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The Update, March 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Humanities, Arts And Sciences.

Update

Inside this issue:

-- UNI & the Arts: Department of Art Faculty Engage Students at Waterloo East High School
-- Department News
-- School of Music Events
-- UNI Wins Big at AAF: UNI Department of Art Students Bring Home the Gold
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Philosophy and World Religions: Rick Grisel
-- Alumni Spotlight: Department of Theatre: Michaela Nelson
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry: Angela Weepie
-- Mesa Española, Department of Languages and Literatures
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Theatre: Cory Skold
-- Student Spotlight: Department of Computer Science: Mojtaba Alfardan
-- Physics Club, Department …

Cornerstone: An Experiment In Interdisciplinarity And Community, April Chatham-Carpenter, Deirdre Bucher Heistad

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

This forum, on the First-Year Cornerstone course at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI), tells the story of the creation, collaboration, community, and cultivation of learning that has developed as a result of teaching a course across various disciplines and divisions, with a longevity different from anything else that has been tried at UNI in such a vein. It focuses on the work taken to effectively cross multiple disciplinary and divisional boundaries in order to create an interdisciplinary academic course community for first-year students.

Prior to 2008, UNI had virtually no courses reserved exclusively for first-year students, and those initiatives …

How Cornerstone Changed My Teaching, Story 3, Doug Shaw

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

When I started as a mathematics professor at the University of Northern Iowa, I was the “teaching radical” in my department. I was using the newest techniques, and I knew The Way. After a dozen years had passed, I had become a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways, and hadn’t really realized it. My “newest techniques” weren’t that new, nor had I really examined them in years, while some other professors in the department were experimenting with the real cutting edge in mathematics instruction.

Reality In Shakespeare And The Digital World [A Review By John Sievers Of Shakespeare And The Digital World: Redefining Scholarship And Practice, Edited By Christie Carson And Peter Kirwan], John Sievers

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

The collection of essays edited by Christie Carson and Peter Kirwan, Shakespeare and the Digital World: Redefining Scholarship and Practice, came to me at a pertinent moment. I started reading it after I had pushed a squeaky-wheeled cart full of twenty-eight iPads to class, then used a document camera displaying my iPad and fingers to show the class how to search a database. Later that day, I also observed a student use a smartphone-based online dictionary app to hear how to pronounce Ceres. The student then used his new knowledge to further a group discussion about scansion in lines …

Open Access Publishing And The Ends Of Scholarship, Fred Rascoe

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

. In October of 2014, at the 29^th International Conference on Medievalism held in Atlanta, I was privileged to co-host (along with J. Britt Holbrook from the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy) a panel on “Open Access in the Academy.” It was a large panel that featured many medieval scholars who engaged with each other and the audience on what Open Access means to their discipline, to their careers, and to humanities scholarship in general. The panel discussion was filmed and is available to view in SMARTech (Hahn, et al., 2014), but with this brief column I wanted …

Peer Mentors In The Religions Of The World Classroom, Martha Reineke

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

September 3, 2013: Samantha is giving her first presentation as a peer mentor on “Time Management Skills.” Her hands are visibly shaking, notwithstanding her death grip on her notes. In a trembling voice, Samantha hesitantly makes her way through several PowerPoint slides.

How Cornerstone Changed My Teaching, Story 1, Susan E. Hill

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

In summer 2011, ten UNI faculty from different departments met for a month to develop the first iteration of UNI’s Cornerstone course. This experience was, by far, the best faculty development experience I have had in over twenty years of teaching. In reflecting on the group effort of the faculty, and on teaching Cornerstone during 2011-2012, I have come to realize that this collaborative approach to faculty development and teaching has changed (dare I say, improved?) my teaching, because it offered me a more expansive and holistic model of what teaching and learning can be.

Cornerstone Commitment To Collaboration, Debra Young

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

I’m a bit of a magpie when it comes to teaching. I love to watch outstanding teachers, collect bits and bobs of their best techniques, and see how I can learn from them. It doesn’t matter if the discipline relates to mine; if it’s shiny, I’m curious about it.

Cornerstone is perfect for a magpie like me. As an interdepartmental program, the instructors are drawn from across campus, bringing the best of their disciplines with them. All are dedicated to collaboration, and time is set aside to ensure collaboration is possible.

To Build A Foundation, Nichole Zumbach Harken, Rachel Morgan

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Just like a cornerstone was once placed to square and level a building during construction, a successful Cornerstone class provides a UNI student with the skills of communication, civility, thinking, and success - the same skills he or she will need to be a citizen in a college community and beyond. The image below appears on almost every Cornerstone syllabus, and it also reminds us that as college instructors we’re in the business of building professional, prepared citizens.

Clarada, For B♭ Clarinet And Electronics, Jeffrey Funderburk, Amanda Mccandless

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Clarada’ was composed between November 2012 and August 2013. It is one of a number of electro-acoustic works I have written to allow a performer not particularly familiar with the medium to explore. The composition is intended to appeal to an equally inexperienced audience.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, February 23, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Special Meeting

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Stem Stories, February 2015, #4, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Featured Event - STEM Career Conference

Stem Stories, February 2015, #3, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Women in Computing club

Festival Symphony Band, February 14, 2015 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Stem Stories, February 2015, #2, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Technology and Engineering Education Collegiate Association (TEECA)

The Merry Wives Of Windsor, February 6-8, 2015 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

Academic Affairs Update, February 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of The Provost And Executive Vice President For Academic Affairs.

Academic Affairs Update

Inside this issue:

-- Professional Development Assignments Propel UNI's Contributions to Scholarship and Iowa
-- 2015-2016 PDA Recipients

Uni Grad Student News, V12n2, February 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College.

UNI Grad Student News

Inside this issue:

-- Message from the Dean
-- Speech-Language Pathology Students Welcome Back
-- Current Student Profile: Monica Chavez
-- Current Student Profile: Kong Chen
-- Alumni Profile: Andrew Jedlicka
-- Graduate Faculty Profile: Anthony Williams
-- Graduate Faculty Member Named Fulbright Recipient
-- February 2015 Tips: making "Cents" of Bills
-- Register for the Symposium Today!
-- School Counseling Student Creates Knitting Group for Refugess from Burma
-- Graduate Student Completes Principalship Program from Abroad
-- Graduate College Staff and Contact Information

Stem Stories, February 2015, #1, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Student Profile - Sarah Huebner

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, January 26, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Stem Stories, January 2015, #4, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Planetarium shows hosted by Earth and Environmental Sciences

University Of Northern Iowa Elementary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Minutes, January 15, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Elementary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Elementary Senate

Meeting minutes from the Elementary Teacher Education Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Stem Stories, January 2015, #3, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Featured Event - Spotlight on STEM Day

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, January 12, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

Stem Stories, January 2015, #2, Stefani Keller

STEM Stories

Program Spotlight - Textiles and Apparel (TAPP) program

Constituting The Diasporic Collective: Irish-Americans At The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century, Margret Mccue-Enser

Iowa Journal of Communication

Through close examination of speeches dedicated to Robert Emmet, the Irish Nationalist, Republican, and rebel leader, on the centennial of his death, I reveal how Irish-American civic and religious leaders marshaled his memory into the ideographs of land and liberty, and in doing so mitigated diaspora and constituted Irish-Americans as not only a decent but also an exceptional part of the burgeoning American socio-political landscape. First, I examine the state of Irish-American diaspora in early twentieth century America and the role epideictic speeches celebrating the legacy of Robert Emmet played in constructing the Irish Americans as a collective. Next, I …

At The Crossroads And Spiraling Back: A Mystory Experiment In/As Descansos, Rebecca M. Kennerly

Iowa Journal of Communication

This essay is an experiment in ethnographic writing using Bowman and Bowman's (2002) mystory method, based on my research with roadside shrines-called descansos in the Southwest-and how these sites perform in personal, popular and institutional culture. This essay also explores how my work has been influenced by one cross-country road trip to visit my friend Dan Vice, who was dying: along the way I come to terms with (among other things) our conflicted allegiances to the Catholic Church and eventual turn to a Navajo-inflected understanding of being-in-the-world which helped us, in our own way, make sense of living in the …

Qualitative Methods: Introduction To The Special Issue, David T. Mcmahan

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

2015 Uni Volleyball Media Guide, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

Contents--2015 Quick Facts
--2015 UNI Volleyball Roster
--2015 Schedule
--Bobbi Petersen Head Coach 16th Year
--Kalani Mahi Assistant Coach 12th Year
--Kim Davis Assistant Coach 14th Year
--Support
--Meet the Panthers
--2014 Review
--Record Book
--Career Leaders
--Season Leaders
--Single Match Leaders
--Team Season Records
--Team Match Records
--Records by Class
--Yearly Leaders
--Year-by-Year Stats
--Memorable Milestones
--Award Winners
--Record vs. Opponents

Iowa Journal Of Communication, Volume 47, Number 1, Fall 2015 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.