Wednesday, October 21, 1998
Community Briefs
Professor walkout begins today
The UC-wide walkout of professors and students begins today.
Events at UCLA that are scheduled to occur include a faculty "speak
out" forum at noon in Meyerhoff park, in front of Kerckhoff Hall,
and various events from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Royce quad.
UC Davis to fund extra programs
UC Davis’ provost has awarded $490,000 to four projects, with
promise of significant funding to a fifth, in the belief that they
will all make a significant impact on UC Davis’ future.
The 1998 New Initiative Reserve projects include the
continuation of the Second-Language Acquisition Institute, purchase
of two mass-spectrometry instruments, collaboration on an opera,
research on the undergraduate student market, and the launch of a
large-animal genetic engineering program.
The grants were awarded this month by Provost and Executive Vice
Chancellor Robert Grey, who was advised by a panel of senior
faculty from across the campus.
"The principle that guided the committee," said Bryan Miller,
chair of the committee as well as of the Academic Senate, "was this
is one-time money that will allow new projects to be undertaken
that really will have a significant impact."
The New Initiatives Reserve fund was created in 1996 to
jump-start new initiatives that will make a major difference to the
campus. This is the third year of allocations.
Remembrance event to be held for Shepard
The Gay and Lesbian Association will be holding an event today
to remember hate crime victim Matthew Shepard at 10 a.m. in front
of Royce Hall.
Shepard was a college student in Wyoming who was allegedly
killed by two men who lured him out of a bar, kidnapped, tortured,
and tied him to a post, leaving him to die.
Study finds moving can worsen education
For California Latino teens, even one school change doubles the
odds of their dropping out before completing high school, according
to University of California, Santa Barbara researchers in a study
released today.
"We are not saying that all moves are bad, but in our study
(Å’The Hazards of Changing Schools for California Latino
Adolescents’) we found that the consequences of non-promotional
school changes were profoundly negative," said Katherine A. Larson,
a researcher in UCSB’s Graduate School of Education.
The issue of student mobility has not received much attention
from educational researchers, practitioners or policymakers," added
Russell W. Rumberger, professor of education. "We felt it was
particularly important to examine the effects of moving around on
school performance, because California has a highly mobile
population."
Larson, Rumberger, and three graduate students focused their
study specifically on Latino teens and their families because
Latinos are the largest and fastest growing segment of the state’s
population. They found that among Latino secondary students, 89
percent of those who made no school changes graduated from high
school, compared to 63 percent who made one school change and 60
percent who made two or more.
The researchers also discovered that disciplinary problems
predicted school mobility among Latino students, but not among
other white students (non-Latino). Latinos who misbehaved in eighth
grade were 58 percent more likely to change high schools compared
to those who did not. In contrast, misbehavior did not predict
school changes for other white students.
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports.
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