Promoting a University Culture of Sustainability: The Role of Conscious Consumption

2017 ◽  
pp. 531-540
Author(s):  
Madhavi Venkatesan
Keyword(s):  
University Culture

Milton’s ‘Naturam non pati senium’ and ‘De Idea Platonica’ as Cambridge Act Verses: A Reconsideration in Light of Manuscript Evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (297) ◽  
pp. 847-868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dulgarian
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
University Culture ◽  
Alternative Reading ◽  
Large Corpus

Abstract This article offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Milton’s Latin poems ‘Naturam non pati senium’ and ‘De Idea Platonica quemadmodum Aristoteles intellexit’ based upon a reconstruction of their context in the academic institutions of 1620s Cambridge. After framing the poems in the broader context of the fairly large corpus of surviving printed and manuscript carmina comitalia or ‘Act Verses’, the documentary evidence for the Latin disputations which they conventionally preceded, and the surviving evidence for the rôle of such verses in university exercises, the article argues for the importance of Sarah Knight’s 2010 manuscript discovery connecting Milton’s poems to the calendar year 1629, but shows that an alternative reading of the manuscript evidence offers a more convincing and much more illuminating account of the poems’ relation to their context. Finally, the article will argue that such a reconsideration of the poems can elucidate the striking absence of consensus concerning the philosophical positions that they take and the nature of their arguments, while revealing a hitherto unsuspected aspect of the student Milton’s deep involvement in university culture.

scholarly journals There Is No Performance, There Is Just This Moment: The Role of Mindfulness Instruction in Promoting Health and Well-Being Among Students at a Highly-Ranked University in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanna Kerrigan ◽  
Victoria Chau ◽  
Melissa King ◽  
Emily Holman ◽  
Alain Joffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Culture ◽  
High Level ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Health And Well Being

Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) has been shown to improve health outcomes across populations. We explored the feasibility, acceptability, and initial effects of a pilot MBSR program at a highly-ranked university in the United States. We conducted 23 in-depth interviews with 13 students. Interviews explored stressors and coping mechanisms, experiences with MBSR, and its reported impact and potential future use. Interviews were analyzed using thematic content and narrative analyses. Results indicated that students are exposed to a very high level of constant stress related to the sheer amount of work and activities that they have and the pervasive surrounding university culture of perfectionism. MBSR offered an opportunity to step back and gain perspective on issues of balance and priorities and provided concrete techniques to counter the effects of stressors. We conclude that MBSR and mindfulness programs may contribute to more supportive university learning environments and greater health and well-being among students.

scholarly journals Quality Systems at Universities in Academics’ Perception: A Systematic Literature Review

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-141
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Łęgocka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
University Governance ◽  
University Culture ◽  
New Public ◽  
Perception Of Quality ◽  
Market Pressure

New public management, as well as institutional and market pressure, brought business-like requirements to HEIs. Their implementation resulted in profound changes in university governance. This paper presents a systematic literature review of the scholars’ perception of a quality system introduced by new public management and the corporatization of universities. The implications of the new practices and discourses for academic identity, university governance, power-balance, as well as the role of a scholar are investigated. The findings reveal that the underlying values and university culture stay in tension with managerialist ideology. The presence of the institutional logics approach in a university context was also examined. It enabled to analyze whether it was used in the context of providing insight into the academics’ perception of quality assurance systems.

scholarly journals Influence of Caring and Empathy on Students' Multiculturalism Mediated by Christianity: Role of University Core Values

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Elia Wenardjo ◽  
Hana Panggabean
Keyword(s):  
Urban Youth ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Core Values ◽  
University Culture ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Empathy Quotient ◽  
Orientation Scale ◽  
Urban Diversity

Urban diversity is a reality for young people living in megacities such as Jakarta. Diversity in urban areas has its benefits; for example, it is a driver of creativity and innovation, but this urban diversity is vulnerable to intergroup friction and conflict. Therefore, urban youth needs to have a sense of multiculturalism, that is, an open attitude and respect for differences. Strong connections between Multiculturalism and Empathy as well as between Multiculturalism and spirituality or religiosity have been recognized. Universities that implement religious-oriented values and openness toward diversity are more likely to promote student multiculturalism. Based on literature, our study examines the influence of the organizational core values of Christianity and Caring as well as an additional social skill variable of Empathy on Multiculturalism among students in a Catholic university in Jakarta. We hypothesize that Multiculturalism is predicted by Caring and Empathy mediated by Christianity. This research was conducted with 155 bachelor students at University X. Research instruments comprised Organizational Core Value questionnaires, the Baron-Cohen and Wheelwright’s Empathy Quotient, and the Universal-Diverse Orientation Scale. Data were analyzed using the path analysis technique. The results show that Multiculturalism is predicted by Caring and Empathy mediated by Christianity. Christianity influences Multiculturalism. Each of Caring and Empathy influences Multiculturalism with the mediation of Christianity. These results suggest that a university might cultivate Multiculturalism by thoughtfully channeling religiously oriented values and a sense of Caring and Empathy in building university culture.

scholarly journals The development of historical imagination on the example of an exercise addressed to first-year students of history at Nicolaus Copernicus University1

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Laddach Agnieszka Laddach
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
First Year ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
University Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nicolaus Copernicus ◽  
The Temple

Laddach Agnieszka, The development of historical imagination on the example of an exercise addressed to firstyear students of history at Nicolaus Copernicus University. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 163–181, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300-0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.11. December 12, 2016 a group of eleven first-year students of history organized at the Institute of History of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland) participated in the field work carried out in the church Roman Catholic parish of St. Jacob the Apostle in Toruń. During a visit in the temple the students performed an exercised to draw their attention: generally to the role of the imagination in the practice of the historian’s research and training his own imagination in whole live. First, the authoress described a process of the exercise. Then she briefly pointed to the literature on the role of the imagination. Later she discussed the work that have arisen in the result of the exercise. Next she characterized the thoughts and impressions of students. She also outlinedthe importance of this exercise in a broader context. At the end she summed up the whole article.

A view from the other side: interpretations of widening participation by a post-1992 university

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-208
Author(s):  
Nic Lightfoot
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Widening Participation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
University Culture ◽  
The University

The role of the academic in interpreting the complex and confused concept of widening participation is central to the practice of widening participation within higher education. These interpretations are bound up within the context of what it means to be an academic, and external constraints on that role. Government policy has insufficiently challenged perceptions of that role to bring about a transformation to academic practice. This research, through the use of semi-structured interviews, illuminates the perspectives of academics, in a range of roles, to the widening participation agenda and outlines the alternative priorities of those academics. Ultimately, the impetus for transformation is not one which will occur internally to the university and it is argued that stakeholders, in the absence of realistic government pressure, must play a part in bringing about a university culture which places teaching and learning and not subject disciplines at the centre of its practice.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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