Provides examples of how federal agencies have responded to the possibility that terrorists could use information on their Web sites to plan further attacks, following the September 11 attacks. Discusses implications of the removal and alteration of government information and offers suggestions for developing a government-wide Web site policy.…

Discusses implications of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, antiterrorism legislation that was passed after the September 11 attacks, regarding privacy issues. Highlights include information privacy; privacy and government, including increases in the surveillance powers of government; privacy and the private sector; and future possibilities. (Author/LRW)

Investigated how racial identity formation among African American college students impacted student attitudes about the rapidly changing world. Surveys administered shortly after the September 11 attacks indicated that racial identity attitudes, gender, and student classification helped explain attitudes about the United States in the aftermath of…

Surveyed university faculty shortly after the September 11 attacks to investigate how they engaged with their students following these events. Classrooms became safe spaces for expressions of emotional vulnerability and public grieving. Some professors offered themselves as moral guides, striving to forestall the expression of hostility. Others…

Shows how young children in one early childhood classroom used art materials to express their feelings one day after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Maintains that adults should help children use art activities to work out an understanding of violent events, regain control, and reach some…

Discusses how many college officials expect chaos when the federal government imposes its January 30 deadline for colleges to comply with Sevis, a computerized system for tracking foreign students. (EV)

Outlines 21 actions, both immediate and over the long term, that administrators can take to protect students and schools from terrorist activities. Includes establishing a chain of command, a command post, a crisis response team, a communications staff, and inservice training. (four references) (MLF)

Post-September 11th, considers how administrative leaders can define the institutional role in helping shape community response to the crisis at hand, especially the role of facilitator of public discussion of government policy. Asserts that conducted well and neutrally, the university's proactive assumption of such a role vastly furthers its…

Presents the story of one New York City high school teacher who was assaulted by a student and who had to struggle to return to teaching, describing how many witnesses to such events do not get involved and explaining that many teachers never return after such an experience. The paper also examines the teacher's reaction to the September 11, 2001…

Discusses how many Middle Eastern students, pressured by their parents and in the face of growing hostility on American campuses, are abandoning their studies to return to their home countries. (EV)

We analyzed the content of school-aged children's responses to a countywide in-class essay assignment in which they described what they are thankful for. Accounts were written in November of 2000 (n=152) and 2001 (n=196). We identified the most prominent themes of children's gratitude as well as differences in the themes that emerged before and…

This study examined factors that contribute to effectiveness of social work for victims of terrorism, as reflected by a reduction of mental distress and promotion of personal growth in clients. Participants were 148 pairs of social workers and clients. Social workers completed questionnaires that assessed the intervention characteristics (micro-…

Many employers in the United States have responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, by initiating or expanding policies requiring background checks of prospective employees. Their ability to perform such checks has been abetted by the growth of computerized databases and of commercial enterprises that facilitate access to personal…

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent anthrax bioterrorism mailings, the science community and others worried that technical articles might inadvertently aid those planning acts of terrorism. Some authors asked the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for permission to withhold critical information from…

This paper considers the long-standing debate in the field of translation concerning whether texts should be fully acculturated into the target system or should retain traces of their foreign origin. The author suggests that these debates become redundant, if not counter-productive in the field of news translation, where the demands of the target…