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Sarah has run into the man twice since the day she says he raped her.
Months after she reported the crime, Sarah spotted him in the Big Lots parking lot. She later passed him while they were both driving down Second Street. He waved at her through his sunroof. She felt sick.
Sarah knows the man's name, criminal history, type of vehicle and where he lives. So do Casper police and Natrona County prosecutors. But in December, three months after her alleged rape, the Natrona County District Attorney's Office told Sarah the man would not be charged.
Her situation is not unique. In Natrona County, fewer than one in 13 reported sexual assaults of an adult victim in the past five years have resulted in an arrest, and far fewer resulted in prosecution. Because of the way court records are maintained in Wyoming, no one is sure how many perpetrators are convicted.
Sarah is now a byproduct of these statistics. Unlike many victims, who police say fold under the weight of the investigation, Sarah wanted her day in court.
Sarah says local attorneys don't want to prosecute perpetrators who rape adult victims. Prosecutors say juries won't convict them.
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Sarah is the single mother of a teenage son, has a master's degree and a lucrative, rewarding career. (She is not actually named Sarah.) The Star-Tribune does not publish the names of victims of sexual assaults. Sarah contacted the newspaper, demanding to know why a man in Casper could rape a woman without accountability. She wanted the paper, or anyone, to do something.
This wasn't supposed to happen to her. The mid-sized suburban house she and her son live in is funded solely by the fruits of her labor. Her walls are adorned with black-and-white photos of wild animals, and five cats and dogs roam in and out of the house. The cats' jungle gym is the most prominent fixture in the living room.
Sarah's life centers on her son, who became her therapist and guardian after the alleged attack. He tended to her on the nights she woke up screaming. He joined her creeping in the middle of the night, both armed with various household weapons, when she swore she heard someone in the house.
Their cozy home has since become littered with the trappings of paranoia. A loaded gun rests in plain view next to a floppy stuffed dog on Sarah's dresser. Another is in her lingerie drawer. Crowbars, knives and baseball bats have been strategically placed in her bedroom. She knows someone has tried to break into her home at least five times since the alleged attack.
A doctor prescribed Sarah medications to deal with her depression and distressed sleep.
"Looking back I wonder if death may have been easier than to carry this filth, this pain, the smells, the images, the fear out of that attack and rape that came with me," she wrote to prosecutors.
* * *
The police investigation lasted two months.
"I think one of the hardest things is a victim will come forward, and feel that they have taken a great leap of faith," Casper Police Sgt. Deahn Amend said. "It is a slow process. It is waning, physically and mentally, on a victim. I'm not giving you any good news here, but that seems to be where we start to lose people."
Sarah stuck with the investigation, though, and the Casper Police Department referred her case to the district attorney's office on Nov. 11. Already impatient, Sarah trained her efforts on prosecutors, calling "about 300 times."
Her already petite frame withered to less than 100 pounds and she took to writing letters to the DA's office when she couldn't sleep. "Never be bullied into silence" and "Last contact with idiots" were among the names of the documents.
The letters were emotionally charged with bolded, caps-locked and underlined passages.
"It is now 2:30 am, now I will spend an hour asking myself 'Why me?' 'Why anybody,'" she wrote in one. "The main feeling, being helpless re-occurs everyday CAUSE NOONE WILL HELP ME."
* * *
Sarah's most pressing concerns before the alleged rape were tiffs with her boyfriend. One year ago, Sarah cleared her head by meeting with her girlfriend and having a few drinks at an Evansville bar.
Sarah and her boyfriend decided earlier in the evening to spend some time apart and the argument was still on her mind — a fact Sarah credits as the catalyst for the bad decisions she made later that night.
She ran into a close friend of her boyfriend. The two men had been roommates and her boyfriend had a key to the man's apartment. Sarah gave him her number.
The man told Sarah he had information on her boyfriend. If she came to his place, he'd tell her all about it.
Sarah climbed into his SUV after the bars closed and rode to his apartment, where he promised to disclose her boyfriend's infidelities.
The two entered his tiny apartment and sat on the bed.
"It sounds bad, but there was nowhere else to sit," she said.
After some conversation about her boyfriend, she said, the man's eyes turned black.
He said he was sick of talking about her boyfriend. She said the man attacked her, ripping off her clothes and pinning her ankles to the bed, his grip squeezing her bones.
Sarah struggled in vain for a few minutes before devising a plan of escape. She told the man she had to use the bathroom and would pee all over him if he didn't let her go. The man hesitated but let go, shadowing her short journey to the bathroom.
Sarah slammed the door in his face but was horrified when she looked down at the doorknob. There was no lock.
"What kind of a bathroom doesn't have a lock on the door?" she said. It became obvious she didn't have to pee.
Sarah said her failed escape attempt further enraged the man. He drug her back to the bed and asked if she needed to be reminded of what he did to the other women. He almost killed them, he said. He suggested she stop fighting.
She did. She thought about her son being told that his mother's body had been found, if there even was a body found. Sarah didn't know how long the rape lasted; she had shut herself off. She described an out-of-body experience, where her mind refused to process what was happening.
She was instead transported back to her son. She saw him as a child, in a stroller, saw his first smile and heard his first word. Then he was gone again and she was left back in the dark room.
"I lost the battle," she wrote in a letter three months later to the Casper Police Department. "In every way."
Sarah said the man cried after he finished. He told her he would go to prison for life because of previous convictions if she reported this. He begged her not to. Still scared for her life, Sarah said she assured him that she would keep the incident to herself.
The man dropped her off at her car in the parking lot where they originally met. Sarah called the police after he drove away, went to the hospital to get a rape kit and waited for his arrest.
* * *
Sarah amassed a small band of supporters in hopes of galvanizing some legal action. Local politicians, police officers, attorneys and crisis center advocates all promised to put in good words for her, she said.
Sarah's friend secured a meeting with Casper City Manager John Patterson.
"I thought she was very credible," Patterson said, noting that he made a call to Police Chief Chris Walsh on her behalf.
Patterson said the alleged attacker's criminal record enhanced Sarah's credibility.
A Natrona County background check catalogs 16 different criminal and civil cases that Sarah's alleged attacker has been involved in since 2007. He's a defendant in 11 of them. The cases include accusations of a simple assault, violation of a protection order, unlawful contact and driving under the influence. Sarah gave the man's name to the Star-Tribune, but the paper will not publish it since he has not been charged with a crime in Sarah's case.
Sarah's attorney, Tom Sutherland, dug deeper and located one instance of an "other" woman the man was likely referring to during the attack.
He was convicted of attempted murder more than 20 years ago, and his sentence expired in 2011.
"She also wanted to ensure that this would not happen to another woman by this perpetrator," Patterson said. "I respected her passion … she was just as passionate about this as she was about her own justice. This helped me to advocate for her."
* * *
Sarah's case is typical in many ways, officials say. She was intoxicated. She knew her alleged attacker. The alleged attacker claimed the sex was consensual.
"We always come back to the same thing, [look for] the same evidence for each case," Amend, of the Casper Police Department, said of sexual assault cases. " … To be able to corroborate what the victim is telling us, to be able to take facts to the DA's office so we can push through and get charges accordingly."
Amend said the biggest hurdle in undertaking adult sexual assault cases lies in the victim: How are they processing the situation? Are they strong enough to come forward? Are they at a point in their lives where they feel like they can even talk about the crime?
The cases can die at any point along the course of the investigation and prosecution, Amend said.
The Casper Police Department received 573 reports of sexual offenses committed by an adult on an adult between 2008 and 2012, an average of about 114 per year, according to a report prepared for the Star-Tribune. This does not include the reports that involved an underage victim, prostitution or incest. Many of these cases were determined to be unfounded after a police investigation.
There were 43 sexual assault arrests made in all of Natrona County in that same period, or about nine per year, according to a report from the Natrona County Sheriff's Office.
Just two adult sexual assault cases were referred to the Natrona County District Attorney's Office by any law enforcement department between July 2011 and June 2012, according to District Attorney Michael Blonigen. Twelve were referred between July 2010 and June 2011. It is the prosecutor's decision in the end whether to file charges.
Because of the various ways cases are filed and tracked in Wyoming, no one at the district attorney's office or Wyoming courts — Natrona County District and state Supreme — is able to produce the number of cases that resulted in convictions.
Unlike cases involving underage victims, which produce a steady flow of offenders in Natrona County courts, Blonigen said adult sexual assaults are notoriously difficult to prosecute in Wyoming and around the country.
Blonigen said any defense attorney could easily chisel away at Sarah's story. For instance, why was her boyfriend yelling at her during the original police call? How could she not know the alleged rapist was dangerous when the reason he and her boyfriend knew each other was through prison? And, like many victims of sexual assault, Sarah was intoxicated.
"I can tell you that we don't get as many [referrals] as we used to," Blonigen said. "We're supposed to have these greatly evolved feelings, in the way of victim blaming … It's almost as if we haven't progressed at all, but we've gone backwards."
He said juries — especially female jurors — are critical of women who claim they are victims of sexual assault.
Additionally, DNA evidence does not refute a man's claim that sex was consensual.
"Usually they're not whodunits; we have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt," Blonigen said. "You can't just think things. You've got to be able to prove things."
This is especially difficult in Wyoming, he said. Like many other states, law requires the offender to have used actual, physical force during the rape. It's not enough for the victim to just say, "No."
Sarah's alleged attacker told investigators the sex was consensual. They were groping and kissing each other for a while, and he stopped having sex with her when she started crying, he is quoted as telling officers.
Casper police say DNA evidence from Sarah's rape kit wouldn't do any good because both she and the man confirm that sex took place. Lt. Michael Thompson said the DNA would only be tested if prosecutors were preparing the case for trial.
Lt. Thompson said the rape kit was tested in Sarah's case, but just confirmed that they had sex.
Sarah said she was repeatedly told attorneys were ethically bound to not prosecute cases they weren't sure they could win.
They were sorry, the assistant prosecutor said. But there was nothing else they could do.
* * *
Gloria Jensen is a crisis advocate at Casper's Self Help Center. She said a victim's alleged attacker very rarely enters a courtroom, because the victim often puts the brakes on the case.
"Most women don't want to see their abuser again, whether it's in court or on the street," she said. "One of the hardest things for them to do is to have to revisit or rehash the details of the crime."
Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network President and Founder Scott Berkowitz said despite the barriers and trauma victims will inevitably encounter after their attack, RAINN still encourages them to report the crime.
"That's the only way there's going to be pressure built to prosecute these types of cases," he said. "The more victims that aren't getting justice, the more attention it's going to get from policymakers and media to force a change."
Sarah's only remaining option is to press civil charges against the man, a decision which also seems useless. He has no money and no assets, Sutherland, her attorney, said.
"You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip," Sutherland said. "… I don't understand why [the state] isn't pursuing this type of case."
Sarah was angry enough on one occasion to return back to her alleged rapist's apartment and confront him. He didn't answer the door at that point, but later accused her and her boyfriend of threatening him.
In the past several months, Sarah's anger has given way to despair. Many of her previous supporters now refuse to return her phone calls. She has told the story more times than she can remember.
"I'm tired and I'm beat up," she said. "They don't want to prosecute sex crimes."
The fight for justice is over. Sarah says she's done writing letters and calling authorities. Most of the time, she gets no response anyway. But despite the mistakes she made, Sarah maintains that there was more than enough evidence to prosecute the case if everyone had been on board from the beginning.
Sarah's currently studying to get licensed for her job in another state. She plans to leave Wyoming as soon as possible.
Sarah now says she would have simply refrained from reporting the assault in the first place.
"Nothing's different anyway."


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When we first found out we were having a girl I went to Spotlight and chose a bunch of fabrics as the starting point for decorating the nursery. The fabrics became this quilt and will also become some sheets and a cot skirt hopefully in the next couple of weeks.
I learnt a few things while making this quilt:-
- If your doing a pieced back you should probably line it up with one of the stripes on the front to avoid a sewn line in the middle of your stripe.
- I need to use more pins to hold my layers together while quilting. I don't think I used enough so I have a few puckers in the layers.
- When your not good at sewing straight lines sewing a quilt that emphasizes them can be frustrating.
- Invisible hand stitching for quilt binding is not as hard as I imagined.
Regardless of it's imperfections I am really happy with how this quilt has turned out. I have worked my way up from a pram sized quilt to a cot quilt and who knows next time it might be a single bed quilt. I am getting a bit more confident with the idea of quilting so I think I will definitely be making some more. Maybe just not for a little while!


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Obstetrics/gynecology Ketchikan, AK Female
Dr. Nicole Morin specializes in Obstetrics/gynecology in Ketchikan area and has over 6 years of experience in the field of medicine. The current location address for Dr. Nicole Morin is 3100 Tongass Avenue, Ketchikan AK. She graduated from Albany Medical College Of Union University with her medical degree in 2012. She is affiliated with numerous hospitals, including Peacehealth Ketchikan Medical Center (AK) and more. Dr. Morin is accepting new patients at her medical office and center location and available for appointments, preventative care, medical care as well as ongoing patient care.
Active license number of Dr. Morin as Obstetrics/gynecology is MT202412 in Pennsylvania. To learn more, or to make an appointment with this doctor, please call (907) 228 8300 for more information.
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- Office Address 3100 Tongass Avenue,
Ketchikan, AK 99901, United States
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- NPI Number: #1467716431
- Entity Type Code: Individual
- Medical License: MT202412, PA
- Enumeration Date: Jun 25, 2012
- Years in Practice: +6 years
- Gender: Female
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- Languages: English
- Is Sole Proprietor: No
Primary specialty: Obstetrics/gynecology
Dr. Nicole Morin has been identified as specializing in obstetrics/gynecology and has been in practice for more than 6 years.
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- Medical Licence: MT202412 - Issued in the state of Pennsylvania
What is Obstetrics & Gynecology? An obstetrician/gynecologist possesses special knowledge, skills and professional capability in the medical and surgical care of the female reproductive system and associated disorders. This physician serves as a consultant to other physicians and as a pr
Dr. Nicole Morin was educated at the following institutions:
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She attended medical school at Albany Medical College Of Union University and graduated in 2012.
- She is a participant in Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) Incentive Program, which is a quality reporting program that encourages individual eligible professionals (EPs) and group practices to report information on the quality of care to Medicare.
- And extensive training in Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, that will provide incentive payments to eligible professionals and eligible hospitals as they demonstrate adoption, implementation, upgrading, or meaningful use of certified EHR technology. These incentive programs are designed to support providers in this period of Health IT transition and instill the use of EHRs in meaningful ways to help our nation to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient health care..
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- Address: 3100 Tongass Avenue, Ketchikan, AK 99901
- Phone: (907) 225 5171
- Hospital Type: Critical Access Hospitals
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- Emergency Services: Yes
- Hospital overall rating: 3
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Changing Table
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I haven't posted in almost a week. It's been a time of much to-do!
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Lizard Soldier
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Two (motorised) wheels better. The Economist September 21st 2013
BICYCLE fairs come thick and fast at the end of summer in Europe. Eurobike closed on August 31st in Friedrichshafen, Germany; the Salon du Cycle in Paris on September 16th. And how the market is changing: for all the hype over the latest rugged mountain bike, the whirr of electrically assisted wheels is clearly audible. Although electric cars have struggled to gain purchase (their sticker price is unalluring and they stop dead if not recharged), sales of cycles using batteries to augment a rider's own efforts are growing quickly. Faster ones with more sophisticated electronic controls, a bit like those popular in China, may also be gaining ground.
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A Social Contract with the Filipino People: The Platform of Senator Benigno S. "Noynoy" Aquino III
A Social Contract with the Filipino People: The platform of Senator Benigno S. "Noynoy" Aquino III
Transformational Leadership
- From a President who tolerates corruption… to a President who is the nation's first and most determined fighter of corruption.
- From a government that merely conjures economic growth statistics that our people know to be unreal… to a government that prioritizes jobs that empower the people and provide them with opportunities to rise above poverty.
- From relegating education to just one of many concerns… to making education the central strategy for investing in our people, reducing poverty and building national competitiveness.
- From treating health as just another area for political patronage… to recognizing the advancement and protection of public health, which includes responsible parenthood, as key measures of good governance.
- From justice that money and connections can buy… to a truly impartial system of institutions that deliver equal justice to rich or poor.
- From government policies influenced by well-connected private interests… to a leadership that executes all the laws of the land with impartiality and decisiveness.
- From treating the rural economy as just a source of problems… to recognizing farms and rural enterprises as vital to achieving food security and more equitable economic growth, worthy of re-investment for sustained productivity.
- From government anti-poverty programs that instill a dole-out mentality… to well-considered programs that build capacity and create opportunity among the poor and the marginalized in the country.
- From a government that dampens private initiative and enterprise… to a government that creates conditions conducive to the growth and competitiveness of private businesses, big, medium and small.
- From a government that treats its people as an export commodity and a means to earn foreign exchange, disregarding the social cost to Filipino families… to a government that creates jobs at home, so that working abroad will be a choice rather than a necessity; and when its citizens do choose to become OFWs, their welfare and protection will still be the government's priority.
Government Service
- From Presidential appointees chosen mainly out of political accommodation… to discerning selection based on integrity, competence and performance in serving the public good.
- From demoralized but dedicated civil servants, military and police personnel destined for failure and frustration due to inadequate operational support… to professional, motivated and energized bureaucracies with adequate means to perform their public service missions.
Gender Equality
- From a lack of concern for gender disparities and shortfalls… to the promotion of equal gender opportunity in all spheres of public policies and programs.
Peace and Order
- From a disjointed, short-sighted Mindanao policy that merely reacts to events and incidents… to one that seeks a broadly-supported just peace and will redress decades of neglect of the Moro and other peoples of Mindanao.
- From allowing environmental blight to spoil our cities, where both the rich and the poor bear with congestion and urban decay… to planning alternative, inclusive urban developments where people of varying income levels are integrated in productive, healthy and safe communities.
- From a government obsessed with exploiting the country for immediate gains to the detriment of its environment… to a government that will encourage sustainable use of resources.
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Prime Minister of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu after meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that the countries agreed to accelerate the construction of Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) in order to complete the project before 2018, as it was initially planned, reports Reuters.
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Consolidated Label Company, a leading manufacturer of custom labels in the United States, has launched a new version of its website http://www.consolidatedlabel.com with an enhanced design and added tools to help visitors better understand the complexities of custom labels, shrink sleeves and flexible packaging. With its simplified navigation and content-focused design, visitors will have an easier time searching and finding information on various label topics. One of the more notable improvements to the website is that it can be viewed on any device whether it's a computer, tablet or mobile.
The quality and availability of information throughout the website were top priorities for Consolidated Label. Educational content – like label articles, guides and videos – were created in various formats to help visitors better answer their technical label questions. "We designed the website to be a one-stop shop where new and experienced buyers can use our interactive tools and resources to achieve their label goals," said Joel Carmany, president of Consolidated Label. Along with the website's informational resources, features like the art upload tool, quote and account management system have been redesigned to be faster and more user friendly to improve the ordering experience.
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(Reuters) - The Pittsburgh Steelers clinched their first playoff berth in three seasons when they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 20-12 on Sunday.
The six-time Super Bowl champions had not qualified for the postseason since losing a wild-card game to the Denver Broncos following the 2011 regular season.
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger directed the Steelers (10-5) to their third consecutive win, passing for 220 yards and a touchdown.
Roethlisberger suffered a right knee injury in the third quarter while throwing the deciding touchdown pass to wide receiver Antonio Brown but returned after receiving treatment and did not miss any playing time.
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A very strong growing American hybrid, and actually a parent of E.Pagoda. It is smaller than the two above though, and has gorgeous cream flowers in April over beautifully mottled foliage. It grows well in our climate in leafy soil in part shade.
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This is the European woodland species and the bulbs do look like dogs' teeth hence the common name. It has mottled leaves and striking pink to rich plum purple flowers in spring liking leafy soil in half shade.
The lovely white form of the Dog Tooth Violet.
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The Premium version of the Contact Form 7 AutoResponder Addon plugin allows you to automatically add people to your lists after they've sent you a message using your CF7 form for the following autoresponders:
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The plugin is easy to use and it uses the submitted email and name fields from the basic CF7 form to insert these details into any of your lists from AWeber, GetResponse or MailChimp.
This plugin works for the default CF7 form which has the following fields:
The plugin will read the submitted values for the "Your Name" and "Your Email" fields in the above default CF7 form. Note that these fields have the "name" parameter set to:
If you wanted to use a slightly more customized form whereby instead of using just a single name field you wanted to use "first name" and "last name" in addition to the email field, then this plugin will also read these fields as long as you use the following "name" settings for these fields:
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- The forms which you want to use to add people to your AWeber, GetResponse or MC lists have been configured via the Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Your CF7 forms have been configured with the correct naming conventions for the name field, eg:
"your-name" (if you're using a single name field)
"your-first-name" (if you're using a first name field)
"your-last-name" (if you're using a last name field)
"mc-subscribe" (if you want to give your visitors the option to choose to subscribe to your list using a checkbox)
1. CF7 AutoResponder Addon Config Page
After you've installed and activated the CF7 AutoResponder Addon plugin, go to the Settings menu and choose CF7 AutoResp Addon as shown below:
2. Configuration Settings
Configure the plugin by entering the following settings (see screenshot below):
As shown in the figure above, you have 3 autoresponder systems to choose from and you can configure all of them or only the ones you need.
Configuring AWeber Settings
1) Enable the check-box called "Enable AWeber List Insertion".
This will activate the automatic insertion of people to your AWeber list when they send you a message via the Contact Form 7.
(Note: if you would like to temporarily disable the adding of people to your list, simply uncheck the flag)
2) Enter your AWeber list name.
Note: You would have specified this in your Aweber account when you created the list. Ensure that you enter the correct name because if you mispell the name or provide an incorrect list name, the plugin will not be able to add your client to your list.
3) Get the AWeber authentication code
In order for this plugin to securely talk to your AWeber account you will need to allow it do so by obtaining a special authentication code. To do this you will need to click on the link in the settings page.
This take you to AWeber and ask you to log in with your AWeber account details:
Important: After entering your login details you will need to click the Allow Access button as shown above.
You will then be provided with an authentication code which is a long string as shown below:
Copy the whole string and paste it into the authorization code field of the plugin settings.
4) Connect and authenticate your connection to AWeber.
After entering the above details click the "Connect to AWeber" button as shown in the figure above.
If the plugin is successful in authenticating the connection with AWeber you should see something like the following:
And that's it! Now whenever anyone leaves a message on your site using the Contact Form 7, they can be automatically be added to your AWeber list.
Please be aware that in order for someone to be added to your list, they will firstly need to confirm the subscription by clicking on the appropriate link in the "confirmation" email which is sent by AWeber.
Configuring GetResponse and MailChimp Settings
The configuration of the GetResponse and MailChimp is straightforward. You simply need to enable the applicable checkboxes and enter the API key and list name for your GetResponse or MailChimp systems and then click the save button to save your settings.
Giving your visitors an option to subscribe by using a checkbox on your CF7 form
You can also add a checkbox to your CF7 form so that you can give your visitors the choice of whether they wish tp subscribe or not.
You simply need to add a checkbox via the CF7 form editor with the "name" parameter set to "mc-subscribe" with a label saying something like "Subscribe Me".
An example of a checkbox being configured in the CF7 settings is shown below:
Important: the checkbox name must be mc-subscribe as shown in the figure above
You then paste the checkbox code into your CF7 form as shown in the example below:
This will then give your visitors the option of whether they want to subscribe to your list or newsletter or whatever, after submitting the CF7 form.
If this checkbox is present and it is enabled and provided that any of the "Enable AWeber List Insertion", "Enable GetResponse List Insertion" or "Enable Mailchimp List Insertion" are also enabled in the main settings, the plugin will allow the subscription to occur, otherwise it will not.
If by default you do not have the "mc-subscribe" checkbox in your form and any of the "Enable AWeber List Insertion", "Enable GetResponse List Insertion" or "Enable Mailchimp List Insertion" are also enabled, then subscription will occur by default.
Using different list names based on the CF7 form
Normally people are subscribed to the global AWeber, GetResponse or MailChimp list names which are specified in the main settings of this plugin.
However if for example you have more than 1 list in your AWeber or GetResponse or MailChimp accounts and you wish to add people the different lists, you can do so with this plugin based on the form you are using.
For example if you have 3 different CF7 forms on your site, you can use each form to add people to 3 separate lists whereby each CF7 form can be configured to specify an autoresponder list name.
To do this you simply need to modify the submit button code of the relevant CF7 form by adding an extra parameter.
For example a typical submit button code for a CF7 form looks like the following:
[submit "Send"]
Now if you wanted to use that particular CF7 form to add someone to a different list from the one specified in the global settings of this addon, you simply need to modify the submit code as follows for the CF7 form you are interested in:
[submit "Send|wpsolutionslist1"]
Note that we've simply added a "pipe" character "|" followed by the list name which in our example is called "wpsolutionslist1" to the name of the button.
Here's an actual example of a CF7 form config where we want to subscribe people to a list called "wpsolutionslist1":
The above method will allow you to subscribe people to specific list names based on the CF7 form they are using. This means you can conveniently insert people to more than one list depending on the form they fill in.
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Entry level HVAC technicians have numerous employment opportunities, including HVAC mechanic, HVAC installer, HVAC service technician, HVAC maintenance technician and HVAC refrigeration technician. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2012 to 2022, employment opportunities for HVAC installers and mechanics are expected to grow by 21 percent.Continue Reading
The majority of the entry level HVAC technicians work full-time and are even required to work in shifts, including odd hours. Depending on the company, HVAC technicians work at different places, including schools, office buildings, hospitals, residential homes, shopping malls and factories. The median annual pay for HVAC mechanics and installers, as of May 2012, is $43,640 and is expected to increase.
The number of sophisticated climate-control systems is on the rise and has increased the demand for qualified HVAC technicians. Technicians good in troubleshooting and familiar with electronics and computers have greater opportunity to land better jobs. Climate-control systems also need regular maintenance and require replacement every 10 to 15 years. This further spurs the demand for HVAC technicians.
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Learner Handbook: Overview of the PhD Program
The PhD Learner
Once admitted to the Intercultural Open University Foundation, you are called learners rather than students, reflecting the active rather than passive approach to the educational process. You engage in an intensely interactive process, as well as individual study and reflection. Interaction occurs in a variety of settings and modes: Discussion Forums, Peer Days, and formal and informal sessions with your Core Faculty Advisor and other committee members.
Objective of the PhD Program
The Doctor of Philosophy degree is traditionally awarded in recognition of advanced research and demonstrated proficiency in a field of study. Intercultural Open University Foundation is committed to individualized learning which requires the following:
Excellence in Scholarship
You will participate in a developing tradition of thought, discussion, exploration, and inquiry in your fields of study. Achieving excellence in scholarship requires full and meaningful participation in this evolving, cooperative endeavor.
Be computer literate and able to conduct extensive research and communicate on the World Wide Web. You will be expected to maintain an email address, which will be the primary method of communication. You will need to review the IOUF web site often for program details, updates, and news.
Interdisciplinary Component of PhD Studies
Intercultural Open University Foundation's PhD Studies Program encourages you to include in your program the concept of interdisciplinary study. By examining the tensions and relations between disciplines, you have an opportunity to reorder or redefine existing constructions of knowledge and discover new meanings and relationships between facts, theories, and methods. By advancing the frontiers of knowledge, you can engage in new modes of inquiry while building upon the foundation of those long established.
Analysis of Social Meaning
Regardless of your areas of academic interest, scholarship always reflects and affects the interests, concerns, policy choices, and possibilities of the larger society. Intercultural Open University Foundation's PhD. Program aspires to help learners to understand and accept responsibility for their engagement within a shared society as learners, scholars, professionals, and citizens. Intercultural Open University Foundation believes that the many facets of an individual scholar are inseparable. Thus, it is vital that you think about how your work will matter to the world.
Integration of Theory and Practice
In the process of lifelong learning, there can be no clear distinction between the active life and the contemplative life. The majority of individual IOU Foundation PhD programs grow directly out of the life experiences of learners. The questions they address most often stem from issues that have arisen within the world of professional and/or personal action rather than the world of formal academic discourse. Practical applications and implications help to realize and ground theoretical or critical speculations. A contemplative, philosophical, theoretical viewpoint enriches practical activity. Accordingly, IOU Foundation expects a balance of theory and practice within each individual degree program.
Self-Directed Learning in the Community
As a dispersed community of learners, many of whom have interests that cross conventional academic boundaries and disciplines; the PhD Program participates in a tradition of communal scholarship in unique ways. Self-directed learning occurs when you – not the institution – control both the learning objectives and the means of learning. Thus, self-directed learning can easily become isolating. The Foundation encourages and supports ongoing dialogues between each learner and other members of the scholarly community.
Organization of the PhD Program
Academic Year
The academic year for IOU Foundation PhD programs comprises 12 months. Your academic year is based on your start date. You choose the pace of study each year and designate specific learning activities based on your proposed study plan prior to Certification and the approved Learning Agreement components after Certification.
Minimum/Maximum Program Length
Intercultural Open University Foundation defines the minimum amount of time for you to complete and earn a PhD as two academic years. The maximum amount of time allotted for you to earn a PhD is five years.
Satisfactory Academic Progress
You are expected to make satisfactory academic progress in your programs according to the qualitative/quantitative expectations and milestones described in the Learner Handbook. Learners who fail to make satisfactory progress will be counselled and encouraged to withdraw from the program if they cannot meet their educational goals in a timely manner.
Although these components are expected to be distinct elements, they clearly relate to one another as parts of a coherent program designed to meet your own needs and interests while satisfying IOU Foundation criteria for the PhD.
Intercultural Open University Foundation-Sponsored PhD Learning Sessions
As a member of the PhD Program community, you have an important contribution to make to its growth. The Program is designed so that your knowledge and experience, as well as that of other learners, will be available to the community. Intercultural Open University Foundation-sponsored PhD events provide formal opportunities for you to interact with faculty and other learners in mutual sharing and learning. Networking, collaborative learning, and peer learning are essential features of the IOU Foundation educational process.
1. Entry Date
The Entry Date is a discussion group for the presentation and clarification of the IOU Foundation PhD process, critical analysis of program proposals, in-depth discussion with administrators, faculty and peers, and a review of research methodologies. Upon acceptance into the PhD. Program you receive a time for the PhD Entry Date. You may choose to participate in any Entry Date within six months of admission. Matriculation is effective the first day of the Entry Date.
Expected Outcomes
The Entry Date is not only your introduction to Intercultural Open University Foundation, but also serves as the primary vehicle to learn about its unique process. By the end, you should have a working understanding of the following required outcomes, as elaborated by the faculty conveners, with particular reference to your individualized program. These include the following:
2. Academic Processes and Requirements
Reflective Evaluation
Within 30 days following the Entry Date, you are asked to prepare a reflective evaluation of your experience, sending one copy to each faculty convener.
You send the reflective evaluation to the faculty co-conveners and also attach it to your draft Learning Agreement.
Successful completion of the Entry Date is determined by the conveners who affirm your readiness to proceed with the PhD Program.
2. Seminars
PhD Program Seminars are learning events convened by Core Faculty members and other members of the IOU Foundation community, often with co-conveners, at which participants explore significant topics and issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Seminars include dissemination and discussion of intellectual content, reflection, critique of old boundaries, creation of new modes of thought and action, and experiential activities. Seminars are open to all learners, on a space-available basis, regardless of your area of study. In order to reflect profitably on the central questions, participants are required to complete selected preparatory assignments. Seminars provide important opportunities for relating ideas and concepts from various fields to your personal and professional life as well as to the degree program. It is recommended that you schedule your Seminars at least six months apart in order to allow ample time for contact with the IOU Foundation community throughout the Program.
Reflective evaluation of Seminars
Within 30 days following a Seminar, you prepare a reflective evaluation, sending one copy to each convener, one to your Core Faculty Advisor. Your analysis serves two purposes: It provides an opportunity to reflect on the experience in terms of your own learning and self-development; and it provides feedback to IOU Foundation about the substance and design of the experience and its usefulness to learners.
In summarizing the breadth and depth of knowledge developed during the Seminar, you should reflect upon both content and process. Content statements refer to the specific ideas and concepts that were most significant, as well as the authors and references that had most impact on you during the reading and preparation phase. Process statements refer to the quality and intensity of your involvement in the Seminar, reflecting the kinds of energy and focus that developed, as well as the quality of the group process itself.
3. Peer Days
Peer Days provide opportunities for you to design and participate in communal learning ventures of value to your own program and colleagues. Peer Days are carried out with at least two other learners or graduates and include provision for assimilation and reflection upon the skills and knowledge you gained from the event. Whereas faculty convene Seminars, Peer Days are designed, convened, and evaluated by learners themselves. Graduates may participate in Peer Days and are counted as peers. Faculty also may attend but are not counted as peers.
Reflective evaluation of Peer Days
Following each Peer Day, you must prepare a reflective evaluation and send a copy to your Core Faculty Advisor as well as attach a copy to your program summary.
Successful completion is demonstrated by your reflective evaluation of the peer day and confirmed by your core's evaluation and approval on the learning completion form.
Proficiency in PhD Learning Conceptualization
At the time of matriculation, you begin the process of developing your individual Learning Agreement. This is an intense and complex process that involves considerable research and exploration into various aspects of the field(s) of study. This part of your doctoral studies asks that you consider Field Construction, Curriculum Development, PDE Conceptualization, and PDE Research Design.
Proficiency in the following areas is needed for individualized PhD Study:
Assessment of prior learning: A description of how your prior learning has prepared you for PhD studies at IOU Foundation.
New Learning
You must plan a program that will provide scholarly, comprehensive knowledge of the issues, texts, theories, methods, and ethical considerations pertinent to your field of study. You pursue your new learning in a variety of ways, building upon, but going significantly beyond, your prior learning.
Your PhD Committee members are responsible for the evaluative process. Through consultations with your committee members you will determine who among them is primarily responsible for evaluating work in particular areas of your program. Your Core Faculty Advisor is responsible for overseeing the ongoing evaluation of your work
The Internship is an extended new learning activity that gives you an opportunity to balance theory with practice. It allows you to work in a professional field and to gain practical work experience related to your area of concentration. Whatever its form or venue, the internship goes beyond "business as usual." Designing and arranging the Internship is your responsibility, subject to approval by your Core Faculty Advisor in consultation with your PhD Committee. Documentation consists of your analysis of the internship and a report by the evaluator of the internship.
However long it actually takes, the Internship represents the equivalent of three months' full-time involvement (500 hours). The Internship may take one or more of the following forms, but need not be limited to these alone:
You may participate in more than one Internship, integrating all such activity into your overall program. You will designate an Internship advisor who will assist with and verify your learning. The advisor may be a member of your PhD Committee or a non-member with appropriate credentials. Because he or she will be involved in evaluating a significant component of the program, you should be sure to choose someone with whom you have not had a prior personal or financial relationship that might cast doubt on the integrity of the evaluation.
Project Demonstrating Excellence (PDE)
Each IOU Foundation PhD learner makes a significant, original contribution to human knowledge by preparing a Project Demonstrating Excellence (PDE) – a major effort of scholarship, artistic creativity, or social action. The PDE addresses the appropriate intellectual, cultural, and/or artistic traditions of your field(s) and signifies grounding in the relevant theoretical, creative and critical scholarship. It allows you to exercise your originality and creativity, so that your work provides new knowledge and approaches to the larger scholarly community.
2. Artistic/Creative Project
If you choose to create an artistic/creative project, the project will explore something new, demonstrate seriousness of purpose, convey a sense of depth, and communicate your discoveries and insights. Your project should provide clear evidence of your contribution to the chosen genre, furthering the work of other artists, past or present.
3. Social Action Projects
As with artistic/creative projects, when you choose a PDE that takes the form of a social action project, you must plan to explore something new, to demonstrate seriousness of purpose, to convey a sense of depth, and to communicate discoveries and insights. The project should further the understanding and social effort of others while clearly bearing your stamp.
Personal Development
Self-knowledge is one common goal that helps everyone to achieve personal development. Realizing what is truly important is a major step toward achieving that goal. The Personal Development component of the PhD Program, which reflects and embodies your unique personality and needs, invites you to pay attention to dimensions – who you are, where you are going, what you want, and what you ought to do – that are significantly involved in your learning. You are expected to articulate specific objectives and strategies for Personal Development and to describe how your accomplishments will be evaluated. In the Learning Agreement you need to distinguish clearly between your professional and Personal Development. Learning new skills is acceptable if these skills are important not just to your academic or professional life, but also to your overall development as a person. Personal Development activities also should be addressed in the Program Summary.
The PhD Process
Core Faculty Advisor
Your first step in choosing a Core Faculty Advisor is to establish a relationship with a member of the Core faculty of the PhD Program. This individual must be someone with whom you feel comfortable; who can challenge you to do excellent work and to make full use of available learning resources, and who serves as mentor, guide, advisor, supporter, and evaluator. Geographic proximity may be beneficial, but it should not be the determining factor.
The Satisfactory Academic Progress Policy standards for PhD learners include three milestone requirements, the first of which is the following:
Expect Committee members to the following:
Second Core Reader
The Second Core Reader is a External Scholar qualified to assess the quality of your PhD work through a review of the Learning Agreement), the PDE, the Program Summary, and the Draft Narrative Transcript. These documents represent the products of your PhD Program. Because these documents result from discussion, revision, and consultation with your PhD Committee, the committee members and you may develop shared assumptions and understandings about your material that are not evident to an outsider. The Second Core Reader stays, by design, distant from the committee and does not participate in meetings. From this outside perspective, she or he is expected to judge whether you are functioning at the PhD level in planning and fulfilling a program of studies and experiences relevant to the specified degree area.
Adjunct Professors
You also choose at least one External Scholar from inside or outside IOU Foundation for your Committee, who are recognized authorities in their major areas of study and who must hold the PhD or other appropriate terminal degree. They may be chosen from the active or retired faculty of any accredited college or university or from other professions and occupational settings. PhD alumnae/of the IOU Foundation becomes eligible to serve as adjuncts five years after completion of their programs. These members of your PhD Committee must have scholarly credentials indicating currency in their field(s) of study pertinent to your program.
Peer Members
Your committee also will include peers, who must be IOU Foundation learners or IOU Foundation alumni. Peers are expected to make substantive, scholarly contributions to your overall program and empower you by adding the valuable dimension of shared expertise as fellow learners. They actively support, encourage, and constructively assess your work. Because the integrity of the IOU Foundation diploma is important to all learners and graduates, peer members must have a specific interest in the quality of your work.
Your PhD Committee may include one or more consultants, whom you may add to the committee as needed to offer expertise not otherwise available in areas critical to your program. While they do not have voting privileges, consultants must contribute significantly to your work. Consultants are nominated and appointed to your committee in the same fashion as external scholars and peers. Consultants do not work under contract to Intercultural Open University Foundation and receive no stipends. However, you should recognize contributions by consultants in the acknowledgements in the Learning Agreement, PDE, and Program Summary.
Nomination and Approval of Committee Members
After the Entry Date, you will begin the process of selecting your Core Faculty Advisor in consultation with the convenors. Because the IOU Foundation faculty is diverse, you should contact several faculty members before making your selection.
The second milestone for Satisfactory Academic Progress is the following:
Replacement of Committee Members
Careful selection normally will enable your PhD Committee to retain the same membership throughout your program. Replacement of a member may become necessary, however, for such extreme reasons as illness, resignation, personal conflict, or change in the direction of your program. Any such changes must be discussed with your Core Faculty Advisor and the members of the PhD Committee prior to circulation of the Learning Agreement (Comprehensive Degree Plan) in preparation for your Certification meeting.
II. The Learning Agreement
The Learning Agreement provides a thorough, detailed, written description of your plans for achieving a PhD through the PhD Program process. It is designed and composed in consultation with your Core Faculty Advisor and committee. Following its approval by your Committee and the Dean, it becomes the explicit, signed agreement between you, your Committee, and Intercultural Open University Foundation that will guide your PhD Program from Certification to graduation.
The Learning Agreement presents your individualized plan for achieving a PhD in a manner that reflects excellence in scholarship, proficiency in your chosen field, an original contribution to human knowledge, an interdisciplinary orientation, social meaning analysis, and a balance of theory and practice. You are encouraged to plan innovative and experiential learning strategies, independent study, supervised readings, mentoring, audiotapes and videotapes, library and museum research, private consultations and interviews with experts, meetings of professional associations, communications media, industrial laboratories, site visits and other fieldwork, private collections, and other appropriate resources. Travel, conferences, workshops, and constructive social action may also be part of your program. Whatever approaches to learning you plan, you should insure that you present a PhD Program that is integrated, balanced, and comprehensive and meets the accepted standards for a terminal research degree.
The Learning Agreement provides a statement concerning your plan of study, its personal and professional significance, its interdisciplinary character, its social implications, and its connection of theory to practice. The Learning Agreement is articulated in the following ten sections:
Amendments to the Learning Agreement
Recognizing that PhD study at IOU Foundation is an evolutionary process, you are encouraged to make alterations to the Learning Agreement as needed. The Learning Agreement must be amended for major substantive changes and requires approval by your full PhD Committee. Amendments to the Learning Agreement will specify the learning activities for which proficiency areas are added or increased. It is not necessary for you to amend your Learning Agreement for minor modifications. Minor modifications to the Learning Agreement can be approved in writing by your core faculty. Minor modifications are those that do not result in a substantial change of focus in the PDE or the choice of field(s) of study.
III. Certification
Meaning of Certification
Certification is the point when IOU Foundation officially accepts your proposed program of study. At the time of your Certification, the Learning Agreement sets forth the plan that you will complete in your proposed program.
Scheduling the Certification Meeting
You are responsible for scheduling the Certification meeting. You must have nominated a PhD Committee, secured the appointments of its members via your Core Faculty Advisor, and drafted a suitable Learning Agreement. After reviewing the initial drafts, your Core Faculty Advisor will advise you when the document is ready to circulate to the rest of your committee. When the other committee members have read the plan and have agreed that it provides a suitable basis for a meeting, you may schedule the meeting. Because committee members have busy schedules, you are advised to allow committee members at least 30 days to review the Learning Agreement. Because IOU Foundation requires notice of the approval of the entire Committee at least 30 days prior to the meeting, the learner should plan to submit the Learning Agreement to your Core Faculty Advisor to the Second Core Reader with adequate time for a careful review of the document.
Timetable for Certification
You must obtain certification within 18 months after the Entry Date, which is a critical academic milestone. Periods of time needed to prepare for Certification vary greatly from learner to learner, depending upon such factors as prior background and learning style. Still, you should plan to hold the Certification meeting no later than 16 months into the program to allow time for revisions and the review by the faculty Quality Assurance Committee.
Holding the Certification Meeting
A primary goal of the Certification meeting is to achieve agreement among your committee members regarding the Learning Agreement. The Committee may decide to accept the document as is or it may require that changes or additions be made before it is forwarded to the Dean.
The Certification meeting usually is the first opportunity for PhD Committee members to meet and to begin working together as a group. Often, lively collegial exchanges occur as members explore alternative viewpoints and begin to generate new ideas and approaches. Successful Certification meetings are filled with intellectual excitement and mutual affirmation. The Committee truly begins to function as a team, working together to help you clarify program goals and the strategies for achieving them.
Assessment - The PhD Committee
At the end of the meeting, if the PhD Committee is ready to recommend Certification, each member will send and email approving the document to your core faculty advisor. If the Committee desires additions or changes to the Learning Agreement they must decide on how the final draft will be reviewed. If the changes are relatively minor, they can choose to delegate responsibility for review of the modifications to your Core Faculty Advisor.
Assessment — The Quality Assurance Review
Following the committee's recommendation for Certification and the receipt of required documents, the Quality Assurance Committee will review the Learning Agreement and will either accept it or request that additional information be added to the plan. The Certification process is complete when the Committee accepts the Learning Agreement on behalf of IOU Foundation and signs the Certification Recommendation and Approval Form.
Certification Date (admission to Candidacy)
The third milestone for Satisfactory Academic Progress is the following:
IV. Satisfactory Academic Progress
Qualitative Standard
Intercultural Open University Foundation does not compute a grade point average (GPA) for PhD learners because a GPA system would not accurately reflect the primarily qualitative evaluative processes of the program.
Quantitative Standard
The quantitative standard for satisfactory academic progress contains three components: (1) maximum time frame for completion of the PhD Program, (2) milestone requirements. In addition to meeting the qualitative standard of satisfactory completion of learning activities, you must meet all components of the quantitative standard to remain in good standing.
Maximum Time frame for Completion of the PhD Program
You must satisfactorily complete your PhD Program within five (5) years of matriculation. Calculations begin with the Entry Date and is exclusive of periods of official withdrawal and/or official leaves of absence.
V. Preparing for Graduation
Preparation of the PDE Manuscript
The PDE is the most significant academic outcome you will produce during your PhD Program. It demonstrates that you have achieved excellence in scholarship and proficiency in your chosen field(s) and have made original and significant contributions to knowledge. All PDEs are published digitally and on microfilm by UMI Dissertation Publishing. Many learners have subsequently published PDEs in book form.
Preparation of the PhD Program Summary
The PhD Program Summary affords the opportunity to look back on your PhD Program in order to examine how it contributed to your intellectual and personal development. Completed before scheduling the Pre-Graduation Meeting (PhD Program Review Meeting), this document is an integral component of the process and becomes a part of your educational record, summarizing all learning completed during the program. Because it provides the basis for the narrative transcript that you will prepare, be sure it refers to all learning completed in the PhD Program. It is imperative that the Program Summary and narrative transcript be consistent with each other.
The PhD Program Description includes the following basic information:
The development, accomplishment, and outcomes of the PDE
In the Reflection and Analysis section you should also discuss how the people with whom you worked and the processes and procedures of the PhD Program influenced your experience from an academic, personal, and societal viewpoint. Some considerations are as follows:
The Pre-Graduation Meeting (Pre-Graduation Meeting (PhD Program Review Meeting)
The purpose of the meeting is to bring the PhD Committee together to discuss your program and your graduation documents. It is a working meeting, scheduled near the end of your program so that you can benefit from your committee's collective wisdom as you prepare the final version of your program documents. Your committee's charge is to review your entire program according to IOU Foundation degree criteria for the following:
Assessment – The Final Degree Meeting
VI. Graduation
Submitting Graduation Materials
Once you have held your Final Degree meeting, you must submit the following materials to IOU Foundation:
Assessment–The Dean's Review
Upon receipt of all the materials, the Quality Assurance Committee (QAC) conducts a review similar to the one carried out at Certification, a process that usually is completed in 30 days. The QAC may accept the PhD Committee's recommendation for graduation or may determine that additional work is needed. The official date of your graduation will be the last day of the month in which the QAC recommends graduation.
Administrative Review
Following the QAC review, the business office will check to see that all fees have been paid.
Final Documents
Following approval of your documents by the QAC, you must submit a copy of the PDE for be shipment to University Microfilms Inc./ProQuest where it becomes the original version that UMI will use to create both a microfilm archival copy as well as the digitized PDF version that is added to IOU Foundation's online dissertation database. UMI stores the microfilm version of each dissertation at their production facility in Michigan for archival purposes on IOU's behalf. Details, including fee and form, are included in the PhD Program Review packet.
Commencement is held once a year, typically in the fall, at the Foundation's headquarters in Spain or the United States. Learners who are eligible to participate in commencement will receive information in advance. Academic regalia may be ordered at that time. Questions regarding commencement should be directed to the President's Office.
Upon completion of the program, you automatically become a member of the Graduate Alumni Association and an important part of the Foundation's alumnae/initiatives.
Special Circumstances
Requests for Waiver and Grievance and Appeals
Requests for exceptions to academic policy may be made to IOU Foundation through the Waiver Committee. To initiate a request, submit the Waiver Request Form (available on the IOU Foundation Web site www.ioufoundation.org) and a written statement to the committee via your core faculty advisor, giving all pertinent information and a supporting letter from the Core Faculty Advisor. The Waiver Committee will advise you of the decision.
Grievance and Appeals
If a learner or member of the learner's PhD Committee disagrees with a decision made by a member of the committee or the QAC, an attempt should be made to settle the dispute at the lowest level possible. If no resolution appears forthcoming, the matter should be referred to the, the Academic Appeals Committee or to the President.
Program Assessment
Learners are selected for their maturity, for their creativity, and for their sound judgment about their capacity and motivation for undertaking PhD-level work. However, a faculty member or other member of the IOU Foundation community at any time may initiate a review of a learner's program and such a review may lead to withdrawal. The review is done by the Program Assessment Committee (PAC), which makes its recommendation to the President.