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Preparing For An Honors Capstone: Interdisciplinary Methods And Ethics In A Research Methods Course, Lauren Collins, Kylla Benes, Krista Manley

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Teaching interdisciplinary research methods to honors students across disciplines is complex. A pre-capstone seminar, The Art of Inquiry, centers ethical considerations within and beyond individual research interests, helping junior and senior students of all majors prepare for ethical, scholarly projects.

Learning In Teams During A Pandemic, Aaron D. Cobb

Honors in Practice Online Archive

As the COVID-19 crisis disrupts students’ sense of community and appreciation for in-person instruction, the author presents a pedagogical experiment involving several collaborative, team-based learning strategies to engage all learners, regardless of location. Students in a sophomore-level required seminar are tasked with various team-based assignments, including notetaking, critical essays, interviews, and reflective writing exercises. Outcomes suggest a framework for the creative use of teams and out-of-classroom collaboration, even in challenging contexts where disruption and displacement complicate both teaching and learning. Curricular objectives are described, and student feedback is summarized.

“Movies, Tv Shows, And Memes . . . Oh My!”: An Honors Education Through Popular Culture And Critical Pedagogy, Evan W. Faidley

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Entertainment media and popular culture often overdramatize the college experience. An honors colloquium engages students in scholarly research and discourse involving thematic elements of academic life in popular culture. An interdisciplinary approach to race, class, the professoriate, Greek life, and foreign experience is espoused. Through a lens of critical social theory, students deconstruct misinformed “stories most often told” to reconstruct more cogent understandings of college life and student experience. With a curriculum designed to advance social justice through equitizing education and amending cultural perceptions, this colloquium helps develop self-motivated, self-regulated, and engaged learners.

Editor’S Introduction, Ada Long

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This journal of the plague year has attracted a record number of submissions, creating the thickest volume of Honors in Practice since its inception in 2005. The inclusion of essays in response to a Call for Papers about COVID- 19 is no doubt responsible for some of this torrent of submissions, but research essays have also come in at a greater rate than before, not to mention the “Brief Ideas about What Works in Honors.” As you will see, the essays on the pandemic’s effects on honors mostly make the best of a fraught and frustrating year for honors administrators, …

Creativity In The Age Of Covid: Honors Comes “Home”, Ilene D. Lieberman

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This essay explores the conceptual and practical implications of an honors forum relating to artful expression and the phenomenon of sequester in place (SIP). As monthly general education offerings for first-year students, Honors Forums feature an array of thematic events associated with the freshman cohort. Noting challenges relating to remote instruction, social distancing, and general anxiety as well as the consequent effects on the typical first-year experience, the author, an art historian, presents a novel response to COVID constraints through communal, creative expression. A visual and textual curriculum helps bring students together, mitigate pandemic-related anxieties, and introduce the honors living-learning …

Developing And Encouraging The First-Year Undergraduate Researcher, Stacia Kock, Jennifer F. Nyland

Honors in Practice Online Archive

A simulated conference in first-year curriculum reinforces undergraduate research as beneficial to both honors and campus communities while fostering scholarly development and campus engagement among honors freshmen during the coronavirus crisis.

Forming Oral History Researchers: Diversifying And Innovating Honors Experiential Learning Across Campus, Myrriah Gómez, Anna M. Nogar

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This article presents a transdisciplinary, cross-campus collaboration among honors and non-honors students in the field of humanities. Trained in oral history methodologies and integrated as IRB-certified researchers into an ongoing (2018–present) project, a cohort of students (n = 34) participate in place-based, community-engaged learning and research involving Hispanic New Mexicans, known as Nuevomexicanas/os. Drawing on the tenets of experiential learning as a mode of honors discourse, the authors describe how this challenging ethnographic project serves to bring a diverse group of learners together while deepening interpersonal, intercultural, and interdisciplinary connections. Results indicate that students benefit from working with more diverse …

Close Reading Responses: A Streamlined Approach To Teaching Critical-Thinking Writing In Honors, Katie Quirk

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This study presents a scaffold approach to building critical academic writing skills among honors students. Faced with limited instructional time, a reading-intensive curriculum, and students in need of rigorous writing instruction, a scaffold model was developed to include a series of condensed writing assignments called “Close Reading Responses.” Coupled with rubrics and guided peer review, these assignments allow for repetitive critical practice at various stages along a trajectory toward the final paper. Results indicate that this incremental, explicit form of writing instruction allows students to hone critical-thinking skills in a condensed manner without demanding that they produce (and instructors read) …

“One Singular Sensation”: Integrating Personal Narratives Into The Honors Classroom, Marc Napolitano, Mimi Killinger

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Contemporary emphases on standardization, specialization, and selectivity in higher education alienate students and teachers from their own creativity, intellectual curiosity, and personal stories. This trend runs counter to the central focus of honors on fostering a diverse, scholarly learning environment. Authors suggest that integrating student personal narratives into honors curricula reinforces its values of multiplicity, inclusivity, and meaningful learning. Using metaphorical reference to the Broadway musical A Chorus Line as a unique lens into the pedagogical benefits of such integration, this essay provides ways of incorporating and sharing personal narratives in the classroom and offers strategies to ensure that all …

A View Of Health As A Human Right: A Snapshot From An Honors Program, Peter Longo, Satoshi Machida, John Falconer

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This study examines implications of a rights-based perspective among honors students through the lens of healthcare. Students (n = 71) surveyed in April 2019 were asked to consider issues relating to health entitlement and government responsibility. Perspectives on local, regional, national, and global access to health care; state and national government fiscal responsibility; and rights-based approaches to health entitlement were elicited. Data indicate a propensity for understanding health as a human right among honors students. Probit regressions show a more inclusive stance on healthcare policy and a general preference toward a universal healthcare system. Acknowledging that innovative curricula can help …

“To Seek A Newer World”: Honors In Virtual Reality, Betsy Greenleaf Yarrison

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Honors education was never intended to be a virtual offering; it takes intimate, three-dimensional, communal, and intellectual interaction among faculty and students to tackle wicked problems. The COVID-19 crisis forced honors educators into an extreme reboot, extracting courses from comfortable working spaces and relocating them to strange new platforms for remote, computer-mediated instruction. For many faculty, the 2020 pandemic introduced online instruction for the first time. Toward this end, many novices were able to brilliantly reimagine and re-engineer their courses while others struggled. In this essay, the author points out that higher education has always adapted new technologies, asserting that …

First-Generation College Student Network, Ashleen Williams, Ainsley Ash

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Authors describe the college’s First-Gen Student Network, a cohort of faculty, students, and practitioners committed to equity, access, and success of firstgeneration learners. Optional biweekly meetings address a range of topics, including financial aid and opportunities for employment.

The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College at the University of Mississippi often prides itself on being the edge of the knife in conversations about equity and access, yet such conversations only work in honors when we commit tangible actions and resources to generate positive outcomes. Over the last couple of years, we have recognized a group that was consistently forgotten in our …

Virtual Honors Forum, Bruce Thompson

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This article describes how one honors leadership team adapted a traditional in-person Forum to a digital platform during the coronavirus crisis. Integrating a variety of asynchronous and synchronous remote technologies created a positive virtual learning experience for honors practitioners and students.

One of the hallmark experiences of honors learning at Frederick Community College (FCC) in Frederick, MD, is participating in the Honors Forum each semester. The Forum is a mini-conference on campus in which students are required to participate whether enrolled in an honors class or attempting to complete an honors contract. There is a registration desk where presenters, faculty …

Modeling Vulnerabilities In The Research Process, Rebecca Summer

Honors in Practice Online Archive

When honors faculty share experiences from their own research, students learn that making mistakes and trying again is an important part of the learning process.

For all our emphasis on independent student inquiry in honors curricula, students get limited examples of the inevitable bumps in the road of advanced research. In our courses, we typically assign published works, which means that the research students read about is complete, polished, and deemed successful by the broader scholarly community. What students do not encounter in these models of successful research are the many uncertainties, missteps, and revisions along the way. Students are …

Putting Community Voice And Knowledge At The Center, Lynn Sondag

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Service-learning curriculum is grounded in a critical, asset-based framework of community engagement to guide honors students beyond a mere acquisition of skills toward understanding how participatory and democratic processes increase social equity and justice. An innovative, collaborative community arts program is described.

Leveraging Collaboration And Peer Support To Initiate And Sustain A Faculty Development Program, Anneris Coria-Navia, Scott Moncrieff

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In today’s impoverished higher education fiscal climate, especially considering the enormous financial implications to higher education of accommodating the changes required by the coronavirus pandemic, “nonessential” though highly important programs, such as centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), are very likely to be underfunded. In this study, we illustrate how underfunded programs can leverage peer collaboration and support to initiate productive, formal systems of assistance for faculty by describing a number of such programs developed by and/or coordinated by our CTL. Moreover, we propose that sustainable programs, especially at small liberal arts institutions, must include a strong component of peer …

Best Practices For Research Analytics & Business Intelligence Within The Research Domain, Baron Wolf, Terri Hall, Katherine Robershaw

Research Analytics Academic Publications

While an increased number of industries with business operations have been shaping their use of data analytics, the use of such tools and methods within the higher education research domain, specifically research administration, is still in its infancy. This mixed-methods study collected data to identify best practices in how universities and other research organizations use data analytics to drive their strategic agendas, create efficiency in operations, and promote complex research proposals throughout their institutions. Research methods included a survey to collect data on how research offices are using analytics and business intelligence tools, Rasch analysis (Rasch, 1993) to examine survey …

2020-2021 Graduate Survey Report, Shefei Schultz

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Contents:

Graduate College Staff --- 2
Degrees Awarded 2020-2021 --- 3
Graduate Demographics --- 4
Degrees Awarded over 5 Years --- 5
Survey Methodology --- 7
Post-Graduation Activity --- 8
Activity During UNI Experience --- 9
Reasons to Attend UNI --- 11
Confidence in Graduate Experience --- 12
Graduate Education Finance --- 14
Survey Sample --- 18

The Perception Of International Students Toward Programs And Support Services Offered By Higher Education Institutions In The Mid-Atlantic Region Of The United States, Charity Alinda

West Chester University Doctoral Projects

Historically, the United States has been one of the most popular destinations for international students. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the mobility of international students. As the effects of the pandemic recede, an increasing number of international students will seek to travel from their home countries to acquire an international education. The United States remains one of the premier destinations for international students. With travel restrictions easing, more American universities have increased efforts to recruit and enroll international students. One of the fundamental responsibilities for colleges and universities toward admitted international students is to keep the promises of providing international …

Inclusive Access For All, Marcia Dority Baker, Jaci Lindburg

Information Technology Services: Publications

Inclusive Access provides a framework for digital course material delivered via the learning management system (LMS) day-one to students. This platform assists instructors with selecting current, quality, affordable material, and supports learning analytics by providing engagement data in Canvas. The University of Nebraska Provost office has funded an initial series of grants to support open educational resources (OER) initiatives at the Lincoln, Kearney, and Omaha campuses for several years. The vast majority of these dollars went to incentivize faculty in the adoption of OER. The OER and Inclusive Access pilots are ready to mature into a service supported by Academic …

Teacher Perceptions Of Curriculum-Driven Technology After Working With Instructional Technology Coaches In Middle Schools In One Southeastern School District, Julie Pepperman

Ed.D. Dissertations

The use of curriculum-driven technology in K-12 public schools was mandated by federal law. School and district leaders were required to provide curriculum-driven technology professional development and support to teachers. The use of the curriculum-driven technology coach was an option some schools chose to meet the curriculum-driven technology professional development requirements and needs of their teachers. The purpose of this research was to explore one school district’s middle school teachers’ perceptions of the importance of curriculum-driven technology and their perceived self-efficacy in using curriculum-driven technology in instructional practice after collaborating with a curriculum-driven technology coach. This qualitative study was conducted …

2021 Swosu Foundation 990 Form, Garrett King

Foundation 990 Forms

This is the 2021 SWOSU Foundation 990 Form.

2021 Foundation Financial Statements, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

Foundation Financial Statements

No abstract provided.

นวัตกรรมการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม, น้ำอ้อย สุขเสนา

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อ 1) ศึกษากรอบแนวคิดการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรและทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม 2) ศึกษาความต้องการจำเป็นของการพัฒนาการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม 3) พัฒนานวัตกรรมการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม โดยใช้ระเบียบวิธีวิจัยแบบผสมวิธีพหุระยะเก็บข้อมูลเชิงปริมาณและเก็บข้อมูลเชิงคุณภาพ ประชากรที่ใช้ในการวิจัยคือ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏ 38 มหาวิทยาลัย กลุ่มตัวอย่างที่ใช้ในการวิจัยคือ คณะครุศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏ 38 มหาวิทยาลัย และมหาวิทยาลัยที่มีแนวปฏิบัติที่ดี จำนวน 5 มหาวิทยาลัย ผู้ให้ข้อมูลคือ ประธานสาขาวิชา อาจารย์ผู้รับผิดชอบหลักสูตร และนักศึกษา เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการเก็บรวบรวมข้อมูล ประกอบด้วย 1) แบบประเมินกรอบแนวคิดการวิจัย 2) แบบสอบถามสภาพปัจจุบันและสภาพที่พึงประสงค์ของการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม 3) แบบสัมภาษณ์มหาวิทยาลัยที่มีแนวปฏิบัติที่ดี 4) แบบประเมินความเหมาะสมและความเป็นไปได้ของ(ร่าง)นวัตกรรมการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลโดยด้วย ค่าร้อยละ ความถี่ ค่าเฉลี่ย ส่วนเบี่ยงเบนมาตรฐาน ค่าดัชนีความต้องการจำเป็น และการวิเคราะห์เนื้อหา ผลการวิจัยพบว่า 1) กรอบแนวคิดการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตร ประกอบด้วย (1) ผลการเรียนรู้ที่คาดหวัง (2) โครงสร้างโปรแกรมและเนื้อหา (3) การจัดการเรียนการสอน (4) การประเมินผู้เรียน (5) บุคลากรฝ่ายวิชาการ (6) การบริการช่วยเหลือสนับสนุนผู้เรียน (7) สิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกและโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน(8) ผลผลิตและผลลัพธ์ กรอบแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม ประกอบด้วย (1) ทักษะการตั้งคำถาม (2) ทักษะการสังเกต (3) ทักษะเครือข่ายความคิด (4) ทักษะการทดลอง (5) ทักษะการคิดเชื่อมโยง 2) ความต้องการจำเป็นของการพัฒนาการบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรของคณะครุศาสตร์มหาวิทยาลัยราชภัฏตามแนวคิดทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม ผลการวิเคราะห์ความต้องการจำเป็นพบว่า การบริหารคุณภาพหลักสูตรที่มีความต้องการจำเป็นสูงสุดคือ ด้านสิ่งอำนวยความสะดวกและโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน (PNI Modified = 0.068) รองลงมา คือด้านผลผลิตและผลลัพธ์ (PNI Modified = 0.068) เมื่อพิจารณาทักษะการค้นหานวัตกรรม พบว่า ทักษะที่มีความต้องการจำเป็นสูงสุดคือทักษะการทดลอง (PNI Modified = 0.068) รองลงมา คือทักษะเครือข่ายความคิด(PNI Modified = 0.064) …

School Violence And Its Impact On Student Academic Achievement, Kewanis Kennedy

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the occurrence of school violence and its impact on academic success and attendance. This study will encompass K-12 academic institutions in the state of Kentucky during the 2018-2019 academic school year, with an in-depth analysis of data submitted to the Kentucky Department of Education by the 171 participating school districts. The participating schools shared data in the form of disciplinary actions, attendance, graduation rates, academic achievement, and other relevant demographics. The collected data was analyzed to determine if there was a statistically significant difference among attendance rate, graduation rate, math ACT benchmark scores, and English ACT benchmark …

Approaches For Developing Management Towards Excellence Of Schools In Banteay Meanchey Based On The Concept Of Creative Self-Efficacy, Dalin Lim

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The purposes of this study were to 1) study the conceptual framework for developing management towards excellence of schools in Banteay Meanchey based on the concept of creative self-efficacy, 2) study the priority needs for developing management towards excellence of schools in Banteay Meanchey based on the concept of creative self-efficacy, and 3) propose approaches for developing management towards excellence of schools in Banteay Meanchey based on the concept of creative self-efficacy. The study employed descriptive research approaches. The study sample was the 28 public high schools in Banteay Meanchey province. They were selected using simple random sampling. The informants …

Approaches To The Development Of Universal Design For Learning To Promote Children's Holistic Development In Private Kindergartens, Rattanatorn Kerdduayboon Metzger

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This survey research aimed to, first, study the current and desirable levels of practice regarding the development of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to promote children’s holistic development in private kindergartens and, second, to recommend approaches to the development of UDL to promote children’s holistic development in private kindergartens. It employed Block Two: Inclusive Instructional Practice by Katz (2012) as a research framework. The research population were 581 private kindergartens in Bangkok. The informants were 379 private kindergarten administrators, heads of the academics, and teachers obtained through random sampling. The research instruments were a questionnaire and a feasibility assessment form. …

Generational Giving In Public Higher Education, Christine Bernot

Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

Competition for donors and dollars between higher education and the non-profit sector has never been greater, with Americans giving nearly $450 billion in philanthropic support to charitable organizations in 2019 (IUPUI, 2020). Alumni of higher education institutions are a natural constituency group with a history of giving back to support student needs and programs.

New research in fundraising for higher education analyzing generational giving behaviors of alumni graduate donors could help universities better understand their giving results and support the innovation of new fundraising strategies and best practices. This quantitative research study used historical giving data to examine the …

Ua1b3/7 Faculty, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records of faculty meetings prior to the creation of the Faculty Senate.

Ua42/3 Delo Extended Campuses, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the extended campuses.

• Subseries 1 WKU Elizabethtown / Ft. Knox
• Subseries 2 WKU Glasgow
• Subseries 3 WKU Owensboro