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Purpose: This study aims to investigate the Colorado state university (CSU) MOVES online, transportation module, which was implemented for the dual purpose of promoting alternative modes of transportation and while providing students with the information and skills necessary to comfortably and safely commute on and around campus without a personal motor vehicle. Design/methodology/approach: This mixed methods research tests the effect of the CSU MOVES transportation module on students' familiarity, comfortability and knowledgeability, the researchers investigate within- and across-group changes in student survey responses over time. Findings: The educational transportation module had an immediate and significant impact on the students' familiarity, comfortability and knowledgeability regarding alternative and active transportation methods and this effect lasted over the semester. In addition, participating students experienced much larger gains in their knowledgeability of safe active transportation practices. Research limitations/implications: The CSU MOVES survey data was limited in multiple ways, including self-selection into participation and completion of the transportation module, as well as the small sample size and lack of an authentic control group. Originality/value: Universities and colleges across the country are becoming critically aware of issues surrounding transportation on and around campus and CSU is one of the first universities to join together with the local community to implement a transportation education module. Transportation initiatives have been motivated by multiple factors such as the supply of and demand for parking on and around campuses, sustainability efforts to reduce carbon emissions associated with university operations and the promotion of student health through active lifestyle practices.

We define pricing power as a college's ability to increase its net tuition revenue by raising its sticker-price for tuition. The greater is the positive effect of sticker-price increases on net tuition revenue, the greater is the pricing power. We gauge variation in the pricing power of private, non-profit baccalaureate colleges by estimating this effect over the academic years 2000-2001 through 2012-2013--a span which includes two recessions. Drawing on IPEDS data for 118 colleges, our empirical results reveal that the additional real net tuition revenue earned per dollar increase in the real sticker-price fell by 5% following the 2001-2002 recession, but had fully recovered to its pre-recession level by 2004-2005. In contrast, since the end of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 the real return to sticker-price increases has fallen by 12% with no recovery in sight by the end of our sample period. So while private colleges' pricing power was pro-cyclical during the sample period's first recession, the later, more severe Great Recession has produced a larger, longer lasting negative effect on pricing power. We consider the implications for private colleges of this lost pricing power.

Through compelling examples from various continents, Reidinger effectively illustrates the far-reaching consequences of invasive species on native ecosystems and local communities, and the complexities of mitigating damage. In Chapter 6, Communities, Ecosystems, and Landscapes, Reidinger equates ecosystems to communities - all organisms living in an area at a given time interacting with their abiotic components. Russell Reidinger's revised book, I Human-Wildlife Conflict Management: Prevention and Problem Solving i , provides a comprehensive and practical guide to understanding human-wildlife conflict, and offers a variety of effective strategies in prevention and resolution. [Extracted from the article]