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The College Launches its Research Journal Online At the press conference in the Executive Boardroom of the Michael Eldon Complex to announce the launch, President Janyne M Hodder stated, "Over the years, the articles written by our faculty in College Forum reflected a broad range of research interests and scholarly pursuits. These articles, however, never had the kind of visibility and distribution potential that we are providing today's scholars at The College with the launch of "The College of The Bahamas' Research Journal online." The articles selected for this volume, referred to by President Hodder as "proof of the diversity of research interests of our faculty as well as a demonstration of the extent to which the research of our faculty is driven by national concerns", are from varied disciplines: political science, law, education and psychology, and all address important public policy issues that impact The Commonwealth of The Bahamas. College of The Bahamas student, Cassandra Adderley, studied neighbourhood noise and nuisances; Professor Michael Stevenson analysed legal and constitutional issues surrounding censorship; Mr William Fielding set out standard definitions of animal ownership and levels of care that can inform the Animal Control Act; Dr Janet Collie-Patterson identified and discussed factors that contribute to the challenges faced by the national education system; and a team of College academics including Mr William Fielding, Miss Virginia Ballance, Ms Carol Scriven, the late Dr Thaddeus McDonald and Dr Pandora Johnson explored the stigmatization of Haitian immigrants in Bahamian society. Now that this volume and the 13 back numbers of the journal are on the World Wide Web, College of The Bahamas research will reach others with similar interests in the global knowledge network. Other members of the faculty, current students and alumni and other researchers can click into and learn from the work The College faculty are doing. In return, the faculty can also receive feedback and commentary on their work from others in their fields. Proud and excited by this latest technological innovation, President Hodder said, "I believe you will find that these articles will be extremely interesting not only for other researchers but also the kind of Bahamian that likes to surf the web and who will be thrilled to find out more about this country in doing so." President Hodder paid tribute to the whole team that worked extremely hard to establish the journal online, including Dr Linda Davis, Vice-President Research, Graduate Programmes and International Relations, and Mrs Virginia Ballance of the Libraries & Media Services Department. Dr Davis praised the support offered by the IT department, especially Assistant Director Rudy Burton, and the expertise of Ms Marie Sairsingh-Mills, co-Editor of this volume, who is on study leave. Mrs Ballance then showed everyone present the home page for The College of The Bahamas Research Journal on the web using the latest technology before some of the authors of the articles gave broad overviews of their research and described the main points of their findings.  |
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