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Scaling Up Without Spending Down: How the Fender Music Foundation Can Do More Mission with Less Money
Since emerging from the 2008 economic downturn, The Fender Music Foundation\u27s financial position is strengthening. Given this success, the organization\u27s board has begun considering new programming options. But its leaders are committed to ensuring that a new program does not jeopardize the organization\u27s financial health. This report explores the Foundation\u27s programming options in this context
Adjunct faculty experiences in a comprehensive development program: a single-site case study
2015 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.Adjunct faculty have come to represent an increasingly larger portion of the overall faculty population in American community colleges and according to recent studies now account for approximately 70% of the instructors in these institutions. Definitions of adjunct faculty vary considerably, but they are generally part-time instructors whose course load is less than the full-time faculty requirement. There has been limited attention paid in the literature to the training and development needs of this faculty group. In addition, we know even less about the needs of the individual types or categories of adjunct or part-time faculty and their experiences in training and development programs. This study examines the experiences of a sub-set of adjunct faculty who are practicing professionals outside of higher education and who teach on a part-time basis. I have labeled this group practitioner adjunct faculty. For this study, I chose to complete a single-site case study of a part-time faculty training and development program at community college in the southeastern United States. My primary data source came from interviews with 10 practitioner adjunct faculty who had completed either the 2010 or 2011 version of the college's centerpiece course in their efforts to support and develop their part-time faculty, the Summer Certification Program. In addition to interview data, I also collected data from internal college documents and the college web site, interviews with academic and professional development leaders, and my own direct observations of training and support programs for the college's part-time faculty. The data from this study have provided an overview of the practitioner adjunct faculty study participants' perspectives on their experiences with the college's training and support efforts. The results show that while these faculty are not fully aware of and are largely not taking advantage of many of the training and support programs offered by the college, the Summer Certification Program was seen as a valuable resource by most of the study participants and does appear to have had an impact on their classroom practice
The failed introduction of the sea anemone Sagartia elegans in Salem Harbor, Massachusetts
Many studies have reported the arrival and subsequent range expansion of foreign species within the marine ecosystems, but few studies have documented species that arrive and fail to establish. In 2000, the sea anemone Sagartia elegans (Dalyell, 1848) was first found in Salem, MA and persisted seasonally until the winter of 2010-2011 after which it has not been found. In both laboratory and field based temperature growth studies, S. elegans began regressing in size at 11 °C, stopped asexually reproducing at 9 °C, and died by 4 °C; these temperatures are far above the average winter sea surface temperature in the Gulf of Maine, therefore suggesting that S. elegans requires a warm-water refuge. It is still unknown as to what caused the population collapse, but it is likely a combination of both a lack of genetic diversity and an inability to tolerate the cold temperatures during winter
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Text and Graph Based Approach for Analyzing Patterns of Research Collaboration: An analysis of the TrueImpactDataset
Patterns of scientific collaboration and their effect on scientific production have been the subject of many studies. In this paper, we analyze the nature of ties between co-authors and study collaboration patterns in science from the perspective of semantic similarity of authors who wrote a paper together and the strength of ties between these authors (i.e. how frequently have they previously collaborated together). These two views of scientific collaboration are used to analyze publications in the TrueImpactDataset (Herrmannova et al., 2017) (Herrmannova et al., 2017), a new dataset containing two types of publications – publications regarded as seminal and publications regarded as literature reviews by field experts. We show there are distinct differences between seminal publications and literature reviews in terms of author similarity and the strength of ties between their authors. In particular, we find that seminal publications tend to be written by authors who have previously worked on dissimilar problems (i.e. authors from different fields or even disciplines), and by authors who are not frequent collaborators. On the other hand, literature reviews in our dataset tend to be the result of an established collaboration within a discipline. This demonstrates that our method provides meaningful information about potential future impacts of a publication which does not require citation information
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