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On Campus Social Support And Hope As Unique Predictors Of Perceived Ability To Persist In College, Deanna D'Amico, Veronica Fruiht

Psychology | Faculty Scholarship

The psychological construct of hope, characterized by goal-directed thinking rooted in personal agency and the ability to develop pathways to achieve goals, has long been demonstrated to predict academic success. A sample of 994 undergraduates participated in this study to better understand the role of hope and on-campus social support in predicting students’ perceived ability to persist and succeed in college. Results demonstrated that on-campus support, particularly from teachers and professors, significantly predicted academic outcomes and hope. In addition, we found evidence of a support gap in which students from underrepresented ethnic minorities were far more likely to report that …

Open Ears, Open Mind, Open Heart: Active Listening, Mia Nguyen

Service-Learning | Student Scholarship

Active listening is the act of listening with all senses– the body, the mind, and the soul. It means empathizing with another person and finding that place within ourselves where we can listen beyond our initial judgements and personal feelings. It is listening beyond words and allowing our souls to understand, connect, and accept one another. Active listening sparks internal purity eliminating all types of judgement and allowing us to truly take in what another person has to offer. It is “an experience of language as a bodily felt process” in which we have a felt understanding rather than a …

Naturally Occurring Mentorship In A National Sample Of First-Generation College Goers: A Promising Portal For Academic And Developmental Success., Veronica Fruiht, Thomas Chan

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Attending college is increasingly important to compete in this global world; however, young people whose parents did not attend college are significantly less likely to enroll in and finish college. Formal programs to support first-generation college goers are common, but not scalable to provide support to all young people who need it. Instead, mentoring that naturally occurs on these students' journeys into and out of college may be a more practical avenue for supporting their success. This study investigated the role community members, relatives, and educators play in first-generation college goers' educational outcomes. Data from 4,181 participants of the National …

Advancing Diversity, Equity, And Comprehensive Internationalization In Higher Education, Kati Bell, Jennifer Donaghue, Andrew Gordon

The Global Education Office | Staff Scholarship

As the leading organization dedicated to advancing diversity and inclusive policies and practices in international education, Diversity Abroad launched the annual Survey on Diversity & Inclusion Among International Educators to help the field make informed decisions on how we hire, develop professionals and create inclusive employment practices in our offices, organizations, institutions, and ultimately the field.

Advancing Global Health Outcomes Through International Collaboration & Education, Olivia Catolico, Leandra Wallace, Jane Anyango, Kati Bell

Nursing | Faculty Conference Presentations

Study abroad opportunities for students are readily integrated into higher education. Curricular challenges exist for professional programs regulated by state & national accrediting bodies. However, mission driven values at the broader institutional level facilitate implementation of these learning opportunities.

Institutional learning outcomes at Dominican University foster intercultural understanding. Global education outcomes of Dominican University further delineate levels of intercultural competencies to be achieved through coursework and service. The Dominican Department of Nursing seeks to prepare nurses who are competent, culturally sensitive, & ethically grounded within a global community.

The Bwindi School of Nursing mission seeks to improve the health of …

Service-Learning Program Community Partner Handbook, Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Dominican’s Service-Learning Designated Courses require that students work with their community partner for approximately 20-25 hours during the semester. The service hours must occur weekly and continuously throughout the semester, and the time spent constructively and productively towards the needs and goals of the community.

Ideally, a community partner has existing programs and infrastructure that can provide our SL students with opportunities to gain consistent (weekly) and extensive (semester-long) experiences participating and interacting with community members. In turn, SL faculty intentionally guide their students to reflect on and analyze their weekly community experiences to make connections with course content.

Service-Learning Faculty Handbook [Version 3], Julia Van Der Ryn, Emily Wu

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Dominican University’s mission provides a strong foundation for service-learning, a pedagogy that creates intentional links between academic education and community experience where each strengthens the other. Service-learning engages students, faculty, staff, and community partners in collaborative and responsive action, dialogue, and reflection to address community-identified needs, meet learning goals, expand our perspectives, and increase civic participation. In this way service-learning creates reciprocal benefits for all involved:

1. The University is able to live out its mission and enhance its role as a vital and active partner in the community;

2. Faculty are supported in connecting innovative teaching, research/scholarship, and community …

If They Tell Their Stories And No One Hears Them, Does It Challenge The Status Quo?: The Role Of Audience, Listening And Dialogue In Storytelling, Jennifer Lucko

Education | Faculty Conference Presentations

Storytelling is cultural practice long used by African Americans, Latinxs and Native Americans to understand and resist American structures of inequity and oppression. In this paper, I explore the relationship between the social context of storytelling and the construction of Latinx student identities using ethnographic data gathered during 8 months of fieldwork with nine middle school students from Spanish speaking immigrant families in Northern California. This group of students was invited to join an after-school program together with eight students from a private Jewish day school located across the street. Although one aim of the program was to facilitate intercultural …

Mobile Learning: Implementing A 1 To 1 Ipad Project In A Teacher Preparation Program, Elizabeth Truesdell, Rebecca Birch

Education | Faculty Conference Presentations

This brief paper examines how a teacher preparation program implemented a 1-1 mobile learning initiative with faculty, teacher candidates and their fieldwork supervisors. The initiative proceeded through a three-tiered approach to effectively integrating instructional technology in and outside of the classroom. Researchers employed a mixed method approach to data collection and analysis, which indicated an increased rate of faculty, student teacher and supervisor competency levels in the use of instructional technology. This study fills a gap in research regarding 1-1 iPad initiatives in teacher preparation programs.

Developing And Modeling 21st-Century Skills With Preservice Teachers, Jacquelyn Urbani, Shadi Roshandel, Rosemarie Michaels, Elizabeth Truesdell

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Today’s youth face a rapidly changing world, requiring them to move beyond basic formulaic knowledge and skills. Current educational policy, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), represents a shift away from rote learning and memorization of facts to the development of the 21st-century skills of creativity: critical thinking; communication; collaboration; and information, media, and technology skills (IMTS). Business and political leaders also recognize the necessity in addressing these core competencies for the 21st-century landscape (Ravitch, 2010). For students to be competent in a global society, K–12 teachers need to develop, model, and assess the 21st-century skills in their …

Teaching The American Dream: The Unintended Consequences For Latinx Students Conducting Participatory Action Research, Jennifer Lucko

Education | Faculty Conference Presentations

In this paper, I draw on my ethnographic fieldwork with Latinx English language learners in Northern California to consider how schools inadvertently contribute to internalized racism by teaching the ideal of an American meritocracy while obscuring issues of social justice affecting students and their families. In what follows I will briefly cover four main points. First, I explain the conceptual framework guiding my analysis of the relationship between school policies and practices and internalized racism. Second, I outline my fieldwork site and the research methods used during my study. Third, I describe how educational policies and practices at the Latinx …

The Small College Imperative: From Survival To Transformation, Mary B. Marcy

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Small colleges and universities serve a profoundly important role in American society. They provide the rigorous, personalized experience that is the hallmark of the best of higher education. In the process, they build opportunity and encourage civic engagement among a new generation of citizens.

The landscape for these institutions has changed dramatically in recent years. Declining numbers of traditional college-age students have coincided with a shift in populations moving away from areas with a large number of small private institutions. The high-tuition and high-financial-aid model of funding private colleges and universities is generating less net-tuition revenue, while tuition-discounting rates continue …

An Innovative Behavioral Interview For Pre-Admission Selection Of Occupational Therapy Students, Kitsum Li, Julia L. Wilbarger, Shad St. Louis

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The goal for pre-admission interview is to identify students who will be successful both academically and professionally. The traditional structured pre-admission interview has not been shown to be effective in predicting students’ success in academic and fieldwork performance. This article describes an innovative behavioral interview process during which applicants interviewed simulated clients as part of the preadmission selection process. The goals of the pre-admission behavioral interview were to observe applicants’ behavior as team players, and to assess their interpersonal communication skills, capability to be reflective, and professionalism. During the behavioral interview, faculty interviewers assessed the applicants’ performance in the planning …

Recent Alumna's Gift Is Devoted To Service, Helping Refugees, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

When Jannel Noelle Mariano ’16 attended Dominican, the confidence and experience she gained through internships and immersion trips guided her toward a rewarding path of service focused on helping refugees integrate into American society.

Resilient Chemistry Major On Fast Path Toward Medical School, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Daniel Vann-Victorino’s ’17 pursuit of medical school is a team effort at Dominican. Since he was young, the chemistry major in the Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics knew that a career in medicine was his destiny. His grandmother is still a nurse. His mother works as a pathology clerk. They have had a great influence on him.

Politics, Inclusion, And Social Practice, Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Amy Wong

Literature, Languages, and the Humanities | Faculty Scholarship

"In the wake of the American election, Elaine Hadley’s 'Closing Remarks' from v21’s b2o issue—that we are writing, living, and teaching in a 'critical moment, some might even say a survivalist moment' in which 'the power of positive psychology does not seem adequate to the times'—appear chilling in their urgency. Hadley cautions against a pleasure and optimism largely disengaged from feminist and class critiques, as well as from what she calls 'Politics with a big P.'"

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Internships Inspire Business Major In Pursuit Of Broker License, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The experience Andrew Chalker ’17 has enjoyed at Dominican has been so rewarding that the business administration major would welcome an opportunity to return to campus someday, teach and pay it forward.

English Professor Aims To Connect Shakespeare With Science, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dr. Perry Guevara, assistant professor of English, is focused on bridging the gap between the humanities and the sciences.

Students On Stage With Bernie Sanders For Ils Lecture At Dominican, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

More than 100 Dominican students joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders on stage in Angelico Concert Hall on December 2 when he spoke in the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Fall Leadership Lecture Series.

Student-Athlete Majoring In Psychology Ready To Launch Social Networking App, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

When he arrived at Dominican as a student-athlete, Seth Turner ’17 decided to major in psychology because he wanted to learn more about people interacting with each other and the social dynamics that go into that. Now that goal has inspired him to develop a social networking application.

Democracy & Equity Fall Program Ends With Discussion On Mental Health Care, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dominican’s “Democracy & Equity” programming for the fall concluded on November 29 with a panel discussion focused on mental health care.

Dominican Scholar Milestone: 100,000 Downloads In Calendar Year, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Since Thanksgiving of 2015, research by Dominican faculty and students has been downloaded by more than 100,000 people in over 190 countries through Dominican Scholar, a free online institutional repository. Dominican Scholar was created to showcase and share the intellectual, professional, and artistic skills of Dominican faculty and students, and the depth of their knowledge in their field of study. A majority of the research papers and master’s theses are deposited by students and discovered via Google Search. Many are presented at Dominican’s annual Scholarly and Creative Works Conference in the spring.

Research Fellowship In Nicaragua Valuable Experience For Biology Student, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Alexis Toruño ’17 suspected that her research trip to Nicaragua this past summer was going to provide realworld application to her studies. She didn’t expect it to be such a revelation.

Alum Composes Musical Score For National Toyota Commercial, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

With the skills he honed and the mindset he developed as a music major at Dominican, Anthony Circo ’14 at the age of 24 was chosen this fall to score a national television commercial for Toyota.

Dr. Françoise Lepage Receives Inaugural Global Education Award, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dr. Françoise Lepage, Professor and Dean Emerita at the Barowsky School of Business, was honored by Dominican’s Global Education Office on November 17 for her significant lifetime contribution.

Robbie Robertson Of The Band Speaks In Ils Lecture Series, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Legendary guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson, best known for his work with The Band in the 1960s and 1970s, spoke before an appreciative crowd of about 500 in the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Fall Leadership Lecture Series in partnership with Book Passage at Dominican University of California on November 30.

Business Executives Participate In Dafa's "Startup Night", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Executives of Byte, Venture Pad, EO Products, Urban Remedy, and Circuit Cubes were among six companies that presented at “Startup Night” hosted by the Dominican Accounting Finance Association on November 21 in Guzman Lecture Hall.

Campus Ministry Hosts 30th Annual Thanksgiving Dinner On Campus, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Campus Ministry hosted a crowd of about 500 for the 30th annual Thanksgiving dinner in Caleruega Dining Hall November 21.

Kapamilya Club At Dominican Focuses On Community, Support, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

In Tagalog, Kapamilya means family. At Dominican, Kapamilya is family. Creating and maintaining an inclusive, supportive community is at the heart of Dominican’s popular Filipino student association, which in recent years has almost doubled to 115 members.

International Education Week Features Global Achievement Award, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The Global Education Office (GEO) celebrated International Education Week at Dominican November 10- 18 with a series of events, highlighted by the Consular Corps and Global Education Honoree Reception in the Guzman Lecture Hall on Thursday.