Framing “Leadership”: Holistic Integration of a Competencies-based Approach to Student Leadership Development in a Community Service Center

The University Community Service Center (UCSC) is one of 20 programs and service that make up Campus and Student Life at the University of Chicago. Our mission is to engage UChicago students with communities and partners to build a more just Chicago. UCSC’s various programs prepare students to become productive, thoughtful citizens and effective, inspiring leaders in their communities and professions by providing them with service opportunities that complement a rigorous academic experience. UCSC encourages students to explore Chicago, to make meaningful connections with diverse communities throughout the city, to develop friendships with other civic-minded students, and to apply classroom learning to understanding and addressing social issues. Beginning in 2014, UCSC began a significant refinement of its mission, vision, goals, and strategic priorities so as to define and foreground a specific set of student leadership competencies. Drawing on Seemiller’s Student Leadership Competencies Guidebook (Jossey-Bass, 2014), UCSC’s embrace of a competencies-based approach to student leadership development has now impacted how we articulate our mission and goals, how we structure and evaluate both our specific programs and also our center’s impacts as a whole, and how we collaborate with our various partners (both on- and off-campus). It is also reshaping our dialogue both with current students at the University and also with our alumni, and contributing to our ongoing development of a research agenda based on our efforts to cultivate civic leaders for Chicago and beyond. This workshop will use UCSC’s experience as a case study to offer participants concrete mechanisms and resources for applying a competencies-based approach to the mission and work of a university-based community service or civic engagement center. These will include techniques for collective values determination and clarification; sample assessment and evaluation instruments for both individual programs and center-wide aims; and sample communications materials for articulating a competencies-based strategy and competency-framed student learning outcomes

Simulation in associate degree nursing education: A literature review

The use of simulation in nursing education is increasing in scope and popularity. Many undergraduate nursing programs have adopted high-fidelity patient simulation as an educational tool. The effect of simulation on teaching and learning is the focus of current research. The aim of this literature review is to synthesize the research findings evaluating simulation specifically in associate degree nursing education. The results of the review identified the following themes: critical thinking, clinical skill performance, knowledge acquisition, student satisfaction, self-confidence, and anxiety. Gaps in the literature are highlighted, implications for nursing education are explored, and recommendations for further research are provided. © 2014 National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing

Need for process/radiochemists at nuclear power plants

Viewgraphs are presented concerning the operating requirements for chemists at nuclear power plants. The number of positions available, job duties, and training requirements are reviewed

Policing Chicago Public Schools (Volume 2, 2011-2012)

Project Nia Presents "Policing Chicago Public Schools (Volume 2)", part of a series of reports on school-based arrests of Chicago youth. This particular report includes data from 2011 and 2012