Riverside Community College District

ABSTRACT Objective The Santa Ana Sucker Pantosteus santaanae is endemic to southern California and is listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Seasonal limitations on conventional sampling and inconsistencies in survey methodologies have led to an incomplete understanding of population dynamics. Alternative sampling methods have the potential to fill important knowledge gaps in biology and life history. One option is to use passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags to identify individuals and track their movements. The objective of this study was to test the effect of PIT tag size on survival, tag loss, and growth of Santa Ana Suckers. Methods Sixty-one Santa Ana Suckers were randomly assigned to one of three treatments (control: N = 20; 8-mm PIT tag: N = 21; or 12-mm PIT tag: N = 20). A full-duplex PIT tag was injected into each fish, and lengths (standard, fork, and total length) and weight were recorded. Fish remained in raceways for 36 d, after which they were retrieved, scanned, and remeasured. Results There were five fish mortalities within 48 h of tagging, resulting in an 87.8% overall survival rate. There were two fish mortalities from the 8-mm tag treatment and three mortalities from the 12-mm tag treatment. One fish from each tagging treatment lost their tag, resulting in a 5.6% overall tag loss rate. The Fisher’s exact test indicated no statistically significant difference in survival or tag loss between treatments. The ordinary least squares regression detected no effect of tag size on growth for Santa Ana Suckers. Conclusions Results suggest that 8- and 12-mm PIT tags are suitable options for tagging Santa Ana Suckers measuring at least 62 and 70 mm fork length, respectively. Supplementing the current sampling strategy with PIT tags could help monitoring efforts to expand spatially and temporally while providing expanded population data to inform adaptive management actions for the Santa Ana Sucker.

IntroductionClinical trials must include diverse participants to ensure the wide applicability of results. However, people from ethnic minorities are included in clinical trials at rates lower than expected given their share of the population. Working with South Riverside Community Development Centre (SRCDC), Talking Trials used public engagement to foster discussions around the underrepresentation of those from minority ethnic communities in clinical trials and to identify and address concerns surrounding trial participation.MethodsWe conducted three workshops with 13 co‐researchers from minority ethnic backgrounds. We explored perceptions and understanding of clinical trials alongside participatory art activities to help move away from verbocentric methods of communication. These artworks formed an exhibition that was presented to the community, prompting further discussions and engagement.FindingsCo‐production workshops were an effective tool to introduce the public to trial research. With little knowledge of clinical trials at the beginning of the process, our co‐researchers formed a cohesive group, sharing initial fears and mistrust towards trials. As conversations progressed these attitudes clearly shifted. Artwork produced during the workshops was incorporated into an exhibition. Quotes and creative pieces from the group were included to reflect the themes identified. Presenting the exhibition at Riverside Festival enabled further engagement with a wider diverse community. The focus on co‐production helped build a network of individuals new to research and keen to become involved further.ConclusionInclusive and democratic co‐production, enriched by participatory art practices, provided a powerful means of enabling our group to create new insights and foster new relationships. Projects like Talking Trials can diversify the research process itself—for example, four co‐researchers have commenced lay research partner roles on trial management groups and a lay advisory group is in development.Patient or Public ContributionThree members of staff at SRCDC were on the project delivery group and involved in the initial project design, subsequently helping to connect us with members of the Riverside community to work as co‐researchers. Two of the SRCDC staff are co‐authors of this manuscript. The project had 13 public co‐researchers guiding the direction of this research and creating the artwork displayed in the art exhibition.

ABSTRACTStarting with seminal work from Katherine McKittrick and Katherine McKittrick and the late Clyde Woods, this paper compares and contrasts articulations of justice as espoused by Black feminism, ecofeminism, and the movement for environmental justice. The utilization of an intersectional genealogical approach allows for examination of the ways in which these movements might serve as the ideological bases for a Black feminist spatial imagination and an intersectional environmental justice. A Black feminist spatial imagination is an orientation that accounts for the merger of frames around race, gender, and ecology; it serves as a unique departure from conventional Black feminist analysis by its particular attention to the construct of space in Black feminist epistemology. Analysis reveals that manifestos engage similar strategies around boundedness, an identification among a collective identity and the subject of reproductive justice and liberation as wresting control and self-determination of physical bodies. The final task is an outline of essential tenets for a singular notion of justice of a Black feminist spatial imagination which incorporates the spirit of all of three manifestos and expands current environmental justice discourse to include those ‘who know no one knows’ while highlighting Black women’s agency in environmentally degraded environments.

Abstract Based on e-mails gathered from listservs, a variety of sources are suggested for preparing for an upcoming accreditation: the previous accreditation report of one's home campus, published literature, the national library peer comparison tool as well as statistical sources, the U.S. Office of Postsecondary Education's website of accreditation agencies, how to obtain recent sample accreditation reports from your home state, how to obtain supporting survey documentation forms, insights from colleagues who served on accreditation teams, as well as what questions we can expect to be asked from the visiting accreditation team.

Abstract In the same way as television did not replace movies but merely opened up new dimensions in entertainment, the digital world is not replacing the printed word but is giving us new and additional dimensions of knowledge. Information competency is the ability to exploit information in various formats. The article reviews the efforts of California colleges to make information competency a true part of higher education through coursework and supplemental study.

Janet S. Chafetz, Ph.D., is Chairperson and As sociate Professor, Sociology Department, Uni versity of Houston, Houston, Texas. Patricia Sampson, MSW, is Psychiatric Social Worker, Department of Continuing Community Care, Riverside County Department of Mental Health, Riverside, California; Paula Beck, MSW, is Medical Social Worker, Texas Insti tute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston, Texas; Joyce West, MSW, is Clinical Social Worker, San Joaquin County Department of Mental Health, Stockton, California. Homosexual women constitute one of the least researched but nonetheless discrim