Gavilo Random Facts
What language(s) does Dr. Gavilo speak?
What is English?
Everyone is Dr. Gavilo's family is bilingual and superior. They speak English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Hebrew.
The Federal Poverty Level for a 1-person or 4-person household (i.e. how much money can they make annually (within $1k).
For a 1 person household $14,580.
For a 4 person household $19,720.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/poverty-guidelines
The idea that it is both possible and legitimate for private and public institutions to affect behavior while also respecting freedom of choice refers to.
What is Libertarian paternalism?
What do you get for participating in HON?
A great education and the opportunity to be taught by some of the best faculty.
Instrument does Dr. Gavilo's son plays.
Ten extra credit points if you know why it wasn't the most natural fit for him to play it.
What is a violin?
He is left-handed.
Ten points extra credit if you know how it was expanded.
What is 40 states?
Changing the level from 100% to 133-38% of the FPL.
Starting with some anchor, the number we know, and adjust in the direction we think is appropriate. The bias occurs because the adjustments are typically insufficient. The term this refers to.
Anchoring and adjustment.
HON students finish in 4 or 5 years.
Why is this good or bad?
What is a good mix of 4 to 5 years?
Before coming to Belmont, name 3 jobs Dr. Gavilo held.
What are...
Convenience Store Manger (Tom Thumb)
Waitress
Montessori Teacher
Graduate TA
Resident Advisor
Director of Homeless Youth Clinic (Tulane)
Owned a Substance Treatment Clinic
Graduate Professor (Statistics/Epidemiology)
Director at Mayo Clinic (School of Graduate Medical Education)
According to Raj Chetty social/economic mobility is not the American Dream we were promised. What is one factor that impacts social mobility?
There are five factors.
Social Mobility:
1. Segregation
2. Income Inequality
3. Quality of Public Schools
4. Strengths of Social Networks
5. Fractions of Single Parents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05NeaG3d2A
Books Dr. Gavilo selected for HON class?
When Breath Becomes Air
and
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
The process for getting registering for classes entails.
1. Reviewing major program of study.
2. Reviewing HON/BELL Core requirements.
3. Meeting with Major advisors and consulting HON advisor.
What is Dr. Gavilo's daughter's name?
Ten points extra credit if you know why.
1. I like girls names for boys & 2. I sat on Mayo MSGME committees and identified implicit gender bias in acceptance/interview practices.
Tennessee has a regressive, progressive or flat tax rate?
Ten points extra credit if you can explain these terms.
Tennessee has a regressive tax rate.
https://apps.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/whys/thm03/les05/media/ws_ans_thm03_les05.pdf
Do Nudges impede choice. Make a cogent argument.
I'm listening.
Belmont global honors program requires what semester abroad?
Dr. Gavilo talks a lot about college tours because her son is a senior in high school and she's trying to convince him to go to one of the colleges she went to. What school did Dr. Gavilo not get a degree from?
a. Emory University
b. Tulane
c. University of Minnesota
d. West Georgia University
e. Tennessee State University
f. University of Tennessee
What is the University of Minnesota?
Play Spent's objective was to.
Experience what it is like to live from paycheck to paycheck and try to survive and make hard decisions.
Provide an example of a nudge.
I'm listening.
The Well Core requirement entails...