Using interviews, documents, and field observations as data sources, the relationship between institutional culture and civic responsibility was explored at the University of Virginia ( W A ) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Culture, identity, and action strategies were hypothesized to influence this relationship. At UVA, three cultural tools were related to civic responsibility: the invocation of Thomas Jefferson (the school's founder), student selfgovernance, and honor. The dominant cultural tools used at UNC were the idea expressed by the phrase "University of the People," and the various stones, symbols, and heroes reflecting UNC's role in protecting fundamental rights. Ideologically, civic responsibility at UVA was discussed as knowledge and support for democratic values, systems and process, and personal responsibility. At UNC, civic responsibility was ideologically cast as the desire to act beneficially in the community. As action strategies, W A followed a "test b e d approach in which the students were responsible for governing their own campus and deciding on the consequences of each other's actions through a judicial and honor system. The students' small-scale experiences in the test bed were thought to transfer to society at large after graduation. UNC subscribed to a role-modeling approach in which the institution's role in standing up for rights and benefiting the citizens of the state would be emulated by the students after graduation. (63 ref)-Postdoctoral Research Analyst,
Vaccine refusal has increasingly been the focus of public health concern. Rates of children who are up to date on vaccines have declined in recent years, and vaccine refusal has been implicated in disease outbreaks. Most research on children who are not fully immunized identifies white affluent mothers as most likely to opt out by choice and Black mothers as more likely to face structural barriers that limit access to vaccines for their children. In this paper, we analyze social media posts and online discussions among Black mothers to better understand their concerns about vaccines. Unlike white women who reject vaccines as a personal choice, Black mothers express unique concerns about the role of the state in their lives. Specifically, some Black mothers using social media view vaccines as a white technology and claim that white women have greater freedom in opting out of vaccines without the same risks to their families. They describe efforts to strategize interactions with pediatricians and other healthcare providers who can report them to social service agencies or block access to welfare and nutritional benefits for their families if they refuse vaccines. Black women’s experiences with structural gendered racism in interactions with healthcare and education systems shape vaccine decisions and should be taken seriously.
Land-grant institutions that are also research extensive may face the unique position of asking faculty to fulfill a historical mission with low consideration of public service in the reward structure. This paradox between mission and reward results in the socialization of many faculty away from participation in public service. This article discusses a study of faculty perception of values regarding public service at a large, land-grant, and research extensive institution. Results from the study support the notion that both tenure and pay rewards may be inaccessible to faculty who perform public service at land-grant institutions with research emphases.
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