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Transportation And Geographical Challenges, Martin E. Blair, C. Feeley, University Of Montana Rural Institute

Independent Living and Community Participation

The Policy Summit: Innovations in Adult Programming, sponsored by the Autism Services, Education, Resources, and Training Collaborative (ASERT) brought together experts from across the United States who specialize in programs and policy development and implementation for adults with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, other developmental disabilities, and mental health diagnoses. The purpose of this presentation was to discuss ways to address transportation and geographical challenges faced by policy and decision-makers to generate new ideas in Pennsylvania.

On The Road To Information Literacy: Mapping Il Learning Outcomes To Service Learning Courses, Olivia H. Ivey

The Colloquium on Libraries & Service Learning

Community Based Learning courses are on the rise at American University. Under the Guidance of the Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES), faculty build courses that focus students’ attention on the intersection of community involvement, academic study, and practical experience. Just as these programs are beginning to mature, the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment (COLA) has begun promoting AU’s new institutional learning outcomes, including information literacy. This presentation will explore the role librarians played in including information literacy as an institutional learning outcome and ways they have reached out to service and community based learning groups on campus. …

(How) Are Academic Libraries Partnering With Service Learning Initiatives On Their Campuses?, Joan D. Ruelle

The Colloquium on Libraries & Service Learning

Using the U.S. News & World Report list of exemplary Service Learning programs for the past 5 years, this presentation will report out on a research project that will survey leadership of both the library and service learning at each institution to inquire about existing and potential partnerships between the two units, and perceived barriers to such partnerships. Reporting the results of this study will highlight the current state of library/service learning partnerships, identify potential future partnerships, and articulate perceived barriers to partnerships from the perspective of both partners.

Scenarios To Prioritize Observing Activities On The North Slope, Ak, Olivia Lee, Dennis Lassuy, John Payne, Juan Carlos Vargas, Hajo Eicken

Research Posters

The North Slope of Alaska is experiencing rapid changes in response to interacting climate and socioeconomic drivers. The North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) is using scenarios as a tool to identify plausible, spatially explicit future states of resource extraction activities on the North Slope and adjacent seas through the year 2040. The objective of the scenarios process is to strategically assess research and monitoring needs on the North Slope. The participatory scenarios process involved stakeholder input (including Federal, State, local, academic, industry and non-profit representatives) to identify key drivers of change related to resource extraction activities on the North Slope. …

Transforming Leadership: Nurses Leading Change To Strengthen Healthcare Delivery, Nila Reimer

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

A new leadership paradigm is moving toward strategies that guide leaders in the discovery of new possibilities for creating changes in clinical practice. Leadership is no longer a solo act. An acquisition of team spirit is essential for guiding transformative leaders to undertake opportunities inside and outside of organizations. The goal of this project is to develop a Transformative Leadership concentration to lead Doctor of Nursing Practice students in applying foundational principles of transformative leadership. Doctor of Nursing Practice students will learn leadership characteristics of managing the polarity of positive and negative situations along with complexity and change in healthcare. …

Pharmacy Research On Medication Disposal Practices Using Service-Learning, Patricia L. Darbishire, Anne Packard, Maryam Noureldin, Sumaya Bahrami

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

Abstract

The purpose was to engage students in local communities to determine what types of medications commonly go unused, discover common medication disposal practices, gauge the public’s opinion on medication disposal, and collect unwanted medications.

Student pharmacists and a faculty mentor hosted 15 medication take-back events in conjunction with community partners, and administered a survey to participants exploring disposal practices, opinions and returned medication(s). Educational brochures on safe disposal methods were distributed to participants.

Four hundred and seventy-eight surveys were collected and 4,993 medications were identified and analyzed. The top three reasons for bringing medications to collection events included: medication …

Student And Community Perceptions On Reasons For Medication Non-Adherence, Patricia L. Darbishire, Daraoun Mashrah

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to improve medication adherence by exploring and reflecting on differences in the perceptions of pharmacy students and the public regarding factors contributing to medication non-adherence.

Two hundred eighty six pharmacy students and 310 patients participated in this study. Patients were recruited by pharmacy students from Midwest community pharmacies, while the students completed an experiential rotation. Students identified their patients based on evidence of non-adherence from medication profiles and asked patients to participate in the assignment. Data was collected over a four-year period, resulting in two years of information on patient perceptions and two …

Pax Populi: Utilizing Technology And Education As A Means To Achieve Peace, Anand Balar

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

This project of Pax Populi was presented to the students in the Honors course called Beyond Afghanistan taught by Dr. Brite as an opportunity to do service learning. The goal of Pax Populi as taken from their mission statement is to “put the tools of peacemaking into the hands of ordinary people through initiatives that advance peace through education and economic development within a framework of human rights.”

The tool we used in this case was Skype web conferencing to communicate with an Afghan tutee the students were individually partnered up with to teach English skills to whether they be …

Purdue Tap, Carly Turow

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

Purdue TAP provides high-value solutions that help Indiana businesses maximize their success by increasing profits, reducing costs, and implementing growth and innovation engineering systems. Our organization serves more than 500 companies annually by implementing continuous improvement principles in the areas of productivity, growth and technology. Purdue TAP has helped our clients collectively achieve over $1 billion of economic impact in Indiana since 2005.

Pollinator Garden, Paige E. Bradley

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

The goal of the project is to increase awareness about global climate change and the necessity of environmentally sustainable practice, particularly among the younger citizens of the Lafayette area. The Lyn Greece Boys & Girls Club extended a hand and offered us land to install a pollinator garden on their campus and an opportunity to meet with the kids one-on-one to promote sustainability ideas and help them understand the basics of gardening. The project is as local as possible, using native plants, no pesticides or herbicides, Bennett's Greenhouse (a local business), and the resources on campus to reach out to …

Soap Box Derby Car For Handicapped Children, Adam J. Merkel

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

The CAR (Creating Accessible Racing) is a team created within the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program. The team was created in 2007 as a means to fix current cars that the Lafayette Soap Box Derby needed repaired. The team them changed its focus to deliver steering to the child but have a system in place where the safety driver (usually an adult or qualified driver) could easily correct the steering. Currently there are cars available that do not allow the child to steer but the ones that do require the safety driver to physically overpower the strength of …

Epics Torch, Madi Rogers, George Townsend, Brandon Henman, Holly Gregory, Patrick Leal, Brennan Mcpherron, Xinyue Pan

Engagement & Service-Learning Summit

The Indiana Bicentennial Commission (IBC) was created by former governor Mitch Daniels to plan and execute a statewide celebration of Indiana’s 200th birthday in 2016. The commission has requested that researchers at Purdue University develop a high-tech Indiana-made flame torch a la the Olympic torch to be used in the celebration and displayed throughout all 92 counties of the state. In addition, the IBC requested that Purdue’s EPICS program develop a kid-friendly torch that can be used alongside the actual torch in relays, celebrations, and community outreach events throughout the state.

By collaborating with Purdue researchers throughout a range of …

It’S Complicated!: When Common Core Meets First-Year Composition, Elizabeth A. Rhoades, Jennifer Hebert, Lauren Garcia-Duplain

Student Success in Writing Conference (1999-2021)

This panel will discuss the challenges engendered by the push to enroll increasingly younger students in college courses. Using actual composition assignments, panelists will work with attendees to determine how the curriculum can maintain the standards of FYW yet also address the gaps between Common Core standards and true college-readiness..

Using Hope Theory And Writing Hope To Predict, Shape, And Increase Success Across Writing Classroom Contexts, Casey Reid

Student Success in Writing Conference (1999-2021)

Framed within scholarship about hope theory and writing hope, this workshop-style presentation will highlight the presenter’s experience using hope theory as an assessment tool, theme, and approach for coaching writing students. Participants will be given time to apply ideas to their work. Assessment, activity, and assignment ideas will also be provided.

Teaching The Dispositions For Inquiry: Research And Writing In The First Year Of College, Holly Middleton, Kathy Shields

Student Success in Writing Conference (1999-2021)

“Inquiry” presents difficulties for instructors and librarians teaching first-year research and writing: students want to support an argument rather than develop the tolerance for uncertainty that inquiry requires. The presenters will demonstrate a three-day sequence designed to navigate these obstacles, shorten research time, and cultivate the dispositions necessary for inquiry.

Imutcd-Recent Revision, Panel Sign Standards & Ohssi, Lalit M. Garg

Purdue Road School

INDOT Signing: Recent Developments—In this presentation we will outline recent changes to INDOT’s highway signing policies and procedures, including new standards for ground mounted panel signs and INDOT’s attraction signing programs.

A Socio-Culturally Responsive Pedagogical Approach To Advance Migrant Students Literacy, Alma D. Stevenson, Scott Beck

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

This presentation describes an innovative summer literacy program for intermediate and middle-level children of migrant farm workers that presented them with over two dozen children’s picture storybooks with migrancy themes, and systematically documented their responses to the books. Using these mentor texts and their responses as scaffolding, the students collaborated to create semi-autobiographical, illustrated narratives about growing up as migrants.

Gold Stone: A Narrative Approach To Dealing With Trauma, William D. Lane, Donna E. Lane

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

A Narrative-based model designed to promote recovery from traumatic experiences and assist at-risk youth with reclaiming their individual identities as separate from those experiences will be presented. The model can be readily implemented by counselors, social workers, teachers, pastors, or other service-oriented individuals. Participants will experience the model and explore its application in practice.

Tile History: A Brief Presentation, Virginia Raguin

Documentation

Slide presentation used to introduce the art and history of ceramic tiling to participants who worked on Lungs of the Planet, a tile mural created as a collaborative art project by students in the Natural World Cluster of the Monserrat First Year Program at the College of the Holy Cross. The project was led by Virginia Raguin, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the College. Particpants included students, faculty, staff and community members.

The presentation includes photographic examples of ceramic tiling in architecture located in Jerusalem and Istanbul.

Managing Your Professional Identity: Leveraging Social Media And Emerging Metrics To Demonstrate Professional Impact, Megan R. Sapp Nelson

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

This session will assist graduate students to deliberately develop an online professional identity that will uniquely identify them as an academic as well as positively highlight their personal strengths.

Students will walk away with a plan to create a unique professional identifier and an understanding of how to measure the impact of online scholarly communication.

Topics included are:

ORCID ID

social media, such as LinkedIn & ResearchGate

Alternative Metrics (Altmetrics), such has Kudos, ImpactStory, & AltMetric

Data repositories, such as GitHub & FigShare

Morphometric, Mechanical, And Histological Characterization Of The Ligaments Of The Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint: Correlation To Thumb Stability, Deana Mercer, Christina Salas, Justin Brantley, Cory Carlston, Therese Bocklage, Mahmoud Reda Taha, Jorge Orbay

Hand and Wrist

No abstract provided.

How I Learned To Build Bridges Of Understanding With 5 Houses, John Johnson

HSU unConference

Five Houses is a basic visual representation of diversity. This simple concept has helped me cultivate empathy and prepare students and others to engage with each other in a more open and receptive manner. By introducing Five Houses into your classroom and workshop spaces, you too can build bridges of understanding.

How I Learned To Ride The Unicycle Inside My College Apartment (And What I Really Learned Amidst All Those Spills And Crashes!), Troy Lescher

HSU unConference

Mastering the “one-wheeler” inside your living room is absolutely possible, and this presentation will explain a foolproof secret strategy. It will also feature some of the valuable learning-based insights the presenter gained while building his proficiency on the unicycle during his undergraduate days. Knee pads are not required.

Aligning Mapping Tools To Support Successful Learning In An Introductory Biology Course, Erin Duckett, Danilo M Baylen

Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019) (Archived)

Most undergraduate students take a science course during their first two years. One of the challenges of teaching an introductory science course is the reality that many undergraduate students are not prepared to be self-directed learners. Many students expect to earn a grade of A or B just like in high school. However, the failing results of the first exam can be a shocker to the students. Not only do the students not know the science content they studied, they had difficulties retaining and recalling the information.

This presentation discusses and describes the use of concept or visual mapping as …

Grow Your Own Academic Library Scholarly Communication Program, Barbara G. Tierney, Lee Dotson, Buenaventura (Ven) Basco, John Venecek, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

How does an academic library go about growing its own Scholarly Communication (SC) program with no budget, no staff, no dedicated office space, no partners, and no experience? The University of Central Florida Libraries responded to such a challenge during 2012-15 by creating a grassroots SC program staffed by a volunteer 20-member library faculty advisory group and creating an innovative “Research Lifecycle” model to help define an evolving menu of SC resources and services that could be turned on, as available, to UCF constituents.

Presentation for the Florida Library Association 2016 Annual Conference.

Copyright Presentation For The Ucf College Of Nursing Faculty, Sarah A. Norris

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to UCF College of Nursing Faculty on March 1, 2016 by Sarah Norris, Scholarly Communication Librarian. The presentation discusses basic copyright information, including fair use and creative commons licenses.

Stars Presentation For Rosen College Faculty, Kerri Bottorff

Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Presentation given to the Rosen College faculty on February 26, 2016 by Kerri Bottorff, Digital Collections Project Coordinator. The presentation introduces STARS (Showcase for Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship, UCF's institutional digital repository hosted by Digital Commons, with examples of content that faculty and students can submit. UCF's Showcase of Text, Archives,Research & Scholarship exists to publicize, disseminate, and provide ready access to works by, for, and about the University of Central Florida. Rosen Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works and Selected Works were highlighted.

Β-Cell Adaptation To Elevated Palmitate Concentrations (Hyperlipidemia), Daniel R. Lathen, Jeffery S. Tessem Ph.D.

Student Works

It is estimated that over 370 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes, and this number is increasing rapidly. Normally, β-cells in the pancreas secrete insulin, which is necessary for proper glucose absorption and storage. Both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are characterized by decreased functional β-cell mass and insulin production, and increased circulating glucose and fatty acid levels. Diabetics’ pancreata maintain small amounts of functional β-cells, but these surviving cells are damaged and destroyed over time due to the harmful effects of hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. These β-cells must adapt to survive. Hence, diabetes is itself a selective process. We …

2016-02-10 President's Leadership Council Budget Update, Office Of The President. Morehead State University.

Faculty Senate Records

President's Leadership Council Budget Update for February 10, 2016.

Program Level Assessment In The Library: Impact Of Information Literacy Instruction On English Composition And Speech Communications Courses At College Of Dupage, Jennifer Kelley

Library Scholarship

This presentation introduces an ongoing study evaluating how the College of DuPage Library’s Information Literacy Instruction Program contributes to students meeting institutional General Education Information Literacy outcomes. Via a cross-sectional exploratory survey, faculty teaching English Composition II and Fundamentals of Speech Communications will provide subjective understanding of information literacy and fact-reporting on use of information literacy services provided by the library. Results will impact the direction of the library’s information literacy instruction program and shape assessment of student learning.