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Addendum A: Wisherd And Emeriti Funds: Definition Of Terms And Explanation Of Allowable Use Of These Funds, Jason D. Kennedy

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

Book value is the historical cost basis of the endowment (or investment) whereas market value is what the endowment is worth right now. Basically, book value is what went into the endowment and market value is what you would get if you sold it now. Because this is a permanent endowment, only the income can be spent. The income is the spendable account. The estimated annual income is the amount the fund can expect to earn over the next year if no new contributions are made to the account. It is the endowment thatis earning income and the earnings are …

Addendum B: Emeritus Status For Retired Faculty Academic /Administrative Employees

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

Emeritus status is the rank awarded by the Board of Regents to an employee at the time of retirement in recognition of substantial service rendered to the University in teaching, research, extension, or administration in a professional field. It may also be awarded to a retired administrator whose work impinges directly on the educational program.

For faculty the recommendation is initiated by a vote of the departmental faculty with the endorsement of the chair and dean. In the case of A-line administrators, the recommendation is made by that individual's immediate supervisor. Consistent with Regents policy, eligibility for emeritus status includes …

Addendum C: Recommendations Of The Ad Hoc Emeriti Study Group, David Brinkerhoff, Richard Boohar, John Goebel, James Mcshane

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

Recommendations: 1) It is NOT recommended that the Association establish separate criteria from the UNL administrative process nor is it recommended that the Association evaluate faculty for emeriti status. 2) Embrace the document “Emeritus Status for Retired Faculty Academic/Administrative Employees” (attached) which summarizes and details the current policies of UNL and the Board of Regents specifying the conditions for eligibility (age and length of service) as well as privileges and benefits to those awarded emeriti status. 3) A letter be sent by the President of the Emeritus Association congratulating the retiree on their achievement of emeriti status, informing her/him of …

Board Minutes: December 5, 2006 , Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Graduate Connections- November 2006

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Professional Development...........1

Preparing Future Faculty

Teaching Tip .................................2

Motivating Students

Calendar........................................3

Degree Deadlines

Announcements............................3

UNL Grad Fellowships

Teaching Documentation Program

Navigating Graduate School.......4

Academic Integrity

CV Savvy

Mentoring Guidebooks

Funding Opportunities.................7

A Sampling of Fellowships

Interactions...................................9

Fellowship Recipients

Note from the Graduate Student Association

Note from the Peace Corps

Readers’ Corner.............................10

Meeting Minutes: October 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Board Minutes: October 5, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Building A Better Board: Springboard Into Action, Milan Wall

Heartland Center for Leadership Development Materials

Building a Better Board: Springboard into Action

Roles and responsibilities

Time devoted to six basic elements

Obstacles

Strategies

Ethics

Recruitment

Board Minutes: September 14, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Graduate Connections- August 2006

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

In This Issue:

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Professional Development.........1

TA Workshops

New Student Orientation

International Student Orientation

Mentoring Workshops

Wrk4us

Just in Time Listserv

Teaching Tip: Learning Names....2

Calendar......................................3

Announcements:.........................4

Reminders

Teaching Documentation Program

Grad Student Award Nominations

Excellence in Graduate Ed Award

Chronicle Needs Diarists

Navigating Graduate School.....6

Academic Integrity

Mentoring Guidebooks

Funding Opportunities...............8

Research News...........................9

Interactions...............................10

Readers’ Corner........................11

Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #32, August 2006

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

CONTENTS:
President’s Message
Gamma Sigma Delta Calendar
OOPs: Correction to March, 2006 Newsletter
Treasurers Ballot
Big News from GSD
News from the National Conclave
In Memoriam
Call for Nominations for Awards
Award of Merit
Teaching Award
Research Award
Extension Award
Gamma Sigma Delta Annual Meeting and Seminar

Board Minutes: May 2, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes: April 21, 2005, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes: April 20, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Board Minutes: April 4, 2006, Dan Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Graduate Connections, April 2006

Graduate Connections: A Newsletter for UNL Graduate Students

Welcome to the pilot issue of Graduate Connections, an electronic newsletter for graduate students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (and for faculty and staff interested in issues important to graduate students). This new quarterly publication is intended to bring you information to help you more easily make your way through your graduate school career, link you with news about events planned and organized just for you, provide you with timely information about deadlines and funding, and connect you with other graduate students at UNL.

The first regular issue of Graduate Connections will appear September 1, and quarterly after that …

Meeting Minutes: March 16, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Gamma Sigma Delta Newsletter - Nebraska Chapter, Issue #31, March 2006

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Newsletters

CONTENTS:
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
2006 GAMMA SIGMA DELTA CALENDAR OF EVENTS
GAMMA SIGMA DELTA Award Recipients
GAMMA SIGMA DELTA Inductees
Scholarship Recognition Reception
In Memoriam
2006 ANNUAL DUES NOTICE FOR NEBRASKA CHAPTER
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL FORM
Gamma Sigma Delta Committees 2006

Board Minutes: February 7, 2006, Anita Leininger

UNL Emeriti Association Board: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

Meeting Minutes: January 19, 2006, Dan B. Lutz

UNL Emeriti Association: Meeting Minutes

No abstract provided.

An Electronic Advice Column To Foster Teaching Culture Change, Donna M. Qualters, Thomas C. Sheahan, Jacqueline A. Isaacs

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

First-year engineering students receive most of their teaching from instructors outside of engineering. As a result, these instructors are typically not a teaching community with a shared commitment to engineering student learning. Retention of engineering students is strongly tied to the quality of teaching, thus addressing collective teaching quality is important. This chapter describes the development of a carefully crafted, electronically distributed advice column on teaching developed by an interdisciplinary editorial team, written under the pseudonym Jonas Chalk. Surveys of Chalk Talk readers indicate that this is an effective means to promote teaching culture change.

Introduction. Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction to volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Sandra Chadwick Blossey of Rollins College.

Helping Faculty Learn To Teach Better And “Smarter” Through Sequenced Activities, Barbara J. Millis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty developers can help faculty learn to intentionally sequence assignments and activities to promote greater learning when they understand the convergent research—with its practical implications for teaching—on how people learn, on deep learning, and on cooperative learning. Such a sequence includes a motivating out-of-class assignment (homework), in-class “processing” that includes active learning and student interactions, and feedback and assessment, often given in multiple ways. This approach is modeled through two examples using graphic organizers.

Learning Communities For First–Year Faculty: Transition, Acculturation, And Transformation, Harriet Fayne, Alice Ortquist-Ahrens

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

To enhance new faculty members’ chances for teaching and career success, Otterbein College piloted a yearlong learning community program and encouraged first-year faculty to participate. Four new faculty members took part in opportunities designed to enhance their teaching, to orient them more fully to a new institution and student body, to foster collegial community, to encourage reflective practice, and to introduce them to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This qualitative case study tracks their developmental trajectory, which led them from an initial concern with self and survival to an eventual focus on student learning.

Practicing What We Preach: Transforming The Ta Orientation, Patricia Armstrong, Peter Felten, Jeffrey Johnston, Allison Pingree

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Brookfield (1995), Schön (1983), and others articulate the necessity and complexity of being critically reflective in our work. Indeed, the value of critical reflection is inherent to educational development as a field in that we frequently encourage such thinking in our consultations with instructors. But practicing what we preach can be difficult. This chapter reflects on an experiment in the transformation of a teaching assistant orientation, a central event of our teaching center. We not only describe and assess the process of revising this orientation, but we also reflect on the implicatiom of this case for broader programming issues in …

Exploring The Application Of Best Practices To Ta Awards: One University's Approach, Laurel Willingham-Mclain, Deborah L. Pollack

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This chapter explores how to adapt best practices from the general literature on teaching awards in higher education to graduate student teaching assistant (TA) awards. Although most criteria apply, they must be fitted to the career stage and aspirations of TAs. The Duquesne University Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching serves as a case study demonstrating how these practices can be modified to both recognize excellent teaching and promote the professional development of graduate student instructors.

Preface, Volume 24 (2006), Sandra Chadwick Blossey

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preface to volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Sandra Chadwick Blossey of Rollins College.

About The Authors, Volume 24 (2006)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

About the editors and authors of volume 24 (2006) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

A Different Way To Approach The Future: Using Chaos Theory To Improve Planning, Marc Cutright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Strategic planning is a good idea that gets a bad name from dubious efforts carrying the title. Much of this rap comes from half-hearted exercises, but some of it comes from efforts that founder due to faulty or limited conceptions of how the future “works.” Chaos theory is an alternative approach and metaphor with potential to let us see the future and its dynamics in new ways. Cognizance of chaos’s nature and underlying structure might help us do planning in new, nonintuitive, and more successful ways.

A Theory–Based Integrative Model For Learning And Motivation In Higher Education, Chantal S. Levesque, G. Roger Sell, James A. Zimmerman

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The shared mission of higher education institutions is to develop educated persons who are able to make connections and build on knowledge acquired across disciplines and fields and through various life experiences. This chapter offers a theory-based model that can be used by researchers and practitioners to enhance academic learning and motivation. Educators can create learning environments that move students from external regulation to self-determined forms of motivation. This model is used to describe conditions that enhance/restrict learning. It also has the potential to be used to interpret research on teaching and learning in higher education.