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How Well Are Mathematics Common Core Standards Reflected In Mathematics College Readiness Expectations?--Research, Lisa Conn

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

On February 10, 2010, Kentucky made history by being the first state to adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). The CCSS were designed to be more rigorous, focused, and applicable (Holiday, 2010) than previous standards. The adoption of these standards was predicated by Senate Bill 1, Unbridled Learning. This bill required legislative bodies to develop a unified strategy to reduce the high college remediation rates of recent high school graduates by at least fifty percent before 2014. Along with high schools being required to address underprepared college students, state universities were to align their remediation courses with the new …

Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Principals’ Perceptions Of New Teacher Preparedness--Research, Chris M. Cook, Penny B. Howell, Shawn A. Faulkner

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

Drawing on the Framework for Effective Middle Level Teaching(Faulkner, Howell, &Cook, 2012; Howell, Cook, Faulkner, 2013), this interpretive, exploratory study utilized survey methodology to analyze 38 middle level principals’ perceptions of effective teaching practices and the preparedness of newly hired middle level teachers. The findings suggest there is difference in perceptions of new teacher preparedness between principals with middle level teacher certification and principals that were prepared to teach at other grade levels. While both groups acknowledged the need for better teacher preparation, principals with middle level teacher certification reported that newly hired teachers were less prepared for effective middle …

Essential Elements For Preparing Future Teachers In Early Childhood Education Using Common Core Standards--Research, Jaesook L. Gilbert, Susan Griebling

Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning

The purpose of this paper is to discuss suggestions on what pre-service teachers need to know in order to be ready to teach in today’s kindergartens where the implementation of the Common Core State Standards reflects best practice. The introduction of the Common Core State Standards in Kentucky has ushered a new culture in kindergarten. Kindergarten used to be seen as a preparation year in which children could be equipped in listening, walking in lines, getting along with others and learning letters. Today, children in kindergarten are expected to

begin reading, writing, adding and subtracting. Rigor begins early in the …

Developing A Short-Term International Study-Abroad Program: From Beginning To End, Paula A. Delpech Phd

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

TOPIC: Short-term international immersion experiences have proven to be an excellent strategy for nursing programs to use as a way for students to develop cultural competence.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to describe a faculty led short-term nursing study abroad program for undergraduate nursing students to Grenada. A two week study abroad program for seven undergraduate nursing students and two faculty member was organized in partnership with St. Georges University School of Nursing in Grenada.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION: The author describes the process of program development that includes the selection of the host country to post …

Location As Vocation: An Urban College's Engagement With Their Somali Neighbors, Matthew Maruggi, Annette Gerten

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

This article focuses on the significance of an urban college’s location and mission in guiding disciplines within the college to engage with its immigrant neighbors through service-learning.The authors describe how social connectedness theory and transformational learning theory were used to facilitate learning and increase students’ awareness of their sense of vocation.Student reflections on the service learning experience in both disciplines, religion and social work, are used to illustrate the application of each theory.

Understanding Community Engagement Motives: A "Functional" Approach, Richard J. Harnish, Kevin J. Snider

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Current theoretical lenses do not fully explain the motives of those involved in community engagement activities. This article introduces a needed additional lens, functionalism, that emphasizes how underlying personal goals explain involvement in community engagement activities. To illustrate this perspective, an administrator’s and a faculty member’s motives for becoming involved in community engagement activities are presented and analyzed. We conclude by suggesting the functional approach to motivation may be integrated within an organizational behavior framework to better illuminate the interaction between individual goals and organizational practices, policies, and norms.

Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Program: Outreach To Southeast Kentucky Families In Poverty, S. Brooke Jenkins-Howard, Laura Stephenson, Mark Mains

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service provides community engagement and outreach efforts for Kentucky families living in poverty as part of the land grant mission. Food security is a primary concern for those with limited resources and income. To address food availability and nutrition concerns of these families, Cooperative Extension delivers researched-based educational programming through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP). EFNEP is a federally funded program that works to improve the quality of life of families living in poverty through education and behavior modifi cation. The EFNEP program uses a community-based outreach approach where food and …

Assessing The Community Partner In Academic Service-Learning: A Strategy For Capacity-Building, Susan E. Waters, Joanna J. Cemore Brigden

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Service-learning is an instructional method used by an ever increasing number of schools in the academic community. This paper describes surveys of community partners found on the websites of Campus Compact members and analyzes the content of these surveys. Eight themes emerged that embody the online community partner assessment surveys for service-learning courses: Agency Voice, Agency Resources, Students’ Work Skills, Students’ Service Skills, Agency Benefit, Communication and Coordination with University Service-Learning, Sustainability of Partnership, and Satisfaction with the Service-Learning Experience. The theme of Community-University Partnership established in extant literature was absent from the online surveys, so this theme was added …

Walking As Experimental Poiesis, Katherine E. Bash

Artl@s Bulletin

This experimental text, created by way of bricolage, is a form of mapping that activates relationships between the experience of the body, meanings accrued over time, and the inhabited landscape. This work situates the body as the first site and engages walking to open up fields of experimental making of meaning through experiences collected (visually, textually, physically, etc.) along the way. These experiences are forms of ‘data’ that over time, gain more meaning as the archive expands to include new references. Specifically, the walk being mapped begins in 2004 in Florianopolis, Santa Caterina, Brazil, and continues temporally through to today.

Les “Marchands De Tableaux” Dans Le Bottin Du Commerce : Une Approche Globale Du Marché De L’Art À Paris Entre 1815 Et 1955, Félicie De Maupeou, Léa Saint-Raymond

Artl@s Bulletin

This article reconsiders the evolution of the Parisian art market using a homogeneous, stable, and diachronic source: the Bottin du commerce. The systematic study of the "art dealers" section from 1815 to 1955 provides a global perspective on the dynamics of the art trade and the transformations of the profession. After first developing under Louis XVIII, the market stabilizes and structures itself during the Second Empire. It then experiences a slowdown in the 1870s before taking off again and becoming fully competitive in the 1890s. The factors of this evolution are connected to the real economy - national and international …

Filling The Blank Space Of Global Art Peripheries: Measurements Of Art Mobility And Their Ambivalence In Nairobi, Kenya, Olivier Marcel

Artl@s Bulletin

In recent years, art made in Africa, particularly in the metropolitan context, has witnessed a substantial increase in attention coming from transnational institutions. While many researchers have pointed out the deceitful nature of contemporary art’s globalization, this turn of events still challenges the way we conceive the space of contemporary art. In this paper I use cartography as a critical tool to approach the international mobility facilitated by two art organizations based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Les Xx In The City: An Artists’ Neighborhood In Brussels, Laurence Brogniez, Tatiana Debroux

Artl@s Bulletin

In this article we focus upon the spatiality of the artistic circle Les XX, in Belgium and in Europe. We study the installation of the circle’s members in both Brussels and the context of the city’s local artistic geography. One zone seems to have been a focus of the group’s creative and social life: the suburb of Ixelles, in particular, the neighborhood around the rue de l’Abbaye. This area was home to many artists, including Anna Boch, whose villa became a sort of second home to Les XX. Through cartographic analysis and the description of this environment, we bring into …

Visualizing Spaces, Flows, Agents, And Networks Of The Art Markets In The 18th Century: Some Methodological Challenges, Sophie Raux

Artl@s Bulletin

This visualization project originated in a program entitled “Art Markets in Europe 1300-1800, Emergence, Development, Networks.” The latter focused mainly on the movement and dynamics of the art markets of the early modern age: Who were the agents of this mobility? What were its mechanisms? What idea do we have of the numbers of pictures circulating in Europe? Through what channels and networks were they distributed? These questions led the team to work out an experimental program of visualization aiming at endowing our research outcome with a visual and synthetic dimension that would help us renew our approaches and generate …

Mapping Eastern Europe: Cartography And Art History, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius

Artl@s Bulletin

This paper compares maps of Eastern Europe, beginning from the map of Slavic lands by Josef Pavol Šafárik of 1842, and it claims that cartographic imagery has played a significant role in the legitimisation of the region’s collective identity. It argues that the adoption the map as a tool of art history, in order to spatialise and quantify the understanding of art, cannot bypass the postmodern critique of the map. It reflects on the overlap between the approaches and methods of critical cartography and critical art history, as well as on the mutual benefits of the visual turn in cartography …

Spaces Of Arts: Wrap-Up Comments, David M. Lubin

Artl@s Bulletin

In this personal, polemical, and ad hoc response to papers given at the Spaces of Arts conference at Purdue University in September, 2012, Lubin identifies potential problem areas for geographical and digital art history. He admonishes its practitioners not to replace hermeneutical interpretation of art objects and art movements with positivist aggregations of data and inflated faith in digital technology. Likewise, he warns against a utopian hope that maps, charts, and graphs can ever be enough to untangle the intransigent complexity of art and its embodiment of cultural and historical change.

Introduction: Do Maps Lie?, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Artl@s Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Extends Comment Period For Student Housing South Project Environmental Impact Report, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Cal Poly Student Diagnosed With Viral Meningitis, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, December 12, 2013, Daily Egyptian Staff

December 2013

No abstract provided.

Using Stimulation And Repetitive Task Practice To Promote Neuroplasticity Targeted At Improving Hand Function In Individuals With Chronic Tetraplegia., Joyce Gomes-Osman

Open Access Dissertations

Injury to the cervical segments of the spinal cord causes significant functional deficits to the upper extremities, affecting the performance of daily life activities and quality of life. Functional impairments following a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) are primarily attributed to the damage to ascending and descending tracts that hinders the flow of information to and from supraspinal centers and the hand muscles, but there is also evidence that post-injury patterns of cortical reorganization can also play an important role. This thesis explored the influence of different approaches used to activate the motor cortex combined with repetitive task practice, and …

End Of Semester Update, Stephanie Bowen

Blogging the Library

The last half of the semester has been a flurry of activity. I planned an event, created a book display, attended an awesome conference, started applying to grad school, etc. In this post I’ll give a brief overview of my various activities and share what is in store for the spring semester. [excerpt]

Minutes Staff Senate Meeting, December 12, 2013, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Staff Senate

Staff Senate Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Winthrop Honored For Its Teacher Education By The College Database, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2013

• The not-for-profit organization ranked in-state, post-secondary institutions that graduated the most education and teaching professionals in 2012.
• Winthrop awarded 253 education degrees in 2012, according to the list.

Both Commencement Ceremonies Will Be Available By Live Stream Video, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2013

• Graduate Commencement begins at 7 p.m.on Thursday, Dec. 12. Undergraduate Commencement is 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 14.
• The video stream will be activated half an hour before the ceremonies, which take place at Winthrop Coliseum.

Senior Biology Major Conducted Stink Bug Research And Shared Her Findings, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2013

• Shelby Kerr, a Mount Pleasant, S.C., resident who graduates on Saturday from Winthrop with a biology degree, spent the last few months studying the life span and reproductive cycle of the stink bug.
• Scientists believe the brown marmorated stink bug (scientific name, Halyomorpha halys) was brought to America from China and has slowly migrated down the East Coast to South Carolina and even out West.

Simulating Bipartite Networks To Reflect Uncertainty In Local Network Properties, Ravi Goyal, Joseph Blitzstein, Victor De Gruttola

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Recommended Funding And Retrofits For Stormwater Management Of The Hart Brook Watershed In Lewiston, Me, Yaa Asantewaa Agyare, Sarah Dik, Amy Wyeth

Community Engaged Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Re-Envisioning The Otis Mill: A Project On The Renovation Of The Otis Mill In Jay, Me, Brittany Reid, Camille Smith, Anne Ngo, Nicole Danser

Community Engaged Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Revitalizing Lewiston And Auburn's Riverfront Corridor, Caroline Daniels, Rakey Drammeh, Sonja Favaloro, Kathryn Mulholland

Community Engaged Research Reports

No abstract provided.