A Student Society Bridges the Gap between Interest and Involvement in the NICU by Creating a Cuddler Guide and Program

A group of occupational therapy students, who serve as executive board members of the National Perinatal Association Student Society (NPASS) chapter at The State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Health Sciences University created a Cuddler Guide and Program. They worked with National Perinatal Association (NPA) Board Members Jessica Restivo, MS, OTR/L and Brigitte Desport DPS, OTR/L, BCP, ATP on these projects to contribute to the welfare and development of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). To understand how this NPASS chapter embarked on such an initiative, below outlines the student organization’s connection to its parent organization (National Perinatal Association), its development and experiences, and finally the creation of the Cuddler Guide and Program.

Bohdan Dorotskyi – the Student Movement Activist and a Patron of Ukrainian Culture

The purpose of the article is to clarify and systematize the facts of the life of a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic, activist of the Ukrainian student movement, public figure Bohdan-Volodymyr Dorotsky (1909 – 1945). The research methodology is based on the principles of objectivity, historicism, using general scientific methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization, as well as comparative and biographical methods. The scientific novelty of the article is to make an attempt to study the biography of a graduate of Lviv Polytechnic, an active member of the Ukrainian student movement, public figure Bohdan Dorotsky against the tragic events of 30 – 40 years of the twentieth century on the basis of a critical analysis of sources and published materials. Materials from manuscript sources and periodicals revealing little-known facts from the life and work of Bohdan Dorotskiy have been introduced into the scientific circulation. Conclusions. Bohdan-Volodymyr Dorotskyi is a representative of the generation of Ukrainian figures who, in the absence of Ukrainian statehood in the 1930s and 1940s, focused their work on the development of the Ukrainian student movement and the support of culture. Both patriotic traditions of the family and studies in Ukrainian gymnasiums, participation in the Ukrainian scout movement, as well as persecution of the family by the Polish authorities had a significant influence on this area of his interests. While studying at Lviv Polytechnic, he actively worked in the governing bodies of student organizations: the student society "Osnova", the Union of Ukrainian student organizations in Poland, the Society of friends of education, the cooperative "Student Usurer". A special mission of Bohdan Dorotsky was his participation in the publication of the official magazine UUSOP - "Student Way", as well as books of young poets. Bohdan Dorotsky's active work attracted the attention of Polish, Soviet and German security agencies. He was arrested several times by the Polish authorities. Tragically died in 1945 having been killed by members of the Polish nationalist organization.

“La comunicación, para ser estratégica y ser gerencial, tiene que empezar con investigación”

Conversar con Claudia Patricia Salas Forero es abrir una experiencia de formación interdisciplinaria que invita a reflexionar sobre el rol del Comunicador y los avatares de la formación profesional en el ámbito de la comunicación en las organizaciones. Formada en Periodismo y graduada en Comunicación Social por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Colombia, Forero ha desarrollado una biografía académica que incluye estudios de Maestría en Relaciones Humanas y en Educación. En la actualidad prepara su Doctorado en Letras en la Universidad de Kansas de Estados Unidos, donde además de su actividad como investigadora desarrolla la docencia e integra, entre otras asociaciones, la Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA). En diálogo con InMediaciones de la Comunicación, la amplitud y singularidad de su formación es una excelente excusa para recorrer su visión sobre la investigación, el lugar de la estrategia en el campo de la Comunicación y el vínculo que establece entre práctica profesional y activismo político en relación a la compleja realidad de Colombia.

Types of Christian Conduct in the World during the Nazi Regime [1965/2004]

This article is based on a talk Böckenförde gave to the Catholic Student Society in East Berlin in 1965, asking what kind of comportment Christians exhibited during the Nazi regime. He lays out six types of behaviour drawing on individual examples, ranging from opportunism to underground partisanism. Böckenförde is clear from the outset that no type of conduct is immune from incurring guilt. He notes that weighing between different kinds of evil was a key consideration in choosing between these types of conduct and criticizes that Christian moral doctrine had very little to offer a believer in search of orientation. The Staatssicherheitsdienst Stasi documented Böckenförde’s speech and, as became clear decades later, understood his talk to implicitly raise the question of Christian comportment in the GDR.

What’s in a name: The politics of queer on campus

This paper draws upon oral history interviews and archival work carried out to examine the history of the LGBTQ+ student society at the University of Sussex. It reflects upon the significance of the Society’s name change over time (from GaySoc in the 1970s to its contemporary formation as the LGBTQ+ Society) and considers the role of the Society and its members as an active political and sociable group, concerned with a broad range of political and social justice movements, both on campus and across wider society, locally and nationally. It demonstrates how the experience of student societies relates to individual and group identity and how they help shape national and international politics. It looks at how the groups were positioned as political through their location and in relation to activism beyond LGBTQ+ issues and the University.

The World Opens Up, 1900-1924

This chapter traces Wim Visser ’t Hooft’s life from his birth at the beginning of the twentieth century in Haarlem in the Netherlands to his move to Geneva as international secretary for the YMCA in 1924. The chapter stresses his patrician and Remonstrant background, pointing out how this background shaped his worldview and taught him to think and act independently and on his own initiative. The chapter also traces important early influences on his thinking and theology, such as the NCSV (Dutch Christian Student Society) and Karl Barth. His work in student relief after the war showcased his networking and problem-solving capabilities. The qualities he developed were decisive for his career in the World Council of Churches.

Student Philosophical Society of Kazan Theological Academy at the End of the XIX - Early XX Centuries

The paper is devoted to the institutional analysis of the student philosophical society activity at the Kazan Theological Academy in the late XIX - early XX centuries. The study notes that the development of philosophy in a theological educational institution in itself is a contradiction since philosophy involves a critical attitude towards religion. But it was precisely at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries that interest in philosophy at Russian theological schools increased. At the same time, a philosophical circle society for students appeared only in the Kazan Theological Academy. Within the framework of our work, we use a constructionist and neoinstitutional approaches, which assume that institutions are formal and informal “rules of the game”, norms of interaction within certain social interactions. As a result, it is concluded that the activities of the student society were determined both by its charter and by those special goals set by the theological education in Russia at that time. We have determined that one of the main goals was to teach the methods of philosophical criticism of future Orthodox theologians. It is also revealed that the topics that were discussed at meetings of the philosophical society were determined by the public resonance that they had. The topics related to modern literature and religious doctrine of Leo Tolstoy were presented as the main problems for the reports. This agenda also largely depended on the research topics of the leaders of the student philosophical society who were the professors of the Kazan Theological Academy.