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Open Access
Future Fellows Impact: Evaluation Report
(Center for Published Partnerships and Research, University of Kansas, 2026-05-01) Samaddar, Sushmita
Kansas Future Fellows brings together cohorts of leaders across the state, whose work intersects with the lives of children and families, to engage in futures thinking, foresight, and innovation in pursuit of program aims. In this evaluation report, we sought to understand the impact of Kansas Future Fellows on Cohort 4 participants. Our evaluation revealed insights from several data sources, including application information, participant responses to an activity conducted at the beginning and end of the program, and an exit survey. Cohort 4 participants entered the program with existing systems-level framing of challenges, like workforce shortages and fragmentation, and opportunities, like alignment and cross-sector collaboration. Between the start and end of the program, participants demonstrated transformed thinking around concrete action strategies. Exit survey results demonstrated higher-confidence responses (i.e., “very confident” and “extremely confident") in participants’ perceptions of their skills and abilities in operating in complex systems. Upon exiting the program, participants expressed a shared sense of belonging to a community of early childhood leaders in Kansas, the ability to identify specific people across roles and organizations they could turn to for thinking through complex challenges, and confidence in maintaining connections after the program ends. Findings suggest that Cohort 4 of the Future Fellows program culminated in a usable and enduring peer network of early childhood leaders who will leverage their connections to solve complex challenges that impact the lives of children and families in Kansas.
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Proceedings of the 2026 Hawk Talks
(Biotechnology Program, University of Kansas Edwards Campus, 2026-05-01) Treml, Jack; Day, Stuart; Orth III, Roy; Stewart, Christian; Nguyen, Dustin; McPherson, Kaelyn; Swanson, Jake; Wilson, Drew; Vestal, John; Theleman, Arianna; Milius, Kayla; Consani, Reese; Martinez, Julyssa
Welcome to the 2026 Hawk Talks Conference—a campus-wide celebration of student scholarship at the KU Edwards Campus. This year’s program highlights the impressive work of students from Applied Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Criminal Justice, Environmental Studies, Health Sciences, and Information Technology, reflecting the breadth of inquiry and applied learning that defines our programs. Hawk Talks provides students the opportunity to share the outcomes of capstone projects, honors research, and independent investigations. The presentations gathered here showcase not only what students have learned, but how they’ve learned to ask strong questions, pursue evidence, and communicate findings with confidence—skills at the heart of a KU Edwards Campus education. Inside this book, you’ll find the full presentation schedule, along with abstracts and brief biographies for each presenter. Each contribution represents sustained effort over many months, and we are proud to offer a platform where student work is treated with the seriousness, attention, and respect it deserves. More than a single-day event, Hawk Talks is designed to spark conversation and build connections—between disciplines, peers, the university, and the wider community. Whether you are presenting, cheering on a colleague, visiting as a community or industry partner, or attending to learn something new, your participation helps make this experience meaningful. To every student presenter: thank you for the time, persistence, and integrity you brought to your work. We hope the ideas shared today continue to grow—well beyond these pages and into what comes next.
Open Access
UNION HILL: AN URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMY
(University of Kansas, 1990-08-29) Braa, Dean M.
This is a study of urban redevelopment in a central city neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. The primary objective was to document and explain the process of a city-sponsored corporate gentrification, with a focus on the experiences of dislocated tenants. The author participated in a struggle against the city of Kansas City, Missouri and the Union Hill Redevelopment Corporation as a member of the Union Hill Tenants Association. The gentrification of Union Hill was analyzed as part of a larger central city and central business district redevelopment. One of the important effects of gentrification examined was the loss of low-income (affordable) housing. The use and abuse of public incentives for redevelopment is also a central discussion in the study.
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Kaj je v imenu? Od zbadljivke preko šiboleta do etnonima
(Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, 2026) Greenberg, Marc
Synopsis: This article develops the notion of "shibbolethonyms"—group names derived from perceived speech differences—within Slovene as well broader Slavic contexts. Grounded in Roman Jakobson’s communication theory and the anthropological study of "othering," the research examines how teasing based on dialectal differences highlights the metalinguistic function of language. Building upon Marija Stanonik's typology of Slovene name-calling—the article being an accompanying text to Stanonik’s monograph—the author identifies language-based taunts as a significant subgenre capable of evolving into established ethnonyms. The term shibbolethonym, coined by Patrick McConvell to describe Australian Aboriginal naming practices, is systematically applied to the Slavic domain. Prominent South Slavic examples include the designations Kajkavian, Čakavian, and Štokavian, which categorize dialect groups based on their respective words for "what". Although these terms began as scholarly designations, they eventually became accepted by speakers themselves as group-identification labels, both as endonyms and exonyms. Similar formations are observed among West and East Slavs, such as the Slovak Sotáci or Belarusian szczokały. The author concludes that as genealogy-based tribal affiliations disappeared among Slavic populations, new identification patterns, sometimes based on speech differences, emerged. Particularly in the South Slavic context, where urban and state structures were historically less central than among East Slavs, dialectal differences became primary markers for "othering" and group identity. Consequently, shibbolethonyms demonstrate how specific linguistic features are selected to mark boundaries and encode broader cultural assumptions about neighboring groups.
Open Access
Decision Making in Specific Learning Disability Evaluation
(University of Kansas, 2026-02-27) He, Zhizhou
Decision Making in Specific Learning Disability Evaluation.