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Many post-secondary institutions in Canada over the past decade have made the transition from college to university status. The researchers on this team were hired in the midst of such a transition at one western Canadian institution. As new faculty we were navigating the normal tides of adjusting to a new faculty position, but our induction occurred in a shifting institutional context. Our research question, \"What is the new faculty experience in a transitional institution?\" guided a five-year focused ethnography, beginning as a self-study of the research team and expanding into 60 interviews with 31 participants over several years. The results demonstrate that a more complex theory is required to reflect the experience of new faculty than has appeared previously in the literature. We propose a framework of competing discourses. Au cours de la derniere decennie, plusieurs etablissements d'enseignement postsecondaire du Canada ont obtenu un statut universitaire. L'un d'entre eux, etabli dans l'Ouest canadien, a meme recrute l'equipe de chercheurs du present article pendant sa transition. En effet, bien que l'etablissement se soit adapte a la mouvance engendree par ce processus, l'investiture de l'equipe a eu lieu dans un contexte de mutation au sein des etablissements d'enseignement. La question a l'origine de l'etude, << Comment un etablissement d'enseignement postsecondaire vit-il l'acquisition d'un nouveau statut universitaire? >>, a oriente des travaux ethnographiques d'une duree de cinq ans, qui ont d'abord pris la forme d'une auto-analyse de l'equipe des chercheurs pour ensuite prendre la forme 60 entrevues avec 31 participants, echelonnees sur plusieurs annees. Les resultats montrent qu'une theorie plus complexe que celle elaboree dans les ecrits precedents est necessaire pour traduire l'experience vecue par les etablissements nouvellement investis du statut universitaire. Nous proposons ici un cadre des interpretations contradictoires.

Many post-secondary institutions in Canada over the past decade have made the transition from college to university status. The researchers on this team were hired in the midst of such a transition at one western Canadian institution. As new faculty we were navigating the normal tides of adjusting to a new faculty position, but our induction occurred in a shifting institutional context. Our research question, “What is the new faculty experience in a transitional institution?” guided a five-year focused ethnography, beginning as a selfstudy of the research team and expanding into 60 interviews with 31 participants over several years. The results demonstrate that a more complex theory is required to reflect the experience of new faculty than has appeared previously in the literature. We propose a framework of competing discourses.  

Remember Superintendent Art Johnson bragging that the Palm Beach County School District was third best in the nation? This is not quite true -- they were third in the category of large school districts; the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported that our school district was actually 46th in the nation. Even the school district that came in first place in its category fell below the rankings of all 20 listed small school districts.

Occasionally we really do get grass-roots candidates who manage to beat the system. But money does talk and connections do help. The political parties get involved, even in nonpartisan races. So do groups with nice sounding names that make it appear as if they care about the public. These groups have hidden agendas, undisclosed donors, and lots of unregulated money for (mostly negative) \"educational\" ads. I do not believe parties should be involved with nonpartisan elections, so I chose to run with no party affiliation, and did not receive any party support. Luckily, I was not perceived as enough of a threat, so I was not attacked by those ads.

I read the piece concerning former Interior Secretary William Clark's \"Mornings on Horseback\" [Style, Feb. 11] with delight. I have only recently come to Washington, but I and my friends in Kansas have been aware of this horse, formerly called \"Maestoso Blanca\" and now known as \"Amadeus,\" since his arrival here in 1982. That was the year we came halfway across the country -- a journey that cost us a month's income a piece -- to see \"Maestoso Blanca's\" brothers from the Spanish Riding School of Vienna perform in Washington.

Photos by Jerilee Bennett/Gazette Telegraph - During Lent, village roads in Haiti are congested with raucous rara bands, above - groups of people celebrating a uniquely Haitian holiday that combines voodoo and Catholic traditions. \"Musicians\" in the bands play homemade instruments reminiscent of Dr. Seuss and made of discarded scrap materials.; Catholicism is the most common religion in Haiti, but it is intertwined with voodoo ritual. At left, a Haitian woman stops to rest after cleaning this crucifix.; The population of Haiti is 95 percent black, so white visitors, especially those piled into the back of a pickup truck on the country's back roads, are noticed. Below, near left, the engineers caused a stir as they traveled on the narrow dirt roads.; The Haitian people were friendly, helpful and curious about the work being done by the volunteers. Below, far left, a girl peers over a fence near the area in Cap-Haitien where a new church is being built. Simple resources such as medical supplies are hard to come by in Haiti. Above, missionary Joyce Walls sews a cut on the finger of a boy who had injured himself with a sickle; she is using dental sutures.; Photos by Jerilee Bennett/Gazette Telegraph - The Haitian people spend most of their time outdoors, and use their primitive houses only for sleeping or shelter from the frequent rain. This childless elderly woman, above, holds one of 13 orphans she has adopted. She lives next to the missionary compound where volunteers from Engineering Ministries International were working.; At right, [Ken Laura] of Colorado Springs, one of the volunteer EMI engineers, shares a joke with women from nearby villages at the missionary compound, where they had gone to sell their crafts; here they try to persuade Laura to buy an embroidered shirt.; Ken Laura, an engineer with Engineering Ministries International, traveled for hours over almost impassable country roads in Haiti to meet 12-year-old [Rosemond Jean Noel], the boy he sponsors through Compassion International.; Haitian women observe the African tradition of carrying baskets on their heads. Above, a woman takes an early-morning walk through Cap-Haitien. The architecture of this city on the bay resembles that of New Orleans, splashed with the bright colors Haitians love.; Market is a lively place in Haiti. All animals to be sold are brought alive. At left, a prospective buyer checks out a chicken.; Compassion International, a Springs-based international child development ministry, runs schools throughout Haiti. Below, left, girls in school uniforms line up in a Compassion school in Cap-Haitien.

Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This relationship has increased in its complexity, from localized ecosystems predicated on anaerobic microbial production and consumption to a global biosphere founded on primary production from oxygenic photoautotrophs, through the evolution of Eukarya, metazoans, and the complexly networked ecosystems of microbes, animals, fungi, and plants that characterize the Phanerozoic Eon (the last ∼541 million years of Earth history). At present, one species, Homo sapiens, is refashioning this relationship between consumption and production in the biosphere with unknown consequences. This has left a distinctive stratigraphy of the production and consumption of biomass, of natural resources, and of produced goods. This can be traced through stone tool technologies and geochemical signals, later unfolding into a diachronous signal of technofossils and human bioturbation across the planet, leading to stratigraphically almost isochronous signals developing by the mid‐20th century. These latter signals may provide an invaluable resource for informing and constraining a formal Anthropocene chronostratigraphy, but are perhaps yet more important as tracers of a biosphere state that is characterized by a geologically unprecedented pattern of global energy flow that is now pervasively influenced and mediated by humans, and which is necessary for maintaining the complexity of modern human societies. Key Points Humans refashioning relationship between production and consumption in the biosphere Biosphere characterized by pattern of global energy flow pervasively influenced by humans Changes consistent with the biosphere entering a new stage of its evolution

The interactive effects of ocean climate and fishing pressure on nearshore rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) were examined using historical commercial passenger fishing vessel catch records from California. Principal component analysis was used to characterize the dominant patterns in catch per unit effort (CPUE) over time (1957–1999) and space (10′ latitude × 10′ longitude blocks). Ocean climate explained 60% of the variation in CPUE and revealed opposite responses in northern and southern California. In warm El Niño years, CPUE was 4.2 times higher in the north and 1.8 times lower in the south. CPUE responded similarly to low-frequency climate shifts by increasing in the north and decreasing in the south after 1976–1977. Four geographic regions responded as discrete units to environmental forcing and fishing intensity: North, Central, South, and Channel Islands. Over time, annual fish landings declined sharply in the South, with fishing effort remaining stationary and high relative to that in the other regions. In the North, landings and fishing effort remained tightly coupled, with effort an order of magnitude lower than in the South. These findings support a management strategy for nearshore rockfishes in California based on regional responses to ocean climate and fishing intensity.