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Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan (open access)

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan

This action plan articulates the most significant ecosystem problems for the Great Lakes, and describes efforts to address them. The five areas are toxic substances, invasive species, health and pollution, wildlife and habitat preservation and restoration, and finally a component that covers accountability and evaluation.
Date: February 21, 2010
Creator: United States. Council on Environmental Quality.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Green Jobs Training: A Catalog of Training Opportunities for Green Infrastructure Training (open access)

Green Jobs Training: A Catalog of Training Opportunities for Green Infrastructure Training

This catalog provides information on training and certification opportunities for jobs and careers categorized as part of the "green economy." The catalog includes federal and state listings.
Date: September 2010
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Welcome to the Rest of It: Essays (open access)

Welcome to the Rest of It: Essays

This creative nonfiction dissertation is a book of essays that explore the author's life and relationship to Upstate New York. The project also connects this experience to gender and trauma. Though the topics range from local history to cosmetic surgical procedures, the essays are collected by how they illuminate cultural tensions and universal truths. These essays are preceded by a critical preface that examines the differences between essays collections, books of essays, and argues for the recognition of narrative nonfiction as an artistic choice.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Murphy, April
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding Musical Explorers at Carnegie Hall: Teacher Notes

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Consists of notes to use when teaching the case study entitled Expanding Musical Explorers at Carnegie Hall.
Date: 2017
Creator: Laprade, Eric, 1986-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

National Sawdust: Teacher Notes

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Consists of notes to be used when teaching the case study entitled Getting on Board with National Sawdust.
Date: 2017
Creator: Koerner, Blaire, 1990-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pegasus Early Music and Younger Audiences

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Examines Pegasus Early Music's initiatives to attract young adult audiences to its early music concert series.
Date: 2016
Creator: Koerner, Blaire, 1990-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Getting on Board with National Sawdust

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This case study examines the inner-workings of the board of directors of National Sawdust, a contemporary music venue, during the organization’s infancy. In August 2016, the board determined that one of its chief priorities for the year ahead was expanding its membership from 18 to 25 directors. The study reveals expectations of National Sawdust’s board members and issues around recruitment and accountability.
Date: 2017
Creator: Koerner, Blaire, 1990-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pegasus Early Music and Younger Audiences: Teacher Notes

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Consists of notes to be used when teaching the case study entitled Pegasus Early Music and Younger Audiences.
Date: 2016
Creator: Koerner, Blaire, 1990-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding Musical Explorers at Carnegie Hall

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As the education arm of Carnegie Hall, the Weill Music Institute (WMI) offers a diverse portfolio of music education and social impact programs. The WMI team is planning to expand a New York City-based education program, Musical Explorers, which serves students in grades K-2. While Musical Explorers could be scaled using a similar formula to Link Up, the program involves local artists and other considerations that set it apart from its sister program at WMI. After examining the structure of the program, the case unveils different plans for expanding Musical Explorers.
Date: 2017
Creator: Laprade, Eric, 1986-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building Relationships between a Free Clinic and Its Donors (open access)

Building Relationships between a Free Clinic and Its Donors

This thesis presents qualitative research conducted in summer 2017 at the Finger Lakes Free Clinic, which provides free medical and holistic care to people without insurance in upstate New York. The primary goal of this research was to strengthen the relationship between a free clinic and its donors by gathering donor concerns and perceptions regarding federal healthcare policy. Data from 32 interviews with donors, staff, board members, and volunteers, along with 100 hours of participant observation revealed that donors to this clinic were concerned about the potential impact of Congressional healthcare reform yet did not consider federal policy a strong influence on their donations. Rather, donors cited dedication to local giving and personal connections with the clinic as their primary motivations. These motivations suggest the value of viewing the clinic-donor relationship as a relationship of reciprocity. From this framework, the research identifies opportunities for the clinic to reciprocate donor generosity while expanding services in response to a growing need. Insights from the research will guide the clinic's response to federal policy changes and support the clinic's vision of becoming a national model for integrative care.
Date: December 2018
Creator: Nalin, Emma R
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Searching for Songs of the People: The Ideology of the Composers' Collective and Its Musical Implications (open access)

Searching for Songs of the People: The Ideology of the Composers' Collective and Its Musical Implications

The Composers' Collective, founded by leftist composers in 1932 New York City, sought to create proletarian music that avoided the "bourgeois" traditions of the past and functioned as a vehicle to engage Americans in political dialogue. The Collective aimed to understand how the modern composer became isolated from his public, and discussions on the relationship between music and society pervade the radical writings of Marc Blitzstein, Charles Seeger, and Elie Siegmeister, three of the organization's most vocal members. This new proletarian music juxtaposed revolutionary text with avant-garde musical idioms that were incorporated in increasingly greater quantities; thus, composers progressively acclimated the listener to the dissonance of modern music, a distinctive sound that the Collective hoped would become associated with revolutionary ideals. The mass songs of the two Workers' Song Books published by the Collective, illustrate the transitional phase of the musical implementation of their ideology. In contrast, a case study of the song "Chinaman! Laundryman!" by Ruth Crawford Seeger, a fringe member of the Collective, suggests that this song belongs within the final stage of proletarian music, where the text and highly modernist music seamlessly interact to create what Charles Seeger called an "art-product of the highest type."
Date: May 2018
Creator: Chaplin-Kyzer, Abigail
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library