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Spring 2015

Common Knowledge (2013-2019)

Notes from the dean; Family theory drives alumna's career in health information management; Strategic alliances garner interest in SNL; Tangaza University College celebrates religious leaders at SNL's penultimate commencement ceremony; ePortfolios chart student learning across the university; The buzz; SNL's Rosalind Franklin cohort enhances the Alliance for Health Sciences

Spring 2015

Insights

Notes from the interim dean; French and accounting add up to fulfilling career; DePaul, Rush University launch the Center for Community Health Equity; Center for Latino Research celebrates three decades of accomplishments; Digital academic journals yield direct connections with readers; Faculty collaboration enhances the student experience; Faculty publications; Map of the month demonstrates modern geography; In brief; Graduate Research Funding supports fledgling scholars

Students Volunteer For "Alternative" Spring Break Trips, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dozens of Dominican students volunteered to spend their spring break in 2015 studying and learning in a variety of locales from Yakima to New Zealand.

Barowsky School Sponsors "Career Mba Boot Camp", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The Barowsky School of Business at Dominican sponsored an “MBA Career Boot Camp” on February 28, a one-day student orientation featuring professional training and skills development.

Chronicle Taps Poli Scientist For Clinton Commentary, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The San Francisco Chronicle reached out to Alison Howard, chair of the Department of Political Science and International Studies, for insight on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s recent appearance before a Silicon Valley women’s conference.

Science Students Studying Endangered Coral Species In Lab, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Eight undergraduate students and three teaching assistants in Vania Coelho’s Bio Research Methodology class at Dominican have been handed the task and responsibility of studying a threatened species of coral native to Florida.

Huffington Post Cites Matthews' Work On Goal Setting, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

In a story published February 24 about ways to increase productivity, the Huffington Post cites a study by Dominican University of California psychology professor Dr. Gail Matthews.

Researcher, Students Study Malaria Drug Resistance, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

A manuscript by researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Makerere University in Uganda, and Dominican University of California biologist Dr. Roland Cooper, which examines the sensitivity of malaria parasites to anti-malarial treatment, has been accepted for publication in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. The report is a culmination of a five-year study of drug-resistant malaria parasites from African children, who are the most at risk of dying from malaria.

Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank Speaks At Dominican, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Barney Frank, who served Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 2013, spoke to a crowd of more than 500 at Dominican University of California on March 31 at the Institute for Leadership Studies’ Spring Author Series, presented in partnership with Book Passage.

Opening Reception Highlights "With Perplexity" Exhibit, Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

The Opening Reception for Crystal Liu’s "With Perplexity" was March 17 in the San Marco Gallery in Alemany Library at Dominican University of California in San Rafael.

Big History Program Presents "The Cosmic Story", Sarah Gardner, Dave Albee

Press Releases

Dominican presented an evening with two scholars of philosophy and religion, February 25 in Angelico Hall. Dr. John Haught, distinguished Research Professor from Georgetown University, and Dr. Loyal D. Rue, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Luther College, explored the search for meaning and truth at the intersections of science, nature, and religion. The lecture was moderated by Dr. Laura Stivers, Dean of Dominican’s School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

It Is A Small World After All! Blurring Geographic Lines Through Technology, Susan Schultz

Education Faculty/Staff Publications

Rural and urban schools often experience a digital divide, unable to keep pace with suburban counterparts. Technology inequities include lack of ‘tech savvy leadership,’ lack of resources and lack of ongoing professional development opportunities. Limited resources call for creative solutions such as community partnerships, and virtual experiences like digital field trips, augmented reality, and on-line instruction. Resources are recommended to help teachers integrate technology into the curriculum to support the varied and unique needs of a diverse group of students.

Connections, Issue 5, College Of Health And Human Services

College of Health and Human Services Newsletter

• College hosts health equity lecture and conference
• Student news and honors
• A visit to the Unified Clinics
• Faculty research, project and program updates
• Dean Washington calls for faculty teaching excellence award nominations

Education In A Technological Era: Tthe Eu Digital Agenda Policy - More Optimistic Than Realistic?, Philomena Hanlon

Level 3

Both the potential opportunities and risks for higher education providers in the digital education space are enormous. The EU in its policy paper The Digital Agenda for Europe (2010) sets out inter alia opportunities provided by the digital economy which is growing at seven times the rate of the rest of the economy across the EU. At the same time, an early pioneer of distance learning and digital education, The Open University, is currently experiencing some problems. A recent edition of Times Higher Education (Parr, 19-25 February, 2015, p. 8) reported that the Open University has a £17 m deficit …

Realising The Age Of Lifelong Learning: Higher Education Calls For The On-Going Capture And Valuing Of Non-Formal And Informal Learning, Phil O'Leary

Level 3

igher education must take a united approach to activating the lifelong learning mindset of all individuals in society. By calling for individuals to identify and name learning gained experientially in the workplace, or in community settings, higher education providers will normalise the on-going capture of knowledge, skills and competencies. This mindset is valuable in a time of economic uncertainty. Valuing learning ties to the preparation of material for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) should the individual’s knowledge be comparable with a particular programme or module. With this approach it is possible to capture significant learning events as they occur and …

Revisiting Leirman’S Four Cultures Of Education: Expert, Engineer, Prophet, Communicator, Ann Murphy

Level 3

This article revisits the four cultures of education devised by Professor Walter Leirman, University of Leuven and published in 1993. The four cultures are: expert, engineer, prophet and communicator. The dimensions of each culture and their implications for higher education policy and practice are described as Leirman outlined in his original matrix. The fifth culture ‘player’ is explained and added to the matrix with some commentary on its ambiguities. The article ends with Leirman’s two caveats about accepting his culture paradigms as more than the heuristic he intended.

Preventive Counseling Without Borders: Using Mobile Devices For Teaching, Training, And Wellness Promotion, Maxine L. Rawlins, Elizabeth Hughes

Counselor Education Faculty Publications

Despite documented benefits regarding the utilization of technology in counseling, it has been underutilized by school, mental health, and student affairs counselors. Even less information has been available regarding the professional use of mobile devices by counselors in this area. This interactive presentation examines the utilization of iPads in Preventive Counseling for instruction, training, social marketing, and wellness promotion. This practice-focused workshop reflects the presenters’ yearlong exploration of the iPad and selected apps for use in teaching, training, and wellness promotion. The workshop revisits the evidence-based Indivisible Self Wellness Model (Myers and Sweeney, 2004) and uses it as the conceptual …

President's Perspective (March 2015), John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

For those of you who, like me, were able to get away for a few days over spring recess, welcome back. The weather is much better than when we left. For those of you who stayed on campus and made tracks getting to some of those back-burner projects, thank you. I know it's sometimes helpful to have that kind of space to get things done, and I'm sure you made real progress.

Project-Based Science For General Education College Students And Seventh Graders: Pitfalls And Pointers, Walter S. Borowski, Malcolm P. Frisbie, Tara Shepperson, Linda Frost

EKU Faculty and Staff Scholarship

We teach a general-education science course for honors students, who in turn mentor disadvantaged seventh graders through a water quality investigation of a local stream. Activities for both groups involve all aspects of a scientific project: scientific background, local context, project design, data collection and analysis, and communication of scientific results. On successive weeks, we first lead our college students through each step in the process then the honors students mentor middle school students through those same steps. College and middle school teachers act as facilitators, and each honors student is responsible for about 6 to 8 middle schoolers. The …

Results Of A Pilot Analysis Of Actem Listserv Posts As A Tool For Examining Maine Learning Technology Initiative Program Implementation, Components Of The School Funding Formula

Education Technology

As part of its ongoing evaluation efforts of Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) staff examined the ACTEM listserv archives for the 2014 calendar year, which overlaps with two academic years, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. The goal of this examination was to pilot a process for documenting and categorizing the listserv content and to determine the viability of this process in providing useful evidence of implementation of the MLTI program. The present report provides an overview of the quality and quantity of messages exchanged through the listserv and a discussion of this evidence.

Torch (March 2015), Brandon Baldwin, Civil Rights Team Project

Torch: The Civil Rights Team Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Preliminary Examinations Of The Relationships Between The Use Levels Of Maine Learning Technology Initiative Devices And School-Level Poverty, Bernadette Doykos Phd, David L. Silvernail, Amy F. Johnson Phd

Education Technology

As MLTI extends into its second decade of operation, a number of questions have emerged that require increased attention to ensure that the needs of students and teachers are being met. For example: Is there evidence of a second “digital divide”—one of skills and use—across the state of Maine? Does the socioeconomic status of students and schools in Maine influence the level of technology integration? The purpose of the present Brief was to explore these questions. To accomplish this, we examine how students’ use of technology varies by schools’ free and reduced priced lunch (FRPL) by analyzing data from student …

Deletion Of Shank1 Has Minimal Effects On The Molecular Composition And Function Of Glutamatergic Afferent Postsynapses In The Mouse Inner Ear, Jeremy P. Braude, Sarath Vijayakumar, Katherine Baumgarner, Rebecca Laurine, Timothy A. Jones, Sherri M. Jones, Sonya J. Pyott

Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders: Faculty Publications

Abstract

Shank proteins (1-3) are considered the master organizers of glutamatergic postsynaptic densities in the central nervous system, and the genetic deletion of either Shank1, 2, or 3 results in altered composition, form, and strength of glutamatergic postsynapses. To investigate the contribution of Shank proteins to glutamatergic afferent synapses of the inner ear and especially cochlea, we used immunofluorescence and quantitative real time PCR to determine the expression of Shank1, 2, and 3 in the cochlea. Because we found evidence for expression of Shank1 but not 2 and 3, we investigated the morphology, composition, and function of afferent postsynaptic densities …

Nebraskamath Final Report 2015

NebraskaMATH Materials

A Message from Jim Lewis, pg. 2

By the Numbers, pg. 4

2014 Nebraska Summit on Math and Science Education, pg. 6

Primarily Math Featured Teacher: Kristine Ray, pg. 8

Overview, pg. 10

Program and Certificate, pg. 11

Featured Teacher: Gwen Schultz, pg. 13

Research: Impact on Teachers, pg. 14

Featured Teacher: Allie Elsasser, pg. 18

Research: Impact on Students, pg. 19

Featured Teacher: Kristy Kennedy, pg. 21

Featured Teacher: Marni Driessen, pg. 22

Math Studio, pg. 23

Featured Teacher: Jennifer Kaminski, pg. 26

Math Early On, pg. 27

Featured Teacher: Andrew Boone, pg. 28

Nebraska Algebra and New Teacher …

Special Education Due Process Hearing Requests Under Idea: A Hearing Should Not Always Be Required, Timothy E. Gilsbach

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Balancing Prevention And Liability: The Use Of Waiver To Limit University Liability For Student Suicide, Brittney Kern

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

International Students Newsletter, International Studies

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

College Of Arts And Sciences E-News Issue 23: March 2015, College Of Arts And Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

• Anita Hill's lecture has been rescheduled
• Litvinova Awarded NSF Grant
• Sharon Gill Awarded Grant to Study Soundscape
• People In Business: Alex Wirth-Cauchon of Mount Holyoke College
• A Journey in Writing
• Canton, Mich., resident begins Peace Corps service in Panama

How Success In A Task Depends On The Skills Level: Two Uncertainty-Based Justifications Of A Semi-Heuristic Rasch Model, Joe Lorkowski, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

The more skills a student acquires, the more successful this student is with the corresponding tasks. Empirical data shows that the success in a task grows as a logistic function of skills; this dependence is known as the Rasch model. In this paper, we provide two uncertainty-based justifications for this model: the first justification provides a simple fuzzy-based intuitive explanation for this model, while the second -- more complex one -- explains the exact quantitative behavior of the corresponding dependence.

Coming Up With A Good Question Is Not Easy: A Proof, Joe Lorkowski, Luc Longpre, Olga Kosheleva, Salem Benferhat

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Ability to ask good questions is an important part of learning skills. Coming up with a good question, a question that can really improve one's understanding of the topic, is not easy. In this paper, we prove -- on the example of probabilistic and fuzzy uncertainty -- that the problem of selecting of a good question is indeed hard.