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2009-10 Unopa General Meeting Minutes

UNOPA: Minutes

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University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2008-2009

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Administration: Reports, Papers, Publications, and Presentations

Fact Book Table of Contents

General Information

UNL Core Values ................................. 4

Role and Mission Statement ................................................................. 5

Institutional & Professional Accreditations ............................................................. 8

UNL Organizational Chart .................................................................. 10

Student Credit Hours

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall & Spring Semesters, 5 Year Trend ....................... 11

SCH by College and Student Level, Fall Semester, 5 Year Trend ......................................... 12

SCH by College and Student Level, Spring Semester, 5 Year Trend .................................... 13

Summer Sessions Student Credit Hours .................................................. 14

Retention, Degrees and Majors

Student Retention & Graduation Rate Analysis ............................................. 15

Total Degrees Conferred by UNL Fiscal Year, 10 …

Unopa Notes 2009

UNOPA: Newsletters

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Attracting College Men To Sexual Violence Prevention: A Multiple Case Study Of Male Peer Educators, Janice M. Deeds

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The prevalence rate for sexual assault of U.S. college women has stayed around 13% since 1982 despite the efforts colleges and universities have made to create effective prevention programs. Campus violence prevention programs have changed in focus and approach as research has provided a broader understanding of sexual violence and the important roles men can play in its prevention.

Peer education is currently the most commonly used method of teaching sexual violence prevention information to college students, but unless college men become involved as sexual violence prevention peer educators, campus programs will not be able to effectively reach other male …

College Students And Service: A Mixed Methods Exploration Of Motivations, Choices, And Learning Outcomes, Ronald Chesbrough

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Advisor: James V. Griesen
The purpose of this two-phase exploratory mixed methods research was to add to an understanding of the motivations toward service among college students, to get a clearer sense of how students choose their particular service involvements, and to better understand the learning outcomes from service involvement during college. Underlying philosophical assumptions of the study were that service involvement during college contributes in several positive ways to student development, and that student descriptions of their motivations, choices, and learning from service will vary based on gender, year in college, and amount of service performed.

Findings indicated that …

Summer Sessions Breakdown Of Course Dates And Time, Paul Savory

Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering: Faculty Publications

This report highlights an exhaustive analysis of the hundreds of Summer Session courses to develop an understanding of when they occur during the day and during which of the four academic terms. The analysis shows that the most popular time for scheduling courses is between 9:30 am and noon for each of the four summer session terms. Given the limited number of general purpose classrooms on campus, accommodating faculty preference for rooms, buildings, and computer equipment is sometimes not possible during the most in demand course times. The results also showcase the potential for having summer courses four-day per week …

Federal Research And Development Agenda For Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Green Buildings, National Science And Technology Council

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

The construction and buildings sector consumes enormous amounts of energy, clean water, and materials. Buildings use about one-third of the world’s energy — a proportion that will continue to increase as the population grows and becomes more urban and more affluent (Griffith et al. 2007). In the United States today, the buildings sector accounts for 40% of the primary energy use, compared to 32% for the industrial sector and 28% for the transportation sector. The use of electric power and heat in the buildings sector also accounts for about 40% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). If current trends continue, …

Pod Network News, Fall 2008

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

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Authenticity In Marco Polo’S Story And In Honors Student Research: An Aside From The Early Renaissance, Bill Knox

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Recently I read and skimmed editions of the writings of Marco Polo, including Komroff’s The Travels of Marco Polo and Moule and Pelliot’s encyclopedic The Description of the World. Apart from cataloguing details about Asian lands, peoples, and inventions fantastic in the eyes of early fourteenth- century Europeans, these, along with Laurence Bergreen’s well-documented biography Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu, unexpectedly suggested to me how, increasingly in this digital age, student research projects present questions of authenticity similar to those of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts—Polo’s being no exception.

Editorial Matter For Volume 9, Number 2, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Richard James Cummings
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Honors Admissions Criteria: How Important Are Standardized Tests?, Raymond J. Green, Sandy Kimbrough

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In 2007 I had the rare pleasure of overseeing the transformation of our 45- year-old honors program into an honors college. The entrance requirements for our honors program had been designed to maximize the number of participants and largely boiled down to whether the student was interested in pursuing honors. However, admission to the Honors College included a scholarship and thus required more discernment in admission standards. Thus, I began to review the entrance requirements for ten honors colleges in Texas and its surrounding states of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Not surprisingly, most other universities focused on high school grade …

Academic Dishonesty And The Culture Of Assessment, Emrys Westacott

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Mention the escalation of academic dishonesty and most of us working in education are immediately inclined to whistle for our moral high horse. But too much moralistic tongue-clicking can blind us to the ways in which we who constitute the system contribute to the very malady we lament. For if academic dishonesty is like a disease—and we repeatedly hear it described as an “epidemic”—we may all be carriers, even cultivators, of the virus that causes it. Let me explain.

Speeding Is Okay And Cheating Is Cool, Alison Schell Witte

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Academic misbehavior occurs among all students—gifted students as well as the general student population. I believe that cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of academic dishonesty are supported by a pattern of rationalization similar to that which supports other common but questionable social behaviors. In the following discussion, I will compare academic dishonesty with driving in excess of the speed limit and offer some comments about the pervasiveness of similar behaviors in other aspects of our lives. I wish to make the point that all of us, faculty included, probably perform some actions that violate the highest standards of behavior. Although …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 9, No. 2 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Richard James Cummings
Editor’s Introduction Ada Long

FORUM ON “HONORS AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY”
Honors, Honor Codes, and Academic Integrity: Where Do They Converge and Diverge? D. Bruce Carter
Academic Dishonesty and the Culture of Assessment Emrys Westacott
Speeding is Okay and Cheating is Cool Alison Schell Witte
Plato among the Plagiarists: The Plagiarist as Perpetrator and Victim Richard England
Authenticity in Marco Polo’s Story and in Honors Student Research: An Aside from the Early Renaissance Bill Knox

RESEARCH ESSAYS
On Training Excellent Students in China and the United States Ikuo Kitagaki and Donglin …

Is Student Participation In An Honors Program Related To Retention And Graduation Rates?, Charlie Slavin, Theodore Coladarci, Phillip A. Pratt

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Do students who participate in an honors program have higher retention and graduation rates in comparison to otherwise similar nonparticipants? This is the question we address, and we do so within the context of the Honors College at the University of Maine. We present our investigation both as a contribution to the limited research in this area and as an illustration of the practical challenges one faces in doing applied work of this sort. Regarding the latter, one must be careful when comparing the retention and graduation rates of honors and nonhonors students because of differences between these two groups …

On Training Excellent Students In China And The United States, Ikuo Kitagaki, Donglin Li

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In many countries, the training of researchers who will be internationally competitive has become a primary objective, leading to extensive discussion of the curricula, educational content, and methods that may ensure a high level of student achievement. In this global climate, only the most excellent students have the potential to engage successfully in international competition and become leading-edge researchers in the world-wide marketplace of research. Thus, any country seeking to be internationally competitive must consider ways to further raise the level of excellent students. In this study, we investigate university programs, specifically honors programs, that take special measures for training …

Maya Angelou's Letter To My Daughter, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

In preparing an essay on James Bryant Conant, I was struck by the title of his autobiography, My Several Lives: Memoirs of a Social Inventor (1970). The title is apropos in that Conant's career was as a professor of organic chemistry and physics, president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953, chief civilian administrator of American nuclear research, participant in the Manhattan project, participant in the decision on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, U.S Ambassador to Germany, and education reform advocate and author. Among the books he wrote were: The American High School Today (1959), Slums and Suburbs (1961), The …

Women Leaders Tell Their Stories, Marilyn L. Grady, Virginia Russell Curley, Barbara Lacost

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

The purpose of this research study was to identify examples of women education leaders at their best. There were two parts to the study procedures. First, the women were asked to write a case story about a time when they were involved in a successful leadership experience. Second, the women were divided into small groups of 5-8. In the small groups, each participant was invited to present her story and allow an opportunity for group participants to ask clarifying questions and to comment on the stories. Each of the stories is presented as told by the participant. A title has …

A Correlational Study On Parental Attachment And Spiritual Development Of College Students, Mary-Ellen Madigan

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

During college, students search for meaning in their lives and question their beliefs, behavior, and mortality (Garber, 1996). One way that students search for meaning is through their spiritual lives. Spirituality is “the personal quest for understanding of ultimate questions about life, about meaning, and about relationship to the sacred or transcendent” (Koenig, McCullough & Larson, 2001, p. 18). Parental attachment theory explains that students who have developed a secure attachment with their parents see their parents as a secure base from which to explore their environment (Kenny & Donaldson, 1991, p. 480). This environment may be internal or external. …

Office Of Research -- Annual Report 2007-2008

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Table of Contents
ANNUAL REPORT 2007–2008 1
A Time to Think Boldly 1
Lake Mud Holds Climate Secrets 2
Of Grass and Sand – Lessons in Resilience 4
Web Tools Aid Drought Decisions 6
Partnering on Climate Research 7
New Home Furthers Virology Collaboration 8
Innovation Campus in the Works 10
Projects Aim to Ease Research Space Shortage 11
Quilt Center Expanding Its Reach in New Building 12
Genetics Project Melds Biology, Nanotechnology 14
Strengthening Plant Science Research 15
Tiny Tools, Big Potential 16
Omaha and Ponca Dictionary Going Digital 18
Historian Influencing Digital Research 19
Building Longer-Lasting Bridges 20 …

First Things First: Writing Strategies -- Move Close To The Action, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Some individuals seem to have an endless array of research and writing ideas; other individuals seem to have few research and writing ideas. For many, finding a way to prime the writing pump is a cause of concern. A frequently heard comment is, "I don't know how to get started." One way to discover writing opportunities is to expand your network. Conferences provide opportunities to meet many individuals from many places. These individuals are sources of research and writing ideas. The conference sessions are replete with writing ideas. The conference bulletin boards, materials tables, and program provide research and writing …

The Finish Line: Doctoral Students And The Great Race, Marilyn L. Grady

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

A book by A. J. Cronin was the source of my career inspiration. Cronin wrote novels set in the life of the university. The university and the work of the professor became my career ambition. It took a number of years to achieve my goal of being a university professor. Today, a major portion of my university work is advising doctoral students. The national data on completion of doctoral programs are grim. I, like many of my colleagues, strive to assist students in completing their doctoral studies. However, despite my efforts to facilitate their studies, I am constantly reminded that …

When Sisterly Support Changes To Sabotage, Barbara L. Brock

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Although research on women's leadership extols the benefits of women's professional collaborations and mentorship, one cannot assume that all women are trustworthy and supportive of other women. This qualitative study explored the phenomenon of professional sabotage among women in educational leadership. Results revealed that, although women who engaged in sabotage were proportionately few in number, the damage they inflicted on other women's reputations, careers, and emotional well-being was great. "Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on- or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for …

Women In History - Abigail Adams: Life, Accomplishments, And Ideas, Sharon K. Kenan

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

Abigail Adams's fame derives in large part from her marriage to the second President of the United States, John Adams (Freidel, 1989). However, she also had attributes of her own that made her an interesting and perennially famous woman in the history of the United States. One of her most enduring legacies is the volume of correspondence she wrote during lonely separations from her husband while he handled the nation's business and left her alone with four children. Firsthand accounts of the period leading up to, during, and following the American Revolution are available through those letters (Withey, 1981). Eventually …

Differential Tuition By Undergraduate Major: Its Use, Amount, And Impact At Public Research Universities, Glen R. Nelson

Department of Educational Administration: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of the study was to examine differential tuition by undergraduate major at 165 public research universities. The study focused on: the emergence and prevalence of this type of differential tuition; the programs or majors for which differential tuition existed and the amount of the differential; the dates the differentials were considered or implemented; the reasons for implementing or not implementing; the impacts of the adoption and implementation of differential tuition; and how the incremental revenues were used. The study was a descriptive study using the pragmatic mixed-method approach which included a survey instrument completed by chief business officers, …

2008 Unopa 45th Anniversary Booklet

UNOPA: Special Events

UNOPA 45th Anniversary Booklet

Pod Network News, Spring 2008

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

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Towards Reliable Honors Assessment, Gregory Lanier

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In the recent JNCHC volume devoted to “Outcomes Assessment, Accountability, and Honors” (Spring/Summer 2006), we can find a marked division within the honors community between those for and against the current climate of program assessment, with the “againsts” carrying the day by a two to one margin (six negative essays vs. three positive). In her editorial comments, Ada Long declares:

Honors educators do indeed need to be in the forefront of the national conversation about outcomes assessment, but first we will each need to decide whether we should join or resist the movement. (p. 15)

I wonder if honors educators …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 9, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to John Grady
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON “HONORS CULTURE”
Defining Honors Culture -- Charlie Slavin
The Culture of Honors -- George Mariz
Creating an Honors Culture -- Jim Ford
Honors Culture Clash: The High Achieving Student Meets the Gifted Professor -- Annmarie Guzy
The Prairie Home Companion Honors Program -- Paul Strong
The Times They Are A-Changin’ -- Dail Mullins

RESEARCH ESSAYS
The New Model Education -- Gary Bell.
The Role of Advanced Placement Credit in Honors Education -- Maureen E. Kelleher, Lauren C. Pouchak, and Melissa A. Lulay
Towards …

Editorial Matter For Volume 9, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to John Grady
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors