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Common Data Set 2004-05, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Data set for 2004-2005

The Lexical Approach: Collocation In High School English Language Learners, Claire Smith

The Edna L. Sterling Collection

Collocation skills were measured over time in a group of high School ELL students. Qualitative errors of Russian speakers versus Spanish speakers were analyzed.

Klipsun Magazine 2005, Volume 36, Issue 02 - November, Jessica R. Evans

Klipsun Magazine

I'm a lists person. I get a strange delight from checking little Nike signs on my daily list of "Things to do."

This issue's stories of triumph, surrender and hope inspired me to create an ongoing list — a list of things to do before I die. Learning 12 languages, solving local hunger and playing the mandolin, while extra­ ordinary, don't occupy a spot on the list. Other topics, however, such as mystery, money, romance and reli­gion, definitely beg a place.

My list will surely grow just as Klipsun's reper­toire will. But when my time is up, those little tingles …

An Analysis Of Student Evaluations Of Instruction For The Fall Quarter 2004, Richard Frye, Trimble E. Joseph, Chris Stark

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

An analysis of student evaluations of teaching. Trends, issues, etc.

Window On Western, 2005, Volume 12, Issue 01, Dee Johnson, Alumni, Foundation, And Public Information Offices, Western Washington University

Window on Western

No abstract provided.

The Planet, 2005, Fall, Sarah M. Kuck, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

A Profile Of The 2004 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Chris Stark

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Profiles graduates from 2004, including gpas, honors, college of graduation, degree granted, etc.

A Profile Of The 2003 Western Washington University Graduating Class, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Chris Stark

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Profiles graduates from 2003, including GPAs, honors, college of graduation, degree granted, etc.

Communities For Growth: Cultivating And Sustaining Service-Learning Teaching And Scholarship In A Faculty Fellows Program, Carmen Werder, Angela Harwood, Leslie Ochs, Deborah Currier, Shearlean Duke, Joyce D. Hammond, Lisa Moulds, Karen Stout

Western Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

We analyze a two-year Faculty Fellows Program designed to enhance the service-learning pedagogy and scholarship at a regional comprehensive university. The impact of the program was analyzed using initial questionnaires, meeting notes, final reports, and faculty reflective essays. Participation in a faculty fellows cohort program provided a sense of campus community, led to professional and personal development, and improved community and student outcomes. Findings indicated the supportive culture created through the program was central to its powerful impact; other positive outcomes were grounded in the sense of community that developed.

Klipsun Magazine, 2005, Volume 36, Issue 01 - September, Paolo Mottola Jr.

Klipsun Magazine

Autumn is the season of transition at Western. A new academic year embarks, and the accompanying anxiety and excitement consumes university life.

New students curiously walk the campus, helping each other navigate the unfamiliar environment. Old friends meet and catch up on the events of summer. Days become shorter, and the colors of Bellingham change.

Klipsun is also in transition. The magazines format has changed to embody shorter features and increased visual content. Inside this issue, readers will discover a great range of transitions that Western students and members of the greater Western community experience.

I encourage sports fans to …

Chart - Freshman Retention & Graduation Rate, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

An Excel spreadsheet of the10-year History of Freshman Retention and 6-year Graduation Rate

Chart - Transfer Graduation Rate, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Chart of transfer students graduating within three years or persisting to the fourth year.

Chart - Number Of Degrees Awarded, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

10-year History

Chart - Graduation Efficiency Index (Gei), Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

10-year History of Graduation Efficiency Index

Chart - Graduates With Less Than 125% Of Credits Needed For Graduation, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

10-year History

2004-05 (3 Quarters & Aya) Sch & Fte Faculty Report, Ernest Sams

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Student Credit Hours; GUR Courses; Sections; FTE Faculty Allocated and Used; Compare With 1 Year Ago; Measures per FTE Faculty

Klipsun Magazine, 2005, Volume 35, Issue 06 - May, Paolo Mottola Jr.

Klipsun Magazine

Klipsun celebrates lifestyles, art and entertainment by telling a variety of stories about people residing in, or connected to, the Pacific Northwest.

My editorial staff and I have evaluated how these stories can be presented more effectively. The result is a reformatted magazine, which includes more art and shorter stories.

The content of this issue includes hiking, body building, last I wishes and rap music — assorted topics that individually delve into a slice of life.

I recommend reading Jamie Trudel's “Two Men and a Baby” to our readers intrigued by gay rights. Photography enthusiasts should look at Matt Anderson’s …

Klipsun Magazine, 2005, Volume 35, Issue 05 - April, Christina Seya Twu

Klipsun Magazine

Saying goodbye? Not always.

Sometimes it’s hard to bid farewell when we depart from a person, an era or Ideology, but people find comfort in the possibility of returning again and recapturing what once was.

Because this notion is so prevalent in modern lifestyles, the Klipsun staff decided to make a tribute to all things old and explore symptoms of nostalgia that surround us today.

In Bellingham, the Ladies of the Evening Society members honor the history of Fairhaven bordello owners and madams in the 1890s by dressing and acting the part of historical legends. Upon returning to her hometown …

Window On Western, 2005, Volume 11, Issue 03, Dee Johnson, Alumni, Foundation, And Public Information Offices, Western Washington University

Window on Western

No abstract provided.

The Planet, 2005, Spring, Lucas Henning, Huxley College Of The Environment, Western Washington University

The Planet

No abstract provided.

Student Attitudes Toward General University Requirements (Gurs), Ryan Dickson, Joseph E. Trimble, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Findings from the WELS survey series that focus on students' attitudes towards GURs are presented.

Freshmen Interest Group (Fig) Report, James Inverarity, Kathleen Kennedy, Jeff Newcomer, Lorrie Brilla, Lauren Balisky

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

SUMMARY Over the past six years the Freshman Interest Group (FIG) has attracted a number of participants who find sufficient intrinsic value in the program to invest considerable time and talent in sustaining and improving the program. At the same time, many faculty have voiced concerns over the content of some offerings and the general lack of faculty oversight in its development. Initially FIGs was established to address a perceived imbalance of resources between the upper and lower division program that had a negative effect on the experience and engagement of entering students. On several other campuses FIGs was heralded …

Students And Academic-Oriented Technology: A Longitudinal Study, Ryan Dickson, Trimble E. Joseph, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Student comfort level and self-reported proficiency with academic-related technologies is reported, using WELS data.

Klipsun Magazine, 2005, Volume 35, Issue 04 - March, Christina Seya Twu

Klipsun Magazine

Juggling is an art. Whether it is juggling school and grueling nightshift labor, balancing spirituality and faith with the demands of a material world or the actual craft of juggling, this skill seems to appear as a resurfacing theme in this issue of Klipsun.

Traditionally, the first issue of the quarter is non-themed and contains a variety of stories. This issue appears more as a mosaic than miscellany. Individual snapshots converge to form the greater picture: our world and lives are in a state of continual tension between two effects, ideas or paths.

In the midst of our juggling act, …

Student Contact With Their Academic Advisors, Joseph E. Trimble, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney, Sharon Schmidtz

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Findings from the spring, 2004, WELS survey related to students familiarity with their academic advisors is presented.

Longitudinal Analysis From 2003-2004 Wels Survey, Ryan Dickson, Joseph E. Trimble, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

Findings from the WELS Baseline survey and the WELS spring, 2004, survey are compared.

New Transfer Focus Group Summary, Linda D. (Linda Darlene) Clark, Ryan Dickson, Gary (Gary Russell) Mckinney

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

A sample of transfer students participated in a focus group on the issues faced by in-coming transfers.

Student Use Of Email, Ernest Sams

Office of Institutional Effectiveness

We’re all aware that most of our students are heavy and proficient uses of e-mail. Despite that fact (or maybe because of it), we sometimes have a hard time figuring out which e-mail address to use to communicate with a class full of students. Should we always use the students’ official campus e-mail? The Hotmail, Yahoo, or AOL accounts that many students list for us? Are there tools available that facilitate e-mail communication with students?

Klipsun Magazine, 2005, Volume 35, Issue 03 - January, Jeanna Barrett

Klipsun Magazine

When we selected this issue’s theme in November, the topics on all our minds were the election and ensuing political issues. We found ourselves so passionately talking about certain topics that we felt we had no other choice than to publish these controversial topics in Klipsun. Some people on the Klipsun staff expressed concerns about publishing a political issue so long after the election. We decided, however, that just because the election was over didn’t mean we had forgotten the issues.

Politics are personal. They affect our everyday lives, from paying taxes to checking out library books, and they affect …

Window On Western, 2005, Volume 11, Issue 02, Kathy D. Sheehan

Window on Western

No abstract provided.