Not Just Football: An Intergroup Perspective on the Sandusky Scandal at Penn State

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton P. Alderfer
Keyword(s):  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
High School Coaches ◽  
Senior Administration ◽  
Penn State ◽  
Football Coaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Key Events

AbstractWhen the Penn State football scandal exploded in 2012, observers tended to frame events in terms of individuals behaving badly or irresponsibly. The perpetrator of child abuse was convicted and sent to prison; the head football coach was fired; the president of the University and several senior administrators were terminated; and the former head of the Board of Trustees was forced to resign. Certainly, these actions were understandable under the circumstances. Terrible crimes had been committed and covered up for over a decade. Nevertheless, an exclusively individual focus overlooks the roles of 9 groups whose collective behavior first allowed the criminal acts to occur and then put an end to them. The groups included the children's families and high school coaches, the Penn State football coaching staff, the Penn State senior administration, the Penn State Board of Trustees, the Second Mile charitable organization, the Centre County Pennsylvania criminal justice system, Penn State students, the Big 10 athletic conference, and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. This article employs a group and intergroup perspective to analyze key events and to explain both the dysfunctional systemic behavior and the corrective actions.

scholarly journals A Campus-Wide Community-Engaged Learning Study: Insights and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Darren E. Lund ◽  
Bronwyn Bragg
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Learning Study ◽  
Engaged Learning ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
Senior Administration ◽  
The University ◽  
Wide Community ◽  
Guiding Questions

The authors undertook a campus-wide scan of community-engaged learning (CEL) initiatives at a large University. With collaboration from staff and leadership of the campus Centre For Community-Engaged Learning, the researchers designed an open-ended qualitative interview and questionnaire for senior administrators and faculty leaders across all local undergraduate faculties. Guiding questions for this project included: How do the various faculties and schools within the university define their relationship with community? What activities are considered CEL? How do students engage in these activities? What are the benefits of engaging with community? From these came specific interview questions that were administered to senior administration from each faculty, and further interviews were sought with identified faculty leaders. Findings are listed by faculty, with examples and definitions, and a concluding section offers insights and discussion around strategies to strengthen and enhance CEL. 

From Volunteering to Academic Programming: A Case Example

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Gill ◽  
Sneha Bharadwaj ◽  
Nancy Quick ◽  
Sarah Wainscott ◽  
Paula Chance
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The University

A speech-language pathology master's program that grew out of a partnership between the University of Zambia and a U.S.-based charitable organization, Connective Link Among Special needs Programs (CLASP) International, has just been completed in Zambia. The review of this program is outlined according to the suggested principles for community-based partnerships, a framework which may help evaluate cultural relevance and sustainability in long-term volunteer efforts (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998).

scholarly journals Shared jurisdiction between veterinarians and aqua medicine biologists in fish health—a Norwegian model for inter-professional and cross-sectoral collaboration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenche M. Kjæmpenes
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Early Response ◽  
Marine Science ◽  
Fish Health ◽  
Fish Diseases ◽  
Aquaculture Industry ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University ◽  
Key Events

Abstract This article investigates, using a sociology of profession approach, why veterinarians and aqua medicine biologists share jurisdiction in fish health in Norway. I use a five-actor framework to highlight key events in the development of the Norwegian model for inter-professional and cross-sectoral collaboration in fish health. Veterinarians were initially the only profession involved in fish health. However, in the late 1980s, the Norwegian aquaculture industry suffered great losses due to significant disease outbreaks. Lack of scientific knowledge about the disease causing the outbreaks, Hitra disease, and lack of veterinary capacity to cope with the problem resulted in a situation in which veterinarians continued, as an early response to the disease, to use antibiotic-based therapies. The marine science milieu, with support from the aquaculture industry, instituted a vaccine solution to the endemic Hitra disease in 1987. This scientific breakthrough had major impacts on combatting fish diseases and on the further development of vaccines. New vaccine solutions for other diseases, such as furunculosis, were developed by international and multidisciplinary collaboration. Over a 7-year period, the use of antibiotic-based therapy was dramatically reduced. The control of fish diseases is aquaculture’s X factor, and without these vaccine solutions and regulation regimes, the story of Norwegian aquaculture could have been different. The successful development of the Hitra disease vaccine enabled the marine science milieu at the University of Bergen and the University of Tromsø to establish a new programme of education for aqua medicine biologists based on their own scientific knowledge base. However, their struggle for shared jurisdiction, including the right to prescribe veterinary medicine, lasted nearly 20 years. In 2005, veterinary legislation was amended, and in addition to medical doctors, dentists and veterinarians, aqua medicine biologists, as the fourth profession in Norway, gained the right to prescribe medical products. I argue that the experience in Norway, where professionals from two different sectors share jurisdiction and work side by side in fish health, is worth examining as a model for organizing inter-professional and cross-sectoral collaboration.

scholarly journals Gaining Access to Providing Medical Care to Male Sport Teams: The Female Athletic Trainer Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 946-954
Author(s):  
Alicia Pike ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Jessica L. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Medical Care ◽  
Athletic Training ◽  
Ncaa Division I ◽  
National Collegiate Athletic Association ◽  
Division I ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Sport Team ◽  
Sport Teams ◽  
Job Access ◽  
The University

Context:  Female athletic trainers (ATs) can face barriers to employment within the profession. Although there is evidence for an increasing percentage of women in athletic training, the portion providing medical care to male sport teams within the professional sport and collegiate settings continues to be small. Objective:  To investigate the experiences of female ATs when seeking employment with male sport teams within the Division I setting. Design:  Qualitative study. Setting:  National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Patients or Other Participants:  A total of 15 NCAA Division I female ATs providing medical care to a male sport team participated in our study. Their mean age was 33 ± 9 years, and they had a mean of 11 ± 9 years of overall clinical experience. Data Collection and Analysis:  All participants completed one-on-one phone interviews, which were recorded and transcribed. Analysis of the data followed thematic analysis using a phenomenologic approach. Credibility was established through credibility checks, peer review, and researcher triangulation. Results:  Factors that played a role in women gaining employment with male sport teams were (1) preexisting professional relationships, (2) prior experience with a male sport, and (3) perseverance. Participants in our study were most attracted to their current positions because of (1) the environment of the collegiate setting and (2) the location of the university. Conclusions:  Job access for female ATs in this study was not viewed as a challenge. Familiarity through previous connections with the university and staff and commitment to career goals helped these women obtain the positions they held. The desire to work in male sports was not a primary contributing factor to the decision-making process. Progress continues for women in athletic training, as evidenced by the reported ease of job access with male sport teams.

scholarly journals The Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

AAUP Bulletin ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 419
Author(s):  
Walter Gellhorn ◽  
Donald R. Belcher
Keyword(s):  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
The University

scholarly journals Stormwater Biofilter Media Performance Updates for WinSLAMM: Data Summary for Unit Process Components, Example Calculations and Model Use

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Pitt ◽  
◽  
Shirley Clark ◽  
Redahegn Sileshi ◽  
J. Voorhees ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Group ◽  
Field Research ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Unit Process ◽  
Wisconsin Department ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The Media ◽  
Maintenance Requirements ◽  
The University

This paper focuses on specific information needed to model various aspects of the pollutant retention processes in stormwater biofilters. Updates currently being incorporated in WinSLAMM (Source Loading and Management Model) are building on expanded data from laboratory and field research mostly conducted by Pitt’s research group at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, by Dr. Shirley Clark’s research group at Penn State–Harrisburg, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Geological Survey (DNR/USGS). These processes and data can be used in manual calculations or other models. Extensive summaries of these data sources and associated statistical analyses, plus additional references, are included in an online white paper available at the PV & Assoc. website. These tests were conducted to provide the details needed for modeling the performance of biofilters, specifically focusing on: methods to predict treatment flow rates through the media; particulate and associated particulate bound pollutant retention for several particle sizes; maintenance requirements due to sediment clogging and pollutant breakthrough; and retention of filterable pollutants. This multiyear research program also examined issues not commonly described in the biofilter performance literature, such as failure due to excessive salt loadings on media having large amounts of fines, problems associated with compaction of the media, and leaching of previously captured material from the media.

scholarly journals International design collaboration and mentoring for tertiary students through Facebook

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
State University ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Penn State ◽  
The University ◽  
Industry Professionals

<span>This study explores the efficacy of the online social networking site </span><em>Facebook</em><span>, for linking international digital media student cohorts through an e-mentoring scheme. It reports on the 2011 collaboration between the University of Adelaide in Australia, and Penn State University in the United States. Over one semester, twelve postgraduate students in Australia and ten undergraduate students in the United States took part in an online mentor scheme hosted by </span><em>Facebook</em><span>. Students were required to submit work-in-progress imagery each week to a series of galleries within the forum. Postgraduate students from Adelaide mentored the undergraduate students at Penn State, and in turn, staff and associated industry professionals mentored the Adelaide students. Interaction between the two student cohorts was consistently strong throughout the semester, and all parties benefitted from the collaboration. Students from Penn State University were able to receive guidance and critiques from more experienced peers, and responded positively to the continual feedback over the semester. Students from the University of Adelaide received support from three different groups: Penn State staff and associated professionals; local industry professionals and recent graduates; and peers from Penn State. The 2011 scheme highlighted the efficacy of </span><em>Facebook</em><span> as a host site for e-mentoring and strengthened the bond between the two collaborating institutions.</span>

8.  The Legacy of Robert Sutherland and the History of Racism at Queen's University

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Reaction ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
The University

The history of racism at Queen’s University is extensive, hardly researched, and often forgotten by the members and alumni of this institution and community. The inaction of Queen's University to honour the financial donation which saved the university in difficult financial times and the legacy of its exceptional alumnus Robert Sutherland for 148 years is a telling example of this history. This poster is an artistic and educational piece on Robert Sutherland’s life, which balances providing information about dedications to him at Queen’s since 1997 with exposing Queen’s history of excluding the contributions of people of colour from its own history. As there is no visual representation of Robert Sutherland’s life, this pieceseeks to illustrate a subject who was “discovered” by students in the 1990s and whose legacy had thus been lost for over a century. These last two decades of efforts by students finally yielded the naming and dedicating of Robert Sutherland Hall on October 3, 2009. However, the originally adverse reaction of the Board of Trustees to the naming proposal and the exclusivity of the dedication event as put on by Queen’s Administration must not be erased purposefully or through the passage of time. These realities are incorporated into the piece so that “the students of Queen’s ensure [Robert Sutherland’s] legacy lives on and that the contributions of people of colour are never again forgotten.”

The Board Surprises

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-55
Author(s):  
Michael V. Metz
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
The University

Numerous university faculty appeared at the board of trustees meeting, declared support for DuBois Club recognition, and stated there was no evidence to deem the club subversive and that the university’s educational environment required an open exchange of ideas. The board’s own subcommittee agreed and also recommended approval. The board voted to accept these recommendations and allow the university to recognize the club. Politicians and newspaper editorial writers immediately attacked the decision. President Henry supported the decision.

The New Yorker: George D. Stoddard

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Michael V. Metz
Keyword(s):  
State Legislature ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
The State ◽  
New Yorker ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Conservative Faculty ◽  
The University ◽  
The New Yorker

Stoddard, president of the university from 1946 to 1953, was a controversial man, an East Coaster, a liberal, and an internationalist. Through much of his tenure he had difficult relations with both the university’s board of trustees and the state legislature, and he also faced opposition from conservative faculty at UI. A scandal over a phony cancer cure brought undesired publicity to the school and was the last in a series of controversies that led to his dismissal by the board in a late-night Illini Union meeting.

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