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Ua3/9/7 Accreditation Victory, Wku President's Office - Ransdell

WKU Administration Documents

Email from WKU president Gary Ransdell to faculty & staff regarding accreditation.

Experiences, Perceived Challenges, And Support Systems Of Early College High School Students, Karen P. Sáenz, Julie P. Combs

Administrative Issues Journal

In this qualitative study, the prior experiences, perceived challenges, and support systems of 17 Grade 12 Hispanic students at an early college high school were explored using the framework of social capital theory. Utilizing Moustakas’s phenomenological design, data were collected using focus group and individuals interviews. Several themes emerged and were related to the conceptual framework of social capital, such as the school environment, support from family and teachers, and the students’ identify and values. Understanding the experiences of the Grade 12 students can provide valuable information for high school and college administrators in an ECHS setting.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 45, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Harney, Lashana. Winner of Presidency Called Into Question – Student Government Association, Jay Richey, Elections
• Crumbie, Trey & Shelby Rogers. Under Water – Swimming, Hazing, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault
• McKay, Michael. Rand Paul Announces Presidential Campaign – Politicians
• Henderson, Andrew. Students Learn About Citizen Rights During Lecture – Courtney Teasley
• Disgraceful Decisions – Swimming, Hazing, Sexual Assault
• Profumo, Morgan. Living Transgender Still An Unfair Struggle – Gays, Lesbians
• Hyde, Will. The Blacklist Lacks Progressive Writing for Women – Television Review
• Boliaux, Nicole. Big Green Thumb – Horticulture Club
• Ponder, …

Faculty Observables And Self-Reported Responsiveness To Academic Dishonesty, Robert T. Burrus, Jr., Adam T. Jones, William H. Sackley, Michael Walker

Administrative Issues Journal

Prior to 2009, a mid-sized public institution in the southeast had a faculty-driven honor policy characterized by little education about the policy and no tracking of repeat offenders. An updated code, implemented in August of 2009, required that students sign an honor pledge, created a formal student honor board, and developed a process to track and hold accountable, repeat offenders. Self-reported data on faculty vigilance to detect and punish cheating is collected both prior to and after a change in the honor code at a mid-sized public institution in the southeast. We find that, at the time of the first …

Calderwood Writing Initiative At Umass Boston, Denise Patmon, Carolyn Wong, Cedric Woods, Elena Stone

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Founded in 2003, the Calderwood Writing Initiative is dedicated to improving the teaching and practice of expository writing. In the past, the Initiative has sponsored a wide variety of experimental programs & approaches.

The Complementary Effects Of Empathy And Nonverbal Communication Training On Persuasion Capabilities, Robin T. Peterson, James M. Leonhardt

Administrative Issues Journal

This paper investigates the possible complementary effects that training in empathy and nonverbal communication may have on persuasion capabilities. The narrative considers implications from the literature and describes an exploratory study in which students, in a managerial setting, were trained in empathy and nonverbal communication. Subsequent evaluations of these students by faculty evaluators and the students themselves provide preliminary evidence that training in empathy, on the one hand, and nonverbal communication on the other can be effective, but concurrent training in both of these is superior to concentration in only one. This is the first research report which deals with …

Ua12/2/1/ College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 44, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Wright, Samantha. Faculty, Staff Face Parking Pass Changes – Parking & Transportation Services
• Ares, Nicole. One In A Million – Chris Goodman, Bone Marrow Donors
• Crumbie, Trey. Transfer, International Students Highlight Spring Enrollment – Registrar
• Richey, Jay. A New Vision for WKU – Student Government Association
• Hughey, Aaron. Higher Education: Save Us from Our Saviors
• French, Jackson. Fast & Furious 7 Has Something for Everybody – Movie Review
• Benkato, Leanora. One Night Only Photo Spread – Miss Omega Pageant
• Henderson, Andrew. Whatever Floats Your Boat – Concrete Canoe Team …

The Use Of Twitter In The Creation Of Educational Professional Learning Opportunities, Carrie R. Ross, Robert M. Maninger, Kimberly N. Laprairie, Sam Sullivan

Administrative Issues Journal

This study sought to examine how educators are using Twitter to increase their professional learning opportunities beyond the boundaries of traditional professional development offers, and whether educators feel a greater sense of fulfillment receiving professional development through networking and community learning than they do through traditional means of learning. A population of 160 educators—105 females and 55 males between the ages of 22 and 65—were surveyed using education related hashtags on Twitter. Thirty-two educators from the survey population elected to participate in an interview. The study discovered that educators are frequently using Twitter professionally to collaborate, network, and engage in …

Using Emergence Theory-Based Curriculum To Teach Compromise Skills To Students With Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Lance Fein, Don Jones

Administrative Issues Journal

This study addresses the compromise skills that are taught to students diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) and related social and communication deficits. A private school in the southeastern United States implemented an emergence theory-based curriculum to address these skills, yet no formal analysis was conducted to determine its effectiveness. Guided by cognitive development and constructivist theories, a concurrent, mixed methods, case study design was used to investigate the impact of this curriculum on teaching compromise skills to middle school students with ASD and related deficits. For the qualitative sequence, teacher observations and compromise interventions from eight participants were open …

Emotional Support Animals, Service Animals, And Pets On Campus, C. W. Von Bergen

Administrative Issues Journal

For decades, universities have been accommodating physically disabled students who require guide dogs and other types of service animals. Within the past several years, however, mentally disabled students have increasingly petitioned colleges with no-pet policies to permit them to bring their animals on campus because they need a companion or emotional support animal to make college life easier and to reduce their stress, loneliness, depression, and/or anxiety. Institutions that unlawfully reject such requests are finding themselves in court and charged with disability discrimination. Schools are understandably confused about their obligation, if any, to waive their no-pet rules under these circumstances. …

We Get To Carry Each Other: Using The Musical Activism Of U2 As Framework For An Engaged Spirituality And Community Engagement Course, Marshall Welch

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

This article describes a January term community engagement service-learning course that used the musical and spiritually-based activism of the rock group U2 as an example of engaged spirituality using activism and advocacy. In addition to learning about the history, music, and activism of the band, students were taught a specific set of skills for activism, advocacy, and community organizing that included creating goal statements, developing and implementing action plans, and coordinating logistics for advocacy-based events on campus. Students were assigned to apply these skills as the service-learning component of the course. These activities were conceptualized as indirect service that reflected …

Interfacing Catholic Social Meanings, Sociology, Self, And Pedagogical Practices, Daniel J. Myers, Andrew J. Weigert

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

What connects Catholic Social Tradition with Sociology? How do each inform the other and how do they, together, flow through and animate the sociologist? Within a student-driven learning community pedagogy, this course builds on the humanistic aspects of Sociology as a scientific perspective a la Peter Berger’s Invitation to Sociology. This foundation is then filtered through a social psychological understanding of self with a sense of vocation through which persons’ deepest passions meets humans’ greatest needs. Biographical vignettes of sociologists’ careers of study that address issues of racial and gender inequalities and psycho-social shifts in values over the life course …

Journey Into Shame: Implications For Justice Pedagogies, Roger C. Bergman

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

Being formed for justice can be a painful experience. Sometimes that pain takes the form of shame and contributes to the formation and exercise of conscience. But shame in other forms can be opposed to human flourishing and social justice. Psychologist James Fowler provides a spectrum of two forms of healthy shame and four forms of unhealthy shame, to which the author adds four other varieties, strategic shame and spiritual shame, at one end of the spectrum, and murderous shame and genocidal shame, at the other. Various experiences of shame are dramatically illustrated in Black Like Me, John Howard …

Prophetic Imagination: Confronting The New Jim Crow & Income Inequality In America, Cornel West

Engaging Pedagogies in Catholic Higher Education (EPiCHE)

On October 11, 2014, Cornel West delivered the keynote address to nearly 600 students at the regional Leadership & Social Justice Conference, hosted at Saint Mary’s College of California. The conference occurred two days before West was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, during a demonstration to protest the killing of young Black men by White police officers, as in the case of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson. Speaking of the students, West said, "I would like to see these precious young people commit themselves to lives of integrity, honesty and decency, where they are vigilant against all forms of evil—White supremacists, …

Letter From The Editor, Kelly S. Moor

Administrative Issues Journal

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 43, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• WKU Probes Into Title IX Violations by Swim Team – Swimming
• Wright, Samantha. Heels for a Higher Cause – Walk a Mile In Her Shoes, Sexual Assault Awareness
• Rogers, Shelby. Student Government Association Candidates Balance Campaign Financing – Elections
• Ares, Nicole. Indiana Religious Freedom Bill Sparks Discussion – Religious Freedom Restoration Act - Politics
• Lawson, Anna. Student Government Association Inducts New Senators, Wraps Up Election
• Voorhees, Jessica. WKU Introduces Competency-Based Degree – Curriculum
• Profuma, Morgan. Measuring Up: Are the Media to Blame for Shattered Self-Esteem? – Advertising
• Hyde, Will. …

Making Oral Communication A Successful Part Of The Common Core, Jon A. Hess

Communication Faculty Publications

Adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) represents the first time that oral communication has been included in the curriculum requirements for K–12 education in many states. If done well, this change will provide important benefits to students. However, effective implementation will require collaboration among policymakers, educators, and experts in oral communication.

As educators work to strengthen primary and secondary education in the United States, many agree that schools need educational standards that are grounded in today’s needs and shared across states. The CCSS have emerged as a potential solution, and the majority of states have adopted these standards. …

Administrative Issues Journal: Table Of Contents

Administrative Issues Journal

No abstract provided.

The Historical Role Of Women In Higher Education, Patsy Parker

Administrative Issues Journal

Historically, females, as compared to males, have represented a lower percentage of college professors and administrators in the United States. The tendency for males to outnumber females in the professoriate and college administration has existed since United States higher education institutions formed in the early 1800s and still persists today. Fluctuations in women’s participation rate have been influenced by the economy’s history and society’s expectations of females. Observation of the employment trends for females offers an interesting look at the evolving role of women in the United States workforce, in general, and in the university setting, in particular.

Ua77/1 Wku Spirit, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Administration Documents

WKU's alumni magazine. Contents:

• Jimmy Feix 1931-2014
• Ransdell, Gary. Letter from the President
• Thompson Complex – North Wing Razed
• WKU Yearbook Wins Pacemaker Award – Talisman
• Neale Chumbler Named Dean of College of Health & Human Services
• Six Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science Students Semifinalists in 2014 Siemans Competition
• WKU Among 30 Most Beautiful College Campuses in the South
• Don Dizney Receives Honorary Doctorate for Public Service
• WKU Named to Military Friendly Schools List for 6^th Straight Year
• WKU Listed in Open Doors Report for Study Abroad Participation
• Six WKU Students Honored by Gilman Scholarship Program
• WKU Graduate …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Staff Council

Staff Council

Minutes of the April 1, 2015 meeting.

Ua1c11/57 Spring Graduate Hooding Ceremony Photos Part I, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Unidentified images from the 2015 Nursing graduate hooding ceremony.

Ua1c11/57 Spring Graduate Hooding Ceremony Photos Part Ii, Wku Nursing

WKU Administration Documents

Unidentified images of the 2015 Nursing graduate hooding ceremony.

Modernizing Nevada's Education Structures: Opportunities For The 78th Session Of The Nevada Legislature, Magdalena Martinez, David F. Damore

Lincy Institute Reports and Briefs

Nevada's educational outcomes – both K-12 and higher education – are woeful. The consequences of this for the state's present and future are myriad and alarming. Poor educational outcomes mean that the state receives little return on investment from current educational spending. High dropout rates and sub-par academic achievement fail to instill the foundational skills necessary to put Nevada students on a path for future success. The dearth of Nevadans holding advanced degrees or certificates hinders economic development. In this brief, Modernizing Nevada's Education Structures: Opportunities for the 78th Session of the Nevada Legislature, Drs. Martinez and Damore review research …

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 2015

Nebraska Transcript

2 Dean’s Message

Faculty Updates

4 Lenich: Preparing Students for Practice

6 Faculty Notes

16 Medill Recognized for Performance in Employee Benefits Law

17 Bornstein Named Director of Law-Psychology Program

Feature: 18 Chief Justice Roberts Visits College

Around the College

22 Law-Psychology Program Celebrates 40th Anniversary

24 3Ls Boal, Odle Argue before United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

24 EClinic Rural Tour

25 Community Legal Education Project Leads Constitution Day Outreach Effort

26 Haugen Spends Summer at International Law Firm in Uruguay

28 Nebraska Law Client Counseling Competition Named for Professors Frank, Lawson

30 December Commencement Pictorial …

Race, Culture And Agency: Examining The Ideologies And Practices Of Us Teachers Of Black Male Students, Quaylan Allen

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This study examines teachers of Black male students in a United States secondary school setting. Qualitative methods were used to document teachers' ideologies of and practices with their Black male students. In general, teachers drew upon competing structural and cultural explanations of Black male social and academic outcomes, while also engaging in practices that contested school barriers for Black males. Teacher beliefs about and practices with their Black male students were inconsistent in many ways, yet their agency on behalf of Black males might be understood as essential to Black male educational progress.

The Limits Of Federal Disability Law: State Educational Voucher Programs, Wendy Hensel

Faculty Publications By Year

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently investigating the state of Wisconsin with respect to its administration of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), which provides low-income students with public money to attend private schools. Faced with complaints of disability discrimination by private schools accepting voucher students, DOJ has ordered Wisconsin to oversee and police these schools to ensure compliance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which applies to states and their agencies, and § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which applies to recipients of federal funding. Although conditioning its directive on the state's coverage under these …

Masculinities, Gendered Expression, And The Social, Emotional, And Academic Well-Being Of High School Boys, Cynthia Bazinet

Educational Studies Dissertations

There has been longstanding concern over the seemingly intractable problem of boys’ academic achievement. Despite extensive research, there is little consensus among researchers and educators regarding best practices and approaches in mitigating and remediating the problem. This mixed-methods study sought to illuminate the issue further by focusing on the meaningful lived experiences of six young men aged 18 to 24 who attended and graduated from a central Massachusetts public high school. The study asked participants to reflect through prompted writing upon the stresses and pressures as well as the factors and conditions that affected their abilities to manage their performativities …

Organizational Communication: Perceptions Of Staff Members' Level Of Communication Satisfaction And Job Satisfaction, Priti Sharma, James Lampley, Donald W. Good

ETSU Faculty Works

The purpose of this research study was to explore the topic of organizational communication in higher education and examine staff members’ perceptions about their level of communication and job satisfaction in their workplaces. This study was also designed to test the relationship between communication satisfaction and job satisfaction by analyzing the significance of different dimensions of Communication Satisfaction with the view that satisfaction is multifaceted.

The results of the study indicated that gender differences and the number of years in service do not seem to make a significant difference in the level of satisfaction among staff members, but the level …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 90, No. 42, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Voorhees, Jessica. Board Approves Fees Increase, Tuition to Rise 3.7 Percent Total – Regents
• Wright, Samantha. All Night Long – Up ‘Til Dawn, Charity, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
• Voorhees, Jessica. Board of Regents Approves Six-Year Capital Plan – Campus Master Plan, Facilities Management
• Voorhees, Jessica. WKU Prepares for National Reaccreditation – Southern Association of Colleges & Schools, SACS
• Henderson, Andrew. Housing & Residence Life to Celebrate Greek Culture with Zombie Walk for Students – Fraternities and Sororities
• French, Jackson. Despite Premise Get Hard Is A Solid Comedy – …