scholarly journals Situational Ecumenism: The Architecture of Jewish Student Centers on American University Campuses

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Jeremy Kargon
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
American University ◽  
Jewish Student ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
Duke University ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

Since the start of the 20th century, the presence of Jewish students on American university campuses required accommodation of their religious practices. Jewish activities, including prayer, took place in existing campus buildings designed for other purposes. Eventually, at some universities, facilities were built to serve Jewish religious and social needs. These Jewish Student Centers, which include worship spaces yet are typologically different from synagogues, generally have to accommodate the diverse religious streams that characterize Jewish life in the United States. To do so, both architects and Jewish organizations have adapted the idea of ecumenism, by which related sects seek unity through fellowship and dialogue, not doctrinal agreement. Three examples—at Yale, Duke University, and the University of California San Diego—demonstrate differently the situational ecumenism at the core of their designs. These buildings, and other Jewish Student Centers elsewhere, make visible the intersection between American collegiate and Jewish religious values, variously defined.

Balance Problems: Neoliberalism and New Music in the American University and Ensemble

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 749-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Robin
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
New Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
American University ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Contemporary Status ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Between 2013 and 2015, the ensemble yMusic collaborated with graduate student composers in a residency at Duke University. This article positions the residency as a result of the transformation of the university and the new-music ensemble from a technocratic Cold War paradigm to their contemporary status under the market- and branding-oriented logics of neoliberalism. The works written for yMusic by the Duke composers were deeply informed by the ensemble's musical brand, including its idiosyncratic instrumentation, preexisting repertory, collaborative ethos, and relationship to popular music. In accounting for the impact of these institutional developments on the production of musical works, this article argues that the economic and ideological practices of neoliberalism have discernible aesthetic consequences for American new music. Given the key role of the ensemble and the university in the contemporary music landscape, the issues raised by my ethnographic and historical analysis have significant implications for new music in the twenty-first century, and for the way composers work in the United States and beyond.

The Early Years of the Jewish Presence at the University of Illinois

1992 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-245
Author(s):  
Winton U. Solberg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Characteristic Form ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Jewish Students ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

For over two centuries, the College was the characteristic form of higher education in the United States, and the College was closely allied to the church in a predominantly Protestant land. The university became the characteristic form of American higher education starting in the late nineteenth Century, and universities long continued to reflect the nation's Protestant culture. By about 1900, however, Catholics and Jews began to enter universities in increasing numbers. What was the experience of Jewish students in these institutions, and how did authorities respond to their appearance? These questions will be addressed in this article by focusing on the Jewish presence at the University of Illinois in the early twentieth Century. Religion, like a red thread, is interwoven throughout the entire fabric of this story.

scholarly journals The Lived Experiences of Chinese International Students Preparing for the University-To-Work Transition: A Phenomenological Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Lertora ◽  
Jeffrey Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Chinese International Students ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
The University

Chinese international students have been the largest growing number of international students on U.S. college and university campuses for the last ten years. However, there is minimal research literature that pertains to Chinese international students’ experiences on U.S. campuses and currently no research literature that reflects the entirety of their experience studying in the U.S. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to give a voice to Chinese international students who are preparing for the university-to-work transition to better understand their experiences as international students in the United States, specifically the types of transitional stressors they experienced and how they coped with these stressors. Five major themes and the essence of the participants emerged from the data analysis and are presented, discussed, and implication for campus based mental health professionals are provided.

Lessons from the EU's REACH Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-182
Author(s):  
Adam Abelkop ◽  
John D. Graham ◽  
Lois R. Wise
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Aaron Wildavsky ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Eu

In the casual political rhetoric about environmental regulation, it is often claimed that the U.S. government regulates on the basis of risk while the European Union (or EU member states) regulates on the basis of hazard. The implication is that the U.S. government relies on a more rigorous, scientific process of assessment than does the EU, which allegedly helps explain why the EU is more pro-regulation than is the United States.An alternative view, advanced originally by the late Professor Aaron Wildavsky of the University of California-Berkeley and amplified in a recent book by Professor Jonathan Wiener of Duke University, and colleagues, is that societies engage in a process of “risk selection.” What worries some societies does not worry others.

Middle East Studies for the New Milleniu

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The United States ◽  
American University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
The University ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
The Relationship

Few world regions today are of more pressing social and political interest than the Middle East: hardly a day has passed in the last decade without events there making global news. Understanding the region has never been more important, yet the field of Middle East studies in the United States is in flux, enmeshed in ongoing controversies about the relationship between knowledge and power, the role of the federal government at universities, and ways of knowing other cultures and places. This book explores the big-picture issues affecting the field, from the geopolitics of knowledge production to structural changes in the university to broader political and public contexts. Tracing the development of the field from the early days of the American university to the Islamophobia of the present day, this book explores Middle East studies as a discipline and, more generally, its impact on the social sciences and academia. Topics include how different disciplines engage with Middle East scholars, how American universities teach Middle East studies and related fields, and the relationship between scholarship and U.S.–Arab relations, among others. This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative overview of how this crucial field of academic inquiry came to be and where it is going next.

Choosing a field: How graduate student choices of field sites reflect different ideas of 'real' anthropology in Colombia and the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-31
Author(s):  
Laura Macía
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So ◽  
Proper Field

This paper examines the decisions and motivations of graduate students in cultural anthropology when defining the field sites and topics of their final projects. The decisions among students at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia are contrasted with those at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. A review of recent final projects in both universities was conducted, along with a survey and some follow-up questions with students in both institutions. A main difference found is that students at los Andes are more willing to do applied fieldwork at 'home', while students at Pittsburgh are far more reluctant to do so and prefer to go to distant fields. This distinction is partly explained by the histories of the anthropologies practised in each locale, and of what have been considered 'proper' field sites in cultural anthropology. In particular, a vision of anthropology as an applied enterprise emerged at different historical moments in these two geo-political locations, and those visions are associated with quite different, opposed values today.

scholarly journals Free Speech on Campus by Erwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Rosanne Cordell
Keyword(s):  
Free Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The University ◽  
College And University Campuses

Free speech on college and university campuses in the United States is a complex topic with competing and conflicting rights, governing body responsibilities, goals, legal precedents, popular views, and purposes. To untangle all of this requires both attention to fine legal points and a broad view of societal needs. Chemerinsky and Gillman have the expertise and experience to bring both these characteristics to bear on discussions of this topic, but they do much more: they outline specific policies that can and should be followed by universities and colleges in seeking to provide the best of higher education. Chemerinsky (The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, The Case Against the Supreme Court, Closing the Courthouse Door: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable) and Gillman (American Constitutionalism: Structures of Government, The Votes that Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election) have distinguished positions at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law and taught an undergraduate seminar on Free Speech on College Campuses in 2016. Their combined voices bring a clarity and, surprisingly, brevity to this topic that are rare.

Perceptions of commercial hospitality space: The case of a UK university campus hotel

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hay
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Staff ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

Over the past decade, there has been a growth in the number of hotels built on university campuses, in Europe, Asia and the United States. Originally, such hotels were often associated with a university’s hotel school and their hospitality programme; however, an increasing number of full-service campus hotels have recently been developed, with no such connections. Through 30 interviews with Heriot-Watt University staff and students, this study explores their perceptions of a newly built commercial hotel on their campus. The findings highlighted the different opinions held by students and staff as to the benefits of a campus hotel and suggested that they were viewed by both as contested hospitality spaces. However, this study submits that if they were more welcoming to students and staff and were better aligned with the ethos of the university, this would aid in their acceptance into the wider university community.

Address of the President Sir Andrew Huxley at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1982

1983 ◽  
Vol 217 (1207) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Total Synthesis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Acetylneuraminic Acid ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
Nicotinamide Coenzymes ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
General Synthesis ◽  
Do So

The Copley Medal is awarded to Sir John Cornforth, F. R. S. Sir John’s early research, conducted in Australia, was principally on natural products from plants. Later he came to work with Sir Robert Robinson at the University of Oxford on the chemistry of penicillin and steroids. The latter research culminated, in 1951 and simultaneously with that of R. B. Woodward in the United States of America, in the first total synthesis of non-aromatic steroids. About the same time, Cornforth also described the use of hecogenin starting-material for cortisone synthesis, and a new stereoselective general synthesis of olefines. Subsequently, with G. Popják, he made major contributions to the determination of the stereochemistry of reactions controlled by nicotinamide coenzymes. They also devised labelling methods to elucidate the stereochemistry of steroid and polyterpenoid biosynthesis, resulting in the definition in every detail of the stereochemistry of squalene biosynthesis. To do so, asymmetrically labelled mevalonates and, subsequently, asymmetrically labelled methyl groups were synthesized; this provided a technique to study the fine details and elucidate the stereochemistry of many enzymic reactions. In the 1950s Sir John also synthesized the mucopolysaccharide component, acetylneuraminic acid, and in the 1960s the plant hormone abscisic acid. At present, he is attempting to synthesize organic molecules specifically designed as enzyme-like catalysts of olefine hydration.

scholarly journals Farhat J. Ziadeh 1917–2016

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-239
Author(s):  
Nicholas Heer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
American University ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Distinguished Scholar ◽  
The University

Farhat Jacob Ziadeh, founder and first chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at the University of Washington, and a distinguished scholar in the field of Islamic law, writer, teacher, and administrator, died on 8 June 2016 at the age of ninety-nine. Ziadeh was born on 8 April 1917 in Ramallah, Palestine where he received his early education. After graduating from the American University of Beirut in 1937, he studied law at the University of London, receiving an LL.B. degree in 1940. For the next eight years he worked as a lawyer and Arabic instructor in the United States, England, and Palestine. In 1948, he joined the Princeton University faculty as a lecturer in Arabic. The following year he married Suad Salem, who, like himself, was also from Ramallah. They raised five daughters: Shireen, Susan, Rhonda, Deena, and Reema. In 1950, Ziadeh began working with the Voice of America in New York as the editor of the Arabic desk. Since this was a full-time job, he could continue as a lecturer at Princeton only on a part-time basis. In 1954, however, Princeton offered him an assistant professorship, which he accepted. At Princeton, Ziadeh collaborated with the late R. Bayly Winder to write An Introduction to Modern Arabic (1957). It was during this period also that Ziadeh began to work on his translation of Ṣubḥī Maḥmaṣānī’s Falsafat al-Tashrīʿ fī al-Islām under the title, Mahmassani's Philosophy of Jurisprudence in Islam (1961).

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