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International credit and financial organizations; organizations in other fields such as industry, transport, communications, science and technology.

AbstractThis essay examines the relationship between academic and industrial practices of specialization and suggests pedagogical paths forward to foster greater interdisciplinary engagement in higher education and the workplace. After considering the common structures of current interdisciplinary initiatives in academia and highlighting the challenges often presented by specialization when amplified in the corporate sphere, this essay imagines a future university of 2050 in which interdisciplinarity has become structurally integral and transformative. The essay closes by proposing concrete pedagogical actions that could provide sustained opportunities for students to cultivate connections between fields, both in college and in their subsequent careers.

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This paper introduces specialized elections. A specialized election randomly assigns each voter to one election, freeing her of voting responsibilities in other elections. By reducing voters' responsibilities, specialized elections encourage more information acquisition. Specialized elections also make campaigning less costly. A shortcoming of specialized elections is the increase in outcome variance resulting from the sampling effect. Whether or not specialized elections improve democratic outcomes hinges upon the tradeoff between more informed voters and greater outcome variance. Sufficient conditions are derived for the increase in information to generate an outcome nearer to that which would be chosen by a fully informed electorate.

The League of Women Voters of Texas is a non-partisan organization that works to promote political responsibility through active informed participation of all citizens in their government. In 1919, the Texas Equal Suffrage Association evolved into the Texas League of Women Voters, and today is recognized as the League of Women Voters of Texas. Their hallmark activity is the circulation of Voters' Guides through newspapers prior to elections; locally, regionally, statewide, and nationally. The League's intent is dissemination of information on political candidates, and the objective promotion of "political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government." The organization's efforts, however, are by no means limited to politics, but also address issues on water, health care, hazardous wastes, education, energy, and such international concerns as the United Nations. ; The records of the League of Women Voters of Texas also reflect socio-economic changes in the United States with the active organizational membership drives of the mid to late 1970s in response to American society's evolution into a two income family. Collectively, the materials provide researchers with invaluable insight into politics and political concerns on an international, national, statewide, and local basis. ; The collection consists of materials from national, state, and local files, financial materials, photographs, and publications of the National, Texas, and local leagues, as well as other state leagues. Also included are a study of the national league, scrapbooks, memorabilia, vice-presidential program files, and printed materials. The focus of the collection is on state committees and local units. ; Highlights from the donation include the original 1919 minutes from the Texas Equal Suffrage Association authorizing the organizational conversion to the Texas League of Women Voters, films produced by the group on legislative processes, the 104th Congressional recognition given and signed by Texas Senator ...

Black and Hispanic students are underrepresented at selective colleges and universities in the UnitedStates (Dickerson and Jacobs 2006; Niu et al. 2006). The colleges themselves also play a role bydeciding which students are admitted. Since Black and Hispanic students have lower average SATscores than White and Asian students (Davies and Guppy 1997) and Black students have loweraverage GMAT scores than White and Asian students (Cross and Slater 1998), heavy emphasis onthese test scores in admissions decisions may limit the opportunities for Black and Hispanic students.However, the long-term implications of enrollment patterns and economic returns of selective collegeadmissions create a need for a more thorough analysis of the issue.

THE FUNCTION OF LEADERSHIP OF THE SPECIALIZED AGENCIES AND PROGRAMS IS EASIER TO DEFINE THAN THAT OF THE UN ITSELF. NONETHELESS, CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES DEMAND A NEW LOOK AT THE QUESTION OF LEADERSHIP. THIS IS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE. IT CONCLUDES THAT BY GIVING THE UN SECRETARY-GENERAL AT LEAST AN INFORMAL SAY IN THE SELECTION PROCESS WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT EXPRESSION OF THE TEAM IDEA WHICH IS BECOMING MORE ESSENTIAL IN AN INCREASINGLY INTERDEPENDENT WORLD.