992 resultados para Liberal Arts
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This study focused on the effects of socioeconomic exclusivity indicators on college students¿ attitudes toward a hypothetical private liberal arts university. Students enrolled in two undergraduate courses in Education at an elite private liberal arts university in the northeast were randomly presented with one of three versions of an admissions brochure describing a fictitious university. The three versions of the brochure varied in their portrayals of the institution¿s financial exclusivity, ranging from high exclusivity to low exclusivity. Each student was asked to review the brochure and respond to a questionnaire, containing items pertaining to the overall desirability of the institution, as well as its student culture, academic program, campus traditions, and alumni network. Based on Thorstein Veblen¿s theory of the leisure class and Pierre Bourdieu¿s theory of social reproduction, it was hypothesized that students would judge the institution most favorably in all areas under the high exclusivity condition and least favorably under the low exclusivity condition. It was further hypothesized that differences in students¿ ratings of institutional desirability would be mediated by their own financial aid statuses. Results of a two-way multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) revealed significant (p < .05) interactive effects of institutional exclusivity and student aid status on the perceived desirability of the academic program and campus traditions of the institution. While recipients of need-based financial aid tended to rate more socioeconomically exclusive institutions more favorably on these two variables, those who were not receiving need-based financial aid tended to rate such institutions less favorably. Implications of the findings for student affairs practice are discussed and recommendations for further research are presented.
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Throughout the years, the role that parents play with regard to a child’s academic achievement has been the source of considerable research. The type of parenting style employed by parents, whether it is authoritarian, authoritative, or permissive, has and continues to be a major theme in these studies. One area of particular interest that has been overlooked in these studies, however, is the influence that parents may have on a student’s learning autonomy. Learning autonomy is the idea that a student has internal motivation to learn or achieve. The purpose of this study was to investigate therelationship among the three styles of parenting, learning autonomy, perceived parental autonomy support, and scholastic achievement in undergraduate college students. Sixty-one participants were recruited at a small liberal arts college in the northeastern United States to complete questionnaires, which measured perceived parental authority of the participants’ parents, perceived parental autonomy support, and students’ own learning autonomy. The participants were also asked to list their grade point average. The results revealed positive and negative correlations between many of the variables in the study;however, simple regression analyses did not yield any statistically significant relationships between parental authority, learning autonomy, perceived autonomy support, and scholastic achievement.
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There is increasing recognition among those in higher education that it is no longer adequate to train students in a specific field or industry. Instead, the push is more towards producing well-rounded students. In order to do so, all of a university’s resources must come together and the climate on campus must be one that supportscollaboration. This report is a re-examination of the climate for collaboration on the campus of a private liberal arts university in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is a follow up to a similar investigation conducted on the same campus by Victor Arcelus(2008) five years earlier. In the interim, the university had re-configured its organizational structure, combining separate academic and student affairs divisions into a single unit overseen by the Provost. Additionally, the university had experienced turnover in several key leadership positions, including those of the President and the chief academic and student affairs officers. The purpose of this investigation, therefore, was to gauge the immediate impact of these changes on conditions for collaboration, which when present, advance student learning and development. Through interviews with six men and women, information was collected on the perceived climate for collaboration between academic and student affairs personnel.Analysis of the interview transcripts revealed that, depending on the position of the interviewee within the university, conditions on campus were seen as either improved or largely unchanged as a result of the transition in leadership and the structural merger of the two divisions.
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The central challenge to educators in the liberal arts as in all areas of study is transfer of learning i.e. how can we design learning environments and instruction to that students will be able to use what they learn in appropriate new contexts? Alfred North Whitehead described this as the problem of ‘inert knowledge’ nearly a century ago and Dewey noted that instruction which helps students reproduce what is studied on exams might not produce the depth of understanding that allows for recognizing the relevance of what is known to a particular situation and the ability to apply it. Knowledge that is not conditionalized (i.e. in which the learner does not know when where and why it is to be used) is inert.
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In this issue...Dr. Carlson, Liberal Arts, Peggie Stobie, M Club, Charlie Russell, St. Patrick's Church, New York Times, Drama Club, Technical Writing, George Cloudy
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Die IUB ist eine kleine, private Universität, die seit 2001 Studierende aus aller Welt in englischer Sprache zum BA, MA oder Ph.D. führt. Die IUB ist ein hybrider Ort: die Gründer und die Universitätsführung blickten sehr intensiv auf Vorbilder in den USA und beabsichtigten, die jeweils beste Elemente aus dem amerikanischen und europäischen Universitätssystemen miteinander zu verbinden. Der Studiengang "History" an der IUB ist allerdings ein Generalistenstudium, in Anlehnung an die Erziehung in amerikanischen Liberal Arts Colleges. Die Erfahrungen mit dem BA-Studiengang in Geschichte an der IUB sind aufgrund der besonderen Rahmenbedingungen nur teilweise verallgemeinerbar. Der BA-Studiengang neigt insgesamt dazu, die Arbeitsbelastung zu unterschätzen, die sich aus den im Curriculum festgeschriebenen Anforderungen ergibt. Darüber sollten Studiengänge inhaltlich so entworfen werden, dass sie anpassungsfähig bleiben. "History" an der IUB ist ein Beispiel für eine sehr weitgehende Festlegung des Lehrplans. Weniger fixierte Bestimmungen sind erstrebenswert und den Aufgaben des Fachs wissenschaftlich wie gesellschaftlich angemessener.
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ContentsTicket office takes new directionGreek week: Making the plungeSchmittermann assumes role as liberal arts, sciences deanGroup seeks to improve area's imageNew dean presents chance for changeTiller makes move from quarterback to receiverRedesign gives shop new name, interior
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Interactions between students and faculty outside of class appear to be linked to greater achievement during and after college (Anaya & Cole, 2001; Hathaway, Nagda, & Gregerman, 2002). However, sometimes there can be blurred personal boundaries and a lack of autonomy in relationships or what has been labeled enmeshment. The purpose of the current pilot study was to investigate the effect of race/ethnicity, gender, year in college, and college major on faculty-student relationships and teacher enmeshment. Teacher enmeshment was measured with the Teacher Enmeshment subscale of the Separation-Individuation Test of Adolescence (SITA; Levine & Saintonge, 1993). A sample of 165 undergraduate and graduate students from education and psychology classes at a small, private liberal arts institution in the Northeast participated. No significant differences among the different demographic groups were found on the total teacher enmeshment score. However, significant differences were found among students with different majors, by gender, and by race on individual items. Implications of these findings and suggestions for future research are provided.
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Durante la primera mitad del siglo XII cobró vigencia en Chartres una escuela de pensamiento filosófico-teológico caracterizada, en buena medida, por el afán de explicación del Génesis mediante el Comentario de Calcidio al Timeo de Platón. La Cosmografía de Bernardo Silvestre, dedicada a Teodorico de Chartres, permanece en las proximidades del interés cientificista y argumentativo propio de esta escuela, pero está formulada en términos literarios, en parte en prosa y en parte en verso. Dividida en dos grandes secciones: ‘Macrocosmos’ y ‘Microcosmos’, se cierra con la descripción de la naturaleza humana y su funcionamiento operativo en los procesos vitales y gnoseológicos. Los sentidos de que goza el hombre, asentados en la cabeza, son considerados instrumentos al servicio del intelecto que juzga. Ellos provienen de una única fuente pero desarrollan de diversas maneras sus operaciones. Si faltaran, no habría ni enseñanza de las letras ni sabiduría.
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This study was a qualitative examination of Black college students' experiences with the Acting White label. In conducting this study, two gaps in literature were addressed: (1) the lack of literature on Black college students and the acting white label, and (2) lack of attention to a US racial history and current structures which allow a label such as "acting white" to exist. Thus, the purpose of this study was to call attention to the experiences of Black college students as it relates to the acting white label. Additionally, the study calls attention to social constructions that allow the acting white label to exist and to be sustained. Data was collected from 14 Black college students at a predominantly white, private, liberal arts university in the west. Based on responses from students in the study, Black college students do hear that they are acting white. Yet, their reaction to hearing the label does not cause them to underachieve academically, but does have an impact on their social actions. The ways in which Black college students in the study were labeled as acting white was based on academic pursuits, speech patterns, dress, and hobbies. Student reactions to the label ranged from ignoring the label to challenging the accuser. In regards to how the acting white label is sustained, students in the study expressed that they learned what it meant to act white or black from family interactions, social interactions and observations from family and friends, and from media sources. It was concluded that Black college students, despite reactions, do hear the label and that the label seems to be used as a means to attack Black students and their identity.
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Three-page handwritten essay in English by Buckminster on the role of the arts in humanity's progress. The essay is titled with a quote from Ovid that can be translated, "A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness." The essay begins, "To a philosophic mind it is highly interesting to mark the progress of refinement."
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Mode of access: Internet.
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The liberal arts college and the course of human affairs.--The modern languages and our melting pot.--The college teacher and his high school colleague.--The scientist and our social problems.--The business man and better education.--The twentieth century and the United States.
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