scholarly journals A Legacy of Leadership

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James W.G. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Goal Setting ◽  
Academic Advising ◽  
Student Leadership ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Student Life ◽  
Leadership Position ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
New Students ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Orientation Leaders

A selective and prestigious paid student leadership position, orientation leaders help new students and their parents or guests make the transition to University of California, Merced through relationship-building activities, student life presentations, goal-setting exercises, and academic advising in 1-day orientation sessions throughout the summer. Readers of this article will gain insights into recruiting, hiring, and forming strong teams by effectively utilizing returning staff. Named legacy orientation leaders by the author of this article, the returning staff members’ new title is reflective of the elevated responsibility and opportunities they have within our program. The legacy orientation leader application and interview processes, recruitment efforts, and participation in individual and group interview processes are discussed. Through these involvements, legacy leaders become torchbearers of program traditions and values in recruiting and selecting new orientation leader staff.

scholarly journals Student Stress Management and Wellness Programs among Colleges of Pharmacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Sally Arif ◽  
Kelly Moran ◽  
Ana Quinones-Boex ◽  
Shareen El-Ibiary
Keyword(s):  
Academic Advising ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Stress Coping ◽  
Student Stress ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

Objective: To describe the programmatic stress-related interventions that colleges of pharmacy are providing for their students. Methods: A paper-based questionnaire was distributed to 80 college teams who attended two consecutive offerings of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy institute focused on promoting student well-being. The five-part questionnaire consisted of: 1) tracking and assessment of perceived student stress levels, 2) the types and formats of stress-coping interventions that are offered, 3) the measured impacts of any stress-coping interventions, 4) the level of faculty/staff training and involvement in student stress remediation, and 5) institutional demographics. Results: Of the 40 college teams responding to the survey there were similar numbers of private (44%) and public (56%) institutions. More than half (57.5%) reported measuring student stress levels. The most common interventions offered were counseling (95%), academic advising (82%), physical exercise support (77%), and relationship building activities (70%). Topics offered in the curriculum were most often related to handling substance abuse (50%), time-management (45%), and finances (40%).  A majority (79.5%) of schools reported they do not offer formal training on student stress and mental health to faculty and staff and do not formally assess the impact of stress and coping interventions.                                                                   Conclusion: Colleges of pharmacy are addressing student stress and well-being, yet variability exists in terms of assessment, interventions, and didactic offerings. Multiple barriers to improvement remain and mediating barriers and determining assessments for coping and interventions may be next steps for Colleges of Pharmacy.

Understanding the Relationship Between Customer Satisfaction, Customer Engagement and Repeat Purchase Behaviour

2021 ◽  
pp. 097226292199259
Author(s):  
Devika Rani Sharma ◽  
Balgopal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Customer Engagement ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Repeat Purchase ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
The Relationship

Emergence of technology has not only boosted the growth of customer engagement but has also paved way for customers to become active co-creators with the firms. Customer engagement activities are taking over the customer relationship building activities in the present scenario. Customers’ experience with a particular brand has its impact on satisfaction levels and their repurchasing intention in future as well. According to Rosetta Consulting report an engaged customer is likely to buy 90% more frequently and may spend 300% more than other customers. Hence, the present has tried to understand the mediating role of satisfaction on customer engagement in retaining the customers or persuading the customers to repurchase. The results show that there exists a significant mediation effect of customer satisfaction in influencing their repeat purchase behaviour.

scholarly journals A scabies outbreak in a further education college in Gloucestershire

2006 ◽  
Vol 135 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. O. EJIDOKUN ◽  
O. S. ARUNA ◽  
B. O'NEILL
Keyword(s):  
Immune Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Deficiency Syndrome ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Media Management ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Homes For The Elderly ◽  
New Students ◽  
Education College

Scabies outbreaks in England have been reported in hospitals, long-stay wards, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) units and residential homes for the elderly. This paper describes the control of an outbreak in a further education college for persons with learning disabilities. In March 2004, four confirmed cases of scabies were reported among a subset of 108 students and 41 staff members. Staff had considerable physical contact with the students who were housed in five groups of homes, individual homes and support centres. Mass prophylaxis was offered to all staff and students, through 39 general practice surgeries. Challenges overcome were: ensuring complete case ascertainment, accessing of up-to-date information about students and staff, achieving a coordinated approach to treatment, securing informed consent and media management. No further outbreaks have been reported. The college has revised its information request form for new students.

Support programmes and the diversity of young farmers in Thailand: A good match?

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kassirin Phiboon ◽  
Cécile Cochetel ◽  
Nicolas Faysse
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Good Match ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Support Programmes

Many countries have programmes to help young people start farming. However, some of the programmes have been criticized for not providing enough support, particularly because they do not adequately account for the diverse profiles of young farmers. The present study analyses the profiles of young farmers in Thailand and to what extent they benefit from support programmes. Eighty-four farmers under the age of 40 were interviewed in Chiang Mai and Prachinburi Provinces, along with 15 staff members of support programmes for young farmers. Five types of young farmers were identified, who differed in their motivation, farming systems and engagement in farming. Some farmers focused on economic profitability, while others considered environmentally sustainable farming practices to be important or were actively engaged in other activities at domestic or village level. This wide range of goals and situations entailed varying constraints during the first years of farming. The support programmes helped farmers overcome their lack of farming knowledge and helped them integrate into rural communities, but the support they provided in accessing land and capital was sometimes limited, and often non-existent. To improve support for young farmers in Thailand, the diversity of young farmers’ profiles should be accounted for not only in capacity-building activities but also to help them access other types of resources.

Religious Education Between the Traditions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eboo Patel ◽  
Noah Silverman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Education ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
Modern Context ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Interfaith Education

This chapter addresses how the continuity of individual and communal religious identity can be preserved in a modern context characterized by a rapid rise in religious diversity and a concomitant decline in traditional religious association. The chapter discusses various postures that religious communities can take in such a context. The authors advocate an intentional and engaged religious pluralism, achieved through “interfaith education.” This concept is defined and parsed into three activities in which religious communities should engage: developing a theology of interfaith cooperation, nurturing appreciative knowledge of shared values, and engaging in relationship-building activities. The chapter concludes with a brief consideration of how North American seminaries have been on the vanguard of adopting interfaith—sometimes referred to as multifaith or inter-religious—education.

scholarly journals Fronts and Forms of Public Diplomacy

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
U. Artamonova
Keyword(s):  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Broadcasting ◽  
New Instrument ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
Building Activities

Public diplomacy becomes a more and more popular area of research due to several global trends: growing interdependence of states and the rise of transnational actors that urge governments to seek ways beyond their military and economic power to achieve their political goals; technological progress that makes information more accessible to the public, enabling international communication, thus increasing the importance of a dominating narrative; the rise of a human-centric approach placing the emphasis on individual people, protection and promotion of their rights, thus making public opinion more crucial to policy-makers than ever. However, there are still a lot of lacunae in the theoretical framework analyzing public diplomacy. Among them is the lack of a clear widely accepted classification of activities that fall into the area of public diplomacy. Some researchers choose to avoid typology altogether, others provide academic community with a variety of overlapping and contradicting approaches and terms, such as “dimensions”, “types”, “media”, “frameworks”, etc. After carefully studying related publications of international and Russian researchers, analyzing them and defining most common trends, the author proposes her own way to classify public diplomacy activities via two synergetic typologies. The first one offers a division by fronts based on the principal of the final goal of each front of public diplomacy: e.g. relationship-building activities and agenda-setting to influence the news. The second one implies a division by forms based on the principal of the general shape of the main types of public diplomacy activities: e.g. cultural diplomacy, international broadcasting. The author highlights that this approach does not involve multiplication of public diplomacy types based on the instrument (e.g. gastro-diplomacy, twitter-diplomacy, sport diplomacy), since each form may incorporate several instruments and the particular toolkit may change in time. The article suggests using both typologies for comprehensive research of public diplomacy (either in a case-study or for a theoretical model). However, a front-based classification can be more useful for studies related to strategic planning, long-term and short-term political goals of government, whereas a form-based classification can be more useful for researchers who focus on measuring a country’s public diplomacy effectiveness or seek to attribute a new instrument of public diplomacy

scholarly journals Et skritt i riktig retning – fremdeles en vei å gå. En instituttleders perspektiv på førstelektor- og dosentprosjektet ved Universitetet i Agder

2020 ◽  
pp. 271-277
Author(s):  
Inger Marie Dalehefte
Keyword(s):  
Career Path ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Leadership Position ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Academic Position ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Staff Qualification

The chapter highlights how an outsider with a leadership position (head of the department of education), experienced the impact of the promotion preparatory seminars on her staff. Primarily, their influence was perceived as beneficial, inspiring the staff members who attained promotion to be more motivated in their work. Secondly, the department met the staff qualification criteria required by the government. This dual benefit created general enthusiasm within the department. However, the author emphasizes that more support and resources are necessary to support staff members who wish to join the docent career path to the top academic position.

scholarly journals Building Interdisciplinary Teams in Emergency Care to Respond to National Emergencies: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erick Guerrero ◽  
Jemima A. Frimpong ◽  
Angelique Hearn ◽  
Veronica Serret ◽  
Welmoed K. van Deen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Care ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Team Building ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
Building Activities

This study responds to the gap in knowledge in translating team members’ interdisciplinary knowledge to address wicked problems. We use qualitative methodology to understand the team-building process and response to the opioid epidemic in emergency care. We collected data through direct observation of nine health system science researchers and thought leaders as they performed in team-building activities and semi-structured interviews. The cultural exchange framework informed our selection and assessment of team-building activities, and the science of team science (SciTS) framework informed our understanding of promoting interdisciplinary collaborations. We identified six themes representing three areas: (1) Knowledge Building and Strategy Development (need for interdisciplinary understanding of substance abuse and mental health in the emergency department (ED); interdisciplinary approaches to fight the opioid epidemic in the ED); (2) Team Demographics and Collaboration (prescribing and collaboration; the role of interdisciplinary team composition and effectiveness in the ED); and (3) Identity and Relationship Building (role of professional identity in contributing to interdisciplinary research; building effective organizational relationships in the ED). Members’ personal and professional connections are fundamental for developing nuanced interdisciplinary strategies to respond to the opioid epidemic in the ED. We discuss implications for strategies that promote team building and improve treatment practices.

scholarly journals Longitudinal Comparison of Orientation Leader Learning Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Gruszka ◽  
Evan Witt ◽  
Erin Tower
Keyword(s):  
Student Development ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
College And University ◽  
Student Leader ◽  
New Students ◽  
Orientation Leaders ◽  
Longitudinal Comparison ◽  
Development Outcomes

Orientation leaders (OLs) play a vital role on college and university campuses. They are primarily responsible for transitioning new students into institutions, yet little is known about the learning and development outcomes of the experience. This study compares longitudinal data from 10 years of orientation leader cohorts measuring their pre-, mid-, and post-learning across a set of seven institutionally endorsed student development outcomes (SDOs). Findings indicate growth across all of the seven SDOs within each year but not from year to year. It makes a case that the orientation leader experience has a significant impact on student leader development.

scholarly journals Adapting and Implementing Appreciative Advising Framework to Train Orientation Leaders

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Propst Cuevas ◽  
Claire Robinson ◽  
Amanda Clark ◽  
Bryant L. Hutson ◽  
Jennifer L. Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Practical Application ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Appreciative Advising ◽  
Effective Training ◽  
New Students ◽  
Orientation Leaders ◽  
Leader Training ◽  
Orientation Training ◽  
Incoming Students ◽  
Relational Skill

Expanding upon the work of Hendley (2010) who introduced the concept of adapting the six phase Appreciative Advising framework (Bloom, Hutson, & He, 2008) to orientation leader training, this article demonstrates how to construct and implement an effective training program for orientation leaders. It provides practical application of each phase of Appreciative Advising for bother orientation training facilitators and orientation leaders. In doing so, this article demonstrates how the six phases of Appreciative Advising offer a framework that incorporates and emphasizes the development of the informational, conceptual, and relational skill sets desired from orientation leaders. This development begins during training and transcends to leaders' interaction with incoming students. Appreciative approach to training has the power to positively impact the orientation leaders as well as the new students.

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