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21st Century Internships: Engaging Academically And Experientially Prepared First And Second Year College Students, Cynthia Simon, Mary C. Black Oct 2015

21st Century Internships: Engaging Academically And Experientially Prepared First And Second Year College Students, Cynthia Simon, Mary C. Black

CAS Internship Office Faculty Presentations

In this age of technology and early career planning, high school students are increasingly engaged in academically rigorous internships. However, they often must wait several years before being allowed to participate in college internships. This PowerPoint presentation highlights the secondary internship best practice credentials, challenges the high school to college internship gap, and concludes with ideas to help stakeholders troubleshoot, design, pitch, and implement 200-level credit-bearing internship programs for first and second year college students.


Fall 2015 E-Certi Newsletter, Center For Educational Research And Teaching Innovation Aug 2015

Fall 2015 E-Certi Newsletter, Center For Educational Research And Teaching Innovation

CAFE Faculty Newsletters

Hello S&T Instructors - It’s the start of another academic year with new challenges and opportunities, including a record number of incoming students. In this issue we feature some innovative and award-winning instructors, including Joel Burken, Theresa Swift and Greg Story. Also find information about the upcoming Curators’ Teaching Summit and learn about projects that have been funded where S&T instructors will be examining and assessing best teaching practices.


An Education Saved My Life: Silver Wolf’S Path To Promise, David Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya) Apr 2015

An Education Saved My Life: Silver Wolf’S Path To Promise, David Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv Unegv Waya)

Books and Monographs

In An Education Saved My Life, Professor David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv unegv Waya) narrates his path from a difficult early family life, his introduction to alcohol and drugs as an adolescent, and a directionless early adulthood overshadowed by chemical dependency, to a series of events and encounters that transformed his life. Dr. Patterson Silver Wolf attributes not only the substance abuse, but the many turns that led to it, to what he calls a “poor belief system.” As the title suggests, by contrast, he attributes much of the success he has experienced since then to his education, but …


Spring 2015 E-Certi Newsletter, Center For Educational Research And Teaching Innovation Mar 2015

Spring 2015 E-Certi Newsletter, Center For Educational Research And Teaching Innovation

CAFE Faculty Newsletters

Hello S&T Instructors – It’s the messy month of March at Missouri S&T, where recess and spring break can wreak havoc with instructor’s teaching schedules. In this issue, we feature several faculty who have made the most of their time with their students in the classroom and lab, and have the accolades to prove it, including Melanie Mormile, Ralph Flori and Bill Gillis. Read on ...