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Of Lizards And Language, Bernadette Gongora

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

The Grizzly, April 27, 2017, Brian Thomas, Kevin Leon, Erin Mckinney, Chris Karmilowicz, Courtney A. Duchene, Jordan Ostrum, Fran Liberatoscioli, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus Makes Changes to Graduation • Mellon Foundation Awards College Grant for New Core Curriculum • Grizzly Interview with President Brock Blomberg • Recent Volunteer Efforts are Revitalizing the Organic Farm • First-Person Perspective: Student Finds Comfort and Solidarity at D.C. March for Science • History Professor Shares Love for Music with the Campus • Opinions: Neutrality is Not Enough to Stop World-Wide Fascism; Future of Ursinus Requires Us to Accept Change • Two-Sport Athlete Raises Money for Next Off-the-Field Hurdle

The Grizzly, April 20, 2017, Brian Thomas, Sarah Hojsak, Courtney A. Duchene, Erin Mckinney, Sienna Coleman, Leighnah L. Perkins, Colin Mccloskey, Johnny Cope, Andrew Simoncini

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Record Store Day Comes to Collegeville • Seismic Step Shares History and Tradition • Q&A with Incoming Music Professor • Jazzfest to Swing into Action Next Weekend • At the Intersection of Art and Meaning, Student Musicians Find Their Sound • Inside a Campus Tradition: The Story of the Heefner Organ • Opinions: Let "More Life" Carry You Through the Summer; Get it Together and Listen to Kendrick Lamar's Album • UC Athletes Share the Best Pump-Up Music Before Competition • UC Baseball Captain Also Hitting the High Notes in a Capella Club

The Grizzly, April 13, 2017, Brian Thomas, Courtney A. Duchene, Kevin Leon, Johnny Cope, Naseem Syed, Sienna Coleman, Fran Liberatoscioli, Hunter Gellman, Nick Brough, Andrew Simoncini

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Renowned Photojournalist Showcases Work on Campus • Student Entrepreneurs Compete in the BEAR Innovation Competition • How Do Student Athletes Manage Both Academics and Athletics? • Student Commons Planning Advances • Speaking Out Against Injustice: How Members of the UC Community Combat Rape Culture on Campus • St. Andrew's Scholarship Recipient Looks Forward to a Full Year of Soaking Up Scottish Culture • Opinions: Dan Mullen's Success Should Inspire Graduating Students; Greek Life at Ursinus Counters National Stereotypes • Former UC Athlete Bridges the Gap Between Coaching and Administration • Where are They Now?: Two Former Ursinus Athletes Discuss Their …

2017 Lecture Series Program, Bryonn Bain

Vernon L. Pack Distinguished Lecture Series

Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, actor, author, hip hop theater innovator and spoken word poetry champion.

Bringing arts, activism,and education to prisons for over 25 years, Bain's courses on hip hop, theater, spoken word poetry, police abuse and the prison crisis continue to impact youth at Rikers Island, boys Town Detention Center and those incarcerated at Sing Sing prison.

2017 Undergraduate Research Competition Program, Coastal Carolina University

Undergraduate Research Symposium Programs

9th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition, April 11-12, 2017. Document includes schedule and abstracts.

The Grizzly, April 6, 2017, Brian Thomas, Naseem Syed, Courtney A. Duchene, Erin Mckinney, Paige Szmodis, Sienna Coleman, Kevin Leon, Joshua Brandon Hoffman, Sarah Defelice, Nick Brough, Andrew Simoncini

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Active Minds Decides to "Tone it Down Taupe" for Autism Acceptance • Student Government Election Results Come In • STAT Hosts Town Hall to Provide Transparency on Where Tuition Goes • Core Curriculum Updates Underway for Fall 2018 • Eco-Conscious Students Travel Sustainably with UC Bikeshare • Annual Spring Concert Takes on a New Look • Opinions: "Light it Up Blue" is More Harmful than Helpful; Here's Why Active Minds "Toned it Down Taupe" • The Woman Behind the Sports: Laura Moliken, Athletic Director • Construction on Thomas Field Underway; Press Box and Grandstand to be Built

2016-2017 Ugr Bibliography Of Ccu Student Research, Coastal Carolina University

Student Research Bibliographies

No abstract provided.

Gettysburg: Our College's Magazine Spring 2017, Communications & Marketing

Gettysburg: Our College’s Magazine

From the President Janet Morgan Riggs '77

Table of Contents

The Win-Win of Giving (Angela Gravino Estes '64, Jere Estes '65)

Prof Notes: Len Goldberg

A Career Connector Returns (Rachel Fry '15)

The 411: Bruce Chamberlin '86

The Sights and Sounds of Other Times (Professor Christopher D'Addario)

Envisioning the Future of the Finance Industry (Eric Allyn P'16, Andy Larkin '86, Chris Matthaei '01, Daria Lo Presti Wallach '76)

Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College

U.S. Department of State Selects Eisenhower Institute Fellows for Diplomacy Lab

LAX Top Honor (Carol Daly Cantele '83)

Kudos from Coaches …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council. Vol. 18, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2017. Forum On National Scholarships And Honors

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Contents

Call for Papers . v

Editorial Policy, Deadlines, and Submission Guidelines . vi

Dedication to Peter C. Sederberg. . vii

Editor’s Introduction ix by Ada Long

Forum on “National Scholarships And Honors”

First, Do No Harm 3 by Lia Rushton

The Strange Game of Prestige Scholarships . 11 by John A. Knox

Open Letter to Lia Rushton . 19 by Linda Frost

Of Groomers and Tour Guides: The Role of Writing in the Fellowships Office . 23 by Leslie Bickford

Becoming Legible: Helping Students Navigate Promotional Genres of Self-Narration 29 by Anton Vander Zee

Lessons from Honors: …

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council, Spring/Summer 2017, Volume 18, Number 1 -- Frontmatter

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Cover

Masthead

Editorial Board

Indexing Statement

Production Editors

Contents

Call For Papers

Editorial Policy

Deadlines

Submission Guidelines

Dedication: Peter C. Sederberg

Slaves, Coloni, And Status Confusion In The Late Roman Empire, Hannah Basta

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

From the dawn of the Roman Empire, slavery played a major and essential role in Roman society. While slavery never completely disappeared from ancient Roman society, its position in the Roman economy shifted at the beginning of the period called Late Antiquity (14 CE–500 CE). At this time, the slave system of the Roman world adjusted to a new category of labor. Overall, the numbers of slaves declined, an event that historian Ramsey MacMullen, drawing from legal debates and legislation of the period, attributes to the accumulation of debt and poverty among Roman citizens in the third century CE. One …

Of Groomers And Tour Guides: The Role Of Writing In The Fellowships Office, Leslie Bickford

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

When Lia Rushton asserts that “it takes a village to raise a fellowship recipient,” she accurately describes the culture of mentoring and undergraduate research at Winthrop University, where often faculty not only refer students to my office but also email or call me to make sure I plan to seek them out. In one such recent referral, a colleague used a term I’ve heard and winced at many times, suggesting I “groom” a certain student for a particular award. Coming as it did on the heels of my first reading of Rushton’s “First, Do No Harm,” this call made me …

Lessons From Honors: National Scholarships, High-Impact Practices, And Student Success, Craig T. Cobane, Audra Jennings

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

High-impact educational practices (HIPs) have long been central to honors pedagogy. From undergraduate research to service learning, study abroad, internships, and writing-intensive courses, these practices shape the honors educational experience and influence retention successes in honors. These practices also inform the synergy between honors and national scholarships by helping students to develop the skills and experiences necessary to compete for prestigious scholarships.

Across the United States, university and college administrators expend tremendous time and energy worrying about student retention, persistence, and graduation rates. Recently, university communities have focused considerable attention on the potential of HIPs to address these issues and …

Open Letter To Lia Rushton, Linda Frost

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

I want to write this response as a letter to you, Lia, in part because I worked with you in helping national scholarship applicants at the University of Alabama at Birmingham but also because I know you are the kind of person who fully commits herself to the conversation at hand. What you emphasized in your essay and in all your years as a national fellowships advisor was the key importance of listening. I observed firsthand that your skill as a listener made you the successful, trailblazing, and legendary scholarships advisor that you were at UAB, focusing first and last …

Developing Citizenship Through Honors, Jacob Andrew Hester, Kari Lynn Besing

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

For decades, research has shown that higher levels of education correspond to increased interest in politics and civic engagement. Despite the vast amount of scholarly attention, why this link exists is still disputed. One theory about the connection is the civic education hypothesis, which claims that the causal link between education and civic engagement depends not only on the amount of education a person receives but also on the type of curriculum studied. For example, Hillygus argues that “some courses are more likely than others to develop the skills fundamental to political participation” (31). Similarly, Condon argues that the development …

The Strange Game Of Prestige Scholarships, John A. Knox

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

As the “haunted” Rhodes finalist whom Lia Rushton accurately cited in her essay, I would like to provide some context for that reaction. I also wish to discuss some disquieting conclusions I have reached about prestige scholarships through my own experiences as a candidate, as an advisor to multiple nominees, via personal and family knowledge of nearly twenty Rhodes Scholars ranging from the Class of 1910 to the Class of 2000, and during twenty years as a faculty member at two universities.

What stood out most about my final Rhodes interview was its tone of bigotry and belligerence. I am …

Moving Beyond Gpa: Alternative Measures Of Success And Predictive Factors In Honors Programs, Tom Mould, Stephen B. Deloach

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

While studies of predictive factors for success in honors have been increasingly creative and expansive on what these factors might include, they have rarely challenged the dominant, virtually monolithic definitions of success. The majority of studies measure success either by collegiate grade point averages (GPAs) or retention rates in honors, which are often contingent on collegiate GPA. For years scholars have been calling for a more nuanced and robust definition of success, yet few have taken up the charge, presumably because such data are not readily available. GPAs and retention rates are easy to access and quantify. Tracking and quantifying …

Resilience, Reconciliation, And Redemption: An Initial Historical Sketch Of Pioneering Black Students In The Plan Ii Honors Program, Richard J. Reddick, Emily A. Johnson, Ashley Jones, Tracie A.J. Lowe, Ashley N. Stone, James Thomas

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

From the inception of the integration of predominantly White institutions in higher education marked by Sweatt v. Painter in 1950, The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has been a battleground for educational equity. The university continues to find itself at ground zero in the battle for race and equity in higher education and embroiled in the debate over affirmative action, first in Hopwood v. Texas (1996) and then in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (2013; 2016). For these reasons, UT Austin serves as a bellwether institution for public, predominantly White institutions (PWIs) when it comes to …

A Regression Model Approach To First-Year Honors Program Admissions Serving A High-Minority Population, David M. Rhea

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Many honors programs make admissions decisions based on student high school GPA and a standardized test score. However, McKay argued that standardized test scores can be a barrier to honors program participation, particularly for minority students. Minority students, particularly Hispanic and African American students, are apt to have lower standardized test scores than other ethnic groups according to the 2013 national ACT Profile Reports on “Black/African American Students” and “Hispanic/Latino Students.” Thus, honors programs that serve high-minority populations need to find new honors program solutions that will help their university community as well as encourage a high standard of academic …

First, Do No Harm, Lia Rushton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

When I was appointed fellowships advisor at UAB back in the late 1990s and before the formation of the National Association of Fellowships Advisors, as a first order of business I spoke with the university’s few former winners and finalists about their experiences applying for nationally competitive scholarships. One such former applicant, now an accomplished professor who had graduated from our honors program a number of years prior, was evidently still haunted by his Rhodes interview as he told me about the questions he had been asked by and the answers he had given to his interviewers, answers that did …

Demography Of Honors: The Census Of U.S. Honors Programs And Colleges, Richard I. Scott, Patricia J. Smith, Andrew J. Cognard-Black

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Beginning in 2013 and spanning four research articles, we have implemented an empirical analysis protocol for honors education that is rooted in demography (Scott; Scott and Smith; Smith and Scott “Growth”; Smith and Scott, “Demography”). The goal of this protocol is to describe the structure and distribution of the honors population, but instead of a focus on aggregates of students or faculty and staff, the educational institution is the unit of analysis. This organizational demography has answered many questions about the growth of honors throughout collegiate education over time (Smith and Scott, “Growth”); documenting infrastructural and programmatic differences between honors …

Becoming Legible: Helping Students Navigate Promotional Genres Of Self-Narration, Anton Vander Zee

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The five-paragraph essay is a hard genre to love. Its inverted-triangle intro has enlightened us with too many “dawns” of some monolithic “man.” It reduces arguments, which tend to be rather subtle creatures, to the confines of a single-sentence thesis. It confects arguments in bland triplicate structure, as if any claim could be made more palatable by a perfectly bland Neapolitan blend. And it encourages seeing conclusions as a venue for gratuitous repetitions that insult the reader’s intelligence and memory alike. Beyond sponsoring these infelicities, the five-paragraph model, as Kimberly Hill Campbell notes in a recent issue of Educational Leadership …

Editor’S Introduction, Ada Long

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

The past two decades have seen a rapid professionalization of national scholarship advising at colleges and universities. Concurrently, the number of national scholarships has increased from the few that everybody recognized— the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Fulbright—to hundreds that target different kinds of potential applicants. While scholarship advising used to be a volunteer activity performed by a few faculty members working with a small number of students, it is now usually a distinct administrative and structural unit with its own staff, often positioned within an honors college or program and in any case working in close collaboration with honors …

Forum On “National Scholarships And Honors”

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The Grizzly, March 30, 2017, Brian Thomas, Johnny Myers, Naseem Syed, Sienna Coleman, Erin Mckinney, Kevin Leon, Rachel Glick, Hunter Gellman, Fran Liberatoscioli

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Ursinus to Begin Offering Summer Courses to Students, Community Members • Students Share Diverse Experiences in UCARE Sponsored Diversity Monologues • Is There Declining Student Interest in the Philadelphia Experience? • "Stop Kiss" Brings Story of Love and Heartbreak to the Stage • Professor Finds a New Approach to Academics with Brooklyn Institute for Social Research • Opinions: Students Need to Start Contacting Their Representatives; Here's Why I Relay for Life at Ursinus College • The HEART of Ursinus Cardiovascular Research • Ursinus Tennis Coach Reaches 100 Career Victories, Wins Coach of the Year Award

The Grizzly, March 23, 2017, Brian Thomas, Nick Brough, Luximei Wang, Paige Szmodis, Courtney A. Duchene, Jada A. Grice, Jordan Scharaga, Andrew Simoncini, Chris Karmilowicz

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Immigration Panel Will Allow Students to Express Their Experience with Political Issues • International Perspective: Reflections on Adjusting to Campus Culture in the Fall • Important Housing Lottery Dates and Advice from Residence Life • Tech Support Updates Outdated Login Service • From Taxes to Spaghetti, Nerd Camp Helps Students Navigate the Real World • First-Person Perspective: Student Reflects on Class Trip to Chicago • Opinions: Does U.S. Happiness Affect UC Happiness?; Trappe Beer and Soda or Austin's Beverages? • From Amateur Wrestler to College Professor: Nick Scoville Does it All • Fun in the Sun: Five Ursinus Teams Traveled …

The Grizzly, March 2, 2017, Brian Thomas, Courtney A. Duchene, Paige Szmodis, Yuki Matsumoto, Nick Brough, Kayla Anelli, Benjamin T. Allwein, Johnny Myers, Andrew Simoncini

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Student Premieres Self-Produced Film on Campus • SPINT Houses to Host Events to Interest Applicants for Next Year • International Perspective: A Japanese Student's Reflection on Exchange Programs • Q&A with Last Year's Faculty Award Winners • Setting the Bar High: Mock Trial Races Toward Success • UC Senior Sprints to the Finish Line • Opinions: The U-Imagine Center Undermines Liberal Education; Entrepreneurship Enhances Liberal Education at UC • Men's Basketball Breaks Nine-Year Drought, Advances to Conference Playoffs • Four for Four: Ursinus Women's Swimming Caps Off Perfect Four Years

The Revolving Door Of Education: Teacher Turnover And Retention Amongst The Graduates Of A Liberal Arts Teacher Education Program, Gregory W. Dachille, Chloe Ruff

Education Faculty Publications

In the United States, elementary and secondary education teachers comprise 4% of the entire civilian workforce (Ingersoll, 2001). The composition of that 4% is changing because of teacher turnover. According to recent statistics, 46% of teachers leave the classroom within the first five years of teaching and 9.5% of teachers leave the classroom within their first year (Rinke, 2014; Riggs, 2013; Zheng & Zeller, 2016). This study is designed to examine the teaching experiences of graduates of one teacher education program and the potential differences between graduates who stay in teaching and those who leave. Throughout this study, the guiding …

The Grizzly, February 23, 2017, Brian Thomas, Sarah Hojsak, Courtney A. Duchene, Paige Szmodis, Katrina O'Donnell, Steve Mohapp, Jordan Scharaga, Andrew Simoncini, Johnny Cope

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Laptop Program Comes to an End • Digital Humanities Opportunities Take Off • Here's Why the Wi-Fi has Been so Rough This Semester • International Perspective: A Student's Thoughts on Technology Use While Living Abroad • Exploring Campus Culture in a Plugged-In World • Revisiting Ursinus' Lost Connection to Computer History • Opinions: Excessive Technology Use Harms Student Learning; Students Should Use Technology to Stay Organized • What They Want: Athletes Speak About Dream Equipment • Ursinus HEART Lab at the Cutting Edge of Cardiovascular Research