College of the City of New York (CCNY) Strike.

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Leo Baeck (sitting second from left) on stage at Dropsie College in Philadelphia to receive honorary Doctorate of Hebrew Letters Ceremonies; Commemorative

Page 14 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3

Hebrew College collection, 1928-1996

Louis Hurwich, then superintendent of the Bureau of Jewish Education of Boston, founded Hebrew Teacher’s College in 1921. Hurwich was concerned about Jewish teachers leaving the field of Jewish education for other professions and sought an educational system that promoted Hebrew literacy at all levels. Hebrew Teacher’s College was also responsible for maintaining Hebrew High School (Prozdor), located at 14 Crawford Street in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Those students who graduated from the high school could matriculate to Hebrew Teacher’s College without having to take an exam. In 1943, the high school offered Talmud classes in addition to its regular curriculum, with studies in the Bible, Hebrew, Jewish History, and codes and customs. In 2002, the College moved to its current location in Newton, Massachusetts. One year later, it opened its Rabbinical School. This collection contains brochures, catalogs, commencement addresses, event fliers, invitations, pamphlets and publications.

Uuden median murros Alma Mediassa, Sanoma Oy:ssä ja Yleisradiossa 1994-2004

This is a qualitative and multimethodological comparative study, which consists of two main parts: examining the development of new media and analysing and comparing the new media strategies of the three companies studied (Alma Media, Sanoma and the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio). The study includes the first large-scale review in Finnish of the development of new media, paying attention to the birth of the Internet as well as to mobile media, web TV and any other element of new media. It also concentrates on the function of electronic distribution channels before the age of the Internet, e.g. cable text and videotext. Answers about how the three traditional Finnish media houses began spreading their content to the Internet and wireless applications in 1994–2004 are also given. In researching the new media strategies the study pays special attention to the attitudes that the three media companies adopted towards the Internet and other forms of new media in their strategies during the years in question. By analysing and comparing, e.g., the companies’ strategies and their investments, the study ascertains whether the companies had a joint functional model in adopting new media or acted totally on their own without taking too much notice of the media field overall. The study makes extensive use of previously published material. The researcher has also interviewed almost twenty people who were involved in getting the companies’ new media functions under way. The methods for the interviews were dialogue and snowball sampling. The researcher has created a classification in which he divides the business strategies into four different categories: active strategy, careful strategy, permissive strategy, and passive strategy. In comparing and analysing the companies the researcher has used the classification devised by Allan Afuah & Christopher L. Tucci. The seven element classification consists of dominant managerial logic, competency trap, fear of cannibalisation and loss of revenue, channel conflict, political power, co-opetitor power and emotional attachment. In analysing the company strategies the researcher has also noted the classifications of convergence made by Everette E. Dennis and Graham Murdock as well as the aspects formulated by Sylvia Chan-Olmsted and Louisa Ha concerning the success of the companies in adopting the Internet into their functions. Based on all these classifications and by further developing them the researcher analyses and compares the success of the new media strategies of the three Finnish companies. The outcome of the study is a conclusion as to what kind of strategies the companies have carried out their new media functions and how they have succeeded in it.

Cuerpo y alma en la antropología de San Buenaventura

Resumen: Este trabajo trata clara y brevemente el pensamiento de San Buenaventura acerca de la unión entre cuerpo y alma, y su teoría de la composición hilemórfica del alma como una respuesta frente a la disputa entre las posturas aristotélica y platónica y frente a los planteos de Averroes acerca del intelecto agente.

Alma, cuerpo y mente : Santo Tomás y algunos contemporáneos

No necesitamos justificar la actualidad del problema mente-cuerpo en una parte importante de la filosofía contemporánea. Puede decirse que el nacimiento oficial del asunto se remonta a dos artículos pioneros aparecidos en 1958 y en 1959 escritos por Herbert Feigl el primero y J.J.C. Smart el segundo. Se trata de un asunto planteado en buena medida a partir de los descubrimientos en materia de anatomía y fisiología cerebral y de la relevancia del funcionamiento del cerebro en los actos mentales. Sin ánimo de simplificar excesivamente, puede decirse que las neurociencias se proponen hallar en la complejidad de la organización cerebral la explicación fundamental de la mente misma, e incluso de los actos humanos.

La noción de alma que propone Edith Stein en “La estructura de la persona humana” : continuidad y novedad

Resumen: Algunos capítulos del último curso de antropología dictado por la filósofa Edith Stein, antes de su entrada a la vida contemplativa en el Carmelo, permiten relevar continuidades y novedades con respecto a Aristóteles y a Santo Tomás de Aquino en torno a la noción de alma y a su función integradora. Se enumeran en primer lugar algunas coincidencias entre los tres filósofos, para mostrar después los enfoques característicos de cada uno, destacando la independencia de criterio y la originalidad de Tomás sobre Aristóteles y de Edith Stein sobre ambos. Se repasan las diferentes maneras de entender el alma como acto y como forma y su modo de vinculación con el cuerpo, mostrando que la herencia de un vocabulario que puede tender al dualismo, no invalida la tesis de la unidad substancial del viviente.

Sobre la naturaleza o carácter inmaterial del alma humana

Resumen: Dice Santo Tomás que conocer la existencia del alma es algo patente, pues se refleja en el acto del yo que piensa; pero en cambio es muy difícil conocer qué es o cómo es el alma, su naturaleza. Con todo, nos interesa sobremanera determinar esa naturaleza del alma, ya que ello es parte del conocimiento de nosotros mismos. Por ello, tratamos en lo siguiente de repensar los datos y los procesos mentales, que puedan llevarnos a una mayor claridad. El tema almacuerpo es uno de los más abordados en nuestros días y no siempre con fundamento. Nosotros concluiremos, al final, de alguna manera dentro del marco de lo que ya Aristóteles apuntaba que “el alma ni es cuerpo ni se halla sin un cuerpo” (ver supra); aunque quizás podamos entenderlo con mejor determinación y claridad.

Nova Lusitania : historia da guerra brasilica : a purissima alma e saudosa memoria do Serenissimo Principe Dom Theodosio, Principe de Portugal, e Principe do Brasil : por Francisco de Brito Freyre : decada primeira

Francisco de Brito Freire nasceu em Coruche, em 1625, e morreu em Lisboa, em 1692. Foi capitão de cavalaria da Província da Beira, governador da Praça de Juromenha, no Alentejo, e conselheiro de guerra, tendo sido, por duas vezes, almirante da armada portuguesa no Brasil. Foi governador de Pernambuco e assinou a capitulação dos holandeses em 1654. Como autor original, Brito Freire pôde observar pessoalmente os acontecimentos e relatá-los a seu modo. Os autores puristas do século XIX consideravam-no escritor de grande credibilidade. ‘Nova Lusitana, historia da guerra brasilica..’ que sempre foi considerado um clássico, é uma das melhores fontes sobre os eventos que o correram em Pernambuco, entre 1630 e 1638 . A condição de governador de Brito Freire possibilitou o seu acesso à ampla documentação, tanto portuguesa com o holandesa. permitindo-lhe formular uma opinião própria e narrar, em primeira mão, aqueles eventos. Rico em detalhes curiosos, corajoso nas críticas políticas, trata-se de um livro raro e procurado.

Hopwood Hall College: Touchscreen technology overtakes interactive whiteboards as interactive teaching tool of choice

Hopwood Hall is adopting the use of touch screen technology and gradually replacing its interactive whiteboards to improve access to interactive learning. The touch screen monitors connected to LCD TV’s provide a cheaper classroom build with technology that’s more user-friendly and better suited to classroom delivery. Until now, interactive boards had been the mainstay of classrooms but they created teaching barriers for staff including the additional software to learn and master. They are also expensive and often have usability issues with 'pens' not working or having a delay when used as the mouse tool.

Birkenhead Sixth Form College: Opening up remote access to the college network brings wider benefits to all

Birkenhead Sixth Form College implemented a virtual network to open up remote access to the college network for its students, staff and governors. In particular, for childcare students on work placements, this has meant 24/7 secure access to their work and resources, and the ability to make timely updates to their work evidence logs. The impact is better continuity of learning and a dramatic increase in the hand-in rate for work. For the staff, governors and college as a whole, the benefits of anytime-access to the network are more than were envisaged at the outset; not only is it saving them valuable time and eliminating the need for large print runs, it is expected to bring cost-savings to the College in the long term.

Priestley College: How do you successfully develop your new learning space? ...ask your students, of course!

When Priestley College began to plan the redevelopment of its learning resource centre, it continued the culture of student involvement that exists within the College by asking students to help plan and create the new development. This case study describes how the Jisc infoKit on 'Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces' was used as the starting point for ideas and planning, and how the finished development was the recognisable result of students' ideas and plans.

Blackburn College: DIY! College departments catalogue their own technologies on Library Management System for loan

Blackburn College is making use of its Heritage Library Management System (LMS) for a wide variety of loans beyond that of books; this has enabled them to better manage the growing numbers and types of technologies that are being used in teaching and learning. In an additional pilot development, they have taken the bold step of training college departments in cataloguing their own technologies to add to the LMS for loan. This has enabled the departments to keep track of their own equipment easily, and provided a more consistent approach to equipment loan within the College.

Bolton Sixth Form College: The springboard project

Mishka Fielding, Learning Resources Manager with the help of Anthony Beal, e-Learning Adviser, RSC Northwest, created a one-hour interactive session to promote Learning Resources and Information Literacy to staff and students within the College. These sessions successfully promoted the department, increasing their stock circulation by 50% and their usage of e-books, putting them 1st out of 200 in the ‘Jisc Collections Project’.