Contemporary Urban University Presidents and an Emerging Paradigm for Strategic Planning and Civic Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Everrett A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
University Presidents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Urban Universities ◽  
Leadership Influence

The purpose of this chapter is to examine the elements of urban university presidents' strategic planning and priority-setting. The chapter attempts to profile the contributions of urban universities to their cities, and the specific agenda that urban university presidents establish in order to do so. The author considers two primary ideas for presidential strategies: visible presidential leadership in urban environments and the prioritization of civic-based initiatives. The chapter explores shifting patterns in strategy, leadership, and civic involvement at urban universities in the United States, setting the analysis in context to better understand how college presidential planning and leadership influence postsecondary education in America's urban core.

scholarly journals Developing an Asynchronous Course Model at a Large, Urban University

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony G. Picciano
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Asynchronous Learning ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Hunter College ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Administration And Supervision

In Spring 1997, Hunter College offered the first asynchronous learning course in the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban university system in the United States enrolling 200,000 students in undergraduate and graduate programs. This graduate course, entitled Administration and Supervision of the Public Schools - The Principalship, was offered in theDivision of Programs in Education. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, this course was intended to serve as a model for other courses at Hunter College and CUNY.While many colleges have begun to offer asynchronous learning courses, the model presented here may be of special interest since it takes into consideration several variables of importance in large urban environments. First, all of the students in this course were adult, part-time students who delicately balance studies, careers, and families in their daily lives. In this respect, theyrepresented a typical urban commuter population that would benefit from the convenience of asynchronous learning. Second, all of the students were commuter students who participated in the course via equipment located in their homes and offices. As a result, the model had to accept a wide variety of on-line services as the means of participation. Third, these students did not possess extensive technical skills and in terms of expertise could be classified as new to intermediate. This required that the model employ simple software interfaces that would minimize student frustration due to technical difficulties. Lastly, all of these students already had earned masters degrees and were teachers in the New York City metropolitan area. As experienced teachers, they are attuned to pedagogy and could provide valuable insight into an evaluation of the instructional components of the model.The purpose of this paper is to share the results of student evaluation of the instructional components of an asynchronous model that might be beneficial to others who are considering using this technology in similar environments.

Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts on Local Program Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Robert Manning
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Program Quality ◽  
County Level ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Local Program

AbstractThis study examined the strategic planning practices of county-level emergency management agencies (EMAs), with a specific focus on strategic planning adoption and its relationship to local program quality. The study utilized a descriptive, cross-sectional survey design to collect planning- and program-related data from more than 300 county-level EMAs across the United States. The study findings revealed that most of the county EMAs included in the final sample had previously engaged in strategic planning activities, with nearly all of them continuing to use strategic planning as part of their general management practice. The study findings further revealed that strategic planning had a direct and significant impact on the overall quality of local emergency management programs, and that the strategic planning EMAs had significantly higher mean quality scores across all program dimensions when compared to the non-strategic planning EMAs.

Is Strategic Planning Worth the Effort? A Study of Firm Performance Versus Planning Comprehensiveness in Australia

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Devenish ◽  
Tom Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Weak Positive Correlation ◽  
Positive Correlations

AbstractThe planning-performance literature suggests that there is a weak positive correlation between strategic planning and financial performance. This study has been undertaken to determine whether this weak positive correlation is true for Australian firms.Strategic planning for the purposes of this study is arranged in three levels of planning complexity. A sample of 77 listed firms was surveyed to determine their level of planning complexity, and this was correlated with the firm's financial performance over a three year period.A range of statistical tests did not reveal any significant correlation between strategic planning at any of the three levels and the financial performance of the firm. This negative finding is generally in line with other recent studies conducted in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.However, positive correlations were found with several subjective performance measures, suggesting that respondents generally believe that strategic planning is helping their company.

scholarly journals Racism and Ethnocentrism: Social Representations of Preservice Teachers in the Context of Multi- and Intercultural Education

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Carignan ◽  
Michael Sanders ◽  
Roland G. Pourdavood
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Secondary Teachers ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
Constructivist Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Preservice Secondary Teachers ◽  
Multicultural Perspective

Using a constructivist inquiry paradigm, the authors attempted in their content analysis to understand the social representations on race and ethnocentrism of preservice secondary teachers studying in an urban university in a Midwest city in the United States. Although social representations can be understood as something in which our participants deeply believe, this study suggests that racial and ethnocentric biases should be examined in the context of multi- and intercultural education. The authors favor a way of revisiting taken-for-granted ideas toward traditional, liberal, and critical or radical multiculturalism. They argue for the recognition not only of the differences and diversity of students (multicultural perspective) but also of the way in which teachers understand, communicate, and interact with them (intercultural perspective).

Towards Rapid Citywide Damage Mapping Using Neighborhood Edge Dissimilarities in Very High-Resolution Optical Satellite Imagery—Application to the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 255-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles K. Huyck ◽  
Beverley J. Adams ◽  
Sungbin Cho ◽  
Hung-Chi Chung ◽  
Ronald T. Eguchi
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tool ◽  
The United States ◽  
Building Damage ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Detection Algorithms ◽  
Sensing Technology ◽  
Change Detection Algorithms ◽  
Damage Mapping ◽  
Relief Efforts ◽  
Very High

Remote sensing technology is increasingly recognized as a valuable post-earthquake damage assessment tool. Recent studies performed by research teams in the United States, Japan, and Europe have demonstrated that building damage sustained in urban environments can be identified through analysis of optical imagery and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. Damage detection using automated change detection algorithms will soon facilitate the scaling and prioritization of relief efforts, as well as the monitoring of the recovery operations. This paper introduces the use of an edge dissimilarity algorithm to quantify the extent of building damage.

Recruitment and retention of bilingual graduate students in school psychology: Efforts and challenges in increasing professional diversity

2021 ◽  
pp. 014303432110426
Author(s):  
Yi Ding ◽  
Tamique Ridgard ◽  
Su-Je Cho ◽  
Jiayi Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Psychology ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
School Psychologists ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
Urban University ◽  
Bilingual School

The main goal of this paper is to illustrate recruitment efforts, strategies, and challenges in the process of training bilingual school psychologists to serve diverse schools. First, we address the acute and chronic shortage of bilingual school psychologists in the United States, particularly in urban schools where student populations are increasingly diverse. Then we provide a review of strategies and efforts to recruit and retain bilingual graduate-level learners in one school psychology program in an urban university. Quantitative data regarding recruitment and retention efforts are discussed. We identify challenges and future directions to increase diversity in the field of school psychology.

scholarly journals Explaining the association between urbanicity and psychotic-like experiences in adolescence: The indirect effect of urban exposures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abhishek Saxena ◽  
David Dodell-Feder
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Income Disparity ◽  
Lead Paint ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
One Year

Urban living is a growing worldwide phenomenon with more than two-thirds of people expected to live in cities by 2050. Although there are many benefits to living in an urban environment, urbanicity has also been associated with deleterious health outcomes, including increased risk for psychotic outcomes particularly when the urban exposure occurs in adolescence. However, the mechanisms underlying this association is unclear. Here, we utilize one-year follow-up data from a large (N=7,979), nationwide study of adolescence in the United States to clarify why urbanicity might impact psychotic-like experiences (PLE) by looking at the indirect effect of eight candidate urbanicity-related physical (e.g., pollution) and social (e.g., poverty) exposures. Consistent with other work, we find that of the evaluated exposures related to urbanicity, several were also related to increased number of PLE and associated distress: PM2.5, proximity to roads, census-level homes at-risk for exposure to lead paint, census-level poverty, and census-level income-disparity. Mediation analysis revealed that a substantial proportion the urbanicity-PLE association could be explained by PM2.5 (23% of the urbanicity-PLE number association), families in poverty (57-67% of the urbanicity-PLE number and distress association), and income disparity (55-66% of the urbanicity-PLE number and distress association). Together, these findings suggest that specific urban-related exposures might help to explain why those in urban environments are disproportionately at-risk for psychosis and point towards areas for public health intervention.

scholarly journals Loading, transport, and treatment of emerging chemical and biological contaminants of concern in stormwater

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumaiya Saifur ◽  
Courtney M. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Antibiotic Resistance Genes ◽  
Environmental Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Transport Behavior ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Biological Contaminants ◽  
Quality Water

Abstract Stormwater is a largely uncontrolled source of pollution in rural and urban environments across the United States. Concern regarding the growing diversity and abundance of pollutants in stormwater as well as their impacts on water quality has grown significantly over the past several decades. In addition to conventional contaminants like nutrients and heavy metals, stormwater is a well-documented source of many contaminants of emerging concern, which can be toxic to both aquatic and terrestrial organisms and remain a barrier to maintaining high quality water resources. Chemical pollutants like pharmaceuticals and personal care products, industrial pollutants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, and tire wear particles in stormwater are of great concern due to their toxic, genotoxic, mutagenic and carcinogenic properties. Emerging microbial contaminants such as pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes also represent significant threats to environmental water quality and human health. Knowledge regarding the transport, behavior, and the remediation capacity of these pollutants in runoff is key for addressing these pollutants in situ and minimizing ecosystem perturbations. To this end, this review paper will analyze current understanding of these contaminants in stormwater runoff in terms of their transport, behavior, and bioremediation potential.

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