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Housing as a Political Tool: Gender Inequality in Student Accommodation in Iran

open access: yesCritical Housing Analysis, 2021
This paper studies the gender inequalities in university-provided student accommodation in Babolsar, Iran, in relation to the role of the dominant political power and its approach in shaping the physical form of public dormitories and the living
Parian Hoseini, Pooriya Mohseni
doaj   +1 more source

Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
wiley   +1 more source

‘Expression is power’: Gender, residual culture and political aspiration at the Cumnock School of Oratory, 1870–1900

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the ways in which late‐nineteenth‐century students at Northwestern University's Cumnock School of Oratory mobilised elocution training and parlour performance to foster mixed‐gender public discourse. I use student publications to reconstruct parlour meetings in which women and men adapted traditions of conversational ...
Fiona Maxwell
wiley   +1 more source

Manual for Women Students in Dormitories [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
A manual for acceptable and ladylike behavior for Bryant College students living in dormitories in the mid ...

core   +1 more source

Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Modification of the Education System in a Medical Faculty in Iran During the COVID-19 Outbreak

open access: yesInternational Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine, 2021
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an important effect on medical education. Universities around the world responded to the crisis by announcing the immediate closure and substituted the in-person sessions with online ...
Kamran Aghakhani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Worker Rights Consortium Assessment re Lianglong Socks Co. Ltd (China): Findings, Recommendations, and Status Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
WRC report of its assessment of labor violations at the Lianglong factory in China.
Worker Rights Consortium
core   +1 more source

HYPERSCALING HOUSING: Venture Capital, Real Estate Start‐Ups and the Race to Build a Global Residential Brand

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What happens when venture capitalists try to reinvent housing in their own image? Synonymous with the rise of Big Tech, venture capitalists (VCs) are asset managers that invest in early‐stage companies, pursuing aggressive growth and market domination. Since the 2008 financial crisis, VCs have poured huge sums into real estate start‐ups.
Tim White
wiley   +1 more source

Attitude of Students Resident in Dormitory on the Importance and Role of Environmental Factors on Physical, Psychological and Educational Status

open access: yesآموزش پزشکی, 2015
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Dormitories are public spaces. A good dormitory condition has profound influence to improve the learning process of the students.
Zahra Jouhari   +4 more
doaj  

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES AS URBAN DEVELOPERS: The Tale of Two Innovation Complexes in Nanjing, China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Chinese universities are important but undertheorized players in the production of urban built environments. Most work focuses on purpose‐built university towns, neglecting the redevelopment of underutilized downtown campuses. Therefore, this article considers how two publicly funded universities in Nanjing attempted to establish ‘innovation ...
Hao Chen, Yunpeng Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

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