Dr. Patricia Marin, Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, recently presented, “Developing an Identity as a Hispanic Serving Institution” at the Institute for Equity Effectiveness and Excellence at Hispanic Serving Institutions held at University of Southern California, October 10-11, 2013 “While the label “Hispanic-serving” suggests that HSIs have a special mission to serve… Read More »
HALE Faculty Updates
Faculty Highlight: Colleges Mine Data to Help Students Stay on Course
Dr. Matthew Wawrzynski, Associate Professor and HALE Unit coordinator, was recently quoted in a Wall Street Journal article, “College Mine Data to Help Student Stay on Course: Companies use ‘predictive analytics to guide student choices,” by Melissa Korn, October 8, 2013. “We’re always looking for the silver bullet, what’s going to get us the best… Read More »
Faculty Presentation: Publishing, Authoring, and Teaching in the Evolving Open Access Environment, A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, October 22 4:00- 5:30 pm Main Library North Conference Room/W449 Join us at the library for a discussion with MSU professors about their involvement with open access publishing. Farha Abbasi (Department of Psychiatry) will talk about her experiences as managing editor of the open access Journal of Muslim Mental Health. Ian M. Dworkin (Department of… Read More »
Keynote Speaker: Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults
Dr. John Dirkx was the keynote speaker for the Western Region Research Conference on the Education of Adults held at Seattle University, October 3-5, 2013. Reimagining Adult Education: The Role of Emotion-laden Experience Adult educators are urged to design learning experiences that are grounded in work-related and other contexts thought to be relevant to adult… Read More »
Journal Article: Quasi-Markets in U.S. higher education: The humanities and institutional revenues
Taylor, B., Cantwell, B., & Slaughter, S. (2013). Quasi-Markets in U.S. higher education: The humanities and institutional revenues. Journal Of Higher Education, 84(5), 675-707. “We conceptualize colleges and universities as embedded in quasi-markets, meaning competitive sites created by policy, that disfavor the humanities. We therefore posit that increased revenues from a quasi-market predict institutional de-emphasis of the… Read More »
Journal Article: Global Status, Intra-Institutional Stratification and Organizational Segmentation: A Time-Dynamic Tobit Analysis of ARWU Position Among U.S. Universities
Cantwell, B. & Taylor, B. J. (2013). Global status, intra-institutional stratification and organizational segmentation: A time-dynamic Tobit analysis of ARWU position among U.S. universities. Minvera, 51 (2), 195-223. doi: 10.1007/s11024-013-9228-8 “Ranking systems such as The Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Rankings of World Universities simultaneously mark global status and stimulate global academic competition.… Read More »
Online Article: The Potential of Late-Career Professors
Baldwin, R. G. & Zeig M. J. (2013, May 10). The potential of late-career professors. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2013/05/10/tapping-potential-late-career-professors-essay. “Articles and reports about the graying of the professoriate have been predicting problems for colleges and universities at least since the abolition of a mandatory faculty retirement age in 1994. Some of these predictions have become reality,… Read More »
Faculty Presentations at Spring 2013 Annual Conventions
The HALE faculty were well represented at several annual conventions/conferences this Spring. Below is a list of their involvement at ACPA, NASPA, CIES, and AERA. We apologize in advance for any presentations that were inadvertently left off the list. 2013 ACPA Annual Convention, March 4-7, 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada Dr. Bill Arnold Co-presenter – Is… Read More »
2012 ASHE Faculty Presentations
In November 2012, the annual ASHE conference was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. HALE was well represented by students and faculty. For student presentations, click here. The following is a list of our faculty’s presentations and involvement: Dr. Marilyn Amey Discussant – Critical Issues Across Institutional Type Co-presenter – Connecting Learning Across the Institution: Students,… Read More »
Journal Article: The Influence of the College Environment on Honors Students' Outcomes
Wawrzynski, M. R., Madden, K., and Jensen, C. (2012). The influence of the college environment on honors students’ outcomes. Journal of College Student Development, 53 (6), 840-845. For the article: JCSD-53.6.Wawrzynski “Honors programs at colleges and universities are one way to provide additional learning opportunities to enhance the undergraduate experience for students. Honors programs provide… Read More »