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Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

“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.


Theorizing The Effects Of Class, Gender, And Race On Adult Learning In Nonformal And Informal Settings, Margaret L. Cain Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Aug 2002

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding parking, goals and Welcome Back Western.


Negative Thinking And The Denial Of Tolerance: The Challenge Of Marcuse To Contemporary Adult Education, Stephen Brookfield Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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.


Using The Internet For Informal Learning About Joining The Brain Drain: A Qualitative Central/East European And Pacific Perspective, Roger Boshier Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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.


The Role Of Gender Consciousness In Challenging Patriarchy, Laura L. Bierema Aug 2002

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.


“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 Aug 2002

“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 Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

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 Aug 2002

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

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


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Aug 2002

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the August 7, 2002 meeting.


Retreat Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Jul 2002

Retreat Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Retreat to discuss fall semester activities.


Retreat Agenda, Wku Student Government Association Jul 2002

Retreat Agenda, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Agenda for July 2002 retreat.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Jul 2002

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the July 17, 2002 meeting.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Jul 2002

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding committee ideas, hiring a secretary, software and archives.


2002-2003 Proposed Budget, Wku Student Government Association Jul 2002

2002-2003 Proposed Budget, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Proposed budget prepared by Ross Pruitt.


Retreat Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Jun 2002

Retreat Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the June 6, 2002 retreat.


Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents May 2002

Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Quarterly meeting of the WKU Board of Regents. Agenda items include: honorary doctorate for Frank Etscorn III, distinguished university professorships, emeritus faculty, athletic contracts for Mary Taylor Cowles and Dennis Felton, donor confidentiality policy, president's evaluation, Challenging the Spirit resolution, 2001-02 operating budget, tuition calculations and rates, Athletic Department audit, quarterly financial report, 2002-03 budget, Diddle Arena renovation project, Student Health Center name change, student organization administration, Aramark food services contract, Committee on Diversity and Internationalism, naming Minton Hall, personal changes and salaries and purchase of property on Nashville Road.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council May 2002

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the May 7, 2002 meeting.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Apr 2002

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding the budget, curriculum committee, faculty work life survey, general education courses and election.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Apr 2002

Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting regarding anonymous posters, polling, shuttle service, provide-a-ride, banquet, budget, awards and legislation.


Bill 02-25-S Diversity Rocks, Wku Student Government Association Apr 2002

Bill 02-25-S Diversity Rocks, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to purchase Diversity Rocks t-shirts.


Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association Apr 2002

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss spring banquet.