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Pod Network News, Winter 2007

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

POD Network News is published by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education as a member service of the POD Network.

A Preferred Vision For Leading High Schools : A Reflective Essay, Troy M. Osterhaus

Graduate Research Papers

In order to maintain our great educational system in America, it takes great school leaders. The school principal plays the most important role in the success of a school. A school leader is responsible for the management of the organization, operations, and resources. A school principal has now taken on a new role with the increased focus on accountability and student success. The principal is responsible for monitoring the improvement and success of all students. The school leader is the voice of the school and it's important to be visible around the community at businesses, churches, clubs, and organizations.

Office Of Research -- Annual Report 2006-2007

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Table of Contents

Welcome 1
Engaging Antarctica Brings Research Home 2
ANDRILL’s Season of Discovery 4
Project Iceberg Captures Life on Ice 5
Evidence Points to Climate Shifts 5
UNL Launching First U.S. Space Law Program 6
Improving Psychiatric Recovery 8
Buros Leads Way in Test Assessment 9
Understanding a Legendary Life of Science 10
Commercializing UNL Technologies 12
Road Safety Engineer Earns National Medal of Technology 14
Enticing Aspiring Engineers 16
Going ‘Green’ with Ag Byproduct Fibers 17
Redox Biology Center – Tracking Clues to Health 18
Exploring RNA Interference 20
Expanding Distance Ed Tools 21
Measuring Biofuel Systems’ …

2006 Major Sponsored Program And Faculty Awards For Research & Creative Activity

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Awards of $3 million or more
Awards of $1 million to $2,999,999
Awards of $200,000 to $999,999
Career and K Awards
Arts and Humanities Awards of $50,000 or more
Arts and Humanities Awards of $5,000 to $49,999
Patents Issued
Intellectual Property Licences
Creative Works in Fine and Performing Arts
Books
Recognitions and Honors
Glossary of Federal Agency Abbreviations

This is the fifth annual “Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Activity” report. This booklet highlights the successes of University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during 2006. The funding sources, projects and investigators on major grants and sponsored program awards …

Research Services Offered By The Office Of Research And Graduate Studies

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Office of Sponsored Programs
Office of Proposal Development
Office of Research Responsibility
Internal Funding Opportunities for Faculty
Office of Technology Development
Office of Graduate Studies
New Research Administration Management Program
Grant Writing Seminar
UNL Research Fair
Faculty Interdisciplinary Retreat

University Of Nebraska- Lincoln: Fact Book 2006-2007

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

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall & Spring Semester, by College, 5 Year Trend....................11

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Fall, by College, 5 Year Trend...................................................12

UNL Student Credit Hours Total Spring, By College, 5 Year Trend...................................13

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

Retention, Degrees and Majors

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

Total Degrees Conferred by UNL Fiscal Year, 10 Year Trend.......................................................16

Degrees Conferred by College, Type & Number ..........................................17

Types of Degrees Currently Offered …

An Analysis Of The West Point Leadership And Command Programs Impact Upon Law Enforcement Leadership, Joseph Aloysius Devine

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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Student Teachers’ Diversity Rights: The Case Law, Zorka Karanxha, Perry Zirkel

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Faculty Publications

This chapter provides a concise and up-to-date synthesis of the published case law where a student teacher was the plaintiff, the defendant was an institution of higher education or cooperating local school district, and the issues in dispute were related to diversity. The number of such court decisions was surprisingly small, and the outcomes generally favored the defendant institutions. The court cases fall under three categories: 1) student teachers’ diverse views on religion, 2) student teachers’ diverse forms of free speech, and 3) student teachers with special needs. Constitutional claims were the predominant avenue of litigation against school districts and …

Ms225: 2007 Faculty Meeting Minutes, Thomas R. Cole

Thomas R. Cole, PhD Papers

Original Filename: Faculty Minutes 041207.doc. Format Details: fmt/40; Microsoft Word Document; 97-2003. See more at Thomas R. Cole, PhD Papers and its finding aid.

The Advanced Classroom Technology Laboratory: Cultivating Innovative Pedagogy, Scott Carnicom, K. Watson Harris, Barbara Draude, Scott Mcdaniel, Philip Mathis

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The National Collegiate Honors Council suggests in its “Basic Characteristics” that honors programs and colleges should be at the forefront of pedagogical innovation, serving as a “laboratory” for new approaches to teaching and learning (Schuman, 2006, p. 66). One approach to this charge is the integration of the latest technology into the classroom. Implementation of technology is important to millennial students, who are digital natives, never knowing a world without laptops or compact discs. Not only do students tend to be very comfortable with technology, but they also tend to be the early adopters. In addition to piquing student interest …

Looking To The Future: The Everglades From Beginning To End?, Peter Machonis, Devon Graham

Honors in Practice Online Archive

The fourth-year Honors theme is “Looking to the Future.” This course focuses on the Everglades National Park (ENP), examining not only the Everglades eco-system and the politics surrounding its conservation, but also literature and art about the Everglades, such as the photographs of Clyde Butcher and novels like Peter Matthiessen’s Killing Mr. Watson. This course requires active participation from students; most classes take place outdoors and involve hiking, biking, canoeing, and slough slogging. Class meets every other Friday (9am–5pm) at off-campus locations and is team-taught by FIU Honors College Faculty Dr. Peter Machonis, a linguist, and Dr. Devon Graham, …

Disability: Past And Present (Honors 232—Interdisciplinary Seminar), Carolyn Stuart, Mary Jo Festle

Honors in Practice Online Archive

What does it mean to be “disabled”? How has this meaning changed over time in the U.S.? What factors affect a person’s experience of disability? Why should people—either disabled or not—learn about these matters?
This course explores the complexity of people’s experiences with disability in the past and present. Disability can be viewed from a number of lenses, including various academic disciplines, medical or social constructions, and minority-group perspectives. In this course, students analyze actions, ideas, and portrayals by cultural authorities and by the disabled themselves. Students complete a significant research project reflecting their major and interests. The instructors hope …

The Honors Community: Furthering Program Goals By Securing Honors Housing, Nancy Reichert

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Many of us involved in honors programs and colleges assume that honors housing plays an important role in creating an honors community on campus. Some of the institutions for which we work agree and do not necessarily insist that we make the case for honors housing on campus. However, my experience this past year in attempting to bring honors housing to my campus for the second time in three years indicates that those who are involved in the decision-making process do not necessarily support honors housing. This article concerns the methods I used as Director of the University Honors Program …

Multi-Level Benefits Of Using Research Journals In Honors, Christina Ashby-Martin

Honors in Practice Online Archive

As honors curricula develop and mature at our institutions, we constantly grapple with questions of what comprises an honors education. Besides the philosophical discussion of what it means to be “broad, well-educated, informed, challenging,” there is also the practical or methodological discussion of “How do we do that?” These questions become more complex as honors programs mature, possibly as a consequence of course sequencing or developing degree plans. In my experience, one of the more difficult areas to address is differentiation between a lower-division introductory experience and a mature, sophisticated upper-division seminar. Where exactly is this boundary when building a …

Teaching An Honors Course Tied To A Large University Event, Anne Wilson, Tyler Blakly, Kathryn Leciejewski, Michelle Sams, Susan Surber

Honors in Practice Online Archive

College- or university-wide events take place fairly often at academic institutions, and these events can easily provide honors programs the opportunity to offer a curricular focus based on the event. Herein, we describe a course centered on the sesquicentennial celebration of Butler University and the teaching model implemented to deliver the course.

Learning A Practice Versus Learning To Be A Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology In An Honors Context, Troy Lovata

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This paper is a case study in teaching archaeology as part of an honors curriculum. It uses the example of one course, The Legacy of Ancient Technology, and the general goals of an honors program to examine how discipline- specific knowledge can be taught to non-majors. This paper explores the differences between students learning about a field of study versus those learning to become practitioners in a discipline. It posits that courses can be successfully built from a disciplinary foundation and still serve a diverse body of honors students when seminars focus on non-foundational knowledge, collaborative learning, and a discipline’s …

Monsters And Marvels Through The Ages: University Honors Program 100-Level, 3 Cr, Leslie Donovan

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Among the most fascinating and compelling stories passed down through the ages that continue to engage us today are works that involve monstrous creatures or the marvelous realms of the other world. Goblins and fairies, Grendel and Circe, dragons and gargoyles evoke visual or verbal creations from earlier periods that have inspired the imaginations of writers, artists, and thinkers since ancient times. This Fall 2005 course of 14 students examined how such monsters and marvels reflect a variety of historical ideas, social constructs, cultural patterns, and spiritual themes in ways that have become integral to contemporary popular culture.

Methods Of Applied Mathematics: Honors Mathematics 450 And 451, Bruce Bukiet, Roy Goodman

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In this course, students perform and analyze physical experiments in the context of an advanced mathematics course. This capstone course integrates the students’ experience with mathematical modeling, mathematical analysis, numerical methods, computation, engineering and communication. In the first semester, students have short modules (2–4 weeks) that include relatively simple experiments and numerical simulations. This prepares students for the second semester, when students work in teams to perform and analyze experiments of greater complexity using more advanced mathematical skills. At the end of the second semester, students present their research results both orally and in writing.

Majoring In The Minor: A Closer Look At Experiential Learning, Bernice Braid

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Experiential learning is, for me, a preeminent means to accomplish goals that are fundamental to the entire educational enterprise. It is a set of strategies that structure acquisition of information, analysis of ideas, and self-reflection in order to pull people into active engagement with their world. Among these strategies are skills of observation and interpretation that require learners to take careful note and to examine themselves as processors of the details they themselves assemble into meaningful patterns, thus generating the insight, over and over again, that it is they who create the meaning they come to attach to events and …

Honors In Practice, Volume 3 (Complete Issue)

Honors in Practice Online Archive

CONTENTS Editorial Policy
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to William P. Mech
Editor’s Introduction Ada Long

INNOVATIVE HONORS COURSES
Learning a Practice Versus Learning to Be a Practitioner: Teaching Archaeology in an Honors Context Troy R. Lovata
Teaching Arts and Honors: Four Successful Syllabi P. Brent Register, Robert Bullington, and Joe A. Thomas
Service Learning in the Honors Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make? Ann T. Parker
First-Year “Initiation” Courses in Honors Jim Lacey
Teaching an Honors Course Tied to a Large University Event Anne M. Wilson, Tyler D. Blakley, Kathryn A. Leciejewski, Michelle L. Sams, and Susan A. Surber

HONORS …

First-Year “Initiation” Courses In Honors, Jim Lacey

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In 1993, the new director of the recently revived Honors Program at Eastern Connecticut State University discovered that even seniors in this small program did not know each other and that some of them, not wanting to be branded nerds, were reluctant even to identify themselves as honors scholars. The program clearly needed a culture, a sense of community, and pride. With ideas lifted from NCHC conference sessions, a number of initiatives were launched, including contracts with students, a revived honors club, student-sponsored social events, and active student participation in regional conferences. The most interesting and perhaps controversial method of …

Integrating An Honors Minor, Education Major And Global Teacher Preparation, David M. Bishop, Kelli Sittason

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In the pages that follow we will describe an exciting collaboration between our university’s College of Education and Honors Program. In the twenty-two-year history of the Honors Program at Northern Kentucky University (NKU), we have averaged only one education major per year completing an Honors Capstone Project. This statistic stands in stark contrast to the fact that Education regularly has the third or fourth highest number of pre-majors beginning an honors minor. Some efforts have been made in recent years to mesh requirements for the two programs and to improve student advising. However, the number of honors minor/education major students …

“Bbq With The Profs” And The Development Of Collegial Associations, Craig Cobane, Lindsey Thurman

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Western Kentucky University (WKU) is a medium-sized, open-enrollment public institution, classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a “Master’s College & Universities Larger Programs.” WKU has 15,9781 undergraduates spread across four campuses. The Honors Program, created in 1963, currently has around 500 students. Enrollment is based on an eligibility standard, with entry requirements for the program being a combination of minimum ACT/SAT scores and high school grade point average. However, the program’s philosophy is that a student is more than the accumulation of his or her “numbers,” thus allowing students to petition into the program if they are low on one …

About The Authors, Volume 25 (2007)

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

About the editors and authors/contributors of volume 25 (2007) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.

Preface, Volume 25 (2007), Douglas Reimondo Robertson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Preface to volume 25 (2007) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Highland Heights, Kentucky.

Introduction, Volume 25 (2007), Douglas Reimondo Robertson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction to volume 25 (2007) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, by Douglas Reimondo Robertson of Highland Heights, Kentucky.

Ethical Guidelines For Educational Developers

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Ethical guidelines for educational developers brepared by Mintz, Smith, and Warren, January 1999. Revised March 1999, September 1999, and March 2000.

It All Started In The Sixties: Movements For Change Across The Decades—A Personal Journey, R. Eugene Rice

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A combination of memoir and social commentary, this chapter explores changes in higher education throughout five decades—1960s: utopian quest for learning communities; 1970s: faculty development movement; 1980s: focus on the academic workplace; 1990s: broadening the understanding of scholarship; and 2000s: new pathways and the engaged campus. This chapter provides a context for the careers and work of faculty, academic administrators, and faculty development specialists (both new and experienced) as well as for the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD).

Living Engagement, Bell Hooks, Douglas Reimondo Robertson

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In this “talking chapter” bell hooks reveals, through dialogue about her thoughts and experiences related to college teaching and learning, a profound and robust perspective on what could be called “deep” faculty development. Topics include engaged pedagogy, therapeutic conversations, spiritual practice, difference, conflict, and love.

Surviving To Tenure, James M. Lang

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

For most new faculty, anxiousness about the tenure application begins from the first day on the job. Surviving the six intervening years on the tenure track requires a range of time- and career-management skills that new faculty may only learn piecemeal along the way. New faculty need help in five specific areas in order to survive their path down the tenure track: 1) developing teaching strategies that will fit their personalities and reach as many students as possible, 2) managing their time to allow for research and publication, 3) determining what and how many service commitments to make, 4) existing …