Marygrove College

The recruitment of African American males into chosen professions in the United States of America is an increasing challenge at national, state, and local levels. Gender and racial disparities between teachers in this country and the students they teach are present in classrooms. This chapter examines the Marygrove College's Griot program as an initiative established to address the underrepresentation of African American males in additional designated occupations. The philosophy and heritage from which the Griot Program was developed, along with key events and decisions throughout its life span are discussed. Model African American initiatives that can help shape Griot's future as it tries to increase the recruitment, retention, and success of African American men in graduate school to assume leadership roles in human resource management, in social justice, as well as in education are also presented.

The recruitment of African American males into the teaching profession in the United States of America is an increasing challenge at national, state, and local levels. Gender and racial disparities between teachers in this country and the students they teach are present in classrooms. This chapter examines the Marygrove College's Griot program as an initiative established to address the underrepresentation of African American males in teaching. The philosophy and heritage from which the Griot Program was developed, along with key events and decisions throughout its life span are discussed. Model African American initiatives in K-12 and higher education that can help shape Griot's future as it tries to increase recruitment, retention, and graduation of African American men to assume positions in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education also are presented.

This article describes the implementation of a comprehensive hiring and training program for library work-study students designed to reduce the time spent on individual training. After staff reductions, Marygrove College Library in Detroit, Michigan, turned to an underutilized resource—work-study students. Formerly, training these students took so much permanent staff time that the library questioned investing so much effort on a contingent work force. With the cuts, the library reconsidered the value of work-study employees and devised a hiring and training program to choose the best candidates for the position and to reduce the effort full-time staff spent training new workers.

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Summary Many social work practitioners see social support groups as a mainstay of direct/clinical practice yet make little or no connection between their work with these groups and social justice practice. This article examines a community‐based support group process for women ex‐offenders and family members that integrates social justice activities. It focuses on the women ex‐offenders as group facilitators, advocates, and community educators. The research also highlights their specific social change activities and suggests complementary activities for social justice practitioners working with them.

This essay will argue that European discourses of the social sciences and humanities have privileged ocular understandings of knowledge, and that Afro-diasporic political and cultural resistance has often mobilised an alternative episteme of the ear to carve out hidden life worlds inside Western hegemonic formations (Berendt, 1992, pp. 21–23; Esteva and Prakash, 1998, pp. 75–76; Gilroy, 1993, pp. 73, 198–202). In general, the essay will probe the tactics of African diaspora communities in taking up time as a resource for resistance and innovation ‘inside’ the modern capitalist project of rationalising labour and routinising the body through the category of race (Gilroy, 1987, pp. 197–209). The argument is that this sophisticated labouring of time into alternative spaces and delirious places is quintessentially ‘political’ and functions as a form of de facto tricksterism that holds up to the community the arbitrary and constructed nature of the very forms by which it is controlled and dominated (Babcock-Abrahams, 1975, pp. 182–85; Siems, 1991, pp. 148–49). Such a sophistication makes resistance a possibility even in the tightest tenement, the most meagre interval. By itself, of course, such a resistance does not translate into an alternative world, a utopian realisation of, say, Martin Luther King’s ‘beloved community’. But it does point up one of the fault lines in a totalitarian project.

On the European passion stages of the late Middle Ages, Lazarus's report from hell, an apocryphal story, was undoubtedly meaningful for theatergoers, who were constantly enlarging their own geographical universe and, hence, would have been interested in hearing an explicit description of the netherworld by someone who had been resurrected miraculously. For spectators led to visualize tortures and unhappiness, Lazarus's report (paralleled later by Christ's own suffering) made Jesus' death and the redemption of the damned souls urgent; to avoid these punishments meted out for a life of sin, Christians would try anything within their spiritual and material means to choose good over evil. Certainly, fifteenth-c. people knew and related to the scenes of torture: judicial torture had been used since antiquity and would outlast the late Middle Ages. In addition, people suffered wartime violence, nature-inflicted havoc unleashed by the weather, and many forms of physical abuse during their daily lives. As we shall see, Lazarus speaks of hellish conditions which resemble contemporary life experiences similarly fraught with violence.

Medical Journal of AustraliaVolume 174, Issue 2 p. 107-107 Letter Complementary therapies Paul E Yates, Corresponding Author Paul E Yates General practitioner ashgrove@flatvate.net.au Ashgrove Clinic, 258 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove, QLD, 4060 ashgrove@flatvate.net.auSearch for more papers by this author Paul E Yates, Corresponding Author Paul E Yates General practitioner ashgrove@flatvate.net.au Ashgrove Clinic, 258 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove, QLD, 4060 ashgrove@flatvate.net.auSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 January 2001 https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143173.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume174, Issue2January 2001Pages 107-107 RelatedInformation

Increased use of software in safety-critical systems has created the need to adequately validate the design and implementation of these systems. Current practice depends on extensive testing which is limited in terms of effectiveness and is very costly. Formal methods have been difficult to apply to the wide range of system architectures and have seldom addressed the system's dynamic characteristics and behaviour in the presence of faults. Recent developments in formalization of software architecture, definition of safe-set run-time standards and the availability of modeling and analytical tools, make it possible to formally model practical applications that are constrained by well-defined architectures and run-time environments. In particular, the Dynamic Flowgraph Methodology (DFM), developed to model safety-related behaviours of nuclear reactor and aerospace control systems, is especially promising when applied to properly constrained environments. Toolsets to model the architecture and the worst-case schedulability of tasking provide supporting methods. System safety analysis methodologies such as DFM, used in concert with these other developments, provide increased confidence in the validation of safety-critical, software intensive systems. Tools which are available to support DFM, are a graphic model editor with an integrated database and an analysis engine. Schedulability analysis is supported by a Rate Monotonic Analysis (RMA) toolset and a safe-set architecture has been implemented by an Ada run-time environment conforming to the Ada standard.

In order to use the words "big" and little" appropriately, adults use 3 kinds of contexts: normative (the size of the object is compared to a stored mental representation), perceptual (the object is compared to another physically present object of the same kind), and functional (the object is judged with regard to its intended use). In 3 experiments, we examined how flexibly children switch from one context to another. 2-4-year-olds judged a series of everyday objects as "big" or "little". To answer correctly, children had to judge each object twice, once in a normative context and once in a perceptual or functional context. Results showed that switching from one context to another was not inherently difficult, even for 2-year-olds. However, the direction of switch was important: children throughout the age range tested switched easily from a normative context but made errors when asked to switch to a normative context. We suggest that the normative context differs from the perceptual and functional contexts in that it is unmarked, and that unmarked contexts are accessible only when no other context has been recently experienced. When context is marked more explicitly, children shift flexibly among different meanings.