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The Grizzly, September 17, 2015, Brian Thomas, Brittany Hawley, Deana Harley, Sarah Hojsak, Valerie Osborne, Neomi Haut '17, Sophie Snapp, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman, Gerard Brown

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Professor Choreographs for Fringe Festival • Three First-Year Students Win New Performing Arts Awards • Hillel Celebrates High Holidays • New Professor to Teach English • Crigler Institute Helps Incoming Freshmen Prepare for College • Opinions: Rough Road to Peace; New Bill: $10 Rejects Hamilton for a Woman • Spiking the Competition • Siblings from Souderton • Women's Soccer Starts Season Strong

For Mature Audiences Only: A Liberal Arts Education, Mark Burstein

Presidential Addresses

The Matriculation Convocation is the traditional start of the academic year. This is President Burstein's third Matriculation Convocation.

Volume Cxxxiii, Number 1, September 11, 2015, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

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The Grizzly, September 10, 2015, Brian Thomas, William Diciurcio, Deana Harley, Brittany Hawley, Kristen N. Costello, Sarah Hojsak, Valerie Osborne, Berett C. Babrich, Bryce Pinkerton, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Campus Adapts to Canvas Roll Out • Blomberg Spends Summer Traveling, Meeting with Alumni • New Greek Organizations Look to Form Chapters on Campus • Student Government Launches Free Textbook Pilot Program • Ursinus Songwriter Explores Human Nature Through Music • Mentors in Academics and Life: Ursinus Remembers Dr. Cameron and Dr. Hemphill • Theater Community Welcomes Performing Arts Scholar • Opinions: New Tips for a New Year at UC; "Straight Outta Compton" Rates 7 / 10 • Globetrotters: Men's Basketball Competes in Europe • Bears Upset Millersville in Record Five Overtimes

A Guide To Liberal Arts, Liberal Arts Division

A Guide to Liberal Arts

As part of earning a bachelor’s degree, all students devote a significant portion of their overall study at RISD to learning across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Additional opportunities to focus one’s study in a concentration, or minor, can augment one’s studio major. This guide serves as a road map to intergrating Liberal Arts studies with studio work.

Collaboration Opportunities With The Society To Enhance Indonesian Citizenry By Furthering Higher Education With The Liberal Arts (Seiche), Judith Puncochar, Don Faust

Conference Presentations

The Society for the Enhancement of Indonesian Citizenry through Higher Education (SEICHE) is an Indonesian organization analogous to The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) in the United States. SEICHE and ASHE use similar organizational structures and promote scholarly research and debate about issues and possibilities in the advancement of higher education. SEICHE was launched on November 22, 2014, in Bandung, Indonesia, with representatives from seven universities and one non-profit organization. The SEICHE vision is to help achieve international recognition of Indonesia’s higher education system, accomplished principally through collaboration and engagement with research in curriculum, instruction, service, and …

Lawrence, Volume 96, Number 2, Summer 2015, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

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Designing And Implementing A Planetary Geology Course For Engineers At The Jet Propulsion Lab, Jessica Joyce Dimizio

STAR Program Research Presentations

This project took place at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and involved creating an instructional tool that would increase the quality of communication between mechanical engineers and geologists who are collaboratively designing ways to collect and cache martian rock samples for the Mars 2020 rover mission. Geology and engineering do not cross paths in traditional education settings and communication is difficult due to the specialized language and processes of geology. Previous attempts to bridge communications between these two groups did not serve a large enough audience nor were they specific to the complexities of the Mars 2020 mission. Interviews with …

Essay: "“Never The ‘Twain Shall Meet: Disorienting East And West In Teaching And Scholarship.", James Mark Shields

Other Faculty Research and Publications

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Internal And External Influences On Individual Journalists, Karen Melissa Garcia

Journalism

This research paper is based on a study of the internal and external influences that affect an individual journalist and their produced work. There have been studies that research how media organizations influence the general public but there are many factors that come into play when creating the news. A journalist is influenced by their morals, beliefs and opinions or internal factors when making news decisions. Journalists are influenced by external influences as well, such as their news organization, guidelines and universal ethics.

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the process that a journalist must …

The Practical Value Of A Liberal Education, James J. Koelbl

Faculty Publications

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Creating A Positive Emotional Climate In An Elementary School Classroom, Nicole Good

Dissertations, Masters Theses, Capstones, and Culminating Projects

All teachers create an environment in their classrooms that sets an emotional tone for students. Teachers may find it hard to choose the right classroom management strategies to create a positive classroom climate for their students. As a result, teachers have expressed an interest in this topic for over 40 years. The purpose of this research is to identify aspects of successful classroom management systems in order to assist teachers in creating a successful learning environment and a positive emotional climate for learning. The research literature revealed that classroom management is instrumental in establishing a climate for learning that is …

Return To Holy Hill: Louisiana College, Academic Freedom, And The Southern Baptist Convention's Conservative Resurgence, 1995-2006, Joseph Learned Odenwald

Dissertations

This study examines a period in the history of Louisiana College in which the college’s sponsoring organization, the Louisiana Baptist Convention, a Southern Baptist affiliate, began to insist that professors at the college teach only in accordance with the official views of the Southern Baptist Convention. The literature is replete with studies on the movement affecting the Southern Baptist seminaries, but little has been written about the impact of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Conservative Resurgence on the colleges.

As such, this study explores the changes that were made to the academic freedom and governance policies as the trustees sought to …

The Escape Artists, Daniel Gene Hernandez

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

My thesis, “The Escape Artists”, is a collection of short fiction that represents most of the work I did as a creative writing master’s student. The title is taken from my longest story, a narrative about a young man’s struggle to avoid violence in a federal prison. As a title, “The Escape Artists” also captures major themes in my other stories; characters often pursue emotional escapism or literally seek to evade predators in my fiction. As a writer, I often explore breakdowns in social order, so my stories tend to be set in turbulent, oppressive political climates or else inside …

Compass Rose, Rosemary Herman Powers

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis explores the orientational power of language through a collection of poetry grounded in themes of place, landscape, and desire. Language organizes the raw material of existence into the humanizing possibilities of experience and connection. It interrogates, examines, exalts, orders and reorders continually. Much like a physical landscape, it is constantly shifting under various pressures, which operate at variable speeds. By working and reworking themes and images, these poems explore the twin processes of erosion and deposition.

The materials found in these poems are largely drawn from my own memory, perception, loss, and desire. I mean to use language …

Move, Interact, And Connect Personally Barter Theatre’S Project Real Gets Implicit In Order To Learn, Megan E. Atkinson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Body movement, hands-on activity, embodiment, social interaction, emotions, and self-reflection allow teaching artists of Barter’s Theatre’s Project REAL to conduct a lesson with an implicit learning experience as the focus. Barter Theatre’s Project REAL exists as a theatre for education program that collaborates with regular classroom teachers on delivering the curriculum through specific theatre exercises in order to connect the material personally to the students’ lives. Theatre tools provide a human experience that enhances learning for the student by use of kinesthetic movement, social learning, emotions and interpersonal skills. To understand the effects of Barter Theatre’s Project REAL, the director …

The Grizzly, April 30, 2015, Rachel Brown, Brian Thomas, Maddie Mathay, Maxwell Bicking, Phoebe French, Briana Mullan, Kristen Costello, Caitlin Tillson, Annie Rus, Jordan Ostrum, Jonathan Vander Lugt, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

New President: S. Brock Blomberg Will Assume Ursinus Presidency in July • Katz Receives Spanish Award • UC Receives STEM Grant • Commencement Will Honor Fongs • Main Street Safety is Addressed • What's the Origin of Collegeville's Name? • Sustainability Tent Returning for Move Out Days • Ursinus' GSA Celebrates 25 Years on Campus • Breakaway Student Shows Performing This Weekend • Opinion: The Path to Safer Greek Organizations at UC; Greek Life is Destructive Across the United States • Local Alum Helps Bolster UC Softball Program • One More Goal

The Grizzly, April 23, 2015, Rachel Brown, Deana Harley, Phoebe French, Caitlin Tillson, Niriesa Kalaga, Brian Thomas, Dayana Suncar, Nikki Djambinov, Hunter Gellman, Jonathan Vander Lugt

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Mayday Concert Returning • "Not on My Campus" Campaign Launches • Student Art Show to Open on CoSA Day • Elections Results • Holocaust Survivor to Share Her Story to Campus • CoSA Spurs Second Annual Creative Exchange in Myrin • CoSA to Celebrate Wide Variety of Student Work • Opinion: Crigler Beneficial But Needs Improvements; What Makes Crigler Worthwhile for Students? • Sibling Stickhandlers Stayed Side by Side • UCWR Sticks it to Gender Norms

Five Faith Commitments, Four Years, One Future, Kerry Robbins

Five Faith Commitments

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, April 16, 2015, Rachel Brown, Hunter Gellman, Phoebe French, Deana Harley, Maddie Mathay, Christine Palazzolo, Niriesa Kalaga, Sophie Snapp, Jordan Scharaga, Nikki Djambinov, Allie Cook

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Greeks Collect Clothes for Prom • Tree Campus USA Honors UC • Ursinus to Continue Re-branding • Student Senate Announces 2015-2016 Executive Board • UC Welcomes New Director of Facilities • New Issue of the Lantern Released • UCDC Concert to Have Eclectic Themes and Dances • Guest Author Speaks on Middle Eastern Politics • Opinion: Campus Safety Needs More Resources; Sexual Assault Deserves Coverage • Local Athlete Hyman Steps Up for Bears • Midfielder from the Midwest