We examine the causal impact of university financial health on prospective student interest using Yeshiva University as a case study. To address endogeneity, we exploit an exogenous shock: the 2008 revelation that Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme caused Yeshiva over $100 million in endowment losses. Following the scandal, Yeshiva experienced a sharp decline in applications relative to peer institutions, along with reduced first-year enrollment and tuition revenue. These effects are not explained by changes in campus expenditures or amenities, but are consistent with a negative reputational shock. The findings indicate that prospective students respond to signals of financial distress, underscoring the role of perceived financial stability in college choice..
Featured Application Multidisciplinary project-based learning offers a positive learning experience and student retention for non-calculus-ready first-year engineering students.Abstract The objective of this study is to develop and incorporate a multidisciplinary engineering design experience into an academic success and professional development course that aims to retain non-calculus-ready first-year engineering students. The project followed the five-step engineering design process using knowledge from multiple engineering disciplines. Students were tasked to design a scale model of a safe, sustainable, and cost-efficient oil derrick with PASCO kits, engage in discussion to consider societal, global, cultural, and further factors in design, practice an elevator pitch with entrepreneurship specialists from the university start-up incubator, and present the final design to a multidisciplinary judge panel from academia and industry in engineering, math, social science, and business at a Poster Expo. This project-based learning aligned with the student outcomes of ABET and the Engineering for One Planet framework for sustainability education in engineering. Opportunities and challenges of this multidisciplinary learning experience were analyzed using triangulated data sources from student course performance, a student perception survey (N = 16; Cronbach's alpha = 0.959), and student retention data. Results showed a positive student learning experience with 88% of students reporting that the multidisciplinary design experience was positive to their learning and increased their interest in engineering. Ninety-four percent of student retention in engineering was reported by the end of the semester (N = 17).
A simple connected graph G with vertex set V (G) and edge set E(G) is Z(k)-antimagic if there exists a function f : E(G)-> Z(k)\{0} such that the induced function f(+)(v) = Sigma(uv is an element of E(G)) f(uv) is injective. The integer-antimagic spectrum of a graph G is the set IAM(G) = {k : G is Z(k)-antimagic and k >= 2}. In this paper, we prove that IAM(G) subset of IAM(G '), where G ' is any graph obtained by adding simple edges to G (not equal to a 3-path). Furthermore, if G is disconnected and the added edges do not create a new K-3-component in G ', then IAM(G) C IAM(G ').
Although scholarship routinely challenges popular claims that the postwar period represented the golden age of family life, less work has problematized the related myth that sees it as the pinnacle of American religion. This article complicates the view of the religiously devout suburban family by exploring how its growth contributed to mid-century Catholic anxieties about secularism. In addition to needing to build new parishes as families availed themselves of state policies and moved to the suburbs, Catholic leaders confronted a newly middle-class laity whose daily lives appeared more "American" than "Catholic." To explore these tensions, the article compares two movements-Cana Conference Movement and Christian Family Movement-that attempted to stabilize families and re-Christianize America by spiritualizing laity's domestic lives. The article illustrates how the daily lives of Catholic homes simultaneously operated as the battleground to fight these converging problems and the site for a solution as the movements mobilized couples and taught them that marital happiness would help them reach holiness. Overall, the article offers insights into a period when religion and state aligned to promote a domestic ideology that signaled the American way of life.
According to the Small Arms Survey, there are 120.5 privately owned guns for every 100 civilians in the United States-the world's highest rate of gun ownership. What are the consequences of this? How does the vast number of guns, both concealed and openly carried, frame everyday American fears, anger, and suspicion? In this interview, Jason Pribilsky and Charles Springwood tackle these issues by examining the empirical status of gun violence, as well as which of its facets are, and are not, made readily visible to the general American public. Drawing on extensive research into how shooting survivors cope with the physical and psychological effects of bullet wounds and how guns have infiltrated American consciousness, they assess the strengths and weaknesses of anthropology's collective stance on the topic of gun use and ownership, as well as the challenges of researching these issues during the Trump administration.
