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Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Dec 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss elections, website, general education, curriculum, global scholars program, IP or in progress grade option, post tenure review, salaries, emeritus status, information technology and action agenda.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Dec 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the December 7, 2000 meeting.


Resolution 00-6-F - Course Outline, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2000

Resolution 00-6-F - Course Outline, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to provide students with major / minor course outlines.


Resolution 00-5-F - Reaffirmation Of Purpose, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2000

Resolution 00-5-F - Reaffirmation Of Purpose, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution for SGA to reaffirm its purpose as student representatives.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Nov 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding appointments to committees, website, general education, curriculum, post tenure review, salaries, emeritus faculty status, Investing in the Spirit fund raising, Meredith Hall and athletics.


Resolution 00-3-F - Stone Stairway, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2000

Resolution 00-3-F - Stone Stairway, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to restore the stone walkways in front of Van Meter Hall.


Resolution 00-4-F - University Boulevard Crosswalk, Wku Student Government Association Nov 2000

Resolution 00-4-F - University Boulevard Crosswalk, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to install a pedestrian switch at the University Boulevard crosswalk.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Nov 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the November 2, 2000 meeting.


Resolution 00-1-F Student Athletic Fee Increase Opinion Poll, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Resolution 00-1-F Student Athletic Fee Increase Opinion Poll, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution against an athletic fee increase.


Correspondence Resolution 00-1-F, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Correspondence Resolution 00-1-F, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Letter to Cornelius Martin from SGA regarding increase of athletic fee.


Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate Oct 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding employee benefits, student athletic fee, website, nominations and appointments; athletics, and health insurance.


Bill 00-7-F Allocation Of Organizational Aid Funds, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Bill 00-7-F Allocation Of Organizational Aid Funds, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to distribute funds to student organizations, includes list of clubs and amount received.


Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council Oct 2000

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the October 12, 2000 meeting.


Balancing Instrumental, Biographic And Social Competencies: Enhancing The Participation Of Young Adults In Economic And Social Processes, Danny Wildemeersch, Theo Jansen, Wiltrud Gleseke, Knud Illeris, Susan Weil, Manuela Marninho Oct 2000

Balancing Instrumental, Biographic And Social Competencies: Enhancing The Participation Of Young Adults In Economic And Social Processes, Danny Wildemeersch, Theo Jansen, Wiltrud Gleseke, Knud Illeris, Susan Weil, Manuela Marninho

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Latinas And Adult Development Theories, Loida C. Velazquez Oct 2000

Latinas And Adult Development Theories, Loida C. Velazquez

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative study examined the acculturation path of two groups of Latinas, highly educated professional Hispanic women and female migrant workers, in order to illuminate their human development process.


Bill 00-5-F Student Representatives For University Senate, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Bill 00-5-F Student Representatives For University Senate, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to create three student representatives to the University Senate.


Bill 00-6-F Meet Your Dean Reception, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Bill 00-6-F Meet Your Dean Reception, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to host Meet Your Dean reception.


From The Bottom Up: Developing A Literacy Practitioner Research Network In British Columbia, Audrey Thomas, Diane Morrison, Sandy Middleton, Marina Niks, Tom Nesbit, Ralf St.Clair Oct 2000

From The Bottom Up: Developing A Literacy Practitioner Research Network In British Columbia, Audrey Thomas, Diane Morrison, Sandy Middleton, Marina Niks, Tom Nesbit, Ralf St.Clair

Adult Education Research Conference

This roundtable will address the developments and challenges involved in building research capacity among literacy practitioners in the province of British Columbia through collaborative partnerships between various agencies. Case examples of different approaches will be presented with opportunities for questions and discussion.


Bill 00- -F Student Representatives For The University Senate, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Bill 00- -F Student Representatives For The University Senate, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to establish three student representatives to the University Senate.


Bill 00-10-F Student Representatives For The University Senate, Wku Student Government Association Oct 2000

Bill 00-10-F Student Representatives For The University Senate, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to create three student representatives to the University Senate.


Life Sentence: The Real Syntax Of Lifelong Learning, Tom Steele Oct 2000

Life Sentence: The Real Syntax Of Lifelong Learning, Tom Steele

Adult Education Research Conference

No abstract available.


Two Worlds Of Distance Education: The Function Of Access And Technology, Namin Shin Oct 2000

Two Worlds Of Distance Education: The Function Of Access And Technology, Namin Shin

Adult Education Research Conference

In order to further our understanding of distance education as a social practice, this roundtable session suggests two disparate semantic and geographic worlds of distance education: The world that sees distance education as the means to eliminate the barriers to learning opportunities imposed by societal structure, and the world that views distance education as a technology driven form of education.


Literacy For Work: Exploring Dominant Discourses About Work And Literacy In The Everyday Practice Of Adult Literacy Education, Jennifer A. Sandlin Oct 2000

Literacy For Work: Exploring Dominant Discourses About Work And Literacy In The Everyday Practice Of Adult Literacy Education, Jennifer A. Sandlin

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper first discusses the move in adult literacy policy to link literacy education to workforce development. It then argues that literacy researchers need to examine how dominant discourses about education and work are enacted in the everyday practices of adult literacy classrooms.


Immigrant Women And Labour Flexibility: Resisting Training Through Learning, Shahrzad Mojab, Roxana Ng, Kiran Mirchandani Oct 2000

Immigrant Women And Labour Flexibility: Resisting Training Through Learning, Shahrzad Mojab, Roxana Ng, Kiran Mirchandani

Adult Education Research Conference

This research roundtable focuses on the lives and experiences of immigrant women in the context of the casualisation of labour and job deskilling. The presenters document the failure of training programs to challenge the ghettoisation of immigrant women in contingent and peripheral jobs and focus on the ways in which women learn to resist racialized and gendered exclusion in state approaches to training.


Issues Of Action Research And Adult Basic Education, Rosemarie Mincey Oct 2000

Issues Of Action Research And Adult Basic Education, Rosemarie Mincey

Adult Education Research Conference

A three-state action research (AR) project with adult basic education (ABE) instructors led to the development of new approaches for documenting outcomes and new insights about the process of conducting AR.


Whose Questions Count? Fostering Pedagogies Of Action Research In Adult Education, Peter G. Malvicini Oct 2000

Whose Questions Count? Fostering Pedagogies Of Action Research In Adult Education, Peter G. Malvicini

Adult Education Research Conference

Prevailing modes of instruction and inquiry privilege knowledge generated by academic elites. How might curriculum based on critical pedagogy and participatory research transform conventional educational institutions? Ongoing research challenges the relationship of educational institutions to social action.


Cultural Mentors: Using Transformative Learning Theory To Examine Adaptation And Supporting Relationships Of Women Educators In Cross-Cultural Settings, Carol R. Lyon Oct 2000

Cultural Mentors: Using Transformative Learning Theory To Examine Adaptation And Supporting Relationships Of Women Educators In Cross-Cultural Settings, Carol R. Lyon

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of the roundtable is to discuss a qualitative study-in-progress, which examines how women educators who have worked abroad for six months or more view the role of supporting relationships in facilitating transformative learning.


Collaborative Learning In Three British Adult Education Schemes, Moira Lee Oct 2000

Collaborative Learning In Three British Adult Education Schemes, Moira Lee

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative case study research is located in three British adult education schemes. The focus of the research is on the values of collaborative learning and the roles of facilitators and participants in collaborative learning communities.


Unleashing The Artist Within: New Directions For Research In Adult Education, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman Sep 2000

Unleashing The Artist Within: New Directions For Research In Adult Education, Randee Lipson Lawrence, Craig A. Mealman

Adult Education Research Conference

The potential for using various art forms (drama, poetry, music, literature, visual art) in the collection and analysis of data, and in the expression of research findings is explored in this roundtable discussion.


New Research Directions In Popular Education: Towards A Reconceptualization Of The Field, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Mayo, Angela Miles, Daniel Schugurensky Sep 2000

New Research Directions In Popular Education: Towards A Reconceptualization Of The Field, Elizabeth Lange, Peter Mayo, Angela Miles, Daniel Schugurensky

Adult Education Research Conference

In this roundtable, departing from traditional popular education theory and practice, four panelists share findings of their research in progress, and pose questions to stimulate the current debates on popular education.