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Utilizing Program Champions And A Learning Management System For Accreditation: Innovative Strategies To Enhance Faculty Engagement, Katrice Ziefle, Kara Koschmann, Renee Colsch, Jill Campbell, Catherine Graeve
Utilizing Program Champions And A Learning Management System For Accreditation: Innovative Strategies To Enhance Faculty Engagement, Katrice Ziefle, Kara Koschmann, Renee Colsch, Jill Campbell, Catherine Graeve
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
Background:Nursing program accreditation ensures quality nursing education and care to communities at large. The accreditation process is often stressful with limited faculty engagement. The purpose of this quality improvement project is to use innovative strategies to enhance faculty engagement in the accreditation process. These innovative approaches facilitate faculty development through the accreditation process by integrating work as part of the faculty role. Using active learning strategies enhances faculty engagement, provides faculty development, and encourages faculty to practice at their full-scope of the academic nurse educator role.Method:Utilizing Kotter's 8-step process to accelerate change, a leadership team of faculty and administration formed …
Sustainability In Business: Developing An Undergraduate Business Course, Julie Nelsen, Mary Henderson, Sarah Rand
Sustainability In Business: Developing An Undergraduate Business Course, Julie Nelsen, Mary Henderson, Sarah Rand
Business Administration Faculty Scholarship
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the rationale and process of creating a new course focused on business sustainability in the University’s Department of Business Administration. Currently, the University offers just one business sustainability course, delivered once every two years as a January study-abroad course in Chile. While an outstanding experience, a limited number of students can take advantage of the opportunity. After identifying this gap in our business programs, we created a stand-alone course that focuses on business sustainability. This paper addresses the following questions: What is the business case for adding the course? What should the …
Hermaphrodites In Undergraduate Biology Education: Broadening Horizons In First- And Second-Year Courses, Cynthia Norton
Hermaphrodites In Undergraduate Biology Education: Broadening Horizons In First- And Second-Year Courses, Cynthia Norton
Biology Faculty Scholarship
With so much public discussion of gender issues in the US, it is important to introduce students to the breadth of reproductive expressions in the biological world early in their university education. I do this in two ways: first by centering a first-year research project on the reproduction of hermaphroditic snails, and second by focusing a second-year writing seminar on “Varieties of Animal Reproduction.” The laboratory component of our Foundations of Biology I course is a semester-long investigation where students are guided through the process of scientific research. With support from instructors, each team frames a question, writes a proposal, …