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Approaches In Preparing Transfer Degree Students For University Study: A Case Study Of A Community College In Rural Southwest Virginia, Melissa Suzanne Mckinney

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this case study was to understand approaches for preparing students for their transition to a four-year university following completion of a transfer-focused associate degree at a community college. The theory guiding this study was Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory. The study followed an embedded, single case study design and included faculty members, staff, administrators, and students within the transfer division, along with general college staff at a rural community college in southwest Virginia. The study used surveys, interviews, and focus groups to gather data which was analyzed to identify relevant themes and unique approaches to preparing transfer …

Events Team: Faculty Incorporate Oer Presentation, Sheyla Castrezana

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

This presentation was displayed to over 200 staff and faculty members, at a staff and faculty mixer, to inform them about OER. It highlights the benefits of OER. Defining OER, explaining funding opportunities, and highlighting previously created works. It also explains the Texas Laws requiring that public institutions report the cost of course materials and the process for how to accurately report low or no cost materials. The goal was to demonstrate how much this initiative could support students and benefit the faculty as researchers.

Events Team: Fall Into Oer Presentation, Jazmine Labra

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

This presentation was created for the student event called "Fall Into OER." The slides explain how students can find OER materials for their classes and provide detailed information about OER.

Content Team: Open Educational Resources Faculty Flyer, Candise Liburd

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

The purpose of the Open Educational Resources Faculty Flyer is to raise awareness about OER, highlighting the benefits, free textbook costs for students, enhancing accessibility, and improving teaching and learning experiences. It serves as a concise guide to encourage faculty to explore and integrate OER into their courses.

Content Team: Open Educational Resources Student Flyer, Candise Liburd

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

The purpose of the Open Educational Resources flyer is to inform university students about the free academic and open access digital materials that are available through OER, helping reduce the financial barriers to education. It aims to empower students to advocate for OER in their courses and understand how these resources enhance accessibility and learning experiences.

Content Team: Uta Cares Grant Faculty Flyer, Candise Liburd

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

The purpose of the UTA Cares Grant Faculty Flyer is to inform faculty at University of Texas at Arlington about the grants and stipends that can be provided for adopting, remixing, or creating Open Educational Resources.

Events Team: Faculty Incorporate Oer Information Graphic, Sheyla Castrezana

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

Displayed at the Staff and Faculty Mixer 2024, this digital information card summarizes the benefits of OER for faculty and students. It aims to persuade faculty to use, OER, low and no cost materials in their courses. The card also includes contact information and the Open Educational Resources and Digital Scholarship Department.

Research Team: Oer Research Presentation, Alyssa Price, An Chau, Matthew Black, Leslie Esquivel, Nissy Lechuga

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

This presentation was created through data collected from members of the UTA faculty, about their knowledge, interest and experience working with OER. Identifying the pros, and cons for faculty in addition to incentives and recommendations from faculty. Outlining the methodology for data collection. Presenting both qualitative and quantitative data collected through surveys, focus groups and one-on-one interviews.

Research Team: Oer Faculty Survey, Alyssa Price, An Chau, Matthew Black, Leslie Esquivel, Nissy Lechuga

PREL 4316 Student Publications - Archive

This survey was used to engage faculty in assessing faculty awareness of library resources, including Open Educational Resources. Gathering information about preferences for communication, knowledge of OER, and interest levels of becoming more involved in OER. Some participants in this survey opted into additional one-on-one interviews and focus groups for further research.

2024 Fall Commencement Program: Winona State University, Winona State University

WSU Commencement Programs

This is the Winona State University Fall 2024 commencement program. Commencement was on Friday, December 13, 2024.

Gardner-Webb Assistant Professor Dr. Lorell Gordon Celebrates Achievements Of Her Students, Office Of University Communications, Avery Copeland

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Dr. Lorell Gordon, an assistant professor in the Gardner-Webb University School of Psychological Science and Counselor Education, recognized a need within the school’s program offerings and worked with her colleagues on a solution. She played a key role in developing and implementing the Marriage, Couples, and Family Counseling (MCFC) concentration within the Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program.

Pacific Magazine 2024, University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

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A Faculty Workshop On Developing Students As Discipline-Situated Researchers, William Badke, Elizabeth Kreiter, Qinqin Zhang

Communications in Information Literacy

The reference librarians of Trinity Western University have a strong mission-driven commitment to teach information literacy, but there is a significant contrast between the amount of instruction they can provide and the demanding task of developing all students as skilled researchers. The growing teach-the-teacher model suggested an option to enlist faculty in providing a larger portion of information literacy instruction themselves. With strong support from academic administration, three librarians devised an initial faculty workshop as part of the university’s faculty professional development series, followed by four detailed weekly sessions. They based their activities on several factors: first, faculty members would …

Disease Site Specialization In The Academic Radiation Oncology Workforce: Evidence Of Gender Differences, Kelsey L Corrigan, Mikaela E Bankston, Emma B Holliday, Simona F Shaitelman, Anna Lee, Chelain R Goodman, C David Fuller, Fumiko L Chino, Charles R Thomas, Reshma Jagsi, Ethan B Ludmir

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Purpose: Because some stakeholders within medicine seek to diversify and attain greater workforce equity, it is critical to understand gender-based divisions within specialization. Radiation oncology (RO) has one of the smallest proportions of women representation of all specialties, and to our knowledge, no prior studies have investigated gender differences in all the disease site specializations within RO. Thus, we analyzed the relationship between gender and disease site(s) treated in academic RO (ARO).

Methods and materials: Faculty gender and disease site(s) treated by faculty from ARO departments were collected via publicly available department websites in January 2020. X2 analyses were conducted …

Understanding Faculty Perspectives On Health Equity Curriculum Implementation In Graduate Medical Education: A Qualitative Study, Krys Foster, Dhruvi Shah, Quinn Plunkett, Randa Sifri

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Despite increased awareness of persistent healthcare disparities, integrating health equity education into medical residency curricula needs urgent expansion. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandates addressing healthcare disparities and social determinants of health, but implementation remains insufficient due to pervasive barriers.

OBJECTIVE: To explore residency faculty perspectives at one institution surrounding implementing a health equity curriculum within their programs.

METHODS: Between November 2022 and April 2023, qualitative interviews and focus groups were conducted with residency faculty participants (n = 13) from a large academic medical institution. Participants were recruited via an internal email list directory of program …

2024 November 6, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 November 6

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

2024-2025 November 6, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024-2025 November 6

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

Brittany Evans Finds ‘Immense Joy In Guiding Students On Their Journey To Becoming Teachers’, Office Of University Communications, Avery Copeland

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Brittany Evans, a visiting instructor in the Elementary Education Program, has received the Nancy Francis-Gregg Day-Adjunct Award for 2024. Evans has served as an adjunct in the College of Education (CoE) since 2021. This semester, she joined the faculty full-time as a visiting instructor in the Elementary Education Program. She has recently taken on additional classes and is supervising student teaching.

2024 October 22, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 October 22

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

2024 October 15, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 October 15

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

Dr. Steven Harmon Recognized With Gardner-Webb Faculty Scholarship Award, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

During the 2023-2024 academic year alone, Dr. Steven Harmon, professor of historical theology at Gardner-Webb, wrote five research publications and presented four pieces of his scholarly research. Since 2003, he has authored five books and edited two multi-author books, and two more volumes will be available soon. He is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies from Oxford University Press, and his solo-authored book, Vision Over Visibility: U2’s Theological Imagination, is under contract with Cascade Books.

Suny Cortland Handbook 2024, State University Of New York College At Cortland

SUNY Cortland Handbook

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2024 September 24, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 September 24

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

An Analysis Of Factors Influencing The Success Of Dual-Enrollment Students Through The Perspectives Of Faculty And Counselors, Starlett Mack

Student Theses and Dissertations

“An Analysis of Factors Influencing the Success of Dual-Enrollment Students Through the Perspectives of Faculty and Counselors” is a qualitative study. Dual enrollment has increased enrollment by offering opportunities to a broader audience. However, portions of this broader audience may be unprepared to face the challenges of being dual-enrollment students. A lack of preparation could cause increased anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and failure to complete classes. This qualitative case study explored the perceptions and practices of counselors and teachers who staffed a dual-enrollment program at a Texas community college. In particular, it sought to understand the collective impact of community …

2024 September 11, Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

Minutes

Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 September 11

SUNY Cortland Faculty Senate Committees Roster 2024-2025

On The Lower Levels Of The Ivory Tower: What Color Collars Do Adjunct Faculty Wear?, Frederick Tucker

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Institutional reliance on tenure-line faculty reached a historic low after the Great Recession in 2009, remaining at approximately a third of all faculty through 2022. Postsecondary institutions have steadily increased their reliance on full-time adjunct faculty over the last two decades. Part-time adjuncts, meanwhile, were hired in great numbers before and during the Great Recession, as student enrollment increased, but have steadily declined since 2012, as college enrollment waned. Almost all evidence suggests that tenure expansion would benefit both the recipients of tenure and their students, but would come at a cost. There are few studies, however, that distinguish between …

Imprecise Clinical Assessments And Inaccurate Grades: Family Medicine Clerkship Director Perspectives, Arindam Sarkar, Joel J Heidelbaugh, Gage Hallbauer, Nital Appelbaum

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: As application to residency programs becomes increasingly competitive, educational leaders face growing student concern about imprecise clinical assessments and clerkship grades.

METHODS: As part of a large annual survey of family medicine clerkship directors (FMCDs), 10 questions were disseminated in May 2023 about perceived levels of imprecise assessments by faculty. We aimed to determine to what extent respondents felt their institution's evaluation system propagated inaccurate grading.

RESULTS: A total of 52% of 169 FMCDs responded to the survey. Of these, 7% of respondents were completely confident that their preceptors would give two students of identical competence the …

Fall Southtalks Series Explores Southern Environments, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Blog Posts

Events kick off Sept. 12 with journalist Tracie McMillan. The environment can refer to a person's surroundings or conditions, or a particular geographical area. Taking the latter meaning, the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture hones in on Southern environments for its 2024-25 programming.

Kate Mehuron And Dennis O'Grady, Oral History Interview, 2024, Matt Jones, Kat Hacanyan

Oral Histories

Kate Mehuron, professor of History and Philosophy and the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and Dennis O'Grady, professor with the Departments of Communication, Media, and Theater Arts and Women's and Gender Studies, were both instrumental in the planning and implementation of the EMU LGBT Resource Center. Acting as a vital connection between faculty, students, and administration, Mehuron and O'Grady describe working with other faculty like Kathleen Russell to win support for the center. They also describe some of the pushback to the center amongst EMU faculty.

2024 August 28; Faculty Senate Minutes, State University Of New York At Cortland

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Faculty Senate Minutes, 2024 August 28