scholarly journals The University Corporatization Shift: A Longitudinal Analysis of University Admission Handbooks, 1980 to 2010

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cliff Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
University Admission ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

This paper explores university corporatization and its impact on university literature, examining the frequency and placement of content in the admissions handbooks (viewbooks) of six Ontario universities from 1980 to 2010, at five-year intervals. Government budget cuts implemented in the mid-1990s served as a point of interest in the timing of corporatization. Content analysis showed a decreased emphasis on academics and an increased emphasis on the university experience; academics moved toward the back of the viewbooks, and student experience and university-specific advantages moved toward the front. The timing of these changes, however, did not correlate, as expected, with government budget cuts of the mid-1990s.  

scholarly journals The Culture of Couch Surfing Amongst Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Denzel De Ruysscher
Keyword(s):  
Student Voice ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Tertiary Student ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Couch Surfing ◽  
The Moment ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

<p>This thesis explores ‘couch surfing’ as it becomes more prevalent within the tertiary student experience. In recent years, there has been a significant decline in the availability of housing in all major cities in New Zealand. Rental accommodations been particularly hard hit with the number of properties available for occupation under increasing demand. Despite this shortage universities have continued to expand, offering an increased number of positions to students. This dichotomy has impacted university students looking for ‘affordable accommodation.’ This has led to a recent surge in students undertaking studies without fixed abodes for either short time periods or in some cases for the duration of the university trimesters or year, commonly referred to as ‘student homelessness.’ The students are faced with a new reality; a reality of relying on short term peer support for accommodation, known as couch-surfing. This research considers the impact of accommodation uncertainty within the tertiary student experience and specifically asks what impact the current global phenomenon of couch surfing is having on either alleviation or amplification of the physical and/or emotional stresses and strains associated with attending university. This study interviews students who have experienced uncertainty around their accommodation arrangements and as a result have engaged in couch surfing practices. The aim of this study is to gain a holistic overview of the impact this experience of uncertainty and temporary accommodation has on a student’s life and uses photography as a tool within human-centred and participatory design approaches to assist in the expression and interpretation of the couch surfing experience during university study.  At the outset, more portrait photography approaches such as model headshots are used to illustrate the student couch surfer and their accommodation experience and surroundings with the purpose of capturing the couch surfers in the moment in mind. Following on from this the study introduces the ethnographic method of Photovoice and asks the couch surfing student to record their own accommodation experience through the taking of more self-focused photos that include their surroundings and expressions of the experience. As a final experience, a workshop was designed and facilitated to synergise the student voice on the experiences of couch surfing. This experience was also documented through photography.  The culmination of these research approaches is a visual output in the form of a photobook that will showcase the overall narrative of the thesis. The main objective of the thesis and visual output is to explore the lifestyle and experiences of student couch surfers and to visually amplify a collective student voice that speaks to the emergent and unique phenomenon of couch surfing, that has had an impact on their university experience.</p>

scholarly journals The Culture of Couch Surfing Amongst Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Denzel De Ruysscher
Keyword(s):  
Student Voice ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Tertiary Student ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
Couch Surfing ◽  
The Moment ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

<p>This thesis explores ‘couch surfing’ as it becomes more prevalent within the tertiary student experience. In recent years, there has been a significant decline in the availability of housing in all major cities in New Zealand. Rental accommodations been particularly hard hit with the number of properties available for occupation under increasing demand. Despite this shortage universities have continued to expand, offering an increased number of positions to students. This dichotomy has impacted university students looking for ‘affordable accommodation.’ This has led to a recent surge in students undertaking studies without fixed abodes for either short time periods or in some cases for the duration of the university trimesters or year, commonly referred to as ‘student homelessness.’ The students are faced with a new reality; a reality of relying on short term peer support for accommodation, known as couch-surfing. This research considers the impact of accommodation uncertainty within the tertiary student experience and specifically asks what impact the current global phenomenon of couch surfing is having on either alleviation or amplification of the physical and/or emotional stresses and strains associated with attending university. This study interviews students who have experienced uncertainty around their accommodation arrangements and as a result have engaged in couch surfing practices. The aim of this study is to gain a holistic overview of the impact this experience of uncertainty and temporary accommodation has on a student’s life and uses photography as a tool within human-centred and participatory design approaches to assist in the expression and interpretation of the couch surfing experience during university study.  At the outset, more portrait photography approaches such as model headshots are used to illustrate the student couch surfer and their accommodation experience and surroundings with the purpose of capturing the couch surfers in the moment in mind. Following on from this the study introduces the ethnographic method of Photovoice and asks the couch surfing student to record their own accommodation experience through the taking of more self-focused photos that include their surroundings and expressions of the experience. As a final experience, a workshop was designed and facilitated to synergise the student voice on the experiences of couch surfing. This experience was also documented through photography.  The culmination of these research approaches is a visual output in the form of a photobook that will showcase the overall narrative of the thesis. The main objective of the thesis and visual output is to explore the lifestyle and experiences of student couch surfers and to visually amplify a collective student voice that speaks to the emergent and unique phenomenon of couch surfing, that has had an impact on their university experience.</p>

scholarly journals Deep bilinear features for Her2 scoring in digital pathology

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 811-814 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Rodner ◽  
Marcel Simon ◽  
Joachim Denzler
Keyword(s):  
Digital Pathology ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Second Order Statistics ◽  
Over Expression ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Winning Team ◽  
Image Patches ◽  
Parameterized Model ◽  
The University

AbstractWe present an automated approach for rating HER2 over-expressions in given whole-slide images of breast cancer histology slides. The slides have a very high resolution and only a small part of it is relevant for the rating.Our approach is based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which are directly modelling the whole computer vision pipeline, from feature extraction to classification, with a single parameterized model. CNN models have led to a significant breakthrough in a lot of vision applications and showed promising results for medical tasks. However, the required size of training data is still an issue. Our CNN models are pre-trained on a large set of datasets of non-medical images, which prevents over-fitting to the small annotated dataset available in our case. We assume the selection of the probe in the data with just a single mouse click defining a point of interest. This is reasonable especially for slices acquired together with another sample. We sample image patches around the point of interest and obtain bilinear features by passing them through a CNN and encoding the output of the last convolutional layer with its second-order statistics.Our approach ranked second in the Her2 contest held by the University of Warwick achieving 345 points compared to 348 points of the winning team. In addition to pure classification, our approach would also allow for localization of parts of the slice relevant for visual detection of Her2 over-expression.

scholarly journals The Role of Co-Creating Value and Its Outcomes in Higher Education Marketing

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6724
Author(s):  
Lien Thi Kim Nguyen ◽  
Tom Meng-Yen Lin ◽  
Hoang Phuong Lam
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Satisfaction ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
University Image ◽  
Education Marketing ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University ◽  
Positive Word Of Mouth

This study examines the role of student co-creation behavior in contributing to student satisfaction, perceived university image, and student positive word of mouth (WOM). Using a sample of 513 students from a Taiwanese university and conducting partial least squares structural equation modeling, the findings indicate that co-creating value is critical to student satisfaction, university image, and positive WOM. The results also show the effect of student satisfaction and university image on student positive WOM. This study confirms the pivotal role of student participation in co-creating value in enhancing satisfaction with the university experience, creating and sustaining a positive image, and building the credibility of the university. This research is particularly important to higher education institutions because it has practical implications for decision-makers, brand managers, and HE marketers who wish to improve understanding of the relationship between the university and students in the process of co-creating value and its outcomes.

The decline and fall of a working classicist

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Clare
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Employment Structure ◽  
Family Wealth ◽  
Academic System ◽  
Class Background ◽  
University Experience ◽  
The University

Although the academy tends not to recognize it, scholars and students from working-class backgrounds are automatically at a disadvantage. To demonstrate both sides of the university experience, I provide here a detailed, personal account of my journey from undergraduate to postgraduate to post-Ph.D. researcher. I pay special attention to my chosen subject of classics and ancient history, an area of study with its own set of class-based problems – for while those from working-class backgrounds might be (and are) subject to classism in any discipline, the seemingly inherent elitism of the classics and ancient history field makes it doubly hard for the underprivileged to succeed. I begin by illustrating how ‘working-class knowledge’ of popular culture granted me access into an otherwise closed, exclusionary set of subject materials and go from here to detail how such work is undervalued by the field, before ending on the violent effects that the all-too-familiar casualized employment structure has on those would-be academics who lack access to family wealth, savings and freedom of opportunity/action. Ultimately, I try to show how that – no matter how hard you try – if you are from working-class background, you are highly unlikely to succeed in the modern-day academic system.

APPLICATION OF VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITALIZATION OF EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
B. D. Sydykhov ◽  
◽  
D.U. Ydyrysbayev ◽  
Z.A. Batyrkhan ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Budget Cuts ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Computer Labs ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

Today, education is influenced by many factors. Educational institutions face budget cuts, outdated information technology, data security management, and a push to integrate distance learning. Virtualization technologies offer innovative solutions to the problems that arise in this direction. In particular, the extensive use of virtualization in implementing remote and traditional teaching with the use of various e-learning materials, digital learning resources, educational portals, websites, cloud-based technologies. The article presents the directions of the organization of the original educational infrastructure with the use of virtualization technologies implemented by the university in the educational process. This infrastructure provides students and university staff with access to virtual workstations and applications over the Internet, both for working in computer labs at the university and for extracurricular work. Virtualization technologies that characterize the infrastructure functions are presented, which reflect the advantages of this direction, and the final results of research experiments conducted to identify infrastructure problems are presented.

The genesis of IT tools in making management decisions of the university admission committee

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
А. А. Zubrilin ◽  
О. I. Pautkina
Keyword(s):  
Final Stage ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Online Services ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Entrance Examinations ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Admission ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Admission Office ◽  
The University

The article discusses the issue of the dynamics of changes in IT tools that have been and are used to make management decisions in the work of the university admission committee. The main directions of the work of the admission committee are highlighted: organizational and methodological, technological, the actual admission campaign and generalization, as the final stage at which the results of the admission campaign are summed up. The features of each of the directions are highlighted and the IT tools that were used for them are indicated. It is shown that over the past two decades, IT tools have undergone drastic changes, which are associated with an increase in the functionality of the admission committee. Arguments are given in support of the thesis that the solution for automating the management activities of the university, in particular for the admission campaign, over the past years has been a domestic software on the 1C:Enterprise platform — the 1C:University system. The article presents the stage-by-stage coordination of the admission campaign — from planning and forming the required list of documents (application of the applicant, receipt, examination sheets) to processing information about entrance examinations and USE results, forming enrollment orders. It is shown that the 1C:University system occupies an important place in the automation of many processes taking place in the admission office of the university. Online services that are important for the organization of the admission campaign are described. 

Accessibility of Internet Based Electronic Resources: A Content Analysis of Public and Private University Library Websites in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Shamima Yesmin .
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Private University ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
University Library ◽  
Library Websites ◽  
The University

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the websites of university libraries to ascertain that libraries are effectively utilizing their respective websites to provide easy access to all electronic resources available in the library. The objective was also to a represent a comparative analysis between public and private university library websites regarding the presence of electronic resources with their easy access via the internet. For the purpose of this study, a research instrument in the form of comprehensive checklist of eighteen e-resources was developed to evaluate their accessibility in the websites of public and private university libraries. Twenty university library websites, comprised of ten top-ranked public and ten top-ranked private universities in Bangladesh, were studied for data collection using content analysis method. The findings demonstrate that the presence of e-resources on selected university library websites is still in its early stage, but it has been growing rapidly. The private university library websites are ahead of public university libraries in terms of the integration of web-resources. It is hoped that the findings of this paper will serve to assist the University librarians and other similar institutions in choosing, selecting and acquiring the most appropriate format of information resources, and making these available to their websites, which will both satisfy the needs of their library users and fit within their library budget.

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