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Acuta Enews December 2008, Vol. 37, No. 12
Acuta Enews December 2008, Vol. 37, No. 12
ACUTA Newsletters
In This Issue
From the President.............. Corinne Hoch, Columbia, Univ., ACUTA President
Board Report............. Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer
DC Update............. Dave Ostrom, Washington State Univ. (retired)
Info Links........... Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa
ACUTA Guide to Products and Services: Keep It Handy, Use It Often
ACUTA Web Seminar: Wireless Andrew 2.0
"Earthbottle" Brought to you by Clemson
Check It Out: Press Releases... Job Postings.... RFIs/RFPs
Holiday Greetings from the ACUTA Staff
Welcome New Members
College Of Agricultural Sciences And Natural Resources, 15th Annual Report August 1, 2007-July 31, 2008
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR): Annual Reports
Contents
Introduction 3 • Dedication 5 • Administration and Staff 6 • Academic Unit Administrators 6 • CASNR Standing Committees 7 • Faculty Advisory Council 7 • Student Advising Improvement Committee 8 • Teaching and Learning Improvement Council 9 • Scholarship and Graduation with Distinction Committee 9 • Curriculum Committee 10 • Teaching Faculty 11 • Faculty Meetings 11 • New Faculty or Faculty with New Appointments 11 • Retirements 12 • Faculty Awards 12 • Departmental News and Events 14 • Agricultural Economics 15 • Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication 18 • Agronomy and Horticulture 20 • Animal Science …
Acuta Enews November 2008, Vol. 37, No. 11
Acuta Enews November 2008, Vol. 37, No. 11
ACUTA Newsletters
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From ACUTA Headquarters: FCC lssues Rules to lmplement NET 91 1 ACT........ Jeri Semer, CAE, Exec. Dir
Tech Talk: For Most, the Big Change on Campus ls Wireless.............Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
DC Update.............. Dove Ostrom, Washlngton State University
Nominate Now for ACUTA Board of Directors
Be a State/Province Coordinator
Teflon:A Dangerous Part of a High-Risk World.................Frank Bisbee, Wireville USA
Thanks to Exhibitors for 2008
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa
Board Report, October....................... Riny Ledgenuood, San Diego State Univ.
Welcome New Members
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
Acuta Enews October 2008, Vol. 37, No. 10
Acuta Enews October 2008, Vol. 37, No. 10
ACUTA Newsletters
In This Issue
Nominate Now for 2009-2008 Board of Directors
From the President................. Corinne Hoch, Columbia Univ., ACUTA President
Tech Talk: Why Not Share That Extra Computing Power?................ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
DC Update................. Dave Ostrom, Washington State University
Clemson Researchers' EarthBottle Made fro Plants Will Soon Be in Stores
Info Links...................... Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa
The ICT Regulations toolkit: A Resource Worth Checking Out
Loans to Cover Disaster Losses
Board Report................ Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer
Check It Out: Press Releases... Job Postings... RFIs/RFPs
OCS Federation Submarien Cable Completed
Welcome New Members
Acuta Enews September 2008, Vol. 37, No. 9
Acuta Enews September 2008, Vol. 37, No. 9
ACUTA Newsletters
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From ACUTA Headquarters: Ramped-up Schedule................Jeri A. Semer, CAE, Executive Director
New Section on ACUTA Website
Audio Seminar: Technology-Related lmptications of the 2008 Higher Ed Opportunities Act
Tech Talk: ACUTA Member Schools Are Mostly in the Green ........ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
DC Update ......... Dave Ostrom, Washington State University
lP PBX Witt Reign: Converged PBX Will Slowly Fade Away........................Gary Audin, Delphi, lnc.
Get Your ACUTA Logo here
Look on the Light Side
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa
Welcome New Members
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Acuta Enews August 2008, Vol. 37, No. 8
Acuta Enews August 2008, Vol. 37, No. 8
ACUTA Newsletters
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Report from the 37th Annual Conference & Exhibition
From the President.......Corinne Hoch, Columbia Univ., ACUTA President
Board Report............ Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer
Tech Talk: Disks Will Fail, but how Do You Know When?.......... ...Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa
DC Update ...........Dove Ostrom, Washington State University
Welcome New Members
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
Conference Sessions Online
Treasure Chest Winners
Green Survey Winner
Acuta Enews June 2008, Vol. 37, No. 6
Acuta Enews June 2008, Vol. 37, No. 6
ACUTA Newsletters
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From the President........ Walt Magnussen, Texas A&M Univ., ACUTA President
Board Report ............Riny Ledgerwood, Son Diego State Univ., ACUTA Secretary/Treasurer
Audio Seminar: Strategic Views of VolP and Staffing
Tech Talk: lf Only Aspirin Worked for Network Headaches.......... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
Renewed Your Membership?
DC Update .........Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, The University of the South
More on FERPA Supporting higher education
Making the Most of ACUTA Resources...................... Dave Wirth, Princeton University
Video over lP
Thanks to PAETEC technology
ACUTA Conference Blog
More Green Incentives................................ Gray Audi, Delphi, Inc.
lnfo Links................. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern Iowa
Welcome New …
Acuta Enews May 2008, Vol. 37, No. 5
Acuta Enews May 2008, Vol. 37, No. 5
ACUTA Newsletters
ln This Issue
From ACUTA Headquarters.......... Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executive Director
Two Audio Seminars in May
Tech Talk: Femtocells: Designed to Give Cellular Coverage a Boost........................ Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR 3
Board Approves State of Nominees
DC Update Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, The University of the South
Board Report.................. Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Sec./Treasurer
Recycle Old Cell Phones
Be a Telecom BMOC: Win Big Buck
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
lnfo links.................. Randy Hayes' Univ. of Northern lowa
Be a Moderator or Monitor at the Annual Conference..... Donna Hall, ACUTA Mgr. of Professional …
Acuta Enews April 2008, Vol. 37, No. 4
Acuta Enews April 2008, Vol. 37, No. 4
ACUTA Newsletters
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From the President..................Walt Magnussen, Texas A&N Univ., ACUTA President
Board Report.........................Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Sec./Treasurer
Campus Safety Legislation Mulled in Wake of Shootings ......Raymond Thrower, Jr., IACLEA
Tech Talk: We'll Ask Again: ls This a Phone You Want on Your Network? Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
12th Annual Strategic Leadership Forum Topics
DC Update .............Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, The University of the South
Nominate Now for ACUTA Ruth A. Michalecki Award
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa
Welcome New Members
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
Acuta Enews March 2008, Vol. 37, No. 3
Acuta Enews March 2008, Vol. 37, No. 3
ACUTA Newsletters
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From ACUTA Headquarters..........................Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executive Director
Nominate Now for ACUTA Board of Directors
Board Report..................... Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego Stale Univ., ACUTA Sec./Treasurer
Tech Talk: Charge back Systems Get a Mediocre Grade ..................Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
Program Committee Seeks Members
DC Update................. Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, The University of the South
Wording Emergency Messages
lnfo Links......................Randy Hayes, Univ' of Northern lowa
FYI: Useful lnformation from Campus................... Eric Weil, Student Monitor
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
Welcome New Members
Acuta Enews February 2008, Vol. 37, No. 2
Acuta Enews February 2008, Vol. 37, No. 2
ACUTA Newsletters
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From the President........ Walt Magnussen, Texas A&M Univ., ACUTA President
Board Report ................... Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego Stale Univ, , ACUTA, Sec./Treasurer
Check lt Out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
Tech Talk: What Kind of Experience Does Your Website Provide?.............Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
DC Update ............Jeanne Jansenius, Sewonee, The University of the South
Grant Money for Minority College Wireless Networks
Ethernet Alliance White Paper Challenge
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa
Deadline for lnstitutional Excellence Awards ls February 15
Welcome New Members
Acuta Enews January 2008, Vol. 37, No. 1
Acuta Enews January 2008, Vol. 37, No. 1
ACUTA Newsletters
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From ACUTA Headquarters.................. Jeri A. Semer, CAE, ACUTA Executive Director
Board Report.............Riny Ledgerwood, San Diego State Univ., ACUTA Sec./Treasurer
Tech Talk: Play the Network Game and Track Mystery Signals ......... Kevin Tanzillo, Dux PR
Institutional Excellence Award Deadline: February 15
DC Update ................Jeanne Jansenius, Sewanee, The University of the South
lnfo Links ............. Randy Hayes, Univ. of Northern lowa
Thanks to 2007 Journal Advertisers
FYI: Useful lnformation from Campus............Eric Weil, Student Mlonitor
Welcome New Members
Check lt out: RFls/RFPs, Job Postings, Press Releases
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
About The Authors, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
About the editors and authors of volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Preface, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Preface to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
A Research–Based Rubric For Developing Statements Of Teaching Philosophy, Matthew Kaplan, Deborah S. Meizlish, Christopher O'Neal, Mary C. Wright
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Despite its ubiquity as the way that instructors represent their views on teaching and learning, the statement of teaching philosophy can be a frustrating document to write and the results are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University of Michigan’s Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to help faculty and graduate students craft teaching statements. We describe the research that informed the creation of the rubric, talk about how we use the rubric in our consultations and workshops, and present an assessment that validates the use of the rubric to improve instructors’ teaching statements.
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
Investigating Indicators Of The Scholarship Of Teaching: Teaching Awards In Research Universities, Stacie Badran
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Results from a nationwide study of teaching awards programs in mathematics departments of U.S. research universities show that only a small percentage even offers such awards. Those that do either use ad hoc procedures and criteria for making awards or prioritize curricular contributions over instructional and pedagogical knowledge in selecting award winners. In addition, mathematics faculty reserve the term scholarship for research in the discipline rather than research on teaching of the discipline.
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
Thawing The Chilly Climate: Inclusive Teaching Resources For Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math, Katherine A. Friederich, Sherill L. Sellers, Judith N. Burstyn
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although universities are aware of the need to promote diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), this awareness has not translated into significant changes in classroom environments. Many STEM instructors would like to offer equal opportunities for success to all of their students, but they are not sure where to begin. We describe an effective group of teaching tools that can empower STEM faculty and graduate students to modify their courses to address diversity at their own pace. These resources extend from awareness exercises to recommendations for action and have been useful tools for course design, teaching assistant training, …
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
Meeting The Challenges Of Integrative Learning: The Nexia Concept, Jane Love
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Integrative learning challenges faculty developers to facilitate integrative and connective experiences not only for students, but for faculty as well. For many faculty, curricular requirements impede connective teaching, and the widespread assumption that connectivity must be taught on the course level also limits their ability to enrich students’ learning through diverse perspectives and interactions. Nexia is an approach to this problem based on the concept of ad hoc connectivity, or small-scale, focused, short-term connections that allow students from two or more courses to interact around points of interest to both classes. By releasing connective teaching from expensive curricular constraints, the …
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
Stereotype Threat And Ten Things We Can Do To Remove The Threat In The Air, Franklin A. Tuitt, Lois Reddick
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
The purpose of this chapter is to present an overview of the literature related to stereotype threat in an effort to provide faculty members and instructional developers with a better understanding of what the phenomenon is and what can be done about it in college classroom settings. To this end, we reviewed several of the major studies published on the subject between 1995 and 2005 and compiled a list of strategies that reflected both the major empirical findings on stereotype threat and our own research and experiences with faculty and students in college settings. Given the enormity of the subject, …
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
Credibility And Effectiveness In Context: An Exploration Of The Importance Of Faculty Status For Faculty Developers, Bonnie B. Mullinix
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This study documents an emerging profile of the faculty status of faculty developers as solicited, compiled, and interactively interpreted with faculty developer practitioners. It used integrated (mixed) methodology and participatory research strategies to gather data and it shares descriptive statistical information on the various positions held by faculty developer respondents; qualitatively analyzed impressions of the importance of faculty status to their credibility and effectiveness as faculty developers; and information regarding respondents’ institutional contexts. Findings are further disaggregated across institutional contexts and sex to explore trends, differential perceptions, and other emergent issues as identified by participant researchers.
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
The Teaching Resource Portfolio: A Tool Kit For Future Professoriate And A Resource Guide For Current Teachers, Dieter J. Schönwetter
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Extensive annotated bibliographies have guided academic researchers over several years and in various disciplines, providing key resources to assist in the development of new ideas. However, less common are published annotated bibliographies on effective teaching resources, both general to teaching across various disciplines as well as specific to each discipline, that guide the academic in the teaching enterprise. This chapter focuses on a tool, the teaching resource portfolio, that helps the graduate student preparing for an academic career including teaching, the new faculty member desiring additional teaching resources, the academic wishing to have resources that support discipline-specific scholarship of teaching …
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
Bibliography, Volume 26 (2008)
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Bibliography for volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
Supporting The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning At Liberal Arts Colleges, Dolores Peters, David Schodt, Mary Walczak
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Although the liberal arts college, with its traditional focus on teaching, may seem like a natural environment for the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), few such institutions participate in national SoTL initiatives. Our associates’ experience since 2001 suggests a model for supporting SoTL in teaching-intensive contexts based on faculty ownership, a focus on general education, and some emerging rules of engagement. Because faculty reward systems must validate SoTL if it is to become part of the institutional culture, we also describe one department’s efforts to reform its review criteria in order to define scholarly activity broadly.
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
Grounded Theory Research In Faculty Development: The Basics, A Live Example, And Practical Tips For Faculty Developers, Michael Sweet, Rochelle Roberts, Joshua Walker, Stephen Walls, John Kuscera, Shana Shaw, Janet Riekenberg, Marilla Svinicki
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
While autobiographical narratives and case study reflections remain vital to faculty development research, we must also make substantive efforts to build theory in our field. Researchers making claims about collective meanings of observed behaviors and the mechanisms that underlie them (i.e., theoretical claims about social behavior) must be disciplined in how they identify and organize the evidence they use to support those claims. Such systematic, inductive theory-building in the social sciences is called “grounded theory” research. This chapter presents the basics of grounded theory research, describes a grounded theory research program currently being executed by faculty developers, and offers practical …
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
Introduction, Volume 26 (2008), Douglas Reimondo Robertson
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Introduction to volume 26 (2008) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Northern Kentucky University.
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
Promoting Learning–Focused Teaching Through A Project–Based Faculty Development Program, Susanna Calkins, Greg Light
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter describes how we incorporated project-based learning into a yearlong faculty development program at a research-intensive private university located in the Midwest. This inquiry-based approach fosters critical reflection on teaching and promotes learner-focused teaching in a manner that encourages deeper student approaches to learning. We use case studies, drawn from critical accounts of faculty projects, to illustrate a model that depicts how faculty understand improvement in their teaching and to identify key program elements that facilitated the adoption of learning-focused teaching practices by our participants.
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
Reflecting And Writing About Our Teaching, Mark Weisberg
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Reflecting on what we are doing can help us become better teachers and better people; yet in our increasingly busy and stressful lives, how can we find the space and time? This chapter describes and exemplifies two strategies that can help us and our colleagues become more reflective about our teaching and about our vocation: the Teachers’ Reading Circle, meeting for regular discussions of provocative texts about teaching and learning, and the Teachers’ Writing Circle, using prompts and examples of colleagues’ writing to set participants on an extended course of writing about their own teaching.
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
Breaking Down Barriers To The Use Of Technology For Teaching In Higher Education, Erping Zhu
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
This chapter examines the most common technologies used for teaching on college campuses and the most common barriers to advanced uses of technology tools. Survey results consistently show that the major barriers to incorporating technology into higher education are lack of faculty time, faculty doubts about the relevancy of technology to disciplinary learning, and inadequate technical support for faculty projects and technology uses. This chapter, then, proposes several approaches developed and assessed by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan for removing those barriers to technology uses in higher education. Although providing flexible technology …
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
Team Mentoring: An Alternative Way To Mentor New Faculty, Tara Gray, A. Jane Birch
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Traditional mentoring programs usually have no mechanism for Protégés to learn from each other, and they often match protégés with mentors sight unseen. Team mentoring is a less hierarchical program in which protégés mentor each other in a group while searching for more permanent and personal mentors. In this program, protégés and mentors are arguably better matched because mentors are chosen by the Protégé. In addition, Protégés benefit by tapping into the wisdom of their peers. As a result, team mentoring is a viable alternative to traditional mentoring programs.
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
Marketing Plans For Faculty Development: Student And Faculty Development Center Collaboration For Mutual Benefit, Victoria Mundy Bhavsar, Steven J. Skinner
To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development
Our faculty development center engaged senior-level business students as consultants to help us inform instructors about our resources. The students argued that organizational and marketing tasks are critical to our pedagogical work as they create opportunities for the pedagogical work to occur. This chapter describes the collaboration, the students’ recommendations, and the center’s response. Engaging students, our ultimate clients, in setting priorities for our center was a powerful learning experience for both us and them. Other centers may wish to use our experiences as impetus to collaborate with students on their campuses.