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Experiences Of Teaching In Transition: The Move Online, Spring 2020, Matt Schumann
Experiences Of Teaching In Transition: The Move Online, Spring 2020, Matt Schumann
History Faculty Publications
Anyone who experienced the transition to online course delivery in Spring 2020 probably had an opinion on it. Twenty-nine respondents completed this 20-minute survey on technical, emotional, pedagogical, and administrative aspects of the transition, including both faculty and students. The data gathered here offers an enduring testimony of their lived experience, and may inform a variety of pedagogical research.
The Dilemma Of Defining Academic Quality, Norman L. Jones, Linda George
The Dilemma Of Defining Academic Quality, Norman L. Jones, Linda George
History Faculty Publications
Academic quality is part of virtually every university strategic plan as well as the central focus of accreditation standards. In the past, this has often been defined by a series of input measures such as the percentage of faculty with terminal degrees. Today, the call is to identify outcome measures – but which ones? This session will discuss how institutions and systems can define and be held accountable for academic quality in a sea of uncertainty with multiple constituents, and the role of the provost in meeting that challenge.
Developing Intentional Learners: Scaffolding General Education Learning Outcomes, Harrison Kleiner, Norman L. Jones
Developing Intentional Learners: Scaffolding General Education Learning Outcomes, Harrison Kleiner, Norman L. Jones
History Faculty Publications
For more than five years, Utah State University has been engaged in the integration of its orientation, first year experience, general education, and major programs to create intentional learners who understand the academic role and public value of general education. This session will explore how to undertake a comprehensive reform of these programs in light of the LEAP initiative. Participa nts will leave the session armed with an understanding of the questions to ask, the processes to implement, and the possible impediments to implementing faculty-driven, student-focused general education curriculum reform on their campus. They will be shown how Utah State …
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, And Managing With The Men-Of-Business, Norman L. Jones
William Cecil, Lord Burghley, And Managing With The Men-Of-Business, Norman L. Jones
History Faculty Publications
Michael Graves taught us to think of parliamentary management done through the parliamentary ‘men-of-business’, gentlemen with close ties to powerful men in the privy council. This article asks how ‘men-of-business’ were managed by Elizabeth's head manager, Lord Burghley. Choosing justices of the peace was a complex, fraught activity, and one which Lord Burghley did with a great deal of care. However, despite his best efforts to have only men of probity and proper religious inclinations, he was hampered by local concerns. Managing the men-of-business meant careful awareness of their places, their connections, and their independence. Burghley was managing shared governance, …
The Louvain Library And U.S. Ambition In Interwar Belgium, Tammy M. Proctor
The Louvain Library And U.S. Ambition In Interwar Belgium, Tammy M. Proctor
History Faculty Publications
This article analyzes the ordeal that became the ‘Louvain Library Controversy' in order to demonstrate competing visions of postwar memory and reconstruction that emerged in the 1920s. As a country trying to mediate between the claims of its larger neighbors (Germany, France, and Britain), Belgium provides an excellent window into the climate of postwar Europe and US intervention. I argue that the controversies that surrounded the Louvain Library reconstruction reflect three main themes that plagued European–US relations in the 1920s: first, US pretensions as Europe’s cultural protector; second, US economic power over debt and reparation questions; and last, the question …
The Everyday As Involved In War, Tammy M. Proctor
The Everyday As Involved In War, Tammy M. Proctor
History Faculty Publications
This essay examines how the "everyday" functions in war, not only for those on the home fronts, but for those in combat roles and for those living between the lines. Five important qualities, among others, shape the everyday in World War I: Waiting, Staying Connected, Food and Shelter, Managing Fear, and Camaraderie. Each of these themes plays out at the homes of those left behind, in the camps of civilian and military prisoners, in occupied zones, and at the fronts.
An American Enterprise? British Participation In Us Food Relief Programmes (1914-1923), Tammy M. Proctor
An American Enterprise? British Participation In Us Food Relief Programmes (1914-1923), Tammy M. Proctor
History Faculty Publications
This article examines a particularly fraught zone where the British and American conceptions of food aid and moral guidance conflicted – the former enemy nations of Austria and Germany. These countries were considered special cases for food relief, not only because the British and American public had little interest in feeding their former foes, but also because each was seen by aid officials as societies that might succumb to social revolution if food security was not established. While the Americans had established a massive child-feeding operation in Europe under the auspices of the American Relief Administration's European Children's Fund and …
"Tuning" The Disciplines, Norman L. Jones
"Tuning" The Disciplines, Norman L. Jones
History Faculty Publications
Since March of 2009, the Utah System of Higher Education has been a partner with the Lumina Foundation for Education in the Tuning USA project, Lumina’s first experiment in introducing the European concept of degree “tuning” to American academia. Developed in the European Union as a way to create common degree standards across multiple nations, “tuning” is a methodology whereby subject-area teams develop criterion-referenced learning outcomes and competencies for particular degrees. It is a faculty-led approach that involves seeking input from students, recent graduates, and employers in order to create a common understanding of what students should know, understand, and …
Leaping In Utah: Lessons Learned Along The Way, Norman L. Jones
Leaping In Utah: Lessons Learned Along The Way, Norman L. Jones
History Faculty Publications
Utah’s road to LEAP was accidental. We did not set out to be a LEAP state. We set out to create a faculty-led system of articulation and assessment for general education (GE) in the Utah System of Higher Education. Or at least that is what we were doing before the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), with whom we had been working for years, invited us to become the fifth LEAP state.