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Distance Learners: Not Necessarily Distant, Rachel Viggiano

The Southeastern Librarian

The following paper was presented at the 2002 SELA/South Carolina Library Association Joint Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the “New Voices” program, sponsored by the University and College Libraries Section (UCLS) of SELA. The Southeastern Librarian is pleased to reprint the paper in its entirety.

The purpose of this paper is to examine many of the issues involved in providing library services to distance learners, and to discuss the growing overlap of services for traditional on-campus students and distance learners. Is the distinction between the two groups enough to merit a separation of services, or should libraries …

Towards Understanding The Emergence Of African-American Church Schools: Early Hypotheses And A Research Agenda, Georgia A. Persons

Trotter Review

A survey of the Atlanta metropolitan area reveals a growing trend in African-American church sponsored schools. The emergence of these schools is curious in that it is counterintuitive to the protection of the public school system on which the majority of African-Americans rely; the schools are mainly in the suburbs where the public schools offer relatively high standards of education; and there seems to be no public debate accompanying a trend that is likely to have far-reaching public policy implications. In this article, the author discusses the possible reasons for the emergence of these schools and the potential public policy …

Autobiography In Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education: Three Case Studies, Anita E. Fernandez

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

An Investigation Into The Preferred Learning Styles Of Accounting, Management, Marketing, And General Business Majors, Adel M. Novin, Lari H. Arjomand, Louis Jourdan

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Leaarning To Teach Elementary Science, Debra Zinicola, Roberta Devlin-Scherer

Teaching and Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry & Reflective Practice

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents And Editorial Information For Vol. 31, No. 1, Fall 2003, Mary P. Mckeown-Moak

Educational Considerations

Table of contents and editorial information for Vol. 31, no. 1, Fall 2003

Foreword, Mary P. Mckeown-Moak

Educational Considerations

This edition of Educational Considerations is devoted to the issues impacting on higher education at the beginning of the 21st century: declining revenues from all sources; increasing demands for accountability; increasing costs leading to increases in tuition and fees; enrollment management; and the changing role of state governments.

Enrollment Management And Tuition Discounting, Lucie Lapovsky, Loren Loomis Hubbell

Educational Considerations

Enrollment management is critical to the success of all colleges and universities, and especially in times when state appropriations are not increasing, the endowment is not producing at historical levels, and gifts are not keeping pace with inflation.

The Changing Financial And Policy Role Of State Governments Regarding Higher Education And Prospects For The Future, Daniel T. Layzell

Educational Considerations

Higher education in the United States grew rapidly in the post-World War II era, more than doubling the total number of degree-granting institutions (1,851 to 4,084) and increasing the total number of students enrolled more than five-fold (2.7 million to 14.8 million) between 1950 and 2000.

Performance Reporting: The Preferred "No Cost" Accountability Program, Joseph C. Burke, Henrik P. Minassians

Educational Considerations

For the last six years, the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York at Albany has been surveying the State Higher Education Finance Officers (hereafter referred to as budget officers) regarding state activities in higher education performance funding and budgeting.

Coinage Of A Dordt Degree, Calvin Jongsma

Pro Rege

This article is the 2001 Dordt College commencement address by Dr. Calvin Jongsma.

Runner's Impact On The Academy And Beyond: Personal Reflections, Al Wolters

Pro Rege

The following article was the opening keynote address presented by Dr. Al Wolters at the Runner Legacy Conference held at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario, on October 4, 2002. The conference was jointly sponsored by Calvin College, Dordt College, Trinity Christian College, The Institute for Christian Studies, The King's University College, and Redeemer University College.

Give Thanks For H. Evan Runner, Keith C. Sewell

Pro Rege

This tribute was written in memory of Dr. H. Evan Runner, Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College from 1951-1981. Dr. Runner was "in many ways... responsible for the creation of the ICS [Institute for Christian Studies] in Toronto," and "gave inspirational leadership to the Association for the Advancement of Christian Scholarship (AACS) in Canada" (Phil de Haan, Chimes, 3/29/03).

Educational Considerations, Vol. 31(1) Full Issue, Mary P. Mckeown-Moak

Educational Considerations

Educational Considerations, vol. 31(1) Fall 2003 - Full issue

Public Education's Perfect Storm, J. Kent Caruthers

Educational Considerations

Today, a confluence of six sets of trends are serving to create what is likely to become regarded as the “perfect storm” for funding of public higher education.

Financing Higher Education In Fiscal Year 2003: The State Of The States, Mary P. Mckeown-Moak

Educational Considerations

So begins the 2002 Fiscal Survey of the States from the National Governors Association. Nearly every state has reduced budgets and cut expenditures in light of reductions in anticipated state revenues.

Social Competence, Transition Plans And Children With Learning Disabilities, Erica Ruegg

Essays in Education

Social competence is the ability to use the appropriate social skills in every aspect of life. For children with learning disabilities, it is a difficult skill to master. These children have trouble with communicating, following directions, listening and completing a task, which can cause problems in the classroom and in adulthood. Yet, these skills are rarely addressed on the individual education and transition plans for these students. The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of children who have learning disabilities and social competence deficits. The difficulties of social competence are examined through the definition of this skill, …

Maximizing The Student Teaching Experience: Cooperating Teachers Share Strategies For Success, Donna R. Sanderson

Essays in Education

This article critically examines the results of a survey completed by fifty-seven cooperating teachers from nine different school districts in the greater Philadelphia area. All of the cooperating teachers had welcomed elementary education student teachers into their classrooms. Strategies used to help alleviate student teachers’ fears and concerns related to their student teaching experience are shared and explored. Findings suggest that teachers use a multitude of strategies to calm their student teachers and set them up for a successful student teaching semester. Cooperating teachers detailed the tasks needed to be accomplished BEFORE the beginning of the student teaching semester to …

The Charter School As A Factory: This Is Reform?, Michael W. Simpson

Essays in Education

Charter schools have been pushed as a way to reform education. This article is my experience in one charter school. The structural freedom provided charter schools do not necessarily mean an improvement in education practices. Convention, tradition, and banking education may persist. Authoritarian administrative practices may continue and impede true reform which occurs at the classroom level by empowered, professional educators. Computers can assist in the persistence of convention, tradition, and banking education.

Because Writing Matters: Improving Student Writing In Our Schools, Timothy Lintner

Essays in Education

Because Writing Matters is a publication of the National Writing Project whose goal, for over 25 years, is to seek and promote ways in which schools can improve the art of writing. With over 175 affiliates in all 50 states, the NWP promotes the facilitation of proven methodologies in which student achievement, teacher innovation, and administrative support focus on the common objective of increasing student proficiency and confidence in writing.

Employing Service Learning In Community-University Partnership Program To Develop Local Msmes In Bungo And Tejo Regencies, Mona Novita, M. Syukri Ismail, Muhammad Solihin, Muhammad Asman

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

This paper illustrates the implementation of a community project developed based on a partnership between the community and the local university in Bungo and Tebo Regencies. The project aims to develop the local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) as a strategic step to increase the regional economy, taking the form of a so- called Community–University Partnership Program in Bungo and Tebo Regencies. The Community–University Partnership methodology employs the Service Learning (SL) method to increase MSME actors’ competence in terms of financial literacy, product packaging, and marketing. The effectiveness of the SL-based Community–University Partnership Program was measured using a quantitative …

Empowering Women As Family Financial Planners: A Mitigation Of The Pandemic's Economic Impact, Faridiah Aghadiati Fajri, Hilda Octavana Siregar, Dianila Oktyawati, Rumiyati Rumiyati

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

This article discusses a community engagement program that supports housewives as financial managers in difficult times, like COVID-19 Pandemic. This paper believes in the capacity of housewives, particularly in managing the financial conditions of the domestic. The pandemic conditions affect the world in multiple aspects and levels. Physical distancing as one of the policies applied had a wide impact, especially in the economic sector, globally and locally. The temporary shutdown of various business sectors has impacted the society, starting with a decrease in the family’s income, continuing with the difficulties to meet their needs, and eventually their welfare. This article …

"Kiss My Donkey!" Or Raising The Level Of Authentic Communication In My Core French Classroom, Jan Claes

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

The way I see it, teacher action research found me rather than my finding it. In April of 2002, I attended the Quebec Conference on Teacher Action Research in Montreal as an observer. Having absolutely no prior experience with the concept, I was at first completely overwhelmed by the puzzling new vocabulary and by the obvious passion of the participants. Then, about halfway through the second day, I suddenly understood. It felt as if an internal dam were breaking and I began to engage in conversation after exciting conversation about the phenomenal power of this approach.

What Counts As Legitimate Research?: The Generalizability Of Teacher-Research, Karen L. Lowenstein, James S. Damico

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Although there are several criteria for considering "what counts as research," we focus on the criterion of generalizability for teacher-research in this essay. We argue that although teacher-researchers conducting research in their own classrooms are more likely to be concerned with deepening local knowledge about immediate practice than asserting what is termed "generalizability" across a larger educational community, this does not preclude the work of teacher-researchers from fulfilling the criterion of generalizability. In other words, we aim to point out that teacher-research is generalizable. To develop this argument, we first briefly define teacher-research, situating it within interpretive research more broadly. …

Exploring The Use Of Collaborative Inquiry In Improving Practice, Panayiotis Angelides

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Effective teaching in mixed ability classes has dominated much of the Cyprus government's agenda for educational reform. Since the publication of the UNESCO report (UNESCO, 1997) which pointed out that primary school classes in Cyprus are organized as mixed ability groups with no clear policy about internal grouping, no policy on differentiation in curriculum, methodology or resource utilization, the Ministry of Education and Culture began a campaign for improving teaching in mixed ability classes. Circulars setting out the advantages of this policy were sent to schools and senior officials of the Ministry of Education and Culture organized seminars to suggest …

Learning And Thriving With Questions: A Helpful Resource For Teacher Researchers, Catherine Compton-Lilly

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Contemporary educators live is an era of advertised "quick fixes and simple solutions that too often leave us feeling cheated and alone. The acclaimed phonics program, the scripted behavior reinforcement scheme, and the carefully sequenced, research-based scope and sequence all leave us much as they found us - continuing to seek ways to improve instruction for our students. As teacher researchers recognize, no one resource will serve all of our needs and challenges. Collaboration from supportive peers is integral to developing and maintaining exciting, compelling, and productive research projects. However, there are resources that can support us as we embark …

Collaborative Educational Research In Spain, Gordon Wells

Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research

Earlier this year, I was privileged to speak with educators in Spain when I was invited to address conferences in Barcelona and Bilbao, organized by the Ministries of Education in Catalonia and the Basque Country, respectively. My hosts during the visit were members of the Center for Social and Educational Research at the University of Barcelona (CREA). They gave me a wonderful welcome and introduced me to some of the attractions of Catalonia, including a tour of Gaudi buildings, a visit to the remains of the Greek and Roman city at Ampurias on the Costa Brava, meals in a variety …

Table Of Contents - Summer 2003

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

Academic Leadership Journal Summer 2003 Table of Contents

Clear Communication Can Allude Those Who Speak In Bizbabble, William "Skip" Boyer

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

An article decrying trends in corporate technobabble.

Managing Contemporary Uk Universities – Manager-Academics And New Managerialism, Rosemary Deem, Oliver Fulton, Sam Hillyard, Rachel Johnson, Mike Reed, Stephen Watson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

A multi-disciplinary project entitled ‘New Managerialism and the Management of UK Universities’ was conducted by a team of researchers based at Lancaster University between October 1998 and November 2000. The study was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (grant no R000237661). The project was designed to examine the extent to which ‘New Managerialism’, a set of reforms of the management of publicly-funded services popular with many western governments, was perceived to have permeated the management of UK universities. The study also explored the roles, practices, selection, learning and support of manager-academics. The first phase of the study …