scholarly journals Age-Friendly University Assessments: Approach by the UMass Dartmouth Campus

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 537-537
Author(s):  
Andrew Revell ◽  
Brian Ayotte ◽  
Jennifer Viveiros
Keyword(s):  
Gerontological Society ◽  
Reporting Tool ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Abstract Representatives from The Ora M. DeJesus Gerontology Center at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth began participating on the Age-Friendly University (AFU) panel at The Gerontological Society of America conference in November 2018. The recommendations and knowledge provided a foundation to begin informally surveying faculty and gerontology affiliates on age-friendly practices. In the fall of 2019, formal discussions began with our partners at other campuses, and in Spring 2020, the AFU Climate Survey was disseminated by email announcements to all students and employees on our campus, soon followed by the Inventory reporting tool to campus office administrators. Results of these assessments will be presented on the utility of these approaches and suggestions for refinement and broader dissemination.

Academia's Golden Age

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard M. Freeland
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
General Education ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Boston College ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Close Study ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
National Trends ◽  
The University

This book examines the evolution of American universities during the years following World War II. Emphasizing the importance of change at the campus level, the book combines a general consideration of national trends with a close study of eight diverse universities in Massachusetts. The eight are Harvard, M.I.T., Tufts, Brandeis, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern and the University of Massachusetts. Broad analytic chapters examine major developments like expansion, the rise of graduate education and research, the professionalization of the faculty, and the decline of general education. These chapters also review criticisms of academia that arose in the late 1960s and the fate of various reform proposals during the 1970s. Additional chapters focus on the eight campuses to illustrate the forces that drove different kinds of institutions--research universities, college-centered universities, urban private universities and public universities--in responding to the circumstances of the postwar years.

An Evaluation of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1978 ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Marion Brown ◽  
Tom Johnson ◽  
Yuji Kishimoto ◽  
Lynn Reynolds ◽  
Sumio Suzuki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fine Arts ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
The University

Evaluation of Pc-Based Younger Driver Training Program: Use of a Driving Simulator

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (20) ◽  
pp. 1403-1407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Fisher ◽  
Robert Glaser ◽  
Nancy E. Laurie ◽  
Alexander Pollatsek ◽  
John F. Brock
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Driver Education ◽  
Driver Training ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Trained Subjects ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
Pedestrian Crossing ◽  
The University

Younger adults are overinvolved in accidents. Model high school driver education programs were developed in the 1970s in an attempt to reduce this overinvolvement. An evaluation of these programs suggested that they were largely ineffective. Recently, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has developed the first PC-based driver education program (Zero Errors Driving or Driver ZED) using real footage of risky scenarios. The hope is that younger drivers seeing these scenarios will learn to recognize risky situations in the real world before they develop. In an attempt to evaluate the Driver ZED program, the performance of 20 younger drivers is being tested on the University of Massachusetts' driving simulator. Ten of these drivers have been trained with ZED (the trained group) and ten have not seen the program (the untrained group). All 20 drivers must navigate a total of 24 scenarios that have been programmed on the driving simulator. Measures of driving performance were developed which can be used to discriminate between risky and nonrisky drivers. A preliminary evaluation of the performance of the trained and untrained subjects indicates that the trained subjects are performing more cautiously than the untrained subjects in some, but not all, scenarios (e.g., the trained subjects brake sooner when approaching a pedestrian crossing).

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