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Uni Schedule Of Classes, Spring 2012, University Of Northern Iowa

UNI Schedule of Classes

A listing and schedule of the courses being taught as well as policies and procedures concerning attending classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

Coe Acclaim, Spring 2012, Issue 4, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

COE Acclaim

Inside This Issue:
--Are We Really So Different?
--Furthering the Mission
--Program Gains Approval
--Addressing the Current Environment
--Students Earn Scholarships for Internships
--Funding to Aid Students with Disabilities
--Hall of Excellence Members Recognized
--Faculty Acclamations

Csbs Statements, V14, Spring 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Statements

Contents:

-- From the desk of the Dean
-- Greetings from Hong Kong
-- common threads: Alumni connection facilitates Hong Kong internship for TAPP student
-- A Diplomatic Mission: History alumna dedicated to the service of her country
-- keeping up with Rhonda
-- Back to School: CSBS alumni return to UNI as up-and-coming teachers & scholars
-- College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Loyalty Roster
-- Dean's Fund Inner Circle
-- Donor Wall Installed in Sabin Hall
-- Davis family increases generous gift ot gerontology program
-- Boatrights establish Undergraduate History Research Grant
-- from our director of development …

Csbs Kudos, April 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

-- National documentary film coming to the Cedar Valley
-- CSBS leadership changes
-- Social and behavioral research: vital service for the people of Iowa
-- Alumni Kudos
-- Faculty Kudos
-- 2012 CSBS Dean's Challenge Grants Announced
-- In Memoriam: Robert Claus
-- Student Kudos
-- Student Profile: ChaValier Sharps
-- Spring Semester in Pictures

Gerontology Newsletter, Spring 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. Gerontology Program.

Gerontology Newsletter

Inside this issue:

-- Message from the Program Coordinator
-- Fall 2011 Graduates
-- Gerontology Highlights

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium [Program], 2012, University Of Northern Iowa

Annual Graduate Student Symposium Programs

Table of Contents
Welcome Letter from Dr. Michael Licari ••• 1
Listing of Judges, Notes ••• 2 - 3
Oral Presentations Listed by Room, in Order of Presentation ••• 4 - 8
Poster Presentations Listed by Presentation Type, Last Name ••• 9 – 14
Creative Performances Listed in Order of Performance ••• 15 - 16
Acknowledgements, Past Award Winners ••• 17 - 19 Alphabetical Listing of Participants Page 20

University Of Northern Iowa Secondary Teacher Education Senate Meeting Minutes, March 22, 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. Secondary Teacher Education Senate.

Documents - Secondary Senate

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

A Review By Jason Suratt Of Professing To Learn: Creating Tenured Lives And Careers In The American Research University, By Anna Neumann, Jason Suratt

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

In her book, Professing to Learn: Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University, Anna Neumann presents a valid case for the importance of investigating the types of learning and work performed by professors following their promotion and tenure. She argues there are popular misconceptions regarding scholarly learning and the amount of work carried out by professors at this point in their careers. These misconceptions are pervasive not only among the general public but also among academics. To that end, she draws attention to the potential advantages this research has for professors who are about to embark …

Contributors

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

No abstract provided.

A Third Way Beyond The Old College Teacher-Scholar Model And The University Researcher Model Of Faculty Excellence, Eugene Rice

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

In this forum, I want us to talk about the models of academic excellence. What makes for good work? What is it that gets rewarded? I’m convinced that if we really take a careful look at American higher education there are only two models that dominate our thinking about academic excellence, and the changing character of faculty work. I also think that we need a third way, which I will discuss after considering the two models that currently dominate.

Csbs Kudos, February 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

-- CSBS sponsors guest speakers
-- Counseling program continues 100% pass rate
-- Guest lecturer welcomed to campus
-- Alumni Kudos
-- Faculty Kudos
-- Faculty Profile: Donna Maier
-- Student Kudos
-- Study Abroad in Nicaragua
-- CSBS establishes new organization for multicultural students
-- Social & Behavioral Sciences gets even more social

Faculty Tenure Report, Fall 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Institutional Research.

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Statistical report showing the number of faculty that are tenured, on the tenure track, or not on the tenure track, broken down by college, department, gender, minority status, and if full or part time.

Baloney Or Braunschweiger?: Communicating Cultural Identity In Multigenerational German Immigrant Families, Dena Huisman, Heike Flood

Iowa Journal of Communication

Researchers have examined economic, social, political, and historical implications of immigration throughout U.S. history, but little research has been conducted on everyday communication and the lived experience of immigrant family life in the United States. The current research explores family communication in mid-20th century German immigrant families and their balance between two cultures, demonstrating the complex cultural boundaries between family generations and between families and cultural boundaries themselves.

The Changing Nature Of The Coffee Shop In The 21st Century: How Productivity Is Supplanting Social Interaction, Benjamin R. Garner

Iowa Journal of Communication

Historically, coffee shops are social gathering places where people go to get coffee, listen to lectures, converse with others, and maintain personal relationships (Hattox, 1985; Oldenburg, 1999). Today, the coffeehouse/coffee shop scene is quite different. This analysis examines what motivates people to go to a public social place (coffee shops) to participate in private activities such as using laptop computers, studying, or engaging other solitary activities. Results indicate people use coffee shops in a solitary manner to enhance productivity, to leave the house, to study with friends, and to work. Most participants in this study did not go to a …

Professionally Accomplished Women's Perceptions Of Father-Daughter Communication: An Exploratory Study, Teresa M. Scott, Lynne M. Webb, Patricia Amason

Iowa Journal of Communication

A survey of 75 professionally accomplished women examined father-daughter communication during daughters' middle-aged years. The daughters' perceptions of relational closeness with their fathers were associated with family communication environment (both conversation and conformity-orientation). Furthermore, daughters' conflict management scores for competing-with-fathers were negatively associated with the daughters' state-communication-apprehension scores. Finally, many non-significant results are inconsistent with results previously obtained with college student samples, perhaps indicating that the influence of father-daughter communication may differ across the lifespan.

Presidential Portrayal: Photographic Coverage Of Two Presidents, Yung Soo Kim, James D. Kelly

Iowa Journal of Communication

A content analysis of photographs of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama in TIME, and Newsweek during the first six months of each president's first term tested four hypotheses grounded in social reality construction and framing theories. Tests showed significant differences in the predicted direction for all four hypotheses. Obama was portrayed as more informal and more independent. Photos of him were more likely documentary and of higher visual complexity. The increased access President Obama gave photographers encouraged a public image of the new Black president as approachable, independent, and personally similar to the largely White electorate he governs.

Cultural Variations Through Gestures, Erin Coffey

Open Educational Resources

Students will be able to describe cultural universals and why they exist. Students will be able to identify factors that account for variations among and within cultures.

God Grew Tired Of Us: Migration Of Sudanese "Lost Boys" To U.S., Brittany Lassen

Open Educational Resources

Students will learn the current conflict in Sudan and about the journey of Sudan’s lost boys to the U.S. Students will also learn about the challenges these young people faced and triumphs they experienced when they arrived.

Discovering Diffusion And Reformulation, Sarah Lerdal

Open Educational Resources

Students will be able to define diffusion and reformulation and give examples of each. Students will be able to explain how certain everyday products have been diffused into the American culture. Students will be able to use Google Earth and its tagging feature to demonstrate to the class the origins of the product or process.

Who Are We? Local Geography: Hull, Iowa, Rob Van’T Land

Open Educational Resources

Using the most recent data, students will create pie graphs, maps, and writings to give a better picture of the ethnic diversity of Hull.

Perspectives: Developing And Defining Both Science And Science Education As Disciplines, Robert E. Yager

Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science: JIAS

The six "domains" have been identified as features for the "doing" of science. These six are: Concept, Process, Creativity, Attitude, Application, and Worldview. They are offered to affect teaching, student learning, as well as a new way of defining science. Concepts and Processes often are the only two typically used to define school and college science content; Creativity and Positive Attitudes are added as two "enabling" domains; a fifth Domain is offered as a focus on the Application of typical concepts and process skills. It is the Domain where and how most people live and operate! The sixth Domain is …

Participation And Attrition In Youth Sport, Laura Sue Rowen

Graduate Research Papers

In the United States, an estimated 45 million children under the age of 18 years are involved in school and extracurricular physical activity programs, ranging from youth basketball and baseball to cross country skiing and rodeo (Weinberg & Gould, 2007). According to the American Journal of Diseases of Children, an additional 17 million children and adolescents in the US participate in an organized non-school-sponsored sport (DuRant et al., 1991). Many of these children are extremely involved in organized sport. On average, youth participate in their specific sport 11 hours a week for an 18-week season. Thus, over the past 40 …

Perceptions Of "Americanism": U.S. High School Students' Attitudes Towards Non-Standard English Accents, Christina Michelle Goering

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this study is to identify the extent to which U.S. high school students perceive various English accents as being part of their American community or not and to further investigate how likely these high school students are to socialize with speakers of the varying English accents.

Comparing Middle School Students' Learning And Attitudes In Face-To-Face And Online Mathematics Lessons, Clayton M. Edwards

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Online learning has become a staple within education for college students, and has started to enter high schools. While this instructional delivery system has been shown to work for older students, few studies have involved middle school students. If this trend toward online teaching of younger students continues, online learning could become a large part of education for middle school students, making research in this area important.

Multiple positive and negative aspects have been identified for online learning. Positive characteristics include individualized pacing; electronic resources, and the opportunity for rapid or personalized feedback, while negative aspects address increased student responsibility …

Being In The World : An Existential Inquiry Of Knowing One's Self Through A Personal Project : In The Context Of Dissertation Survival, Tomoe Kitajima

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study--a philosophical exploration, partly in an autoethnographical account--provides an empirical demonstration that one's personal project has a strong and positive impact on the dissertation process both for endurance to complete the process and for quality of the product. The concept of project is often explained as one's pursuit of his or her most important philosophical issues. This dissertation originated in the very beginning of my doctoral education in summer 2000 when I first encountered the man behind the coffee shop counter. In his life story he expressed a strong question about the problem of knowledge and authentic living. How …

Making A Way: Music In An African American Congregation, Emily Miller-Todd

Honors Program Theses

When I began brainstorming ideas for my research, I was initially drawn towards a general study of music's role in church settings. As a music major and religion minor, this topic appeared to be the most obvious way I could combine my interests and apply them to a research project. Broadly speaking, I was interested in describing the role of music in a worship setting and the meaning members of the congregation found in music. In addition, I wanted to develop a research project that allowed me a more thoroughly experiential understanding of music in a congregation through personal participation …

Effect Of Birth Order Placement On Tendency Toward General Deviance, Nichole Rae Reese

Honors Program Theses

Most of the research conducted on birth order placement has dealt with characteristics such as ambition, responsibility, leadership, athleticism, and so on. I focused my research on the effect of birth order placement on a tendency toward committing general deviant acts. I reviewed and analyzed previous research regarding this topic conducted by researchers and social scientists. I then conducted my own research study by administering a general deviance questionnaire to forty University of Northern Iowa students. After analyzing the survey results using the data analysis program, SPSS, I found that my hypothesis of firstborn individuals committing less general deviant acts …

The Secret Life Of The American Teenager And Its Implicit Sexual Consequences: A Content Analysis, Olivia Lynn Egen

Honors Program Theses

My content analysis of The Secret Life of the American Teenager contributes information on the physical consequences of sexual acts to studies already conducted from content analyses of today's popular television shows. It also makes a contribution to the existing research because no one has studied this particular show. Because it is aired on a 'family network', it is specifically geared toward teens in a way other programs that have been studied have not been. The present research centers on the sexual acts of main characters, safe sex practices, types of sexual acts, gender of characters participating in these sexual …

Pay Expectations: How Do They Influence Selection Of College Degrees And Motivational Effort Towards College?, Benjamin J. Mccarty

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of the study is to examine the effects of expected monetary compensation on selection of degree type and motivation to succeed in college. These pay expectations are created based on factors such as educational background required for position and knowledge of personal capabilities and competence. A sample of 57 undergraduate college students, ages 18 and over, took a survey assessing undergraduate major, salary expectations in their post-college career, and motivation of success in college. Levels of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation are measured and compared with pay expectations to determine the motivational influence towards selecting a college major. Gender …

The Overrepresentation Of Minorities In Special Education: A Conceptual Analysis Of A Longstanding Conundrum, Aimee Sargent

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this analysis is to examine the issue of overrepresentation of minorities in special education, with a focus on the varying conceptual and theoretical perspectives among scholars and educators regarding the causes and potential solutions to the problem. Views of the issue will be described by comparing traditional perspectives with nontraditional perspectives. Further scrutiny of these views then leads to an analysis of differing epistemologies, contrasting the realist/objective view with that of non-realist constructivism. Thorough examinations of these issues provide a framework of overrepresentation in light of disability and race conceptualizations and present a new approach for addressing …