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The Case Of Affirmative Action In Undergraduate Admissions: United States And Brazil, Taylor Toves, Adolphus Belk Ph.D.

The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

In the realm of higher education, Affirmative Action has been a matter of dispute amongst college administrations, state legislatures, and even the Supreme Court of the United States. Affirmative Action was created in order to help ensure that underrepresented groups have a fair chance at obtaining a college education. This has not only affected colleges and universities in the United States but also Brazil. This research did a cross-country comparative analysis of two nation states that posses a similar history when it comes to race relations and how that has affected the condition of equity in higher education. Though both …

Teachability In Leading Organizational Mentees: A Narrative Analysis Of Reverse Mentoring As Reflexive Moments For Coping In Personal Crisis, Robert Tyler Spradley Ph.D., James E. Towns Ph.D.

Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice

Mentoring is often situated in leadership and coaching literature as a formal, strategic and a beneficial experience. Additional, studies indicate that mentor/mentee relationships can cause tension and even workplace harassment. Most of these studies focus on the power, whether negative or positive, of the leader versus the mentored. This study synthesizes stories lived and stories told using narrative analysis to balance how reverse mentoring simultaneously assists mentors and mentees in making sense of complex communication environments. Highlighting teachability as a chief characteristic of leading, reverse mentoring co-constructs new narratives for both mentor and mentee to cope with crisis situations. Reciprocal …

This Sacred Work: Andrea Luxton, Sixth President Of Andrews, Inaugurated, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Dr. Andrea Luxton was inaugurated as the sixth president of Andrews University on Tuesday, October 25.

Students' "Envision Magazine" Wins 8 Awards: Acp Pacemaker Award & Sac Best In Class, Chris Mclean-Wheeler

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

"Envision Magazine, a student-led product of the Department of Visual Art, Communication & Design since 2010, received eight awards this October. These awards were given at the Society of Adventist Communicators (SAC) conference, which took place Oct. 12 to 15 in Denver, Colorado, and by the Associated Collegiate Press."

Chimes: October 28, 2016, Calvin College

Chimes

New center for student success by Julia McKee

Silver screen spooks to watch this Halloween by Brandon Schreur

Cameroonian pastor questions prosperity gospel by Juliana Ludema

Calvin Improv by Mark Peless

Calvin CFAC receives indie pop duo Tegan and Sara

History colloquium integrates business and religion by Matt Leistra

Fall sports wrap up as teams look to championships by Mark Peless

Teaching With Oer At Uk, Allison Soult

Open in Action: Open Educational Resources Contribute to Student Success

Dr. Allison Soult shares her insights and experience of teaching with open educational resources at the University of Kentucky.

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Open Educational Resources: Promoting Student Success Through Equal, Day-One Access To Customizable Materials, Jeff Gallant

Open in Action: Open Educational Resources Contribute to Student Success

Jeff Gallant provides an overview of the current textbook market, the benefits of open educational resources (OER), and the success in adopting OER at higher education institutions.

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Open Educational Resources: Faculty, Libraries, Publishers, And Students Working Together, Leila W. Salisbury

Open in Action: Open Educational Resources Contribute to Student Success

Leila W. Salisbury introduces the audience to the landscape of open educational resources and discusses how a professor collaborated with her students to create an openly licensed textbook.

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The Foundation Of All Freedom: Nick Miller Speaks At Harvard Event On Religious Liberty, Chris Mclean-Wheeler

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

"Nicholas Miller, professor of church history at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary on the campus of Andrews University, attended the 18th annual “Meeting of Experts,” which is hosted by the Andrews International Religious Liberty Institute. During the meeting, which was held over three days in August of this year at Harvard Divinity School, attendees presented papers and discussed the issue of religious restriction... Miller’s role in the meeting was to compile a document that provided an overview of everyone’s presentations."

Becoming And Being A Student: A Heideggerian Analysis Of Physiotherapy Students’ Experiences, Claire Hamshire, Kirsten Jack

The Qualitative Report

This three-year, longitudinal, narrative study sought to explore physiotherapy students’ stories of their undergraduate experiences to gain an insight into the process of being a student, with an interpretation of the philosophy of Heidegger as a possible horizon for understanding. The central aim was to listen to students’ stories told in their own words over a series of narrative interviews throughout their degree programme. The first author [CH] interviewed six students a minimum of five occasions and at each interview they were encouraged with a narrative prompt to tell the stories of their experiences as a series of episodes beginning …

Designing An Active Learning Popular Culture Experience

Library Faculty and Staff papers

Designing an Active Learning Popular Culture Experience is an overview of various techniques faculty can use to incorporate active learning into their curriculum and pedagogy. Popular culture studies provides a great platform for engaging students, but also provides them opportunities for active review of materials and discussion in and out of class. Innovative spaces, classroom design and technology to support active learning will also be reviewed.

Researcher Profiles, Amanda Izenstark, Julia Lovett, Andrée Rathemacher

Technical Services Faculty Presentations

Slides from a presentation, "Researcher Profiles."

Presented as part of the Search Savvy Seminar "You Developed It — Now Share It! Researcher Profiles and Data Management," offered at the University of Rhode Island Libraries on October 21 and 25, 2016.

"You’ve done the research, you’ve written the article or book chapter, or you’ve given the presentation. Now, how do you share it so that you maximize your research impact? This session will lead you through setting up researcher profiles in SelectedWorks, ORCID, ResearcherID, and Google Scholar, and get you started with data management."

Part of the University Libraries' Search Savvy …

Women In The Work: A Spirit Of Collaboration, Chris Mclean-Wheeler

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Summary of the 2016 H.M.S. Richards Lectureship on Biblical Preaching.

Chimes: October 21, 2016, Calvin College

Chimes

ArtPrize winner former Calvin prof by Saraphina Sefcik

No Trump for Calvin Republicans by Josh Parks

Political science professors tackle foreign policy by Matthew Leistra

MSDO seeks to extend unlearning by Michael Lentz

Panel on feminism & faith by Emily Stroble

Isky Van Doorne Named MIAA Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Week by Purn Yeo

E-sports catching up with traditional sports by Kelsey Powers

Collaborative Consultation For Online And Blended Course Design: Integrating Information Literacy And Fair Use In Instructional Design, Juhong Christie Liu Ph.D., Liz Thompson, Howard Carrier

Libraries

This session presents the diverse aspects in a community-based learning and consultation model for online and blended course design. Collaboratively, a panel of instructional designers and librarians have provided consultations in a multi-phase faculty development program. The customized approach to instructional design, integration of information literacy, and fair use in online teaching and learning will be presented. The audience will take away the setups of the program, and will interactively share insights.

Academic Advising Support For Students On Academic Probation, Kaitlyn N. Stormes, Gregg J. Gold

IdeaFest: Interdisciplinary Journal of Creative Works and Research from Cal Poly Humboldt

No abstract provided.

A Crossroads For Collection Development And Assessment, Its Fallout, And Unknowns: Where Do We Go From Here?, Thomas Reich

Charleston Library Conference

Where do we go from here? Achieving goals of sustainable resource collections through a thorough collection assessment is evermore challenged by fallout and unknowns lurking ubiquitously. There is an ever‐increasing competition for both physical space and economic space. We’re at an important crossroads for collection development, collection assessment, and libraries themselves. Change and assessment must be sustainable. To be effective, change must create its own momentum. Three years into our collection assessment project, momentum has been steady and efforts continue. However, we’ve encountered fallout and unknowns which we hadn’t planned on, and these are of an institutional and political nature.

Chimes: October 14, 2016, Calvin College

Chimes

Lowest enrollment in decades by Josh Parks

Battle over telescope on sacred mountain by Dena De Kryger

Play humanizes controversial figure by Courtney Zonnefeld

Men's soccer triumphs to 5-1 victory over Hope by Purun Yeo

Calvin welcomes Ingrid Michaelson by Natalie Henderson

Wolterstorff speaks on human rights by Kathryn Mae Post

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Truman's decision by Victor Lynde

Outside The Bubble: Lamson Residents Invite Community To Join Community Service Project, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

"The [Andrews University's] women's residence hall has begun the first phase of their community service project benefitting Memorial Children's Hospital in South Bend, Indiana. They welcome campus and community involvement."

Assessing Feasibility And Readiness To Address Obesity Through Policy In American Indian Reservations, Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Gail Boe, Carolyn Noonan, Leslie Carroll, Dedra Buchwald

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

The Institute of Medicine and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified policy and environmental strategies as critical to the prevention and control of obesity. However such strategies are rare in American Indian communities despite significant obesity-related disparities. Tribal policymaking processes differ by tribal nation and are often poorly understood by researchers and public health practitioners, hindering the dissemination, implementation, and successful scale-up of evidence-base obesity strategies in tribal communities. To address these gaps in knowledge we surveyed 138 diverse stakeholders in two American Indian reservations to assess the feasibility of and readiness to implement CDC-recommended obesity policy …

Building Community-Campus Partnerships To Prevent Infant Mortality: Lessons Learned From Building Capacity In Four Us Cities, Renata Schiavo, Isabel Estrada-Portales, Elena Hoeppner, Denisse Ormaza, Radhika Ramesh

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Infant mortality rate (IMR) is an important indicator of progress toward health equity and socio-economic development. Despite progress, the US is ranked 45th among 192 countries in IMR, with non-Hispanic black IMR 2.2 times that of non-Hispanic white rates, and higher than average IMR in Native American populations. The Preconception Peer Educators (PPE) program of the U.S. DHHS Office of Minority Health Resource Center (OMHRC) aims to raise awareness about IMR disparities in African Americans, and to promote preconception health behaviors among women of childbearing age and sexually active men. Building upon this program, this report focuses on lessons learned …

International Comparative Criminal Justice Project, Jonathan W. Mccombs

Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success

The high level of collaboration between universities allowed this project to be a success for the students and for learning. Limitations such as the 5 hour time difference were challenging but not insurmountable. The usefulness of online and collaborative projects of this sort can effectively substitute for study­ abroad activities that are often not available to older adult students that might have families and jobs. In future runs of the project we hope to extend the semester to an entire course instead of being part of a course.

Incorporating The Brain Sciences Into The Teaching Of Business Psychology, Raymond L. Forbes Jr.

Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success

Franklin University has been at the forefront of integrating the findings of Neuroscience into its' masters degree program in Business Psychology. The teaching problem has been how to translate the often esoteric research of brain scientists into applications useful at the personal and organizational levels.

Columbus Scholar House: Innovative Housing For Student Parents, Isabel Toth, Traci Lewis, Denise Liston, Nancy Hood, Sarah French, Davita Tucker

Learning Showcase 2016: A Celebration of Discovery, Transformation and Success

Almost one-quarter of the U.S. college students are also parents. Many student parents are single parents, grew up in households with limited financials resources, or are the first in their families to attend college. Stable, quality, affordable housing is a critical foundation for student parents to be successful but there are limited housing options for this student subgroup. Supporting high-quality early learning opportunities for children of student parents is also a priority based on evidence from two-generation approaches to breaking the cycle of poverty.

One Step At A Time: Staff Member Completes First Full Ironman, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

Laura Malcolm, marketing & recruitment coordinator for the Andrews University School of Business Administration, swam 2.4 miles, biked 112 miles and ran 26.2 miles, completing her first full Ironman.

I Am Because You Are: Ubuntu Architecture Team Makes Plans With South Africans, Becky St. Clair, Chris Mclean-Wheeler

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

The UBUNTU Design Group seeks to help improve "shantytowns" in South Africa.

Chimes: October 7, 2016, Calvin College

Chimes

Film debugs gender gap in computer science by Juliana Ludema

Dialogue offers new submission category by Maddie Hughey

On Calvin's campus, sharing is (car)ing by Michael Lentz

Notes at Noon showcases collaboration by Josh Parks

Senate hosts summit by Katie Ulrick

Calvin's women volleyball team dominates Olivet's team 3-0 by Purun Yeo

New independent bookstore has community focus by Saraphina Sefcik

Life beyond Campus by Michelle Hofman

Joella Ranaivoson is ordained in the CRC by Kathryn Mae Post

Annual Egg Drop Scheduled: Campus & Community Invited To Attend Oct. 20, Becky St. Clair

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

"The campus and community is invited to attend the annual Egg Drop Contest, hosted by the Andrews University Department of Engineering & Computer Science and the University’s Society of Women Engineers Club, on Thursday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. The event is held outside of the Science Complex..."

Potential That Goes Beyond: Architecture Students Build Relationship Between People And Community, Danni Francis

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

"The 2015–16 graduate Urban Design Studio class, led by Andrew von Maur, professor of architecture, has been recognized with six national awards for excellence in the field of urban design and town planning for their work on “Twin Cities Harbor: A Study of Potential in Benton Harbor & St. Joseph, Michigan.” The purpose of the study was to prepare information to suggest that the Twin Cities harbor area is on the cusp of great transformation."

Neilson Library Final Charter, Smith College

The New Neilson Library

Final charter for the New Neilson Library project.