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Senate Statutes - Title Iv (Legislative Branch) - Updated 04-29-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Senate Statutes - Title X (Bureaus) - Updated 04-29-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Senate Statutes - Title Ii (Membership, Powers, & Purpose) - Updated 04-26-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Senate Rules Of Procedure - Updated 04-29-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Sb [P] 53-001 An Act To Update Senate Rules Of Procedure (53rd Term), Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Senate Statutes - Title Ix (Agencies) - Updated 04-29-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Senate Statutes - Title V (Judicial Branch) - Updated 04-29-13, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

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Exploring Supports Provided For Student Eportfolio Development In A Professional Development Context, Muireann Okeeffe

Articles

This small scale study aimed to explore and establish if support strategies implemented to enhance student ePortfolios were helpful to students and to identify useful ways of supporting ePortfolio development with future cohorts of students. This action research study was informed through focus group discussion and individual interviews with students.

The importance of reflection for the development professional practice and of creative abilities is discussed. The substantial benefits of creativity within education are investigated and characteristics of creativity that might be developed with students’ ePortfolios are revealed. Specifically this paper seeks to foster Crafts (2011) four characteristics of creativity, pluralities, …

Ua12/2/1 The Stressbusters, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

Special finals week edition of the College Heights Herald.

Ua3/9 Fall 2012 End Of Semester Message, Wku President's Office, Gary Ransdell

WKU Archives Records

Memo from President Gary Ransdell to the faculty and staff thanking the faculty and staff for a successful semester, graduation and season's greetings.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Council Of Academic Deans

Council of Academic Deans

Meeting regarding prior learning assessment, summer school, vacation, memoranda of agreement, Kentucky Campus Compact, student identity, student productions, teaching assistants, credit hours, administrator selection, study abroad, tenure and promotion.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 26, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

2012-12-06, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

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Ua35 Associate Provost Announcment, Wku Provost, Gordon Emslie

WKU Archives Records

Memo from Provost Gordon Emslie to the faculty regarding the selection of Carl Fox as Associate Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies.

Senate Meeting, December 5, 2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session December 5, 2012, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

Minutes of the December 5, 2012 WMU Board of Trustees meeting.

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Faculty Meeting, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, Arts & Sciences Faculty

The College of Liberal Arts Faculty Minutes

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Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 25, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Administration And Finance Division Newsletter, Dec. 2012, San Jose State University, Administration And Finance Division

Administration and Finance Division Newsletter

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Mathematics Educators And The “Math Wars”: Who Controls The Discourse?, David W. Stinson

Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology Faculty Publications

In this editorial, the author expresses support of a colleague, Professor Jo Boaler of Stanford University, in her actions of going public with the harassment that she has experienced through professional and personal attacks by James Milgram of Stanford University and Wayne Bishop of California State University, Los Angeles.

An Exploratory Study Of Teacher Empowerment And Technical Education In Kentucky, Lee Ann Wall

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers’ perceptions of empowerment and principal use of power within career and technical education in Kentucky. The researcher posits that, with the continual process of educational reform, principals need to understand what empowers teachers to perform as additional expectations and responsibilities are being mandated.

The researcher used a mixed methods design to examine power bases that career and technical education teachers perceived were used by their principals to identify teachers’ perceived empowerment, as well as influencers and barriers. Data were collected with a survey and two open-ended questions from …

Teacher Leadership: Women (Of African Descent) Enacting Social Justice, Vonzell Agosto, Zorka Karanxha

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications

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Do Credit-Based Transfer Programs Have An Impact On Intellectual Development From Secondary Education To Post-Secondary Education?, James Uhlenkamp

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This descriptive, retrospective quantitative study identified the influence that credit-based transfer programs have on the intellectual development positions of college matriculates at a private, residential, church-affiliated master’s degree granting university in the Midwest. This determination presents a better success measure for credit-based transfer programs than the measures used in previous studies: academic momentum, persistence rate, college grade point average, and degree attainment. People transitioning through intellectual development positions gain critical thinking skills and adopt more of the habits of mind and of working that characterize a well-educated person.

An evaluation database developed for the target university’s first-year experience program provided …

Prism #67, December 2012, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

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A Phenomenology Of Academic Support In Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Homes Of At-Risk Students, David Barber

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

I examined the home environment and the amount of academic support non-English speaking parents are able to provide for their English Language Learner (ELL) children in the United States school system. In particular, the focus is on the families of children who struggle academically in the state of Georgia, where non-English speaking children are mainstreamed into regular education classrooms with limited support. Although there has been a great deal of research on how ELLs learn and what type of program can be used to best facilitate mastery of academics as they are learning the English language, the focal point of …

A Motivated Workforce: A Mixed Methods Study Of Worker Motivation At A Nebraska Manufacturing Company, Kevin Wesley

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The study of worker motivation and human motivation in general, has been the focus of psychologists, sociologists, behavioral scientists, and leadership theorists for more than a century. An understanding of the factors that motivate workers is critical not only to corporate executives who concentrate on the bottom line, but more importantly to the security of our nation as it relates to competing in the global market. The purpose of this mixed-methods study is to examine worker motivation in a Nebraska manufacturing company. A pragmatist worldview informs the convergent parallel design of this study, which consists of a qualitative strand using …

Exploring Technology Usage By School Counselors: A Mixed Methods Study, Nathan Grosshandler

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

School counseling is progressing from the tradition of responsive services to a proactive system linked to school mission (Dahir, 2009, p 4.). This paradigm shift within the profession has drastically increased the responsibility required of school counselors.

This study explored data drawn from a population of school counselors at Recognized American School Counselor Association (ASCA) Model Programs (RAMP). A multi-phase, sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used for this study. The study focused on nine specific technologies: website, e-mail, Internet, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, student database system, social networking platforms, and EZ Analyze. Mean scores, frequency distribution tables, …

Transition To College: Nonacademic Factors That Influence Persistence For Underprepared Community College Students, Ann M. Paulson

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Community colleges provide access to higher education for a broad range of students. The majority require ‘remedial’ coursework in reading, writing and, especially, math. Most students who begin with this remedial coursework do not go on to earn a certificate or degree. Low levels of college graduation have high direct cost, adversely affect the U.S. economy and contribute to socioeconomic inequity.

The literature review shows that both academic and nonacademic factors influence both completion of remedial coursework and completion of first year in college. It introduces research on a variety of strategies for increasing completion and persistence for underprepared students. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 88, No. 24, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua35 Dean Of The University Libraries At Wku, Wku Provost, Gordon Emslie

WKU Archives Records

Memo from Provost Gordon Emslie to the faculty regarding the selection of Connie Foster as Dean of the University Libraries.