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Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, March 23, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• PRPC Annual Report
• Honorary Degrees and Awards
• Policy changes associated with USU’s Human Research Protection Program
• PRPC Items
• FDDE Promotion Advisory Committee Code Change Section 405.6.2 and 405.8.2
• EPC Items

The Recruitment And Retention Of Nonprofit Employees, Susan R. Madsen, Melissa Swasey

Marketing and Strategy Faculty Publications

Although I do not have a full scholarly paper completed for this submission, I have written a detailed report on this research study. The report was based upon a community-based research project with students and after the research was complete the report was distributed to the nonprofit community. The nonprofit community has absolute loved and utilized the findings of this study in their practices and future plans, but I have never presented the results at an academic conference or published in a refereed journal.

Leveraging Institutional Repositories To Support Your Institution's Strategic Mission (March), Richard W. Clement

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

This presentation was given at the 2009 Association for College and Research Libraries conference during a breakfast presentation. It addresses how to improve the chances of a successful Institutional Repository.

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes, February 17, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• FEC Course Evaluation Committee Update – Greg Podgorski
• Research Council Report – Brent Miller
• Budget and Faculty Welfare Committee Report – Vance Grange
• Academic Freedom and Tenure Report
• ASUSU Tobacco Policy – Jeremy Jennings
• ASUSU Excused Absence Policy – Jeremy Jennings
• PRPC Items – Scott Cannon
• EPC Items – Larry Smit
• FDDE Code Change Proposal – Ronda Callister
• Classroom Racial/Cultural Discrimination Issues – Mike Parent
  
  
  

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, February 17, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• FEC – Course Evaluation Update
• Research Council Report
• Budget and Faculty Welfare Committee Report
• Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee Report
• ASUSU Tobacco Policy
• ASUSU Excused Absence Policy
• PRPC Items
• EPC Items
• FDDE Code Change Proposal 405.6.2(2) and 405.8.2(2)
• Classroom Racial/Cultural Discrimination Issues

Faculty Evaluation Committee Minutes, February 9, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Evaluation Committee

• Present
• Reports
• Analysis of Fall 2008 USU Teacher/Course Evaluations

Methods To Quantify Variable Importance: Implications For Theanalysis Of Noisy Ecological Data, Kim Murray, Mary M. Conner

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Determining the importance of independent variables is of practical relevance to ecologists and managers concerned with allocating limited resources to the management of natural systems. Although techniques that identify explanatory variables having the largest influence on the response variable are needed to design management actions effectively, the use of various indices to evaluate variable importance is poorly understood. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we compared six different indices commonly used to evaluate variable importance; zero-order correlations, partial correlations, semipartial correlations, standardized regression coefficients, Akaike weights, and independent effects. We simulated four scenarios to evaluate the indices under progressively more complex circumstances …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, January 8, 2009, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Department of Agricultural Systems Technology and Education

• Prerequisite Change, Course Description Change

Department of Plants, Soils and Climate

• Credit Hour Change
• Prerequisite Change
• Delete Course

Huntsman School of Business

• Grading Mode Change

Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Psychology

• Title Change, Course Description Change, Flexible Title for Sections

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

• New Course

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Prerequisite Change

Department of Military Science

• Add University Studies Designation

Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology

• New Course
• Dual List Change, Prerequisite Change
• Credit Hour Change, Dual List Change

Other

• Creating a …

Faculty Senate Agenda, January 5, 2009, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Council on Teacher Education
• Scholarship Advisory Board
• EPC Items
• Code Review Committee
• PRPC – Proposal to amend Sections 402.11.1 and 402.12.6(2 & 8)
• Elimination of Distance & Electronic Education Subcommittee
• Grievance Policies – Definition of Days (policy 407.1.2) first reading remove from tab

Jesus In America, Claudia Gould

All USU Press Publications

Claudia Gould draws on fieldwork she conducted, as an anthropologist, in North Carolina, where she earlier spent large parts of her childhood, among a net of paternal relations. From that ethnography and from lifelong observation, she crafts stories that lay open the human heart and social complications of fundamentalist Christian belief. These stories and the compelling characters who inhabit them pull us into the complicated, variable core of religious experience among southern American Christians. Jesus in America, a perceptive work rich with cultural insight, is a singular addition to the growing genre of ethnographic fiction.

Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping In Action, Bob Broad, Linda Adler-Kassner, Barry Alford, Jane Detweiler

All USU Press Publications

Educators appropriately strive to create "assessment cultures" (Huot 2002) in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators establish the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad's 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria mapping (DCM) as a method for eliciting locally-informed, context-sensitive criteria for writing assessments. The impact of DCM on writing assessment practice is just beginning to emerge as more and more writing departments and programs adopt, adapt, or experiment with DCM approaches. For the authors of Organic Writing Assessment, the DCM …

Supply Chain Management Practices As A Mediator Of The Relationship Between Operations Capability And Firm Performance, Chinchun Hsu, Keah Choon Tan, Vijay R. Kannan, G. Keong Leong

Management Faculty Publications

The current study uses mediated regression analysis and structural equation modeling to test the proposition that supply chain management practices mediate the relationship between operations capability and firm performance. Operations capability is defined in terms of a firm's new product design and development, total quality management and just-in-time capabilities. Results support the research model and also suggest the existence of a direct relationship between operations capability and performance.

Teaching Research To Teachers: A Self-Study Of Course Design, Student Outcomes, And Instructor Learning, Susan A. Turner

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

General Catalog 2009-2010, Utah State University

University Catalogs

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration

Estimating The Effectiveness Of A Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax In Reducing Particulate Matter Emissions, Jordan Larsen, Arthur J. Caplan

Applied Economics Faculty Publications

This study estimates the effectiveness of a vehicle miles travelled (VMT) tax in controlling mobile-source emissions of particulate matter (PM2.5) in a non-attainment area located in northern Utah. Using a recently updated household-level dataset, the study finds no evidence of an endogenous relationship between choice of vehicle type and VMT. VMT elasticities are also estimated with respect to cost per mile that are in some cases larger in magnitude than those reported in previous studies. Based on vehicle emissions tests performed by the Houston Advanced Research Center, the study estimates the reduction in particulate emissions that would occur with two …

Intergenerational Differnces: Adult And Teacher Development; Adults As Learners, Susan A. Turner

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Factors Influencing African American High School Students In Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy And Engineering-Related Goal Intentions, Chandra Yvette Austin

Dissertations

A current challenge in the United States is to increase African American pursuit of engineering careers. Minority students generally tend to be under-represented in such careers, as indicated by the National Academy of Engineering, in The Engineer of 2020-Visions of Engineering in the New Century. This study explores the career decision self-efficacy (Lent, Brown & Hackett, 1993) and Engineering related goal intentions of African American high school students. There are a variety of reasons explaining the lack of choice of engineering as a career, and these were investigated. This study assessed the effect of specific influences (ethnic identity, demographic factors, …

Engineering Problem Finding In High School Students, Benjamin James Franske

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the engineering problem finding ability of high school students at three high schools in Minnesota. Students at each of the three schools had differing backgrounds including pre-engineering coursework, traditional technology education coursework and advanced science coursework. Students were asked to find problems in two different engineering scenarios which were presented to them on a paper and pencil instrument. Responses were scored by a panel of judges based on measures of creativity (flexibility, fluency, originality and elaborateness) and analyzed based on demographic data including gender, prior coursework and school. In addition student responses …

A Theoretical Framework To Guide The Re-Engineering Of Technology Education, Todd R. Kelley, Nadia Kellam

Publications

Before leaders in technology education are able to identify a theoretical framework upon which a curriculum is to stand, they must first grapple with two opposing views of the purpose of technology education – education for all learners or career/technical education. Dakers (2006) identifies two opposing philosophies that can serve as a framework for technology education, both inspired by ancient Greece, with the works of Descartes and the birth of positivism. Later reappearing in Pascal’s writings of the mathematical mind, and finally with Rousseau in the mid 1700s, the theoretical arguments of academic verses vocational were established in education, and …

Engineering Design Activity: Understanding How Different Design Activities Influence Students' Motivation In Grades 9-12, Oenardi Lawanto, Gary Stewardson

Reports of Center Studies

The objective of this study was to evaluate grade 9-12 students’ motivation while engaged in two different engineering design projects: marble-sorter and bridge designs. The motivation components measured in this study were focused on students’ intrinsic (IGO) and extrinsic (EGO) goal orientations, task value (TV), self-efficacy for learning and performance (SELP), and control belief (CB). After finishing each project, students were asked to complete an Engineering Design Questionnaire (EDQ) survey instrument. The instrument consisted of 26 items modified from motivational scales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).Besides the motivational scales, five demographic and two open-ended questions exploring students’ …

Supporting The Shift From State Water To Community Water: Lessons From A Social Learning Approach To Designing Joint Irrigation Projects In Morocco, Marcel Kuper, Matheiu Dionnet, Ali Hammani, Younes Bekkar, Patrice Garin, Bettina Bluemling

All UNF Research

This paper focuses on the evaluation of a participatory approach aimed at supporting groups of small-scale farmers in the design of joint drip irrigation projects. Our idea was to create a sustainable social learning environment in which they could acquire adaptive knowledge about new irrigation technology and about designing and managing a joint irrigation project while at the same time improving their negotiation capacities. We developed a framework to evaluate the process as well as the outputs and outcomes of the use of our approach with four groups of smallholder farmers in the Tadla irrigation scheme in Morocco. Our findings …

Folklore And The Internet: Vernacular Expression In A Digital World, Trevor J. Blank

All USU Press Publications

Folklore and the Internet is a pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. It shows that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internetýs beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase …

Digital Commons Annual Report: Year One 2008-2009, Heather M. Leary

Digital Commons Reports

This report shows the progress for Utah State University's Digital Commons repository during it's first year, from October 27, 2008 through October 31, 2009.

But Can S/He Lead? Market Assessments Of Black Leadership In Corporate America, Alison Cook, Christy M. Glass

Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Art And Literature: A Perfect Combination, Shirlene Call Law, Joyce Kennington

Human Development and Family Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Nature And Status Of Stem Professional Development: Effective Practices For Secondary Level Engineering Education, Rodney L. Custer, Jenny L. Daugherty

Reports of Center Studies

Recently engineering has emerged on the K-12 scene as a potentially important content area. However, K-12 teachers typically lack sufficient backgrounds to effectively integrate engineering into their classrooms. Thus teacher professional development is of critical importance. Although there have been several initiatives emerge to assist teachers in teaching engineering-related curriculum, there has been little empirical research generated. For example, little is known about best practices, engineering pedagogical content knowledge, or effective design principles for engineering professional development. Although there is a general consensus in the literature concerning a set of principles that differentiate effective teacher professional development (i.e., Garet, Porter, …

Teacher Challenges To Implement Engineering Design In Secondary Technology Education (Part 3), Todd R. Kelley, Robert C. Wicklein

Publications

This descriptive study examined the current status of technology education teacher practices with respect to engineering design. This article is the third article in a three-part series presenting the results of this study. The first article in the series titled Examination of Engineering Design Curriculum Content highlighted the research findings regarding engineering design curriculum content delivered by technology education teachers. The second article in the series titled Examination of Assessment Practices for Engineering Design Projects in Secondary Technology Education reported technology education teachers’ assessment practices when implementing engineering design projects in the classroom. The sample for this study was drawn …

Examination Of Assessment Practices For Engineering Design Projects In Secondary Education (Part 1), Todd R. Kelley, Robert C. Wicklein

Publications

The following descriptive study was designed to determine the national status of secondary technology education curriculum content and assessment practices as they relate to engineering design. The results of this study were divided into a three-part article series. Although this study focused on the larger construct of the national status of the infusion of engineering design into technology education, three separate sub-constructs emerged. The three sub-constructs were: a) status of engineering design curriculum content; b) the status of assessment practices of engineering design projects, and c) what selected challenges are identified by secondary technology educators in teaching engineering design.

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 35, No. 1, 2009

Journal of Mormon History

ARTICLES

--Eating Vegetables to Build Zion: RLDS Children in the 1920s David J. Howlett, 1

--In the Wake of the Steamboat Nauvoo: Prelude to Joseph Smith’s Financial Disasters Joseph I. Bentley, 23

--“One Long Funeral March”: A Revisionist’s View of the Mormon Handcart Disasters Will Bagley, 50

--James G. Bleak: From London to Dixie Brandon J. Metcalf, 117

--Chief Kanosh: Champion of Peace and Forbearance Edward Leo Lyman, 157

REVIEWS

--Daniel Walker Howe. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 John C. Thomas, 208

--Vern Grosvenor Swanson. Dynasty of the Holy Grail: Mormonism’s Sacred Bloodline Scot Denhalter, …

It Is The East And Zulima Is The Sin: Shifting Representations Of Muslim Spain In Hartzenbusch’S Los Amantes De Teruel, Christine L. Blackshaw

Decimonónica

While Los amantes de Teruel was not Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch’s most widely-performed drama during his lifetime, it is, nonetheless, the one for which he is best remembered today. From its first performance on January 19, 1837, many sensed that the play would become part of the Spanish literary canon, as is evidenced by the praise from the critic for the Semanario Pintoresco Español, who boldly proclaimed, “el Señor Hartzenbusch se ha colocado en este punto a la altura de los grandes modelos, y en casi todo el drama parece revelar un alma del temple de Rojas y Calderones” (5 …