Looking Inside

2021 ◽  
pp. 153-179
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Diversity Awareness ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
The University ◽  
Political Turmoil

Running a college is no easy task. Amid complex diversity issues, political turmoil, and ever-changing student narratives, the campus environment represents a sea of countless challenges. To ensure success in the long run, administration officials must construct well-designed plans that review past events while carefully assessing future possibilities. Such plans should include a sustained and comprehensive focus on diversity awareness, implementation of multicultural education frameworks, and additional initiatives such as mentoring and community outreach programs. Above all, administrations must work closely with all members of the university including staff, faculty, alumni, and students to promote positive outcomes despite the inherent uncertainties that lay ahead.

scholarly journals Diversity, Unity, and Global Citizenship Education: A Case Study in Community Outreach Program in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Juliana Anggono ◽  
Resmana Lim ◽  
Frans Limbong ◽  
Herry Christian Palit ◽  
Poedi Soenarjo Wartono
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Diversity Awareness ◽  
International Service Learning ◽  
International Service ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The University

Community Outreach Program is an established international service-learning program which has been around for 22 yr. The program offers an inter-discipline activity set in an international atmosphere to connect the academic theories with the actual social life and problems in the less developed rural community in East Java Province, Indonesia. There have been students from 16 university partners from 10 different countries ever participating in the program. Studies from the observations and opinions by the university partners claimed that COP has had an impactful outcomes in students‟ learning in the areas of diversity awareness, citizenship, and values development. The first study in 2009 on students‟ expectations in participating in COP reported that the students were aware that joining COP would expose them in diversity through working along with international friends and the community in the village. In this current study, 90 reflection books of COP 2015 Asian participants from Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Indonesia were further studied to test and evaluate how COP as a service-learning program has provided an education setting to educate caring and responsible citizens, who were open to other cultures, and respectful of differences. Students' responses affirmed the positive effects of COP on the acceptance of diversity and sense of civic responsibility.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF OUTREACH PROGRAMS ON INCREASING FEMALE ENROLLMENT IN ENGINEERING

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyson A. Allen Bonneau ◽  
Shihong He ◽  
Tanishq Singh ◽  
Ulla Hagomer ◽  
Chirag Variawa
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Female Students ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Outreach Programs ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University

The percentage of female undergraduate applicants and first-year student in engineering is increasing in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) at the University of Toronto (UofT). Outreach programs are used to encourage high school students by gaining exposure and knowledge regarding the field of engineering. The effectiveness of these outreach programs in mitigating academic and social barriers is a key point of interest examined in the paper, specifically those catered directly to female students. This research analyzes the growing number of community outreach programs offered at the University of Toronto. We examined the effect of three outreach initiatives: the DaVinci Engineering Enrichment Program (DEEP), the Girls Leadership in Engineering Experience (GLEE), and the Young Women in Engineering Symposium (YWIES). Using statistical data from the FASE outreach office and participation feedback from the events, we compared the enrollment statistics, the percentage of students who chose engineering, and what students found most useful in events. Observations prove that although the events encourage the same number of female students entering engineering, however, suggest that eliminating social barriers and stereotypes influence the increasing number of female-enrollment.  

Prejudice Reduction through Shared Adventure: A Qualitative Outcome Assessment of a Multicultural Education Class

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan N. Wright ◽  
Jan Tolan
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Adventure Education ◽  
Prejudice Reduction ◽  
Diversity Awareness ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Education Class ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Ropes Courses ◽  
Reflective Essay

This study is a qualitative analysis of student learning outcomes from an experiential multicultural education class at a public university. The class brought together students from diverse backgrounds and used adventure education methods to achieve multicultural education goals. The class combined adventure-based experiences from ropes courses or wilderness trips with community exploration assignments, papers, and class discussions on diversity issues. Students (n = 134) wrote a final reflective essay on the learning experiences from the class. The essays were analyzed using content analysis to assess key learning events and learning outcome themes. Results show positive outcomes in personal identity, group experience, diversity awareness, and prejudice reduction. Students also indicated transfer of learning to nonclassroom contexts. The study reports statistically significant relationships between specific experiential learning events and diversity outcomes.

EARTH SCIENCE FAIR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: HANDS-ON EARTH EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Robakiewicz ◽  
◽  
Dawn Beamer ◽  
Dawn Beamer ◽  
Jennifer Cooper Boemmels ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Science Fair ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Connecticut

Our Rightful Place

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry L. Birdwhistell ◽  
Deirdre A. Scaggs
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Since women first entered the University of Kentucky (UK) in 1880 they have sought, demanded, and struggled for equality within the university. The period between 1880 and 1945 at UK witnessed women’s suffrage, two world wars, and an economic depression. It was during this time that women at UK worked to take their rightful place in the university’s life prior to the modern women’s movement of the 1960s and beyond. The history of women at UK is not about women triumphant, and it remains an untidy story. After pushing for admission into a male-centric campus environment, women created women’s spaces, women’s organizations, and a women’s culture often patterned on those of men. At times, it seemed that a goal was to create a woman’s college within the larger university. However, coeducation meant that women, by necessity, competed with men academically while still navigating the evolving social norms of relationships between the sexes. Both of those paths created opportunities, challenges, and problems for women students and faculty. By taking a more women-centric view of the campus, this study shows more clearly the impact that women had over time on the culture and environment. It also allows a comparison, and perhaps a contrast, of the experiences of UK women with other public universities across the United States.

Optimization Model for Parking in the Campus Environment

1996 ◽  
Vol 1564 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orikaye G. Brown-West
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Model ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Campus Planning ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Site Characteristics ◽  
Business District ◽  
The University

Parking has long been recognized as a major land use problem in campus planning. Anyone who drives an automobile appreciates the difficulties of finding a parking space in areas of intense academic, administrative, student residential, and recreational activities. This shortage of parking spaces near activity centers has worsened as automobile ownership and registration on campus have increased. The problem is more pronounced and the solution more critical on large urban campuses located in or at the periphery of the central business district. An approach to solving the chronic and prevalent parking problem in the campus environment is addressed. An institution-based and evaluative model is introduced as a tool to determine how best to use existing land in the competitive and oftentimes policy-driven university campus environment. Practical solutions that will assist in the proper planning and design of campus parking spaces and facilities are also developed. The optimization model design takes into account the major operational and site characteristics, as well as parameters that traffic engineers and planners consider conducive to optimal parking. The model will help traffic engineers, campus planners, and university administrators maximize land on the university campus. It will also answer the question of what principles should be adopted in the proper planning of facilities for the vehicle at rest within the context of a diminishing campus environment in general and inadequate funding for facilities renewal and maintenance in particular.

scholarly journals Tenure, Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Derek Hum
Keyword(s):  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Job Security ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
Faculty Unions ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Academic Employment ◽  
The University ◽  
Better Than

Tenure is sometimes charged as giving faculty lifetime job security, with little accountability and sporadic monitoring of performance. Scholars have traditionally defended tenure as necessary for academic freedom. This paper takes a different approach by examining the academic "employment contract relationship," and explaining how tenure can lead to bargaining conflict. Tenure is costly to the university but extremely valued by the faculty member. The opportunity cost of granting tenure to someone is the lost teaching and research output of younger people who cannot be hired in future. Tenure is necessary because without it, incumbents would never recommend hiring people who might be better than they are, for fear of being replaced. Tenure is also efficient because faculty have better information about incumbents than either university administrators or outside consultants. Tenure is therefore necessary to motivate older faculty to hire the best. With staff budget dollars able to be shifted back or forwards across time periods, tenure secures the truthful revelation of who are the good candidates over all periods, and the university is guaranteed that those who are in the best position to judge (namely, faculty rather than administrators) have every incentive to make the best decisions. It follows, then, that the naive suggestion to get rid of tenure so that older, expensive professors can be fired and replaced with younger, cheaper professors would be disastrous in the long run. A simple model is presented explaining why (a) recent cutbacks in government grants, (b) cost pressures on university budgets, (c) limits to tuition increases, and (d) declining interests in attending a less "excellent" university have all resulted in pressure on tenure. Because there is no previously agreed-to mechanism in place to adjust staff, university administrations and faculty unions are not so much bargaining over an acceptable contract outcome as they are contesting the very rules of the bargaining game. Accordingly, unless tenure is reconsidered, universities may increasingly face bargaining conflict. Tenure could be reformed by making the term of tenure limited but related to rank, and establishing a maximum eligibility period during which a faculty may apply for promotion.

scholarly journals PERAN SEO DALAM MENINGKATKAN RELIABILITAS PEMASARAN PRODUK VIA MEDIA ONLINE PADA FORUM MUSLIMAH DEPOK

DEDIKASI PKM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ahmad Maulana Irfanudin ◽  
Didi Sunardi ◽  
Ratna Sari ◽  
Imbron Imbron ◽  
Nariah Nariah
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
Search Engine Optimization ◽  
Content Search ◽  
Service Activities ◽  
The Right ◽  
The University

The purpose of Community Service Activities (PKM) is to carry out one of the three obligations of the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi. In addition, it is expected that by serving the community, the existence of higher education institutions can contribute to the development and application of knowledge to the community. The method of activity used is to visit the Forum Muslimah Depok, Al-Awwal Mosque, addressed on Jalan Mawar Raya, Depok Jaya and look for problems that are in place so as to provide the right solution in motivating members who has business or UMKM in Depok, West Java, especially for Jama’ah Masjid Al Awwal Masjid Depok Jaya and gave training there on 01-03 October 2019. This training aims to develop the ability to increase marketing through online media with SEO methods and techniques (Search Engine Optimization) for Muslimah Forum members, Al-Awwal Mosque, Depok Jaya. The results of community service activities (PKM) obtained indicate that prior to the implementation of PKM, Depok Muslimah Forum members did not yet know the terms related to product marketing via online media, but after the implementation of activities known members of the Depok Muslimah Forum could understand the basics of content creation with simple SEO rules. PKM activities play a positive role in increasing the knowledge and skills of participants in creating SEO-based content The knowledge gained in Community Service this time is expected to be able to provide enthusiasm especially for the lecturers and other academicians of the University of Pamulang in providing material counseling, motivation and contributing to the public in and outside the campus environment of the University of PamulangKeywords: Content, Search Engine Optimization, Online

scholarly journals Formation of students’ motivation for learning in the multicultural educational environment of the university through student-centered technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 00060
Author(s):  
N.V. Levchenko ◽  
O.V. Kitikar
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Full Time ◽  
State University ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Educational Motivation ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
The University ◽  
Oriented Approach

The article is devoted to the problem of multicultural education at the university, considering the personality-oriented approach to teaching. Here are the results of the implementation of the program aimed at increasing the educational motivation of students. The program and research are being implemented in the pedagogical areas of training full-time students of the Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky. The discipline “Pedagogy” and its modules have, according to the authors, ample opportunities for the implementation of the idea of multicultural education in a higher educational institution, taking into account personality-oriented technologies and taking into account the multinational student environment of the university. The authors propose to strengthen the multicultural aspect of the content of the discipline under consideration by introducing changes into the program that will significantly increase the motivation of students to learn. The implementation of this approach is to develop the content of the discipline “Pedagogy” considering the multicultural student environment of the university.

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