Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Maintaining military effectiveness through forward deployment is one of the most significant aspects of U.S. strategy to address international security challenges. There are many U.S. military bases abroad, and key policy decisions include base establishment, reduction, and elimination. Determining troop levels and base functions are also important. Furthermore, there are policies on the environment, on military prostitution, and on legal treatment of U.S. soldiers who commit crimes in host states. Which actors create, maintain, and change these policies? When, why, and how do they do so? International relations scholars say that state actors decide what is best for military effectiveness and determine base policies. Alternatively, powerful interest groups that benefit from the military presence may influence base policies. These explanations, however, leave many empirical puzzles unanswered. One must take into account anti-base social movements? efforts in changing base policies. I will explore the interaction between states, pro-base interest groups, and anti-base social movements, to ask if social movements have impact on base policies.To capture the interaction between these actors, I will examine the roles of persuasion and social conformity. Persuasion is a process in which actors? perception of their interests, as well as their preferences, change. Social conformity is an actor?s acceptance of a position due to social rewards and punishment, in the absence of persuasion. Persuasion and social conformity are two social processes that could produce base policy change. I will compare these constructivist explanations with military effectiveness and interest group explanations, which are rationalist explanations. They are rationalist as they assume utility-maximizing actors with fixed interests and preferences, engaging in material cost-benefit calculation and strategic bargaining.I will study the anti-base social movement in Okinawa, Japan, during the 1990s, to see which explanation is best to understand the base policy outcome.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: Objective: Utilize an asynchronous web-based discussion board to simulate pharmacist-patient and pharmacist-provider interactions during a problem-based learning patient-case assignment. Methods: Post BS pharmacy students in distance education therapeutics courses work in groups to complete patient-case assignments; a web-based classroom discussion follows on patient cases and therapeutic topics. A case was developed with limited information available to students to mimic patient presentation in community pharmacy. Students posted questions for the patient or physician on the web-based discussion board to gather additional information. A course instructor responded daily to postings with subjective information from the patient or objective information the physician would have in the patient chart. Students were evaluated on perception of assignment at the end of the course. Results: Twenty-three students were assigned to five groups; 7 students (30.4%) representing each group posted 13 messages containing 30 questions for the patient and 23 questions for the physician. Students received 12 responses from the course instructor representing communication from the patient and physician. Of the 20 students completing evaluation, 19 (95.0%) reported reading all or most of the posted messages. Thirteen (65.0%) students felt the activity provided a high-quality learning experience, while 15 (75.0%) felt it helped apply course content to real-life patient problems. Only 2 (10.0%) students opposed similar activities for future patient-case assignments. Implications: Results indicate students support using a web-based discussion board to gather patient data for a patient case. Similar activities will be implemented throughout the therapeutics curriculum to provide realistic elements to future patient-case assignments.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper analyzes data from a series of qualitative interviews of military personnel and their families on issues associated with quality of life on and around military bases, assessing the conditions and policies regarding military bases most important to quality of life. Regarding the base conditions, most people focused on developing better housing conditions and making such conditions more stable across bases. Local-area conditions most important to subjects include access to entertainment, especially the kind of restaurants and establishments found in modern suburban areas. Many also cited concerns over the poor conditions surrounding most military bases, indicating the number and types of businesses that cater to younger, enlisted officers (e.g., bars and tattoo parlors). While most people in the study had heard of homebasing, very few of them could define the concept. And while many of them believe that policy makes sense, they were also very pragmatic about the prospect of staying at a base for extended period of time, citing concerns over the possibility of being stationed at a base with low quality of life, increasing the number or length of separations, and the desire to travel to different locations. Most subjects agreed that base services need to be improved at military bases. Leveling the quality of housing and local-area conditions would make bases more like homes, regardless of the number of moves they are expected to make in their career.

Publication Type: Traditional Presentation
Abstract: Place-based education connects students to their communities and landscape. Project-based learning promotes experiential, collaborative learning skills. In Wisconsin, forestry education now has the potential to promote the widespread adoption of these learning strategies in schools.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This poster presentation will provide a review and critique of the current literature on faith-based prison programs. A case study of the Florida Department of Corrections will be presented as an example of how faith-based correctional institutions function, including services that are provided to inmates that are housed in these correctional institutions. Relevant theoretical applications and criminal justice policy will be considered in addition to recommendations for future research.