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Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the December 17, 1997 meeting.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding tenure procedures, elections, faculty evaluations and post tenure review.

December Agenda, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

December meeting agenda with notes.

Faculty Salary Survey, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Report includes:

• All Ranked Personnel by High to Low Salary within Rank
• All Ranked Personnel by Salary within Rank within Department

Resolution 97-24-F - Providing Soap In Residence Hall Bathrooms, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution to request university provide soap dispensers in residence hall restrooms.

Resolution 97-23-F - Picnic Tables For Bottom Of Campus, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution requesting picnic tables for campus area near Zacharias Hall, Meredith Hall and Pearce-Ford Tower.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss dead week, real estate, tenure process, fringe benefits and tuition increase.

Newsletter Vol. Xxi, No. 1, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate newsletter. This issue includes articles:

• Flynn, Jim. Introducing the Newsletter Digest
• Vos, Arvin. The Hearing on Post-Tenure Review
• Weigel, Richard. New President Host Faculty Senate
• Faculty Senate XXI Committee & Current Topic
• Kell, Carl. Resolutions Passed by Faculty Senate XX
• Football at NKU

Resolution 97-9-F - Paper Towels In Downing University Center Restrooms, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Resolution requesting that paper towels be placed in the restrooms of the Downing University Center.

Executive Committee Report, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Report of events the executive committee has participated in.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting to discuss dead week and lapsed salary money.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Discussion of elections, travel reimbursement, lapsed salaries and meeting with President Gary Ransdell.

Executive Council Meeting Minutes, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Meeting to discuss tailgating tents at football games.

Meeting Minutes, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Meeting regarding institutional reviews, senate resolutions and committee reports.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the August 21, 1997 meeting.

Teaching Across Borders: A Collaborative Inter-Racial "Border" Pedagogy In Adult Multicultural Education Classes., Elizabeth J. Tisdell, Clarice Perry

Adult Education Research Conference

This qualitative action research study examined how power dynamics were manifested between and among instructors and students in two graduate level classes team-taught by a black and a white female co-instructors where diversity and equity issues in education was the primary course content. The study also attempts to identify adult education practices that lead to growth and social change among participants in such classes that are at times both uncomfortable and controversial.

Innovation As Knowledge And Learning., Taylor Rosemary

Adult Education Research Conference

Innovative small and medium enterprises now play a vital role in the economy, but their survival often depends on being at the leading edge of their field. Without an abundance of time or money for education or training, they rely heavily on obtaining knowledge informally through a variety of channels.

Implicit Memory And Transformative Learning Theory: Unconscious Cognition., Edward W. Taylor

Adult Education Research Conference

Recent research has found that the transformation of meaning structures (schemes and perspectives) can occur without critical reflection. This phenomenon seems to be explained by a concept called implicit memory -- the unconscious development of thoughts and actions. This paper involves a review of related literature on implicit memory from the fields of neurobiology and psychology and its implications for the theory and practice of transformative learning

A Narrative Assessment Of Synergic Inquiry: Its Effectiveness In Fostering Transformative Learning In Cross-Cultural Settings., Masaji Takano

Adult Education Research Conference

This empirical study examines the effectiveness of Synergic Inquiry as a practical methodology for fostering transformative learning experience in cross-cultural settings. The study qualitatively analyzes the life narratives of participants who engaged in action-oriented projects conducted abroad that applied the Synergic Inquiry framework.

Synergic Inquiry (Si): An Alternative Framework For Transformative Learning., Yongming Tang

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper discusses SI which intends to help address a number of challenges facing transformative learning teachers and researchers. The SI framework is briefly introduced with the focus on how it creates contexts, processes and catalysts for transformative learning as well as its relationships with some existing learning theories.

Adult Education On-Line., Bruce Spencer

Adult Education Research Conference

Does the addition of the electronic classroom change distance education from individualized study to social education? Experience suggests that it does, but computer-network distance education needs to be critically evaluated by adult educators.

Doing Cross Cultural Research In Adult Education: Methodological And Epistemological Considerations., Barbara Sparks

Adult Education Research Conference

While doing cross cultural research is not new, the growing acknowledgement of the perils of crossing cultures unconsciously is gaining support and calling for change. This paper examines some methodological and epistemological considerations of doing cross cultural qualitative research in adult education. Reliance on partial knowledge and middle class cultural and political bias point to the need within the field for critical reflection on how and why empirical realities are studied in the ways that they are and at the same time require rethinking and revision of traditional research methods while designing new methods of inquiry.

The Effectiveness Of Total Quality Management: A Response To The Critics., Douglas H. Smith, Ralph G. Lewis

Adult Education Research Conference

A recent paper strongly berates total quality management, claiming it is a tool of management used to adversely manipulate workers in pursuit of corporate gain. This paper questions this supposition, arguing it is the abuse of TQM by management that is at fault. Effective TQM is based on four principles, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, speaking with facts, and respect for people. It is the lack of the genuine respect for people that is the demise of most TQM initiatives.

A Replication Study Of The Attitudes Of Selected Academics And Decision-Makers Towards Adult Students., Curtis Smeby, Burton Sisco

Adult Education Research Conference

The investigation examined the attitudes of selected academics and decision-makers towards adult students 15 years after the original study was conducted, in another rural state, and in another region of the United States. While the primary purpose was to replicate the original study, a secondary purpose was to compare and identify changes in attitude.

"A Room Of One's Own": A Phenomenological Investigation Of Class, Age, Gender And Politics Of Institutional Change Regarding Adult Students On Campus., Peggy A. Sissel, Margaret Birdsong, Barbara Silaski

Adult Education Research Conference

This collaborative phenomenological investigation reveals the experience of adult student advocates in a university setting. The setting was interpreted as being mediated by interlocking systems of oppression. Issues included concepts of class, age, gender, and institutional politics related to resource allocation and meaning about the nature and needs of adult students.

Knowledge As "Quality Non-Conformance": A Critical Case Study Of Iso 9000 And Adult Education In The Workplace., Fred M. Schied, Vicki K. Carter, Judith A. Preston, Sharon L. Howell

Adult Education Research Conference

The study focused on the impact of the process seeking ISO 9000 registration and the way in which learning processes come to be defined as defective.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the July 3, 1997 meeting.

A Sociocultural Perspective Of Knowing: A Grounded Theory Of Epistemological Development Of Malaysian Women., Lucy Earle Reybold

Adult Education Research Conference

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the epistemological development of Malaysian women in Peninsular Malaysia. Based on constant comparison analysis of 14 in-depth interviews, a substantive theory of epistemological development was identified, including the process of that development and cultural factors that promote changes in epistemology.

Humanism And Individualism: Maslow And His Critics., Elaine Pearson, Ronald Podeschi

Adult Education Research Conference

Using broad-based literature, this study explores Abraham Maslow's humanistic psychology within the contexts of ideological criticism, 20th century U.S. adult education philosophies, and the theoretical issue of philosophical categories.

Voluntary Organizations And Nonformal Adult Education In Hungary: Professionalization And The Discourse Of Deficiency., Carol A. Pandak

Adult Education Research Conference

This paper explores issues of professionalization and the discourse of deficiency in Hungarian voluntary organizations and nonformal adult education. The argument is made that transformational adult education, e.g., Freire and Mezirow would be useful to dispel the myth of individual deficiencies.