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2016 Darwin Day Commemorates Charles Darwin's Birthday, Showcases Scientific Research, Staff

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Table Discussion Notes - Balancing Academic Depth And Breadth, Portland State University

Winter Symposium

Notes from the table discussion on the topic of balancing academic depth and breadth.

A large part of discussion focused on how we should define breadth for our student body, the financial and societal contexts that can make breadth a difficult sell to students, and the importance of making the curriculum relevant to our students’ needs and experiences. In terms of academic content, discussion was fairly general, noting the value of balancing knowledge with skills, and providing content related to life, citizenship and career. Quite a bit of discussion explored ways to structure the curriculum and design pedagogy to meet …

Table Discussion Final Summary - Balancing Academic Depth And Breadth, Portland State University

Winter Symposium

Final Summary from the table discussion on the topic of balancing academic depth and breadth.

A large part of discussion focused on how we should define breadth for our student body, the financial and societal contexts that can make breadth a difficult sell to students, and the importance of making the curriculum relevant to our students’ needs and experiences. In terms of academic content, discussion was fairly general, noting the value of balancing knowledge with skills, and providing content related to life, citizenship and career. Quite a bit of discussion explored ways to structure the curriculum and design pedagogy to …

The Folklore Of Flowers, Lisa Karen Miller

DLPS Faculty Publications

This presentation was prepared for WKU's Society for Lifelong Learning. It relates history and folklore of a variety of flowers, including their use in folk medicine, as food, and other stories and beliefs.

10. Forensic Science, Northeastern State University

Oklahoma Research Day Abstracts

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“From Whence Cometh My Help?” Exploring Black Doctoral Student Persistence, Melanie Acosta, Shaunte Duggins, Thomas E. Moore, Thomasenia Adams, Bridgette Johnson

Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs

In previous decades, the bulk of research focused on Blacks in doctoral programs highlight issues of recruitment and access with little attention given to the racialized experiences or perspectives of African descent scholars-in-training. More recently, a growing body of research has used qualitative methods to dismantle the myth of a colorblind doctoral student experience. Instead these scholars illuminate the ways in which race and racism create challenges for Black doctoral students. The present study adds to this literature by revealing the ways that Black doctoral students persist amid this highly racialized context. Researchers employ critical race theory and qualitative focus …

2010-2016 Degrees Awarded, Office Of Institutional Research, Wright State University

Student Success and Completion Reports

A report showing degree awarded by year from 2010-2016 by type, college, and area of study.

Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Winter 2016, Communications & Marketing

Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine

From the President Janet Morgan Riggs '77

Table of Contents

Science Woman to Women: Scholarships for Aspiring Scientists (Judith Keyes Guss-Nelson ’60, P’89; Kirsten A. Guss ’89; Kayla Britt '17)

Julia Hendon: Anthropology and Director of the Johnson Center for Creative Teaching and Learning Professor Julie Hendon

There is No Orange Without Blue Candace Connors Vorhaus ’80

The 411: Bill Heyman '74, P'13 (Bill Heyman '74, P'13)

According to You: Alumni Survey Results

G-burg Interns Stand Out (Len Gemma ’81)

Binational Bio (Samantha Siomko ’17; Prof. Paula “Alex” Trillo)

Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College

Sounding a Chord of Hope …

Challenges For Global Learners: A Qualitative Study Of The Concerns And Difficulties Of International Students, Chetanath Gautam, Charles L. Lowery, Chance Mays, Dayan Durant

Student Publications

The authors in this study seek to inform academia about international students’ experiences and challenges while attending universities in Small Town USA. Despite their eagerness to study in the United States (U.S.), international students are faced with setbacks that many universities fail to recognize or realize. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with a purposive sample of students using questions based on information from the literature and an initial survey. The themes that emerged from the data analysis were language, jobs/finances, transportation, assimilation, religious interactions, and identity. Findings emphasize the imperative to understand the challenges these students face as they continue …

3d Scan Data For Selected Artifacts From Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark (La3324), New Mexico, Usa, Robert Z. Selden Jr., George T. Crawford

CRHR: Archaeology

Between February 8-11, 2016, selected artifacts from the Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark (LA3324) were scanned in advance of a grant proposal to digitally aggregate the Clovis-era artifacts from the Clovis type site. These data were collected using a NextEngineHD running ScanStudioHD Pro, and were post-processed in Geomagic Design X 2016.0.1. All data associated with this project have been made publicly available (open access) and are accessible in Zenodo under a Creative Commons Attribution license, where they can be downloaded for use in additional projects and learning activities. These data have the capacity to augment a variety of research designs …

Anthropology Of The Crowd, Amy Rector Verrelli

Great VCU Bike Race Book Faculty Reflections

Faculty reflection on VCU Great Bike Race Book course.

Course Description: This track will study the bike race crowd using the four fields of anthropology (archaeology, biological, linguistic and sociocultural) to discover how they represent the greater diversity of humanity.

Comparing Quality: The Quality Assurance And Enhancement Report For England And Northern Ireland And The Ontario Quality Assurance Framework, Daniel Lang

System and Institutional Design and Transformation

This is a comparative study of two reports on the assurance of quality in higher education that appeared contemporaneously in 2008. One was the result of a joint working group of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, the Higher Education Academy, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The other was the result of a task force of the Council of Ontario Universities and the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies. Both groups had the endorsement of government. Both groups began with extensive surveys of institutional opinion about existing quality assurance and enhancement regimes. Using NVivo software, documentary analysis, …

Critical Skills And Critical Pedagogy In An Era Of "Permanent Crisis" In Postsecondary Education Howard A. Doughty, Howard A. Doughty

Outcomes in Higher Education

"Critical thinking," is widely celebrated as a "soft" employability skill, like the communications and human relations capabilities deemed essential for work in the precarious twenty-first- century. We are told it enhances problem-solving skills and contributes to employee flexibility in the competitive global economy. Intellectually, critical thinking derives from the European Enlightenment. It favours the “scientific method,” strives for conceptual clarity and evidence- based statements. It eschews “bias” in all its forms. It opposes metaphysics and historicism, is critical of sentimental romanticism and authoritarian demagoguery, and seeks to purge “ideology” from public discourse. “Critical pedagogy” also criticizes ideology, but differently. It …

Western Michigan University Graduate Catalog 2016-2017, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• General Information
• Colleges
• Course Descriptions (by College)

Tradition With A Capital "T": The Value Of Campus Traditions, Morgan K. Morris

Master of Arts in Higher Education (MAHE) Theses

This study explored the value of campus traditions in higher education. Literature regarding tradition and campus traditions has answered the question “what is tradition?”, analyzed the emphasis on tradition in the Southern United States, and investigated the role of tradition in higher education. This original research sought to survey student, personnel, and general perceptions of the value of campus traditions in higher education through a qualitative, phenomenological approach focused on a single campus tradition. In order to obtain a holistic perspective, the researcher conducted a review of archival resources and interviews with students, faculty, staff, and administrators connected to the …

2016 Ruby Yearbook, Briana Keane, Rebecca L. Brown, Phoebe French, Romina Kalmeijer, Faraha Rathod, Taylor Manferdini, Ursinus College Senior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 2016 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Research At Nebraska, 2015-2016 Report, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

This publication is a snapshot of the fiscal year’s activities. To read more stories about research and creativity at Nebraska, visit the online edition at https://research.unl.edu/annualreport/2016. Additional multimedia are available for many stories.

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 33 : January 2016, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• U.S. response to Paris attacks explored by lecture series
• Engaging the Muslims
• English professor and poet has long been moved by Russia
• Anthropologist earns book award
• "Climate Challenged Society” (ENVS 1000) excites students across disciplines

Discovery: Research Annual Report 2016, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research Annual Reports

• Kalamazoo autism center serving the treatment needs for those with autism
• WMU’s geological resources leveraged as an environmental protection and economic development tool
• WMU uses grants to study improvement to aviation safety from invention to commercialization
• Faculty scholar award
• Undergraduate research excellence award recipients
• Graduate student research and travel grants
• Support for faculty scholars award
• External funding
• Research and creative activities poster day
• Graduate student participant winners
• Technology development fund awards
• Faculty research and creative activities award
• WMU centers and institutes

2016 Spring And Winter - Registration Guide, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

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2016 Spring And Winter - Schedule Of Classes, Office Of The Registrar, East Tennessee State University

Registration Resources

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2016 - Etsu Fact Book, Institutional Research, East Tennessee State University

ETSU Fact Books

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2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog, Sacred Heart University

Graduate & Undergraduate Catalogs

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Programs And Courses Catalog 2016-2017, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Programs and Courses Catalogs

This catalog is published for students and other persons who want to know more about the University of Northern Iowa. Its purpose is to communicate as objectively and completely as possible what the university is and what it does. The catalog is presented in sections to give a general view of the university as well as the detailed information required for informed decision making.

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Undergraduate Course Catalog for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Graduate Catalog, 2016-2017, Marshall University

Marshall University Catalogs 2010-2019

Marshall University Graduate Course Catalog for the 2016-2017 academic year.

Western Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog 2016-2017, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• General Information
• Colleges
• Course Descriptions (by prefix)

Office Of The Vice Provost For Research Annual Report - 2016, Office Of The Vice Provost For Research, East Tennessee State University

Annual Reports

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Bs In Marketing 2016, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

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A Study Of The Fepac Accredited Graduate Forensic Science Programs' Curricula, Catherine Genice Rushton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The National Institute of Justice (1999) and the National Academy of Sciences (2009) recommended that forensic science training shift from on-the-job training to formal education. However, the reports cited inconsistencies in the curricula of the forensic science degree programs as an impediment to this. The Forensic Science Education Programs Accreditation Commission (FEPAC) Standards were created to address this issue; however, no studies have been conducted to determine how the accreditation standards have been implemented by the FEPAC accredited graduate programs. This study evaluated the self-study responses (n=11) and website information (n=17) specific to FEPAC’s Graduate Curriculum Standards to determine how …