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Organic Agriculture Teaching And Learning In 2025: Transforming The Future Learning Landscape, Randa Jabbour, Charles A. Francis, Mary Barbercheck, Katharina S. Ullman Nov 2019

Organic Agriculture Teaching And Learning In 2025: Transforming The Future Learning Landscape, Randa Jabbour, Charles A. Francis, Mary Barbercheck, Katharina S. Ullman

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

University instructors are compelled to anticipate future changes in farming and food systems that will impact their students. Sixteen educators met in 2018 to envision the future of organic agriculture courses needed by 2025. Likely future global issues include food access, especially for people of limited economic means; climate change; and fossil fuel costs. Changes that will impact education are increasing demand for quality food, more organic production, and globalization of food systems due to consolidation. Probable course content changes are increasing focus on whole farm systems; designing for resilience in changing physical, economic, environmental, and political climates; and increasing …


Using Ripple Effects Maps To Identify Story Threads: A Framework To Link Private To Public Value, Jane E. Haskell, Barbara A. Baker, Melissa D. Olfert, Sarah E. Colby, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Kendra K. Kattelmann, Adrienne A. White Oct 2019

Using Ripple Effects Maps To Identify Story Threads: A Framework To Link Private To Public Value, Jane E. Haskell, Barbara A. Baker, Melissa D. Olfert, Sarah E. Colby, Lisa Franzen-Castle, Kendra K. Kattelmann, Adrienne A. White

Health and Nutritional Sciences Faculty Publications

Extension professionals must demonstrate organizational value to garner public awareness and support. Measuring and communicating outcomes that have public value can be challenging. In this study, Ripple Effects Mapping incorporating the Community Capitals Framework was used to evaluate a childhood obesity prevention study, iCook 4-H, of youth-adult pairs in Maine. The objective was to describe the process of generating impact statements through story threads about program benefits to the participants and the potential benefits to nonparticipants, such as family members, friends, and other community members. Extension professionals can use storylines, or story threads, as a qualitative research technique to generate …


Draft Report Of The N2025 Strategy Team: “Every Person And Every Interaction Matters”, Angela K. Pannier, Susan M. Sheridan Dr., Rick A. Bevins, Shane M. Farritor Sep 2019

Draft Report Of The N2025 Strategy Team: “Every Person And Every Interaction Matters”, Angela K. Pannier, Susan M. Sheridan Dr., Rick A. Bevins, Shane M. Farritor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

In 2019, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrated its 150th year. That celebration involved reflection on the past, as well as planning the University’s course into the future. As part of this planning, UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green appointed more than 150 stakeholders — faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members — to the Nebraska Commission of 150 to envision how the university can best serve the State of Nebraska and the world for the next 25 years.

The N150 Commission was divided into eight subcommittees, each charged with creating specific elements of the campus vision. The subcommittees were:

1. Campus Community …


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.


Building Sustainability Through Organisational Arrangements, Deirdre Goggin May 2019

Building Sustainability Through Organisational Arrangements, Deirdre Goggin

Conference Papers

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) has existed in Cork Institute of Technology(CIT) since 1999 as part of its central services to all learners for access, transfer and progression. The sustainability of RPL within CIT is as a result of strategic decisions made as to its importance and the multi-faceted approach which has been adopted and embedded by CIT to ensure that validation is implemented, used and valued. This presentation will outline the policy, systems and processes CIT has adopted to meet the needs of all stakeholders including learners, staff, institution and industry. It will focus on the strategy and policy …


Sulitest®: A Mixed-Method, Pilot Study Of Assessment Impacts On Undergraduate Sustainability-Related Learning And Motivation, Alicia Mason Apr 2019

Sulitest®: A Mixed-Method, Pilot Study Of Assessment Impacts On Undergraduate Sustainability-Related Learning And Motivation, Alicia Mason

Faculty Submissions

A United Nations international collaboration between the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) resulted in the creation of Sulitest® (aka Sustainability Literacy Test) an open, online training and assessment tool freely available to higher education institutions globally. This study analyzes the effectiveness of the newly developed Sulitest® to not only measure sustainability literacy of higher education student populations, but also act as a catalyst for boosting affective learning outcomes by: (a) generating interest in sustainability-related issues, (b) improving sustainability-related understandings, and (c) enhancing students’ interests in the subject matter. In order to do …


Towards The Identification And Assessment Of Transversal Skills, Deirdre Goggin, Irene Sheridan, Fjóla Lárusdóttir, Gigja Guðmundsdóttir Mar 2019

Towards The Identification And Assessment Of Transversal Skills, Deirdre Goggin, Irene Sheridan, Fjóla Lárusdóttir, Gigja Guðmundsdóttir

Conference Papers

Much has been written in recent decades about transversal skills. The term is often used interchangeably with ‘soft skills’ and ‘transferable skills’. One can also refer to ‘key skills’ and ‘core skills’. The Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) assesses the proficiency of adults specifically three areas: literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments. “These three are considered to be “key information-processing skills” in that they are:
• necessary for fully integrating and participating in the labour market, education and training, and social and civic life;
• highly transferable, in that they are relevant to many social contexts and work …


Ua42/3/3 Delo Extended Campuses Wku Owensboro, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua42/3/3 Delo Extended Campuses Wku Owensboro, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the extended campus of WKU Owensboro.


Ua42/3/1 Delo Extended Campuses Wku Elizabethtown/Ft. Knox, Wku Archives Jan 2019

Ua42/3/1 Delo Extended Campuses Wku Elizabethtown/Ft. Knox, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about the extended campus of WKU Elizabethtown / Ft. Knox.


University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2018-2019 Jan 2019

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2018-2019

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Table of Contents

Front Cover......................................................................................... 1

Introduction .......................................................................................... 2

Table of Contents ................................................................................. 3

Mission

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Mission ........................................................... 6

The Missions of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ........................................ 6

Teaching........................................................................................................... 7

Research..................................................................................................... 7

Service............................................................................................................ 8

Institutional and Professional Accreditations ...................................................... 9

Student Credit Hours (SCH)

Total SCH: Fall Semester Since 1979 ............................................................... 13

Total SCH: Spring Semester Since 1993 ....................................................... 14

SCH by College and Course Level, Fall and Spring Semesters, 5 Year Trend..... 15

SCH by College and Course Level, Fall Semester, 5 Year Trend ................ 16

SCH by College and Course Level, Spring Semester, 5 Year Trend …