Building a health communication brand for University of Texas System tobacco control

Objective: Despite declining cigarette smoking rates in the US, there is a continued need for tobacco prevention education campaigns to reach young adults. Recognizing the need for improved tobacco control messaging, the University of Texas (UT) System engaged The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication to develop a brand and message that would strengthen tobacco control efforts at its 14 institutions. Methods: This article describes the iterative process involved in creating a brand for tobacco control, including an environmental scan, identifying potential message themes, and creating and refining logos. Results: This article highlights the process of developing a system-wide tobacco control brand. Specifically, the process included coordinating an interdisciplinary team with content and design experts, and presenting ideas to stakeholders for serial feedback and refinement, among others. Conclusions: Ultimately, this project offers a model for other systems of higher education interested in pursuing similar initiatives.     

Health insurance literacy: A mixed methods study of college students

Objective: This study examines the health insurance literacy, or the ability to use health insurance effectively, of college students. Participants: A total of 455 students from a large, public university completed an online questionnaire in November 2016. Methods: A questionnaire examined students’ knowledge of commonly encountered health insurance terms and ability to apply that knowledge to determine cost-sharing in a clinical setting. Results: The majority of students were able to correctly identify the most commonly encountered terms, but could not identify terms related to plan types and options. Eighty-eight percent of students could not determine their cost-sharing for two presented scenarios. Approximately half of the students indicated they had been confused about their health insurance plan, with one-quarter of students stopping or delaying medical care due to confusion. Conclusions: Outreach and education for students should target specific deficits in knowledge such as those identified in this study.     

Let the right one in: A Bourdieusian analysis of gender inequality in universities’ senior management

This article examines the lack of gender diversity in senior management positions in professional staff in universities. These results are analysed via a Bourdieusian analysis of economic, social, cultural and symbolic capital. Through a purposeful sample of senior professional staff working in universities in three countries: Australia, Canada and the UK, six career‐enhancing strategies needed for career success were determined. The article critiques the resource‐based view of career capital and argues that capitals accumulation for career success can be understood by considering the concepts of symbolic violence and habitus as a way of understanding intra‐cohort differences. It proposes that by considering both the subjective and objective cultural constructs via habitus, and by acknowledging the importance of symbolic capital and symbolic violence towards women, this may be one way of increasing female representation in senior management.     

Factors that influence elementary school teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion of visually impaired children in Turkey

There is a scarcity of research on inclusion of visually impaired children in Turkey. Specifically, a gap exists concerning the attitudes of elementary school teachers towards the inclusion of visually impaired children in mainstream schools. This article uses data from two questionnaires, leveraging the responses of 253 teachers from rural and urban areas. The results demonstrate that elementary school teachers commonly hold positive attitudes towards the inclusion of visually impaired children and that teachers’ initial and in-service training about inclusion positively influenced their attitudes. Our findings are in contrast with earlier research which argues that teachers do not hold positive attitudes to inclusion, and highlights that a key barrier to inclusion stems from elementary school teachers feeling unprepared to teach visually impaired children. We conclude that greater post-qualification training is required to enable teachers to operationalise different approaches that facilitate the inclusion of visually impaired children.     

Education,cognitive ability,and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach

Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18–63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes—which solves the interdependence problem—and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model controlling for Intelligence Quotient, improving education is associated with large decreases in mortality for major causes of death. In the structural model, improving education is associated with a small decrease in months lost for most causes and education levels. Among the least educated, however, improving education strongly reduces the months lost, mainly those lost from external causes, such as accidents and suicide. Results suggest that conventional analysis of education and mortality may be biased, even if accounting for observed cognition.     

浅析全球化对我国大学生道德形成的影响

20世纪末,随着全球化进程的加快,人们的价值观念、思维方式和行为方式发生了剧烈变化,传统的道德规范受到强烈冲击。本文拟就此背景下,中国大学生道德所受到的来自各方面的影响,及重构大学生道德观念、规范的问题做一梳理。     

试论十三世达赖喇嘛的西藏地方近代教育改革

19世纪末20世纪初,世界主要资本主义国家掀起了瓜分中国的狂潮,位于祖国西南边陲的西藏由于其战略位置的重要性,成为英、俄等帝国主义国家角逐的重要对象.西藏在1888、1904年的两次抗英斗争中均以失败告终,作为西藏地方政教领袖的十三世达赖喇嘛被迫两度出走.在两次出走内地和印度的过程中,他亲眼目睹了内地和英国在印度的近代化设施,再加之受"教育救国"思潮和张荫棠、联豫在西藏推行近代教育改革的影响,为改变西藏传统教育与现实社会发展不相适应的矛盾,巩固自己的统治,十三世达赖喇嘛在西藏地方推行近代教育改革,并取得了一定的成绩.     

学科建设:直面竞争与挑战——论我国民族院校的学科建设

高等院校的学科建设是高校存在和发展的基础,是充分体现高校功能的核心,处于高校建设和发展的龙头地位。我国的民族院校由于受历史、社会、自然条件以及特殊的创办背景和服务面向等的影响,学科建设存在诸多问题。民族院校必须要确立学科建设的龙头地位,从调整和改善学科结构;凝练学科方向;建设学科基地;重点建设优势学科;强化和培育特色学科以及积极发展新兴、交叉学科等方面,加大学科建设力度,以此促进民族高等教育事业快速发展。     

自媒体时代高校社会主义核心价值观教育研究

随着自媒体时代的兴起,高校培育和践行社会主义核心价值观,应全面把握和深入分析自媒体时代的特征及其影响,分析在自媒体时代的冲击下,高校社会主义核心价值观教育所面临的机遇和挑战,探讨如何用多维度策略推进高校社会主义核心价值观的政治认同。     

教育内部民主法制化简论

教育内部民主是相对于"保障教育权利平等"的外部民主而言的,包括教育过程中师生关系的民主和教育管理与决策的民主。因为缺乏必要的规范,教育内部民主在实践中常常表现为非理性的冲动,教育内部民主需要通过理性的法制介入得以合理有效地实现。教育内部民主法制化不仅是必要的也是可能的。