As of 2007, the two largest endowments, belonging to Harvard and Yale, have grown to $35 billion and $22 billion in size, respectively. Much of the growth in endowment size has been driven by investment performance. As we will show in the paper, the top endowments posted impressive returns in 2005, averaging a net real return of 12.3 percent, compared to 4.4 percent posted by the S&P 500 index in the same year. We investigate the underlying drivers of these high returns and show that performance is related to the size of endowment, the quality of the student body, and the use of alternative investments. We caution ordinary investors that mimicking the strategies of the top endowments would not necessarily result in similar returns.

Food procurement in English-language Canadian public schools: Opportunities and challenges

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Shawna Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Food Environment ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
English Language ◽  
Nutrient Content ◽  
Food Environments ◽  
School Food ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
School Food Environment

This paper examines the changes to procurement for school food environments in Canada as a response to changes to nutrition regulations at the provincial level. Interviews with those working in school food environments across Canada revealed how changes to the nutrition requirements of foods and beverages sold in schools presented opportunities to not only improve the nutrient content of the items made available in school food environments, but also to include local producers and/or school gardens in procuring for the school food environment. At the same time, some schools struggle to procure nutritionally compliant foods due to increased costs associated with transporting produce to rural, remote, or northern communities as well as logistic difficulties like spoilage. Although the nutrition regulations have facilitated improvements to food environments in some schools, others require more support to improve the overall nutritional quality of the foods and beverages available to students at school.

The ENT emergency clinic: does senior input matter?

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Mirza ◽  
L McClelland ◽  
M Daniel ◽  
N Jones
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Discharge Rate ◽  
Surrogate Marker ◽  
Operating Theatre ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Discharge Rates ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Number Of Patients

AbstractBackground:Many ENT conditions can be treated in the emergency clinic on an ambulatory basis. Our clinic traditionally had been run by foundation year two and specialty trainee doctors (period one). However, with perceived increasing inexperience, a dedicated registrar was assigned to support the clinic (period two). This study compared admission and discharge rates for periods one and two to assess if greater registrar input affected discharge rate; an increase in discharge rate was used as a surrogate marker of efficiency.Method:Data was collected prospectively for patients seen in the ENT emergency clinic between 1 August 2009 and 31 July 2011. Time period one included data from patients seen between 1 August 2009 and 31 July 2010, and time period two included data collected between 1 August 2010 and 31 July 2011.Results:The introduction of greater registrar support increased the number of patients that were discharged, and led to a reduction in the number of children requiring the operating theatre.Conclusion:The findings, which were determined using clinic outcomes as markers of the quality of care, highlighted the benefits of increasing senior input within the ENT emergency clinic.

scholarly journals Oral Health and Psychosocial Predictors of Quality of Life and General Well-Being among Adolescents in Lesotho, Southern Africa

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 582
Author(s):  
Abbas Jessani ◽  
Jonghm Choi ◽  
Abdul El-Rabbany ◽  
Pulane Lefoka ◽  
Mir Faeq Ali Quadri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
General Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Health Status ◽  
Social Wellbeing ◽  
Fair Poor ◽  
Dental Conditions

Background: Adolescents’ quality of life is reported to be significantly associated with physical and social wellbeing. Although adolescents are 30% of the Southern African population, no previous studies have focused on this group in relation to oral health and quality of life. Methods: A 40-item survey and clinical oral examinations were conducted in public schools in Maseru from 10 to 25 August 2016. Simple, bivariate, and multivariate regressions were used to evaluate the associations of oral health and psychosocial factors with self-reported general health status and quality of life. Results: A total of 526 participants, aged 12–19 years old, responded to the survey and participated in the clinical examinations. The majority reported a good (good/very good/excellent) quality of life (84%) and general health (81%). Bivariate results showed that self-reported general health in this population was significantly influenced by age. The presence of toothache and sensitivity in the adolescents were significantly associated with poor (fair/poor) self-reported general health and were found to be the best predictors for self-general health and quality of life. Conclusions: The absence of dental conditions such as toothache and tooth sensitivity can lead to a better perception of general health and Quality of Life in adolescents.

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