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Public Subjects: Wayne State, Institutional Texts, And Public Rhetoric, Michael Mcginnis
Public Subjects: Wayne State, Institutional Texts, And Public Rhetoric, Michael Mcginnis
Wayne State University Dissertations
Applying a public sphere approach to Wayne State, I argue that the university has defined itself as a public subject within public debates about race, educational access, and economic development in the city of Detroit, even when such commitments to its local urban public sphere have existed uneasily alongside its ambition to function as a research university with a primary research mission within a wider public sphere of peer research universities. I focus on Wayne State University’s urban mission and open for consideration the ways the university has both expanded and contracted its relationships to its local and academic public …
An Evaluation Of Wayne State University's Educational Evaluation And Research Program, Willie L. White Ii
An Evaluation Of Wayne State University's Educational Evaluation And Research Program, Willie L. White Ii
Wayne State University Dissertations
This is a mixed-methods evaluation of the Educational Evaluation and Research program at Wayne State University. The process of evaluation involved determining the efficacy of triangulating qualitative and quantitative methods of evaluation in order to access the EER program's goal acquisition. The process of evaluation commenced with a qualitative method of interviewing faculty members and was triangulated quantitatively with a likert scale survey that was modified from Wayne State University's Student Evaluation of Teaching Survey (SETS). The Student Evaluation of the Educational Evaluation and Research Program (SEEERP) was designed to measure graduate students' perspectives of EER goals and objectives acquisition. …
Building Sustainable, Just Food Systems In Detroit: Reflections From Seed Wayne, A Campus-Community Collaborative, Kameshwari Pothukuchi
Building Sustainable, Just Food Systems In Detroit: Reflections From Seed Wayne, A Campus-Community Collaborative, Kameshwari Pothukuchi
Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Research Publications
This article describes a campus-community collaborative, SEED Wayne, which was developed to build sustainable food systems on Wayne State University’s campus and in Detroit neighborhoods. The discussion traces the nature of SEED Wayne’s partnerships and reflects on the program’s past three years of existence, including experiences within the university, practical challenges associated with defining sustainability uniformly across diverse campus and community activities, gaining consistent student involvement, and the mutual benefits of the university-community partnership.
Letter From The Vice President For Research, Hilary Ratner
Letter From The Vice President For Research, Hilary Ratner
New Science
At Wayne State University, we have long viewed our mission as embedded in the life of our community, one of America’s great cities, which leads to a focus on urban issues and a commitment to social action. Wayne State University’s urban mission is manifest in our history, location and tradition, and the commitment to this mission has been reaffirmed as part of the vision for WSU as the model research urban university for the 21st century. WSU has a rich history and long tradition of innovation - developing new knowledge and products, discovering “why” so we can know “how,” offering …
New Science Volume 17, Division Of Research
New Science Volume 17, Division Of Research
New Science
Full issue of Volume 17 of New Science
Wsuls 2008 Year In Review, Wayne State University Library System
Wsuls 2008 Year In Review, Wayne State University Library System
Library Publications
2008 Annual Report includes: A Message from Dean Sandra Yee; Statistics; TRC Named National Model of Digital Teaching and Learning; 2008 Classroom Redesign Project; Library System Features Jacob Lawrence and "The Legend of John Brown" Traveling Art Display, Chapbook Program Showcases Work of Detroit Area Middle and High School Students; Library System Expands Liaison Program with New Coordinator; LIS Faculty and Staff Host Urban Librarians Summit; LIS Offers Completely Online Degree Program; Construction Moves Ahead on New Shiffman Library; DALNET Director Named One of Library Journal's 2008 Movers and Shakers; Dean Sandra Yee Elected to Serve on ARL Board of …
Developing Organization Consulting Skills In Clinical Sociology, Ray Kirshak
Developing Organization Consulting Skills In Clinical Sociology, Ray Kirshak
Clinical Sociology Review
This teaching note reports on how participation in a seminar on Community Involvement helped the author learn important organizational consultant skills, while helping an organization in trouble recognize structural sources of its difficulties.