Making Connections, Building Community

2015 ◽  
pp. 307-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin J. Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Student Service ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Idaho

In 2009, the University of Idaho embarked on an ambitious five year plan to redesign library space and build community through increased programming, intentional partnerships, and student engagement in the design process. Guided by quantitative and qualitative research in the form of LibQual, observational studies, and student surveys, librarians implemented incremental space redesign to create collaborative, inclusive, and community-based environment for social and scholarly pursuits. Librarians found that student-led initiatives were the most successful in building a community of library allies, aligning with the philosophy of the Communicative Commons, but also valued the related opportunities to partner with teaching faculty, student service organizations, and external campus partners. This chapter will seek to provide a balance of theoretical goals with practical steps for implementation, supplemented with examples gleaned from librarians' experiences in community building at the University of Idaho.

Making Connections, Building Community

2018 ◽  
pp. 345-359
Author(s):  
Kristin J. Henrich
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Student Surveys ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Student Service ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Idaho

In 2009, the University of Idaho embarked on an ambitious five year plan to redesign library space and build community through increased programming, intentional partnerships, and student engagement in the design process. Guided by quantitative and qualitative research in the form of LibQual, observational studies, and student surveys, librarians implemented incremental space redesign to create collaborative, inclusive, and community-based environment for social and scholarly pursuits. Librarians found that student-led initiatives were the most successful in building a community of library allies, aligning with the philosophy of the Communicative Commons, but also valued the related opportunities to partner with teaching faculty, student service organizations, and external campus partners. This chapter will seek to provide a balance of theoretical goals with practical steps for implementation, supplemented with examples gleaned from librarians' experiences in community building at the University of Idaho.

scholarly journals Movilidad e interactividad en el ámbito universitario. Oportunidades para las apps.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (18) ◽  
pp. 39-65
Author(s):  
Joan_Francesc Fondevila-Gascón ◽  
Marc Polo-López ◽  
Óscar Gutiérrez-Aragón ◽  
Josep Rom-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Student Perspective ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Interactive Applications ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The University

Mobility and interactivity are two growing phenomena among youth. Mobile applications (apps) are capturing the attention of university students, which opens up a range of opportunities. Using a quantitative and qualitative research method, the possible usefulness of applications in the university environment with an entertainment objective is studied. It is concluded that from the student perspective, interactive applications specialized in their profile are well received and that the main criteria of choice are quality and price. A significant relationship is observed between age and use of social networks to plan entertainment. Spanish university students, therefore, need a specialized app that covers their leisure and entertainment needs digitally and efficiently.

A University–Community Partnership to Advance Research in Practice Settings

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine N. Dulmus ◽  
Maria E. Cristalli
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Community Research ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Advance Research ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

Human service organizations are uniquely positioned, given their scope of practice and access to consumers with the widest range of needs to significantly increase the national capacity for research if they were effectively equipped with the knowledge, skills, and funding to integrate research and development into their ongoing organizational activities. A university–community research partnership is one approach to achieving this goal. This article describes the Hillside/UB (HUB) Research Model, a formal research partnership between Hillside Family of Agencies (HFA) in Rochester, NY and the Buffalo Center for Social Research (BCSR) at the University at Buffalo (UB). The HUB research model combines the practice expertise and research subject access of HFA with the BCSR research expertise and resources to develop collaboratively a vibrant research partnership based on community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles that garners the strengths and assets of both partners to realize a true research to practice and practice to research agenda.

scholarly journals Nuda a praktyczna nauka języka angielskiego

Neofilolog ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 115-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariusz Kruk ◽  
Joanna Zawodniak
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
University Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Boredom Proneness ◽  
The University

Although boredom is among the most common academic emotions experienced by students at all possible levels of education, so far it has not received due attention from SLA theorists and researchers. Accordingly, the present paper aims to discuss the concept of boredom from the L2 classroom perspective with a special regard to the university students of English Philology. In the first part the authors provide a definition, present two basic typologies and highlight the causes of boredom followed by a brief overview of research into boredom in educational settings, whereas the second part is intended to approach a phenomenon of boredom on an empirical basis. The authors report on both quantitative and qualitative research findings concerning the intensity of boredom as felt by the subjects during the practical English language classes. First, the numerical results obtained from the Boredom Proneness Scale and correlated to boredom experienced in practical English language classes are referred to. Then the qualitative data gathered from the students’ descriptions of boredom-related situations during the said classes are commented on. Finally, the authors proceed to propose certain L2 classroom boredom-coping options.

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).

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