Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Education Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 30 of 41

Full-Text Articles in Education

Practical Femininity: The Student Development Of Legally Blonde’S Elle Woods, Elizabeth S. Rodericks Jan 2022

Practical Femininity: The Student Development Of Legally Blonde’S Elle Woods, Elizabeth S. Rodericks

The Graduate Review

College experiences often involve challenges that can provide the impetus for personal and professional growth. Likewise, Elle Woods of the film Legally Blonde undergoes multiple significant changes in her sense of identity, morality, and ability to take charge of her own life after she is forced to radically change her perspective and priorities. This paper covers her development as a law student and individual according to the student development theories of Chickering’s Seven Vectors of Identity Development, Gilligan’s Theory of Women’s Moral Development, and Baxter Magolda’s Self-Authorship Theory. As a result of her growth, Elle Woods flourishes into a confident, …


Lolita In The Contemporary American Classroom: Pedagogical And Learning Approaches, Jasmine Revels May 2021

Lolita In The Contemporary American Classroom: Pedagogical And Learning Approaches, Jasmine Revels

Master’s Theses and Projects

The purpose of this study is to discover effective collegiate-level teaching and learning strategies for Vladimir Nabokov’s 1958 novel Lolita in the midst of the current American political and social climate. Some of the factors of the current political and social climate in the United States thought to have an effect on the teaching of Lolita, and were thus considered for further inquiry, were cancel culture, the Me Too Movement, and trigger warnings. Primary research was collected from college students and English college professors. To obtain this research and the opinions of respondents regarding this topic, a combination of both …


Cape Verdean Students’ Perceptions Of Their English Language Preparation For Higher Education In The Us, Fàbio Wilson Teixeira Varela May 2021

Cape Verdean Students’ Perceptions Of Their English Language Preparation For Higher Education In The Us, Fàbio Wilson Teixeira Varela

Master’s Theses and Projects

Students from distinct parts of the world are learning English as a foreign language with multiple goals including job opportunities, education and so on. More importantly, many of them study English with the goal of pursuing their higher education in a foreign country, and the US is one of the main destinations. Studies have revealed that one of the problems international students face in their academic life has to do with language, specifically academic language. In this study, the researcher examined the retrospective perceptions of Cape Verdean students pursuing their studies at US universities towards their language instruction in Cape …


Philanthropic Impact Report Fy21, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University Jan 2021

Philanthropic Impact Report Fy21, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University

Impact Report

This report is a testament of how BSU donors support those students deeply impacted by COVID-19, promote racial understanding, healing, and unity, and assist students with the Ritesh Chandra IT CARES Scholarship and Black Live Matter Scholarship.


Improving Academic Learning And Success Through Transparency: A Student’S Perspective, Christina , Ouellette, Joanna Boeing Bratton, Ruth Slotnick Mar 2020

Improving Academic Learning And Success Through Transparency: A Student’S Perspective, Christina , Ouellette, Joanna Boeing Bratton, Ruth Slotnick

BSU Transparency Project Reports and Publications

No abstract provided.


Philanthropic Impact Report Fy20, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University Jan 2020

Philanthropic Impact Report Fy20, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University

Impact Report

This report is a testament of how BSU donors assist those students deeply impacted by COVID-19.


Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For Bridgewater State University For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30 In 2018 And 2019, Office Of Fiscal Affairs, Bridgewater State University Jun 2019

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For Bridgewater State University For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30 In 2018 And 2019, Office Of Fiscal Affairs, Bridgewater State University

Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

This is the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for Bridgewater State University (BSU) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The audit report conveys an unmodified opinion of the university’s financial statements.


Teaching Note - The Case For Vulgarity And Irreverence In The Classroom, James Norman Apr 2019

Teaching Note - The Case For Vulgarity And Irreverence In The Classroom, James Norman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


John G. Kemeny And Dartmouth College: A Life, A College President And The Times Of The 1960s, 70s And 80s, Stephen Nelson Apr 2019

John G. Kemeny And Dartmouth College: A Life, A College President And The Times Of The 1960s, 70s And 80s, Stephen Nelson

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Philanthropic Impact Report Fy19, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University Jan 2019

Philanthropic Impact Report Fy19, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University

Impact Report

The stories in the 2018-2019 Philanthropic Impact Report demonstrate this partnership among BSU, our students and the region BSU serves. They are a testament to the remarkable work BSU students are doing, but they are really a story of how BSU donors are making those opportunities possible through their generous support.


Voices On Campus: Academic And Free Speech In The Digital Age, Lawrence Friedman Apr 2018

Voices On Campus: Academic And Free Speech In The Digital Age, Lawrence Friedman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Philanthropic Impact Report Fy18, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University Jan 2018

Philanthropic Impact Report Fy18, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University

Impact Report

The stories in the 2017-2018 Philanthropic Impact Report are a testament to the remarkable work BSU students are doing, but they are really the story of how BSU donors enabled those opportunities.


2017 Interim Report Neasc Decision Letter, Commission On Institutions Of Higher Education, New England Association Of Schools & Colleges, Inc. Dec 2017

2017 Interim Report Neasc Decision Letter, Commission On Institutions Of Higher Education, New England Association Of Schools & Colleges, Inc.

University Accreditation

This is the decision letter from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education to Bridgewater State University.


Neasc Fifth-Year Interim Report, Bridgewater State University Aug 2017

Neasc Fifth-Year Interim Report, Bridgewater State University

University Accreditation

This is the interim report Bridgewater State University created in preparation for the accreditation review from the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, New England Association of Schools and Colleges.


Philanthropic Impact Report Fy17, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University Jan 2017

Philanthropic Impact Report Fy17, Office Of Alumni And Development, Bridgewater State University

Impact Report

The 2016-2017 Philanthropic Impact Report tells the story of how BSU alumni and donors are widening the doors of opportunity for today’s BSU students.


Editor’S Notebook, Andrew C. Holman Nov 2016

Editor’S Notebook, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Black Lives Matter At Bsu: Reflections On The Spring Teach-In And Town Hall Meeting, Christy Lyons Graham, Brian Payne, Sarah Thomas, Diana Fox, Polina Sabinin Nov 2016

Black Lives Matter At Bsu: Reflections On The Spring Teach-In And Town Hall Meeting, Christy Lyons Graham, Brian Payne, Sarah Thomas, Diana Fox, Polina Sabinin

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Editor's Notebook, Andrew C. Holman May 2016

Editor's Notebook, Andrew C. Holman

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Talking About Writing Across The Secondary And College Community, Michelle Cox, Phyllis Gimbel Jan 2016

Talking About Writing Across The Secondary And College Community, Michelle Cox, Phyllis Gimbel

Secondary Education and Professional Programs Faculty Publications

Many have commented that higher education is becoming increasingly fragmented, leading to the overspecialization of scholars, disciplinary discourses that are opaque to those outside the field, and lack of cross-pollination among disciplines (Kerr). WAC has long been seen as a movement that creates connections among disciplines. In fact, these connections are often created through the workshop, the quintessential WAC experience, as it “bring[s] faculty together around the same table”—bringing together people who may work at the same institution but, in practice, work worlds apart (Cox 317). More recently, this movement to bring people around the same table has come to …


Lessons From The First Universities, J.R. Webb Nov 2015

Lessons From The First Universities, J.R. Webb

Bridgewater Review

No abstract provided.


Using Student Feedback To Fuel The Family Project, Susan Eliason Jan 2015

Using Student Feedback To Fuel The Family Project, Susan Eliason

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The author shares her desire to create with students more authentic assignments that enhance learning through the use of the project approach.


Refreshed & Humbled: Altered Assumptions About Power And Payoffs, Roben Torosyan Jan 2015

Refreshed & Humbled: Altered Assumptions About Power And Payoffs, Roben Torosyan

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The author starts with a focus on a long-term, shifting relationship with work-study students serving as students consultants in his class, then takes an outward turn as he describes how he included graduate student voices from around the country as he wrote an external grant to support partnerships between research and teaching intensive institutions.


Sharing Power To Promote Deeper Learning, Maura Rosenthal Jan 2015

Sharing Power To Promote Deeper Learning, Maura Rosenthal

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The author explores her partnership with an entire class during the semester to solve a problem in the book club learning activities she had planned. She addresses her experience of sharing power with students and how doing so alleviated the “tug-o-war” she had previously experienced between pulling students towards learning course content and their resistance.


Peer Assisted Learning: Unexpected Benefits For All Stakeholders - Students, Peer Leaders & Faculty, Marybeth Tobin, Caitlin Golden Jan 2015

Peer Assisted Learning: Unexpected Benefits For All Stakeholders - Students, Peer Leaders & Faculty, Marybeth Tobin, Caitlin Golden

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The authors share their experience in co-leading a peer-leader program and the unexpected benefits that inure to students, faculty and especially, peer leaders. They share the value of peer leader feedback in their efforts to continually improve the program and in informing their own pedagogy in an entry-level financial accounting course.


Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships At Bridgewater State University, Lee Torda, Karen Pagnano Richardson Jan 2015

Developing Student-Faculty Partnerships At Bridgewater State University, Lee Torda, Karen Pagnano Richardson

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The introduction frames the essays included in this issue as developing student-faculty partnerships with a range of collaborative relationships. The first three essays explore partnerships that are program-based partnerships. The next four essays explore various kinds of student-faculty partnerships that unfold within classroom-focused experiences. In the final section, three essays that focus on partnerships beyond the boundaries of the classroom and the campus are shared. All ten essays contribute to chronicling multiple versions of the development of student-faculty partnerships at Bridgewater State University.


Chaos In The Promiseland: Mentorship As Partnership In Undergraduate Research, Lee Torda, Marjorie Howe, Kirsten Ridlen Jan 2015

Chaos In The Promiseland: Mentorship As Partnership In Undergraduate Research, Lee Torda, Marjorie Howe, Kirsten Ridlen

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The authors write about their experience co-creating a writing and travel experience in Israel. They explore how they all negotiated respective expertise and inexperience while traveling, reading, and writing in a study abroad/undergraduate research opportunity.


Learning To Soar: Partnering With Underrepresented Students In Research, Jennifer Manak, Jenny Olin Shanahan Jan 2015

Learning To Soar: Partnering With Underrepresented Students In Research, Jennifer Manak, Jenny Olin Shanahan

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The authors examine the mentor relationships that developed within the SOAR (Student Opportunities as Apprentice Researchers) program. The program matches underrepresented students with faculty in research partnerships that facilitate faculty scholarship and improve the retention and success of students from underserved groups.


Students As Partners With Faculty In A Teacher Education Program, Karen Pagnano Richardson, Deborah Sheehy, Misti Neutzling Jan 2015

Students As Partners With Faculty In A Teacher Education Program, Karen Pagnano Richardson, Deborah Sheehy, Misti Neutzling

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The authors share their experiences of working with student partners within a Physical Education Teacher Education Program. Through partnership they more deeply understand how their role as professor was a barrier to open and honest student-faculty communication.


Co-Creating Equity And Justice: Student And Employee Partnerships For Racial Justice, Judith Willison, Laura Boutwell, Mark Conrad, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Richardson Pierre-Louis, Colleen Rua, Jeff Saint Dic Jan 2015

Co-Creating Equity And Justice: Student And Employee Partnerships For Racial Justice, Judith Willison, Laura Boutwell, Mark Conrad, Sabrina Gentlewarrior, Richardson Pierre-Louis, Colleen Rua, Jeff Saint Dic

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The faculty/staff authors and current Bridgewater State University Undergraduate students: Jessie Barbosa, Ye Chen, Ruby Lila De La Rosa, Marvin Ezhan, Danielle Marie Galstian, Frank Iaquinta, Tashima Point du jour, Brian Owusu, Marina Smoske, Jovan Taylor; Bridgewater State University Alumni, Class of 2015: James Gouzias, Kasheida Hector, Julian Millan, Michael Molyneaux, Jamaal Rodney-Bonnette, share reflections on partnerships between campus staff, faculty and students to put on three specific social justice events designed to initiate discussion and raise awareness about racial justice.


Learner Empowerment: A Collaborative Approach To Peer-Assisted Learning In Global Languages, Minae Savas, Dorie Aucoin, Fernanda Ferreira Jan 2015

Learner Empowerment: A Collaborative Approach To Peer-Assisted Learning In Global Languages, Minae Savas, Dorie Aucoin, Fernanda Ferreira

Faculty Scholarship (SoTL)

The authors share the trajectory of the Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program in the Foreign Languages Department, which has undertaken a series of projects to build an encouraging and non-judgmental learning environment, specifically in language learning, and to incorporate a partnership between learners, tutors, supervisors and professors.