221 research outputs found
The Status of Faculty Professional Service and Academic Outreach in New England
In 1994 the New England Resource Center for Higher Education surveyed New England colleges and universities about the professional service faculty are engaging in, and the policies and structures that support such activities. Information was obtained from 120 institutions. As seen through a wide lens, there is considerable institutional commitment to faculty professional service. A majority of respondents reported that service is both a stated part of their institutional mission and that faculty, administrators and staff supported that commitment. However, a sharper focus reveals a gap between statements and practice: only a third of the respondents were able to demonstrate that commitment through either an office or individual charged with overseeing service initiatives or use of explicit criteria to evaluate professional service in promotion and tenure decisions. Results varied by institutional type, with public four-year institutions reporting higher levels of commitment and support for faculty professional service than either private fouryear institutions or two-year colleges
Organizational Structures for Community Engagement
In a time of public scrutiny of higher education, there is good reason - both for the survival of the campus and the survival of the community around it -- for institutions to promote outreach. Yet even within those institutions with formal structures -- mission statements, faculty handbooks, and presidential leadership that support community service -- the practical considerations -- work assignments, evaluation mechanisms and institutional rewards -- present real challenges. Service-enclaves are structures that exist or are developed within institutions that allow faculty and staff to work collectively as they serve their communities. While individual service work is no less important, these enclaves make this work visible, legitimate, and institutionalized. And they are places where traditional academic notions about what constitutes acceptable research and the value of created over applied knowledge are being tested and changed. As colleges and universities seek to connect more to their external environments, they should look to service-enclaves and ensure that they incorporate the following characteristics: leadership, integration with teaching and research, institutional support, flexibility, visibility, and institutional savvy
Exile Vol. XXI No. 1
FICTION
Lonely Wire Hangers by Larry Weber 7-11
untitled by Peggy Gifford 15-16
Anything by Joe Bolster 20-21
Easter Story by Ellen Claffy 25-27
Melanie by Dawn Patnode 31-34
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Nanny Trippe 4, 22, 24, 28
by Geoffery Yeomans 6, 11, 17, 28, 30, 35, 36, 40
POETRY
untitled by Martin Cloran 5
Mirror, Mirror by Tigger Montague 12
Twenty-Two Year Decay by Tigger Montague 13
Rice Puddin\u27 by Mary Mueller 14
untitled by Sharon Singleton 18
untitled by Sharon Singleton 19
untitled by Kim McMullen 23
Audience by Dawn Patnode 29
Extinction by Vic Coccimiglio 37
The Only Way I Know Her by Vic Coccimiglio 38
Touch by Vic Coccimiglio 38
Family by Vic Coccimiglio 3
Twelve-Week Quadriceps Strength as A Predictor of Quadriceps Strength At Time Of Return To Sport Testing Following Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Autograft Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
# Background
Restoration of quadriceps strength following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL-R) continues to challenge both patients and clinicians. Failure to adequately restore quadriceps strength has been linked to decreased patients’ self-reported outcomes and an increased risk for re-injury. Early identification of quadriceps strength deficits may assist in tailoring early interventions to better address impairments.
# Purpose
The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between early (12 weeks following ACL-R) isokinetic peak torque and isokinetic peak torque at time of return to sport (RTS) testing.
# Study Design
Cohort Study
# Methods
A total of 120 participants (males = 55; females =65) were enrolled in the study (age = 16.1±1.4 yrs; height = 1.72±10.5 m; mass = 70.7±16.3 kg). All participants were level 1 or 2 cutting and pivoting sport athletes who underwent a primary bone-patellar tendon-bone autograft ACL-R. Participants were tested at two time points: 12 weeks following surgery and again at time of RTS testing. A linear regression model was carried out to investigate the relationship between age, sex, and isokinetic peak torque at 12 weeks following ACL-R and isokinetic peak torque at time of RTS testing.
# Results
When 12-week isokinetic peak torque was entered first for the hierarchy regression analysis, this factor was predictive of the peak torque at the time of RTS testing, *F*(1, 118) = 105.6, *p* < 0.001, *R*^2^ = 0.472, indicating that the 12-week quadriceps strength accounted for 47% of the variance in the quadriceps strength at the time of RTS testing. When age and sex were added in the regression analysis, both factors only added 0.8% of variance for the quadriceps strength at the time of RTS testing.
# Conclusion
Isokinetic peak torque at 12 weeks following surgery was shown to be a significantly strong predictor (47%) for isokinetic quadriceps strength recovery at time of RTS. This finding underscores the importance of early restoration of quadriceps strength and that while non-modifiable factors such as sex and age are important, early restoration of quadriceps strength most strongly influences late stage quadriceps strength.
# Level of Evidence
Exile Vol. XX No. 1
ARTWORK
by Sue Sartarelli cover, 24
by Chris Schulze 5, 24, 29
by Heather Richey 6
by Katheryn Riedl 7
by Jane Joldersma 10
by Jan Mosher 12
Pat Victory 15
Rona Rosen 20, 31
Arthur Ernst 21
Kim McMullen 24
FICTION
First Time by Bud Foufos 3-4
Father\u27s Last Party by Vic Coccimiglio 11
untitled by Catherine Bader 16-17
God and Sergeant Mays by J. Frank Burkhard 22
Pages of a Story by Peter Porteous 27-31
POETRY
The Rest by Ezra Pound (preface)
In the Midst of an Echo by Phil Mercurio 4
Sierra Madre Prose by John Purcell 5
untitled by Sue Payne 6
untitled by Cathy Graff 6
untitled by Sharon Singleton 7
Big Al by Phil Mercurio 9-10
untitled by Sharon Singleton 12
Folksinger by Alison Orleans 13
Sweat Rebellion by S. Hunt 13
Blackgrey by Laurie Wharton 14
What is she to you? by Peter Porteous 18
Pojects by Mary Mueller 21
untitled by Dawn Patnode 25
The Barn by Mary Schloss 25
PHOTOGRAPHY
by Bruce Andre 1, 18
by Jane Joldersma 4, 23, 26
by Breese Olander 8
by Pam Purcell 8
by Loree Ruman 13, 14
Foster Schmidt 19
Chip Andreae 19, 23
Nancy Pickenson 26
Nancy Chorpenning 32
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