Entry-Level Competencies of New Student Affairs Professionals: A Delphi Study

The study examines the perceptions of 104 mid- and senior-level student affairs administrators of positions, responsibilities, competencies, and theories important for professional practice for new student affairs professionals. In regard to competencies, the results of this study provide important information about preprofessional abilities that are integral to professional practice, and participants also identified several competencies not identified in prior research that may be important to positions involving high contact with students. These results, then, provide vital information for curriculum development in graduate preparation programs and for professional development training for new professionals

Better Questions

This thesis searches for and reworks the information that communities produce and amass to establish collective memory. Memorized evidence largely references a before state. Before I came upon alternative tellings for how American capitalism functions and stays running, before, when it was considered love to repeat back, &ldquo;America is the best country in the world&rdquo;. A trail of memory&rsquo;s existence can be found in land, bodies, artwork, and oral histories. Here in this text, I am making another trail, aimed forward, because of a belief that change will influence the forgotten places. I want to reshape the memories I can touch, ingest, and walk over to anticipate the malleable future, &ldquo;Reflective nostalgia is a form of deep mourning that performs a labor of grief both through pondering pain and through play that points to the future.&rdquo;1 I am altering the harmful and hidden systems of oppression that are in my reach &ndash; extraction of life resources &ndash; by &ldquo;churn[ing] the world, as digestive systems churn food,&rdquo; by walking in boredom and isolation, for the seven hour performance over influential land, by starting different conversations with my mom, by looking right at it.2 I churn the inside of prison walls and the outside of prison walls as my feet keep stepping forward, and I discover new understanding. Familiarity makes understanding seem achievable. The banality of mass incarceration had calmed me to a point that I did not ask any questions about its function nor of its productivity in community rehabilitation. Deeming as normal, &ldquo;The nonincarcerated public comes to recognize prison and the imprisoned almost exclusively through a set of rehearsed images created by the state and by nonincarcerated image makers&hellip; with prison as a cornerstone institution of modern life,&rdquo; does not mean that prison is understood.3 Described in an interview with Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is this misplaced understanding, &nbsp; My great criticism of what has happened in America is that for too long legislators have acted as if you can put crimes in prison. It is very easy to say, &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s condemn that. The death penalty for that. Let&rsquo;s give life without parole for that.&rsquo; &hellip;If you don&rsquo;t recognize the difference between a crime and a person, you are going to do a lot of things that are unjust.4 The following chapters are energized with in-process expos&eacute;s of my capacity for my own normal, one that does not accept mass incarceration as a healthy reaction to economic disparity and racial segregation. This work is not resolved. To me, what is best and how I truly desire the future is unclear, but this thesis is my route for finding it, getting there, to the next decision that propels hope and unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. There is a conclusion in my work, that we, as Americans, are preparing future spaces that reinforce exclusive judgmental power. This is a bleak recognition that could stir people&rsquo;s hard work to do the opposite. The 1970 global call to &ldquo;Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners,&rdquo; which caused her release and eventual clearance of all charges, is a historic example that teaches what unified, collective vision can make normal. People commit to things being right and visionary action spreads. Reform, which modifies an existing broken entity and has been incorporated into prisons since their inception, is not the beginning. Hannah Arendt, who coined &ldquo;the banality of evil&rdquo;, describes in her ending of The Origins of Totalitarianism, what a beginning should be, as a way out from her analysis of the darkest materials of politics, and towards the possibility of further life, &ldquo;Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man. Politically it is identical with man&rsquo;s freedom. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth. It is indeed every man.&rdquo;5 I hope, while I keep creating memory and pushing my edges, to add to the magnitude of a beginning. Better Questions is a summon for abolition.</p

Athletics reform and faculty perceptions

Recent reform initiatives have offered ideas for improving academic and financial oversight, but the ideas do not always conform to faculty perceptions and opinions.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/64568/1/370_ftp.pd

How is Postsecondary Education Associated with Membership in the American Corporate Elite?

This study contributes to the discussion around the value of a college degree and associated career advantages by considering how postsecondary education contributes to the attainment of the most powerful and prestigious positions in the American corporate world. Guided by a conceptual framework informed by status attainment, power elite, and upper echelon theories, I examined the backgrounds of almost 4,000 top-level Fortune 500 business executives in 2010. The data, including socio-demographics, postsecondary degrees, various undergraduate accomplishments, and company characteristics, were collected from a variety of secondary sources. A series of analyses, inspired by the work of Useem and Karabel (1986), compared executives who were senior managers or outside directors of one company to even more powerful executives. This latter group, referred to as the “corporate elite,” were operationalized as CEOs, outside directors of multiple companies, or leaders in major business associations. I found a bachelor’s degree to be almost universally held and few significant differences emerged distinguishing the most powerful executives from others in terms of their bachelor’s degree source. Focusing more closely on undergraduate academic and extracurricular accomplishments, however, indicated that the corporate elite were more likely to be involved in certain activities. Also, I observed differences in the levels of graduate degree attainment and graduate degree sources. Possessing an MBA degree from a top business school or, to a lesser extent from a lower ranked business school, were each positively associated with membership in the business elite. For law school graduates, the likelihood of holding a top position of corporate power was less consistent than that of MBAs. Ultimately, this paper adds to our understanding of how postsecondary education might shape a small and understudied population that is a high status occupational class, the top management team responsible for major corporate decisions, and a powerful inner circle positioned to define national business interests and influence policy.Ph.D.Higher EducationUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86304/1/mollyott_1.pd

Healthy Nebraska: Advancing Human Health and Developing Healthy Communities

Healthy Nebraska: Advancing Human Health and Developing Healthy Communities Every day, the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) is putting together a wickedly complex puzzle, in which each faculty member, researcher, Extension educator, student, staff member, partner and stakeholder is a vitally important piece. As the pieces come together, we see a picture of the world in which IANR is making a meaningful difference in sustainable food, fuel, feed, and fiber production

Broad-Scale Recombination Patterns Underlying Proper Disjunction in Humans

Although recombination is essential to the successful completion of human meiosis, it remains unclear how tightly the process is regulated and over what scale. To assess the nature and stringency of constraints on human recombination, we examined crossover patterns in transmissions to viable, non-trisomic offspring, using dense genotyping data collected in a large set of pedigrees. Our analysis supports a requirement for one chiasma per chromosome rather than per arm to ensure proper disjunction, with additional chiasmata occurring in proportion to physical length. The requirement is not absolute, however, as chromosome 21 seems to be frequently transmitted properly in the absence of a chiasma in females, a finding that raises the possibility of a back-up mechanism aiding in its correct segregation. We also found a set of double crossovers in surprisingly close proximity, as expected from a second pathway that is not subject to crossover interference. These findings point to multiple mechanisms that shape the distribution of crossovers, influencing proper disjunction in humans

Isolation and Mutagenesis of a Capsule-Like Complex (CLC) from Francisella tularensis, and Contribution of the CLC to F. tularensis Virulence in Mice

BACKGROUND: Francisella tularensis is a category-A select agent and is responsible for tularemia in humans and animals. The surface components of F. tularensis that contribute to virulence are not well characterized. An electron-dense capsule has been postulated to be present around F. tularensis based primarily on electron microscopy, but this specific antigen has not been isolated or characterized. METHODS AND FINDINGS: A capsule-like complex (CLC) was effectively extracted from the cell surface of an F. tularensis live vaccine strain (LVS) lacking O-antigen with 0.5% phenol after 10 passages in defined medium broth and growth on defined medium agar for 5 days at 32°C in 7% CO₂. The large molecular size CLC was extracted by enzyme digestion, ethanol precipitation, and ultracentrifugation, and consisted of glucose, galactose, mannose, and Proteinase K-resistant protein. Quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR showed that expression of genes in a putative polysaccharide locus in the LVS genome (FTL_1432 through FTL_1421) was upregulated when CLC expression was enhanced. Open reading frames FTL_1423 and FLT_1422, which have homology to genes encoding for glycosyl transferases, were deleted by allelic exchange, and the resulting mutant after passage in broth (LVSΔ1423/1422_P10) lacked most or all of the CLC, as determined by electron microscopy, and CLC isolation and analysis. Complementation of LVSΔ1423/1422 and subsequent passage in broth restored CLC expression. LVSΔ1423/1422_P10 was attenuated in BALB/c mice inoculated intranasally (IN) and intraperitoneally with greater than 80 times and 270 times the LVS LD₅₀, respectively. Following immunization, mice challenged IN with over 700 times the LD₅₀ of LVS remained healthy and asymptomatic. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicated that the CLC may be a glycoprotein, FTL_1422 and -FTL_1423 were involved in CLC biosynthesis, the CLC contributed to the virulence of F. tularensis LVS, and a CLC-deficient mutant of LVS can protect mice against challenge with the parent strain

Faculty Satisfaction with Intercollegiate Athletics

This analysis examines faculty satisfaction with academic, financial, and governance aspects of intercollegiate athletics on their campuses and how views might vary according to individual attributes as well as athletics program and general campus characteristics. The data are drawn from a multi-campus study of Football Bowl Subdivision faculty sponsored by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (n=2,071). Descriptive results indicated that the highest levels of satisfaction were observed for aspects of academics. Multivariate results suggested that individual characteristics accounted for more of the variance in faculty views than did campus and athletics program characteristics. Especially noteworthy were the consistent positive relationships between satisfaction and involvement in the governance of intercollegiate athletics and experience teaching student-athletes; the more meaningful contact that faculty had with athletes/athletics, the more satisfied they were with different dimensions of the program

Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas Understanding the Changing Faculty Workforce in Higher Education: A Comparison of Full -Time Non-Tenure Track and Tenure Line Experiences Education Policy Analysis Archives/Arc

Citation: Ott, M., &amp; Cisneros, J. (2015) Understanding the changing faculty workforce in higher education: A comparison of full-time non-tenure track and tenure line experiences. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(90). http://dx.doi. org/10.14507/epaa.v23.1934 Abstract: Non-tenure track faculty are a growing majority in American higher education, but research examining their work lives is limited. Moreover, the theoretical frameworks commonly used by scholars have been critiqued for reliance on ideologically charged assumptions. Using a conceptual model developed from A compreensão da força de trabalho em mudança no ensino superior: Uma comparação de experiências de faculdade com e sem possibilidade de permanência Resumo: Faculdade nenhuma possibilidade de permanência são uma maioria crescente no ensino superior nos Estados Unidos, mas a pesquisa sobre suas experiências no trabalho é limitado. Os referenciais teóricos normalmente utilizados pelos pesquisadores tem sido criticado por sua dependência de pressupostos ideológicos. Usando um modelo conceitual criado por Hackman e Understanding the changing faculty workforce in higher education