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The purpose of this study was to examine student and faculty perspectives of student incivility in the online learning environment and social media platforms and to describe the participants' recommendations for promoting civility. Mixed-method design was used to collect data from a convenience sample of students and faculty in a nursing program in the Southeast United States. 53 faculty members and 203 nursing students participated, and the majority agreed that incivility is a problem to some degree. Several themes emerged for effectively promoting civility. Incivility is a problem, but students and faculty believe the use of proactive strategies may be effective in promoting civility. Implications for International Audience: As more nursing programs move to the OLE, even if temporarily as occurred during the pandemic, coupled with the increase in social media use, there is need to recognize and implement strategies to thwart the incidence of incivility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article investigates the nature of the arguments used by U.S. English, the chief interest group in charge of urging a return to a Type A language planning policy and the most intellectually useful political science perspective which might explain how California's voters have come to think this way about language use and language function in the U.S. The first proposition upon which the group bases its demand for English as the official language in the U.S. is that without an official language the U.S. will become disunified, as with Canada's problems with Quebec. The fact that Canada's disunity occurs even when French and English are the co-official languages of the country is disregarded. But former Senator Hayakawa has for some time spoken of what he fears to bet the centripetal effect of two languages in Canada, and U.S. English has adopted him and his point of view as its own. Scholars have no way of knowing whether or not Senator Hayakawa knew the facts about Quebec history, French-Canadian ethnicity, the nature of language group mobilization, the actual social and economic forces at work in Quebec, the manifest differences between French Canadian and U.S. politics, or the nature of political leadership in Quebec as opposed to the kind of elites emerging within Mexican-American groups.