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Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Fall 2014, Communications & Marketing

Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine

Table of Contents:

From the President Janet Morgan Riggs '77

A Running Leap of Faith (Cindy Holck McWilliams '84)

Office Hours: Prof. Timothy N. Good P'14

His Country is Tibet (Lhagyari Trichen Namgyal Wangchuk '17) Kasey Varner '14

The 411: Bob Joseph '69

What Makes A Great... Faculty Thomas F. George '67

Chief Diversity Officer Appointed (Jeanne Arnold)

Tony Awards Spotlight Charlotte Wilcox '69

The Garden State's CEO of Fun (Wayne Hasenbalg '76)

Stadium Locker Room Revamped

Can You See Yourself in Gettysburg's Future? Matt Haag '94

Making Gettysburg and Great Inseparable

$4,000 Made All The Difference (Sarah Robertson '17) …

Furthering Liberal Arts In Indonesian Higher Education, Judith Puncochar

Conference Presentations

The study of Liberal Arts is absent in Indonesian higher education. A strong participatory democracy may require skills engendered by a rigorous study of the liberal arts. When I arrived in Indonesia in August 2014, I found a vibrant Indonesian democracy and smart, eager-to-learn university students who were unsatisfied with MKDU (General Education) classes. A strong democracy requires skills engendered by a rigorous study of Liberal Arts. Restructuring the MKDU classes as Liberal Arts classes using active, student-centered instruction should lead to higher levels of critical thinking in college students, higher quality of teachers in local schools, and better citizenship …

Lawrence, Volume 95, Number 3, Fall 2014, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

This issue contains the President's Report 2013-2014.

John Of Salisbury's Metalogicon And The Equality Of Liberal Arts Education, Abigail E. Dehart

Grand Valley Journal of History

When examining the historical development of society, perhaps the most determining factor is education. During the development of Western education, there is, conceivably, no time more formative to modern views of education than the Middle Ages, for out of it emerged the first universities, and with that, what has contributed largely to today’s concept of general education programs. Of the Middle Ages, the twelfth century was particularly formative to the shaping of education, and has even been called the birthplace of Western pedagogy. One of the best twelfth-century sources we have regarding this time in history is John of Salisbury’s …

The Grizzly, September 25, 2014, Rachel Brown, Ayesha Contractor, Deana Harley, Maxwell Bicking, Olivia Z. Schultz, Evan Hill, Andrew Mackin, Dysean Alexander, Jordan Dunnigan, David Slade, Dennis Shull, Steve Valverde, Mark Branca, Drae Lewis, Brooke Overly

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC OSOS Plans Events for Year • Memorial Honors Fong • Organic Farm Expands • Raphael Speaks on Campus • Externship Program Changes • Summer Fellows Profile: Dancing for Social Awareness • Adjusting to Another Country • Cooking at Ursinus College Made Easy • Opinion: Consumers Should Know What They're Buying; Bigfoot in American Pop Culture: Fact or Fiction? • Megan Keenan Leading the Way • Dual-Sport Athlete Shines • Fresh Start: Women's Soccer Looking to Rebound

Sustaining Dialogue: Educating For A Diverse Society, Mark Burstein

Presidential Addresses

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

The Grizzly, September 18, 2014, Rachel Brown, Deana Harley, Olivia Frymark, Sydney A. Dodson-Nease, Jaime Bocanumenth, Steve Valverde, Maxwell Bicking, Caitlin Tillson, Rayleen Rivera-Harbach, Kristen Costello, Bryce Pinkerton, Mark Branca, Aliki Torrence

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

New Leadership • Celebrating Bobby Fong • Bear Bucks Denied • UC Printing Goes Mobile • New Rabbi Makes Changes on Campus • Family Day Draws in Crowd • Alumni Share the Value of Liberal Arts • Take a Break with Lassie • Don't Hibernate, Participate in Campus Traditions • Opinion: Female Athletes Not Just Sexy; NFL Domestic Violence Scandal was Poorly Handled on All Fronts • Volleyball Looks to Improve in 2014 • Loftier Goals

The Grizzly, September 11, 2014, Rachel Brown, Yongshi Li, Evan Hill, Maxwell Bicking, Aliki Torrence, Olivia Frymark, Jaime Bocanumenth, Ayesha Contractor, Dana Feigenbaum, Matt Maldanado

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Remembers Bobby Fong • Student Government Changes Executive Board • Wismer Adds Food Station • UC Professors Show Work at Berman • Do You Smell That? Wismer Gets a New Composting System • Bring on the Local Food Trucks • Opinion: Is Yik Yak All That?; Argument Against Wet Campus is a Slippery One • Gridiron Gang Primed for Solid Season in 2014 • Trying Hard: Men's and Women's Club Rugby Squads Looking Forward to the Fall Slate

The Grizzly, September 4, 2014, Rachel Brown, Kristen Costello, Bryce Pinkerton, Maxwell Bicking, Yongshi Li, Sydney A. Dodson-Nease, Briana Mullan, Olivia Frymark, Sophie Snapp, Dana Feigenbaum, Mark Branca

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Zipcar Comes to Ursinus • Freshmen Placed in Main Street Houses • New Janitorial Staff at Ursinus • International Students on the Rise • Thousands Flock to Phoenixville • Discomfort of Coming Home • Access Urban Areas for Under $20 • Opinion: Ice Bucket Challenge Raises Millions, Most People Take the Easy Way Out; Lost Da Vinci Fresco • Field Hockey Looking to Repeat • Hitting the Ground Running

San Joaquin River's Sediment Textural Features, Erika Arreguin-Cazarez

STAR Program Research Presentations

The research will be focusing on sediments from Turlock Lake and Riverbank. My focus is to analyze the sediments to know if there are any correlations between the textural features of the sediments between Turlock Lake and Riverbank based on their size. It is expected the environment of the lakes and the rivers has an effect in the changes and if the energy of the water flow also affects the different textural features. The textural features will focus on; roundness, shiny vs. dull, rough vs. smooth, and their shape. The shape is calculated by the three dimensions of the sediment; …

A Multiple Case Study Of Whiteness And Critical Literacy Practices Among White Elementary Teachers In Urban Public Schools, Amanda Rose Vandehei

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether white elementary teachers' perception of Whiteness influences critical literacy practices in elementary classrooms in an urban school district in the Southwest United States. This study consists of six white elementary school teachers.

Using Hardiman's model of White Identity Development, (WID) this study specifically explores the phenomenon of Whiteness and how teachers view themselves as having white privilege and advantage in American society. Hardiman's WID model includes five stages of white racial identity development in which a white person begins with no awareness of him or herself as a racial being and …

Lawrence, Volume 95, Number 2, Summer 2014, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

The Role Of A University Archives In Producing A History Of A Core Curriculum, Laura M. Sinclair, Anne A. Salter

Georgia Library Quarterly

During an annual alumni weekend celebration, librarians at a liberal arts college rely heavily on the university’s archival collection to produce a robust exhibit on the university’s history. The 2014 exhibit focused on the unique academic program, known as the Core Curriculum. The history produced for this exhibit depended on documents from the 1940s to the 1990s, including university publications, papers, and project reports created by faculty members. Starting with one publication, The Oglethorpe Book, the variations on and reactions to this sole document provide a paper trail of historical significance in defining and redefining a college core program. The …

The Impact Of Urbanicity On Student Engagement At Small, Residential, Liberal Arts Colleges, Todd Clark

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This study analyzed the impact of urbanicity on student engagement at small, residential, liberal arts colleges. Data from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) were analyzed from 29 schools (14 rural and 15 urban) using five scalets developed by Pike (2006) and six demographic variables from the NSSE survey. This analysis determined how urbanicity impacts student engagement and which group of students is particularly affected from among the demographics studied. The effects of urbanicity were measured in three ways: aggregate student data, school level data, and within-school data. These analyses showed that urbanicity does significantly impact student engagement, though …

Student-Directed Blended Learning With Facebook Groups And Streaming Media: Media In Asia At Furman University, Tami Blumenfield

Asian Studies Publications

Furman University prizes itself on being an engaged learning, liberal arts institution with extensive faculty-student interaction. 96% of students live on campus, leading some to question whether reducing face-to-face instructional time makes any sense pedagogically. Coming from a different institution that encouraged faculty to create hybrid courses, and seeing the creativity and freedom that offered, I wanted to experiment with the format in this new institutional environment. Would it still be effective? What adaptations would be necessary, and how would students react to this different course format?

In Fall 2013, I taught a carefully designed blended learning course that met …

“Splitting Stars And Splitting Wood”: Address To New Members Of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta Of Minnesota), May 3, 2011, Erica Stonestreet

Headwaters

In recent years, there has been a widespread perception that liberal arts education in general, and humanities education in particular, are gradually being eroded away in the face of tightening budgets and an ever-growing emphasis on the practicality of education. If you’re going to college, after all, you’re supposed to end up with a so-called "good" job. And what better guarantee of a "good" job than a major in business or science, right?

Whether or not the perception about the decline of the liberal arts actually stands up to scrutiny, I tell my prospective philosophy majors when they come to …

“The Mysterious Stranger”: Address To New Members Of Phi Beta Kappa (Theta Of Minnesota), April 23, 2013, Scott Richardson

Headwaters

I used to know everything. Then I went to college. As I was about to enter college, I was pretty sure I had the world figured out. I didn’t need and certainly didn’t want my professors to do anything but reconfirm my beliefs, values, and vision of the world. I was in for a real surprise. There’s nothing innocent or comforting about a liberal arts education.

A Mixed-Methods Study Of The Variables That Influence Florida Southern Baptists' Affirmation Of The Inerrancy Of The Bible, David A. Mcgee

Faculty Dissertations

The culmination of the resurgence within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) was finalized by adopting the Baptist Faith and Message 2000 (BFM 2000). The SBC had discovered in the 1970s and 1980s that belief in the inerrancy of the Bible was not being affirmed by their leadership, particularly within their six seminaries. After a twenty plus year battle, the SBC attempted to affirm in more precise language the inerrancy of the Bible through the BFM 2000. However, this raises the question, how has this firm commitment to the inerrancy of the Bible, as affirmed by the leadership, translated to the …

Diversity In Times Of Austerity: Documenting Resistance In The Academy, David Moscowitz, Terri Jett, Terri Carney, Tamara Leech, Ann M. Savage

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

What happens to feminism in the university is parallel to what happens to feminism in other venues under economic restructuring: while the impoverished nation is forced to cut social services and thereby send women back to the hierarchy of the family, the academy likewise reduces its footprint in interdisciplinary structures and contains academic feminists back to the hierarchy of departments and disciplines. When the family and the department become powerful arbiters of cultural values, women and feminist academics by and large suffer: they either accept a diminished role or are pushed to compete in a system they recognize as antithetical …

Effects Of Resource Allocation On Student Academic Achievement And Self-Perceptions Of Success In An Urban Setting, Kimberly Ann Harris

Senior Theses

Civil Rights legislation, now 50 years old, de facto segregation based on socioeconomic factors, such as poverty and ethnicity in urban areas translates into the surrounding schools, with a legacy of limited funding, reduced services, and teachers with limited training to successfully engage students in high poverty areas. This study is an examination of teacher perceptions of the effect of resource allocation on student academic achievement ands student self-perceptions of success. Within urban settings, districts have changed little to reduce de facto segregation in schools as a whole, and create equal opportunities for all children. What are the effects limited …