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Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 04, October 9, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Minutes Of Graduate College Committee On Curricula, October 9, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Graduate College Curriculum Committee.

Minutes - Graduate Curriculum Committee

Minutes of the committee that oversees the development of the curriculum of the University of Northern Iowa Graduate College.

Building A Health Literacy Improvement Plan With An Interprofessional Team, Denise B. Isibel

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The purpose of this presentation is to assist a clinician or administrator to implement the AHRQ Health literacy Universal precautions Toolkit as part of improvement plan for a health literate organization. The presentation will show how an inter-professional team can contribute to a Health literate organizations for improved patient outcomes.

The Guardian, Week Of October 9, 2017, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of October 9, 2017. The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

State Advisory Council On Palliative Care And Quality Of Life: Advancing Palliative Care In Alabama, Kristi A. Acker

Biennial Convention (CONV)

According to the Center to Advance Palliative Care, Alabama continues to lag behind in providing access to quality palliative care programs. An inter-professional advisory council was formed in an effort to promote palliative care by providing consumer education and disseminating current palliative care resources which are available within the state.

Homophobia, Brexit And Constitutional Change, Iain Channing, Jonathan Ward

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

No abstract provided.

Delivery Of Care In Controversial Times: When The Police Are Involved And Communication Is Strained, Dianne Mcadams-Jones, John King, Tirsit Valentine

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Security is valuable if there is fear of beliefs being challenged when we go beyond the columns and lines venturing out of the cage. When the police arrive with a victim who claims he/she was racially targeted, how do you check your feelings?

Social Network Models Of Task Switching In Social Insect Colonies: Effects Of Social Interactions And Spatial Heterogeneity, Jun Chen

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.

Persistence To Graduation: Is It The Money, High School Preparation, Or First Semester College Matriculation?, Mary E. Anderson, Noran L. Moffett

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

This research study examined the relationship between persistence to graduation within six years and selected variables including financial aid awarded, high school GPA, ACT composite scores, SAT combined scores, and first-year first-semester GPA. It is well documented in research literature that high school preparation, college entrance examinations, and freshman year academic performance play a significant role in degree completion; however, studies on the impact of financial aid have not been as abundant. The researchers developed the College Persistence – Financial Aid Coding Technique System (CP-FACTS) to explore the influences of finances on degree attainment.

In this study, a documentary research …

Closing The Assessment Loop In The Basic Communication Course, Claire H. Procopio

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

Participation in the learning-outcome assessment is an important expectation of most communication teachers. Considerable communication research has been devoted to defining assessment, identifying what is assessed, and determining how best to do assessment (Morreale, Backlund, Hay, & Moore, 2011). The National Communication Association (NCA) recently announced the publication of Learning Outcomes in Communication (NCA, 2015). This case study explores how a program, one new to learning-outcome assessment in the basic course, overcame common challenges with implementing assessments. The case illustrates how to use assessment data meaningfully and offers specific strategies that individual communication instructors, course directors, and assessment leaders can …

Social Work Presentation Kicks Off Lgbtq History Month, Sarah Sapp

University of Mississippi News

LSU expert presents history and culturally competent professional practice guidelines

Gender Identity Work: Oppression And Agency As Described In Lifespan Narratives Of Transgender And Other Gender Non-Conforming Identified People In The U. S., Kathryn O'Brien

Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to critically examine the gender identity work of white transgender and other gender non-conforming identified (TgNCi) people through their stories and the meanings they attach to important artifacts across the lifespan. A single question directed the investigation: How do TgNCi individuals describe gender identity work through lifespan narratives? Thirteen volunteers participated in two interviews: the first, a narration of their life stories and in the second, descriptions of the significance of personal artifacts selected by the participants and photographed by the investigator. Participants’ ages ranged from 22 to 66, according to four pre-determined age …

Fall Convocation 2017 Program, Office Of Faculty Development

Fall Convocation

A program for the Fall 2017 convocation, giving information on programs to improve student learning, including Teaching and Learning Bash, Assessment as Ally, Teaching with Technology Symposium, 2017 Faculty and Staff Awards, State of the University Address.

Neighbors Link's Parent-Child Together Program: Supporting Immigrant Parents' Integration To Promote School Readiness Among Their Emergent Bilingual Children, Carola Otero Bracco, Judie Eisenberg

Journal of Multilingual Education Research

The authors of this article describe Neighbors Link, a multi-service community and worker center in suburban Westchester County, NY. This organization created Parent-Child Together in the belief that supporting immigrant parents' integration and social inclusion, in activities that also engage long-term community residents, would improve school readiness outcomes for preschool children. A key assumption in the program design is that immigrant parents are best supported when teaching respects their home language and incorporates their home culture and customs. Among the program's positive results has been greater acceptance of the assets and strengths that immigrants bring to the community. The …

Social Justice Storytelling: Giving Our Students More Than Just An Education In Speech, Phillip E. Wagner

Discourse: The Journal of the SCASD

In an effort to highlight the practical and relevant applications of public speaking, this activity was designed to give students a safe space to discuss current social justice issues. Beginning with an open-ended narrative prompt, this activity requires students to take turns building upon a social justice narrative, giving them an opportunity to practice confident delivery and healthy dissent while also further enhancing public speaking skills and fostering a social-justice orientation.

Western News, October 5, 2017, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Magura awarded $2.1 million federal grant, Become part of the homecoming 2017 royal family, Scholar-related award recipients to be feted at convocation, Trustees approve retirements of 25 faculty, staff; resignations of nine faculty, WMU sees increase in important enrollment categories this fall, On Campus with Cheri Butler

Curriculum Subcommittee Agenda, October 5, 2017, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Establishing a Hunger Solutions Institute
• Establishing the Stephen R. Covey Center for Leadership
• Discontinuing the Family and Consumer Science degree
• Offering an Interfaith Leadership Certificate of Proficiency

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• FCHD Doctoral Program Credit Reduction
• Syllabus requirements for Curriculog Purposes
• Zero Credit Courses

Educational Policies Committee Minutes, October 5, 2017, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Program Proposals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Educational Policies Committee Agenda, October 5, 2017, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

• Subcommittee Reports
• Curriculum Subcommittee
• Course Approvals
• Program Proposals
• Academic Standards Subcommittee
• General Education Subcommittee

Effects Of Prenatal Yoga On Women's Stress And Immune Function Across Pregnancy, Jen-Jiuan Liaw

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This study compared changes in stress and immunity salivary biomarkers from 16 to 36 weeks' gestation between women receiving prenatal yoga and those receiving routine prenatal care.

An Exploratory Study Of Mobile Messaging Preferences By Age: Middle-Aged And Older Adults Compared To Younger Adults, Alexis Kuerbis, Katherine Van Stolk-Cooke, Frederick Muench

Publications and Research

Introduction: Mobile technologies, such as short message service or text messaging, can be an important way to reach individuals with medical and behavioral health problems who are homebound or geographically isolated. Optimally tailoring messages in short message service interventions according to preferences can enhance engagement and positive health outcomes; however, little is known about the messaging preferences of middle-aged and older adults.

Methods: Utilizing secondary data, global messaging preferences were examined to inform the development of short message service interventions for adults of all ages. Two hundred and seventy-seven adults were recruited through an online labor market. They completed an …

Non-Affirmative Theory Of Education As A Foundation For Curriculum Studies, Didaktik And Educational Leadership, Michael Uljens, Rose Ylimaki

Faculty Publications

This chapter presents non-affirmative theory of education as the foundation for a new research program in education, allowing us to bridge educational leadership, curriculum studies and Didaktik. We demonstrate the strengths of this framework by analyzing literature from educational leadership and curriculum theory/didaktik. In contrast to both socialization-oriented explanations locating curriculum and leadership within existing society, and transformation-oriented models viewing education as revolutionary or super-ordinate to society, non-affirmative theory explains the relation between education and politics, economy and culture, respectively, as non-hierarchical. Here critical deliberation and discursive practices mediate between politics, culture, economy and education, driven by individual agency in …

Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes October 5-6, 2017

Board of Trustees Minutes

Minutes from the Wright State University Board of Trustees Meeting held on October 5-6, 2017.

The Effect Of Time Spent Using Social Networking Sites Through Smartphones On The Quality Of Undergraduate Students’ Mental Health, Maja Bracic

Theses

The majority of people has already adapted to the unpredictably fast advancements in smartphones’ (SPs) and social-networking sites’ (SNS) technologies by using them on everyday basis (Jena, 2015). Always at hand, SPs are the most preferred way of connecting to SNS and if we add up the addictive nature of both SPs and SNS, young people tend to use them noticeably more than other age groups (Babdi-Akashe, Zamani, Abedini, Akbari & Hedayati, 2014, p. 94). Yet, little is known about the long-term effects of this newborn symbiosis on the quality of mental health. Thus, this research study focuses on exploring …

Curriculum Subcommittee Minutes, October 5, 2017, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

Program Proposals

• Establishing a Hunger Solutions Institute
• Establishing the Stephen R. Covey Center for Leadership
• Discontinuing the Family and Consumer Science major
• Offering an Interfaith Leadership Certificate of Proficiency

Semester Course Approval Reviews

Other

• FCHD Doctoral Program Credit Reduction
• Syllabus requirements for Curriculog Purposes
• Zero Credit Courses
• Catalog Course Listings – “Semester Usually Taught”

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Model, Ryan A. Butler, Gina L. Schaar

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Participants will be introduced to an interprofessional collaborative practice model that was implemented in primary care centers. Exemplars of how this model positively impacted students, patients and primary care providers will be presented. Participants will learn how to replicate model in their practice setting.

Interprofessional Coaches: Facilitating Transformational Learning, Jennifer Evans, Jody Delp, Mary Rock

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Strategies used in facilitating transformational learning among an interprofessional team of students in a primary care clinical setting will be presented. Interprofessional coaches encourage students to communicate and collaborate on a common patient centered goal. Students are asked to reflect and identify their role among the interprofessional team.

Experiential Learning: Teaching Research Methods With Photovoice, Mazna Patka, Rieko Miyakuni, Candice Robbins

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

Despite of the emphasis on scientist-practitioner model and evidence-based practice, limited research knowledge and experience among counselors continues to be a concern. In an advanced research methods course, PhotoVoice was utilized as an experiential learning tool to facilitate student engagement as participants and researchers. Processes, successes and challenges are discussed.

A Journey Toward Feminist Supervision: A Dual Autoethnographic Inquiry, Melissa J. Fickling, Jodi L. Tangen

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

The purpose of this study was to explore our development as new supervisors learning to apply feminist supervision principles. Autoethnography was used to analyze author histories and learning processes over the course of one academic semester. Using personal narratives and critical reflections, we investigated our work of supervising beginning-level supervisees from a feminist perspective, and embodying our developing feminist supervisor skills and identities. Our inquiry was informed by our encounters with supervisees, supervisors, and each other. Basic definitions of supervision and feminist supervision frame the study, and results are shared in light of current research and theory.

Using Films To Increase Cultural Competence In Working With Lgbtq Clients, Melodie H. Frick, Heather Thompson, Russ Curtis

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

There is a dearth of research on effective strategies for teaching counselors-in-training how to work more effectively with LGBTQ clients. Experiential learning activities, such as watching films, can increase students’ knowledge of their attitudes and beliefs about themselves and culturally diverse clients. This qualitative study explored, in the context of a sexuality and counseling course, how 27 students’ awareness, knowledge, and skills were influenced by the use of two films, For the Bible Tells Me So and Normal, which illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ individuals and their families. Results and implications for counselor educators are provided.