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Summer Sessions Breakdown Of Course Dates And Time, Paul Savory
Summer Sessions Breakdown Of Course Dates And Time, Paul Savory
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications
This report highlights an exhaustive analysis of the hundreds of Summer Session courses to develop an understanding of when they occur during the day and during which of the four academic terms. The analysis shows that the most popular time for scheduling courses is between 9:30 am and noon for each of the four summer session terms. Given the limited number of general purpose classrooms on campus, accommodating faculty preference for rooms, buildings, and computer equipment is sometimes not possible during the most in demand course times. The results also showcase the potential for having summer courses four-day per week …
Graduate Connections- November 2008
Graduate Connections- November 2008
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Navigating Graduate School......1
Feeling Like the Last Person on Earth?
Intellectual Community
Good Practices in Graduate
Education....................................3
The Institutional Review Board: An Interview with UNL’s Research Compliance Staff
Teaching Tip .................................4
Socratic Questioning
Essential Connections..................5
New and Improved Graduate Studies Web Site
Professional Development...........5
Preparing for Academic Conferences
The Academic Job Interview: Questions to Help You Prepare
Interactions...................................7
Graduate Students to Be Honored with University Fellowships
What Makes a Competitive Fellowship Application?
GSA News
Funding Opportunities.................9
Announcements..........................11
Current Fellowship Applications
Commencement Changes
LGBTQA Reading Group
Calendar......................................12
Word to the Wise.......................13 …
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #36, September 2008
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #36, September 2008
Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters
President’s Message
Dr. Martin Massengale 2008 recipient of the Distinguished Achievement in Agriculture Award.
The Gamma Sigma Delta Fall 2008 Seminar, 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 1st Can Local Foods Save the World? By Catherine H. Strohbehn, PhD, RD, CFSP, HRIM Extension Specialist, Associate Professor, Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management, Iowa State University
NOMINATIONS FOR GAMMA SIGMA DELTA
Merit Award Nomination
Extension Award Nomination
Research Award Nomination
Teaching Award Nomination
Gamma Sigma Delta Committees 2008
Graduate Connections- August 2008
Graduate Connections- August 2008
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Navigating Graduate School......1
Success in Graduate School
18th Annual Campuswide TA Workshops
New Student Welcome
Barbara Lovitts Seminars
Stay Connected
38 Strategies for Completing Your Dissertation
Good Practices in Graduate
Education....................................4
Academic Integrity: A Letter to My Students
Essential Connections..................7
A Timeless and Solitary Page
Teaching Tip .................................8
Ten Things to Do the First Day of Class
Professional Development...........9
Think “Next Stage”
Interactions.................................10
Graduate Student Association News
Funding Opportunities...............11
Resources for Researchers........12
NURAMP Workshops
Responsible Conduct of Research
Human and Animal Subjects
Announcements..........................13
Software Workshops
Online Graduate Bulletin
Call for …
Protecting Children Online, Deborah J. Weitzenkamp Dr.
Protecting Children Online, Deborah J. Weitzenkamp Dr.
Kimmel Education and Research Center: Faculty and Staff Publications
This publication explains potential Internet hazards and how to protect children from them.
In an age where children are using the Internet on a daily basis, parents need to be aware of how children use it, potential online hazards, how to recognize signs that their children might be at risk, and steps that they can take to safeguard their children. While it is important that parents be proactive regarding their children’s use of the Internet, it also is important that parents not overreact to potential threats. Instead, parents need to take a proactive approach toward protecting their children in a …
An Assessment Of Local Peoples Opinions Of Community Conservation Initiatives In Relation To Livelihood Strategies In Kenya, Jill Mechtenberg
An Assessment Of Local Peoples Opinions Of Community Conservation Initiatives In Relation To Livelihood Strategies In Kenya, Jill Mechtenberg
Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses
Abstract This paper analyzed the changing livelihood strategies in Kenya, and their cultural impacts via a literature review. I then combined this understanding with the data I collected while in Kenya to examine the opinions local people have of community conservation initiatives, based on their changing livelihood strategies. I expected to find that the following factors would have an affect on the opinions local community members have of community conservation initiatives: livelihood strategy, gender, ethnicity, whether or not they believe the distribution of benefits coming from wildlife conservation is equitable, what issues they would like to see improved within community …
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #35, May 2008
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #35, May 2008
Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters
President’s Message: Team Commitment
The Gamma Sigma Delta Fall 2008 Seminar, October 1: Sustainable Agriculture and Using Local Foods by Dr. Catherine H. Strohbehn, HRIM Extension Specialist, Iowa State University.
GAMMA SIGMA DELTA 2008 COMMITTEES
Award of Merit for Distinguished Achievement in Agriculture: Don C. Adams, Director West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte
Excellence in Teaching Award: Darrell R. Mark, Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics
Excellence in Extension Award: • James W. Goeke, Professor, Survey Division School of Natural Resources, North Platte
Excellence in Research Award: Janos Zempleni, Associate Professor Nutrition and Health Sciences
2007 Gamma Sigma Delta New …
Graduate Connections- April 2008
Graduate Connections- April 2008
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Navigating Graduate School... 1
Mentoring Relationships that Last
Good Practices in Graduate
Education.................................. 3
The Responsible Conduct of Research
Teaching Tip ............................. 4
End of Semester Reflection
Essential Connections............... 5
Fellowship Opportunities on the Web
Professional Development........ 5
Writing a Teaching Statement
Principles of Good Writing
Interactions..................................8
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Grad Student Poster Competition Winners
Graduate Student Association News
Funding Opportunities................9
Resources for Researchers......11
NURAMP Workshops
Announcements........................11
Summer ITA Institute
SPEAK Test Dates
18th Annual Campuswide TA Workshops
Commencement Changes …
Branding Your Community, Milan Wall
Branding Your Community, Milan Wall
Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials
Connections: Using a Brand Creation Approach to Community Identity
Origins of the Branding Concept
Even far back in the middle ages when artists and artisans began to form guilds or associations together, many hallmarks or identifying symbols were used as a signatures by artisans to lay claim to the result of his or her work. Another important, and American reference, comes from the days before fences divided up the frontier and cattle owners found a way to mark and identify their own cattle by branding them with a personalized symbol. Even today, many purebred horses are carefully inspected and only …
Branding Your Community, Milan Wall
Branding Your Community, Milan Wall
Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials
Branding Your Community
Table of Contents:
Connections: Using a Brand Creation Approach to Community Identity
Case Study: Superior, Nebraska
Mapping Community Assets: An Overview
SOAR Analysis
About Appreciative Inquiry
The Marketing Process: Attention, Attraction and Action
Marketing Your Community
Back Home Ideas
Tips for Creating Community Brands
Workshop Evaluation
Graduate Connections- February 2008
Graduate Connections- February 2008
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Navigating Graduate School........... 1
The Dissertation Presentation
Good Practices in Graduate
Education........................................ 4
Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism
Code of Conduct for Teaching
Teaching Tip ...................................... 5
Identifying Relative Importance
Essential Connections...................... 6
Graduate Studies Web Site
Graduate Bulletin Online
Professional Development............... 6
Responding to Academic Job Offers
PFF Call for Nominations
Taking Charge of Your Professional Development
Solving a Teaching Problem
Interactions........................................10
Grad Award Winners
Grad Student Association News
Funding Opportunities.....................12
Resources for Researchers..............14
NEAR Center
Grant Writing Seminar
Announcements................................14
Grad Student …
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
About the editors and authors of volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Despite its ubiquity as the way that instructors represent their views on teaching and learning, the statement of teaching philosophy can be a frustrating document to write and the results are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to help faculty and graduate students craft teaching statements. We describe the research that informed the creation of the rubric, talk about how we use the rubric in our consultations and workshops, and present an assessment that validates the use of the rubric to improve instructors’ teaching statements.
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Results from a nationwide study of teaching awards programs in mathematics departments of U.S. research universities show that only a small percentage even offers such awards. Those that do either use ad hoc procedures and criteria for making awards or prioritize curricular contributions over instructional and pedagogical knowledge in selecting award winners. In addition, mathematics faculty reserve the term scholarship for research in the discipline rather than research on teaching of the discipline.
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although universities are aware of the need to promote diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), this awareness has not translated into significant changes in classroom environments. Many STEM instructors would like to offer equal opportunities for success to all of their students, but they are not sure where to begin. We describe an effective group of teaching tools that can empower STEM faculty and graduate students to modify their courses to address diversity at their own pace. These resources extend from awareness exercises to recommendations for action and have been useful tools for course design, teaching assistant training, …
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Integrative learning challenges faculty developers to facilitate integrative and connective experiences not only for students, but for faculty as well. For many faculty, curricular requirements impede connective teaching, and the widespread assumption that connectivity must be taught on the course level also limits their ability to enrich students’ learning through diverse perspectives and interactions. Nexia is an approach to this problem based on the concept of ad hoc connectivity, or small-scale, focused, short-term connections that allow students from two or more courses to interact around points of interest to both classes. By releasing connective teaching from expensive curricular constraints, the …
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of the literature related to stereotype threat in an effort to provide faculty members and instructional developers with a better understanding of what the phenomenon is and what can be done about it in college classroom settings. To this end, we reviewed several of the major studies published on the subject between 1995 and 2005 and compiled a list of strategies that reflected both the major empirical findings on stereotype threat and our own research and experiences with faculty and students in college settings. Given the enormity of the subject, …
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This study documents an emerging profile of the faculty status of faculty developers as solicited, compiled, and interactively interpreted with faculty developer practitioners. It used integrated (mixed) methodology and participatory research strategies to gather data and it shares descriptive statistical information on the various positions held by faculty developer respondents; qualitatively analyzed impressions of the importance of faculty status to their credibility and effectiveness as faculty developers; and information regarding respondents’ institutional contexts. Findings are further disaggregated across institutional contexts and sex to explore trends, differential perceptions, and other emergent issues as identified by participant researchers.
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Extensive annotated bibliographies have guided academic researchers over several years and in various disciplines, providing key resources to assist in the development of new ideas. However, less common are published annotated bibliographies on effective teaching resources, both general to teaching across various disciplines as well as specific to each discipline, that guide the academic in the teaching enterprise. This chapter focuses on a tool, the teaching resource portfolio, that helps the graduate student preparing for an academic career including teaching, the new faculty member desiring additional teaching resources, the academic wishing to have resources that support discipline-specific scholarship of teaching …
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Bibliography for volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although the liberal arts college, with its traditional focus on teaching, may seem like a natural environment for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), few such institutions participate in national SoTL initiatives. Our associates’ experience since 2001 suggests a model for supporting SoTL in teaching-intensive contexts based on faculty ownership, a focus on general education, and some emerging rules of engagement. Because faculty reward systems must validate SoTL if it is to become part of the institutional culture, we also describe one department’s efforts to reform its review criteria in order to define scholarly activity broadly.
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
While autobiographical narratives and case study reflections remain vital to faculty development research, we must also make substantive efforts to build theory in our field. Researchers making claims about collective meanings of observed behaviors and the mechanisms that underlie them (i.e., theoretical claims about social behavior) must be disciplined in how they identify and organize the evidence they use to support those claims. Such systematic, inductive theory-building in the social sciences is called “grounded theory” research. This chapter presents the basics of grounded theory research, describes a grounded theory research program currently being executed by faculty developers, and offers practical …
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter describes how we incorporated project-based learning into a yearlong faculty development program at a research-intensive private university located in the Midwest. This inquiry-based approach fosters critical reflection on teaching and promotes learner-focused teaching in a manner that encourages deeper student approaches to learning. We use case studies, drawn from critical accounts of faculty projects, to illustrate a model that depicts how faculty understand improvement in their teaching and to identify key program elements that facilitated the adoption of learning-focused teaching practices by our participants.
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Reflecting on what we are doing can help us become better teachers and better people; yet in our increasingly busy and stressful lives, how can we find the space and time? This chapter describes and exemplifies two strategies that can help us and our colleagues become more reflective about our teaching and about our vocation: the Teachers’ Reading Circle, meeting for regular discussions of provocative texts about teaching and learning, and the Teachers’ Writing Circle, using prompts and examples of colleagues’ writing to set participants on an extended course of writing about their own teaching.
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter examines the most common technologies used for teaching on college campuses and the most common barriers to advanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show that the major barriers to incorporating technology into higher education are lack of faculty time, faculty doubts about the relevancy of technology to disciplinary learning, and inadequate technical support for faculty projects and technology uses. This chapter, then, proposes several approaches developed and assessed by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan for removing those barriers to technology uses in higher education. Although providing flexible technology …
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Traditional mentoring programs usually have no mechanism for Protégés to learn from each other, and they often match protégés with mentors sight unseen. Team mentoring is a less hierarchical program in which protégés mentor each other in a group while searching for more permanent and personal mentors. In this program, protégés and mentors are arguably better matched because mentors are chosen by the Protégé. In addition, Protégés benefit by tapping into the wisdom of their peers. As a result, team mentoring is a viable alternative to traditional mentoring programs.
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Our faculty development center engaged senior-level business students as consultants to help us inform instructors about our resources. The students argued that organizational and marketing tasks are critical to our pedagogical work as they create opportunities for the pedagogical work to occur. This chapter describes the collaboration, the students’ recommendations, and the center’s response. Engaging students, our ultimate clients, in setting priorities for our center was a powerful learning experience for both us and them. Other centers may wish to use our experiences as impetus to collaborate with students on their campuses.