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Swinging Bridge - December 10, 2009, Michelle Canales

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - November 19, 2009, Tim Mackie

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Swinging Bridge - November 5, 2009, Tim Mackie

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Swinging Bridge - October 15, 2009, Tim Mackie

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Swinging Bridge - October 1, 2009, Tim Mackie

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Swinging Bridge - September 17, 2009, Tim Mackie

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Swinging Bridge - April 30, 2009, Alison Stratton

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Swinging Bridge - April 16, 2009, Alison Stratton

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Swinging Bridge - April 2, 2009, Alison Stratton

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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Difficult Choices In Total Compensation: Balancing Health Care Costs And Wage Increases, Jennifer Dose

Business Educator Scholarship

This article describes an experiential exercise suitable for undergraduate or master’s-level students. The goals of the exercise are for students to correctly apply health insurance concepts such as premium, deductible, co-pay, and coinsurance; to understand and explain the dilemma facing organizations in an environment of increasing health care costs and limited compensation budgets; to discern and apply the concerns of employees with varying demographic profiles to health care cost sharing; and to develop competency in calculating health care costs at the organizational level. Students receive a scenario in which they act as an employee representative and are asked to provide …

Swinging Bridge - March 12, 2009, Alison Stratton

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Inverted Spectrum, Timothy Schoettle

Biblical, Religious, & Philosophical Studies Educator Scholarship

It is possible for a person and their environment to be physically identical each day and yet the representational content of their beliefs about color are inverted. Each day they utter the same words, ‘Wow! The colors of everything have switched again today.’ In uttering these words, they express a different proposition each day. This supports the view held by Reichenbach and Carnap that when it comes to representations of colored objects, relations of similarity and difference are fundamental. There are no such things as colors like ‘redness’ and ‘greenness’ apart from the particular things we call red and green.

Swinging Bridge - February 26, 2009, Alison Stratton

Student Newspapers & Magazines

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2009 Spring Humanities Symposium: Faith In The Public Square, Messiah College

Humanities Symposium

Keynote Address: Dr. Alan Wolfe

February 23-28, 2009

How do our cherished values find public expression? Should religion be treated as belonging to the domain of public or private? What is the role of religion within a secular polity? While such questions point to the importance of faith in public life, they need not be confined to the domain of religion. We also publicly express our faith in everything from stock markets to abstract ideals like love, justice, equality, and humanity. It is all too clear that human faith, both in its religious and non-religious manifestations, finds public expression with …

Nursing Department Newsletters 2001-2009, Sandra Goodling

Nursing Student Scholarship

Regularly updated newsletters from the Department of Nursing at Messiah College. It especially highlights the Integrative classroom and Clinical-based learning.

Some issues are missing from 2001 to 2009.

“Remembering The Past – As We Reimagine The Future”, Kim S. Phipps

State of the College/University Addresses

At the beginning of each academic year, Messiah College held Community Day, a time for the University's Community of Educators (CoE) to gather, reflect, and prepare for the upcoming year. As part of Community Day, President Phipps presented her State of College Address, introducing the theme for that academic year.

Learning Effectiveness Of A Strategic Learning Course, Melinda S. Burchard, Peter Swerdzewski

Faculty Educator Scholarship

The effectiveness of a postsecondary strategic learning course for improving metacognitive awareness and regulation was evaluated through systematic program assessment. The course emphasized students’ awareness of personal learning through the study of learning theory and through practical application of specific learning strategies. Students assessed personal gains through pretest and posttest assessments of both metacognitive awareness and regulation. Pretest-to-posttest gains were statistically significant with large, meaningful effect sizes for program participants, including students with disabilities. Evidence supports the effectiveness of the program and, by extension, the value and importance of learning strategies instruction as a powerful educational intervention for students with …