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Grounding Student Affairs In A Catholic Charism: The Journey Of One Faculty Member In Connecting Curriculum With Mission, Rich Whitney Phd, Mark Laboe
Grounding Student Affairs In A Catholic Charism: The Journey Of One Faculty Member In Connecting Curriculum With Mission, Rich Whitney Phd, Mark Laboe
Journal of Catholic Education
The institutional mission of a university guides interactions among faculty, staff, students, and others and is instrumental in shaping the campus culture. As such, it is important that all members of a campus community not only understand the mission, but also have a sense of agency in determining how to live the mission through their work. This article presents a case study of one faculty member’s journey to deeper mission understanding, identification, and agency. The article explores commonalities between Vincentian Personalism and the basic tenets of the field of Student Affairs and highlights experiences and formation needed by lay faculty …
Annual Legal Update, Aaron Nisenson
Annual Legal Update, Aaron Nisenson
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
This was a year of great expectations in the field of higher education law, and it continues as such, with our expectations unfulfilled. There were some significant decisions issued shortly after the last Annual Conference. In June of 2013, the U.S Supreme Court issued five decisions of importance to faculty members and institutions: in Fisher (infra at pg. 12), the Court reaffirmed the legal standard applicable to affirmative action in higher education admissions; in two employment law cases, Nassar and Vance, (infra at pg. 14-15) the Court addressed the standard of proof in retaliation cases and the issue of supervisory …
Recent Developments At The National Labor Relations Board And The Impact On Colleges And Universities, Nicholas Digiovanni Esq.
Recent Developments At The National Labor Relations Board And The Impact On Colleges And Universities, Nicholas Digiovanni Esq.
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Handout 4: American Bar Association - Confidentiality When Lawyer Represents Multiple Clients In The Same Or Related Matters, John Gaal
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Handout 3: Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients, John Gaal
Handout 3: Transactions With Persons Other Than Clients, John Gaal
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Handout 2: Ethics In Higher Education Part 2, John Gaal
Handout 2: Ethics In Higher Education Part 2, John Gaal
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Handout 1: Ethics In Higher Education, John Gaal
Handout 1: Ethics In Higher Education, John Gaal
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Handout: University Of Hawai'i Faculty Contract, Richard Westbury Nettell
Handout: University Of Hawai'i Faculty Contract, Richard Westbury Nettell
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Contingent Faculty In Higher Education, Ken Hawkinson
Contingent Faculty In Higher Education, Ken Hawkinson
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
A Provost's View, Margaret E. Winters
A Provost's View, Margaret E. Winters
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
A Guide To Academic Freedom, Frederick P. Schaffer
A Guide To Academic Freedom, Frederick P. Schaffer
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
This brief introduction to the principles of academic freedom is intended for attorneys and other administrators who represent or work at colleges and universities. It has two purposes. The first is to introduce them to academic freedom as a set of professional principles regardless of whether or not they are legally enforceable. Attorneys and administrators need to understand the culture of the institutions they represent or serve. Nowhere is this more true than with colleges and universities, which have well established traditions and norms that influence the expectations and conduct of all those responsible for their governance, including faculty, administrators …
Academic Freedom And The First Amendment, Majorie Heins
Academic Freedom And The First Amendment, Majorie Heins
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
This manuscript highlights many of the Supreme Court cases involving the First Amendment and the origins of academic freedom in the United States.
The Effect Of Part-Time Faculty On Student Degree Or Certificate Completion In Two-Year Community Colleges, Hongwei Yu
The Effect Of Part-Time Faculty On Student Degree Or Certificate Completion In Two-Year Community Colleges, Hongwei Yu
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
The Delphi Project On The Changing Faculty And Student Success, Daniel Maxey
The Delphi Project On The Changing Faculty And Student Success, Daniel Maxey
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
The California State University Bottleneck Courses Survey Report, Michelle Kiss
The California State University Bottleneck Courses Survey Report, Michelle Kiss
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
No abstract provided.
Campus Paper Waste, Joshua E. Randall
Campus Paper Waste, Joshua E. Randall
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
The fall of 2004 at Minnesota State University, a new program called MavPrint was introduced. The user submits a document to be printed at a computer, the expense is deducted from their account, and then their document can be retrieved from any MavPrint station. In years past printing had been free, but seeing how according to Bryan Schneider, the director of Technical Services at Minnesota State University – Mankato, from the year 2003 to the year 2004 the printing costs for the University rose 200 percent, they felt it was time to make a change. MSU students printed out over …
Designing An Articulation-Agreement Database For The College Of Science And Engineering And Technology Advising Center, Stephanie Fasen, Susan Hendley, Tim Pham, Danish Zaman
Designing An Articulation-Agreement Database For The College Of Science And Engineering And Technology Advising Center, Stephanie Fasen, Susan Hendley, Tim Pham, Danish Zaman
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
During their academic careers, some college students transfer to different universities. To allow students to transfer seamlessly to other colleges, advisors at Minnesota universities create articulation agreements that list the classes that transfer between two universities. To use these documents, students and advisors must search through binders to find the correct articulation agreement and then manually review it. This is a time-consuming process for both students and advisors. To make this information more accessible, we created a web-based database that instantly produces a list of equivalent classes for majors offered at Minnesota St ate University, Mankato (MSU) and other Minnesota …
An Investigation Of Student Perspectives On Classroom Resource Usefulness, Joshua Randall, Lindsey Thompson
An Investigation Of Student Perspectives On Classroom Resource Usefulness, Joshua Randall, Lindsey Thompson
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Central to the post-secondary education is the textbook, and central to complaints regarding post-secondary education is also the textbook. Textbook use and price are a serious issue at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and at other colleges and universities around the country. Concern regarding textbooks inspires students to become very vocal, filing complaint after complaint regarding the price, the quality, and the utilization of textbooks in the status quo. This is an issue that inflames the hearts (and empties the wallets) of many students, and therefore should be an issue of concern with the university. In two separate studies surveying students …
Modeling Student Engagement In The Classroom, Sarah Painter
Modeling Student Engagement In The Classroom, Sarah Painter
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Connections to Community is a multi-institutional study that looks at the influence of community on post-secondary, science and engineering students and their engagement in academic activity. This paper focuses specifically on student engagement within the classroom as a follow-up to a previous paper by Wendy Hoffman, Identifying Influential Variables of Student Academic Engagement (Hoffman, 2013). The goal of this work is to model student engagement in the classroom using classroom observation data that has been cleaned and then compare the results with those found in Hoffman’s paper which used pre-cleaning data. The cleaned data is used to create two data …
An Automatic Dialog System For Student Advising, Brian Mcmahan
An Automatic Dialog System For Student Advising, Brian Mcmahan
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Automatic dialog systems are an implementation of natural language processing theory with the goal of allowing the use of natural sentences to communicate with a computer system. The general purpose of this project was to design and implement an automatic dialog system for augmenting university student advising. Student advising is a relatively narrow domain of possible questions and responses. The automatic dialog system focused on prescriptive advising rather than developmental advising to further narrow the domain to scheduling and registration matters. A student advisor was interviewed and recorded during a mock advising session in order to model the interaction between …
Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators’ Leadership: Strategies And Competencies For Success, Joshua W. Bass
Exceptional Senior Student Affairs Administrators’ Leadership: Strategies And Competencies For Success, Joshua W. Bass
Journal of Educational Research and Practice
No abstract provided.
Work In Progress - Peer Directed Learning In A Project Based Model, Andrew Mcnally
Work In Progress - Peer Directed Learning In A Project Based Model, Andrew Mcnally
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Iron Range Engineering is a new, unique, undergraduate program using problem-based learning. One guiding principle is student responsibility for learning. In order to facilitate learning, faculty and students alike have come up with several learning methods. Learning modes may include self-directed learning, peer-directed learning, one-on-one faculty directed learning, or industry mentored learning. Peer directed learning often manifests in the form of learning groups (a group of students learning similar competencies), led by either a faculty member or a student who has previously excelled in that competency and has taken an interest in pursuing advanced credit. Recently, Iron Range Engineering has …
Change In Cultural Competency Among Students During An Intentional Human Relations, Camille Mcnabb, Samantha Tupy
Change In Cultural Competency Among Students During An Intentional Human Relations, Camille Mcnabb, Samantha Tupy
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
This study measured changes in the intercultural competency of undergraduate students in a course, Human Relations in a Multicultural Society. The hypothesis for this study was that the intentional, cross-cultural experiences in the course will have an impact on the cultural competency of each student. This course is taught each semester at a Midwestern public university. The study included 70 undergraduate students between 18 and 35 years old who voluntarily enrolled in the course and represented students in academic majors such elementary education, sports management, social work, mass communications, journalism, and pre- professional studies (e.g., mortuary science, veterinary medicine, therapy). …
Statistical Models Of Self-Efficacy In Stem Students, Sarah Painter
Statistical Models Of Self-Efficacy In Stem Students, Sarah Painter
Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato
Persistence through undergraduate education may be explained by self-efficacy. It is the belief in one’s self to persevere through challenges. Bandura stated four areas that are thought to influence self-efficacy: mastery experience, social persuasion, vicarious experience, and physiological state. In this study, we focused on general and academic self-efficacy in STEM students, in the hopes of learning more about the relationships between Bandura’s categories, demographics, and self-efficacy. Data was taken from two institutions: one, a large research focused university, and the other, a smaller teaching focused university. In the first phase, surveys on general self-efficacy were taken at both institutions …
"Network Teach": How A Student Led Organisation Supports The Transition To University, Deborah Callcott, Marianne J. Knaus, Judy Warren, Ashleigh Wenban
"Network Teach": How A Student Led Organisation Supports The Transition To University, Deborah Callcott, Marianne J. Knaus, Judy Warren, Ashleigh Wenban
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
It is well documented that the first-year experience is crucial to student success at university. The transition to university provides many challenges for students from a personal, social and academic perspective. Over several decades, universities across Australia have implemented strategies to improve the attrition rate of first year students. This paper discusses a program designed to meet the specific needs of students in the School of Education, at a university in a metropolitan suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The Network Teach program is unique in that it is a student-run organisation. It offers social networking and academic support systems to …
Building Connections In South East Asia, Sarah Richardson
Building Connections In South East Asia, Sarah Richardson
International Developments
Sarah Richardson reports on ACER’s recent collaborative work with institutions in South East Asia to support higher education.
Students' Competency -- The Intersection Of Didactics And Organisation Of Higher Education, Peter Slepcevic-Zach, Ph.D.
Students' Competency -- The Intersection Of Didactics And Organisation Of Higher Education, Peter Slepcevic-Zach, Ph.D.
International Journal for Business Education
Output orientation in the realm of education has become a requirement for higher education that is now slowly starting to be manifested in its curricula. This raises the question: what competences students are supposed to develop in the course of their studies and how these competences can be developed. In a first step, this article will therefore deal with the notion of competence. The next step involves an analysis of the various approaches to didactics in higher education, which plays an important role in the promotion of students' competency as well as in the design of individual lesson plans and …
Student Loans: A Multidimensional Public Policy Issue, Brad J. Hershbein, Kevin M. Hollenbeck
Student Loans: A Multidimensional Public Policy Issue, Brad J. Hershbein, Kevin M. Hollenbeck
Employment Research Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Curriculum, Marginalization, And The Professoriate, William L. White
Curriculum, Marginalization, And The Professoriate, William L. White
Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education
The author exposes the subtext on which education and particularly curriculum making is based by focusing on the notion that the professoriate has been marginalized within curriculum planning by an educational hegemony that utilizes the sorting and classification mechanisms present in schooling to co-opt the development of educational plans.
Organizational Culture, Knowledge Structures, And Relational Messages In Organizational Negotiation: A Systems Approach, Vincent P. Cavataio, Robert S. Hinck
Organizational Culture, Knowledge Structures, And Relational Messages In Organizational Negotiation: A Systems Approach, Vincent P. Cavataio, Robert S. Hinck
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
This study examines a recent bargaining process between the Faculty Association and Central Michigan University. Taking a systems approach, we began with the assumption that a healthy organizational culture produces negative feedback which can help keep participants at the bargaining table despite disagreement. However, if organizational members’ relationships are threatened, organizational culture unravels as destructive messages provide positive feedback to disrupt the system and make impasse more likely. To understand how an university’s culture is impacted during contract negotiations we examined messages published in a university student newspaper, transcripts from the local NPR station, CMU’s press releases, a Facebook page, …