Month: April 2023

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN): “Several people [including ECU POLS Major Adrian Flores Rosas] spent the day Saturday making care packages for migrant farmworkers who will spend the summer working farms in North Carolina.

“The group “Student Action with Farmworkers” created 200 care packages – including wipes, bandages, socks and other items.”

See more: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/group-makes-care-packages-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-nc/

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN): “Several people [including ECU POLS Major Adrian Flores Rosas] spent the day Saturday making care packages for migrant farmworkers who will spend the summer working farms in North Carolina.

“The group “Student Action with Farmworkers” created 200 care packages – including wipes, bandages, socks and other items.”

See more: https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/group-makes-care-packages-for-migrant-farmworkers-in-nc/

A new study sponsored by the National Science Foundation finds that the majority (78.6%) of college professors are actually real people.

Don’t believe it? Come on down to Nash Chicken (5th St., downtown) this Saturday, from 7-10, and see political science professor Jody Baumgartner’s band, 28 West!

The Department of Political Science and its Security Studies program are thrilled to announce that the Oak Foundation has continued its generous support! This year’s contribution will allow us to continue scholarship programs for Security Studies undergraduate, graduate, and study abroad students.

The funds will also be used to resume a speaker series that brings Security Studies professionals to campus to talk to our students. Finally, the Oak Foundation funding will help pay the costs for faculty members and students to attend professional conferences to present their research.

The Department of Political Science and its Security Studies program are thrilled to announce that the Oak Foundation has continued its generous support! This year’s contribution will allow us to continue scholarship programs for Security Studies undergraduate, graduate, and study abroad students.

The funds will also be used to resume a speaker series that brings Security Studies professionals to campus to talk to our students. Finally, the Oak Foundation funding will help pay the costs for faculty members and students to attend professional conferences to present their research.

On Tuesday, April 4, 2023, Dr. Samantha Mosier presented at the Second Annual Johnston Coastal Sustainability Symposium held by the Bald Head Island Conservancy. The talk, titled “Sustainability – Challenges in Policy and Planning with a Moving Target Concept”, focused on the challenges in having a singular definition for sustainability and resiliency that can be used as a launching point for public policy and planning.

Research to date has demonstrated considerable variation in how sustainability is defined, and it is important to consider how the language is defined surrounding policy action given the variation sustainability perceptions and the emergence of resiliency planning. Of related importance, less than half of all U.S. local governments have established sustainability plans and policies, and most communities that have adopted plans do not include performance measurements, a key dynamic to identifying progress.

Given the low number of communities that have adopted sustainability plans and included performance measurements, it is important to concept how these sorts of policies are geared to address long-term challenges.

In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: “Union”)—the political unification of Austria and Germany.

See: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day

In a controlled plebiscite in Austria this day in 1938, soon after Adolf Hitler’s invasion of the country, 99.7 percent of Austrians approved the Anschluss (German: “Union”)—the political unification of Austria and Germany.

See: https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day