Making Contact with Students in Online Learning (Part 1 of 3)
Is There a Face in There?
  Ken L. Haley

According to eduventures.com, the market for distance learning courses is growing at 40% per year. In the 2001/2002 academic year, more than 350,000 students were enrolled in fully online courses/programs. This rate of growth is likely to continue. I jumped into this online environment three years ago after teaching for 12 years in the traditional college classroom. The shift was not an easy one at first. However, the transition has been worth the effort, and I would like to share some things I have learned along the way.   full text

Editor's Note:
  Karen Heise

The View From Here:
Lynne Fukuda

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Ecofeminist Theory in Sustainable Development: Moving Toward a New Environmental Paradigm
  Brian J. English

In this era of globalization and neo-liberalist policies, maintaining a sustainable relationship with the environment needs to be examined not just from an ecological perspective, but also from political and social angles. Since environmental issues are often connected to social and political concerns, a theoretical framework that encompasses a wider ideology may facilitate an understanding of the interconnectedness of ecological issues. Deep ecology, institutional environmentalism, green political theory, and possibly other schools of thought forge connections between environmental, political and social concerns. Ecofeminism emerges as an alternative theory for framing the issues and answers of sustainable development. An ecofeminist perspective more fully describes the connections between environmental degradation and the social inequalities that plague the poverty-stricken victims of pollution, urbanization, deforestation, and other by-products of over-development.   full text

The Gypsy Effect: Finding My Future
  Kristy Ulibarri

Poetry: Marginalized
  Renard B. Harris

Poetry:
     A Jaywalker Just Yelled  /  The Recount of a Dream
        Sayyed Mohsen Fatemi

Way down south in the Isle of Solipsism,
Feminism is honking the horn.
Postmodernism has broad-sided the wheels of Certainty in the crossroad of Reality.
The officers of Globalization are patrolling around to modify
Bumper-to-bumper wagons of localization. They call it a fender bender.
Structuralism has jammed the brakes.  full text