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Building General Education at St. Louis Community College: Innovation and Tradition
Ann Roberts Divine August 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 8
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Nothing is more traditional in higher education than the core of general education on which specialized study is founded. In recent years, there has been much focus on general education, as states and institutions throughout the country have re-examined and revised general education requirements with the intention of better preparing students for the challenges of greater complexity, diversity, and technology. Missouri and, by extension, St. Louis Community College (SLCC) are no exceptions.
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Informed Decision Making in the Community College
Lisa A. Petrides July 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 7
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The information needs of community colleges are growing increasingly complex, while pressures to improve results reach to every function of the college. In community colleges across the country, faculty members, staff, and administrators are working to improve the ways that data and information are used within the college to enhance educational services and student outcomes. Community colleges throughout the United States represent the full spectrum in terms of how they use data and information to support decision making and how they transform knowledge into action.
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Perspectives and Principles for Designing Learning
Judith V. Boettcher, Rita-Marie Conrad June 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 6
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Many faculty in higher education have a great deal of experience in designing and delivering instruction, but they might not have had the time or opportunity to learn about teaching and learning research in any formal way. Rather, postsecondary faculty generally come to the teaching experience with a high level of competence in a content area. They then learn about teaching and learning through peer observation, collegial discussion, trial and error, and their own educational experiences. Many faculty are unconscious competents in the discipline of instructional design.
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Career Academy Programs: Career Edge for the New World of Work
David Bunting May 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 5
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In late 1998, Kirkwood Community College (IA) was approached by a local school district regarding the need to create new, dynamic learning opportunities for high school students that would help them be better informed and better prepared for their future.
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The Courage to Learn
Mark David Milliron April 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 4
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Your courage astounds us. We probably don't tell you this enough. You see, we too are pushed and pulled by classes, calendars, and the constant press of our work in education. But when we slow down, look around, and soak in all of your stories, we are humbled.
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Why Not Assess and Document All Learning?
William J. Flynn March 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 3
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As we look forward to the second Learning Summit, to be held in Baltimore in the summer of 2004, it may be an appropriate time to look back at some of the movements and events that have shaped the community college agenda in recent years. The conference’s focus on assessment is relevant and timely, given the direction taken by regional accreditation agencies in recent years.
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The Recovery of Persons
Sanford C. Shugart February 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 2
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"Organization kills spirit" (Greenleaf). There's a cheerful thought for the future of our colleges. In the context of Greenleaf's argument, however, this was meant to convey something essential about the behavior of our institutions as they mature.
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Maximizing Student Success: A Library and Nursing Department Web Partnership
Pam Czaja January 2004
Volume: 7 Issue: 1
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Faculty and librarian collaborative partnerships have been a component of the academic experience for a number of years. Some well-known examples of collaboration include working with faculty to assess library collections in support of instructor and curriculum needs, instruction in the use of library materials to support class assignments, and creation of subject bibliographies to support course content. These library services were initially created in an era when printed materials were the primary source for information.
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Student Success Anomalies: Why Do We Do the Things We Do?
Hank Dunn, Anna Mays December 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 12
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Numerous pressures face the modern community college, not the least of which is the need to promote student-learning success. Many institutions now focus on being learning colleges. However, even as institutions take proactive steps to become learning centered, some foster practices that not only do not contribute to learning, but detract from it.
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Skills for Academic Success: Empowering Students to Make Informed Choices
Daryl Hansen, Larry Lindberg, Teri Quick November 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 11
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For nearly a decade, the national trend has been for an increasing number of college students to register themselves for their classes via phone banks and, more recently, online services. While professional advising continues to be offered, fewer working students have the time or inclination to use the service.
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A New Pedagogy for Learning Communities: Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum
Tawnya Pettiford-Wates, Carl Waluconis October 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 10
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The spread of learning communities has generally proven to be beneficial for learning at colleges and universities. At the same time, their broad proliferation has occasionally meant dilution of some of their basic strengths. Moreover, once they arrive on a campus successfully, they tend to take hold and become unchangeable. This establishment of learning communities as an integral part of curriculum reform can be positive, but it can also leave those involved complacent about what they have created.
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Toward a New Way of Thinking and Learning: Becoming a Learning College
Steve Atkins, Connie Wolfe September 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 9
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At the start of [the 1990s], a new way of thinking about education began to emerge from a great variety of sources, a way of thinking that places learning as the central aim of the education enterprise. --Terry O'Banion
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In The Trenches: Assessment As If Understanding Mattered
Rene Diaz-Lefebvre August 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 8
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Effective assessment of student learning outcomes has been a major issue for higher education for a number of years. Commissions have issued position papers, reports have been disseminated, and there has been an increase in assessment literature (Banta, 1999).
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A Framework for Transforming Learning Organizations: Proposing a New Learning College Principle
Alicia Barbara Harvey-Smith July 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 7
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Setting the ContextThe trend in postsecondary education to embrace more learning-centered approaches must involve the examination and reshaping of institutional cultures to truly transform.
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Institutionalizing the Commitment to Learning: Evolution, not Revolution
Martha A. Smith, Andrew L. Meyer June 2003
Volume: 6 Issue: 6
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive,nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."  Charles Darwin
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