Examining Diversity/Multicultural Training among Campus Recreation Departments

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lance P. Kaltenbaugh ◽  
Jennifer Parsons ◽  
Kenneth Brubaker ◽  
Wesley Bonadio ◽  
Jonathan Locust
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Multicultural Awareness ◽  
Campus Recreation ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
And Training

Colleges and universities are facing the challenge of providing an environment of acceptance. As a cocurricular activity within higher education, campus recreation programs are expected to provide opportunities for students to become aware and appreciative of cultures or individuals different from themselves. The main purpose of this study was to address the lack of research on diversity/multicultural training programs within campus recreation departments. In this study, we explored the diversity/multicultural training that was offered, the benefits of this training, and the growing need for these programs within campus recreation departments. Of the 105 campus recreation departments surveyed, 93% indicated they agree or strongly agree that campus recreation leadership is fully committed to the long-term success of diversity/multicultural awareness strategies and initiatives. However, only 44% stated they currently provide or implement diversity/multicultural training. Diversity/multicultural training may be a necessary component to impart personal knowledge and training to its employees to effectively achieve diversity goals.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-193
Author(s):  
Charlotte Baker ◽  
Rebecca J. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Learning Culture ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Higher Education Teaching

In this summary, authors Charlotte Baker and Rebecca Blankenship provide an overview of the cases and their impact on the overall DLI initiative. They also explore similar initiatives at other colleges and universities and how these technical transformations are changing the higher education teaching and learning culture. The authors examine the DLI in terms of other short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals as noted in the 2019 Horizon Report and how the DLI initiative can be used as a vehicle to actuate an ongoing culture of innovation and digital transformation in colleges and universities across the country.

A Systematic Review of Influences on Development of Athletes With Disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nima Dehghansai ◽  
Srdjan Lemez ◽  
Nick Wattie ◽  
Joseph Baker
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Disability Sport ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Athletes With Disabilities ◽  
And Training ◽  
Appraisal Tool ◽  
Sporting Performance

Compared with mainstream sport athletes, relatively little is known regarding the factors affecting the development of athletes with a disability. Sport-specific training programs are essential to athletes’ successful performance; to create appropriate programs and strategies, a clear understanding of the nuances of development of athletes with a disability is important. The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize existing research on development in athletes with a disability and examine the key determinants of successful development and sporting performance. After a search of the Web of Science and SPORTDiscus databases, 21 articles were identified that met the inclusion criteria, which were assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and categorized into 3 groups: training and practice, shortterm interventions, and long-term changes due to training. Among the studies, there was a disproportionate focus on immediate interventions and training programs and less on long-term development. The review reflected a lack of research on sportspecific development of athletes with a disability, which raises concerns regarding the effectiveness and appropriateness of current training practices.

scholarly journals Frog Virology: Biosafety in an Experimental Farm

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudia Luís Martins Batista ◽  
Alexandre Nuno Vaz Batista de Vieira e Brito ◽  
Júlio César Oliveira Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Virus Particles ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Family ◽  
And Training

Understanding and detecting diseases of amphibians has become vitally important in conservation and ecological studies and prevent and biosecurity a determinant priority in experimental farms, mainly when related with academic and research activities. Ranavirus belongs to the family Iridoviridae, and causes an emergent infectious disease that affects different species, especially fish, reptiles and amphibians, with a significant contribution to the decline of the population. In amphibian systems, Ranaviruses transmission can occur between vertebrate classes through direct contact, by scavenging or through virus particles persisting in the environment. Subclinical infected individuals may serve as reservoirs in the most susceptible anura species. Humans play a significant role in this emergent disease and biosecurity measures are determinant to prevent the introduction of these viruses, either in commercial or experimental farms. A Biosafety Plan is a fundamental tool in the Ranaviruses prevention and include educational and training programs, relevant to the mission of a Higher Education Institution.

The Innovation of the Construction of Style of Study of Connotative Development of Higher Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 599-601 ◽  
pp. 2030-2032
Author(s):  
Jian Feng Du
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
International Communication ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Work Requirement ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Direction

With the improving of the social demand for high quality talents, and promote the internationalization of higher education to, as the main position of cultivation of talents in colleges and universities need to connotative development as the dominant direction. Study style construction of colleges and universities as an important guarantee for the cultivation goal of also need to clarify the long-term, systematic work requirement and establish the long-term goal, guided by the connotative development, the introduction of modern teaching and management, strengthen the cultivation of students' social practice ability, to expand domestic and international communication, in order to improve the overall quality of higher education.

Marketization, Centralization and Globalization of Cadre Training in Contemporary China

2009 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 953-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank N. Pieke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
And Training ◽  
Party State ◽  
Term Field

AbstractStrengthening the ideological and professional training of cadres is a cornerstone of the socialist modernization of the Chinese party-state. On the basis of long-term field research in Party schools, this article shows that this effort entails much more than the upgrading of existing institutions. The CCP has embarked on a simultaneous marketization, centralization and globalization that has integrated cadre training into the larger market for higher education and training. This new approach privileges China's richer areas. Poorer places such as Yunnan province struggle to meet the ever higher demands of the centre from their local budgets. The article concludes that the gap between rich and poor areas in China is about more than wealth alone. Poorer areas cannot take part in China's new, glossy socialism, and will be not only economically but also politically and administratively left behind.

scholarly journals Realization of author’s program of developing artistic abilities of schoolchildren on basis of continuity

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 00061
Author(s):  
D.V. Legenchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Solution Approach ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Russian Education ◽  
And Training

The definition of abilities and their correct development act as one of the most important pedagogical tasks that require special attention, solution, approach, especially during the period of changes in the content of the educational process connected with its reform. According to the author, to update educational approaches related to improving the effectiveness of the educational process, it is necessary to pay attention to the development of author’s training programs. They will control planned and systematic activities of all participants in the educational process, regardless of the form of its organization. The article considers the main provisions of the author’s program that contribute to the development of the artistic abilities of schoolchildren in the conditions of modernization and reform of modern Russian education, including the changes caused by COVID 19. The author’s program is designed to expand the content of the concept of the continuity of secondary vocational and higher education. Its structure includes content components of general education and training of future designers and teachers of technology and design in multilevel professional education as potential directions for its development in the context of global challenges.

scholarly journals The Structure of Personnel Training within Getting Higher Education Meets the Needs of Economy: Problems and Solutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-33
Author(s):  
T. N. Blinova ◽  
A. V. Fedotov ◽  
A. A. Kovalenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Training Structure ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Training

This research article studies the problem of inconsistency of higher-educated personnel training structure to the current and future sectoral specialization of the Russian economy. One of the key tasks of the higher education system in any country is to train personnel who would be demanded by economy in the future. The responsibility for balancing the structure of training higher-educated personnel with the needs of organizations and various industries lies both on the government authorities and on the universities themselves. The authors analyze the correspondence of the structure of training personnel with higher education to the current and future needs of the socio-economic development of Russia in general and its regions in particular. In the course of the study, the structure of training personnel with higher education by enlarged groups of specialties and training programs has been compared with the current and prospective structure of the gross regional product, as well as with the distribution of the employed by sectors of the economy of all Russian Federation constituent entities. The results of the analysis by federal districts are based on the data obtained for the constituent entities, and make it possible to assess the imbalance in the structure of training personnel with higher education, to formulate possible reasons for the existing imbalances at the regional, federal, and universities’ levels. The study is based on the documents of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia concerning the distribution of admission control figures by the Russian Federation entities and enlarged groups of specialties and training programs, aswell as on the information from the Federal State Statistics Service. For most regions of Russia, the results of the analysis revealed the problem of inconsistency between higher-educated personnel training structure and the structure of the need for personnel as determined by the goals and objectives of socio-economic development. A possible way to solve this problem is to revise the universities’ development programs with due consideration of the long-term regional development prospects supported by a system of institutional measures on the part of education authorities, industries, and regions.

scholarly journals An overview of Portugal's educational challenges and responses to the global pandemic of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-101
Author(s):  
Filipa Alves da Costa ◽  
Maria Deolinda Auxtero ◽  
Ana Paula Martins ◽  
Maria Margarida Caramona
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Response Measures ◽  
And Training

The current pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 came un-expectantly and required unprecedented ability to adapt and quickly put in place the most appropriate response measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 disease, while minimising disruption to society’s essential activities. Some sectors were more capable of adapting and reacting than others. Higher education was one of the sectors where the academic capacity (FIP Development Goal 1) demonstrated was phenomenal, partially attributable to the ability to create partnerships between academia and practice. This editorial provides a description of the major changes put in place in Portugal to ensure the education and training of future graduates in Pharmaceutical Sciences was maintained with the same quality. It also discusses some of the potentially less beneficial long-term impacts of these adaptions to the teaching and assessment methods for the competencies of the workforce of tomorrow.

Building Open-Source Resources for Online Learning in a Higher Education Environment

2013 ◽  
pp. 115-135
Author(s):  
Shalin Hai-Jew
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Training ◽  
Open Source Development

Faculty, administrators, and staff at institutions of higher education are singularly well poised to create open-source digital learning contents. Creating open-source digital learning contents seems to fit with a university’s mission and the education paradigm of sharing knowledge and training up others to move a domain field forward. Indeed, they have contributed to many open-source endeavors. While individual open-source development endeavors may require a relatively light investment by colleges and universities, the work of building open-source resources involves significant planning in order to support the endeavor in an organized way on a campus. This chapter introduces some of the known challenges and methods to building open-source resources for online learning in the higher education environment in the US.

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