scholarly journals 5:30 in Negril

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Tammy Ronique Williams
Keyword(s):  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Second Year ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

Born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Tammy Ronique Williams is a second year student at the University of Toronto, where she is pursuing an Honours Bachelor's Degree in English and Caribbean Studies, with a minor in Russian. She hopes to someday become a published author.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Caribbean Coral Reefs

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Anastasia Deonarinesingh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Caribbean Coral ◽  
Caribbean Coral Reefs ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

Anastasia, a student at the University of Toronto, St. George, is pursuing a Bachelor of Science Double Major in Physics and Caribbean Studies and a Minor in Mathematics. She is a pianist, plays the guitar and steelpan and spends her free time arranging music. Her love for soca music and steelpan in no way takes away from her passion for classical piano and physics. As a person of the Trinidadian Diaspora with many interests, Ana has decided to look at the Caribbean from a different perspective by combining her love for science and the region.

scholarly journals Answering Huxley: “now” students take a “then” exam

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-400
Author(s):  
P. K. Rangachari
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Thomas Henry Huxley ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Twenty-eight undergraduate students in a health sciences program volunteered for an exercise in the history of examinations. They had completed a second-year course in anatomy and physiology in which they studied modern texts and took standard contemporary exams. For this historical “experiment,” students studied selected chapters from two 19th century physiology texts (by Foster M. A Textbook of Physiology, 1895; and Broussais FJV. A Treatise on Physiology Applied to Pathology, 1828). They then took a 1-h-long exam in which they answered two essay-type questions set by Thomas Henry Huxley for second-year medical students at the University of London in 1853 and 1857. These were selected from a question bank provided by Dr. P. Mazumdar (University of Toronto). A questionnaire probed their contrasting experiences. Many wrote thoughtful, reflective comments on the exercise, which not only gave them an insight into the difficulties faced by students in the past, but also proved to be a valuable learning experience (average score: 8.6 ± 1.6 SD).

Memorial

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 760-760
Author(s):  
Nancy House
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Geochemistry ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Geophysical Data ◽  
Fort Worth ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
The World ◽  
Seismic Acquisition ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

Donald Macpherson was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on 6 October 1941. He passed on 20 August 2020. Though he was a proud Canadian till the end, he clung to his Scottish culture and became a fixture with his bagpipes at many events throughout the Dallas–Fort Worth area. He attended the University of Alberta, initially studying music and fine arts and earning a bachelor's degree in 1964 with a minor in math and chemistry. He graduated with a master's degree in isotope geochemistry and geophysics from the University of Alberta in 1965. Don walked into the “best job in the world” as a geophysicist at Mobil Oil Canada in 1965. There, he was responsible for seismic acquisition crews, processing, and interpretation of geophysical data.

scholarly journals Remembering Our Leaders

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Tiffany Gurprasad
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University

Tiffany Gurprasad is a practicing artist and a Dean'sList scholar at the University of Toronto majoring inVisual Studies and Caribbean Studies. Her work hasbeen featured in various exhibits such as"Deconstruction" at Hart House and the Visual Studiesannual show, "Eyeball". In 2010, Tiffany curated thegroup show "Tracing Sources" at the University ofToronto Art Centre. Focusing mainly on the Caribbeandiaspora, Tiffany has worked extensively with painting,installation and intaglio printmaking.

scholarly journals The Caribbean Diaspora and the Formation of Identity in Second Generation Immigrants

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Leonika Valcius
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Caribbean Diaspora ◽  
Her Family ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University

Leonicka Valcius is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, studying Caribbean Studies and European Studies. Her areas of focus include migration and the social ramifications of economic development. Leonicka was born in Montreal and raised in South Florida. Her family immigrated to Canada from Haiti in the 1970’s, and they have since spread all over North America and the Caribbean. Leonicka has familial ties to Montreal, Toronto, New Jersey, New York, Boston, Florida, the Bahamas, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and, of course, Haiti chérie.

scholarly journals Continuities in Capitalism: Exploitation of Indentured and Migrant Labour

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Kevin De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Caribbean Studies ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Migrant Labour ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The University ◽  
United Network

Kevin De Silva is a third year student at the University of Toronto. He is completing his undergraduate degree in Political Science and Caribbean Studies, winning in 2010 the United Network of Indo-Caribbean Toronto Youths (U.N.I.T.Y.) Scholarship. He is a member of the Caribbean Studies Students’ Union, and is chief editor of Caribbean Quilt. He has also contributed to the Stabroek News in Guyana on issues concerning environmental politics and diaspora.

Addressing the Sophomore Slump: First-Generation College Students’ Completion of Year Two of Study in a Rural Bachelor’s Degree Granting College

2021 ◽  
pp. 152102512110148
Author(s):  
Davina Capik ◽  
Matthew Shupp
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
First Generation ◽  
First Generation College Students ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Sophomore Slump ◽  
First Generation College ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Persistence Toward Graduation

There is limited research on the experiences of first-generation students who have completed their second year and enrolled for a third year in order to continue their studies even though this population of students are the most likely to drop out of college in their second year. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how current first-generation college students, who are enrolled or completed the second semester of their sophomore year, experience college as a first-generation student and made the decision to persist toward completing their bachelor’s degree. Through first-hand accounts of participants’ experiences of their time at the university, this study highlights what factors students contributed to their persistence toward graduation. The findings have the potential to facilitate a deeper understanding of what stakeholders working with first-generation college students can do to assist in retention efforts of this population.

scholarly journals ENGINEERING PORTFOLIOS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: DEVELOPING SKILLS FOR COMMUNICATION,PROFESSIONALISM AND LIFE-LONG LEARNING

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Ambidge ◽  
Alan Chong ◽  
Penny Kinnear ◽  
Deborah Tihanyi ◽  
Lydia Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Student Development ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Engineering Communication ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The University

In 2005, the University of Toronto’s Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Department (CHE), in collaboration with the Engineering Communication Program (ECP), piloted a communications portfolio for second-year students. Over the past seven years the communication portfolio has been expanded into the third-year CHE requirements, adapted for use in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department(MIE) and next year will be used within the Civil Engineering Department. Through a discussion of the CHE and MIE portfolios we compare two different portfolio models and explain how this model has been adapted to its newest context in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. Through this approach we aim to show the usefulness of this portfolio model in supporting student development in communication, professionalism and life-long learning, three of the CEAB graduate attributes.

scholarly journals University Presidents and Politicians

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Claude T. Bissell
Keyword(s):  
University Presidents ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Internal Stresses ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University

It is customary to think of the ideal university president as being necessarily opposed to the methods and aims of the public politician. I f , as Thorstein Veblen argued, he adopts those methods and aims, he betrays the university and becomes, in effect, the head of a corporation or a minor state. It is the argument of this paper, however, that the president can lead and direct the University only if he accepts a political role, and strives to establish a high place for the university among public priorities. At the University of Toronto (and at other Canadian universities in varying degrees and in varying ways), the president was not able to play this political role until the great expansion of the 'sixties. Then, the need for long-range planning brought the presidents into the political arena. At the same time, internal stresses led to the creation of more representative governing bodies within the universities, and made the president a political figure who must strive to achieve a central alliance within the academic community.

scholarly journals Model-based academic dismissal policies; a case-study from the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Casper J Albers ◽  
Carlien Vermue ◽  
Taco de Wolff ◽  
Hans Beldhuis
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Major Effect ◽  
Bachelor's Degree ◽  
First Year ◽  
Minor Effect ◽  
Academic Dismissal ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The University ◽  
Dismissal Policy

Many higher education institutions use a policy for academic dismissal. In the Netherlands, the academic dismissal policy is such that students with fewer credits than a certain threshold after their first year, are expelled. This article employs the beta-binomial model to assess whether this method succeeds in filtering those who have potential from those who do not and what the optimal level of the threshold is. The model considers 13,234 students in three consecutive cohorts from around fifty different bachelor's degree programmes at the University of Groningen. We found that demanding 45 out of 60 credits constitutes a fair threshold for this institution. Although a strict dismissal policy has only a minor effect on cohorts, it can have a major effect on specific groups of students. The software employed here is made available.

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