Oakland Community College; Student Outcomes Assessment Committee(2010-05-27)
The SOAC End of Year Report highlights the work they completed during 2009-2010. This report includes the highlights of: Faculty Assessment Day, General Education Outcomes, Student Essay Competition, Program Assessment, ...
Oakland Community College; College Academic Senate(2010-05-27)
This document outlines the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008- Textbook Provisions Section 133(a) and how the Act affects different parties, a timeline for adoption, and a table of information for college bookstores.
Oakland Community College; College Academic Master Plan Committee(2010-04-22)
The College Academic Master Plan Committee performed a comprehensive review of the four Campus Academic Master Plans in the winter 2010 semester. This document details the objectives, the review process, and review results ...
Report by the editor of Al-Jami'ah about his meeting with the Canadian Minister of the Interior who detailed for him the conditions of acquiring land to homestead, especially in Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Argues that Arab women should be educated which would keep them from crime and corruption -- but they should know that "Man is the master of women, as Christ is the Head of the Church."
Writes about the success achieved by Syrians/Arabs in North Dakota in homestead farming, where over twenty families are present. Asks for a Catholic priest for them.
Bourke, John G.(Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1896)
Author, who was then president of the American Folk-Lore Society, states that enough "Moorish blood was included in the Caucasian migration to New Spain" to make it of "considerable importance" (p. 82). He then details ...
Attempts to take the "romance" out of accounts about Little Syria, especially the lower Washington Street section. States that only the poor live there whereas rich Syrians/Arabs do business in Little Syria by day and get ...
Generally positive picture of an "exotic" and colorful people with strange customs but who are industrious and good at trade, the main reason for their immigration. Sketches.
Details the daily life and trade of Arab men and women in the New York City area, their peddling, shops, and factories. Arab population is estimated at six thousand in New York City, and an additional forty thousand in ...
Details the religious communities among Syrians/Arabs in New York: 35% Greek Orthodox, 30% Maronite, 25% Greek Catholic, 10% drifted away to Protestant churches. Mentions religious clergy, including Raphael Hawawiny ...