Fostering a Lifelong Love of Plants; Educator Stories from a Botanical Garden

With a growing interest in community-based STEAM education, 10 environmental educators with the Vancouver Botanical Gardens Association share their experiences connecting people to plants at VanDusen Botanical Garden and Bloedel Conservatory, located on the unceded ancestral shared lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Each educator contributes various perspectives based on their unique backgrounds and lived experiences, which culminate in a shared story of passion for the natural world and its belonging in STEAM education. This narrative demonstrates that STEAM education flourishes when informal and formal educators work collaboratively and embrace new educational opportunities, engage senses through experiential place-based education, explore Two-Eyed Seeing and reciprocity, include diverse perspectives and recognize how lived experiences shape worldview, share passion and curiosity with learners, and foster appreciation of the natural world.  &nbsp

Toward a New Social Contract: A Tripartite Mixed-Methods Analysis of Social Sustainability at Three Land-Grant Universities

Increasingly, colleges and universities in the United States are adapting toward a model of behavior that incorporates issues of sustainability. This adaptation in universities and in society has implications on the organizational and nation-state level, the very core of which may serve to reshape the social contract between the two. In addition to supplying a strong counter-hegemonic argument that alters the competitive economic agenda-setting paradigm, this study serves as a tripartite comparative case study analysis of university adaptation toward social sustainability. By employing a social capital lens to understanding social sustainability in higher education, this study seeks to examine the relationship between higher education, sustainability, and the nation-state.The conceptual framework of this analysis will draw on Putnam\u27s concept of social capital, in the effort to understand the relationship between higher education, sustainability, and social capital as well as what a sustainability paradigm could mean in terms of a new social contract. The methodology of this study is exploratory and aimed at understanding university adaptation in three ways: first, elements of organization and administration aimed at advancing sustainability; second, teaching and research efforts that have been established within a sustainability frame; and third, community and outreach efforts that examines the role of the university in its local environment as well as the work toward public service. The specific methodology employed can be categorized as comparative case study (Yin, 2003). To validate findings, data is triangulated via a between-methods design and collected through: qualitative survey, contextual content analysis, and comparative discourse analysis respectively (Jaeger, 1988). The result is effectively a 3 x 3 mixed methods design so that each individual case study employs each of the three methodologies in order to provide a rich description of the social sustainability phenomena and offer data for comparative discourse analysis. Findings reveal three distinct strands amongst the case studies in the analysis of sustainability discourse. Results show the importance of the role of, organizational context, personal approach of the chief sustainability agent, and organizational saga in contributing to adaptation. In this way, sustainability approaches and the priority and university adaptation differed. These three approaches can be described as: an energy/operations/facilities perspective, a research and academic-focused perspective, and a humanistic-grassroots approach

Tiger Daily: May 7, 2020

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STEM Education For Girls Of Color

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields struggle to increase recruitment and retention of girls of color. The dominant framework in STEM education is the pipeline which assumes girls in general lack motivation and interest to persist in STEM fields. Recent public discourse shifts to address institutionalized discrimination and systemic barriers in STEM culture that filter out underrepresented populations. Informal education or complementary learning STEM programs offer alternative opportunities for students to explore outside of rigid school academic and social systems. Few articles look specifically at STEM complementary learning programs, and even fewer focus on the effects on girls of color. This research is a quantitative study to categorize existing mission statements and training behind organizations that provide STEM programs. The results will provide a better understanding of the relationship between practices of STEM education organizations and the programs they create. Diversity training and inclusive language in mission statements had weak correlations with increased cultural responsiveness in the program offerings. The results suggest organizations must be more intentional and explicit when implementing diversity goals

Tiger Daily: May 6, 2020

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Tiger Daily: May 6, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS COVID-19 Updates TILT Tip: Three Principles of Using Videos in Your Online Courses. Principle 2. Select the Appropriate Tools to Create Your Videos Calendar: Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities Tiger Food Pantry Academic Advising Training CANCELLED; Webinars Will Continue As Scheduled Together, Hays – FREE Mental/Physical Health Zoom Series Adopt A Grandparent Online Resources for Those Struggling With Addictions Contribute to the Forsyth Library COVID-19 Archive Bigcat.fhsu.edu Decommissioning in August! Annual Mathematics and Computer Science Newsletter Online Hobbies for Tigers Spring Convocation Event Submissions for 40 Days at the Fort Virtual Visits for Prospective Students 2020 Back to School Picnic Registration is Open! Annual Steam Shut Down Notice EVENTS THIS WEEK/WEEKEND Spoken Word Poet and Hip-Hop Artist Kane Smego Performance – TODAY; 7:00pm Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Taking a Mindful Minute: Mindfulness Strategies to Manage Stress – TOMORROW; 11:30am to 12:30pm Virtual Times Talk: Tips to Best Manage Food During the Stay-at-Home-Challenge – TOMORROW; 12:30pm to 1:30pm Workshop by Kane Smego – TOMORROW; 4:00pm World Red Cross Day – May 8; 1:30pm to 3:30pm FUTURE EVENTS Gain Control of Your Workday: Managing Self, Priorities, and Time – May 13; 9:00am to 12:00pm Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Hays Strong: Keeping Our Community Moving Forward – May 14; 11:30am to 12:30pm Z-Course Boot Camp: 1.5 day Workshop to Adopt and Create Zero Cost Course Materials – May 18; 1:00pm to 4:30pm and May 19; 9:00am to 4:30pm Supervising Virtually (Online Workshop) – May 27 SHARE WITH STUDENTS Complete Count 2020 Student Engagement Office Hours New Class Offers FHSU Students Opportunity to Try Out the Military Experience Recipe for Success: Art 36

Tiger Daily: May 6, 2020

ANNOUNCEMENTS COVID-19 Updates TILT Tip: Three Principles of Using Videos in Your Online Courses. Principle 2. Select the Appropriate Tools to Create Your Videos Calendar: Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities Tiger Food Pantry Academic Advising Training CANCELLED; Webinars Will Continue As Scheduled Together, Hays – FREE Mental/Physical Health Zoom Series Adopt A Grandparent Online Resources for Those Struggling With Addictions Contribute to the Forsyth Library COVID-19 Archive Bigcat.fhsu.edu Decommissioning in August! Annual Mathematics and Computer Science Newsletter Online Hobbies for Tigers Spring Convocation Event Submissions for 40 Days at the Fort Virtual Visits for Prospective Students 2020 Back to School Picnic Registration is Open! Annual Steam Shut Down Notice EVENTS THIS WEEK/WEEKEND Spoken Word Poet and Hip-Hop Artist Kane Smego Performance – TODAY; 7:00pm Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Taking a Mindful Minute: Mindfulness Strategies to Manage Stress – TOMORROW; 11:30am to 12:30pm Virtual Times Talk: Tips to Best Manage Food During the Stay-at-Home-Challenge – TOMORROW; 12:30pm to 1:30pm Workshop by Kane Smego – TOMORROW; 4:00pm World Red Cross Day – May 8; 1:30pm to 3:30pm FUTURE EVENTS Gain Control of Your Workday: Managing Self, Priorities, and Time – May 13; 9:00am to 12:00pm Lunch ‘n’ Learn – Hays Strong: Keeping Our Community Moving Forward – May 14; 11:30am to 12:30pm Z-Course Boot Camp: 1.5 day Workshop to Adopt and Create Zero Cost Course Materials – May 18; 1:00pm to 4:30pm and May 19; 9:00am to 4:30pm Supervising Virtually (Online Workshop) – May 27 SHARE WITH STUDENTS Complete Count 2020 Student Engagement Office Hours New Class Offers FHSU Students Opportunity to Try Out the Military Experience Recipe for Success: Art 36

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The Sweat Lodge Ceremony as Experienced by Nurses A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study

Nursing must reconnect with its roots found in the teachings of Florence Nightingale and be open to ancient indigenous wisdom, focusing on caring, healing and being present. To practice as culturally competent healers, nurses must grow in self awareness and an ability to understand cultural and spiritual practices, as well as communicate with and show respect to people from all walks of life. A Hermeneutic Phenomenological study was done by interviewing three participants to explore what it was like for Master in Arts nursing students participating in an Augsburg College Department of Nursing Immersion to experience a Sweat Lodge Ceremony; with data being analyzed in the context of nurse as healer. Seven major themes were found in analysis of the data: 1) Importance of being open, 2) Experienced elements of a therapeutic relationship/healing environment, 3) Sense of being connected,4) Healing experience, 5) Gained personal and cultural insights and growth, 6) Application to nursing practice, 7) Sweat Lodge Ceremony was a meaningful experience on a deeply personal level. Jean Watson\u27s Human Caring Theory served to guide, guard, connect and ground this study

Spartan Daily, January 25, 2002

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