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Highly improved mechanical and dielectric properties of paper-based composites with polyimide chopped fiber functionalized by ethylenediamine
Authors: Xie Fan , Zhang Nan , Lu Zhaoqing , Zhuo Longhai , Yang Bin , Song Shunxi , Qin Panliang , Wei Ning
Published: October 2018

In this study, polyimide (PI) chopped fibers were modified by ethylenediamine, and PI paper-based composites were fabricated using the as-modified PI chopped fibers and para-aramid fibrids which served as raw materials through the wet-forming process. The influence of different alkali treatment durations on the properties of PI fibers and composites was investigated. In sharp contrast with the pristine PI fibers, there was a satisfying difference in modified PI fibers including rougher surfaces and improved wettability due to the introduction of hydrophilic groups as confirmed by scanning electron microscope and Fourier transform infrared spectrometer. With increase in the modification time, the tensile index, the tearing index, and the internal bond strength of the composites were improved by 40.6, 27.0, and 103.57%, respectively, due to the hydrogen bonds. Meanwhile, the dielectric strength of the composites increased by 77.2% compared with the unmodified ones. These remarkable changes were mainly attributed to the enhanced interfacial bonding of the composites and decreased porosity in the three-dimensional network structure of the paper. Moreover, thermal stability was kept preferably within a certain range in spite of slight decrease.
Effects of thermal cycling on phenylethynyl-terminated PMDA-type asymmetric polyimide composites
Authors: Zhang Yixiang , Miyauchi Masahiko , Nutt Steven
Published: October 2018

The effects of thermal cycling on a polymerized monomeric reactant (PMR) type polyimide (TriA X) reinforced with carbon fibers were investigated. Composite specimens were subjected to 2000 thermal cycles between −54°C and 232°C. At 400-cycle intervals, laminates were inspected for microcracks, and glass transition temperature ( T g) and short-beam shear (SBS) strength were measured. The composites did not exhibit microcracks after thermal cycling, although after 2000 thermal cycles, mechanical properties of the matrix declined slightly. The matrix degradation decreased the resistance to microcracking upon further loading. No effects of thermal oxidative aging were observed from thermal cycling, and thermally driven fatigue and creep were identified as the primary and secondary factors inducing mechanical degradation of the matrix. T g of the composites exhibited no change after 2000 cycles, while the SBS strength decreased slightly (3–9%). The results highlight the potential for use of TriA X composites as long-term structural components in high-temperature service environments.
Research and application on force control of industrial robot polishing concave curved surfaces
Authors: Ding Yufeng , Min Xinpu , Fu Weiwei , Liang Zilong
Published: October 2018

In order to improve the quality of the industrial robot automatic polishing on curved surfaces and ensure the constant polishing pressure during polishing process, a method for polishing complex concave cavity surfaces with industrial robot is proposed in this article. The method can achieve stable force control and precise position control and is easy to be realized online. In order to ensure the removal rate uniformity of surface material at different normal vectors, a method for adjusting the speed of motorized spindle in real time according to the surface normal vector is proposed. After planning the trajectory and normal vectors, combined with the feedback force signal from the sensor and the proportional–integral controller in the direction of the normal vector, the robot terminal tool corrects the trajectory in the direction of the surface normal vector, indirectly realizing force control between the tool and the surface. The robot polishing system with different polishing tools has different system stiffness. In order to ensure the polishing system with different stiffness to have a better tracking performance of the contact force, an adaptive proportional–integral control algorithm proposed in this article can be used to evaluate the stiffness of polishing system and to adjust proportional–integral parameters. The simulation and experimental results indicate that the method can realize the polishing of concave cavity surface commendably.
Design principle of active load spectrum for shafting components in wheel hub reducer of electric vehicle
Authors: Ning Xin , Zheng Songlin , Xie Wenlong
Published: October 2018

Design principle of active load spectrum is proposed for the lightweight design of shafting components. The characteristics of fatigue and the strengthening effect of low-amplitude load are conducted according to the material properties of the shafting components. The stress–life curve and three-dimensional surface of low-amplitude strengthening load are established for the life calculation of shafting components. Fast calculation method of working stress for variable size of shafting components is obtained considering the road cycle in Shanghai, the load spectrum is extrapolated, the torque working condition which is equivalent to load spectrum of 3000 km is achieved, and the fatigue damage and strengthening proportion of working stress spectrum of shafting components are adjusted, finally the minimum size of shafting components is designed to meet the requirement of service life. The design principle of active load spectrum can provide a new idea for the lightweight design of automotive components.
A new methodology to determine the design sensitivity of critical automotive body joints for basic design cycle
Authors: Tunç Birkan , Şendur Polat
Published: October 2018

As a result of more stringent requirements for improved fuel economy and emissions, there has been an increasing research activity to make vehicles lighter weight under some predetermined structural performance targets such as the stiffness of the vehicle body. The vehicle body structure is one of the most significant contributors to the weight of an automotive. Therefore, understanding the automotive joint properties on vehicle body performance is of significant importance as they are closely linked to structural integrity and weight of the vehicle body. In this paper, we develop a new methodology to quantify the sensitivity of critical joints of an automotive on the key performance indices. Torsional stiffness is chosen as static key performance index, while vehicle body modes are selected as dynamic key performance indices. Lower and upper sections of the A-pillar, B-pillar, C-pillar, and D-pillar of an automotive body are replaced by bushing elements having appropriate stiffness properties in the simplified model. Stiffness of bushing elements is tuned by minimizing the error between the original and simplified models on the aforementioned key performance indices. Once a satisfactory correlation is achieved between the simple model and the original model, bushing stiffness for each section is varied to determine the sensitivity of each joint. The proposed approach is demonstrated on a finite element model of 2010 Toyota Yaris. Finally, a design study is presented to improve the body key performance indices using the sensitivity results. The simulation results show that the methodology has a potential for the basic design cycle, where the targets for section properties need to be defined and at later design cycles, where the joints can be realized in design using the sensitivity of joints resulting in more efficient body structure considering the trade-offs between structural integrity and weight.
Is a delay in the introduction of human papillomavirus-based cervical screening affordable?
Authors: Castañon Alejandra , Rebolj Matejka , Sasieni Peter
Published: October 2018

Objective

It often takes considerable time for sufficient evidence to accumulate to support implementation of new methods in routine screening. Where national screening programmes are already effective, switching to a more sensitive screening test may not be a priority. Although risk associated with overly rapid implementation exists, postponement is also associated with a (to date unquantified) missed opportunity to prevent deaths. This risk tends not to be addressed where effective screening methods are already in use. We here estimate the monetary value of a one-year delay in replacing cytology cervical screening with human papillomavirus testing.

Methods

Using a previously validated model, we calculated the number of incident and fatal cervical cancers that would be diagnosed by 2030 in England, under the assumption that human papillomavirus testing replaces cytology in 2020 rather than 2019, and the monetary value of the quality-adjusted life years lost in preventable cases.

Results

A one-year delay in the implementation of human papillomavirus screening would miss the opportunity to prevent 581 cases of cervical cancer, and lead to a loss of 1595 quality-adjusted life years (3.5% discount rate) with a monetary value of £32 million (at £20,000 per quality-adjusted life year).

Conclusion

This is a measurable loss and should be considered in prioritising decision-making in screening.
Development policy, Western Europe and the question of specificity
Authors: Cox Kevin R
Published: October 2018

In the Anglophone literature on local and regional development policy there are tendencies to overextension of claims from one side of the Atlantic to the other, or there is no comparative framing at all. As a result the specificity of the West European case tends to be lost. In contrast with the USA, the West European instance is very different indeed. Although there have been changes since the postwar golden years of urban and regional planning, central government remains crucial in the structuring of local and regional development and has given expression to counter-posed class forces: regional policy was historically an aspect of the welfare state as promoted by the labor movement, while urbanization policy has been much more about the forces of the political right. In the USA, by contrast, local governments and to a lesser degree, the states, have been and continue to be supreme; in contrast to Western Europe, location tends to be much more market-determined, with local and governments acting as market agents. Class forces have seemingly been much weaker, territorial coalitions occupying the center ground. As a first cut, these differences have to do with state structure: the Western European state is far more centralized, facilitating the implementation of policies that are relatively indifferent to local specificity, while in the USA the converse applies. State structures, however, are parts of broader social formations and reflect the different socio-historical conditions in which West European societies, on the one hand, and their American counterpoint, on the other, have emerged.
Being an athlete and being a young person: Technologies of the self in managing an athletic career in youth ice hockey in Finland
Authors: Ojala Anna-Liisa
Published: October 2018

Engaging in youth sports is a major investment, and it requires choosing and balancing between an athlete’s life and other practices and ways of life important to adolescents. In this Foucauldian year-long ethnographic study on Finnish 18–20-year-old elite male ice hockey players I consider an athletic career as a moral question and examine what aspects of their behaviour are affected when these players submit to the external and internal control they encounter when advancing themselves and their careers, and how they problematize the codes that govern their actions. The players expressed six modes of subjection altogether that were important to cultivation of the self: exercising, nutrition, rest, motivation, player role and emotions. The processes of cultivation were strongly guided by coaches and well internalized by the players. However, the hockey players were also young people with interests and choices quite different from a disciplined athletic life, and the coaches also helped in the construction of these spheres. I propose in this study that these spheres may be important in managing the training load and the career pressure that athletes necessarily face during the ‘investment years’ (15+) in sport.
Woman with left‐side weakness
Authors: Tsai Yu‐Chieh , Tsai Hui‐Chu , Lee Wei‐Jing
Published: October 2018

Most acute intracranial hemorrhages present to the emergency department are due to severe hypertension, coagulopathies, aneurysm, or tumor. We describe a 41‐year‐old female presented with progressive left‐side weakness for 6 h. Initial computed tomography of the brain showed acute hemorrhage at right temporo‐parietal region. Subsequent brain magnetic resonance imaging confirmed right cerebral cortical venous thrombosis complicated by acute intraparenchymal hematoma. This report provides a rare etiology of acute intracranial hemorrhage in which early diagnosis and prompt anticoagulation are crucial for patient well‐being.
Governors and directors: Competing models of corporate governance
Authors: Shah Neeta , Napier Christopher J
Published: October 2018

Why do we use the term ‘corporate governance’ rather than ‘corporate direction’? Early British joint stock companies were normally managed by a single ‘governor’. The ‘court of governors’ or ‘board of directors’ emerged slowly as the ruling body for companies. By the nineteenth century, however, companies were typically run by directors while not-for-profit entities such as hospitals, schools and charitable bodies had governors. The nineteenth century saw steady refinement of the roles of company directors, often in response to corporate scandals, with a gradual change from the notion of the director as a ‘representative shareholder’ to the directors being seen collectively as ‘representatives of the shareholders’. Governors in not-for-profit entities, however, were regarded as having broader responsibilities. The term ‘governance’ itself suggests that corporate boards should be studied as ‘political’ entities rather than merely through economic lenses such as agency theory.
Comparison of cross-matching method for detection of DEA 7 blood incompatibility
Authors: Spada Eva , Perego Roberta , Viñals Flórez Luis Miguel , del Rosario Perlado Chamizo Maria , Baggiani Luciana , Dall’Ara Paola , Proverbio Daniela
Published: October 2018

We compared 3 major cross-match (XM) tests to identify dog erythrocyte antigen (DEA) 7 blood incompatibilities in dogs as a result of anti–DEA 7 antibodies: gel (GEL), standard tube (TUBE) agglutination, and immunochromatography strips (STRIP). Blood samples from 42 dogs were typed for DEA 7; 2 tested DEA 7–positive (DEA 7+). The 40 DEA 7–negative (DEA 7–) plasma samples were cross-matched against the 2 DEA 7+ and 3 DEA 7– red blood cell (RBC) samples by GEL to identify samples with anti–DEA 7 antibodies. Twenty DEA 7– plasma samples without and with anti–DEA 7 antibodies were cross-matched with samples of the 2 DEA 7+ RBCs in a double-blind fashion using the TUBE and STRIP XM methods. GEL results were used as the reference method for comparison. To determine relationships between results, 2 × 2 tables were used. Cohen kappa coefficient (κ) was calculated between results of GEL and the other 2 methods. With GEL, 21 of 40 XM tests were positive and 19 of 40 negative for anti–DEA 7 antibodies. The same results were obtained by TUBE, whereas only 1 of 40 XM tests was positive by STRIP. There was a statistically significant relationship between results of GEL and TUBE ( p < 0.000) with perfect agreement (κ = 1.000), but not between GEL and STRIP results ( p = 1.000) in which agreement was equivalent to chance (κ = 0.0453). The GEL and TUBE XM tests, but not STRIP, are useful methods for identification of DEA 7 incompatibilities caused by anti–DEA 7 antibodies.
Corruption Intentions Among Prospective Elites in Ghana: An Economy of Esteem
Authors: Tankebe Justice , Karstedt Susanne , Adu-Poku Sarah
Published: October 2018

Besides its multiple harms, corruption undermines the rule of law and impedes the effective functioning of criminal justice institutions. It involves both elites in bending rules and laws as well as police at the bottom of the hierarchy asking for bribes. We analyze corruption intentions within the framework of Brennan and Pettit’s “economy of esteem,” using three main conceptual frameworks: attachment to kinship groups, materialistic orientations, and deterrence. We draw on data from a survey of 530 university students in Ghana to examine predictors of corruption intentions of prospective elites. Our prospective elites were more inclined to resort to influence peddling rather than to pay bribes directly. We find that attitudinal patterns indicative of esteem predict intentions to engage in corrupt exchanges across different agencies and contexts—police, procurement for government, and abuse of power—as well as different types of action, whether bribe payment or nepotism. In contrast, citizenly pride (and self-esteem) motivates integrity across all types of corrupt exchange. Deterrence, in terms of certainty, had a more consistently negative impact on intentions to engage in nepotism than in bribe paying and acceptance, with public procurement being the exception; no effect was found for stigma, and only police nepotism was an exception to the otherwise non-significant effects of severity.
Helicopter Parenting and Young Adults’ Well-Being: A Comparison Between United States and Finland
Authors: Cui Ming , Janhonen-Abruquah Hille , Darling Carol A. , Carlos Chavez Fiorella L. , Palojoki Päivi
Published: October 2018

Helicopter parenting, defined as a form of overinvolved parenting of young adult children, is shown to be associated with young adult children’s well-being. Furthermore, the phenomenon of helicopter parenting is increasingly evident across various cultures. In this study, the association between helicopter parenting and young adult children’s well-being problems was examined, and the associations were compared between samples of American and Finnish young adults. With a sample of 441 American and 306 Finnish university students, results from path models suggested that maternal and paternal helicopter parenting was associated with university students’ symptoms of anxiety and depression, life dissatisfaction, and emotional dysregulation. Furthermore, even though the mean levels of helicopter parenting were lower among Finnish parents as compared with American parents, the associations between helicopter parenting and young adults’ well-being problems were, in general, equally significant. The implications for university students, parents of students, educators, and university administrators from different cultural backgrounds were also discussed.
Glycoprotein VI Gene Variants Affect Pregnancy Loss in Patients With Platelet Hyperaggregability
Authors: Sokol Juraj , Skerenova Maria , Biringer Kamil , Simurda Tomas , Kubisz Peter , Stasko Jan
Published: October 2018

The aim of our study was to evaluate GP6 gene in patients with sticky platelet syndrome (SPS) and fetal loss. Platelet aggregability was tested with platelet-rich plasma using PACKS-4 aggregometer (Helena Laboratories). High-resolution melting analysis on LightCycler 480 II (Roche Diagnostics) was used for single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping. We examined 64 patients with SPS and 54 control participants. We found significantly higher occurrence of 5 SNPs in patients with SPS versus controls (rs1671152, rs1654433, rs1613662, rs1654416, and rs2304167). Moreover, the haplotype analysis showed a significantly higher occurrence of 7 haplotypes in patients with SPS compared to controls (acgg and aagg in GP6_5reg haplotype; ccgt in GP6_3reg haplotype; gg and ta in GP6_REG haplotype; SKTH and PEAN in GP6_PEAN haplotype). Our results, especially higher occurrence of 4 nonsynonymous variants within the coding region, support the idea that GP6 polymorphisms are associated with the platelet hyperaggregability accompanied by fetal loss.
Venous Thromboembolism: A Survey of Oral Anticoagulant Preferences in the Treatment of Challenging Patient Populations
Authors: Moyer Genevieve Claire , Bannow Bethany Samuelson , Thornburg Courtney , Rosovsky Rachel , Wang Tzu-Fei , Woller Scott , Thornhill Dianne , Kreuziger Lisa Baumann
Published: October 2018

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a highly morbid condition with several available oral anticoagulant treatment options. Numerous studies have been published comparing warfarin to direct oral anticoagulants; however, several populations remain underrepresented in these reports. We surveyed members of The Venous ThromboEmbolism Network U.S. working group regarding their oral anticoagulant preferences for the treatment of VTE in different and challenging populations. In individuals with VTE and no other medical comorbidities, respondents preferred either rivaroxaban (48.7%) or apixaban (48.7%). Apixaban (53.3%) was preferred in elderly individuals with an increased risk of bleeding. Warfarin was preferred in individuals with liver or kidney dysfunction (42% and 47%), altered metabolism (>55%), and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (84.2%). Low-molecular-weight heparin was preferred in individuals with malignancy (56.6%), followed by edoxaban (23.7%). These findings may help guide clinicians when choosing an anticoagulant in these challenging situations and demonstrate the urgent need for additional study in these groups.
Positioning Adolescents in Literacy Teaching and Learning
Authors: Frankel Katherine K. , Fields Susan S. , Kimball-Veeder Jessica , Murphy Caitlin R.
Published: October 2018

Secondary literacy instruction often happens to adolescents rather than with them. To disrupt this trend, we collaborated with 12th-grade “literacy mentors” to reimagine literacy teaching and learning with 10th-grade mentees in a public high school classroom. We used positioning theory as an analytic tool to (a) understand how mentors positioned themselves and how we positioned them and (b) examine the literacy practices that enabled and constrained the mentor position. We found that our positioning of mentors as collaborators was taken up in different and sometimes unexpected ways as a result of the multiple positions available to them and institutional-level factors that shaped what literacy practices were and were not negotiable. We argue that future collaborations with youth must account for the rights and duties of all members of a classroom community, including how those rights and duties intersect, merge, or come into conflict within and across practices.
The Student Success Center at Auburn University
Authors: McDaniel Nancy , James Julia B. , Davis Grant
Published: October 2018

How can colleges and universities help students be more successful both during and after their college careers? At Auburn University faculty, staff, and students put their heads together to come up with an answer. Here, the authors describe what they came up with.
What Can we do about Student Cheating
Authors: Cole Sally , Kiss Elizabeth
Published: October 2018

Technology is bringing us more and better ways to deter and detect cheating These techniques may be effective, but they cannot help us do the more important job of teaching students the value of honesty. This is clearly a larger issue that demands a larger response. What we need to work on, say the authors, is creating a culture that promotes academic integrity.
The Friendship Effect
Authors: Derryberry W. Pitt , Thoma Stephen J.
Published: October 2018

The research results are clear: After four years of college, students experience growth in moral judgment. What isn't clear is why. What is it about going to college that contributes to the development of moral thinking? The authors point to something in the college environment that has little to do with the curriculum or the cocurriculum—students’ friendships and social networks.
The Catherine Connection: Building a Learning Culture
Authors: Hendricks Suzanne H. , Kari Nancy N. , Richter-Norgel Ellen
Published: October 2018

In 1991, the College of St. Catherine, a Catholic college for women in St. Paul, Minnesota, set out to improve recruitment and retention. It soon become clear that they couldn't seriously make improvements without taking a good, hard look at what the college did—and didn't—offer students. So, they turned to the bigger job of examining and building a new culture of learning. Here's what that effort looked like.
The Assessment of Civic Leadership
Authors: Smith Edward D.
Published: October 2018

How can we measure civic leadership? This was the challenge that faced Ed Smith a few years ago when Longwood College in Virginia revised its mission to make preparation of citizen leaders a central goal. Here he shares what he has learned.
Melody Must Predominate
Authors: Williams Lee Burdette
Published: October 2018

What is the tune that holds all our work together?
Greening the Campus
Authors: Carroll John E.
Published: October 2018

In classrooms across the country, students are hearing a lot about what it takes to address one of the most serious challenges facing society—how to ensure the environmental sustainability of the planet. But what do they see when they walk out the door and look at how their campuses are treating the environment? It's time, says the author, for institutions to start teaching by example.
What is College: Really like for Adult Students?
Authors: Brookfield Stephen D.
Published: October 2018

As the number of adults on our campuses increases, it is critical that we understand what they are experiencing—both in and out of the classroom. Here an expert on adult learning sheds light on what it's really like to be an adult in college.
Welcome to Western: A Community's Approach to Convocation
Authors: Carey Anna , Fabiano Patricia M.
Published: October 2018

There is no formula for creating celebrations that truly inspire a sense of community on campus, but there are principles that make for success. Here is what Western Washington University did— and the principles they drew on—to develop a welcoming ceremony that communicates the school's core values and expectations and involves the entire university community.
Finding the Right College
Authors: Geoghegan Kristina M.
Published: October 2018

A student describes the twists, turns, and detours on the road to the right school.
Preparing to Serve Students in the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Johnson Cynthia S.
Published: October 2018

ACPA's Senior Scholars look at the next seventy-five years of practice
Democratic Education: A Matter of Institutional Conscience and Skills
Authors: Thomas Nancy L.
Published: October 2018

Educating for democracy has captured the imagination of many people in higher education, but is it occurring on campus? If not, why not? What steps can we take to move democratic values education beyond thought and beyond isolated initiatives to truly engage the whole campus?
Raising Standards in Community Service Learning
Authors: Pritchard Ivor A.
Published: October 2018

Increasingly, students are coming to college with a range of experience in community service. What does this experience look like? What is its effect on students? The author addresses these questions and argues that campuses must draw on this previous experience to build better, more ambitious service learning programs.
How We Can Improve Diversity Training
Authors: Stewart Dafina Lazarus , Peal Darryl A.
Published: October 2018

What stands in the way of using diversity training to truly transform students’ thinking about themselves in relation to people who are different? The authors suspect that the cognitive development of students plays a big role. Here is how Otterbein College redesigned a diversity training workshop in order to take student intellectual development into account.
Aborigine in the Citadel
Authors: Nelson Marilyn
Published: October 2018

Can busy young cadets at West Point find happiness writing and reading poetry, scanning lines of verse, and doing daily meditation? In the spring of 2000, Marilyn Nelson found out. Her experience is described in an article in the March 2001 issue of the Hudson Review. Here is an excerpt.
In Practice: Marketing Good Student Behavior: What “the Tipping Point” Can Teach Us
Authors: Newton Fred B. , Newton Doug
Published: October 2018

When the authors wanted to combat the myth that excessive drinking and partying were common behaviors among students, they turned for help to a recent popular book on marketing and social behavior. The result was a trial project that identified and recruited the most influential students on campus, then set them loose to get the message out.
Social Class in the Academy
Authors: Borrego Sue
Published: October 2018

There are lots of resources to help us understand the challenges faced by working-class students. The author reviews a number of them.
Assessment Vs. Research why we Should Care about the Difference
Authors: Upcraft M. Lee , Schuh John H.
Published: October 2018

Should we call our efforts to learn about programs and outcomes “research” or “assessment”? The name can make all the difference. And trying to adhere to the standards of research may get in the way of doing effective assessment.
Accessible Web Sites: Why They're Important and Where to Begin
Authors: Corcoran Charmane K. , Corcoran Shawn D.
Published: October 2018

As Internet use becomes integral to the life of our institutions, we need to be aware of what it takes to make Web sites accessible to each and every user.
Assessing Community Service Learning
Authors: Kezar Adrianna
Published: October 2018

How can we harness the full potential of service learning? We first need to identify and understand the complex array of possible outcomes.
Military Assumptions
Authors: Renn Kristen A.
Published: October 2018

When pacifism breeds prejudice
High-Achieving Black Collegians
Authors: Fries-Britt Sharon
Published: October 2018

We know very little about high-achieving black students, even though these students have an important role to play in both our institutions and society at large. Who are these students? How is college different for them? What are their special struggles and needs?
Rainbow Visibility: How one Catholic University Responded to Intolerance
Authors: Getz Cheryl , Kirkley Evelyn A.
Published: October 2018

When intolerance of gays and lesbians at the University of San Diego became … well … intolerable, a group of students, staff, and faculty decided to do something about it. The result was a project called Rainbow Visibility that works on many fronts to educate the campus community.
Helping Students Find Their Place and Purpose
Authors: Chambers Tony , Parks Sharon
Published: October 2018

We may recognize that higher education can play a vital role in helping students find purpose and meaning, but how can we help our students with this broad and complex task? Sharon Parks shares her views with Tony Chambers about the challenge of creating an environment where mentoring can flourish and about how faith and spiritual development is becoming a larger part of our students’ lives.
Jumping the Gun
Authors: Cress Christine M.
Published: October 2018

Some targeted learning on how experience clouds our perceptions.
On Being a Generalist
Authors: Pruitt Dennis
Published: October 2018

There is always more to know.
Spiritual Reflection in Service-Learning
Authors: Kotho Kent
Published: October 2018

How important a role does spirituality play in service-learning and what impact does it have on students’ commitment to public service?
Cultivating the Craft of interdependence: Collaborative Learning and the College Curriculum
Authors: Bruffee Kenneth A.
Published: October 2018

Many colleges understand the importance of teaching students how to work well with others and make an effort to introduce this during orientation week. But do students retain this skill throughout their college years and well after college? In order for these efforts to be effective, says the author, we need to make this practice an integral part of campus culture.
Christian Privilege and Respect for Religious Diversity: Religious Holidays on Campus
Authors: Schlosser Lewis Z. , Sedlacek William E.
Published: October 2018

Some ideas for embracing religious diversity.
Gifts
Authors: Showalter Shirley H.
Published: October 2018

What do you do when presented with an unexpected grant? Give it away, of course.
The Meaning of the Baccalaureate
Authors: Miller Margaret A.
Published: October 2018

What does it mean to get a baccalaureate degree? The author explores current and not-so-current thinking about the purpose and value of the undergraduate degree.
Serving the Quiet Majority: The Drexel Commuter Program
Authors: Ann H. Wilson
Published: October 2018

Even though the majority of students are commuters, most colleges and universities are set up primarily to serve residential students. In an effort to address this inequity, Drexel University created an award-winning commuter program. The author describes how it got started and what it looks like.
Ouch
Authors: Williams Lee Burdette
Published: October 2018

Straddling both sides of an issue can be such a pain.
It Takes a Year
Authors: Hunter Mary Stuart , Gahagan James S.
Published: October 2018

The transition to college doesn't happen in just a few weeks.
Helping Students Develop Vision and Voice: The Role Creativity Plays
Authors: Welkener Michele M.
Published: October 2018

Most educators would agree that developing creativity is a good thing for students to do. In fact, creativity is featured prominently in many college mission statements. Yet for all of the talk about how important it is, we are still struggling to define and understand it. The author, a former art instructor, takes a stab at just this— exploring the connection between creativity and how students develop.
Leadership, Feminism, and Classroom Politics— or, How I Gave up the Fight and Learned to Love: Resistance
Authors: Burdette Williams Lee
Published: October 2018

Most of us resist learning to some extent or another, so it's not surprising that students do as well. But as professionals who bump up against this resistance in our students every day, whether in a class, workshop, or special program, what's our best recourse? How can we help students get beyond their resistance? The author's answer? Don't even try.
Why? Learn: What we may Really be Teaching Students
Authors: Tagg John
Published: October 2018

Are we teaching our students how to grub for grades or how to learn in deep and lasting ways? The author offers a disturbing glimpse at a superficial approach to learning our institutions may be fostering. He also offers a reflective assessment of a deep approach waiting to be nurtured.
Collegial Talk: A Powerful Tool for Change
Authors: Fear Frank A. , Doberneck Diane M.
Published: October 2018

Is it possible to promote change in the academy by just talking? The authors say “yes.” They present a deceptively simple approach—one grounded in organizational theory—-for getting colleagues together to go beyond standard problem solving and take campuses in surprising new directions.
Could Fixing: Academic Advising: Fix Higher Education
Authors: Stuart Hunter Mary , White Eric R.
Published: October 2018

Not completely, but as the authors suggest, advising may be a very good place to start. While advising by itself certainly can't change the curriculum and co-curriculum, it can create a vital connection between students and their education—helping them to become more reflective and strategic about the choices they are making and the learning they are engaged in.
Digital Video Brings Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Training to Life
Authors: Poynter Kerry John
Published: October 2018

Today's technologies allow production of professional-quality movies straight from your desktop. At Duke University, written case studies used in training LGBT advocates were reborn as digital video productions that are now being used on campuses throughout the country.
Beyond the Wilderness
Authors: Klein Doc
Published: October 2018

For over fifty years, Outward Bound has been using challenging wilderness expeditions to help people discover how to forge successful learning communities. Now the instructors at one Outward Bound Center are taking the wilderness expedition principles to schools and campuses, designing what they call learning expeditions— ones where you don't necessarily have to sleep on the ground.
Engaging Students in Active Learning
Authors: Warren Russell G.
Published: October 2018

The reluctance of many faculty to give up the lecture format may be one reason that active learning techniques have not taken hold on our campuses. But, the author says, there is an even greater obstacle—students themselves.
Telling Tales in School
Authors: Williams Lee Burdette
Published: October 2018

Knowing our students, and our institutions, through their stories
Life as I Don't Know It
Authors: Magolda Peter M.
Published: October 2018

Peter Magolda, a twelve-year veteran in higher education, spent eighteen months closely observing students at a small residential college and came away humbled. He found that he really hadn't known student life at all, but he knows a lot more now. Here is what he learned.
The Electronic Campus
Authors: Pinheiro Edwin H.
Published: October 2018

What would it take to provide a laptop for every student, and what would be the result? Edwin Pinheiro, an academic consultant at IBM, explains how it is possible and describes the benefits to students, including increased responsibility for their own learning.
Classrooms without Walls, Students without Limits
Authors: Rhoads Robert A.
Published: October 2018

If educators were to look beyond the classroom, what would they see? The possibilities are limitless.
The Student as Customer versus the Student as Learner
Authors: Groccia James E.
Published: October 2018

Is the customer always right when the customer is a student?
Free Speech and Privacy Online
Authors: Hughes Marvalene
Published: October 2018

Universities must play a leadership role in addressing the special challenges to free speech and privacy posed by the cyberspace community—and in seeking humane solutions to these problems.
Working Together for Service Learning
Authors: Engstrom Catherine Mchugh , Tinto Vincent
Published: October 2018

The only way service learning is going to fulfill its promise is for faculty and student affairs to work in close partnership. But this is easier said than done. Here are some promising examples of such partnerships and insights into what makes them work.
What We Must Learn From: Alverno
Authors: Hakel Milton D.
Published: October 2018

Unusual educational specimen or innovative model? For years many people have viewed Alverno College as something to observe with interest, but impossible to emulate. Now they are taking a second look and discovering that there is much Alverno College can teach us about educating students. The author details these important lessons-lessons we can no longer afford to ignore.
Empowering Students to Create Community Standards
Authors: Piper Terry D.
Published: October 2018

How can we create a sense of community and shared responsibility among students in residence halls— and for that matter elsewhere in their campus lives? The residential life staff at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) wrestled with this question after experiencing a year in which student behavior resulted in costly damage to residence halls.

They discovered that it wasn't their job to create community for students at all, but instead to empower students to create it for themselves. So the Community Standards Model was born.
Supporting Student Learning from a Distance
Authors: Schwitzer Alan M.
Published: October 2018

With the advent of the two-way televised interactive classroom, more and more campuses are expanding their distance learning programs, reaching a growing population of students for whom traditional classes were an impossibility. How can campuses support these students? What are their special needs and concerns? And what can campuses do to foster community among students who are miles apart?
“You Gotta Believe!”
Authors: Kuh George D.
Published: October 2018

What do the really good colleges have in common? They believe in their students.
The Misrepresentation of Generation X
Authors: Haworth Jennifer Grant
Published: October 2018

Slackers. Self-centered individualists. Whining crybabies. Are these images of today's twentysomethings accurate? No, says the author. Pointing to recent research, she reveals the reality behind the image.
Teaching & Learning in Community
Authors: Palmer Parker J.
Published: October 2018

As the pedagogical debate swings between the teacher-centered model, with its concern for rigor, and the student-centered model, with its concern for active learning, some of us are torn between the two, says Parker J. Palmer. In this essay, adapted from Chapter Five of his new book, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life, he offers a third option: teachers bring students into a community of learning around the subject itself.
Girlfriends Talking
Authors: Alemán Ana M. Martínez
Published: October 2018

Friendships among women are supportive and helpful, of course, but are they also vehicles for learning? The author shows how conversation between women offers them a safe haven for trying out ideas and for challenging themselves and each other—a haven, she asserts, that institutions need to be aware of and nurture.
Using Systems Thinking to Improve Education
Authors: Cotter Maury
Published: October 2018

In higher education, we concentrate so much effort in our separate specialties that we lose sight of how all our work comes together into this thing called an education. As a result, we are asking students to wrestle alone with the critical job of creating connections and finding coherence. But what if we took on this job for ourselves? Systems thinking offers us a way to start.
The Values Program at Le Moyne College
Authors: Kirby Donald J.
Published: October 2018

Ten years ago the faculty and staff at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, developed the campuswide Values Program. Their dream was to guide the way for all students to reflect seriously on their values, cultivate personal and social responsibility, and strengthen their moral courage to act on their principles—a tall order, but the program is making a difference.
Telling Stories of Racism
Authors: Alschuler Alfred S. , Kilmer Heather L.
Published: October 2018

What role does storytelling—telling our own stories and listening to others tell theirs— play in our understanding of ourselves and our work? To explore this and other questions, the authors have made up a story of their own.
Reflections on the Presidents’ Summit for America'S Future
Authors: Jacoby Barbara
Published: October 2018

A call to action for higher education.
Being all that We can be
Authors: Schroeder Charles C.
Published: October 2018

Higher education desperately needs models for how to help students develop the skills, character traits, and sensibilities that experts agree will be essential for our society in the twenty-first century. Indeed, there is widespread agreement that leadership skills, the ability to work cooperatively in teams, a strong sense of civic responsibility, and a commitment to serve are critically important outcomes, but there is very little agreement on where or how to begin.

So where can colleges and universities find these models? What educational institutions are successfully helping young people acquire these qualities? One obvious but often overlooked answer is the armed forces. The author, with apologies to the Army for borrowing its slogan, joins with two leaders in the Marine Corps to explore what the Marines are doing right and what higher education can learn from them.
Facts and Myths about Assessment in Student Affairs
Authors: Schuh John H. , Upcraft M. Lee
Published: October 2018

Conducting good assessment studies and using them to influence policy and practice may well determine the future of student affairs. But many student affairs professionals are stalled in their efforts to develop an assessment strategy. Many haven't even started. Before you can begin, say the authors, it's important to know the facts.
So … Why Aren't We Taking Learning Seriously?
Authors: Plater William M.
Published: October 2018

Taking learning seriously is not as easy as it sounds, nor is it clear exactly what it means to do so. The author, dean of faculties at Purdue University, takes a hard, uncompromising look at this challenge and how to address it.
What is a Learning Community?: Toward a Comprehensive Model
Authors: Brower Aaron M. , Dettinger Karen M.
Published: October 2018

Learning communities are too valuable, argue the authors, to let them become just another buzzword. It's time to look closely at what they are, to determine what they aren't, and to set forth specific expectations and criteria.
Finding Out What Makes Learners Tick
Authors: Cross K. Patricia
Published: October 2018

Is research the best way to know?
My Day of Silence
Authors: Brown Scott C.
Published: October 2018

Saying nothing can be the hardest way to speak out
Advising Student Organizations
Authors: McKaig Richard N.
Published: October 2018

Two New Books Help Advisers Take their Game to a New Level
Form Follows Function. Right?
Authors: Terenzini Patrick T.
Published: October 2018

But first we need to be clear about what our function is
Increasing Expectations for Student Effort
Authors: Schilling Karen Maitland , Schilling Karl L.
Published: October 2018

Although there is a lot of discussion about outcomes, very little has been said about expectations. If students don't spend time and effort studying and engaging in other learning activities, the learning just won't happen. It's time, say the authors, to better define our expectations and make sure students know what they are.
Penn State Pulse: Using Telephone Surveys to Learn more about Students
Authors: Moore Betty L.
Published: October 2018

How can we know more about students—their habits, concerns, and preferences, as well as how they use and what they think about the services we provide? When educators at Penn State were confronted with this question, they came up with a straightforward solution. They decided to pick up the phone and find out. So they created Penn State Pulse, an ongoing effort to survey students and communicate results.
The Human Bond
Authors: Chinoy Sajjid
Published: October 2018

A young man from India tells his fellow graduates that, yes, we can transcend our differences.
The Matthew Shepard Tragedy: Management of a Crisis
Authors: Hurst James C.
Published: October 2018

How the students and faculty of the University of Wyoming responded to the unfathomable—the brutal and hateful murder of one of their own.
Collaborating with Our Communities
Authors: Goodman Adam I. , MacNeil Carole
Published: October 2018

Local communities have a lot to offer institutions of higher learning. This is becoming increasingly clear to professionals on campus. But what isn't clear is how to work effectively with communities to ensure that everyone benefits. The authors explain that genuine collaboration requires that campuses revise the way they work with communities: They need to treat communities more like family and less like guests at the family table.
Reexamining Our Rituals
Authors: Young Robert B.
Published: October 2018

Humans have long created meaning and encouraged a sense of community through ritual. Yet when professionals in higher education sit down to explore ways to transform their campuses into learning communities, they rarely mention ritual.

It is time to take a fresh look at our rituals.

What are they?

What makes them effective?

What can they help us achieve?
Helping Students Balance Work, Borrowing, and College
Authors: King Jacqueline E.
Published: October 2018

What are the effects of working and borrowing on student performance? When does working become a burden that interferes with studying?

The author examines these and other questions, revealing that students’ working may be more of a problem than we had thought.