Assessing the Come Back to Mānoa Program: Why Seniors Leave and How to Help Them Graduate

This poster shares results of a survey conducted in Summer 2016 to individuals eligible to participate in the Come Back to Mānoa program. In addition to an evaluation of the program itself, the results provide an overview of why seniors left UH Mānoa so close to finishing their degree and their reasons for returning. This poster adds to the extant research, which largely concentrates on first year and sophomore students, by bringing light to senior attrition and how to support those students to persist to degree (Hunt et al., 2012). Practical applications for utilizing the information obtained from the survey in order to help improve the Come Back to Mānoa program are discussed

Harnessing the Expended Labor of Active Learning Exercises

Although many faculty and students agree that engagement and learning are enhanced by using practical, hands-on exercises in the classroom, it is rare that consideration is given to the harnessing of labor expended while transacting active learning in the field of computer programming. Professors expend effort creating programming assignments that are aimed at teaching and practicing core programming concepts, and students expend effort satisfying the assignment to earn points towards a grade for the class. We propose that if secondary school teachers and educators offer up suggestions for new software needed in their classroom the resulting information can be used to create programming assignments that will produce programs satisfying the expressed need. It is in this fashion that the fruitless labor of students in programming classes can be re-purposed to create heuristic tools for use in various areas of study

Examining the Relationships among Peer Resentment Messages Overheard, State Guilt, and Employees\u27 Perceived Ability to Use Work/Family Policies

This study sought to determine if frequency of peer resentment messages overheard in organizational settings was associated with employees\u27 perceived ability to use work/family policies. Job burnout and state guilt were also included as potential predictors. In this sample of workers (N = 474), resentment messages, internalized guilt, and burnout were significantly and negatively associated with the likelihood of using work/family policies, accounting for 22% of the variance. An interaction effect was also discovered for burnout and resentment on perceived ability to use work/family policies. This study highlights the importance of understanding the messages embedded within an organization\u27s culture and those messages\u27 impacts on individual decisions to make use of leave policies

You\u27re The Girl That I\u27ve Been Longing For

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Shadow - Time

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In The Hills Of Old Kentucky : My Mountain Rose

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Croon - Time

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Case 13 : Sustainable mHealth Innovations - Repurposing The Collective Comfort Pilot Project

The Collective Comfort project (CC project) is a mobile health (mHealth) pilot project created by the Digital Innovation team in the Education Department at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The CC project provides safe, online social support networks—a crucial social determinant of health—that are accessible everywhere to people who have anxiety disorders. Unfortunately, funding has come to an end for this pilot project. CAMH’s Director of Education, Heather Grohl, and her team are tasked with repurposing the CC project mobile application for three organizations—the Alzheimer Society of Toronto, Homeless Hub, and Veterans Affairs Canada. These organizations are seeking a digital innovation that would allow their social support groups to be accessed through mobile phones. However, Heather’s boss, the President of CAMH Education, has only approved pitching to one organization. Therefore, her team must divide into three smaller teams to develop a proposal appropriate for each organization. The pitch will consist of a user persona, problem scenarios, user stories, and a prototype that is based on the CC project’s template design. Each pitch will be specifically tailored to the respective organization’s unique needs. The teams are also expected to develop one new innovative feature for the mHealth application that they believe would be useful for their specific organization. For example, an application for the Homeless Hub could incorporate a feature that displays homeless shelters in the area. Each of the teams will then present their prospective pitches to Heather and the President of CAMH Education, who will together decide the winning proposal based on which one best balances both creativity and feasibility

Developing and Assessing the Come Back to Mānoa Program: Why Seniors Leave and How to Help them Graduate

The Come Back to Mānoa program, established in Summer 2014 by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and housed administratively in Outreach College, assists undergraduate seniors who stopped attending college to return and graduate. This poster provides an overview of the program’s development, including creating mission and vision statements and objectives; outreach efforts and participation data; and plans to implement an assessment survey of respondents. In addition to assessing outcomes, the survey evaluated why students left using broad categories from the UHM 2012 Leavers Survey and adding a few more reasons based on relevant literature. Most research on student attrition concentrates on first year and sophomore students, but very little literature focuses on senior attrition and how we might help those students persist to degree (Hunt et al., 2012). The information obtained from the survey is used to improve the Come Back to Mānoa program and contributes to the academic literature. Initial challenges and strategies are also presented

Draft Genome Sequence for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strain PAO579, a Mucoid Derivative of PAO381

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that establishes a chronic lung infection in individuals afflicted with cystic fibrosis. Here, we announce the draft genome of P. aeruginosa strain PAO579, an alginate-overproducing derivative of strain PAO381