Established in 1997, the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP) is a mentoring program that pairs middle school girls with college women from the University of Virginia for combined group and one-on-one mentoring. In addition to their initial preventative program model, YWLP has recently begun to develop a global connections curriculum in order to create an opportunity for cultural exchange amongst...

I distill the indispensability argument to four general charateristics, which yield six unfortunate consequences, unwelcome characteristics of the objects yielded by the argument. The indispensabilist’s objects are not mathematical, in any traditional sense, but merely empirical posits. Then, I characterize a form of structuralism in the philosophy of mathematics which relies on an indispensabi...

In 1925 the Carnegie Corporation granted $50,000 to Louisiana, a state then “backward in library development,” to fund a demonstration of rural public library development. Essae M. Culver, a California librarian, was chosen to direct the project. Culver arrived in Louisiana to fi nd that the entire state needed organizing. She concluded that the parish (county) was the appropriate unit upon whi...