Open Repositories 2012

THE Open Repositories conference (OR) took place in Edinburgh in July, and showcased five days of the best the repository world has to offer. This year’s conference attracted 460 delegates from more than 40 countries, and once again showed the passion and enthusiasm of the repository community

Report on the 'Unlocking Attitudes to Open Access' survey, May-July 2011

As part of a nationwide project to discover more about attitudes to open access the Warwick Research Archive Portal (WRAP) team hosted a survey to allow all members of the Warwick research community, both academics and postgraduate researchers, to contribute their viewpoints to a wider survey. The wider survey is being collated by the The Repositories Support Project (RSP) as part if their work for JISC in collaboration with the United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) and it is hoped will create a nationwide picture about the opinions of UK academics on issues such as open access, intellectual property and research archives. This report presents the findings of the 71 responses received by the WRAP team and includes a series of recommendations for future advocacy and developments of both WRAP and the University of Warwick Publications service

Developing Crisis Management Skills Through A Realistic Case Involving A Chemical Spill

Increasingly, managers and public relations officials seem to be at the forefront of newscasts as a variety of organizational crises develop.  Business educators attempting to teach appropriate crises management knowledge and develop skills needed to address such a crises should incorporate realistic case scenarios to challenge students.  Such realistic cases should appropriately address communication and management needs related to crises that may develop.  This paper presents a realistic case that has been used to instill crisis management skills in a business public relations class

It Is A Small World After All: Teaching Business Ethics In A Global Environment

Increasingly, managers and employees are facing ethical issues when conducting business in the global marketplace. Business educators attempting to teach appropriate ethical behavior and develop skills for dealing with complex ethical situations need to incorporate realistic case scenarios to challenge students.  Such cases should appropriately address personal, corporate and international and cultural issues students are likely to face.  This paper presents realistic cases that have been used to teach ethical decision-making in international business classes

Developing Crisis Management Skills Through A Realistic Case Scenario

Increasingly, managers and public relations officials seem to be at the forefront of newscasts as a variety of organizational crises develop.  Business educators attempting to teach appropriate crises management knowledge and develop skills needed to address such a crises should incorporate realistic case scenarios to challenge students.  Such realistic cases should appropriately address communication and management needs related to crises that may develop.  This paper presents a realistic case that has been used to instill crisis management skills in a business public relations class

A Look At An Implementation Of The Quality Matters Program In A Collegiate Environment: Benefits And Challenges

As traditional universities grapple with an onslaught of demand for distance education a recurring call to ensure quality in such offerings arises.  The Quality Matters Program intends to guarantee such quality through a peer-centered process and offers a certification process to help assure quality in online and blended courses.  This report is a preliminary look at perceived benefits and challenges that implementing the process entails

Enhancing Cross Cultural Communication In The Marketing Classroom: A Case Approach

The importance of effective communication skills in the workplace is widely documented and recognized as a success factor in many fields of endeavor.  As the workplace becomes more diverse and more global in nature, the ability to communicate across cultures is gaining in importance.  A class exercise in which Panamanian educators and US students cross-interviewed each other is discussed with regard to its perceived impact on the communication process and on its ability to enlighten students on shopping behaviors of persons from another culture

Developing the repository manager community

This paper describes activities which have taken place within the UK institutional repository (IR) sector focusing on developing a community of practice through the sharing of experiences and best practice. This includes work done by the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) and other bodies, together with informal activities, such as sharing the experience of organising Open Access Week events. The paper also considers future work to be undertaken by UKCoRR to continue developing the community

Perusing The Headwaters Of Diversity Among University Presidents

Females and minorities are gaining clout in higher education as the numbers of graduates in each of these groups indicate.  Diversity among university presidents is a reality.  Indications are that the number of women receiving advanced degrees will continue to grow for some time.  Low estimates of graduation rates among women and minorities from years ago do not hold.  The impacts of this reality in higher education will continue to be felt for some time

Heads Or Tails (Success Or Failure)? Using Logit Modeling To Predict Student Retention And Progression

Using a sample of 2,137 university students and applying the logit model, we find that the probability for students to return in fall 2008 is higher with a higher cumulative GPA, a higher grade for SE 101, and a returning status in the previous semester.  Several other explanatory variables are tested and have insignificant coefficients. A few variables such as the Board of Regent’s core requirements (CORE) and high school graduating GPA (HSGPA) have the expected signs and z-statistics closer to one, suggesting that the correlation coefficient may rise if the sample size were larger.  The findings suggest that the cumulative GPA is a dominant factor and that the large number of failures in SE 101 may need to be examined in order to fulfill its described purpose: “a course designed to ensure first-year student success.&rdquo