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Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss calendar of events, banquet, parents weekend, committee vacancies, expenses and freshmen representatives.

Cartographical Imaginations: Spatiality, Adult Education And Lifelong Learning, Richard Edwards, Ron Cervero, Julia Clarke, Brenda Morgan-Klein

Adult Education Research Conference

This symposium explores the significance of space and spatiality for research in adult education and lifelong learning. Drawing on recent theorising in the social sciences, we examine empirically and theoretically questions of space, place and power in adult education.

Archetypes Of Teaching: Tethers In The Wind Or Flashlights In The Dark?, John M. Dirkx, Dan Pratt, Edward Taylor

Adult Education Research Conference

A small but growing body of research focuses attention on how teacher assumptions, beliefs, and theories inform and shape teachers’ actions within learning settings in adult and higher education. In this article, however, we suggest that teachers’ rational conceptions and structuring of their work are grounded in emotional issues that cut across cultural and historical contexts. These emotional structures are manifest in familiar images, reflecting an underlying archetypal nature to teaching.

Witches Ways Of Knowing: The Adult Learning Process In Joining Social Groups, Bradley C. Courtenay, Sharan B. Merriam, Lisa M. Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

This study explored what motivates adults to engage in learning that leads to membership in a marginalized social group and the nature of their learning process. By interviewing a sample of Wiccans, we discovered an intense internal motivation that endures over years and an integrated, holistic learning process.

Do You Hear What I See: Learning Experiences Of Black Men Who Are Deaf Or Hard-Of-Hearing, Mavis A. Clark

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study is to examine how non-hearing adult Black male learners understand their learning and schooling experiences. In order to understand their educational experiences, I am reconceptualizing the triad race, gender, and class paradigm by introducing the notion of deafness. I bring to the fore, a discussion on positionality and identity development as it relates to nonhearing adult Black male learners within the adult education context.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding the website, newsletter and health insurance.

“Knowing One’S Self”: Selfwriting, Power And Ethical Practice, Valerie-Lee Chapman

Adult Education Research Conference

Adult educators are increasingly concerned with issues of power and identity. Drawing on my research text, The Body’s Tale, and Foucault’s writings, I explore how pastoral power effects construct subjectivities. Using three genealogical narratives—of eating, elimination and swarming—I show how we can interrupt self-regulation, and through self-writing, develop an embodied ethical practice.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 2, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• O’Connor, Molly. Enrollment Soaring
• Holm, Hollan. Aramark Serves Up New Options
• Hightower, Kyle. Big Jelly Rolls Onto Hill – Nigel Dixon
• Sainlar, Lindsay. Freshman Says First Week of College Like Spring Break – Drew Willis
• O’Connor, Molly. Dividing Diddle Arena: 4 Sponsors Sought
• Got Money? Cause Next Year We Sure Won’t
• Bonner, Tim. Editorial Cartoon re: Will Work for Housing
• Lord, Joseph. Big Wigs Need More Cash? Sell Western’s Name
• Walzenhofer, Erica. Housing Crunch Not Fair to Upperclassmen
• Hoang, Mai. Judge Rules Former Campus Police Officers Must Pay Western …

Theorizing The Effects Of Class, Gender, And Race On Adult Learning In Nonformal And Informal Settings, Margaret L. Cain

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper theorizes how the dynamics of class, gender, and race affect adult learning in nonformal and informal settings in four ways: formation of subjectivity, positionality/access to resources, curriculum, and interactions within and between organizations. It suggests directions for research and practice.

Exploring The Self/Group Initiated And On-The-Job Learning Activities Of Low Income Women, Shauna Butterwick

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores the breadth of learning undertaken by small group of low-income women who came together to explore various income generating ideas. Bringing into view these learning experiences disrupts some of the individualistic, sexist and classist assumptions about self-directed and on the-job learning dominating adult education and lifelong learning policy and programs.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding Go Higher community needs assessment, alumni survey, College of Health & Human Services, outreach, cost sharing, gerontology studies, enrollment, ten-month contracts and P-12 participation.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding parking, goals and Welcome Back Western.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 78, No. 1, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Hoang, Mai. Regents Increase Tuition 10.4 Percent
• Lynch, Caroline. College Heights Herald Debuts with New Design
• O’Connor, Molly. Some Students Left Roomless
• Roberts, Amy. Big Red Cards May Buy Delivery Pizza
• Lord, Joseph. New Parking Lots Built Around Campus
• Holm, Hollan. Construction Abounds on Hill
• Meal Plans Bite, But We’ll Eat Them Anyway
• Bonner, Tim. Editorial Cartoon re: College Education Priceless
• Get Over Bulldozers on the Hill
• Warren, Brandy. If You Want to Whine, I’ve Got Plenty of Time
• Hoang, Mai. Capital Campaign Goal Met, Administrators Set New Objective …

Negative Thinking And The Denial Of Tolerance: The Challenge Of Marcuse To Contemporary Adult Education, Stephen Brookfield

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper seeks to insert critical theorist Herbert Marcuse’s concepts of rebellious subjectivity and repressive tolerance into adult educational discourse.

Cidhal: Case Study Of A Feminist Organization, Susan J. Bracken

Adult Education Research Conference

CIDHAL, a feminist community education organization, located in Southern Mexico, has been a critical participant in the feminist, labor, and urban popular movements in Mexico and Latin America. By exploring an overview of its history and social context, adult educators are left with important questions and reflections about the issues this type of organization experiences.

Quest For The Grail? : Searching For Critical Thinking In Adult Education, Heather M. Boxler

Adult Education Research Conference

The concept of critical thinking is explored from the perspective of an adult education graduate student. The paper argues that critical thinking, as presently constituted, lacks both clarity and depth. These problems need to be addressed before critical thinking can become viable and useful.

Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Quarterly meeting of the WKU Board of Regents. Agenda items include: resolutions of respect for Leslie Bedo and Peggy Loafman, Spirit Master pinning ceremony, president's convocation speech, enrollment projections, campaign report, tuition and fees, Minority Student Support Services name change, emeritus faculty, building revenue bonds and personnel actions and salaries. Attachments include the bond contract and escrow trust agreement with BB&T.

Who Do We Learn From At Work? Interlinked Communities Of Practice And Informal Learning, David Boud, Heather Middleton

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper addresses the question of who is involved in learning in workplaces. It draws on a study of multiple worksites with differentiated work within a large educational organization. It discusses the value of communities of learning in conceptualizing the question and suggests that additional factors such as social networks, structural relationships and the context of particular work need to be considered.

Ua1b1/7 Groundbreaking Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences, Western Kentucky University

WKU Archives Records

Invitation to the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences groundbreaking.

Ua1b1/7 Groundbreaking For Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences, Wku Office Of Event Planning

WKU Archives Records

Program for the Complex for Engineering & Biological Science groundbreaking ceremony.

Ua3/9/5 Complex For Engineering & Biological Sciences Groundbreaking, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Remarks delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at the groundbreaking of the Complex for Engineering & Biological Sciences.

Using The Internet For Informal Learning About Joining The Brain Drain: A Qualitative Central/East European And Pacific Perspective, Roger Boshier

Adult Education Research Conference

The Internet greatly expedites the process of “shooting through” from one’s home country. An online survey of Slovaks, New Zealanders and others suggests the Internet expedites leaving home – largely because of its informality and the way it erodes official control.

Collective Transformations, Collective Theories: What Adult Educators Can Learn From The Boston Women’S Health Book Collective, Susan Birden

Adult Education Research Conference

The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective designed and participated in education that was similar in approach and effect to Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy. As with Freire’s work in Brazil, the women’s process of conscientization went beyond mere intellectual transformation, preparing them to work for dramatic changes in American healthcare.

Imsa 2061 Program Year 2001-2002 Summary Report, Steven R. Rogg

Steven R Rogg

In 2000 IMSA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Project 2061 established a partnership, IMSA 2061, to offer unique and nationally recognized professional development programs for mathematics and science teachers and education leaders. Participants in the IMSA 2061 professional development programs learn to use the tools, research, and experiences of education reform to enable all students to achieve the learning expressed in state and national standards. Activities described in this report fall into two categories, Introductory Workshops and long-term programs with districts. IMSA 2061 Introductory Workshops help educators become aware of how to apply Project 2061 publications …

The Role Of Gender Consciousness In Challenging Patriarchy, Laura L. Bierema

Adult Education Research Conference

This action research project explored how women develop gender consciousness and use this knowledge to take “connected action” to address gendered power relations in their life and work.

Ua3/9/5 Faculty-Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses the budget, enrollment, community college, College of Health & Human Services, faculty engagement, economic development, sponsored programs, donations, campus construction and parking.

“We’Re All In This Together, Aren’T We?”: The Role Of “The Group” In Hiv Positive Adults’ Identity Incorporation And Learning, Lisa M. Baumgartner

Adult Education Research Conference

Using data collected from the same individuals at three points in time, this qualitative study examined the role of the group in the identity incorporation and learning processes of HIV-positive adults. Members claimed HIV/AIDS as a social identity. Issues of positionality affected membership perception. Group membership enhanced transformational learning.

Investigating The World Of Adult Education In Africa, Mejai B.M. Avoseh

Adult Education Research Conference

Adult education in contemporary Africa is faced with a range of problems. This paper tries to stimulate some level of debate around these problems and hopes to include adult education in Africa in the global investigation of the world of adult education.

Women's Learning And Development Across Borders: Insights From Anglophone Caribbean Immigrant Women In The United States, Mary V. Alfred

Adult Education Research Conference

This study examined the learning and development experiences of English-speaking Caribbean immigrant women from a cross-cultural context. Using Belenky's model of women's ways of knowing, the study found that self-agency, culture, social capital, and the sociocultural environment influence the epistemological position that a woman occupies. The study also found that women move freely among these positions, depending on the context of the experience.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss organizational aid, recruitment, office and open house.