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It All Started In The Sixties: Movements For Change Across The Decades—A Personal Journey, R. Eugene Rice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A combination of memoir and social commentary, this chapter explores changes in higher education throughout five decades—1960s: utopian quest for learning communities; 1970s: faculty development movement; 1980s: focus on the academic workplace; 1990s: broadening the understanding of scholarship; and 2000s: new pathways and the engaged campus. This chapter provides a context for the careers and work of faculty, academic administrators, and faculty development specialists (both new and experienced) as well as for the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD).

“Heritage Rocks”: Principles And Best Practices Of Effective Intercultural Teaching And Learning, Peter Frederick, Mary James

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This portrayal of the intercultural teaching/learning culture and classroom stories at one fully multicultural institution, Heritage University, itself reflecting many diverse “heritages,” provides a glimpse into the faces of the future of higher education in America. We offer several examples and a synthesis of the principles and best practices of effective intercultural teaching and learning, with the intention of helping other institutions move intercultural education from the margins to the “center,” thereby preparing both teachers and learners for effective intercultural learning and living in the 21st century.

Sustaining The Undergraduate Seminar: On The Importance Of Modeling And Giving Guidelines, Shelley Z. Reuter

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Student-led discussion is a valuable means of involving students in the collaborative creation of knowledge. This activity becomes especially important in the seminar course where, either individually or in small groups, students lead their peers through a set of readings. Unfortunately, student-led discussions often focus more on summary than critical analysis, largely because seminar leaders, left to their own devices, do not know what a seminar should look like or how to lead one effectively. This chapter demonstrates tliat undergraduates can learn seminar leadership when provided with guidelines and opportunities to see the skill modeled.

Bibliography, Volume 25 (2007)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Bibliography for volume 25 (2007) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

Social Systems And Issues: Food & Culture: Honors Breadth Social Sciences Hnr 1340 (Freshman), Sarah Gordon

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This interdisciplinary course explores the complex roles of food and consumption in western and non-western cultures from pre-history to the present day, using socio-historical, developmental, and comparative approaches. Food and foodways are universal aspects of the human experience across time and geographical boundaries. This class investigates the relation of food to changing and static cultural values, beliefs, attitudes, rituals, and practices. We eat and consider how foods such as chocolate, sugar, potatoes, and insects have had an impact on different societies and cultures. We discuss current world events and issues related to food and hunger, health and disease.

Editorial, Volume 3 - 2007, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Table of Contents:

Editorial Policy

Submission Guidelines

Dedication to William P. Mech

Editor’s Introduction by Ada Long

Learning a Practice Versus Learning to Be a Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology in an Honors Context by Troy R. Lovata

Teaching Arts and Honors: Four Successful Syllabi by P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, and Joe A. Thomas

Service Learning in the Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make? by Ann T. Parker

First-Year “Initiation” Courses in Honors by Jim Lacey

Teaching an Honors Course Tied to a Large University Event by Anne M. Wilson, Tyler D. Blakley, Kathryn A. Leciejewski, Michelle L. Sams, …

The Changing Face Of Wildlife Damage Management, William H. Clay

Human–Wildlife Interactions

On behalf of the Wildlife Services program, I’m pleased to provide some thoughts for this initial issue of Human–Wildlife Conflicts regarding the changing face of wildlife damage management. Having been in this profession for more than 25 years, I have witnessed firsthand the growth and evolution of wildlife damage management programs across the country. The entire field of wildlife damage management has been in a period of change during the past 15 to 20 years. Wildlife damage managers making decisions in today’s environment must now consider a wide range of legitimate public interests that often conflict with one another. These …

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, Vol. 5, No. 1-January 2007

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

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Review Of Queer Youth In The Province Of The "Severely Normal.", Doreen Fumia

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Gloria Filax poses an important question that has a specific context for the conservatism found in the Canadian prairies, yet is more generally applicable to modern western societies: Can queer youth, who struggle to define themselves as "normal," negotiate a place of social belonging where heterosexual norms still dominate? She problematizes this question through a complicated mixture of ethnography, discourse analysis, history, and theory. Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal" tells a story about how queer youth in Alberta in the 1990s, unlike their heterosexual counterparts, have been actively excluded from social supports and public education that …

Channeling Hildegard Of Bingen: Transcending Time And Fanning The Flame, Helen C. Sobehart

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

"You know, Hildegard, I didn't ask for this calling to support the cause of women." "Well I didn't ask for what happened to me either, Helen. Ijust happened to be born the tenth child of a wealthy family in the twelfth century. Do you know where the word "tithe" comes from? In my day, the 'tenth' child was 'donated'to the church. So stop whining and let's get on with this story." "Kind of cheeky for a 12th century nun, aren't you?" "We mystics can take on the vernacular of the time-should that be so surprising? In fact, one of my …

There's No Place Like Home? The Effects Of Childhood Themes On Women's Aspirations Toward Leadership Roles, Janet R. Wojtalik, Mary B. Breckenridge, Melissa K. Gibson Hancox, Helen C. Sobehart

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

This qualitative study explores the impact of childhood themes on women's aspirations toward leadership as suggested by the Eccles Model of Achievement Related Choices. Using intensity sampling, the research solicits childhood gender- related experiences of women in leadership and non-leadership roles through interviews, focus groups, check lists, self-esteem measures and journaling. Using a phenomenological approach, themes prevalent in the childhood homes of the participants are identitied, coded, sorted and compared. The findings indicate that the messages sent to the participants about their own capabilities and the expectations their parents held for them are of greatest impact. These messages form the …

Women Leading And Owning Schools In Bangladesh: Opportunities In Public, Informal, And Private Education, Jill Sperandio

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

In this article I describe the extent to which Bangladeshi women have taken advantage of the increased opportunities both to lead and manage educational institutions and to own them. I use data from government and informal sector educational institutions and interviews with female private school owners collected during fieldwork in Bangladesh. I discuss the factors that may militate against women taking advantage of developing opportunities particularly in the formal and private education sectors in Bangladesh. Adopting a critical feminist perspective and an awareness of sociological research relating cultural differences to educational leadership, I conclude by recommending methods of ensuring progress …

Putting The "Public" Back Into Public-Private Partnerships For Economic Development, Audrey Mcfarlane

All Faculty Scholarship

Public-Private Partnerships are viewed quite positively. In the context of working with local government for economic development, the interests and concerns of the private appear to dominate the development decision-making. This Essay explores eminent domain decisions and community benefits agreements for standards for measuring the efficacy of these partnerships. It suggests ways in which we can begin to think about public accountability and public benefits to be derived from these partnerships.

The Racialization Of Jimi Hendrix, Marcus K. Adams

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

The period of history immediately following World War Two was a time of intense social change. The end of colonialism, the internal struggles of newly emerging independent nations in Africa, social and political changes across Europe, armed conflict in Southeast Asia, and the civil rights movement in America were just a few. Although many of the above conflicts have been in the making for quite some time, they seemed to unite to form a socio-political cultural revolution known as the 60s, the effects of which continues to this day.

The 1960s was a particularly intense time for race relations in …

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 4 – A Judges’ Guide To Using Social Science, John Monahan, Laurens Walker

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Since the first glimmerings of legal realism early in this century, American courts have been remarkably open to using social science research when that research could help resolve empirical issues that arise in litigation. Increasingly in recent decades, courts have sought out research data on their own when the parties have failed to provide them. Social scientists, for their part, are investigating questions of judicial interest at an accelerating pace. In this article, we examine the three principal uses that courts have found for social science research. For each use, we review early and current approaches to dealing with social …

Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – President’S Column, Eileen Olds

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

During this year as your AJA president, my appreciation and respect for the role that we play in our courtrooms has amplified. I have been afforded numerous opportunities to speak with other judges and various community and civic groups to gauge their concerns about our judicial system. Members of the judiciary and the community alike share a common concern for what is viewed as increasingly eroding societal values, as evidenced in courtrooms everywhere. Most conversations eventually evolve to discussions about prevention strategies. How did this happen? What needs to be done? I am convinced that, as judges, we must actively …

Eastern Michigan University Class Schedule - Fall 2007, Office Of The Registrar

Class Schedules Collection

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2007 - 2009, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 4 – From Investigation To Implementation: Factors For Successful Commissions On The Elimination Of Racial And Ethnic Bias, Elizabeth Neeley

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

In the 1980s, states began to study racial and ethnic bias in their judicial systems. Now that more than 25 states, along with scores of academics, have examined issues of racial fairness in the courts, models and strategies exist for effectively conducting these investigations. The National Center for State Courts, in conjunction with the National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, developed a best practices model for establishing and operating a task force or commission on racial and ethnic bias in the courts. The publication provides guidance on: creating the necessary momentum for establishing a task force …

Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Table of Contents:
Procedural Fairness: A Key Ingredient in Public Satisfaction by Kevin Burke and Steve Leben
Procedural Justice and the Courts By Tom R. Tyler
Procedural Fairness as a Court Reform Agenda by David B. Rottman
Children and Procedural Justice by Victoria Weisz, Twila Wingrove, and April Faith-Slaker
Procedural Fairness in the California Courts by Douglas Denton
The Perceptions of Self-Represented Tenants in a Community-Based Housing Court by Rashida Abuwala and Donald J. Farole
Decision Makers and Decision Recipients: Understanding Disparities in the Meaning of Fairness by Diane Sivasubramaniam and Larry Heuer
Fair Procedures, Yes. But We Dare Not …

Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Cover

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 44, Issue 1/2 – Procedural Fairness As A Court Reform Agenda, David B. Rottman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

This essay reflects on the ways in which procedural fairness can provide the direction for a revived court reform agenda. All previous eras of court reform were guided by a theory drawn either from academia or the field of management. Procedural fairness, in my view, is the organizing theory for which 21st-century court reform has been waiting.

Past eras of court reform accomplished a great deal. In 1950, there were 826 trial courts in California. Today, 58 trial courts—one per county—hear all manners of cases. Management theories drawn from the business field provided the blueprint for court reform by (a) …

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 4 – Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Table of Contents:
A Judges’ Guide to Social Science by John Monahan & Laurens Walker
Mental Illness and the Courts: Some Reflections on Judges as Innovators by John P. Petrila & Allison D. Redlich
Cautions About Applying Neuroscience to Batterer Intervention by Edward Gondolf
Breaking News: Miller is Distinguishable from Branzburg by Levon Q. Schlichter
Editor’s Note
President’s Column
The Resource Page

A Critical Theory Perspective On Faculty Development, Stephen D. Brookfield

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter argues that critical theory implies a number of conceptions and practices of teaching, and it applies a critical theory perspective to conducting faculty development. It speculates on how faculty development might be organized according to some insights drawn from critical theory, and it reviews the chief reasons why teachers resist engaging with this perspective.

Idealizing Science And Demonizing Experts: An Intellectual History Of Expert Evidence, Jennifer L. Mnookin

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 17, Number 3, Summer 2007, Bridgewater State College

Bridgewater Magazine

Feature story: “Higher Learning – More and More, BSC Students’ Next Step in Graduate School”’ also Alumni Profiles, College Stories, Alumni Update and Class Notes.

Academic Program Review: Policies, Principles And Procedures, Unm Academic Program Review

UNM Academic Program Review

University principles policies and procedures regarding accreditation.

What Good Is The Social Model Of Disability?, Adam M. Samaha

Articles

A social model of disability relates a person's disadvantage to the combination of personal traits and social setting. The model appears to have had a profound impact on academics, politics, and law since the 1970s. Scholars have debated the model's force but its limitations are more severe than have been recognized. This Article claims that the model, like all social construction accounts, has essentially no policy implications. Its impact depends on normative commitments developed by some other logic, such as membership in the disability rights movement or adherence to versions of libertarian, utilitarian, or egalitarian theory that are triggered by …

The Temporal Dimension Of Voting Rights, Adam B. Cox

Articles

No abstract provided.

Meredith, Larry Oral History Interview, George Blum

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Dean of the Chapel, Callison College, Religious Studies, Humanities (1966-1999). Topics include:Innovations in the Chapel program, attitude toward University administrators, Robert Burns, Stanley McCaffery, Donald DeRosa, role of Academic Vice President John Bevan, Alistair McCrone, Clifford Hand, notable University faculty, involvement in curriculum changes at Callison College, innovative courses at the University, University community relations.