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Hiring, Promoting, And Valuing Non-Tenure Track Faculty, Kathleen Williams, Karen Poole, Vicki Macready

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Non-tenure track faculty comprise an increasing percentage of full time faculty employed by American universities. In 2001, the Association of American Universities (AAU) reported that 31% of full and part-time faculty were non-tenure track. According to a 2006 report by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), full-time non-tenure track faculty increased from 13% to 18.7% of total faculty between 1975-2003. These faculty often serve in most of the same roles as tenure track faculty, including teaching, research and service. At the same time, they are nearly always paid less, have fewer benefits, few opportunities for research leaves or sabbaticals, …

Potential Extensions To Transformational Leadership Models, C.R.A. Jackson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The view adopted in this research was that transformational leadership (Bass 1985; Burns 1978) could be characterised by an ability to bring about significant change in an organization, and that transactional leadership above was inadequate for this task. Since the 1980s, research (Avolio & Bass 2002; Bass 1990; Parry 1996) supported the idea that transformational leadership was more effective than transactional leadership in generating the extra effort, commitment and satisfaction of those being led (Bass 1990). Transformational leadership was a process where leaders and followers raised one another to higher moral and motivational levels (Yukl 1971). As Bass (1990) asserted, …

Some Psychological Variables Differentiating Between Adolescents With Step-Parents And Those Without Step-Parents, Alaba Adenuga, A. Odusole

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The well being of adolescents has become topic of increasing interest among researchers in general. It is now regarded as something worthy of empirical investigation by researchers in eliciting without faking, the true status of the living and parenting conditions of adolescents (Marks 1998; Leug and Jim Park 2000). Newman (1994) however observed that there has been great increase in divorce rate that is threatening the marriage institution on the pages of parent media and also on the electronic media. Worse still, the failure rate of second marriages has been found to be higher than that of first-time marriages which …

Successful Leadership In Turnaround Schools: A Case Study About The Center For Creative Leadership (Ccl) And The School Leadership Executive Institute (Slei), Belinda B. Mcfeeters, Emily Hoole

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The topic of turning failing schools around has gained significant attention throughout the world within the last decade. Accountability systems from the government to the general community have expressed their concern for this issue, and have called for plans to turn these schools around (Chapman, 2002; Hassel & Steiner, 2003; Levin, 2006; Malen & Rice, 2004; Wong & Shen, 2003). How do principals meet these challenges and successfully turn failing schools around? How can they gain the insight, knowledge and competencies to effectively lead their schools through these challenging times?

The Influence Of Ethical Leadership On Lecturers’ Job Involvement, Nazidaabd Ghani, Kamaruzaman Jusoff

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The establishment of polytechnics in Malaysia was to fulfill the needs of providing education and practical knowledge to help the nation producing semi-professional workers in various disciplines such as engineering, commerce and hospitality. Leadership is an important component that contributes towards the success of any education institution. Better and advance leadership practices are needed in order to improve the status and standard of environment on campus (Zaharah, 2004). According to Cunningham and Cordeiro (2000), effective leaders must be able to understand all elements of educational administration in the process of building the education excellence and translating it into teaching and …

Tomorrow’S Teacher Leaders: Nurturing A Disposition Of Leadership, Jana Hunzicker, Twila Lukowiak, Victoria Huffman, Celia Johnson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Until recently, the terms teacher and leadership were not often mentioned in the same sentence. Educational leadership was synonymous with school administration, and teachers viewed themselves as followers rather than leaders. Over the past fifteen years, this perception has changed. Due to federal mandates such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Response to Intervention (RtI), teacher roles and responsibilities have expanded (Le Cornu, 1999) and distributed school leadership has become the norm (Danielson, 2006; Harrison & Killion, 2007).

What Is Rigor?: A Qualitative Analysis Of One School’S Definition, Heather Bower, Joelle Powers

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

In an era of increasing accountability, school administrators and faculties often find themselves amid a plethora of best practices and strategies aimed at improving students’ academic achievement. In the midst of these discussions, school culture is often hailed as the key to creating effective schools because it defines how people within a particular school are to behave and what they are to value (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Furthermore, it allows administrators to draw attention to some of the culture’s most important aspects: its values, beliefs, and assumptions that create the school’s vision for excellence (Stolp & Smith, 1995). Malloy (2005) …

Poverty: A Constraint To Sustainable Development Of The Niger Delta Region Of Nigeria’S Socio-Economic Resources During The 21st Century, John Inyang

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Poverty has become a major socio-economic problem in present day Nigeria. A disturbing observation about poverty in Nigeria is that it is on the increase, both in incidence and intensity despite the wide variety of national and international measures undertaken to eradicate it during the last three decades. The failure of these measures have been attributed to a multiplicity of causes, of which the most frequently mentioned and emphasized include: inadequate conceptualizations of poverty and development; failure to identify the root causes of the problem; lack of adequate organizational requirement for effective program implementation, wrong prescriptions given as solution to …

The Ict Centre Model In Andalusia (Spain). Results Of A Resolute Educational Policy, Jignacioaguaded Gomez, Manuel Fandos, Amor Rodriguez

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Our study stems from the rigorous analysis of the integration of computers as a common resource for teaching and learning. This process started to be developed some years ago, all over the world. Not long ago computers were only occasionally found in schools or only in specific classrooms. Nonetheless we are witnessing a huge political and economic effort working towards the universalization of communication and information technologies. This is made evident by convocations, projects and programmes supported in most cases by international, national or even regional and local education administrations and institutions. This investment in facilities and maintenance of IT …

Uab Nursing - Fall 2009, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

UAB Nursing magazine

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News From Hope College, Volume 41.2: October, 2009, Hope College

News from Hope College

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Gold & Blue, Fall 2009, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2009 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

Mcnair News, Volume 4, Number 1, Fall 2009

McNair News: Newsletter of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln McNair Scholars Program

McNair Welcomes Twelve New Scholars
McNair Summer Research Experience
Senior Scholar Research Projects
Reflections on the 2009 California McNair Symposium
Alumnus Spotlight – Martin Diaz
McNair Gives Back to Lincoln Community
McNair Graduate Student Mentors
Alumni News: Degree Watch
It’s the Little Things That Make the Big Difference
Planning Your Graduate Career: Trajectory for Success

Evaluation Of The Cervidtb Stat-Pak For The Detection Of Mycobacterium Bovis Infection In Wild Deer In Great Britain, S. Gowtage-Sequeira, A. Paterson, K. P. Lyashchenko, S. Lesellier, M. A. Chambers

Michigan Bovine Tuberculosis Bibliography and Database

Deer are acknowledged as hosts of Mycobacterium bovis, the causative agent of bovine tuberculosis (bTB), and determining the prevalence of infection in deer species is one of the key steps in understanding the epidemiological role played by cervids in the transmission and maintenance of bTB in the United Kingdom. This study evaluated a rapid lateral-flow test for the detection of bTB in samples from wild deer species in the United Kingdom. Fallow deer (Dama dama), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), and red deer (Cervus elaphus) from areas in Wales, the Cotswolds, and southwestern England …

Through The Kaleidoscope: Animism, Contextualization And The Atonement, Alan Howell

Faculty Research and Publications

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Global Fund To Fight Aids, Tuberculosis And Malaria: A New Legal And Conceptual Framework For Providing International Development Aid, Anna Triponel

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Autumn 2009, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

Darwin's dilemma, Medal of Honor alumnus, and a story about home.

Puppy Lemon Laws: Think Twice Before Buying That Doggy In The Window, Stephanie K. Savino

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

Unh Commits To Being Healthiest Campus Community In The Country By 2020, Erika Mantz

Media Relations

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Two Jinn, Inc. V. District Court Appellant's Brief Dckt. 36476

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Outstanding Communicator

News Releases

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Wright State University Regional Economic Report, Fall 2009, Thomas L. Traynor

Economics Faculty Publications

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Examination Of The Inter-Rater Agreement Among Faculty Marking A Research Proposal On An Undergraduate Health Course, Shari Rone-Adams, Sandra Naylor

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Purpose: This research looked at inter-rater agreement among faculty marking a research proposal on an undergraduate health course. The purpose of this study was to investigate if there were significant differences between marks as well as the comments given on research proposals that were double marked by two faculty members, where faculty were blind to the other marker’s marks and comments. Subjects: The subjects for this study consisted of 80 final year health students who submitted a research proposal and 13 full-time and 10 part-time faculty members who double marked the proposals. Methods: Faculty pairs marked the proposals independently and …

5q- Myelodysplastic Syndromes: Chromosome 5q Genes Direct A Tumor-Suppression Network Sensing Actin Dynamics, K. M. Eisenmann, K. J. Dykema, Stephen F. Matheson, N. F. Kent

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Complete loss or interstitial deletions of chromosome 5 are the most common karyotypic abnormality in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs). Isolated del(5q)/5q- MDS patients have a more favorable prognosis than those with additional karyotypic defects, who tend to develop myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) and acute myeloid leukemia. The frequency of unbalanced chromosome 5 deletions has led to the idea that 5q harbors one or more tumor-suppressor genes that have fundamental roles in the growth control of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells (HSCs/HPCs). Cytogenetic mapping of commonly deleted regions (CDRs) centered on 5q31 and 5q32 identified candidate tumor-suppressor genes, including the ribosomal subunit RPS14, the transcription …

A Response To Smith's "Continental Philosophy Of Religion: Prescriptions For A Healthy Subdiscipline", Bruce Ellis Benson

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

All of us working in continental philosophy of religion can be grateful to James K. A. Smith for his call to consider which practices will best further the “health” of the burgeoning subdiscipline of continental philosophy of religion. Given that he offers his suggestions “in the spirit of ‘conversation starters,’” my response is designed to continue what I hope will be an ongoing conversation. With that goal in mind, I respond to Smith by considering not only the practicality of each suggestion but also whether adopting practices he suggests would actually improve the health of the subdiscipline.

University Of San Diego Women's Soccer Media Guide 2009, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Soccer (Women)

48 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

University Of San Diego Volleyball Media Guide 2009, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Volleyball (Women)

44 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

Continental Philosophy Of Religion: Prescriptions For A Healthy Subdiscipline, James K.A. Smith

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Over the past decade there has been a burgeoning of work in philosophy of religion that has drawn upon and been oriented by “continental” sources in philosophy—associated with figures such as Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-Luc Marion, Gilles Deleuze, and others. This is a significant development and one that should be welcomed by the community of Christian philosophers. However, in this dialogue piece I take stock of the field of “continental philosophy of religion” and suggest that the field is developing some un-healthy patterns and habits. The burden of the paper is to suggest a prescription for the …

The End Of Enclaves: A Reply To Benson, James K.A. Smith

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

In reply to Benson’s response, I agree that we should be seeking the dissolution of all enclaves in philosophy of religion—whether continental or analytic. But I continue to suggest that continental philosophy of religion bears special burdens in this respect.

Law School Announcements 2009-2010, Law School Announcements Editors

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