Empowering Students to Create Community Standards

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry D. Piper
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Residential Life ◽  
Community Standards ◽  
The University

How can we create a sense of community and shared responsibility among students in residence halls— and for that matter elsewhere in their campus lives? The residential life staff at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) wrestled with this question after experiencing a year in which student behavior resulted in costly damage to residence halls. They discovered that it wasn't their job to create community for students at all, but instead to empower students to create it for themselves. So the Community Standards Model was born.

Bringing it Home: Integrating Classroom and Residential Experiences

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frankie D. Minor
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Residential Life ◽  
The University

The University of Missouri–Columbia has brought Freshman Interest Groups into the residence halls. The residential life director reports on why they made this move—and the results they are seeing.

Protests and Pushback: Women's Rights, Student Activism, and Institutional Response in the Deep South

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-580
Author(s):  
Timothy Reese Cain ◽  
Rachael Dier
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Student Behavior ◽  
Residence Halls ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Deep South ◽  
University Of Georgia ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
The University ◽  
External Stimuli

Pivoting around two sit-ins at the University of Georgia, this article examines student activism in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the US South. The first sit-in, at the conclusion of the spring 1968 March for Coed Equality, was part of the effort to overcome parietal rules that significantly restricted women's rights but left men relatively untouched. The second occurred in 1972 when the university responded to salacious allegations of immorality in women's residence halls by replacing progressive residential education programming with the policing of student behavior. This article centers student efforts for women's rights, demonstrates how students and administrators shifted tactics in reaction to external stimuli, and explores the repercussions of challenging the entrenched patriarchal power structure. In so doing, it joins the growing literature complicating understandings of student activism in the era by focusing attention away from the most famous and extreme cases.

scholarly journals Usability as a Method for Assessing Discovery

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Ipri ◽  
Michael Yunkin ◽  
Jeanne M. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Usability Test ◽  
The University

The University of Nevada Las Vegas Libraries engaged in three projects that helped identify areas of its website that had inhibited discovery of services and resources. These projects also helped generate staff interest in the Usability Working Group, which led these endeavors. The first project studied student responses to the site. The second focused on a usability test with the Libraries’ peer research coaches and resulted in a presentation of those findings to the Libraries staff. The final project involved a specialized test, the results of which also were presented to staff. All three of these projects led to improvements to the website and will inform a larger redesign.

scholarly journals Determinants of Students’ Entrepreneurial Intentions: Evidence from Moroccan University

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Mustapha Bachiri
Keyword(s):  
Student Behavior ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

<p>In recent decades, entrepreneurship has become a major economic and social phenomenon, a subject of research and a new field of education. While entrepreneurship is not a new concept, it regained importance particularly in scientific research. Entrepreneurship is seen as a vector for innovation and economic efficiency but also as a powerful job creator. Along with the evolution of entrepreneurship, there is a growing interest in the development of training programs to encourage entrepreneurship in universities. The challenge remains to find a consensus on the content to be taught and the type of learning to guide student behavior. Several empirical studies indicate that education can foster entrepreneurship. Yet the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial values remains largely unexplored.</p><p>In this study, we used the theory of planned behavior to assess the impact of entrepreneurship education programs on entrepreneurial intentions in Moroccan universities, particularly the University of Rabat (Mohammed V University).</p>

scholarly journals PENDEKATAN BUDAYA DALAM MENGENALI PERILAKU MAHASISWA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadilla Saputri
Keyword(s):  
Student Behavior ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Home Village ◽  
The University

Culture is closely related to how people's behavior patterns are reflected in daily life. One of the cultural targets discussed in this scientific work is related to the influence of culture on student behavior patterns. Differences in patterns of student behavior will look different according to the culture of their respective regions. Not only limited to the local culture but also the culture that indirectly they always apply in the area or their own home village. Other cultural aspects are also seen in terms of the approach to residence of students in overseas areas around the university. Some of the approaches taken are related to cultural influences on student behavior related to factors of origin, birth innate factors, as well as residential or boarding factors.

scholarly journals The Interplay of Content and Community in Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Communication in a Graduate Seminar

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Schwier ◽  
Shelly Balbar
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Asynchronous Communication ◽  
Synchronous Communication ◽  
Bulletin Board ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Graduate Seminar ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Group A ◽  
The University ◽  
Intellectual Limitations

A group of graduate students and an instructor at the University of Saskatchewan experimented with the use of synchronous communication (chat) and asynchronous communication (bulletin board) in a theory course in Educational Communications and Technology for an eight-month period. Synchronous communication contributed dramatically to the continuity and convenience of the class, and promoted a strong sense of community. At the same time, it was viewed as less effective than asynchronous communication for dealing with content and issues deeply, and it introduced a number of pedagogical and intellectual limitations. We concluded that synchronous and asynchronous strategies were suitable for different types of learning, and what we experienced was a balancing act between content and community in our group. A combination of synchronous and asynchronous experiences seems to be necessary to promote the kind of engagement and depth required in a graduate seminar.

scholarly journals Management: Reflections on Diversity and Organizational Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Leadley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Teachable Moments ◽  
Robust Approach ◽  
Cultural Competencies ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
College Library

Effectively addressing diversity issues can be a challenge in any organization—yet, when done well, it can manifest as more of an opportunity to foster a strong sense of community and maximize potential within it. In this column, Sarah Leadley maps the robust approach taken at the University of Washington Bothell/Cascadia College Library to develop cultural competencies among staff and establish diversity as a strategic priority. The library’s integrated agenda, grounded in the principles of social justice and built around teachable moments, suggests a noteworthy facet of organizational development that is well worth modeling.

scholarly journals Using Pre-arrival Shared Reading to Promote a Sense of Community

LOGOS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Alison Baverstock ◽  
Jackie Steinitz ◽  
Brian Webster-Henderson ◽  
Laura Bryars ◽  
Sandra Cairncross ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Shared Reading ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Student Enrolment ◽  
The University

Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every student about to start at the university and making copies available to staff in all roles and departments across the institution. A number of associated events were organized and outcomes monitored through a variety of project-specific and institutional metrics. Continuing with the scheme in 2015–2016, Kingston University and Edinburgh Napier University joined together as research partners. Edinburgh Napier, having participated in the process of choosing a book for all to read, made the same single title available to their students and staff. In this paper the processes and outcomes of the collaboration are reported, including the differences in project implementation in the two institutions and what they learned from each other. Recommendations are made for how universities can work together on projects of mutual desirability, pointing out particular associated sensitivities, in this case when managing a long-distance collaboration, and what can be learned for the future.

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