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Seeing The Future: Biology Research Allows Undergraduates New Insight Into Their Own Futures, Merideth Krevosky, Jeffery Bowen

Bridgewater Review

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Crisis? What Crisis?: Global Recession And Learning At Bridgewater State College, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

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College Presidents And The Road To Success And Failure: Getting What We Want And Need, Stephen J. Nelson

Bridgewater Review

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Our Wings: Aviation Science And College Learning, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

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Enhance Your Blackboard Sites With Dynamic Course-Related Web News, Audio, And Video Content, Reid Kimball

EdTech Day

Rather than send students scouring across the web for important news and audio/video content, bring the Web to you! Learn how RSS News Feeds in your Blackboard sites can provide your students with instant access to the latest news from the NY Times, scholarly journals, the Boston Globe Business section, and any other course-related news site without you having to lift a finger.

Also, in this hands-on workshop, discover how to easily embed live audio and video from sources like YouTube and TEDTalks right into your Blackboard course sites so that they never have to leave the cozy confines of …

Blackboard Course Design – Don’T Be Boxed In By Blackboard, Eric Lepage

EdTech Day

Announcements, Syllabus, Faculty, Course Documents, Assignments, Communication, External Links, Tools – do I really need all this stuff? In this hands-on workshop, learn how to remove features you don’t need, add quicklinks to features you use regularly (like Discussion Board and Student Grades), and completely transform your Blackboard site into something that doesn’t look, well, so much like Blackboard anymore. Your students will greatly appreciate the efficiency, intuitiveness, and creativity of your newly designed Blackboard sites.

Getting Started With Moodle, Reid Kimball

EdTech Day

Moodle is an alternative course management option for faculty who are looking for a tool that better supports engaged student learning. Moodle is a “free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities” (Moodle.org). In this hands-on workshop, learn how to post handouts (syllabi, PowerPoint slideshows, etc.) and multimedia content, hold asynchronous and synchronous discussions via the Discussion Forums and Virtual Chat tools, post student grades via the Online Gradebook, organize group space for collaborative projects with the Moodle wiki, receive assignments from students via digital submission, and more.

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Bridgewater State College Factbook, 2008-2009, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College

Factbook

No abstract provided.

Success And Failure In The College Presidency, Stephen Nelson

Secondary Education and Professional Programs Faculty Publications

The author presents his observations on the state of college presidency in the U.S. He mentions several successful college presidents including Carleton College’s Rob Oden, New York University’s John Sexton and University of Pennsylvania’s Judith Rodin. He discusses the failure of Duke University’s president Richard Brodhead in handling the lacrosse team fiasco. He cites the need for presidents to become true leaders of faculty colleagues.

The College Presidency: An Interview With Stephen J. Nelson, Stephen Nelson

Secondary Education and Professional Programs Faculty Publications

College presidents continue to fill prominent critical roles in colleges and universities and society. Thus an examination of the reasons for their success and failure is vital. Four major criteria are presented as a baseline for fair judgments of presidents and their leadership. Current trends in the presidency and presidential selection are explored and presented in order to increase understanding about how presidents can best "fit" the demands of these important leadership posts.

Memoriae Collegi [Yearbook] 2009, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State Yearbooks

Annual yearbook published by the students of the Bridgewater State College.

Common Data Set, 2009-2010, Office Of Institutional Research And Assessment, Bridgewater State College

Common Data Sets

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater State College Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2009-2010, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater State College Catalogs, 1960-2009

No abstract provided.

A Center For Academic Achievement: How Innovative Collaborations Between Faculty And Learning Center Administrators Built Model, Credit-Bearing, First-Year Courses With Embedded Support For At-Risk Students, Elaine Bukowiecki, Susan Miskelly, Dorie Aucoin, Heidi Burgiel, Kathryn Evans, Ruth Farrar, Julia Stakhnevich, Steven Viveiros

Elementary and Early Childhood Education Faculty Publications

Establishing a centralized learning assistance program to systematically address the academic challenges of all students was the first priority of the Academic Achievement Center (AAC) at Bridgewater State College when it was formed in 2001. This new, open, bright, comfortable, and inviting place has truly become the heart of the campus, for it is here that abundant human and material resources are available to support all students. In this learning environment, students can access services in advising, testing, disabilities resources, study, research, writing, communication, mathematics, adaptive technology, tutoring, and English as a second language. Primary responsibility for learning assistance lives …

New Mandates And Imperatives In The Revised Aca Code Of Ethics, D. M. Kaplan, Michael Kocet, R. R. Cottone, H. L. Glosoff, J. G. Miranti, E. C. Moll, J. W. Bloom, T. B. Bringaze, B. Herlihy, C. C. Lee, Vilia M. Tarvydas

Counselor Education Faculty Publications

The first major revision of the ACA Code of Ethics in a decade occurred in late 2005, with the updated edition containing important new mandates and imperatives. This article provides interviews with members of the Ethics Revision Task Force that flesh out seminal changes in the revised ACA Code of Ethics in the areas of confidentiality, romantic and sexual interactions, dual relationships, end-of-life care for terminally ill clients, cultural sensitivity, diagnosis, interventions, practice termination, technology, and deceased clients.