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Rethinking Cultural Competence: The Chair's Leadership Role, Edna Chun
Rethinking Cultural Competence: The Chair's Leadership Role, Edna Chun
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
The seminar would focus on the ways that department chairs can strengthen the attainment of cultural competence through curricular offerings, course-based service learning, and faculty development.
Critical Questions Related To The Influence Of Academic Advising On Student Success: Setting A Research Agenda, Wendy Troxel
Critical Questions Related To The Influence Of Academic Advising On Student Success: Setting A Research Agenda, Wendy Troxel
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Academic leaders, faculty, and academic advisers are uniquely positioned to describe complex scenarios related to student success that need further systematic examination and analysis. This highly interactive session will engage participants in a brainstorming and consensus-building activity to generate a list of "critical questions" in related to the relationship between academic advising and student success that leads to meaningful research across disciplinary contexts and partnerships. The resulting document will be useful to faculty and staff who desire to engage in research that will inform the scholarship of advising and implications for advising practice in all levels of higher education.
New Chair Alliance, Katherine Frank, Dan Wheeler
New Chair Alliance, Katherine Frank, Dan Wheeler
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Those who will soon transition into a chair position or who have been a chair for two years or less will find this workshop particularly valuable. Topics covered include transitioning to new roles and responsibilities, annual planning, everyday management, strategic planning for the future, personal development, and finding satisfaction in being a chair and making a difference. Participants will gain practical tips and tools to improve effectiveness, become familiar with essential resources, learn how to identify an administrative mentor, as well as connect and network with others at a similar career stage.
Succeeding With Problem Faculty: A 6-Step Guide, Kent Crookston
Succeeding With Problem Faculty: A 6-Step Guide, Kent Crookston
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
In Crookston’s recent national survey, 3,000 academic leaders identified “dealing with problem faculty” as the issue with which they most wanted help; it was their stand-alone top concern. Problem colleagues in any organization include bullies, jerks, passive-aggressives, poor performers, and those who are psychologically distressed. Crookston draws from best-selling business and leadership literature, and presents six calculated steps for effectively dealing with a challenging colleague. Participants leave this workshop with sound practical guidance on how to act when things go wrong, but more importantly how to ensure that things go right.
Navigating The Trauma Of Change, Kent Crookston
Navigating The Trauma Of Change, Kent Crookston
Academic Chairpersons Conference Proceedings
Academic leaders have identified “dealing with change” as the second of their top concerns. Dr. Crookston researched and experienced first-hand the “change characters” that emerge from within any group faced with restructuring or innovation. Participants leave this workshop better able to anticipate, understand, and work effectively with the range of personalities that react and adapt differently to change.
2025: 2011-2016 Progress Report, Kansas State University, Office Of The President
2025: 2011-2016 Progress Report, Kansas State University, Office Of The President
Special Publications
2025 Progress Report is an annual publication highlighting key activities and accomplishments for the year at Kansas State University. The report reflects progress towards K-State 2025, the visionary plan for the university, and covers the seven themes set in 2025 strategic planning: research, scholarly, creative activities and discovery, undergraduate educational experience, graduate scholarly experience, engagement, extension, outreach, and service, faculty and staff, facilities and infrastructure, and athletics.
Best Practices For Adult Educators Working In Cross-Generational Learning Spaces, Andrea Nikischer
Best Practices For Adult Educators Working In Cross-Generational Learning Spaces, Andrea Nikischer
Adult Education Research Conference
This presentation will provide best practices for working with cross-generational groups of adult learners. The specific needs of Millennials, Generation X, Baby Boomers and Traditionalists will be addressed.
“Awl Is Piercing Me And Society”: Webtoon As A Popular Adult Education Tool In South Korea, Jinhee Choi
“Awl Is Piercing Me And Society”: Webtoon As A Popular Adult Education Tool In South Korea, Jinhee Choi
Adult Education Research Conference
The study illustrates the role of popular culture as an informal learning for both North and South Koreans to engage with unfamiliar, unpopular, and unvoiced themes in a public sphere.
Confronting The"Imposter Syndrome" In The Adult Learning Classroom, Lorenzo Bowman, Glenn A. Palmer
Confronting The"Imposter Syndrome" In The Adult Learning Classroom, Lorenzo Bowman, Glenn A. Palmer
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper examines the experiences of two African American male professor in confronting the "Imposter Syndrome." The relevant literature on the Imposter Syndrome is used to analyze the experiences of these two educators and strategies are advanced for addressing the phenomenon of both a personal and a professional level.
Move Over, Descartes! Neuroscience Says You’Re Wrong., Kathleen Taylor
Move Over, Descartes! Neuroscience Says You’Re Wrong., Kathleen Taylor
Adult Education Research Conference
Recent discoveries in neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, and psychology contradict Descartes’ rejection of the body’s role in thinking. This presentation examines implications for adult learning.
A New Research Direction Of Authentic Leadership In The Field Of Adult Education, Jihye Oh, Soo Jeoung Han
A New Research Direction Of Authentic Leadership In The Field Of Adult Education, Jihye Oh, Soo Jeoung Han
Adult Education Research Conference
This research reviewed authentic leadership and learning-related outcomes at workplace from the perspective of adult education/learning. Over the past decade, authentic leadership has been investigated only from performance-oriented perspective at workplace, despite its learning-oriented concept and component. Therefore, this research provided new insight and direction into the field of adult education/learning at workplace through integrated literature review of authentic leadership.
Adult Learning In Online Educative Spaces: A Constructive-Developmental Perspective, Alexandra Cox
Adult Learning In Online Educative Spaces: A Constructive-Developmental Perspective, Alexandra Cox
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explored how adults construct meaning, develop, and grow within the particular context of a structured, online, educative space and through the alone/together paradox.
A Systematic Review Of The Literature On Foreign Brides’ Adaptation Experiences In Korea, Heh Youn Shin, Esther Prins
A Systematic Review Of The Literature On Foreign Brides’ Adaptation Experiences In Korea, Heh Youn Shin, Esther Prins
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this qualitative systematic review is to synthesize the literature on foreign brides in Korea to examine how they are represented and how sociocultural contexts shape their experiences and adjustment.
Experiences Influencing Ethno-National Identity Learning: The Case Of Young Adults On The Divided Island Of Cyprus, Christos Anagiotos
Experiences Influencing Ethno-National Identity Learning: The Case Of Young Adults On The Divided Island Of Cyprus, Christos Anagiotos
Adult Education Research Conference
Due to nationalist conflict Greek-Cypriots and Turkish-Cypriots have lived apart from 1974 until 2003. This study investigates ethno-national identity learning as a lifelong learning process among young adults that were raised during the segregation period.
Exploring Adult Learners’ Knowledge Construction Of Social Foundations Content: One Higher Education Context, Susan Yelich Biniecki, Royce Ann Collins
Exploring Adult Learners’ Knowledge Construction Of Social Foundations Content: One Higher Education Context, Susan Yelich Biniecki, Royce Ann Collins
Adult Education Research Conference
This qualitative study explores adult learners’ knowledge construction of social foundations content within a Master of Adult Education program, broadening the understanding of the tenets of constructivist learning.
Violeta Parra: Popular Educator, Maria A. Vetter
Violeta Parra: Popular Educator, Maria A. Vetter
Adult Education Research Conference
This study reexamines the work of Chilean folklorist Violeta Parra with the purpose of identifying her as a popular educator.
Freirean Dialectics And Dialogue, John Holst
Freirean Dialectics And Dialogue, John Holst
Adult Education Research Conference
In this theoretical inquiry, I explore the importance of dialectics and dialogue in the work of Paulo Freire. I argue that dialectics is key to a social movement-based Freirean pedagogy.
Graduate-Level Instructor’S Perception Of Teaching Critical Thinking, Jay Van Der Werff
Graduate-Level Instructor’S Perception Of Teaching Critical Thinking, Jay Van Der Werff
Adult Education Research Conference
Higher learning institutions identify the teaching of critical thinking skills to students as a goal of the academic programs offered. This study examined faculty perceptions for teaching critical thinking skills.
Career Transition To Non-Tenure-Line Faculty: Midlife Women’S Challenges, Supports, And Strategies, Catherine A. Cherrstrom
Career Transition To Non-Tenure-Line Faculty: Midlife Women’S Challenges, Supports, And Strategies, Catherine A. Cherrstrom
Adult Education Research Conference
Numbers of new faculty with prior careers, women faculty, and non-tenure-line faculty are increasing. This study investigated the career transitions and strategies of women midlife career changers to non-tenure-line faculty.
Adult Learning In Social Innovation, Cheryl K. Baldwin, Rachel Lander
Adult Learning In Social Innovation, Cheryl K. Baldwin, Rachel Lander
Adult Education Research Conference
A qualitative study of practitioner learning in a multi-year, cross-sector, social innovation project indicated that team-based learning associated with the collaborative program model was expansive in character and influenced organizational learning beyond the project.
U.S. Young Adult Numeracy Skills Lagging Behind: Results From The Newest Piaac Release 2012/2014, Derek E. Holliday, Emily Pawlowski
U.S. Young Adult Numeracy Skills Lagging Behind: Results From The Newest Piaac Release 2012/2014, Derek E. Holliday, Emily Pawlowski
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper analyzes the numeracy skills of U.S. young adults in comparison with selected peer countries using data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC).
The Impact Of Participation In Educational Programs On Elderly’S Life Satisfaction, Bora Jin
The Impact Of Participation In Educational Programs On Elderly’S Life Satisfaction, Bora Jin
Adult Education Research Conference
This study explored impact of the participation in educational programs on elderly’s life satisfaction. Semi-structured interviews were conducted. It showed that participation in educational programs has positively impacted the elderly.
Playful, Intra-Active, "World"-Traveling: A Framework For Teaching Adults Across National Borders In Feminist Ways, Brigette A. Herron
Playful, Intra-Active, "World"-Traveling: A Framework For Teaching Adults Across National Borders In Feminist Ways, Brigette A. Herron
Adult Education Research Conference
Using poststructural concepts of subjectivities, posthuman concepts of intra-activity, and Maria Lugones' playful "world"-traveling, this paper theorizes how adult educators might work in feminist ways across national borders.
The Democratic Ideal Vs. Luhmann’S Autopoietic Systems In Adult Education, Jeffrey Zacharakis
The Democratic Ideal Vs. Luhmann’S Autopoietic Systems In Adult Education, Jeffrey Zacharakis
Adult Education Research Conference
This paper analyzes the democratic ideal and its historical importance to adult education, and then analyzes how adult education today fits Niklas Luhmann’s autopoietic systems at the expense of the democratic ideal.
Hanging On Cliff: Workforce Development And Sustainability In The Face Of Working Age Population Decrease In South Korea, Jin Lee
Adult Education Research Conference
To evaluate and design effective policy to mitigate, and ultimately overcome the crisis of demographic cliff, the systemic structure of labor force decrease of Korea was modeled with system dynamics method.
“The Money…Was Far More Of A Relapse For Me”: A Qualitative Study Of Women’S Experiences Transitioning From The Sex Trade To Legal Employment, Shannon K. Deer
“The Money…Was Far More Of A Relapse For Me”: A Qualitative Study Of Women’S Experiences Transitioning From The Sex Trade To Legal Employment, Shannon K. Deer
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study was to investigate women's experiences transitioning out of the sex trade, especially related to the types and contexts of learning they employed.
Adult Education-Related Graduate Degrees: Insights On The Challenges And Benefits Of Online Programming, Dr. Mattyna Leevore Stephens, Dr. Joellen Coryell, Cindy Pena
Adult Education-Related Graduate Degrees: Insights On The Challenges And Benefits Of Online Programming, Dr. Mattyna Leevore Stephens, Dr. Joellen Coryell, Cindy Pena
Adult Education Research Conference
The qualitative study sought to explore the perspectives of faculty in developing and teaching on-line adult education courses in a master’s program. The Four Frame Model framed the research.
From Cognition To The Imaginal: Fostering Self-Understanding From And Through Emotions In Adult Learning, John Dirkx, Ben Espinoza
From Cognition To The Imaginal: Fostering Self-Understanding From And Through Emotions In Adult Learning, John Dirkx, Ben Espinoza
Adult Education Research Conference
Based on a critical review of the literature, this paper explores the imaginative contribution emotions make to self-understanding and how it compliments the view of emotion as a form of cognition in adult learning.
Relationships Developed Abroad: Impacts On Learning During A Short-Term Field Study In Italy, Brittany Marie Davis, Joellen E. Coryell
Relationships Developed Abroad: Impacts On Learning During A Short-Term Field Study In Italy, Brittany Marie Davis, Joellen E. Coryell
Adult Education Research Conference
This study examines graduate student’s experiences with personal relationships developed during a short-term international field study in Italy and how these relationships enhanced their learning abroad.
Learning Agility: The Nexus Between Learning Organization, Transformative Learning, And Adaptive Performance, Doo H. Lim, Min Hee Yoo, Junghwan Kim, Spencer A. Brickell
Learning Agility: The Nexus Between Learning Organization, Transformative Learning, And Adaptive Performance, Doo H. Lim, Min Hee Yoo, Junghwan Kim, Spencer A. Brickell
Adult Education Research Conference
The purpose of this study is to establish a model of learning agility that is connected with transformative learning and the double-loop learning of organizational learning. Also, this study aims to identify the mediating role of learning agility on the relationship between learning organization, transformative learning, and adaptive performance.