scholarly journals Experiences With General Education: How Sense of Community Shapes Students’ Perceptions

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402110503
Author(s):  
Michael R. Cope ◽  
Kayci M. Muirbrook ◽  
Jorden E. Jackson ◽  
Paige N. Park ◽  
Carol Ward ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
General Education ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
College Experience ◽  
Private University ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

General education (GE) classes are designed to reflect the mission and goals of the university and to help students become more well-rounded, career-ready, and civically-minded post-graduation. Students’ perceptions of these courses have a significant influence on their capacity to succeed, and ultimately to get the most out of their college experience. Using results from an email questionnaire sent to students at a private university in the western United States, we analyze the relationships between perceptions of the GE experience, sense of community, and academic year, and we find that sense of community is positively associated with perceptions of GEs. These results also show freshmen having a higher sense of community than juniors or seniors, and that scholastic class in school is negatively associated with satisfaction with GEs. Furthermore, we find that seniors generally have a lower perception of the importance of GEs in their lives when compared to freshmen.

1967-68 Graduate Theses Mission and Related Subjects

1968 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
Previous Knowledge ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

For this year's annual thesis list, inquiry was made of 130 schools and seminaries in the United States and 36 overseas. As a matter of policy, B. D. and M. R. E. theses are not included. Some of the titles listed, particularly from overseas, were accepted prior to the current academic year, but the Missionary Research Library had no previous knowledge of them until this current listing was being prepared, and in such cases the date of acceptance is given. Any inquiry should be addressed to the school where the thesis was submitted, not to the Missionary Research Library nor the Editorial Office. If the dissertation has been microfilmed, orders may be sent to the University Films, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103.

Descriptions of Several New Species of Caddis Flies

1952 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. G. Denning
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western United States ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Caddis Flies ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
The University

In this paper two new species of Chimarra (Philoptamidae) and five new species of Hydropsychidae are described. The majority of the new species are from western United States. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. R. H. Beamer of the University of Kansas for sending me many of the specimens used in this paper. Unless otherwise designated types of the new species are in the collection of the author.

scholarly journals Market Expansion Strategies for Turfgrass Producers in the Western United States

EDIS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 2003 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Haydu ◽  
Alan W. Hodges ◽  
Loretta N. Satterthwaite
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Market Expansion ◽  
The Third ◽  
Central United States ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The University

This paper reports the results of the third and last phase of a turfgrass marketing study in the United States. The previous two phases of this study were conducted in the Eastern and Central United States. This research project was a joint effort by International Turfgrass Producers Foundation (ITPF) and the University of Florida’s Institute of Food & Agricultural Sciences. Revised February 26, 2003.

1966–67 Graduate Theses Mission and Related Subjects

1967 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Editorial Office ◽  
New Classification ◽  
Serial Number ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year

A new classification system is introduced this year in the annual listing of graduate theses on mission and related subjects. The genera] listing is by author, alphabetically, with each thesis assigned a serial number. The subject index then classifies each thesis, identifying its relation to one or more subjects, by use of its serial number and short title. This year 25 theses from countries other than the United States are reported. Reader cooperation in expanding the list in December 1968 is sought. As a matter of policy, B. D. and M. R. E. theses are not included. A few titles represent theses accepted prior to the 1966-67 academic year, about which information had not been received when the December 1966 issue went to press. Any inquiry should be addressed to the school where the thesis was submitted, not to the Missionary Research Library nor the Editorial Office. If the dissertation has been microfilmed, orders may be sent to the University Films, 313 North First Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103.

scholarly journals An Object-Oriented Approach to Investigate Impacts of Climate Oscillations on Precipitation: A Western United States Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 830-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Lee Sellars ◽  
Xiaogang Gao ◽  
Soroosh Sorooshian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Precipitation Estimation ◽  
Object Oriented Approach ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This manuscript introduces a novel computational science approach for studying the impact of climate variability on precipitation. The approach uses an object-oriented connectivity algorithm that segments gridded near-global satellite precipitation data into four-dimensional (4D) objects (longitude, latitude, time, and intensity). These precipitation systems have distinct spatiotemporal properties that are counted, tracked, described, and stored in a searchable database. A case study of western United States precipitation systems is performed, demonstrating the unique properties and capabilities of this object-oriented database. The precipitation dataset used in the case study is the University of California, Irvine, Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks (PERSIANN) from 1 March 2000 to 1 January 2011. A search of the database for all western United States precipitation systems during this time period returns 626 precipitation systems as objects. By analyzing these systems as segmented objects, joint interactions of the selected climate phenomena 1) Arctic Oscillation (AO), 2) Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), and 3) El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on precipitation can be shown. They directly show the increased/decreased likelihood of having precipitation systems occurring over the western United States (monthly count) during phases of these climate phenomena. It is found that specific climate phenomena impact the monthly count of the events differently, and that the joint interaction of climate phenomena of the AO–MJO and AO–ENSO is important, especially during certain months of the year. It is also found that these interactions impact the physical features of the precipitation systems themselves.

scholarly journals Reframing from the ground up: Redesigning a credit-bearing information literacy course using the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Shonn M. Haren
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Applied Learning ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Literacy Course ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Complete Overhaul

LIB 1500 is a three-credit information literacy course offered by the University Library at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly-Pomona), which is taught by faculty librarians. The course was developed during the 2014–15 academic year and has been offered continuously since. While targeted primarily toward freshmen, in the course inevitably include a number of sophomores and upper-level students seeking to fulfill their lifelong learning General Education requirement, for which LIB 1500 is one of several options. While the development of LIB 1500 has been a labor of love, by the end of Spring Quarter 2017, those of us involved in teaching the class had noticed that the course was becoming dated and needed a complete overhaul. Therefore, during the 2017–18 academic year, librarians at Cal Poly-Pomona fundamentally redesigned LIB 1500 to reflect the threshold concepts described in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. In doing so, we learned valuable lessons about course structure, applied learning, and the iterative nature of course revision.

scholarly journals The Ties That Bind: University Nostalgia Fosters Relational and Collective University Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Green ◽  
Athena H. Cairo ◽  
Tim Wildschut ◽  
Constantine Sedikides
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private University ◽  
Public University ◽  
Two Indices ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Does nostalgia for one’s time at university predict current intentions to engage with the university? In Study 1, United States participants’ nostalgia for their university experience (university nostalgia) at a southern public university predicted stronger intentions to socialize with fellow alumni, attend a future reunion, volunteer for their university, and donate money to their university. Study 2 replicated these findings with alumni from a northeastern private university, and extended them by finding that the links between university nostalgia and university engagement emerged even when controlling for the positivity of university experience. In both studies, feelings of university belonging mediated most of the associations between university nostalgia and university engagement. In Study 2, the positivity of the university experience moderated the relation between university nostalgia and two indices of university engagement. Specifically, university nostalgia was more strongly associated with intentions to attend a reunion and donate money among those who had a relatively negative university experience. Nostalgia for one’s university past predicts future engagement with the university as well as its members.

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