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Education Policy Analysis Archives, Kirsten L. Rewey, Brent D. Cejda

Department of Educational Administration: Faculty Publications

Abstract Chief Academic Officer (CAO) is the most common position title before assuming the presidency of a college or university. Results from a national survey are used to develop a profile of the CAO in each respective Carnegie institutional classification. The typical CAO in four-year institutions is Caucasian, male, 54 years old, and married. He holds a doctoral degree, most likely in humanities or social sciences, and has held the CAO position for 5 or fewer years. Most often, the CAO served as a Dean or Associate Dean in the previous position. All CAOs have classroom experience, but 3% have …

Acuta Enews September 2001, Vol.30, No. 9

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Conference Highlights

ACUTA EVENTS

DC Updates

Board Report

ACUTA Plans Audio Seminar on Taxes, Surcharges, and Fees

Welcome New Members

Positions Available

Exploring Alternative Conceptions In Our Environmental Education Classroom, Gayle A. Buck, Patricia Meduna

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Teaching is an inexact science. Even experienced teachers have difficulty assessing the effectiveness of their lessons and students mastery of concept. Teachers must be particularly careful to avoid introducing or reinforcing student misconceptions. The following describes how we scrutinized and modified our own environmental education teaching practices to ensure that our students were learning what we were teaching. Our inquiry into students’ alternative conceptions about the environment was a very enlightening experience for both of us. Th e process revealed some beliefs that surprised us. However, the real surprise came when we realized that our own lessons reinforced (and sometimes …

Nebline, September 2001

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

4-H Centennial–1902-2002
4-H Centennial Quiz
Poison Ivy
Seasonal Needle Drop on Evergreens
Horticulture information center
Norfolk Island Pine
Tiny Flies in the House? Find the Source
Simple Fruit Fly Trap
The Kids are Back in School – So are Head Lice...
New Home? New Bugs!
Fall Household Hazardous Waste Collections
New Home? New Bugs!
Fall Is a Good Time to Control Problem Weeds
Prepare Grain Bins and Equipment Before Harvest
Nitrogen Fertilizer Sources
Crop Residues: An Economical Source of Feed
Nebraska Forest Service Ends Tree Distribution Program
Fall Dandelion Treatment
Livestock Buildings
Water Quickies for September
Fall Fertilizing is Best …

Families And Schools In Partnership: Linking Theory, Science And Practice To Promote Children’S Development, Susan M. Sheridan

Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools: Posters, Addresses, and Presentations

Why Families & Schools in Partnership?
Theory: Ecological Perspectives
Defining Characteristics of Family-School Partnerships
Conjoint Behavioral Consultation
Outcome Research in CBC
Child Participants
Research to Practice: Problem Solving Goals of CBC
Process Research in CBC
Research to Practice: Process Goals & Strategies in CBC
Research Conclusions: Process Variables in CBC

Acuta Enews August 2001, Vol.30, No. 8

ACUTA Newsletters

In This Issue

Safety First at Section Hall

ACUTA Events

DC Update

Overheard on the Listserve: RF Interference on Campus

Welcome New Members

Positions Available

Nebline, August 2001

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Science – It’s For Everyone!
Indoor Trees
Horticulture information center
Perennials with Colorful Foliage
Harvesting Guide for Fruits and Vegetables
Storing Extra Seeds
Cicadas: Mid-Summer Night’s Screamers
Leaving it to Beaver May Not be the Best Solution
Cicada Killers and Steel-Blue Cricket Killers
Are You Looking for the Latest Wheat Variety Test Results?
Sprayer Nozzle Tip Selection Fact Sheet Available
Nutrient Management Guide for Crops Published
Safety Should Always Come First
Terminating Farm Leases
Some Words on Water
The 2001 Acreage Owners Expo
Controlling Pocket Gophers
Drinking Water Q&A
Steps To Maintaining a Healthy Pasture
Home Canning Concerns
Healthy Eating: …

Telling Tales Out Of School: Academic Novels And Memoirs By Women, Betty Krasne

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The following article has some of the attributes of a relic. It was originally written for the old Forum for Honors, shortly before its demise. Therefore, the books and issues it discusses take on a different perspective now that the reborn Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council has offered to publish those articles stranded by the former publication's termination.

Acuta Enews July 2001, Vol.30, No. 7

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In This Issue

Meet the 2001-02 Board

ACUTA Staff Changes

DC Update

Section 508 Sets New Standards

Board Report

FSO and Eye Safety

Welcome New Members

Positions Available

Pod Network News, Summer 2001

POD Network News

President's Column

News About the Core

Faculty/TA Instructional Development Internship Grants

Diversity Travel Grants

Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development and To Improve the Academy Submissions Requested

Bright Idea Awards Take on New Luster in 2001

Exellence in the Academy Awards

Faculty Development Consulting Services

Position Announcement

University of Minnesota Receives Grants

Member News

Conference Note

POD Bright Idea Awards 2001 Guidelines

Faculty/TA Instructional Development Internship Grants, 2001 Call for Proposals

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 13, No. 2, July 2001

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Welcome

Congratulations

Personnel update

Condolences

Grants

Graduate student news

Publications

Travel

From the office

Entomology fall faculty meetings dates

Calendar of events

The Relative Performance Of Full Information Maximum Likelihood Estimation For Missing Data In Structural Equation Models, Craig K. Enders, Deborah L. Bandalos

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

A Monte Carlo simulation examined the performance of 4 missing data methods in structural equation models: full information maximum likelihood (FIML), listwise deletion, pairwise deletion, and similar response pattern imputation. The effects of 3 independent variables were examined (factor loading magnitude, sample size, and missing data rate) on 4 outcome measures: convergence failures, parameter estimate bias, parameter estimate efficiency, and model goodness of fit. Results indicated that FIML estimation was superior across all conditions of the design. Under ignorable missing data conditions (missing completely at random and missing at random), FIML estimates were unbiased and more efficient than the other …

Nebline, July 2001

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Making A Difference The County Fair Way
Vegetable Gardening in the Fall
Start Avocados Seeds
Blue Flowers for the Garden
Viburnums in the Landscape
Horticulture information center
Add a Touch of Fragrance
Explore Spring Creek Prairie
Hey Acreage Owners!
Dispelling The Daddy Longlegs Myth
August Household Hazardous Waste Collections
The Origin of an Acre and Other Land Measures
Calibrating Farm Sprayers
Pesticide Container Recycling Dates Set
Tips for Late Summer Alfalfa Planting
The Acreage Owners Expo
Simplify Lawn Care During Drought
Mulching Can Make Gardening Easier
Healthy Eating: Enjoy Nebraska Foods
The Well-Dressed Salad
Is That Whole Wheat Bread Really …

Evolution Of A Scientific Meeting: Eighty Annual Meetings Of The American Society Of Mammalogists, 1919-2000, Hugh H. Genoways, Patricia W. Freeman

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

The American Society of Mammalogists has held 80 annual meetings between 1919 and 2000. These meetings have been held in 32 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Canada, and Mexico. At least 86 people have served as the chair or co-chair of the Local Committee planning the meetings. The number of technical presentations has grown from a low of 17 in 1921 to 340 in 1994. Symposia were an early feature of annual meetings but did not become a regular feature until 1971. Poster presentations were introduced in 1979 and reached a high of 195 posters at the 1994 annual …

Acuta Enews June 2001, Vol.30, No. 6

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In This Issue

History Goes Up in Flames

Web Conference on IP Video

DC Update

Cellular Tower Service Considerations

Disposable Cell Phones

Board Report

Welcome New Members

Positions Available

Nebline, June 2001

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Grilling It Safely
Handling Food Safely on the Road
Watch for Squash Vine Borer
Zoo Garden
Days Between Flowering and Harvest of Vegetables
Horticulture information center
Night Blooming Flowers Offer Evening Enjoyment
Hey Kids! Out of School and Already Bored? Try Rearing Butterflies and Moths
Latex Paint Exchange: June 23
“Itchy Chiggers”
Some Common Butterfly Larval Host Plants
What Bio-Security Issues Should You Take on Your Livestock Operation?
Pesticide Container Recycling Program
Prepare Equipment for Storage
EPA Starts Phasing Out Diazinon This Spring
Manure Handling
Shock Chlorination of Domestic Water Supplies
2001 Plants of the Year Winners Recommended for Nebraska …

Acuta Enews May 2001, Vol.30, No. 5

ACUTA Newsletters

ACUTA Leadership Awards

Assigned to EDUCASUE

DC Update

Overheard on the Listserve: LECs, CLECs, and Resale

Board Report

Welcome New Members

Positions Available

Nebline, May 2001

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Crop Genetic Engineering – 101
StarLink Corn—What is All the Fuss About?
Think About Apple Maggot Control Now
Three All-America Rose Selections Winners for 2001
Mulches
Perennials with Unique Flowers
Horticulture information center
It’s Springtime: Watch for Signs of Termites
We Love the Birds, But Sometimes They Drive Us Crazy!
Insects, Spiders, Mice and More
Reminder!! Household Hazardous Waste Collection for Lancaster County Residents
Controlling Volunteer StarLink™ corn
BSE (Mad Cow) and Foot & Mouth Disease, Ending the Confusion!!!
Strategic Mowing Helps Lawns Grow Healthfully
Trellis Construction
Healthy Tomatoes Result of Planning, Care
Suiting the Garden to the Gardener
Healthy …

Integrated Academic Student Support Services At Loyola University: The Library As A Resource Clearinghouse, Elizabeth Orgeron

E-JASL 1999-2009 (Volumes 1-10)

Higher education has seen the emergence of new models of student support services. These models vary greatly, ranging from those that, for example, simply streamline the registration process, to others that base new building construction on studies done about the information and service access needs of students.

In the recent past, colleges and universities have felt the impact of significantly higher drop out rates among freshman, and they have made attempts to assuage these rising attrition rates. Through extensive study of college campus culture and student needs, many institutions are changing long-standing protocols and adding a technology rich, user friendly …

Full Circle: The Reappearance Of Privilege And Responsibility In American Higher Education, George Mariz

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Anyone familiar with current initiatives in higher education is well aware of the increasing emphasis on public service as a component of an undergraduate degree, and the rhetoric of contemporary dialogues might well lead one to believe that public service is an entirely new concept in American higher education. This essay offers a different view. Far from being new, public service in one form or another was a significant element of the college curriculum from the seventeenth century until the Civil War. The reappearance of this notion, I believe, signals a rebirth, but at the same time marks a departure …

Further Thoughts On The Future Of Nchc, Joan Digby

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I was one of the panelists with Sam Schuman in the final plenary session at the Fall 2000 conference. Since I was the outgoing president of NCHC, and had indeed gone out by the time we spoke to the audience that Sunday morning, I had already spent considerable time thinking about the future of our organization. Nevertheless, Sam's call to arms as the defenders of undergraduate excellence---clear and resonant-was the most important message of the day.

It's Ten O'Clock. Do You Know Where Your Students Are?, Stephen Wainscott

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Sam Schuman's essay urging us to promote excellence broadly and not just within our programs comes on the eve of Clemson's SACS reaccreditation site visit next year. His observations remind me that I need to get busy. Thanks a lot, Sam.

Like scores of others involved in the reaccreditation process, I will do my part by contributing to, but not chairing, the Honors Program's self-study. It will feature lots of golly-gee-whiz graphs and charts. I may toss in a colorful pie chart showing honors students from all over the country and many foreign countries, including Texas. The self-study will note …

A Small Step, Len Zane

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Sam Schuman's essay, "Cultivating: Some Thoughts on NCHC's Future'" challenges NCHC and honors practitioners to expand the role of honors on campus so that honors may become the locus of a more generalized push for excellence in higher education. There is a symmetry in Sam's call since many people's first involvement with honors, as students, faculty, or administrators, was likely catalyzed by the general disinterest in excellence that pervades much of what passes for education on our campuses. The symmetry arises from going full circle, from the larger university to the safe haven of honors education to practice our craft, …

Helping Honors Students Improve Critical Thinking, Julie Fisher Robertson, Donna Rane-Szostak

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Interest in critical thinking (CT) has increased dramatically in the past 25 years. This represents a growing awareness that high school and college graduates often do not have the necessary CT skills to meet the challenges of a changing world. Research shows that college students who take critical thinking courses report their ability to think critically has greatly improved (Block, 1985; Rubinstein, 1980; Rubinstein & Firstenberg, 1987). The preponderance of evidence from assessment studies using control groups indicates that "gains are most pronounced when instruction is specifically designed for the promotion of critical thinking. Critical thinking does not automatically result …

Science Literacy And The Undergraduate Science Curriculum: Is It Time To Try Something Different?, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I had a very disturbing experience a few months ago---Dne might almost call it a crisis of faith-while leafing through the financial pages of my daily newspaper. Confronted with column after column of virtually indecipherable NASDAQ, NYSE and AMEX stock quotations-and even more nonplussed by articles which made reference to such things as "put" and "call" options, small cap growth funds, and companies taking "poison pills" to avoid a hostile takeover-I realized in a flash of depressing insight that I was one of this nation's economic illiterates.

Editorial Matter For Volume 2, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor’s Introduction, Dail Mullins
About the Authors

Cultivating Too, Bernice Braid

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In his plenary comments at NCHC's Washington conference (2000), Sam Schuman raised topics of compelling interest to us all: the role of honors and of the NCHC in the context of attitudinal matters in higher education generally, as he sees them. These topics are important to all of us. What individual honors programs actually do, these days, and what NCHC does for them and for honors are deeply important issues as we begin a new millennium. My response is a personal attempt to frame the issues Sam has raised, consider the same span of time he cites-the final thirty years …

Cultivating: Some Thoughts On Nchc's Future, Samuel Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

At the Fall, 2000, meeting of the NCHC in Washington, DC, the closing plenary session focused on "The Future of NCHC." It was a worthwhile session, ably organized and chaired by Ada Long, in which several thoughtful participants made interesting and valuable observations and suggestions. Unfortunately, the plenary session was scheduled for late in the morning of the last day of the meeting, so many conference attendees faced the choice of concentrating on NCHC's future ... or their own. Reasonably enough, most opted for the latter by departing the meeting, hotel and city prior to the panel presentation.

Cultivating Honors Excellence In The Other Garden, Jeffrey Portnoy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Sam Schuman's observations in "Cultivating: Some Thoughts on NCHC's Future" about the weakening of excellence in the academy and our culture are shrewd and accurate. The proliferation of award shows on the television screen and in magazines, for example, with their increasingly specialized and arcane constituencies, underscores his point. This bounty leaves a tacky, deadening glaze across the eyes that is tousled only slightly when an award show crops up that offers, if not the ring of merit, at least the jingle of familiarity. If something more than marketing, the dearth of good programming, or self-promotion is operating here, then …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 2, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines :
Dedication
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long

EDUCATIONAL TRANSITIONS
Full Circle: The Reappearance of Privilege and Responsibility in American Higher Education, George Mariz
Telling Tales Out of School: Academic Novels and Memoirs by Women, Betty Krasne
Helping Honors Students Improve Critical Thinking, Julie Fisher Robertson and Donna Rane-Szostak
Science Literacy and the Undergraduate Science Curriculum: Is It Time To Try Something Different?, Dail Mullins

FORUM ON HONORS AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Cultivating: Some Thoughts on the NCHC's Future, Samuel Schuman
Further Thoughts on the Future of the NCHC, Joan Digby
A Small Step, Len Zane
Cultivating …