scholarly journals Teaching 7000 Students Per Year

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
R. Robert Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University

The undergraduate program at the University of Texas has grown into the largest astronomy teaching program in the world, with some 7000 students per year (almost 20,000 credit hours). The department has 22.5 Ph.D.-level teaching faculty, about 45 graduate students, and about 40 pre-professional undergraduate majors. But most of the enrollment is in courses that satisfy the science requirements of students in liberal arts and non-technical majors. In 1985–86, 96.4 per cent of our undergraduate credit hours taught were in such classes. It is instructive to examine the historical reasons for our growth and its educational consequences, and to draw some conclusions from both for other programs.

scholarly journals A Systems Change Framework for Evaluating Academic Equity and Inclusion in an Ecology & Evolution Graduate Program

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly J Wallace ◽  
Julia M York
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Systems Change ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Change Framework ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Stakeholder Needs ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

AbstractWhile academia is moving forward in terms of diversifying recruitment of undergraduate and graduate students, diverse representation is still not found across the academic hierarchy. At the graduate level, new discussions are emerging around efforts to improve the experiences of women and underrepresented minorities through inclusive graduate programming. Inclusive graduate programs are that which actively center and prioritize support for diverse experiences, identities, career goals, and perspectives, from recruitment through graduation. Establishing regular and rigorous evaluation of equity and inclusion efforts and needs is a critical component of this work. This is recognized by funding agencies that increasingly require reporting on inclusion efforts; here we suggest use of a systems change framework for these evaluations.A systems change approach emphasizes three levels: explicit change (e.g. policies), semi-explicit change (e.g. power dynamics), and implicit change (e.g. biases). We use the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) PhD Program at the University of Texas at Austin in an exercise to (1) identify areas of concern regarding inclusive programming voiced by graduate students, (2) categorize efforts to address these concerns, and (3) integrating and evaluating which areas of the systems change framework show the greatest progress or potential for progress. We argue this framework is particularly useful for academic systems as they are complex, composed of variable individuals, and must address diverse stakeholder needs.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The University

Branko Milanovic of World Bank reviews, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” by James K. Galbraith. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the relationship between the rise of inequality and the performance of the U.S. stock market and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Discusses the physics and ethics of inequality; the need for new inequality measures; pay inequality and world development; estimating the inequality of household incomes; economic inequality and political regimes; the geography of inequality in America, 1969-2007; state-level income inequality and American elections; inequality and unemployment in Europe—a question of levels; European wages and the flexibility thesis; globalization and inequality in China; finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; and economic inequality and the world crisis. Galbraith is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, Austin. Index.”

French and U. S. Influences upon the Latin American Press

1954 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66
Author(s):  
Danton Jobim
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The World ◽  
American Press ◽  
The University

Danton Jobim is editor-in-chief of Diario Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, and professor of journalistic technique at the University of Brazil. He conducted a seminar on the world press at the University of Texas School of Journalism in February-March, 1953. This essay is transcribed from notes on several of his lectures.

scholarly journals High-Pressure Granulites from the Tetons: The Earliest Record of Himalayan-Style Tectonics in the World

2004 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
B. Frost
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
National Park ◽  
University Of Wyoming ◽  
Grand Teton National Park ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

In August 2004 a field party from the University of Wyoming consisting of one faculty member, two graduate students, and one undergraduate student spent two weeks mapping the basement gneisses in the area around Moose Basin. During this project we mapped an area on the pass between Moose Basin and Camp Lake (which is just west of Grand Teton National Park) in detail, made detailed traverses along the head of the cirque for about 3 km southeast of the Park boundary, and collected 44 samples for petrology (Figure 1).

scholarly journals Behavioral Citation Analysis: Toward Collection Enhancement for Users

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth E. Fuchs ◽  
Cristina M. Thomsen ◽  
Randolph G. Bias ◽  
Donald G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Library Services ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
Students First ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Research Analysis

A pilot study was developed to determine use of the University of Texas at Austin General Libraries’ research collections in the fields of civil engineering and educational psychology and to investigate the research behavior of graduate students. First, the authors sampled bibliographic citations from dissertations completed during the years 1997 and 2002 in the above-named fields. Then, a survey was sent to the dissertation writers to gain insight into use and opinions of library services for their graduate research. Analysis of information provided by both collection-and user-centered data-gathering techniques serves to underscore the value of the merged evaluation methods.

scholarly journals Dnipropetrovsk National University named after Oles’ Gonchar

2010 ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Olexandr Pakhomov
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Scientific Process ◽  
Graduate Courses ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The World ◽  
National University ◽  
The University

The Dnipropetrovsk National University is a multi-profile educational and scientific complex, where 16 faculties, the faculty of continuing education, the faculty of correspondence and distance education, post-graduate courses, doctorate, three scientific research institutes, 107 sub-faculties (departments) function, where about 1300 teachers including 150 Doctors of Science, professors and about 700 Candidates of Science, associate professors. In Dnipropetrovsk National University 15,000 students study majoring in 64 fields of knowledge and also foreign students and post-graduate students from more than 20 countries of the world study there. The educational and scientific process at the university correspond to the highest levels of the home and world standards.

scholarly journals STILL SPECIAL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Billings
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Library Science ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Comprehensive Collection ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

To answer the question, one needs to consider whether special collections are any more special today than they have been in the past. The question has particularly intrigued me since I was asked to present a paper in November 1976 as part of the University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of Library Science Colloquium Series, to wit —“What’s So Special about Special Collections¿̣” My perspective was that of a university administrator with line responsibility for one of the great Latin American collections in the world, the most comprehensive collection of Texas-related materials in existence, very young area collections of . . .

scholarly journals Education in academic emergency medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic – our experience from an ongoing crisis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Mueller ◽  
Christoph Schriefl ◽  
Michael Holzer ◽  
Martin Roeggla ◽  
Anton N. Laggner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Human Medicine ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Credit Hours ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
Teaching Responsibilities ◽  
The University ◽  
Medical University ◽  
Summer Semester

Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in suspension of the whole teaching program at the Medical University of Vienna until the end of summer semester. Therefore, a substantial waste of learning time threatens. As the responsible department for emergency medicine teaching, we adapted our program to continue with our courses and maintain the learning progress. Our objective was to evaluate the number of conducted courses and to report the used methods.Methods: Teaching was classified in credit hours per week (CHW). One CHW represents 15 academic hours (45 minutes) during one semester. Computations were performed on basis of the official numbers from the prospectus of the university, or - if not available - were calculated with the formula above. Webinars were performed using CISCO Webex Events®, Webex Training® and ZOOM®. We further utilized Moodle® for resuscitation courses.Results: Overall, courses and clerkships equivalent to 80.2 out of 101.4 CHW (79.1%) will be held during the ongoing crisis in summer semester. Courses in winter semester were completed regularly. In the human medicine curriculum, we could perform 73.7 out of 94.9 CHW (77.7%). In the emergency lectures for the dentistry curriculum, we could adapt all courses to webinars (6.5 CHW, 100%). After adjustment for the exact number of students in each class, courses and clerkships equivalent to 78.7% could be conducted.Conclusions: Despite the challenge to be prepared for the treatment of numerous patients during an ongoing pandemic, we could maintain the majority of our teaching responsibilities. Although sufficient skill training cannot be achieved under those circumstances, we could provide the theoretical backgrounds to allow students further continuation in their studies.

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