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Talkin bout My Generalization: Confronting Assumptions About Attitudes Toward Reference Service in the Changing Library Workforce
(2011)A profession that has long been dominated by the Baby Boom generation is ushering in new generations of librarians. Because the shift in the library workforce is creating a new intergenerational mix of co-workers, librarians ... -
Temperance Efforts in Antebellum Wisconsin
(2014-05-21)This research paper examines the temperance movement in the United States and Wisconsin, focusing on the first 60 years of the nineteenth century. The author discusses how temperance emerged as a reform movement, the ... -
Through Fire
(2022-05)Let this serve as a content warning for this project: I discuss in detail the emotional and sexual abuse I experienced in previous intimate relationships. I am not the first person to write about intimate partner violence ... -
Toward Trauma Sensitive Practices in the Classroom: A Compassionate Teacher's Responsibility
(2018-12)Findings on the high prevalence of childhood trauma, the detrimental effects relating traumatic stress can have on school functioning, and resulting negative potential adult life outcomes presents a tremendously dire vision ... -
Toxic Masculinity in Anne Brontё's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
(2022-04)Victorian Britain had a strict structural patriarchy which complicated the lives of men and women. The institution of marriage particularly created an environment of toxic masculinity. Anne Brontё used her novel The Tenant ... -
Unfaltering Flame : A Linked Essay Collection
(2021-11)Unfaltering Flame represents Stephanie Nesja's exploration of faith from childhood into adulthood. Along the way, she encounters various forms of grief, including losing a close friend after high school and an aunt in her ... -
The Unworkable Program: Urban Renewal in Kilbourntown-3 and Midtown, Milwaukee
(2015-05-21)The 1954 revisions to the Federal Housing Act intended to address the shortcomings apparent in earlier urban renewal attempts. Under the "Workable Program," a series of provisions included in the revision, cities were ... -
Use of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills in Predicting Future Reading Achievement for English-Learner and non-English Learner Students
(2016-06)The current study examined predictive validity of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) for future performance on the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination (WKCE). The intent of the study ... -
Using Brief Experimental Analysis to Identify Effective Early Reading Interventions
(2018-01-19)The National Center for Educational Statistics in 2015 found that only thirty-six percent of fourth-grade and thirty-four percent of eighth-grade students performed at or above the proficient level in reading. These students ... -
Using Lesson Study to Integrate Information Literacy Throughout the Curriculum
(2013-07)The purpose of this article is to describe the process of developing an information literacy curriculum for a cohort of students over a 5 semester nursing program using lesson study. The overall goal was to enable undergraduate ... -
Using Satire as a Mode of Understanding the Grotesqueries of Racial Capitalism in George Schuyler’s Black No More
(2020-05)This thesis examines the intersection of racial capitalism and Saidiya Hartman’s recent, racialized theorization of the grotesque in George Schuyler’s Black No More as a mode to understand Schuyler’s satire of the racialized ... -
Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy
(2008)Today?s college student often starts his/her research by using a search engine. Because of this, Wikipedia is increasingly becoming the go-to reference resource for the newest generation of students. However, many students ... -
Utilization of on-campus speech and language services by student veterans
(2015-05-11)The purpose of this study was to examine factors that contribute to utilization of on-campus speech and language services by student veterans with brain injury. Data was obtained from three sources: a 60-minute focus group ... -
Visual-Performance Feedback on Acknowledgement Within a Positive Behavior Intervention and Support System
(2020-12)The study examined whether providing teachers with visual-performance feedback (VPF) on their frequency of acknowledgement to students for desired school behavior within a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) ... -
“We’re Black, We’re Proud, We’re Commandos”: Respectability Politics, Armed Self-defense, and Gender Dynamics in the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, 1958-1968
(2020-05)By the 1940s, Milwaukee was one of the most segregated cities in the country. Most black Milwaukeeans were forced to live in a ghetto known as the Inner Core. Black Milwaukeeans faced racial discrimination and segregation ... -
"What You Need Not What You Want": Public Assistance Programs in Chippewa County during the New Deal Era
(2013-07-01)This thesis examines the impact of public assistance programs in Chippewa County. It examines the role the Social Security Act played in reshaping how public assistance programs were run in Chippewa County. Also it examines ... -
When Students Accept Their Corporate Overlords: Privilege and Position in Our Information Society
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White Maternity and a Culture of Consumption in Little Fires Everywhere
(2020-05)This article seeks to illuminate the role white suburban mothers play in upholding homeland maternity and neoliberal multiculturalism in the United States. The maintenance of these two organizing power structures hinge on ... -
Wisconsin Indian Head Country-A Guide to the Past: Real and Mythical
(2013-05-10)In the 1930s, businessmen in the Eau Claire area and resort owners in Northwestern Wisconsin, an area decimated by logging, collaborated as a group with the hope of promoting tourism to the area and boost the local economy. ...