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Streaming Student Speeches On The Internet: Convenient And "Connected" Feedback In The Basic Course, Judy Rene Sims

Basic Communication Course Annual

Undergraduate students enrolled in three sections of a basic speech course over a period of three semesters were surveyed regarding their evaluations of the video streaming of their speeches on the Internet as a method of feedback. Streaming video refers to motion video with accompanying audio that is delivered live or asynchronously and is available at the click of a mouse on a website. Students reported the viewing of their streamed speeches on the Internet to be a convenient and effective medium for feedback an an experience in connected learning that allowed them to share their speech with friends and …

Stretching The Academic Dollar: The Appropriateness Of Utilizing Instructor Assistants In The Basic Course, Paul D. Turman, Matthew H. Barton

Basic Communication Course Annual

As more universities across the country are feeling the pressures of providing an increasingly rigid financial accountability to tax payers and state legislatures, speech and communication departments find themselves in a precarious position. Namely, how can communication departments teach the budding number of students enrolled in their courses with little increase in budget, while continuing to produce effective speakers? One common answer to this dilemma involves the use of graduate students, and in some cases undergraduate students, as teaching assistants in the basic course. This study examines the efficacy of using undergraduate instructor assistants in the basic course at a …

Exam Writing As Legal Writing: Teaching And Critiquing Law School Examination Discourse, Adam Todd

School of Law Faculty Publications

This article adds to the growing body of scholarship on legal writing and its role in the legal academy. It addresses an area of legal discourse that is of importance to law students, the legal academy and the bar admissions process, yet has been neglected in legal scholarship. The article is a call for legal writing faculty members and other legal writing specialists to become more involved in the process of teaching about and critiquing the discourse involved in traditional end-of-semester doctrinal law school exams. This article suggests how law school legal writing programs, by deliberately teaching about exam writing, …

"How Do I Look In These Pants?" He Whined, Body Image Issues & Eating Disorders A Problem For Men, Too

News Releases

News release announces Rebecca Cook's comments on eating disorders and body image issues.

153rd Commencement, Winter

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Job Prospects Brighter In The Midwest For College Graduates, Best Tips: Show Some Passion, Do Your Homework, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that the Midwest is the only region in the country projecting an increase in college hires this year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers' Job Outlook 2003 report.

Why Does Ud Shut Down On Dec. 8 For Celebration? Credit Ellie Kurtz, The "Mother" Of Christmas On Campus, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that Ellie Kurtz started a holiday tradition at the University of Dayton and around the country for nearly four decades.

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 19 (Nov. 22, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Web Sites Still Not Compliant With Accessibility Law; Ud Researcher Addressing Legal, Moral Obligation To Serve People With Disabilities, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that a recent study funded by PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that more than a year after the deadline for federal Web sites to meet accessibility standards required by law, 87 percent of sites are still not fully compliant.

The Black Perspective November-December 2002, University Of Dayton. Black Action Through Unity

The Black Perspective

The Black Perspective is an African American student publication that ran from the late 1970s through the early 2000s. The paper aimed to be the eyes, ears, and voice of the UD Afro-American community. Articles and editorials cover campus news, current events, and contemporary issues from an African American perspective.

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 14 (Oct. 29, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 13 (Oct. 25, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

University Of Dayton To Establish A Women's Center Names Lisa Rismiller Director, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that Lisa Rismiller has been named the founding director of the University of Dayton's Women's Center.

University Of Dayton Fills Three Communication Positions, Develops Stronger National Focus, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton has hired three experienced communications professionals for its public relations office and promoted Tim Bete to national marketing manager.

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 11 (Oct. 18, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Media Advisory Daniel J. Curran Visits Luncheon, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that the University of Dayton's new president, Daniel J. Curran will talk about the University of Dayton's role in economic growth in the region and the need for colleges and universities to train workers for highly skilled, high-wage jobs at a luncheon.

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 8 (Oct. 1, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

'Call For A Healthy Community' A Public Forum To Address Hate Crime, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that "Call for a Healthy Community" will begin with a reception, followed by a forum in the Dayton Convention Center.

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 6 (Sept. 20, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 5 (Sept. 17, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Religious Leaders, College President And Corporate Executives Join The University Of Dayton's Board Of Trustees, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that a college president, the head of the Marianist province of the United States and prominent business executives are mong six new members of the University of Dayton's board of trustees.

Vytis, Volume 88, Issue 6 (September 2002), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Review: 'If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition', Cecilia Moore

Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

152nd Commencement, Summer

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

2002-2003 Bulletin

Undergraduate Bulletins

Volume 113, Number 4.

Scanned from the copy held in the Registrar's Office.

Review: Stuart Banner's 'The Death Penalty: An American History', William Vance Trollinger

History Faculty Publications

In this dispassionate but chillingly detailed survey of capital punishment, Banner, professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, documents and explains the dramatic "changes in the arguments pro and con, in the crimes punished with death, in execution methods and rituals ... [and] in the way Americans have understood and experienced the death penalty."

Dayton Business Leader, Summer 2002, University Of Dayton

Dayton Business Leader

The Dayton Business Leader, published out of the Office of Public Relations, later University Communications, then University Marketing and Communications, provided news from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration to alumni and friends. It was published from the late 1990s to about 2010.

The Decline In Average Weekly Cinema Attendance, 1930-2000, Michelle C. Pautz

Political Science Faculty Publications

Since the beginnings of the motion picture industry, with the one small Edison studio in New Jersey in the early 1900s, America has fallen in love with films. One could argue and debate the reasons, employing everything from sociology to psychology to economics; but one thing is certain: This love affair has changed over the years. This change is perhaps most evident in the decline in the percentage of the United States population that goes to the cinema weekly. One interesting aspect of cinema attendance is that during the Great Depression, which swept the United States in the 1930s, a …

Corporate Partnerships With University Of Dayton Celebrated, Fostered With New Web Presence, University Of Dayton

News Releases

News release announces that when NCR looks to recruit MBA students, the University of Dayton is one of a dozen universities they prefer to visit.

152nd Commencement, Spring

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.