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- Creator:
- Rui, Wang
- Description:
- Journal of East-West Thought devotes its Summer Issue to education, a time honored and an unavoidable topic of today, yesterday and probably forever. Six distinguished scholars from Canada, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States have participated in a discussion which helps bring into focus again what we really mean by education. The discussion fully reflects what this journal is all about – showcasing clashes of ideas and thoughts between two very different cultures. Only in this issue East meets West in the world of education.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Cruz, Cheryl
- Description:
- For many businesses, maintaining their election to be taxed as Subchapter S corporations is important. This is because S corporations enjoy all of the legal benefits of being incorporated (prime among them being limited legal liability for shareholder-investors) while avoiding a major tax cost of being incorporated: the specter of double taxation. Maintaining the election also is important because losing the election unexpectedly may trigger double taxation, and do so retroactively. How to keep S status -- which prohibits more than one class of stock-- while granting stock incentives to motivate employees -- which incentives can look like second classes of stock -- thus is an important tax planning puzzle.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Baker, Frederick
- Description:
- The increasing complexity of Vietnam’s economic activities, together with a growing number of graduates, is creating substantial social demand for a better-educated workforce beyond the Vietnamese primary school. While primary education provides basic cognitive skills, lower secondary education provides a foundation for producing a flexible, productive and globally competitive workforce to sustain high economic growth. Accordingly, lower secondary school enrollments have increased significantly from 3.1 million students in 1993 to 5.3 million students in 1997 for an average annual enrollment growth rate of about 14 percent (Nguyen Dang Thin, 2000). Enrollment is projected by the Vietnamese government to reach 7.9 million students in 2005. This rapid expansion has resulted in deteriorating quality of lower secondary education, which is aggravated by double and triple scheduling of classes in schools to accommodate such rapid expansion. The poor quality of lower secondary education is caused mainly by unsuitable curriculum and shortages of physical and human resources (including textbooks, instructional materials, and qualified teachers). In 1997, almost 20 percent of lower secondary teachers remained under-qualified. The lack of adequately trained teachers to meet the demand of a modern curriculum and to deliver teaching effectively is a major cause of internal inefficiency in lower secondary education.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Zhang, Nan
- Description:
- Scholars have observed that the clash between patriotism and cosmopolitanism constitutes a central theme of Rabindranath Tagore’s novel The Home and the World. What remains to be fully addressed, however, is Tagore’s profound depiction of affective and spiritual sources of sympathy larger than loyalty to one’s country. Tagore’s multi-personal delineation of consciousness illuminates the complicated relations between notions of the constitution of self and allegiances to vital sites of belonging—home, nation, the world, and the infinite. Through a close examination of spatial tropes in the novel, the article illustrates how Tagore draws on Buddhist traditions in presenting his vision of svadeśsamāj, a form of social collectivity that amalgamates inner life with traditional Indian ways of communal existence. Paying special attention to the protagonists’ introspections, this essay argues that the novel suggests how moral judgments can be nurtured by aesthetic sentiments that are tied to such communal existence.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Description:
- The American Philosophical Association administers the David Baumgardt Memorial Fellowship in the Amount of $10,000 for the support and dissemination of research in the field of ethics. Competition for this fellowship is open to candidates of any nationality, working in any country, whose research has some bearing on the philosophical interests of the late David Baumgardt. Broadly speaking, these interests were in the examination and comparison of types of morality associated with strong cultural and religious traditions, such as Judaism and Christianity, or based on certain contrasting principles (for example, love and justice on the one hand, power or forgiveness on the other).
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Allen, Michael
- Description:
- Gandhi’s relationship to liberal political philosophy has recently become a source of controversy. On the one hand, advocates for a virtue-based reformed liberal interpretation of Gandhi are inattentive to the devotional aspects of his political thought. On the other hand, advocates for a Tolstoyan and Hindu devotional interpretation are equally inattentive to those aspects of his political thought embracing liberal institutions and values. However, I re-interpret the devotional Gandhi’s relationship to liberalism in light of a distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory. This re-interpretation acknowledges Gandhi’s profound disagreement with liberal ideals of justice in both domestic and international politics. Nevertheless, it also acknowledges his acceptance of liberal institutions in non-ideally facilitating progress toward his devotional ideal of enlightened anarchism by which humanity’s spiritual progress renders the lawful uses of state violence unnecessary.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Dollery, Brian
- Description:
- Once upon a time, positive accounting theory -- a variant of positive economic theory -- was radical. Watts and Zimmerman, whose book Positive Accounting Theory now is the most standard fare in accounting PhD programs, had a great deal of trouble getting published in the early 1970s. Now, research in accounting must at the very least be highly quantitative, or it simply is not viewed as scholarly by the key players in academia. A parallel may be developing, however, between the progression of acceptable research methodologies in accounting with that in its elder sister, economics. Indeed, the currently pejorative term "mere" could even be dropped from the orthodox mantra of "mere descriptive research" someday in the not so distant future. This article explores the parallel.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Seifert, Josef
- Description:
- Ten years after writing Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl, in his famous and sole Logos essay, defended the thesis that philosophy ought to be a 'rigorous science' and described this goal of philosophy as an "ideal" that 'has never been completely abandoned, but also as an ideal that has never been even roughly or partially realized. Husserl considers it as evidently tragic that up until now philosophy has never lived up to this claim. In this regard, Husserl asserts it is not only philosophy, which is not, yet a perfect or complete science.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Creator:
- Thakkar, Ami, Barbarasa, Estera, and Navarro, Richard A
- Description:
- The authors analyze the recent undertaking in El Salvador to establish an innovative model of industry–higher education clusters that would facilitate collaboration between academia and the private sector – sectors that traditionally had not worked together because of historical distrust – to develop the skilled workforce needed for the country’s future economic growth. Under the USAID Higher Education for Economic Growth project implemented by RTI International, clusters were put forth as the platform for building sustainable partnerships between industry and higher education – facilitating dialogue, stepping into each other’s world and collaboration on curriculum planning, student internships and applied research. The clusters have pushed Salvadoran universities to become more agile organizations, able to pivot to meet industry skills demands, and industries to recognize universities’ contributions to the creation of value for increased productivity. The El Salvador case is a collaborative multi-stakeholder model to meet workplace requirements for high-growth industries in low- to middle-income economies.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- DOI: 10.1177/0950422219875886
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona