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Wmu Board Of Trustees Formal Session October 12, 2007, Wmu Board Of Trustees

WMU Board of Trustees Meetings

• Naming of Building
• Michigan State Employees Association (MSEA) Labor Agreement
• State Capital Outlay Priority List
• General Revenue Obligation
• Gift Report
• Grant Report
• Personnel Report
• Branding/Marketing Update Public Comments

Chapman School Of Law Named One Of Nation's Most Outstanding By Princeton Review, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

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Probationary Credit Toward Tenure, Jean-Paul Carton, Faculty Welfare Committee

Faculty Senate Index

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Senate Meeting, October 10, 2007, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Chapman Entrepreneurship Program Ranked In Top 10 Nationally, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

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Second Majors And Minors, Jean-Paul Carton

Faculty Senate Index

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

Strategic Planning Steering Committee Meeting Summary, October 24, 2007, Uno Strategic Planning Steering Committee

Steering Committee

Strategic Planning Steering Committee Summary, October 24, 2004.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Archives Records

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

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 8, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Larry R. Andrews
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “MANAGING GROWTH IN HONORS”
Nothing Fails Like Success: Managing Growth in a Highly Developed Honors Program -- Peter C. Sederberg
Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, and Higher Education Administration -- Ira Cohen
Important Issues for Growing an Honors Program -- Nick Flynn
Growth = Bucks(?)-- Gregory W. Lanier
The (Un)familiar Library: Managing the Transition for a Growing Number of Honors College Students -- Jean E. McLaughlin
Balancing Low Growth with High Success -- Robert H. Hogner
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss in …

Getting More For Less: When Downsizing In Honors Yields Growth, Janet Myers, Mary Jo Festle

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The outcomes described in these two student voices represent the best of what we hope for in an undergraduate education in an honors program: the pleasure in discovering one’s academic passions; the self-assurance that comes with identifying personal strengths and developing a sense of purpose; and the curiosity and confidence to seek out future opportunities to extend one’s learning whether in graduate school or elsewhere.

The (Un)Familiar Library: Managing The Transition For A Growing Number Of Honors College Students, Jean Mclaughlin

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

One consequence of the substantial growth in honors programs and colleges that perhaps gets too little attention is the challenge of teaching library research skills to large numbers of students in a way that captures their interest and prepares them to do serious undergraduate work in a variety of fields. Yet these skills are the foundation for college success. This paper attempts to give some perspective on the exciting challenges of extending expertise in library research skills to a growing number of honors scholars.

What Is An Honors Student? A Noel-Levitz Survey, Donald Kaczvinsky

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In an impressive article published in the 2005 summer issue of JNCHC, Cheryl Achterberg laments the lack of empirical data available to provide a workable definition for honors students. While she duly notes that there is an “ideology” that honors students are “superior” to other students in an institution or of “high ability” or “the best and brightest,” she laments that “[t]here are few characteristics of honors students that can be standardized, measured, or uniformly compared across institutions” (Achterberg 75). She concludes her article with these considerations: honors students are “not a homogeneous group with a set of absolute or …

Balancing Low Growth With High Success, Robert Hogner

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The International Business Honors BBA Program at Florida International University is a four-year experiment in a degree program that partners a traditional College of Business Administration and an independent Honors College. To date, despite low enrollment and accompanying pressures to increase it, the program continues to provide a unique, challenging, and beneficial student leaning experience of great value to the CBA, the Honors College, and the university.
A combination of student and faculty entrepreneurial spirit, a strategic vision supporting the concept, and trust across institutional boundaries provided the nurturing environment for this program’s success. Where it has not succeeded, specifically …

Author Richard Louv To Speak On Need To Get Kids Back To Nature, Oct. 12, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Instruction Cost Report, Fall 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Shows the costs associated with running the University of Northern Iowa broken down by college and department

Instruction Size Report, Fall 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Gives breakdowns of student credit hours offered by status of instructor, average class size overall, and average class size by status of instructor.

Nothing Fails Like Success: Managing Growth In A Highly Developed Honors Program, Peter Sederberg

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

“Nothing fails like success,” economist Kenneth Boulding observed decades ago. He went on to explain that we only learn from failure; if a particular pattern of behavior or policy seems to be working we continue it until, of course, it fails. Then we might learn something. The law of diminishing marginal utility echoes Boulding’s aphorism. What starts out as a source of pleasure yields diminishing utility until it reaches zero or even sinks to a negative return. I recall that my introductory economics instructor used the example of how the pleasure yielded by the first in a series of cold …

Honors Growth And Honors Advising, Robert Spurrier

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This article addresses the issue of providing quality honors advising when honors enrollment at Oklahoma State University has increased by 325% since 1988. Following a brief review of NCHC publications that address honors advising and an explanation of the institutional setting addressed by this article, a description of our approach to honors advising will be presented. Qualifications for honors advisors will then be outlined, followed by results of the honors advising evaluation process.

Growth = Bucks(?), Gregory Lanier

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Many of us in honors education will readily agree that, if the equation above is ever true at all, it is a very sharp double-edged sword. I suspect that most of us who direct honors programs or colleges at public institutions have been sliced or diced more than once by an institution’s growth imperatives. Although upper-level administrators often point to their honors programs with pride and tout the accomplishments of their honors students to alumni and benefactors, only a few honors programs and colleges actually report a funding baseline that adequately addresses all the needs of the program and its …

Transformational Experience Through Liberation Pedagogy: A Critical Look At Honors Education, John Mihelich, Debbie Storrs, Patrick Pellett

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the context of the national debate over the advantages and disadvantages of honors education, we developed a two-semester honors curriculum designed to draw upon the benefits of integrating teaching and research through student participation in an ethnographic research project. This paper recounts the process of the pedagogy and curriculum and discusses some key findings and outcomes of the students’ ethnographic study. Liberation pedagogy framed the critical questions addressed in the ethnographic study exploring how students in honors programs make sense of their academic selves and their honors program. We emphasize student-researcher findings concerning status and elitism among honors participants …

The Irrelevance Of Sat In Honors?, Sriram Khe

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The Honors Program at Western Oregon University is like most other programs when it comes to admission: we have established minimum requirements for SAT/ACT scores and high school GPAs. Over the last couple of years that I have been directing the program, I have consistently and incrementally raised these requirements. At the same time, I have been increasingly intrigued by one question: do these minimum requirements really matter? If high school GPAs and SAT scores are used as measures of students when they enter the university and the Honors Program, then how do these students measure up to comparable metrics …

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: Managing Loss In A Renascent Honors Program, Mike Davis

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Iwork at Cameron University, a regional institution in Oklahoma that will be celebrating its centennial in 2008. Our administrators see the revivification of the Cameron University Honors Program as an important component of their “Centennial Plan,” and they have appointed me to make that revivification happen.

I benefited greatly from reviewing Dean Sederberg’s observations concerning the South Carolina Honors College. Initially, I suspected that his insights would be primarily useful for those in charge of far more developed programs than the one I have been tasked with directing, but from the moment I encountered his warning against “‘biggering’ for the …

Robert Burns, Peter Sederberg, And Higher Education Administration, Ira Cohen

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

While Peter Sederberg starts his description of managing growth with a quotation from Kenneth Boulding, I prefer to start with lines from Robert Burns’ “To a Louse”: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us!”

I think it is fair to say that, at the time Peter took over the program at the University of South Carolina, the national honors movement had, for the first time, reached some consensus about what honors and the National Collegiate Honors Council were vis-à-vis higher education. This was accomplished with the crafting of the “Basic Characteristics …

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 2007, New England Faculty Development Consortium

NEFDC Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Judy Miller, Clark University

From the editors - Tom Thibodeau, New England Institute of Technology, and Jeanne Albert, Castleton State College

NEFDC Fall Conference, Friday, November 9, 2007, Worcester, Massachusetts; theme: Engaged Learning: Fostering Student Success; keynote speaker: George Kuh, Indiana University

Engaged Learning: The Foundation for Student Success, Note from our Fall Conference Keynote Speaker - George Kuh, Indiana University

Fall Conference Agenda

Learning Through Community Engagement - Kevin R. Kearney, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Reciprocal Mentoring - Mathew L. Ouellett and Susan E. McKenna, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Helpful …

Pod Network News, Fall 2007

POD Network News

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Prism #25, October 2007, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

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Ua3/9/5 Hardoptimism Deep Strengths Survey, Wku Institutional Research, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Results of HardOptimism Deep Strengths Survey conducted by WKU's Office of Institutional Research used by WKU president Gary Ransdell in his fall 2008 convocation speech. It compares 2006 and 2007 results regarding organizational resilience, confidence, energy, creativity, innovation, attitudes and ambition.

Ua77/1 Wku Spirit, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Richard Ewald – Society of 1906
• Ransdell, Gary. One Big Leap
• The Carol Martin Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science in Kentucky
• Photographer Finishes Third in Hearst Competition – Jonathan Woods
• Richard Miller Appointed First Chief Diversity Officer
• WKU Wins CASE WealthEngine Award
• Russell Athletic WKU Official Team Apparel
• Houchens Industries Gives $5 Million for WKU Stadium Project: WKU Add Houchens to Stadium Name
• Regents Approve $314.6 Million Budget
• Dean Kahler to Lead Enrollment Management
• Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Competes Nationally
• Emergency Management: WKU’s Crisis Management Plan
• We Remember – Virginia Tech University Massacre
• Love …

Evaluation Of An Adult Education Technology Program, Iwasan D. Kejawa Ed.D

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the adult education technology program at a chartered alternative adult education center in Florida. The adult education center had a low rate of students passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). This study examined the impact of the use of computer technology in an effort to improve student learning in mathematics, reading, and science. Computers at the institution were used by all students for tutorials to prepare them for the FCAT and to obtain a high school diploma. The research questions for this study were as follows: 1. Is the education technology …