The Impact of the Library Services Act: Progress and Potential: Papers Presented at an Institute Conducted Jointly by the University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science and the Library Services Branch, U.s. Office of Education, November 5-8, 1961. Donald E. Strout

I arrived as a graduate student at the University of Illinois in the fall of 1961, joining the relatively new Department of Anthropology under the direction of Joseph B. Casagrande. Muriel (Miki) Crespi (nee Kaminsky) had already been a graduate student for a full year. We became fast friends immediately. Shy, timid, quiet, and midwestern, I was not exactly a likely running buddy. But from the beginning, she was my mentor. After all, she was already wiser in the mysteries of graduate school; and as time passed, I came to know her as a wonderfully warm, intelligent woman from New York who also happened to be Jewish. I had never before connected with anyone who was so urbane and effortlessly gregarious. Mick's and my friendship further blossomed in our shared selection of Dr. Casagrande as our dissertation advisor and of Ecuador as our fieldwork area. Early on, Miki knew she wanted to study the impact of land reform on a government-owned hacienda high in the Ecuadorian sierra, working primarily with Indios or campesinos. She saw nothing out of character to live at an elevation of 11,000 feet, nor to speak Quechua. She left Illinois briefly to go to Cornell to learn the rudiments of Quechua. (Later she was devastated to find that the Quechua taught at Cornell was a different dialect altogether.)

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The impact of publications in core public choice journals: an analysis of institution rankings

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice ◽

10.1332/251569121x16207216460454 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Franklin G. Mixon ◽

Kamal P. Upadhyaya

Keyword(s):

Public Choice ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

Oxford University ◽

University Of Oxford ◽

University Of Cambridge ◽

Emory University ◽

University Of Göttingen ◽

The University ◽

The Impact ◽

Published Research

This study examines the impact of research published in the two core public choice journals – Public Choice and the Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice – during the five-year period from 2010 through 2014. Scholars representing almost 400 universities contributed impactful research to these journals over this period, allowing us to rank institutions on the basis of citations to this published research. Our work indicates that public choice scholarship emanating from non-US colleges and universities has surged, with the University of Göttingen, University of Linz, Heidelburg University, University of Oxford, University of Konstanz, Aarhus University, University of Groningen, Paderborn University, University of Minho and University of Cambridge occupying ten of the top 15 positions in our worldwide ranking. Even so, US-based institutions still maintain a lofty presence, with Georgetown University, Emory University, the University of Illinois and George Mason University each holding positions among the top five institutions worldwide.

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An Evaluation of the University of Illinois Extension Get Up & Move! Program

Journal of Youth Development ◽

10.5195/jyd.2009.280 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 126-131

Author(s):

Mary Ann Halpin ◽

Susan M. Farner ◽

Stephen J. Notaro ◽

Sheri Seibold ◽

Pat McGlaughlin ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Childhood Obesity ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Healthy Eating ◽

Healthy Lifestyles ◽

University Of Illinois ◽

Youth Leaders ◽

The University ◽

The Impact

Get Up & Move! is a program created by University of Illinois Extension to address childhood obesity. It provides ready-to-use materials for youth leaders to promote healthy lifestyles through physical fitness and healthy eating. The impact of the program on participants’ physical activity was evaluated to see whether involvement produces an increase in physical activity to the USDA recommended 60 minutes per day. It was found that a significant increase in minutes of physical activity occurred in participants from an average of 51.88 minutes per day to an average of 58.84 minutes per day.

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