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Safe Landing, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Ninety-five percent of recent University of Dayton grads responding to the career services office's Flyer First Destination Survey report being employed, pursuing a graduate degree or participating in a service program within six months of graduation.

A Flyer Promise, University Of Dayton

News Releases

University of Dayton alumnus William Tweed and his wife, Jan, have donated $1.5 million to endow a Flyer Promise scholarship as part of a new program that removes financial barriers for high-achieving underrepresented students at partner high schools.

Call For Manuscripts

Basic Communication Course Annual

Submissions are invited for publication consideration in Volume 31 (2019) of the Basic Communication Course Annual. Managed by the Basic Course Division of the National Communication Association and published by the University of Dayton, the Annual publishes the best scholarship available on topics related to the basic course and is distributed nationally to scholars and educators interested in the basic communication course. Each article will be published online at http://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/ and indexed on the journal’s website. All manuscripts submitted to the Annual will undergo blind peer review. Two or three members of the editorial board read and review each manuscript. …

Eliminating The Oral Communication Requirement: A Response, Joseph M. Valenzano Iii

Basic Communication Course Annual

Authors was asked to prepare an essay as if they were writing a letter to their dean (whose academic training was in another discipline) who (1) asked that enrollment in each basic course section be increased to a level that compromises the pedagogy of the basic course or (2) proposed that the required basic communication course be eliminated from the university’s general education program.

Conceptualizing Positive And Negative Experiences And Responses In The Basic Communication Course, Angela Hosek, Caroline Waldbuesser, Eric Mishne, Brandi Frisby

Basic Communication Course Annual

The present study used qualitative analysis of 259 students’ positive and negative experiences in the basic course and the ways in which they responded to these events. Students described four negative experiences: poor academic performance, time management, communication apprehension, and teacher driven challenges and four positive experiences: relational, growth, and presentation success. Students responded to these negative experiences using behavioral change, support seeking, doing nothing, and responded to positive experiences using emotive responses, communication with others, engaging in celebrating activities, applying skills, and lacking celebration.

Assessing Markers Of Student Development For Dually And Non-Dually Enrolled Students In An Online Basic Public Speaking Course, Joshua N. Westwick, Karla M. Hunter, Kelli J. Chromey

Basic Communication Course Annual

Critics of college dual enrollment programs suggest that online courses could pose significant challenges for dually enrolled students due to the online learning environment structure, concerns of academic achievement, and limited access to academic support. These concerns call into question the merits of online instruction for institutions who offer the basic public speaking course online to provide access to a broader base of students (e.g., in inner cities and rural areas). Dual enrollment continues to increase in popularity, especially within the general education curriculum, which includes the basic public speaking course at many institutions. Research shows these students excel academically, …

Engaging Students In The Basic Course By Asking Big Questions, Bryan Abendschein, Grace Giorgio, Adam D. Roth, Jennifer Bender

Basic Communication Course Annual

This paper advocates for the inclusion of big questions into the basic course curriculum. It begins by exploring the nature of big questions as those that engage pressing and perennial civic and global issues, and details their effectiveness in encouraging students and faculty to think about interpersonal responsibility and social space as dynamically interfacing and mutually reflexive, thus challenging us to negotiate the civic call of engaging in democratic processes. The basic course, whether public speaking or hybrid, offers a crucial opportunity for big questions to emerge because it brings people together to critically question and produce messages about the …

Teaching Talk: An Exploration Of The Content And Implementation Of The Common Core State Standards, Anna Wright, Brian Rohman, Dakota Horn, Barbara Meyer, Cheri J. Simonds

Basic Communication Course Annual

The implementation of the Common Core State Standards has brought about a renewed inspiration for exploring the role of communication in K-12 schools as they include a speaking and listening strand. Communication education in K-12 schools had been sparsely researched; however, a handful of scholars have made calls to increase the research and advocacy done in this arena. There is a need to understand the K-12 context as a means to inform practices at the college level. This study breaks down the speaking and listening strand of the standards to create a better understanding of the content addressed and applies …

College Faculty In The News: January 24, 2018, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A $440K NIH grant awarded to Associate Professor Amit Singh, department of biology, is making local headlines. Follow this story and other recent media coverage of the service, research, scholarship and commentary of College of Arts and Sciences programs and their faculty.

A Place Of Possibilities, Eric F. Spina

President's Blog: From the Heart

When NCR announced its surprise move to Georgia, some people feared the former corporate headquarters would turn into a white elephant. Not former UD President Dan Curran. He saw the possibilities.

A House And More, Andrew Kramer

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

What’s it like to live in a Marianist student community? We asked that question of Andrew Kramer who, with six other seniors, lives at 340 Stonemill, home to one of nine Marianist student communities at UD.

Advancing Women In Philosophy, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A University of Dayton philosophy professor who has dedicated much of her career to advancing women in the philosophy discipline will receive the American Philosophical Association’s highest honor for service to the profession.

Ud In The News Jan. 1-15, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The new year began with a spotlight on how faculty use student feedback by 'The Chronicle of Higher Education,' a high honor from 'The Academic Minute,' and national media seeking UD experts.

The Chronicle highlighted the communication department's use of student feedback in designing the "Principles of Oral Communication" class.

"The Academic Minute" named management and marketing professor Christian Kiewitz's contribution the Best Communications Segment of 2017. Produced by WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, "The Academic Minute" airs in nearly 70 markets across the country. Inside Higher Ed, a leading website on higher education news, also shares the program daily.

NPR talked …

Rising Research, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton set another research record in fiscal year 2017 and rose in the latest National Science Foundation rankings for fiscal year 2016 higher education research expenditures. UD ranks in the top 25 of all U.S. colleges and universities in eight categories, including second place for the amount of sponsored materials engineering research and development.

Natural Language, Mixed-Initiative Personal Assistant Agents, Joshua W. Buck, Saverio Perugini, Tam W. Nguyen

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The increasing popularity and use of personal voice assistant technologies, such as Siri and Google Now, is driving and expanding progress toward the long-term and lofty goal of using artificial intelligence to build human-computer dialog systems capable of understanding natural language. While dialog-based systems such as Siri support utterances communicated through natural language, they are limited in the flexibility they afford to the user in interacting with the system and, thus, support primarily action-requesting and information-seeking tasks. Mixed-initiative interaction, on the other hand, is a flexible interaction technique where the user and the system act as equal participants in an …

Moving Time, Larry Burgess

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

Student worker Matt Sheridan moves books in advance of the Roesch Library renovation.

Ud In The News Dec. 16-31, University Of Dayton

News Releases

As 2017 drew to a close, 'The Washington Post' highlighted the University's involvement in the American Talent Initiative and the 'National Catholic Reporter' Global Sisters Report profiled 'cable television pioneer' Sr. Angela Ann Zukowski, director of the Institute for Pastoral Initiatives.

Online outlet Education Dive tapped the expertise of Kuntz Family Endowed Chair in Educational Administration Theodore Kowalski and Chief Information Officer Tom Skill.

OhioENGINEER highlighted news of engineering students teaming with Hobart on a patent for an innovation that assists in trapping heat in industrial dishwashers.

And Jennifer Dalton in the School of Education and Health Sciences was a …

To Study Abroad Or Not To Study Abroad: That Is The Stem Question, Matthew A. Witenstein, Janel Henriksen Hastings

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

As more science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) students consider studying abroad, it is critical for researchers and student affairs educators to know more about how students engage with the study abroad process and make decisions about whether to participate or not. This qualitative study examined the decision-making process in which STEM students engaged regarding study abroad at a STEM liberal arts college. An organizational culture lens was utilized to make meaning of the formal study abroad decision-making process within a deeply entrenched institutional bubble that permeates all college facets and stakeholders. Focus groups engaged both participants who studied abroad …

Multivariate Analysis Of Students Perception On Teaching With Client Based And Non-Client Based Team Projects, Philip Appiah-Kubi

Engineering Management and Systems Faculty Publications

The classroom experience has evolved from traditional lecture, PowerPoint and whiteboards to a more active environment where students and instructors work together on hands-on activities to achieve the course objectives. Various names have been given to this pedagogy; experiential learning, project based learning (client based versus non-client based), active learning, and problem based learning are a handful of names used to describe this evolving pedagogy. The main challenge faced by educators in educating undergraduate students to be independent thinkers and problem solvers has been the driving force fueling the shift in pedagogy. This research looks into student’s perception on project …

The Year One Book: Gemnasium (A Transdisciplinary Test Lab For Social Change), Brian Laduca, Adrienne Ausdenmoore, Anne R. Crecelius, Kevin P. Hallinan, Connie L. Bowman, Jackie M. Arnold, Philip Appiah-Kubi, Jana M. Bennett, Rebecca P. Blust, Michelle Hayford, Jerome Yorke, Mike Puckett, Castel Sweet

IACT Reports, Publications and Resources

Through an experimental process that is mutually beneficial to community partners, more opportunities for undergraduate research and experiential learning are cultivated. The GEMnasium accomplished this through active efforts of teaching, researching and partnering with the core ethos of the University in mind:

Learn: Teaching - Prepare servant-leaders through comprehensive academic and residential curricula and extraordinary experiential learning opportunities.

Lead: Researching - Perform research that leads to deeper understanding, addresses critical issues, and supports economic growth.

Serve: Partnering - Engage in mutually beneficial partnerships to strengthen our communities in Dayton and around the world.

In doing so, faculty and staff prototyped …

Acknowledgments, Julius A. Amin

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

No abstract provided.

Bringing The World To Ud, Mark Rasmussen

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

This presentation focuses on Mark Rasmussen’s work with the organization Engineers in Technical Humanitarian Opportunities of Service-Learning (ETHOS). The slides show his trips to Ireland and Ghana.

My Path To Engagement With Internationalization Efforts, Malcolm Daniels

Proceedings: 2018 Global Voices on the University of Dayton Campus

The director of UD's ETHOS engineering service program shares his personal history, his path to UD, and his experiences with inclusive education; he also shares some recommendations for the immediate and long-term future of UD’s efforts to globalize and internationalize.

48839 (Gmr19b04), Neha Gogia, Ankita Sarkar, Amit Singh

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47472 (Gmr16g02), Neha Gogia, Ankita Sarkar, Amit Singh

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Honorslink, Issue 2018.1, University Of Dayton. Honors Program

HonorsLINK Newsletter

News and Notes from the University of Dayton Honors Program. Featured: FOCUS (Every Picture Tells a Story).

48770 (Gmr17e04), Neha Gogia, Ankita Sarkar, Amit Singh

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Eon, Vol. 05, No. 01, University Of Dayton. Department Of Electro-Optics And Photonics

Electro-Optics Newsletter

Winter 2019

News and notes from the University of Dayton Electro-Optics Department.

Daytonian 2018, University Of Dayton

University Yearbooks

University of Dayton student yearbook. Early yearbooks cover St. Mary's Institute. Annual publication of the Daytonian began in 1923; it was not published in 1929, 1932-1934 and 1944. Short volumes highlighting the graduating class were published in 1930, 1931 and 1945 under different titles.

Doc 2018-02 Undergraduate Academic Certificate Programs (Revised), University Of Dayton. Academic Policies Committee

Senate Documents

Legislative Authority; Art. II. B. 2.; DOC 2007-03; DOC 2014-04