Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Study Sketch], untitled. Brown ink drawing on tracing paper, 18 x 17 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink and purple crayon sketch on tracing paper, 17 3/4 x 21 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on yellow paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on shirt cardboard, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Early Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on five sheets of tracing paper, 5 1/4 x 6 to 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of black ink sketches on vellum and tracing paper

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of black ink sketches on shirt cardboard

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of blue ink sketches on vellum

Assessment and curriculum reform in China : the college English test and tertiary English as a foreign language education.

Educational assessment was a worldwide commonplace practice in the last century. With the theoretical underpinnings of education shifting from behaviourism and social efficiency to constructivism and cognitive theories in the past two decades, the assessment theories and practices show a widespread changing movement. The emergent assessment paradigm, with a futurist perspective, indicates a deviation away from the prevailing large scale high-stakes standardised testing and an inclination towards classroom-based formative assessment. Innovations and reforms initiated in attempts to achieve better education outcomes for a sustainable future via more developed learning and assessment theories have included the 2007 College English Reform Program (CERP) in Chinese higher education context. This paper focuses on the College English Test (CET) - the national English as a Foreign Language (EFL) testing system for non-English majors at tertiary level in China. It seeks to explore the roles that the CET played in the past two College English curriculum reforms, and the new role that testing and assessment assumed in the newly launched reform. The paper holds that the CET was operationalised to uplift the standards. However, the extended use of this standardised testing system brings constraints as well as negative washback effects on the tertiary EFL education. Therefore in the newly launched reform -CERP, a new assessment model which combines summative and formative assessment approaches is proposed. The testing and assessment, assumed a new role - to engender desirable education outcomes. The question asked is: will the mixed approach to formative and summative assessment provide the intended cure to the agony that tertiary EFL education in China has long been suffering - spending much time, yet achieving little effects? The paper reports the progresses and challenges as informed by the available research literature, yet asserts a lot needs to be explored on the potential of the assessment mix in this examination tradition deep-rooted and examination-obsessed society.

Effect of the Summer Months on Body Weight and Composition in College Women

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: College students and young adults are experiencing the greatest increases in rates of obesity, and 20% of college students are classified as obese. The objective of this study was to compare changes and rates of change in body weight and body composition between the freshman academic year and the summer after the freshman year among female college students. METHODS: Participants were recruited early in their freshman year of college to participate in a prospective longitudinal study examining changes in body weight and composition over the college years. Height and weight were measured, and body composition was assessed using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) at the beginning and end of the freshman year. Upon return from the summer for their sophomore year, participants returned to have all measurements repeated. Sixty-nine female participants completed all three visits. RESULTS: Body weight increased 1.3 kg during the academic period and an additional 0.1 kg during the summer period. Body mass index (BMI) increased between the first two visits but did not change between the last two visits. However, percent fat increased at each visit. Fat-free mass significantly increased 0.5 kg over the academic year but decreased by 1.1 kg over the summer (p<0.05). Greater rates of change were detected in percent fat, fat-free mass, and BMI during the summer compared with the academic year (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Differences in body composition between the academic and summer periods may reflect changes in living situations between these periods. Unfavorable changes during the summer suggest the need to promote healthy lifestyles to freshman women before they leave campus for the summer

Faculty and students’ awareness and challenges of e-learning in a college of education

This study explored the use of e-learning by student teachers and faculty members at the Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan. It provides an overview of the current status of e-learning at the College including the challenges faced by both faculty members and students teachers, and the influence of ICT resources on the use of e-learning by the lecturers and student teachers. The results indicated that there exist challenges in exercising e-learning at the College for teaching and learning. The data indicated that the Internet connection is slow and revealed that most of the lecturers have average computer competency. This study strongly recommends that the College develops a strategic plan for ICT infrastructure and resources that includes policy and guidelines for use. This study also suggests that lecturers and student teachers use freely available e-learning management software.

Queensland College of Teachers annual lecture 2010 : child protection

Teachers have a crucial role as “sentinels” for children who have been abused or neglected. This professional development session will provide a framework for understanding the types, incidence and causes of child abuse and neglect, and teachers’ role in reporting suspected cases. The session will provide participants with knowledge and skills to enable them to identify warning signs and indicators of child abuse and neglect, know the basis of their duties to report suspected cases of abuse and neglect, and respond to the needs of abused and neglected children at school. The presentation will focus on: • the reasons why child abuse and neglect can occur; • the different types of child abuse and neglect and their effects on children; • the warning signs and indicators of physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse and neglect; • applying knowledge of indicators to make judgements about risk of harm; • responding to indications of risk of harm, including complying with legislative and policy-based duties to report suspected child abuse and neglect.