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Addendum A: Wisherd And Emeriti Funds: Definition Of Terms And Explanation Of Allowable Use Of These Funds, Jason D. Kennedy
Addendum A: Wisherd And Emeriti Funds: Definition Of Terms And Explanation Of Allowable Use Of These Funds, Jason D. Kennedy
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
Book value is the historical cost basis of the endowment (or investment) whereas market value is what the endowment is worth right now. Basically, book value is what went into the endowment and market value is what you would get if you sold it now. Because this is a permanent endowment, only the income can be spent. The income is the spendable account. The estimated annual income is the amount the fund can expect to earn over the next year if no new contributions are made to the account. It is the endowment thatis earning income and the earnings are …
Addendum B: Emeritus Status For Retired Faculty Academic /Administrative Employees
Addendum B: Emeritus Status For Retired Faculty Academic /Administrative Employees
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
Emeritus status is the rank awarded by the Board of Regents to an employee at the time of retirement in recognition of substantial service rendered to the University in teaching, research, extension, or administration in a professional field. It may also be awarded to a retired administrator whose work impinges directly on the educational program. For faculty the recommendation is initiated by a vote of the departmental faculty with the endorsement of the chair and dean. In the case of A-line administrators, the recommendation is made by that individual's immediate supervisor. Consistent with Regents policy, eligibility for emeritus status includes …
Addendum C: Recommendations Of The Ad Hoc Emeriti Study Group, David Brinkerhoff, Richard Boohar, John Goebel, James Mcshane
Addendum C: Recommendations Of The Ad Hoc Emeriti Study Group, David Brinkerhoff, Richard Boohar, John Goebel, James Mcshane
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
Recommendations: 1) It is NOT recommended that the Association establish separate criteria from the UNL administrative process nor is it recommended that the Association evaluate faculty for emeriti status. 2) Embrace the document “Emeritus Status for Retired Faculty Academic/Administrative Employees” (attached) which summarizes and details the current policies of UNL and the Board of Regents specifying the conditions for eligibility (age and length of service) as well as privileges and benefits to those awarded emeriti status. 3) A letter be sent by the President of the Emeritus Association congratulating the retiree on their achievement of emeriti status, informing her/him of …
Board Minutes: December 5, 2006 , Dan B. Lutz
Board Minutes: December 5, 2006 , Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Graduate Connections- November 2006
Graduate Connections- November 2006
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Professional Development...........1
Preparing Future Faculty
Teaching Tip .................................2
Motivating Students
Calendar........................................3
Degree Deadlines
Announcements............................3
UNL Grad Fellowships
Teaching Documentation Program
Navigating Graduate School.......4
Academic Integrity
CV Savvy
Mentoring Guidebooks
Funding Opportunities.................7
A Sampling of Fellowships
Interactions...................................9
Fellowship Recipients
Note from the Graduate Student Association
Note from the Peace Corps
Readers’ Corner.............................10
Meeting Minutes: October 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Meeting Minutes: October 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Board Minutes: October 5, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Board Minutes: October 5, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Building A Better Board: Springboard Into Action, Milan Wall
Building A Better Board: Springboard Into Action, Milan Wall
Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials
Building a Better Board: Springboard into Action
Roles and responsibilities
Time devoted to six basic elements
Obstacles
Strategies
Ethics
Recruitment
Board Minutes: September 14, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Board Minutes: September 14, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Graduate Connections- August 2006
Graduate Connections- August 2006
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
In This Issue:
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Professional Development.........1
TA Workshops
New Student Orientation
International Student Orientation
Mentoring Workshops
Wrk4us
Just in Time Listserv
Teaching Tip: Learning Names....2
Calendar......................................3
Announcements:.........................4
Reminders
Teaching Documentation Program
Grad Student Award Nominations
Excellence in Graduate Ed Award
Chronicle Needs Diarists
Navigating Graduate School.....6
Academic Integrity
Mentoring Guidebooks
Funding Opportunities...............8
Research News...........................9
Interactions...............................10
Readers’ Corner........................11
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #32, August 2006
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #32, August 2006
Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters
CONTENTS: President’s Message Gamma Sigma Delta Calendar OOPs: Correction to March, 2006 Newsletter Treasurers Ballot Big News from GSD News from the National Conclave In Memoriam Call for Nominations for Awards Award of Merit Teaching Award Research Award Extension Award Gamma Sigma Delta Annual Meeting and Seminar
Board Minutes: May 2, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Board Minutes: May 2, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Meeting Minutes: April 21, 2005, Dan B. Lutz
Meeting Minutes: April 21, 2005, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Meeting Minutes: April 20, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Meeting Minutes: April 20, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Board Minutes: April 4, 2006, Dan Lutz
Board Minutes: April 4, 2006, Dan Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Graduate Connections, April 2006
Graduate Connections, April 2006
Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students
Welcome to the pilot issue of Graduate Connections, an electronic newsletter for graduate students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (and for faculty and staff interested in issues important to graduate students). This new quarterly publication is intended to bring you information to help you more easily make your way through your graduate school career, link you with news about events planned and organized just for you, provide you with timely information about deadlines and funding, and connect you with other graduate students at UNL.
The first regular issue of Graduate Connections will appear September 1, and quarterly after that …
Meeting Minutes: March 16, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Meeting Minutes: March 16, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #31, March 2006
Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #31, March 2006
Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters
CONTENTS:PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 2006 GAMMA SIGMA DELTA CALENDAR OF EVENTS GAMMA SIGMA DELTA Award Recipients GAMMA SIGMA DELTA Inductees Scholarship Recognition Reception In Memoriam 2006 ANNUAL DUES NOTICE FOR NEBRASKA CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM Gamma Sigma Delta Committees 2006
Board Minutes: February 7, 2006, Anita Leininger
Board Minutes: February 7, 2006, Anita Leininger
UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
Meeting Minutes: January 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
Meeting Minutes: January 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz
UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes
No abstract provided.
An Electronic Advice Column To Foster Teaching Culture Change, Donna M. Qualters, Thomas C. Sheahan, Jacqueline A. Isaacs
An Electronic Advice Column To Foster Teaching Culture Change, Donna M. Qualters, Thomas C. Sheahan, Jacqueline A. Isaacs
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
First-year engineering students receive most of their teaching from instructors outside of engineering. As a result, these instructors are typically not a teaching community with a shared commitment to engineering student learning. Retention of engineering students is strongly tied to the quality of teaching, thus addressing collective teaching quality is important. This chapter describes the development of a carefully crafted, electronically distributed advice column on teaching developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team, written under the pseudonym Jonas Chalk. Surveys of Chalk Talk readers indicate that this is an effective means to promote teaching culture change.
Introduction. Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey
Introduction. Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction to volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Sandra Chadwick Blossey of Rollins College.
Helping Faculty Learn To Teach Better And “Smarter” Through Sequenced Activities, Barbara J. Millis
Helping Faculty Learn To Teach Better And “Smarter” Through Sequenced Activities, Barbara J. Millis
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Faculty developers can help faculty learn to intentionally sequence assignments and activities to promote greater learning when they understand the convergent research—with its practical implications for teaching—on how people learn, on deep learning, and on cooperative learning. Such a sequence includes a motivating out-of-class assignment (homework), in-class “processing” that includes active learning and student interactions, and feedback and assessment, often given in multiple ways. This approach is modeled through two examples using graphic organizers.
Learning Communities For First–Year Faculty: Transition, Acculturation, And Transformation, Harriet Fayne, Alice Ortquist-Ahrens
Learning Communities For First–Year Faculty: Transition, Acculturation, And Transformation, Harriet Fayne, Alice Ortquist-Ahrens
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
To enhance new faculty members’ chances for teaching and career success, Otterbein College piloted a yearlong learning community program and encouraged first-year faculty to participate. Four new faculty members took part in opportunities designed to enhance their teaching, to orient them more fully to a new institution and student body, to foster collegial community, to encourage reflective practice, and to introduce them to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This qualitative case study tracks their developmental trajectory, which led them from an initial concern with self and survival to an eventual focus on student learning.
Practicing What We Preach: Transforming The Ta Orientation, Patricia Armstrong, Peter Felten, Jeffrey Johnston, Allison Pingree
Practicing What We Preach: Transforming The Ta Orientation, Patricia Armstrong, Peter Felten, Jeffrey Johnston, Allison Pingree
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Brookfield (1995), Schön (1983), and others articulate the necessity and complexity of being critically reflective in our work. Indeed, the value of critical reflection is inherent to educational development as a field in that we frequently encourage such thinking in our consultations with instructors. But practicing what we preach can be difficult. This chapter reflects on an experiment in the transformation of a teaching assistant orientation, a central event of our teaching center. We not only describe and assess the process of revising this orientation, but we also reflect on the implicatiom of this case for broader programming issues in …
Exploring The Application Of Best Practices To Ta Awards: One University's Approach, Laurel Willingham-Mclain, Deborah L. Pollack
Exploring The Application Of Best Practices To Ta Awards: One University's Approach, Laurel Willingham-Mclain, Deborah L. Pollack
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter explores how to adapt best practices from the general literature on teaching awards in higher education to graduate student teaching assistant (TA) awards. Although most criteria apply, they must be fitted to the career stage and aspirations of TAs. The Duquesne University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching serves as a case study demonstrating how these practices can be modified to both recognize excellent teaching and promote the professional development of graduate student instructors.
Preface, Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey
Preface, Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Sandra Chadwick Blossey of Rollins College.
About The Authors, Volume 24 (2006)
About The Authors, Volume 24 (2006)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
About the editors and authors of volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
A Different Way To Approach The Future: Using Chaos Theory To Improve Planning, Marc Cutright
A Different Way To Approach The Future: Using Chaos Theory To Improve Planning, Marc Cutright
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Strategic planning is a good idea that gets a bad name from dubious efforts carrying the title. Much of this rap comes from half-hearted exercises, but some of it comes from efforts that founder due to faulty or limited conceptions of how the future “works.” Chaos theory is an alternative approach and metaphor with potential to let us see the future and its dynamics in new ways. Cognizance of chaos’s nature and underlying structure might help us do planning in new, nonintuitive, and more successful ways.
A Theory–Based Integrative Model For Learning And Motivation In Higher Education, Chantal S. Levesque, G. Roger Sell, James A. Zimmerman
A Theory–Based Integrative Model For Learning And Motivation In Higher Education, Chantal S. Levesque, G. Roger Sell, James A. Zimmerman
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The shared mission of higher education institutions is to develop educated persons who are able to make connections and build on knowledge acquired across disciplines and fields and through various life experiences. This chapter offers a theory-based model that can be used by researchers and practitioners to enhance academic learning and motivation. Educators can create learning environments that move students from external regulation to self-determined forms of motivation. This model is used to describe conditions that enhance/restrict learning. It also has the potential to be used to interpret research on teaching and learning in higher education.