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Spring Commencement Program, May 7, 2016, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Saudi Women Studying In The United States: Understanding Their Experiences, Trinidad Macias

Theses & Dissertations

The number of students from Saudi Arabia studying in the United States is increasing; this study focused on understanding Saudi women studying in the United States. A qualitative phenomenological approach was used to address the main research question: What are the perceptions of Saudi women on their experiences as international college students in the United States? In an attempt to understand their experiences, eleven Saudi Arabian women were interviewed. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview format. Analysis of the data was conducted via a four-step process that consisted of transcribing the interviews, reduction, horizontalization, and imaginative variation (Merriam, 2002). …

Inadequacy Of Benin's And Senegal's Education Systems To Local And Global Job Markets: Pathways Forward; Inputs Of The Indian And Chinese Education Systems., Kpedetin Mignanwande

Sustainability and Social Justice

This paper explores the historical legacy that shapes the current higher education system in most sub-Sahara African countries. It further analyzes various specificities in terms of production of graduates in many sub-Sahara African higher educational schools, as well as the rate, process, and conditions of employment of newly graduated students. Inspired by the comparative advantage offered by the Indian education system in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), and the Chinese education system in terms of Technical Skills and Work Readiness, the paper suggests an educational pathway that selects, orients and empowers students in these science related areas. It strongly emphasizes …

Connections, 05/2016, College Of Health And Human Services

College of Health and Human Services Newsletter

• Grant funded project to improve care and training in nursing facilities
• Grant funds study of food selectivity in children
• Alumna receives Faculty Mentor of the Year Award at NIU
• New OT grad cert in low vision rehabilitation to launch fall 2016
• Congratulations to 2015-16 CHHS retirees
• Sammons Center grants support OT advancement through technology
• Clinics now accepting applications for fall

Stories Of Single Mothers : Narrating The Sociomaterial Mechanisms Of Community Literacy., Kathryn Elizabeth Perry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In light of the increasing significance of community activist scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition and given the overwhelming nature of institutional educational inequity, this dissertation takes a close look at specific literacy practices and the corresponding networks that shape these literacy practices at a community literacy organization. Based on interviews with participants and staff at a local nonprofit called Family Scholar House (FSH), this project paints a complex picture of each stakeholder’s perspective on successful literacy. First, I employ Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to analyze three specific literacy moments at FSH: an application for government assistance, a financial aid appeal letter, …

The Impact Of Study Abroad On Post-Graduation Job Search, Satoko Fukai

Capstone Collection

Following the tradition of a case study, this capstone research investigates the experience of recent graduates of the City University of New York (CUNY) who participated in study abroad programs managed by the College of Staten Island (CSI) between Fall 2010 and Summer 2015 and examines their perceptions of the post-graduation job search process. The data was collected through an online survey of 72 CUNY graduates and interviews with four survey respondents.

The research findings did not show that the employment rate of CUNY study abroad alumni were any better or worse than others. However, many alumni believed that their …

Uni Grad Student News, V14n8, April/May 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this issue:

--Message from the Dean
--Poster Presentation Awards
--Oral Presentation Awards
--Alumni Profile: Mark Rowe-Barth
--Faculty Profile: Anthony Williams
--Graduate Symposium Winners (continued from cover)
--Creative Performance Awards
--Outstanding Master's Thesis Awards
--Master's Research Paper Awards
--Spanish Presentations at the Graduate Student -Symposium
--Alumni Jamie Mahlberg Receives Advisor Award
--UNI ScholarWorks
--Midwestern Psychological Association (MPA) --Conference
--Universitas 2015-2016
--Educational Perspectives Meetings
--UNI Interpreters Theater: Facing Our Truth: Short Plays on Trayvon, Race, and Privilege
--NASP Convention
--Sights of Spring
--What's Happening in Cedar Falls-Waterloo Summer Edition
--Summer 2016 Farmer's Markets
--Student Affairs Interview Day 2016
--Graduate College Staff …

Multimodal Transportation Planning Curriculum For Urban Planning Programs, Kristine M. Williams, Tia Claridge, Alexandria Carroll

TREC Final Reports

Integrated multimodal transportation and land use planning is critical to advancing mode choice, public health and safety, and livability objectives. Communities across the U.S. are seeking to redefine their planning process accordingly. In response, university graduate urban planning and engineering programs are beginning to address multimodal planning and sustainable transportation, but most do not yet offer a robust curriculum on these topics. To help address this need, the University of South Florida (USF), Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) developed a curriculum for a course on multimodal transportation planning and its role in advancing livability and related objectives. The course …

Advanced Gis: Smart Transportation, Christopher Bone, Ken Kato, Jacob Bartruff, Marc Schlossberg

TREC Final Reports

As sensors have become cheaper and more common, they have found an increasingly important role in transportation. However, curriculum to prepare students who will be working with these technologies as developers and planners has not developed at the same rate. The goal of this project was to develop a college course focused around sensors and smart transportation to be offered to undergrad and graduate students at the University of Oregon. The class focused on the practical application and the theoretical consequences of these developments. The class was offered in the spring term of 2015 to a group of undergraduate and …

College Experiences Of The Eastern Band Of Cherokee Indians, Rebecca W. Lasher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Many Native American students face challenges when entering and attending institutions of higher learning. For Native Americans, seeking postsecondary education frequently means overcoming hurdles, such as inadequate college preparatory courses work, economic hardships, leaving Native American communities behind and acclimating to the expectancies and values of a dominant culture. These barriers often result in Native American college students leaving college early or failing to graduate.

One solution to this problem has been the creation of Tribal colleges where Native American students are able to practice their cultural traditions and preserve tribal values, while at the same time developing skills to …

Quality Assurance In Online Graduate Education: Program Review Processes And Assessment Techniques Used In Higher Education, Lindsay N. Turner

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose for conducting the study was to form an understanding of the online program assessment and assessment processes in higher education, and how program review processes were adopted and implemented through institutional policies in regard to industry quality assurance standards. The study looked at institutions classified as very high, high, or research universities by the Carnegie Classifications, and which offered online masters programs focused on preparing students for positions in educational administration or leadership roles. The study used an electronic survey and content analysis through institutional policy and quality assurance documents to develop a recommendation for institutional level quality …

The Effects Of Standards-Based Grading And Differentiated Reassessment On The Metacognition, Motivation, And End Of Course Assessments Of 9th Grade American History Students, Benjamin Jeffry Hartnell

Masters Theses/Capstone Projects

This study attempts to determine whether Mastery Learning (with differentiated reassessment) and Mastery Teaching (within a standards-based curriculum) had a 1) metacognitive and/or motivational effect on how students perceive their learning and 2) whether or not Mastery Teaching had an impact on their mastery of the material when compared to students assessed in more traditional classrooms that did not offer reassessment. Using a standard district American History exam given pre- and post-semester and two student learning and motivation surveys (SMQII and PRO-SDLS), the results showed that being taught in a social studies classroom that utilizes differentiated reassessment and Standards-Based Grading …

Admissions Report - Detailed Data - April 2016, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Detailed report of applicants to Wright State including data on county of residency, intended major, and ethnicity for Fall Semester 2016.

Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting [Program], April 28, 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

Annual Graduate Faculty Meeting & Awards Ceremony Programs

No abstract provided.

2016-April-27-Rotc Commissioning, University Marketing And Communications, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

No abstract provided.

Deciphering Foreign Actions: A Focus On Russia's Foreign Policy Objectives, Stephanie A. W. King

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the College of Business & Technology Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by Stephanie A.W. King on April 26, 2016

Examining Cognitive And Emotional Responses To Inter-Age Rejection, Kristina M. Deem

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the College of Science and Technology Morehead State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science by Kristina M. Deem on April 21, 2016.

Concepts About Sedimentology And Stratigraphy In Undergraduate Geoscience Courses, Bailey Z. Kreager

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This two-part study examines sedimentologic and stratigraphic concepts in undergraduate geoscience courses. The first part seeks to identify the various types of interactive engagement strategies used in undergraduate science courses, how they are used and in what fields. It also looks at areas in which the geosciences have excelled in interactive engagement strategies. Published studies describing interactive engagement strategies in college-level courses were collected and coded, which identified six emergent types of interactive engagement strategies: (1) Polling, (2) Full-Class Discussion and Activities, (3) In-Class Group Work, (4) Out-Of-Class Group Work, (5) Online Work, and (6) Other types. Interactive engagement strategies …

Volume 113, Number 23 – Tuesday, April 19, 2016, Saint Mary's College Of California

The Collegian

No abstract provided.

2016 Abstract Booklet, Undergraduate Research Center, Minnesota State University - Mankato

Undergraduate Research Symposium

Complete Schedule of Events for the 18th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The Echo: April 15, 2016, Taylor University

2015-2016 (Volume 103)

Car wash, canines come to campus – RAC sheets, registration and the Review – Taylor hosts Grant County Autism Family Fun Fair – IWU offers accelerated nursing program – In The Loop – Zika returns worse than imagined – UN seeks new Secretary-General – Meeting Superman – Taylor myths & legends – Looking into Lighthouse – Grandma Gracie – Meek, not weak – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Art of imagination – Intelligent design – Artists celebrate Earth Day – Integration of faith and persecution – All the cool kids are doing it – FOMO FOBI: Fear Of …

2016 Undergraduate Research Competition Program, Coastal Carolina University

Undergraduate Research Symposium Programs

8th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition, April 12-13, 2016. Document includes schedule and abstracts. Schedule was also included in the 12th Celebration of Inquiry from 2016. Theme: Beyond Borders: Living in a Global Society.

2016-04-09 Aaup Presentation, American Association Of University Professors., Howard Bunsis

Faculty Senate Records

A presentation by Howard Bunsis, chair of the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress, to the Faculty Senate on April 9, 2016.

The Grizzly, April 7, 2016, Brian Thomas, Johnny Myers, Emily Jolly, Saki Murakami, Deana Harley, Rachel Dickinson, Sarah Hojsak, Tyler Arsenault, Phoebe French, Leighnah L. Perkins, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC Bikeshare Program Looks to Make Changes • UC to Hold First Disability Awareness Week in April • Course Registration Timeline • International Perspective: Cultural Approaches to Accepting Visitors and Foreigners • Update on Academic Affairs Office Change • Kaleidoscope Turns Ten • Poetic Start to Spring • Getting Down to Business • Opinions: Tuition Increase Goes Unexplained; Students Must Recognize Sexual Assault on Campus • Softball Makes Push for Conference Playoffs • Fresh Start

Using Interactive Engagement Strategies To Enhance Learning In College Science Courses, Bailey Z. Kreager, Leilani Arthurs

Discipline-Based Education Research Group Speaker Series

The number of decreasing science majors in U.S. institutions of higher education is connected to the quality of science instruction (Seymour, 1994; Daempfle, 2003) and resulted in nation-wide efforts to improve the quality of college-level science education (National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment et al., 1996; NGSS Lead States, 2013). This talk presents historical trends in the adoption of interactive engagement (IE) strategies in college-level science courses and presents one such IE strategy, lecture tutorials (LTs), in the context of sedimentology and stratigraphy.

To determine historical trends in the adoption of IE strategies, peer-reviewed journal articles accessible via …

Ninth Annual Graduate Student Symposium [Program], 2016, University Of Northern Iowa

Annual Graduate Student Symposium Programs

Table of Contents:
Welcome Letter from Dean Kavita Dhanwada ••• 3
Listing of Judges, Notes ••• 4-6
Poster Presentations Listed by Last Name ••• 7-13 Oral Presentations Listed by Room, in Order of Presentation ••• 13-18
Creative Performances Listed in Order of Performance ••• 18-20
Acknowledgements ••• 20

Twenty Third Annual Csbs Student Research Conference [Program] April 9, 2016, University Of Northern Iowa

INSPIRE Student Research & Engagement Conference Programs

A program for the INSPIRE conference where undergraduate and graduate students present their research, internship, volunteer and study abroad experiences, club activities and creative performances.

Craft Publishing: A Proposal For A Programmatic Paradigm Shift In Academic Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Brian Rosenblum, L. Ada Emmett

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Presentations

This presentation will include the parameters by which an effective, at-cost publishing program may be structured in academic libraries. With advances in technology, electronic storage, and connectivity, and contrary to the claim that such activities may result in a “race to the bottom,” libraries have proven to be natural entities within which to effect a paradigm change in scholarly publishing. Activities to date, however, have been more often than not underfunded and understaffed. Even among those that have been well supported, efforts across the community have been ad hoc. Within the context of recent initiatives and discussions, the authors will …

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Spring 2016), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Spring 2016 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Spring 2016, Augustana College - Rock Island

Augustana Magazine

No abstract provided.