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Given the high rate of unauthorized immigration, there have been widespread calls for an overhaul of the federal immigration system. However, Congress has failed to enact the needed reform legislation, and over time, the climate for discussion has become increasingly partisan. With frustration growing, states across the nation have sought their own solutions, responding with record numbers of immigration laws. This report points out some state policies in regard to undocumented students access to higher education. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Concerns about higher education access and affordability have emerged as significant issues in the immigration debates. This policy brief describes some facts about the public policy and the federal legislation on higher education access from undocumented students. ; American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Creating a national long-term care (LTC) delivery "infrastructure"—one that would make home-based care more accessible to people with extensive needs—will be a major undertaking. It will require new service organizations that have the authority to provide and coordinate an appropriate array of services. Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) and the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) offer two promising examples of what the service organizations of the future might look like. The history of how these plans developed illuminates challenges that others will encounter. Further expansion of these types of organizations requires resolution of resource, staffing, and operational issues.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore determinants that influence women entrepreneurs' performance in micro and small enterprises in Gondar city, Northwest Ethiopia, and in turn contribute to entrepreneurship-related literature mainly in developing countries.Design/methodology/approach: The study employed an explanatory research design with agreement of primary data collection via a cross-sectional survey questionnaire followed by quantitative research approach. The sample of this study was 180 women entrepreneurs and selected using random sampling technique. Findings: The findings of this study revealed that educational level, previous entrepreneurial experience, access to business training, access to finance, access to business information, government support, land ownership, and tax are significant in explaining women entrepreneurs' performance in one hand. On the other side, however, age, marital status, access to market, and access to physical infrastructure are found to be insignificant variables in determining women entrepreneurs'performance. Research limitations/implications: The study used one time data for determinants like level of education, previous working experience, age, and profitability of the enterprise. Thus, due to frequent change in such variables, the study may not reflect the dynamics of the data, which would have a convincing influence on the conclusion. In addition, the research has only consisted of 180 samples. Moreover, such number may not represent the whole population of the entrepreneurs of Ethiopian MSEs. In future research, it is advisable to expand study factors, use interviews as a research tool, and make a comparison between women and men entrepreneurial performances. Practical implications: The paper might serve as an input for officials to consider such determinants and encourage an environment that increases women entrepreneurs' performance. In addition, the study might help women entrepreneurs in addressing the factors affecting performance to take actions ...

A history signifies that there were different pandemic diseases across the globe at different times that brings a fundamental consequence in psychological, socio-economic and political situations. Evidences showed that most emergency diseases were geographically restricted while others were/are not that attracts the professionals in developing insight and taking cross cutting decision. COVID-19 is the newly emerged pandemic across the globe at the end of 2019 but still shivering the world. Evidences indicated that many countries in the world invest their time, money, energy and strategy to tackle COVID-19 with heavy hesitation for future market instability, hunger and other silent killer diseases as their current plan do not glance to them.

This article examines the unique approach the Addis Ababa City Administration put in place to address the city's municipal solid waste collection problems between 2003 and 2009. During this period, the city administration introduced a variety of governmental technologies to discipline waste as a material and to institute government-initiated cooperative micro-enterprises as a major actor in waste collection. In this article, I examine how the variety of measures the city administration introduced during the waste management reform disciplined waste collectors. I unpack this issue through examining the specific spaces of engagement between waste collectors (formal and informal) and city administration's representatives by paying close attention to the everyday practices of waste collection. I also examined how the emphasis on reducing unemployment over the idea of creating a clean city can be better explained as a political exercise. Primary data collected included interviews of purposely-selected experts (n=28) and waste collectors (n=42). Secondary data were also consulted. I use the concept of the everyday state and the notion of governmentality for the purpose of examining the intricate social relations that materialized between waste collectors and city administration and how this shaped waste collection spaces and practices. The findings reveal that the city administration was more focused on assisting cooperative micro-enterprises with the aim of reducing unemployment over the idea of creating a clean city. It is also shown that the different governing technologies the city administration employed to discipline waste as a material were in fact aimed at assisting cooperative micro-enterprises and reconfiguring the power relationship between waste governing institutions and waste collectors.

This paper deals with Sudan-South Sudan relations since 1955. The British colonial system administered two practical political entities (north and south Sudan) separately under one governor general. Paradoxically, it unsuccessfully tried to unite them as one entity by granting independence to former Sudan as a whole. Hence, the contradictions inherited from the colonial legacy continued to be practiced by the post-independence leaderships of Sudan. They continued to forcefully unite the south with the north. But at last South Sudan achieved independence and established relations with Sudan. This paper attempts to answer whether the relations of the two countries led to conflict or cooperation or both in the post-1955 and post-9July 2011 period. Most scholars argue that the dominant and rigid Arab elite in the north failed to accommodate the interests of the black Sudanese in the south. This contributed to the state of affairs to date in the relations of the two countries. Hence, this paper largely focuses how the rigid stand of the northern elite eroded the prospects of cooperative relations and agreements of the two states that led to frequent conflicts which in turn led to the division of former Sudan into two. It also examines the type of relations between the two countries after 9 July 2011.

This study looks at Angel DeCora, Winnebago artist and teacher (1871-1918) with regard to her visionary influence as an Indian school art teacher. By exploring interactions among DeCora, policy makers, and American Indians, this chronological study addresses: how DeCora's Indian arts curriculum and aesthetics influenced her American Indian students at Carlisle; how DeCora used elements of her Winnebago culture, the Pan-Indian culture, and the Euro-American viewpoints to serve her purposes as an arts educator and activist; and what her aesthetic motivations were as embodied by her art, curriculum design, and students' work. Educated on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska until age12, she was taken to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Virginia's Freedman Bureau School also serving American Indians. She attended Smith College, studied at Drexel Institute becoming a professional artist before accepting her position as Director of Native Industries at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The military barracks at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1879 -1918, housed the first federally funded, off-reservation, secular, Indian Boarding School. Carlisle's military structure and vocational curriculum influenced non-reservation boarding schools during the Assimilation era. Assimilationist Indian boarding schools coerced students in strict regimented methods to learn the English language, writing, culture, and vocations. Investigating this history is vital to understanding the two-way influence of Native American and Euro-American worldviews represented in art. The sample student studies represent visual expressions of values and culture specific to the era. Images created under DeCora's tutelage show cultural resilience and relationships between Indian teacher and student. Topics specific to her curriculum are revealed for the first time through student work. By validating female leadership as Director, she mirrored the shared gender roles in many Native cultures. DeCora affirmed the depth of student potential and cultural heritage while refuting the racial deficit model. She promoted expression of Native worldviews by emphasizing the unique contributions of Native arts. She foreshadowed postmodern, pluralistic rhetoric by elevating decorative design over the tenets of Western illusion asserting the holistic framework of Native aesthetics. DeCora used the cultural empowerment potential of art education within her pedagogy to strengthen cultural ties and create a small space for students to thrive.