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Currents (September 08, 2014), Judie Alessi O'Malley

Currents

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Passnote: A Feedback Tool For Improving Student Success Outcomes, Bethany A. Croton, James E. Willis Iii, Jason D. Fish

Teaching and Learning Technologies Publications

When Purdue University faculty asked for assistance in composing feedback messages to students, Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) developed PassNote, a feedback tool that integrates good practice into the process of providing formative assessments. PassNote gives faculty customizable feedback prompts (snippets) and lets them connect students with information and links to services such as tutoring,Supplemental Instruction, library resources, technology tools, and workshops. PassNote "message starters" are often incomplete, allowing instructors to include course-specific information such as office hours and departmental resources.

2014 Fall Faculty Conference: Enacting A Model Community: Our University, Academic Affairs

Fall Faculty Conference

The 2014 Fall Faculty Conference featured breakout sessions by FSDC and Office of Sponsored Programs, Jim Bates, Sarah Bouchard, Patti Frick, Diane Nance, Jane Wu, Kay Ball (Nursing), Michele Acker, Suzanne Ashworth, Danielle Docka-Filipek, Paul Longenecker, Lisa Phillips, Kathryn Plank, Mark Skillings, Kerry Strayer, Melissa Kesler Gilbert, Shirine Mafi, Shelley Payne, Kevin Svitana, Rares Piloiu, Paul Wendel, Anna Young, Jim Bates (Music), Shelley Payne (Health and Sport Sciences), Aaron Reinhard (Physics), Joy Shoemaker (Nursing), and Jeff Smith (Mathematical Sciences).

Pacific Review Fall 2014, Alumni Association Of The University Of The Pacific

Pacific Magazine and Pacific Review

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Global Innovation

News Releases

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New Chapter In Innovation

News Releases

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Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2013-14, Office Of Sponsored Programs And Research

Office of Sponsored Programs and Research - Reports

The Office of Sponsored Programs and Research (OSPR) at Governors State University (GSU) continues to enhance its services and outreach. We are excited to see more faculty and students look into funding opportunities and work on grant opportunities. OSPR continues to encourage faculty, staff, and students to participate in training provided and to communicate with our office if there are training opportunities you would like to see offered at GSU related to grants. Please take some time and read the OSPR annual report for this past year. The annual report emphasizes the diversity in sponsors, faculty, and projects. As you …

Promoting Computer Science

News Releases

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Paul Benson Named Interim Provost

News Releases

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Radar Love

News Releases

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As-786-14 Resolution Supporting The Ascsu Efforts To Reconsider The 120/180 Unit Limits For Other Disciplines In Addition To Engineering, Academic Senate Executive Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

That the Cal Poly Academic Senate communicate to the ASCSU its support of efforts to re-establish appropriate unit designations, up to 198 quarter units, for other disciplines in addition to engineering.

A Metapopulation Model For Sylvatic T. Cruzi Transmission With Vector Migration, Christopher Kribs, Britnee Crawford

Mathematics Faculty Publications - Archive

This study presents a metapopulation model for the sylvatic transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas' disease, across multiple geographical regions and multiple overlapping host-vector transmission cycles. Classical qualitative analysis of the model and several submodels focuses on the parasite's basic reproductive number, illustrating how vector migration across patches and multiple transmission routes to hosts (including vertical transmission) determine the infection's persistence in each cycle. Numerical results focus on trends in endemic [equilibrium] persistence levels as functions of vector migration rates, and highlight the significance of the different epidemiological characteristics of transmission in each of the three regions.

Engaging Faculty In Information Literacy, Judith M. Arnold, Veronica E. Bielat

Library Scholarly Publications

How can librarians engage faculty in information literacy? This session demonstrates how a faculty workshop can be used as a strategy to motivate change in how faculty design research assignments. We will discuss using current research to draw faculty into the information literacy conversation, perform assignment analysis to illuminate the “burdens” placed on the student, and illustrate how assignment re-design can mitigate the subsequent student struggles that may lead to patchwork papers or plagiarism.

Engineering The Future

News Releases

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Powerful Gift

News Releases

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Re-Engineering A Website Into A Digital Humanities Project - We Think!, Lynn F. Johnson, Ramona Holmes

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

What happens when you have a website that needs a facelift and you want to evolve the contents into a digital humanities project? What makes it different? This poster session explores a process we are attempting at the University of Texas @ Arlington Libraries. Taking an amazing collection of US-Mexico War materials in our Special Collections, harnessing high collaboration with our Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, and re-imagining a website has been a six month process that tapped into an academic partnership and internal re-organization. We invite you to examine our painful process that used a project with no documentation, …

Prostate Cancer Detection Using Combined Autofluorescence And Light Reflectance Spectroscopy: Ex Vivo Study Of Human Prostates, Vikrant Sharma, Ephrem O. Olweny, Payal Kapur, Jeffrey A. Cadeddu, Claus G. Roehrborn, Hanli Liu

Bioengineering Faculty Publications - Archive

This study was conducted to evaluate the capability of detecting prostate cancer (PCa) using auto-fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy (AFLS) and light reflectance spectroscopy (LRS). AFLS used excitation at 447 nm with four emission wavelengths (532, 562, 632, and 684 nm), where their lifetimes and weights were analyzed using a double exponent model. LRS was measured between 500 and 840 nm and analyzed by a quantitative model to determine hemoglobin concentrations and light scattering. Both AFLS and LRS were taken on n = 724 distinct locations from both prostate capsular (nc = 185) and parenchymal (np = 539) tissues, including PCa tissue, …

As-782-14 Resolution Supporting Academic Senate Of The California State University (Ascsu) Efforts To Re-Establish Appropriate Unit Limits For Engineering Degrees, Academic Senate Executive Committee

Academic Senate Resolutions

That the Cal Poly Academic Senate communicate to the ASCSU its support of efforts to empower the engineering faculty of the individual campuses to establish appropriate unit limits for their respective engineering degrees, up to a maximum of 132/198 units, without having to seek waivers from the Chancellor.

The Loop (Early Spring 2014), Taylor University

The Loop (2012-2017)

The early Spring 2014 edition of Taylor University’s The Loop.

The Loop (Late Spring 2014), Taylor University

The Loop (2012-2017)

The late Spring 2014 edition of Taylor University’s The Loop.

Tissue Engineering Bone Using Autologous Progenitor Cells In The Peritoneum, Jinhui Shen, Ramesh Saxena, Cheng Cheng Zhang, Joseph Borrelli Jr., Liping Tang, Ashwin Nair

Bioengineering Faculty Publications - Archive

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Benedetti, Robert, Oral History Interview, Jon Schamber

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Dean, College of the Pacific and Executive Director, Jacoby Center (1989-2013). Topics include: Budget challenges 1990s, General Education reform, evolution of citizen leader concept, Atchley and DeRosa administrations, Midtown Magnolia Project, Stockton Speaks, More Votes that Count research project.

Atlas-Guided Volumetric Diffuse Optical Tomography Enhanced By Generalized Linear Model Analysis To Image Risk Decision-Making Responses In Young Adults, Zi-Jing Lin, Lin Li, Mary Cazzell, Hanli Liu

Bioengineering Faculty Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

Letters To Grandma: A Comparison Of Generational Perspectives Of Women's Growth As Higher Education Faculty, Elyn Mcreynolds Palmer

The Qualitative Report

This ethnographic compilation is the result of a course exercise in qualitative research. A current student of Texas Tech University interviewed an 87-yearold faculty member from the 1950s, comparing her experiences to those of the author in similar, present-day academic environments. The author developed the format of the paper as letters between a young faculty member and her experienced grandmother. Results of the study reflect many similarities between the experiences of past female faculty members and female faculty of today; the exercise does convey, however, many advances for women in the academic culture as well. Finally, the recorded experiences of …

Eureka!

News Releases

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Faculty Attitudes Towards Integrating Technology And Innovation, Colleen Marzilli, Julie Delello, Shelly Marmion, Rochell Mcwhorter

Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations

Technological innovation is an important aspect of teaching and learning in the 21st century. This article examines faculty attitudes toward technology use in the classroom at one regional public university in the United States. Building on a faculty-led initiative to develop a Community of Practice for improving education, this study used a mixed-method approach of a faculty-developed, electronic survey to assess this topic. Findings from 72 faculty members revealed an overall positive stance toward technology in the classroom and the average faculty member utilized about six technology tools in their courses. The opportunities, barriers and future uses for technologies in …

Study Of The Effect Of Wind Speed On Evaporation From Soil Through Integrated Modeling Of The Atmospheric Boundary Layer And Shallow Subsurface, Hossein Davarzani, Kathleen Smits, Ryan M. T Tolene, Tissa Illangasekare

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications - Archive

In an effort to develop methods based on integrating the subsurface to the atmospheric boundary layer to estimate evaporation, we developed a model based on the coupling of Navier-Stokes free flow and Darcy flow in porous medium. The model was tested using experimental data to study the effect of wind speed on evaporation. The model consists of the coupled equations of mass conservation for two-phase flow in porous medium with single-phase flow in the free-flow domain under nonisothermal, nonequilibrium phase change conditions. In this model, the evaporation rate and soil surface temperature and relative humidity at the interface come directly …

Shelter From The Storm: Rekindling Research On Collective Bargaining And Representation Issues, William A. Herbert

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (National Center) is a four-decade old institution that is supported by and located at Hunter College, City University of New York. The National Center was founded in the wake of the granting of collective bargaining rights by various states and localities to public employees including higher education faculty members and shortly after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) asserted jurisdiction over private institutions of higher education.

Consistent with its mission, the National Center intends to be an engine for rekindling, incubating and promoting research and …

Positive Collaboration: Beyond Labor Conflict And Labor Peace, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Institutions of higher education collectively constitute a major economic concentration that ranks—by whatever measure: resources, budgets, endowments, employees, constituencies—among the major industries in the United States. The unionized academic U.S. workforce ranks sixth among organized labor. Yet, when compared to the top-tier manufacturing industries of steel or automobile or to national unions such as the UAW or the Teamsters, both the public institutions of higher education and their academic unions lack national visibility, lack influence on national debates, and, most tellingly, lack major successes in the quest for public monies. Health care, the environment, energy policies, and the current global …

Hauben, Paul, Oral History Interview, Roland Difranco

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Professor of History (1969-1994). Topics include: Participation in I & I Program, successive General Education programs, College of the Pacific Dean’s office, student quality, faculty observation of the President and Regents.