Spartan Daily, September 20, 1977

Volume 69, Issue 11https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6234/thumbnail.jp

Mirror - Vol. 26, No. 19 - March 29, 2001

The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/archives-mirror/1543/thumbnail.jp

New Expression: April/May 1988 (Volume 12, Issue 4)

April/May 1988, Volume 12, Issue 4, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalistshttps://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/1090/thumbnail.jp

Using on-line journals to stimulate reflective thinking

Information Systems or Electronic Commerce students can take HTX212 in their bachelor's program, or HTX512 in their graduate diploma and master's programs. These are combined into one face to face unit, supported by the use of WebCT, and consolidated by a three person team project, where students attempt to incorporate the features of client-side and server-side Web programming and database management which they have been taught. Other aims of the unit are to consolidate core skills learnt in other units; particularly project management, and to develop the use of reflective thinking for process improvement. This paper describes a partially successful attempt to stimulate private communication from students with their lecturers through the use of structured questions in a WebCT journal. Having discussed the techniques used, and examined the student responses to the questions posed, the paper concludes by suggesting improvements for the future. The weekly journal requirement from each student to audit their and their team's performance allowed each individual to share concerns with their lecturers, analyse where processes were not working, suggest and monitor the effect of improvements. The quality of student response improved throughout the semester, with some deep discussion of issues, although many students struggled with the concept initially. Discussions were promoted on the bulletin board

Use of proofs-as-programs to build an anology-based functional program editor

This thesis presents a novel application of the technique known as proofs-as-programs. Proofs-as-programs defines a correspondence between proofs in a constructive logic and functional programs. By using this correspondence, a functional program may be represented directly as the proof of a specification and so the program may be analysed within this proof framework. CʸNTHIA is a program editor for the functional language ML which uses proofs-as-programs to analyse users' programs as they are written. So that the user requires no knowledge of proof theory, the underlying proof representation is completely hidden. The proof framework allows programs written in CʸNTHIA to be checked to be syntactically correct, well-typed, well-defined and terminating. CʸNTHIA also embodies the idea of programming by analogy — rather than starting from scratch, users always begin with an existing function definition. They then apply a sequence of high-level editing commands which transform this starting definition into the one required. These commands preserve correctness and also increase programming efficiency by automating commonly occurring steps. The design and implementation of CʸNTHIA is described and its role as a novice programming environment is investigated. Use by experts is possible but only a sub-set of ML is currently supported. Two major trials of CʸNTHIA have shown that CʸNTHIA is well-suited as a teaching tool. Users of CʸNTHIA make fewer programming errors and the feedback facilities of CʸNTHIA mean that it is easier to track down the source of errors when they do occur

The impact of organizational decline on African American students in Massachusetts four-year public institutions of higher education.

The impact which organizational decline in higher education has on African American students and institutional management of organizational decline can influence the access and success of African American students on predominantly White campuses. With higher education fighting for continued existence as a result of enrollment reductions and a shrinking economy, and the growing disparity between African Americans and White Americans, the press for survival prevails for both institutions and cultures. This study examined the effects which institutional decline in public higher education has upon African American students. Specifically, the study focused on how educational administrators and African American students in four Massachusetts institutions of higher learning described and explained the extent of the decline and their perceptions of its short-term and long-term effects. Various approaches and strategies utilized during decline and how they promoted or impeded an institution\u27s ability to support goals and action related to participation of African American students were explored in the study. Attention was given to the different perceptions surrounding these issues in order to present a holistic and in-depth understanding of the dimensions of decline as it impacts African American students. Focus group interviews were used to explore and identify the complexity of these issues. The findings of the study indicate that the perceptions of both students and educational administrators were that African American students had been affected by the impact of organizational decline in terms of reduction and elimination of programs and services which are used and needed by this student population to access higher education as well as to survive in college environments which are hostile and unfriendly. The exploratory nature of this study, through the perceptions and reflections of African American students and educational administrators responsible to and for this population, should deepen the understanding within the academy regarding access and success of African American students during an era of decline