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Ralph Eubanks Receives Harvard Radcliffe Honor, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

UM professor and author plans to use fellowship to write a book examining the Delta Walking your dog can be a routine event, or it could be the exact time someone calls your cellphone from a prestigious university sharing the exciting news that you've been named a 2021 fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. W. Ralph Eubanks, who received word he is the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow while walking his dog on the streets of Washington, D.C., joins an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in Cambridge, Massachusetts, …

Faculty Perceptions Of Dyadic Advising Relationships, Power, And Cultural Consciousness On College Student Learning Outcomes, Hind Albana

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Abstract

Academic advising in institutions of higher education lack consistent assessment and evaluation of practices impairing the ability to define the role, objectives, and methods utilized. Over-reliance on student satisfaction surveys for evaluating advising reinforces this phenomenon. To break the cycle, this study used survey responses from a nationwide sample (N = 156) of faculty advisors from public and private 4-year colleges and universities to examine the relationship between and among the constructs of a working relationship, shared power, cultural consciousness, and student learning outcomes. The questionnaire instrument score produced a Cronbach's alpha of .927, illustrating substantially strong internal consistency. …

Introduction Of Incivility Strategies In The Empowerment Of Nursing Faculty And Students, Angela Wolf

Nursing Capstones

Incivility in nursing education is a growing occurrence that is shown to have profound negative effects on the entire nursing profession. This is a cycle that starts in nursing school and left unchecked carries forward into the workplace. Uncivil behavior is experienced by students, faculty, and peers. A thorough literature review was conducted to describe incivility that occurs in the classroom and possible interventions that allow for improved conditions for nurse educators and nursing students. One study conducted in the university setting using a mixed study design indicated various possible causes including students pay for their education, so this gives …

2021 Spring Commencement Schedule: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Spring 2021 commencement schedule. Commencement was on Friday, May 7, 2021 This commencement occurred during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

A list of graduates, WSU President's letter, Commencement announcement documents are available in the supplemental documents.

2021 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Learning And Growing Together, Academic Affairs

Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference

The 2021 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured several different breakout sessions hosted by various members of the Otterbein community including ones about inclusive leadership, supporting undergraduate research, DS accommodations, plagiarism, INST 300, and being uncomfortable.

The finished out with an all-group session and fellowship at the Otterbein Community Garden.

Faculty Job Satisfaction Related To Online Course Design, April Marie Hixson

School of Education Doctoral Projects - Higher Education

Online education has expanded and evolved slowly through the decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 put online education at the forefront of teaching and learning worldwide and sped up the design and delivery of online courses. This study sought to examine faculty attitudes and opinions (amid a global pandemic) toward online course design that may affect their job satisfaction levels. Specifically, it explored factors that could inhibit or contribute to faculty job satisfaction during their engagement in online instructional design. Further, the study was designed to gain an understanding of how pedagogical and technological changes influence the degree of …

Increasing Retention In Higher Education Institutions Through Competency-Based Education, Jévaughn J. Lancaster

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Competency-based education allows students to advance based on their ability to become proficient within a topic at their own pace. Since students can work through various learning outcomes without time constraints, statistics show that competency-based education can provide students with higher results and a greater understanding of the subject matter without the additional stress of turning in assignments late or not understanding course materials in time to obtain a passing score on the assessment.

Higher educational institutions have been struggling with not only enrollment but also retention. Students opt for micro-learning opportunities and on-the-job training rather than obtaining credentials through …

Student Success: Open Access Repository Work Impacts University Libraries' Student Employees, Kelly Visnak, Yumi Ohira

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

This presentation will identify new methods for in the libraries student employment program related to Open Access repository work. The hands on learning opportunities are focused on publishing production workflows, including: CV checking; author rights and permissions for depositing faculty papers in the UTA's institutional repository; and creating a research metrics report to provide alternative impact measurements of the faculty's publications in support of tenure and promotion packet of materials. Additional production processes include learning layout design and project management in publishing monographs and journals through a variety of publishing tools, such as: Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, and InDesign. …

Parallelizing Packet Processing In Container Overlay Networks, Jiaxin Lei, Manish Munikar, Kun Suo, Hui Lu, Jia Rao

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

Container networking, which provides connectivity among containers on multiple hosts, is crucial to building and scaling container-based microservices. While overlay networks are widely adopted in production systems, they cause significant performance degradation in both throughput and latency compared to physical networks. This paper seeks to understand the bottlenecks of in-kernel networking when running container overlay networks. Through profiling and code analysis, we find that a prolonged data path, due to packet transformation in overlay networks, is the culprit of performance loss. Furthermore, existing scaling techniques in the Linux network stack are ineffective for parallelizing the prolonged data path of a …

Chameleondb: A Key-Value Store For Optane Persistent Memory, Wenhui Zhang, Xingsheng Zhao, Song Jiang, Hong Jiang

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

The emergence of Intel’s Optane DC persistent memory (Optane Pmem) draws much interest in building persistent key-value (KV) stores to take advantage of its high throughput and low latency. A major challenge in the efforts stems from the fact that Optane Pmem is essentially a hybrid storage device with two distinct properties. On one hand, it is a high-speed byte-addressable device similar to DRAM. On the other hand, the write to the Optane media is conducted at the unit of 256 bytes, much like a block storage device. Existing KV store designs for persistent memory do not take into account …

2021 April 20, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, April 20, 2021

Results, Call for Nominations – Spring 2021

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

2021 April 20, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, April 20, 2021

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2021

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

Information Needs And Information Seeking Behaviour Of Faculty And Research Scholars Of The Department Of Mathematics Under The University Of Burdwan – An Appraisal, Amit Kumar Das, Sukumar Mandal

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose – The study examines the aspects of information needs and information seeking behaviour of faculties and research scholar of the mathematics departments including methods applied for finding data. The academic status and research field of users with their information seeking behaviour was investigated.

Methodology – Data has been collected usingonline questionnaire survey from faculties and regular research scholars of the Department of Mathematics under the University of Burdwan faculties (80 per cent response rate) and research scholars (response rate 61.29%) participated in the online Google form survey.

Findings – The study reveals the comparisonamong regular faculties and Regular Research …

2021 April 6, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, April 6, 2021

Call for Nominations – Spring 2021

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

Public Datasets: Access, Download And Cleaning (Aws), Ramez Elmasri, Mary E. Koone

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

In this paper, we describe the steps we took to access and use one of the data sets available via Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Faculty-Librarian Information Literacy Collaboration, Kimmarie W. Lewis

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Faculty and librarian collaboration is key in the quest for information literacy. As part of the reaccreditation effort at Lord Fairfax Community College -- a two-year institution in northwestern Virginia -- the QEP Leadership Team sought LFCC Librarians’ assistance in a multifaceted, 5-year, information literacy initiative. This effort included the addition of a librarian to the all-faculty QEP Leadership Team, the redesign of composition courses, and professional development through a new LFCC program: “Seeking the Truth: Faculty-Librarian Collaboration Mini-Grants.”

Data obtained from the mini-grant program show that LFCC faculty engaged in this multifaceted initiative gained an appreciation for collaboration with …

The Virtual Pivot: Transitioning Computational Thinking Pd For Middle And High School Content Area Teachers, Robin Jocius, Deepti Joshi, Jennifer Albert, Tiffany Barnes, Richard Robinson, Veronica Catete, Yihuan Dong, Melanie Blanton, Ian O. Byrne, Ashley Andrews

Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive

In 2018 and 2019, Infusing Computing offered face-to-face summer PD workshops to support middle and high school teachers in integrating computational thinking into their classrooms through week-long summer PD workshops and academic-year support. Due to COVID-19, 151 teachers attended the Summer 2020 PD workshops in a week-long virtual conference format. In this paper, we describe Virtual Pivot: Infusing Computing, which employed emerging technology tools, pre-PD training, synchronous and asynchronous sessions, Snap! pair programming, live support, and live networking. Drawing on findings from participant interviews and post-PD surveys, we argue that three categories of changes (digital tools, formats, and supports for …

Oxford Conference For The Book Goes Virtual This Week, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

The Oxford Conference for the Book, the longest-running event produced by the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, goes virtual this week. Five sessions are available to watch anytime here, with accompanying live Square Books events.

Natchez Literary And Cinema Celebration To Focus On Southern Environments, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Annemarie Anderson is a William Winter Scholar representing the University of Mississippi at the 32nd Annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration, a virtual event to be held on Feb. 22-27. Anderson said being a William Winter Scholar will give her the opportunity to learn more from humanities scholars who study place and environment.

Big Data And Journalism: How American Journalism Is Adopting The Use Of Big Data, Andrew M. Clark, Julián Rodríguez

Communication Faculty Publications - Archive

This research uses in-depth interviews with three data journalists from the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times in the United States to describe the role of data journalists, and to illustrate how and why they use big data in their stories. Data journalists possess a unique set of skills, including the ability to find and gather data and use that data to tell a compelling written story in a visually coherent way. Results from our interviews and research show as newspapers move to a digital format, the role of data journalists is becoming more essential, as are laws like …

Fall/Winter 2020-21: Leaving Legacies Beyond The Classroom, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2019-2023

As the seasons continue to change in this year marked by turbulent firsts, the abbey and college communities pause to reflect upon the lives and contributions of five influential St. Norbert College educators.

Fall/Winter 2020-21: Commitment To A Job Well Done, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2019-2023

Wayne Patterson (History) is among those who have wrapped up long careers of service at St. Norbert.

Fall/Winter 2020-21: Listening In, Melanie Radzicki Mcmanus

St. Norbert College Magazine 2019-2023

Sound is a powerful thing. Whether we’re talking the gentle patter of a spring rain, the roar of a fighter jet or the celebratory popping of fireworks, any given sound can evoke numerous emotions. Research even suggests various sounds can do everything from reduce stress to promote healing. With this in mind, we've been polling SNC profs and others about their favorite sounds. Their answers range from amusing to insightful to instructive. Enjoy!

2021 January 15, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, January 15, 2021

Remaining Vacancies, Call for Nominations – Spring 2020

Faculty Senate Senator Seats and FS Committees

Approved Faculty Positions Recommendations 21-22, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

Memo from the Senior VP of Finance to the VP of Academic Affairs listing approved faculty positions for 2021-2022.

Faculty Position Requests, Analysis & Recommendations 2021-2022, Kean University

Evidence Inventory

Faculty Position Requests, Analysis & Recommendations 2021-2022 is a document used by the VP of Academic Affairs to analyze and review final recommendations for faculty position requests.

"Teacher Preachers", Rob Kaiser

Jubilee

This article features various Norbertine professors to examine how Norbertine teaching changes lives.

The Balancing Act Is Magnified: U.S. Mothers’ Struggles Amidst A Pandemic, Grace Ellen Brannon, Molly Wiant Cummins

Communication Faculty Publications - Archive

Successes are often noticed in reflection after an event; struggles are felt in the moment. When COVID-19 was recognized as a public health emergency in the United States (US), many mothers felt their struggles more acutely. Much of 2020 feels like a pressure cooker for mothers, where the steam valve does not fully relieve the mounting pressure they felt because of COVID-19. Most families are experiencing additional stress due to COVID-19, but in heterosexual couples, that work disproportionately falls to women, as they are spending, on average, fifteen hours more per week on education and household tasks (Cohen and Hsu). …

Introduction To Oceanography Final Report, Cornelia Winguth

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

A faculty member at the UTA Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences was awarded an Open Educational Resource (OER) Adoption Stipend Grant through the UTA CARES Grant Program to adopt the open textbook "Introduction to Oceanography" by Paul Webb for an Introduction to Oceanography class. As a result of the implementation of OER, student success improved. The report concludes with a reflection on the benefits of OER and plans to use other OER in the future.

Introduction To Oceanography Syllabus And Reading List, Cornelia Winguth

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Professor Cornelia Winguth received a UTA CARES Adoption Stipend in 2020 to implement free educational resources in GEOL 1350 (Introduction to Oceanography). The syllabus with reading list is archived here.