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Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University Oct 2022

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

The Illusion of Touch / Timothy Deenihan, editor -- Our Natural World / by Jennifer Mattei, Ph.D. -- Building Bridges Among Pioneers: Alumni Engagement offers a virtual community with real heart -- Big News for a Small Town: Local journalism is alive and well in Easton -- Hearts and Minds: 60 years ago Vatican II reshaped the Catholic Church. This year Sacred Heart hosts its own gathering to discuss the direction of Catholic higher ed. -- The Joe-Alicastro-ness of it all: 30 years as an Emmy-winning broadcast producer for NBC News -- A Matter of Perspective: 2023 Art & Design …


Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University Oct 2021

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

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Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University Apr 2021

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

Contents: Forward: Crating Inclusivity --SHU Goes Pro --Turning Zs To Ws. Leading: Restoring the "Crown Jewel" of Downtown Fairfield --Campus in the clouds --The Trace Race. The Day After Tomorrow: Representational Opportunity --The Conversation We're Not Having --The Way We (Might) Live Now. Where Language Is No Barrier. Something Old, Something New. Spirit: SHU and 42 --The Power of Opportunity --Remembering Don Feeley. From The Archive.


Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University Oct 2020

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

Contents: Forward: Teaching evolution; Course correction; Teaching at home --Leading: Olympic stride; Applying the principles to the discipline; There's (now) an app for that --first person, plural, by timothy deenihan --Democracy's puzzling paradox. by Isil Akbulut-Gok, Ph.D. --To replenish the earth, by David L. Coppola, Ph.D. --This is not a drill, by Jill Jones --Building a community, by Melissa Ezarik; Building a residence life; Expanding outward; Expanding inward; My, oh my, how we've grown --All Heart (Michelle Loris) --Spirit: At the front of the front line --From the archive.


Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University Apr 2020

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 2, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

Contents: A word from the President --Turning ideas into realities and questions into answers -- SHU senior Danny McCarthy and 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago --Business and technology come together in a new College with a dynamic new dean --Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Chapel of the Holy Spirit --Weighing the value of a liberal arts education --Dr. Grace Flannery: marine biologist, University ambassador, raconteur extraordinaire --A deeper look at SHU's ranking as one of America's "Happiest Schools" --Heart is always central to Sacred Heart University --Kevin Nealon '75, from SHU to SNL ... and back again.


Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University Oct 2019

Sacred Heart University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

Contents: Forward: Fulfilling SHU’s mission in the liberal arts --Leading: Assuming our responsibilities to the communities we serve --Cause and Effect: Brian Hamilton’s mission to extend Main Street to every community --All the Kids are Doing It: The silent (and now deadly) rise of vaping --Sound Body, Sound Mind: SHU’s new Bobby Valentine Health & Recreation Center helps students keep work and life in balance.


The Introduction Of Virtual Reality To Education: Should The Marketing Discipline Engage?, Enda Mcgovern Oct 2017

The Introduction Of Virtual Reality To Education: Should The Marketing Discipline Engage?, Enda Mcgovern

WCBT Faculty Publications

This position paper explores whether faculty should embrace the use of virtual reality as a medium of academic engagement with the future intake of digital native students. In recent years there has been a tremendous surge in the use of digital device platforms to extend the reach of education to the wider student populations. As a result, the positive engagement by students of multimedia objects, including video, sound clips and data in a more integrated, multi-sensory digital medium has gained significant traction in the learning environment. Students are moving faster into this digital space and it is not long before …


Advertising Higher Education In Romania, Anca C. Micu, Madalina Moraru Jan 2014

Advertising Higher Education In Romania, Anca C. Micu, Madalina Moraru

WCBT Faculty Publications

Romania, a former communist country in Eastern Europe, saw the iron curtain lifted in 1989, and started at that time the transition to a free market economy. The past couple of decades encompass extraordinary changes in the economic structure and environment, with state monopolies being dissolved and private companies entering the market and competing in western manner. The Romanian conversion from central planning to a market-oriented economy provides a fascinating laboratory for research in economic theory and practice (Hefner and Woodward 1999). With the advent of a free market economy and a competitive environment, advertising exited its dormant communist stage …


Moocs And Modern Democracies, Richard L. Pate Nov 2013

Moocs And Modern Democracies, Richard L. Pate

WCBT Faculty Publications

A discussion of the imposition of the interests of the few on the collective through a subtle but effective manner: the eventual, complete development of Massive Open Online Courses. It is this article’s premise that this development together with current marketing efficacy and the present economic goals of modern democracies, is probable to result in a shrinkage of the market place of ideas and, paradoxically, likely to result in a diminution of democracy in the world.