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Introduction, Volume 18 (2000), Matthew Kaplan

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction to volume 18 (2000) of To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development, written by Matthew Kaplan of the University of Michigan.

Diversity And Its Discontents: Rays Of Light In The Faculty Development Movement For Faculty Of Color, Edith A. Lewis

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Two faculty development conferences held within a six-day period during October 1998 yielded important experiences and lessons for faculty and professionals interested in working with faculty of color. This paper, written from the standpoint of a faculty member of color, outlines the strengths and challenges of working on these issues in higher education institutions.

The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning: A National Initiative, Barbara L. Cambridge

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

As part ofthe scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty members study the ways in which they teach and students learn in their disciplines, and campuses foster this scholarship at the institutional level. A national initiative called the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Leaming constitutes three programs to engage and support individuals, campuses, and disciplinary associations in this form of scholarly work. This article describes the Pew Scholars Fellowship Program, the Campus Program, and the Work with Scholarly Societies and invites participation of campuses in this exciting initiative.

Teachnology: Linking Teaching And Technology In Faculty Development, Mei-Yau Shih, Mary Deane Sorcinelli

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

As a coordinator of teaching technologies and director of a center for teaching in a large research university, we have worked collaboratively over the last year to achieve a common goal: to implement and refine several faculty development initiatives that create linkages among the domains of teaching, learning, and technology. In this case study, we will describe the kinds of programs we’ve developedand summarize lessons we’ve learned. We hope that faculty developers on other campuses who are grappling with how to define their mission related to technology and how to work with faculty to integrate teaching and technology can adapt …

From Transparency Toward Expertise: Writing–Across–The–Curriculum As A Site For New Collaborations In Organizational, Faculty, And Instructional Development, Philip G. Cottell Jr., Serena Hansen, Kate Ronald

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This paper will inform readers about a comprehensive approach to collaborative efforts between faculty developers, discipline specific faculty, and writing specialists. Miami University’s Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration has begun to support a team of writing specialists, led by a faculty developer. This team has worked with business faculty lo build a model of collaboration far using Writing-Across-the-Curriculum that addresses some of the shortcomings of earlier models. This paper recounts the successful use of this new model in one accounting class.

Faculty Teaching Partners And Associates: Engaging Faculty As Leaders In Instructional Development, Myra S. Wilhite, Joyce Povlacs Lunde, Gail F. Latta

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Special interest discussion groups provide opportunities for faculty to address specific instructional issues in a variety of areas including technology, distance learning, general teaching topics, pre-tenure issues, honors teaching, and the like. In 1995, to leverage the Teaching and Learning Center’s resources, outstanding classroom teachers were invited to provide leadership for discussion groups by serving as Partners or Associates. This chapter describes how an inexpensive faculty discussion-group leadership program maximizes a teaching improvement center’s resources, makes innovative teaching visible, and provides peer models for other faculty while helping promote an overall institutional culture that actively supports teaching excellence.

Creating A Culture Of Formative Assessment: The Teaching Excellence And Assessment Partnership Project, Roseanna G. Ross, Anthony Schwaller, Jenine Helmin

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In a year-long, grant-supported collaborative effort, St. Cloud State University’s Assessment Office and Faculty Center for Teaching Excellence created a Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) faculty development project. This project was targeted at departments across campus at St. Cloud State University, with the intent of creating a university climate of formative assessment while improving teaching and learning. This article describes the purposes, stages of implementation, and results of the project as measured by a pre-test and post-test survey. The pre-and post-test surveys indicate that the project was highly effective in impacting the use of CATs among participants and their departmental colleagues.

Fragmentation Versus Integration Of Faculty Work, Carolin Kreber, Patricia Cranton

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Present faculty development practice encourages new faculty to integrate teaching, research, and other aspects of academic work early in their careers. By drawing on both the cognitive and the developmental psychology literature, we propose integration as an advanced stage of adult development that comes about as a result of extensive experience and expertise. We argue that faculty should be advised to focus on either research or teaching at different times during their early years and that integration of professorial roles should only be expected at a later stage. We discuss the implications of such an approach for faculty development.

Getting Lecturers To Take Discussion Seriously, Stephen Brookfield, Stephen Preskill

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In this chapter we examine how faculty resistant to experimenting with discussion methods can be encouraged to take them seriously. We begin by acknowledging and addressing publicly the objections to using discussion most frequently raised by skeptical faculty. We then turn to proposing what we believe are the most common reasons why attempts to use discussion sometimes fail: that teachers have unrealistic expectations of the method, that students are unprepared, that reward systems in the classroom are askew, and that teachers have not modeled their own participation in, and commitment to, discussion methods. For each of these reasons we suggest …

Faculty Development Centers In Research Universities: A Study Of Resources And Programs, Delivee L. Wright

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The purpose of this study was to compile updated information on resources and programs of faculty/instructional development centers in Carnegie classification Research I and Research II universities. It allows centers across the country to see where they stand in regard to a number of specific aspects of center operation. Size of institution, mission, resources, budgets, and staffing vary greatly, while activities and services have a greater degree of similarity. The data reveal a number of questions for further study and discussion.

Colby College Catalogue 2000 - 2001, Colby College

Colby Catalogues

Colby College Catalogue: September 2000 - August 2001

Now & Then (Volume 17, Issue 01, 2000), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 01, published in 2000. The theme of this issue is Health in Appalachia. The issue examines health in Appalachia through community-based initiatives, public health efforts, and personal narratives that reflect the region's beliefs, values, and lived experiences. It highlights the importance of trust, culturally informed care, and local participation in addressing illness, prevention, and access to health services across Appalachian communities.

Uni Summer School Survey: Conducted During Advanced Registration For Summer School 2000, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Contents
Introduction --- 1
Table I - Major Demographic Groups --- 2
Table II - Overview of Responses to Survey --- 3-5
Table Ill - General Impressions --- 6

The Advocate, January 2000, Vol. [11], No. [3], Gc Advocate

The Advocate

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

The Great Move Backward. Charles Reavis Price (p. 1)

Message From the Editor. Mark Petras (p. 1)

A Call To Action! Jocelyn Boryczka (p. 1)

Contents (p. 1)

Retraction: “A Certified Racist Professor at Graduate Center?” in The Advocate November/December 1999. The Media Board (p. 3)

Corrections and Clarifications. Mark Petras (p. 3)

Why The Advocate is an Embarrassment. Mark Noonan (p. 4)

In Defense of Jane Doe. Rob Hollander, Alumnus; Formerly: Editor-in-Chief, Advocate; DSC Co-Chair for Communications; DSC Co-Chair for Finances (p. 5)

Update on the Tolbert Case. Mark Petras and Mark Noonan (p. 5)

Bad …

Northern Iowa Softball 2000, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--2000 UNI Softball Tournament Schedule --IFC
--Media Information --1
--2000 Season Outlook --2-3
--Roster and Depth Chart --4
--Meet the Coaching Staff --5
--Meet the Seniors --6-9
--Meet the Underclassmen --10-15
--1999 Season Review --16
--1999 Game Results --17
--1999 Team Statistics --18
--UNI Softball History --19
--Yearly Results --20-23
--All-Time Series Records --24
--All-Time Roster --25
--Individual Bests --26-27
--UNI Record Book --28-29
--The Missouri Valley --30
--1999 MVC Softball Review --31
--1999 MVC Statistics --32
--This is Northern Iowa --33
--UNI Biography --34
--UNI Facilities --35
--UNI Athletic Staff --36
--2000 MVC Opponents --37-38
--2000 Non-Conference Opponents …

2000-01 Northern Iowa Men's Basketball, University Of Northern Iowa

Athletics Media Guides

Contents:

--Media Information --2-3
--Northern Iowa Media Outlets --4
--Athletic Directory --5
--University of Northern Iowa --6-8
--Roster and Squad Breakdown --10
--Notes --11
--Panthers Celebrate 100 Years --12-14
--Season Outlook --15-16
--Head Coach Sam Weaver --18-20
--Assistant Coaches --21-23
--Support Staff --24-26
--The 2000-01 Panther Players --28-48
--2000-01 Panther Opponents --48-58
--2001 Missouri Valley Tournament --58
--2000-01 Missouri Valley Composite Schedule --59-60
--Series Results vs. 2000-01 Opponents --61
--The Missouri Valley Conference --64
--1999-00 Missouri Valley Honors --65
--1999-00 Missouri Valley Statistics --66-69
--1999-00 Season in Review --71-80
--Northern Iowa All-Americans/Pros --82
--Honors and Awards --83-84
--Post-Season Play --84-87 …

Analysis Of Skeletal Development On The Basis Of Body Mass And Bone Resorption, Darrin L. Demoss, G. L. Wright, W. Geng

Faculty Research at Morehead State University

An article written by Darrin L. DeMoss and published in the 2000 issue of Life Sciences, pages 1397-1407.

International Student-Athlete Adjustment To College: A Preliminary Analysis, Lynn L. Ridinger, Donna L. Pastore

Human Movement Studies & Special Education Faculty Publications

This preliminary investigation was undertaken to determine how well international student–athletes adjusted to college relative to their domestic teammates and the general student body. The results revealed that international student-athletes were significantly more well-adjusted to college than international nonathletes. International student–athletes adjusted to college as well as students and student–athletes from the United States. Results should be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size. The effects of gender and ethnicity on adjustment to college were also examined.

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Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Examination Of Student-Active Learning Practices In A College/Middle School Educational Collaboration, S. Prattis, I. Czerwiec

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

A college and middle school student teaching collaboration was developed to interest more college students in teaching K-12 science, to enhance diversity among K-16 teaching faculties, and to inspire the K-12 students to expand their knowledge beyond their classroom curriculum. To assess our results, we used a modified Likert survey instrument and self-reflective analysis in middle school and college students, respectively. Overall, middle school students expressed satisfaction in the science learning in which they participated. In addition, college students reported that they learned specific content when made responsible for teaching material to younger students. Collaborative projects such as this one …

The Stcc Science Teaching Intern Project, N. Rapoport

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

The Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) Science Teaching Intern Project was implemented as a pilot study to give community college students an opportunity to experience science teaching. At the same time, it provided seventh graders in inner city middle schools opportunities to interact with college students and to take advantage of science resources not usually available to them. Interns attended weekly meetings and participated in an all-day science field trip at the college. Most participants also made observations in a middle school science classroom and presented a science activity in the classroom. Not only did the project provide a partnership …

Project- And Group-Based Learning Of Junior Writing In Biology, J. G. Kunkel

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Writing in Biology, part of the Junior Writing Program, is inherently a project-based learning course. After a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Teacher Education Collaborative (STEMTEC) workshop, the course was thoroughly revised. Each of six projects was modified to increase student-active and group participation. Base groups with a balanced experience constitution are established using voluntary ordering and random assignment. A walk-around during the initial meeting serves to establish bonding within the base groups. Random groups are used within exercises to stimulate student interaction and familiarity with ad hoc group cooperation. Digital images of, and by, students are used to encourage …

Alternative Modes For Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving: An Overview, H. A. Peelle

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Various modes are proffered as alternatives for teaching mathematical problem solving. Each mode is described briefly, along with general purposes, advantages and disadvantages. Combinations of modes are suggested; general issues identified; recommendations offered; and feedback from teachers summarized.

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Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Journal Of Mathematics And Science: Collaborative Explorations

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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The Mathematics Of Information Science, J. Zimmerman, J. W. Smith

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

This paper describes a course, The Mathematics of Information Science, which was taught at Towson University in Spring 1998, 1999, and 2000. This course is the junior level interdisciplinary course of the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation program. The effectiveness of the course in teaching problem solving techniques and abstract mathematical ideas is documented. The students constructed their own knowledge from laboratory experiences involving digital logic circuits. They were subsequently challenged to abstract this knowledge and to find ways to solve progressively more difficult problems using these digital logic circuits. The mathematics of encoding and decoding information constituted the major …

Student Work Section, R. Howard

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

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Nsu Substance Abuse Counseling And Education Master's Degree Program Designed For The Working Professional [2000], Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

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Nsu Graduate Teacher Education Program (Gtep) Master's And Educational Specialist Degrees And Graduate Courses In Education Class Schedule Winter 2000, Nova Southeastern University

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice College Archive

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Communication Skills Among Accounting Students In Higher Education : Issues, Related Problems And Possible Solutions, Amirah Muhamad Nor

Student Works (2000-2009)

Communication skills are central to the interaction between the giver and the recipients of information. Accounting starts with the gathering and processing of information. This paper examines the issues and related problems associated with communication skills which employers, academic and accounting students consider important. It also identifies the similarities and differences in perception between these groups.