Albion College

About: Albion College is a education organization based out in Albion, Michigan, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 485 authors who have published 754 publications receiving 20907 citations.

Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937. By William Schaefer. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017. xi, 292 pp. ISBN: 9780822369196 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book).

Abstract: used today in creating Chinese characters via their pinyin spellings on computers, cell phones, and other digital devices. The breadth and depth of Mullaney’s research are evident, especially in his short chapter on typists in the early Mao years. Mining local Chinese archives, which have tended to be more open than central ones, Mullaney details how such model typists as Zhang Jiying changed the placement and proximity of characters on the tray bed to better suit the increasingly politicized and routinized public textual productions under Mao. Such practices would be continued in the digital age by “predictive text,” widely used today in input methods for Chinese and other languages. With this wide-ranging, engagingly written, and provocative history of the Chinese typewriter, Mullaney has whetted our appetite for expanded research on Chinese and global information technology in the computer era. Indeed, he uses the conclusion of the present volume to outline the next one. While useful, I would have liked to see the conclusion also contain at least some further analyses of interesting issues raised in the book. For example, how does this history of text-based technolinguistic communication compare with that of those based on audio and video, such as radio and television? Do we risk presentism if we fault the early advocates of Chinese language reforms, including the “abolitionists,” for their radical positions because they did not anticipate that the digital revolution could and would eventually make Chinese “a world script”? What does it mean when we see parallels in practices between analog and digital technologies such as “input” and “predictive text”? Likely we will learn more about these and so many other intriguing subjects that Mullaney has pioneered in future works by him and others.

The Professoriate in Liberal Arts Colleges: Early Career Faculty Socialization and Learning

Abstract: The majority of PhD recipients earn their degree in research universities in which the primary focus of doctoral training is on research. Yet, scholars have revealed that such training is inadequate for the myriad academic roles faculty members engage in or for the variety of institution types in which newly minted PhDs earn faculty appointments. The focus of this chapter is on the socialization of early career faculty members in liberal arts colleges (LACs). Specifically, it relies on socialization as well as and career cycles and learning frameworks applied to analysis of data from a longitudinal, mixed methods study (Initiative for Faculty Development in Liberal Arts Colleges) to explore the applicability and extendibility of the Weidman et al. (Socialization of graduate and professional students in higher education: A perilous passage? ASHE-ERIC higher education report, 28. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED457710.pdf, 2001) socialization framework to the early career faculty experience. Findings are shared from the IFDLAC study to provide more insights into the early career faculty experience in LACs which supports an extension of the Weidman et al. socialization framework to the early career faculty experience. The chapter includes recommendations and implications on how to effectively socialize faculty into new environments.

Decorating Regular Tiles with Arcs

Abstract: This paper introduces a notation for describing a regular polygon tile decorated with arcs. Given a tile decorated with a number of arcs having endpoints uniformly spaced around the polygon, the number of possible decorated tiles is given, including the special case where no arcs intersect . The tiles decorated in this manner provide an enormous number of patterns.