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Reviewing And Renewing General Education: A Practical Guide, Janice S. Green

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

The process of reviewing and renewing a program of general education is complex, challenging, and often frustrating. This paper is presented with the aim of facilitating the process from inception to successful conclusion. Practical guidelines and suggestions, derived from long experience as faculty member, academic administrator, and consultant, are offered to assist those responsible for reviewing, evaluating, developing, and implementing general education curricula. Emphasis is placed on collaborative practices, ongoing open communication, thorough planning, and reliable information. It is assumed throughout, that pitfalls can be avoided, obstacles circumvented, and a climate of civility maintained despite the difficulty and scope of …

Brief 2: Benchmarking From The Perspective Of Chief Financial Officers, New England Resource Center For Higher Education, University Of Massachusetts Boston

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

Benchmarking is a widespread practice in all industries today. Higher education is no exception. One need only look at annual rankings in U.S. News and World Report to appreciate power of benchmarking in a market-driven society that is seeking the best value in education. To the public, and even to leaders in higher education, measures such as these amount to an externally imposed evaluation. The impact of benchmarking on an institution can be significant. But is it worth it? Chief Financial Officers from the New England area offer their views.

Introduction To Section Three: Work And Play, Anne Ponder

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Throughout our work on this volume, our own sense of unfolding possibility was buoyed by what we have learned from Catherine Cater. Her keen insights are always-always-offered with a sense of wonder and delight at what we may come to know.
Sam Schuman has captured just such a moment in his peroration, but not before explicating the idea of work, especially work in an academic setting. The balance in the rigorous work we undertake ourselves and the work we require of and inspire in others is found in his title, Labors of Love.
Paul Strong's eloquent essay begins and ends …

Introduction To Section Two: Styles Of Learning, Anne Ponder

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The National Collegiate Honors Council has redesigned its national conference periodically, and one of those metamorphoses in the 1980s introduced sessions with "master teachers". The session I remember now, years later, was led by Catherine Cater. This "master teacher" modeled most of what the rest of us have spent our careers emulating. And so, it is fitting that this central section of this volume takes up key topics in teaching and learning. Gabelnick, Braid, and Levy were not available to attend the October, 1999 panel in Orlando; their work appears here for the fi rst ti me.

Empathy And The Questioning Spirit In Liberal Education: Reports From The Field, Sara Varhus

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Current justifications of liberal education usually take one of two tacks: itemizing the applicable skills that students derive from a liberal education, or asserting that it is liberal education that society must look to for the capacity for community or citizenship. The former is an argument probably worth making because it appeals to the preoccupations of students, parents, and employers, but it is the second that reveals the relevance, for our time, of liberal education. Bruce Kimball argues that this latter focus on the virtues instilled by education de-emphasizes rational inquiry and the individual pursuit of truth in what he …

The Shock Of The Strange, The Shock Of The Familiar: Learning From Study Abroad, Diane Levy

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I began writing this as I sat in a borrowed office in the outskirts of London on a strange computer with an unfamiliar keyboard. I blundered my way from my guest house after riding two buses and walking several blocks, London A to Z in hand. Cup of white tea and biscuits by,my side, I find that this is not a bad setting for writing about the adjustments of study abroad.

Serious Play, Paul Strong

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Among the arts, perhaps only music shares the power to console; moreover, the times we wish for such succor are usually not nearly as dramatic as an untimely death. A simple example: when, by the luck of the draw, I have a collection of students who refuse to meet me halfway and engage in the work most classes do willingly and with pleasure, my thoughts turn to the matador Pedro Romero in The Sun Also Rises who gets a bull which does not see well. Such a bull makes it impossible to do one's best work, for such a bull …

Books, Books, Books, Ted Estess

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Just after 9 p.m., I climbed abroad a Continental Trailways bus and stared through green glass as my parents watched the second of their two sons head off to college. Leaving the station, the bus moved into the bayous of south Louisiana along old Highway 90, then over the swamps and across rice and sugar cane fields and on through a night of small towns, finally climbing the Sabine River bridge into Texas, where a mileage marker announced New Mexico 878 miles. That should give any young man enough room.

On Discourse, Jim Herbert

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Exactly twenty years ago I bored this conference to desperation with an interminable disquisition on "Smaller Teaching." While I hope that essay helped open the way to larger learning, I must admit now that it was not only too long, but that it fell short of an important truth about the honors classroom. In the intervening two decades, experience in the peer review panels of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the academic advisory committees of the College Board has helped me understand more deeply this central site of honors education-and, I dare say, liberal learning. I hope to …

Leading And Learning In Community, Faith Gabelnick

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we recreate ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.
. .. Senge, The Fifth Disciple

When faculty and administrators confront challenges of student persistence rates, cross-disciplinary learning, faculty roles and rewards, student needs for professional and civic education, they often look for "solutions" through curricular innovation. Learning communities, although …

Liberal Education And The Challenge Of Intergrative Learning, Bernice Braid

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The 1990 publication of Ernest Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered was a benchmark occasion. Almost immediately the academy endorsed his document's usefulness as a framework within which to examine, maybe rethink, practices of both institutions and individuals which appeared to reflect a riven enterprise. Boyer's perception that exclusive emphasis on "scholarship" for status and rewards in American colleges was, as the term remained narrowly defined, incompatible with the demands of proliferation and access, and it struck a chord.

Editorial Matter For Volume 1, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins, Rusty Rushton, Jerrald Boswell

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication
Editor’s Introduction
About the Authors

Learning And Research With Students: The Example Of The Tilton/Beecher Scandal, Carol Kolmerten

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

To read any number of Jeremiads on lithe death of literature" or on "literature lost" lately might make most anyone believe that liberal learning is dead in English departments across the country. The twin evils of feminist scholarship (whose practitioners insist upon social readings of texts) and deconstruction (whose practitioners debunk "timeless truths") have, according to such authors as Alvin Kernan or John Ellis, cheated students out of having a meaningful liberal arts education with old fashioned teachers who love their subject and impart it to their students.

Labors Of Love, Samuel Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I want to speculate a bit about some of the connections between liberal learning and work. This might, at first, seem what those of us in early English literature would call a metaphysical conceit-the yoking together by violence of two seemingly unconnected concepts; an odd connection, in other words. I've been thinking about "work" a lot these days-as I get closer to retirement-because it is a notion which seems to link together a number of things happening in higher education generally, in my college in particular, and in my personal responses to both.

Introduction To Section One: Collegiate Instruction, Anne Ponder

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Just as Catherine Cater's intellect has never been bounded by a single discipline, field, or approach, these three of her colleagues move well beyond Honors in their contributions to this volume. Wherever Honors flourishes within a college or university, the whole institution is improved by its presence.

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

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Contents

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Editor's Note
Catherine's Plenty, Samuel Schuman

Introduction to Section One: Collegiate Instruction, Anne Ponder
Books, Books, Books, Ted L. Estess
Leading a College as a Liberal Arts Practice, Leon C. Malan, Judith Muyskens, Anne Ponder, and Ann Page Stecker
Empathy and the Questioning Spirit in Liberal Education: Reports from the Field, Sara Varhus

Introduction to Section Two: Styles of Learning, Anne Ponder
Leading and Learning in Community, Faith Gabelnick
Liberal Education and the Challenge of Intergrative Learning, Bernice Braid .
Learning and Research with Students: The Example of the Tilton/Beecher Scandal, Carol Kolmerten
On …

Catherine's Plenty, Samuel Schuman

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

This volume grows out of a session at the Fall, 1999 annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Orlando, Florida. There, surrounded by the delightful distractions of theme parks and tropical autumn weather, a group of academics with strong ties to the Honors movement in American higher education offered a diverse and stimulating range of perspectives on liberal learning as we move into a new century, a new millennium. The presenters included Honors faculty and directors, college presidents and deans, an important official of the national Endowment for the Humanities and the past editor of the NCHC's …

An Nih- And Nsf -Funded Program In Biological Research For Community College Students, Thomas P. Arnold, Frances A. Frierson, Neil Sebacher Jr.

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

In a program supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, selected students in biology courses at Valencia Community College actively pursue the scientific method in a series of laboratory exercises. Results are then published as reports written in the format of a scientific paper. Faculty from the disciplines of biology and English composition evaluate students' work. Students are required to collaborate and present findings as if they are researchers. Students interested in science careers can subsequently enroll in a research training course, upon completion of which they are eligible for a summer internship …

Leading A College As A Liberal Arts Practice, Leon Malan, Judith Muyskens, Anne Ponder, Ann Page Stecker

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

A common and rather prevalent model for leading and planning in higher education is a contest of wills optimizing local, current matters. In contrast, at Colby-Sawyer College, we are explicit, careful, and collaborative about working together respectfully on qualitative and institutional and long-term matters. We hope that the model for leadership that we have provided below, one that demonstrates how we make our decisions and conduct our business in a style that differs from academic political business as usual, will serve as a model for other institutions.

Nefdc Exchange, Volume 10, Number 2, Spring 2000, New England Faculty Development Consortium

New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange

Contents

Message from the President - Matt Ouellet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Adult Learning Theory Informs Authentic Assessment - Ellen L. Nuffer, Keene State College

News from Vermont: New Faculty Orientation - Thomas S. Edwards, Castelton College

Teaching for a Change Conference, June 12-14, 2000, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

News from Massachusetts: Using Technology to Promote Active Learning - Bill Heineman, Northern Essex Community College

Searching for Great Assignments - Jeffrey Halprin, Nichols College

Call for papers; Community College Journal of Research and Practice

News from Maine: Discussion as a Way of Teaching - James Berg, University of Maine

Virginia …

Uni Faculty And Staff Climate Survey, Spring Semester 2000, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of Information Management And Analysis.

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Contents:

-- Introduction --- 1
-- Results --- 1
-- Exhibit I, UNI Faculty and Staff Climate Survey --- 2
-- Table I, General Impressions --- 3
-- Table II, General Agreement by Major University Groups --- 5
-- Table III, Summary of Responses --- 12
-- Detailed Analysis Responses --- 15

Instruction Cost Report, Spring 2000, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Shows the costs associated with running the University of Northern Iowa broken down by college and department

University Reporter - Vol. 04, No. 08 - April 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Wku Post-Tenure Review Policy - Proposed Policy, Wku University Senate

Faculty Senate

Proposed post-tenure review policy for Western Kentucky University.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 48, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Back, Shannon. Lisa Newton’s Rebellion – Blindness, Handicapped Persons
• Ragan, Jason. Spring Fling Ends in Arrest – Fraternities and Sororities
• Gaines, Jim. Greek Village Won’t Fly – Fraternities and Sororities
• Ragan, Jason. Journalism, Broadcasting Students Capture Top Regional Awards
• Hall, Rex. More Money Needed for Surveillance – University Libraries
• Luther Hughes Honored with Student Advocate Award
• Census Is More Than Junk Mail
• Tabor, Chris. Editorial Cartoon 2000 Census Results
• Johnson, Jeff. Social Workers Like Any Other Professional
• What Can Be Done to Improve the Dorms?
• Karen, Mattias. It’s That …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 75, No. 47, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

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

• Gaines, Jim. Faculty Regents Says Review Not Needed – Mary Miller
• Ragan, Jason. Kim Collins Gets Job at College – Housing & Residence Life
• Hall, Rex. Cassie Martin, Duan Wright to Battle for Student Government Association President – Elections
• Bennett, Jacob. Auto World to Invade Bowling Green – Global Automotive Conference
• Bowling Green Named Tree City USA
• Psychology Club to Have Free Movie Showing
• Karen, Mattias. National Association of Home Builders to Meet
• Visionary Dorm Deal Good for All – Student Life Association, Housing & Residence Life
• Tabor, Chris. …

Bill 00-9-S Stickers, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill to purchase promotional stickers.

2000 March 27 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

2000 March 27 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.