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Rightsizing HVAC Systems to Reduce Capital Costs and Save Energy
Author: Sebesta, James
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Construction,Engineering,Costs,Climate Control,Financial Support,Energy,Energy Conservation,Higher Education,Educational Facilities Improvement,Building Design

Nearly every institution is faced with the situation of having to reduce the cost of a construction project from time to time through a process generally referred to as &quot;value engineering.&quot; Just the mention of those words, however, gives rise to all types of connotations, thoughts, and memories (usually negative) for those in the facilities departments of most educational institutions. The  University of Minnesota has taken a more proactive approach and has moved to rightsize its HVAC systems as part of a value engineering and cost containment process for some of its building projects. Before discussing the details of the exercise at the University of Minnesota, the author first examines how the university got to the situation of conservatively sizing HVAC systems.
Always Investing in the Future: A Profile of President Darrel Meyer
Author: Dessoff, Alan
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Presidents,Profiles,Professional Associations,Educational Facilities,Facilities Management,Community Colleges

This article profiles Darrel Meyer, APPA's President for 2010-2011. A graduate of the APPA Institute for Facilities Management, he served at the state, regional and international levels and on APPA's Board of Directors and Executive Committee before becoming President-Elect last year. He received APPA's Pacesetter Award in 2005 and Meritorious Service Award in 2008. With 20 years of hands-on facilities management experience at MCC as well as learning and leadership experience at APPA, and with a record of significant achievements at both, he has assumed the ultimate leadership position in the profession as APPA's President for 2010-11.
Arkansas State &amp; UNVL Earn the 2010 Award for Excellence
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Facilities,Facilities Management,State Universities,Awards,Strategic Planning,Leadership,Teamwork,Staff Development,Personnel Management,Performance,Information Utilization

APPA's highest institutional honor, the Award for Excellence in Facilities Management (AFE), recognizes those educational institutions whose facilities management organizations demonstrate quality in overall operations and effectiveness. The two most recent recipients, Arkansas State University-Jonesboro (ASU-J) and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV), were honored at the awards banquet during the APPA 2010 conference held in July in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the AFE Award's inception in 1988, when Brigham Young University and the Medical College of Georgia were the first recipients, fewer than 50 institutions have received this distinct honor. Evaluation for the award consists of two parts: (1) a self-evaluation addressing specific, stringent criteria; and (2) a site visit by a team from APPA's Professional Affairs Committee to confirm the accuracy of the self-assessment. Applying for and receiving the AFE is no small task for an institution. The two universities show that it takes teamwork from everyone within the facilities organization and requires coordination, motivation, and support from the top levels of leadership to be a successful facilities operation and to win the APPA Award for Excellence.
Variety and Service Highlight the 2010 Effective and Innovative Practices Award Winners
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Sustainability,Energy Conservation,Recycling,Maintenance,Universities,School Buildings,Educational Facilities,Facilities Management,Sanitation,Innovation,College Students,Teamwork

APPA's Effective &amp; Innovative Practices Award continues to highlight the best of the most creative and practical programs and processes that enhance and transform service delivery, lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service, generate revenue, or otherwise benefit an educational institution. This article features five 2010 award-winning programs that focus on student design teams; building services sustainability; fast-acting energy improvement teams; recycling; and a reengineered maintenance parts and materials process. The five successful schools this year received special recognition and a check at the APPA 2010 conference in Boston. These include: (1) California State University, Northridge; (2) Purdue University; (3) University of Iowa; (4) University of North Carolina-Charlotte; and (5) University of Southern California.
Qualitative Facilities Assessment: Beyond the Condition Audit
Author: Kaiser, Harvey H.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Facilities Management,Educational Facilities Planning,Evaluation,Models,Needs Assessment,Audits (Verification),Life Cycle Costing,Higher Education

In APPA's recently published book, "Strategic Capital Development: The New Model for Campus Investment," the authors make a case for substantial change in capital planning for higher education institutions. The new model posed is intended to urge institutions and systems to (1) identify more systematically all capital needs of all types; (2) integrate quantitative space needs with qualitative facility assessment to define whole-building solutions; (3) prioritize projects, based on planning principles, while minimizing the influence of politics; (4) associate the needs/projects with financing sources in a comprehensive long-range capital investment plan; and (5) ensure that perpetually scarce capital resources are applied as productively as possible. This article, drawn from the book, focuses on one very important element of capital needs assessment and planning--comprehensive qualitative assessment of existing facilities--as part of the still more comprehensive four-part needs assessment model that includes: (1) space capacity; (2) facilities quality; (3) special facilities; and (4) infrastructure, campus environment, and sustainability. (Contains 3 figures.)
Portfolio Based Management
Author: Daigneau, William A.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Portfolios (Background Materials),Investment,Facilities Management,Resource Allocation,Higher Education,Models,Probability,Educational Facilities

In this article, the author talks about Portfolio Management, a concept used to make allocation decisions in the world of financial investments. While much has been written about Portfolio theory, and the term is widely used in the facilities management industry, little is really understood about the concept and its real-world application. The author presents a brief review of the basic premises of portfolio management, primarily as it pertains to non-liquid assets (e.g., buildings versus financial instruments such as bonds or mutual funds). He introduces Facilities Portfolio Management (FPM), a tool that facility officers can use to make annual funding decisions that are not dependent on an entire culture shift in the real world of higher education. It applies portfolio theory in a practical but effective manner that does not require extensive data gathering or new software systems. While facility managers have used many of the concepts intuitively for many years, FPM introduces a degree of rigor and defensible strategy to the process. (Contains 2 figures.)
Truly Green: A Look at the Advantages of Maintaining Historic Campus Buildings
Author: Brown, Julie Paul
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Historic Sites,Higher Education,Sustainability,Sustainable Development,Campuses,Energy Conservation,Recycling,Conservation (Environment),Ecology,Energy,Fuel Consumption,Natural Resources,Climate,Colleges,School Buildings,School Construction,Educational Facilities Improvement,Facility Improvement

Most colleges and universities have taken great strides in recent years to embrace "being green." As part of this process, many institutions have established an Office of Sustainability or similar department to implement these practices and foster the image of environmental consciousness that the universities want to project. Institutions are realizing that being green is not only better for the environment, but it makes fiscal sense as well. The idea of "green building" is not a new concept, having taken root in the 1970s, but in the last few years, it has finally become what its early promoters have longed for: accepted. No longer does the argument need to be made as everywhere one looks, buildings, cleaning supplies, shoes, appliances, etc., are being marketed as green. This flooding of the market tends to water down what really constitutes being green, and the general inclination tends to be that all things green must therefore be new. The problem with that is people lose sight of what is right in front of them: historic buildings are green by their very nature. In this article, the authors discuss how historic buildings contribute value to campuses and explore the advantages of maintaining historic campus buildings.
BIM in the Facility Manager's Toolkit
Author: Peglow, Timothy M.
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Facilities Design,Construction Industry,Facilities Management,Educational Facilities Improvement,Facility Improvement,Building Design,School Construction,Buildings,Models

There has been a tremendous increase in use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the design and construction industry. There have been numerous case studies that have documented the improvements. The majority of these improvements have focused on better coordination of design resulting in fewer Requests for Information and/or change orders. There have also been a number of projects that have reduced timelines due to the more precise design documents. The owners and facility managers have been slower to adopt BIM. A portion of this delay is directly related to projects moving from design to construction to substantial completion. Other delays may be related to the increased investment that is necessary to move to a BIM platform. Working with the design and construction team on a new project is the ideal time to begin exploring the advantages that BIM can provide to the facility manager. In this article, the author talks about BIM as a better tool for facility data management and discusses how to create a BIM model for facility management.
Considerations When Upgrading and Renovating Window Systems
Author: Gille, Steve
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Structural Elements (Construction),Educational Facilities,Educational Environment,Educational Facilities Improvement,Energy Conservation,Campuses

Today's educational facilities managers face many challenges. As stewards of their campus' physical assets, these professionals are charged with improving students' learning environments, saving money, and maintaining the historical and aesthetic integrity of their buildings. For schools and universities that have not replaced their windows in many years, a window systems upgrade can help meet these challenges by creating facilities that are more comfortable, energy efficient, and conducive to learning. Many windows systems found in older institutions are leaky, single-glazed with conductive framing systems. They can be difficult or even dangerous to operate, promote unhealthy condensation, mold or mildew formation, and require occupants to keep away from exterior walls to avoid glare, drafts, and noise. In this article, the author discusses some considerations when upgrading and renovating educational facilities' windows systems. (Contains 2 notes.)
Reexamining Carnegie Research Institutions: Evidence from IPEDS Data
Author: Fife, Brian L.
Date: 2004-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Doctoral Degrees,Classification,Change,Criteria,Expenditures,Pattern Recognition,Public Service,Federal Aid,Institutional Mission,Research

Officials at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching changed the system that had been used to classify institutions of higher education in 2000. Part of the redesign was a change in the criteria for placement of doctoral degree granting institutions. Especially noteworthy was the removal of specific levels of research funding as a distinguishing feature of commitment to research. Do the new criteria accurately capture differences in priorities as measured by expenditures across all educational categories? Are there significant differences in overall patterns of spending that distinguish the types of graduate programs categorized by the new instrument? This research effort is an attempt to address these questions by examining expenditures in three major categories of university operations--research, instruction, and public service. (Contains 3 tables.)
Learning Sociology: Successful Majors Tell Their Story
Author: McKinney, Kathleen
Date: 2004-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Majors (Students),Sociology,Undergraduate Students,Undergraduate Study,Interviews,Honors Curriculum,Constructivism (Learning),Student Attitudes,Instructional Materials,Instruction,Teaching Methods

The focus of this study is to begin to answer the question of how sociology majors come to learn their discipline. In this article, I report on the findings from the first study in a multi-method project on this topic. I conducted a group interview with honors sociology majors from around the United States. Students discussed several questions related to learning sociology. Themes that emerged, and which may be useful in a number of disciplines, included the need to make connections, the importance of other people, talking about the material, experiencing varied pedagogies, and the active construction of knowledge.
E-Journals: Reflections and Communication Improve Learning Outcomes
Author: Banker, Teresa G.
Date: 2004-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Journal Writing,College Mathematics,Content Area Writing,Mathematics Instruction,Student Journals,College Students,Higher Education,Electronic Mail,Instructional Effectiveness,Academic Achievement,Mathematical Concepts,Communication Skills

This report describes how journaling and email were used to benefit both the teacher and her students on a college campus in Georgia. The report outlines how decisions were made about the content of the journals, submission deadline considerations, and concerns about the e-journal process. Benefits to the teacher/professor are enumerated and discussed as are benefits to the students. E-journaling has been a successful experiment, which, seemingly, has improved the education process for these students and others as well.
Are Learning Styles a Good Predictor for Integrating Instructional Technology into a Curriculum?
Author: Ross, Craig M.
Date: 2004-05-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cognitive Style,Electronic Mail,Student Attitudes,Computer Attitudes,Multiple Regression Analysis,Educational Technology,Technology Integration,Technology Uses in Education,Student Surveys,Prediction,Predictor Variables,Gender Differences,College Students,Age Differences,Majors (Students),Internet,Higher Education

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between learning styles and students' attitudes towards the use of technology in a leisure study curriculum. All 422 subjects completed the Kolb learning style inventory (LSI) and a computer attitudes survey (CAS) developed by the authors. The LSI is a standardized assessment utilized to identify differences among individual learning styles and corresponding learning environments. The CAS measured students' attitudes towards the use of technology. Multiple regression analysis, used to distinguish whether attitude toward technology could be predicted by gender, class standing, major concentration, and learning style, showed no significant difference. Results supported the literature regarding the steady increase in the use of electronic mail and the Internet by students in higher education. (Contains 1 figure and 4 tables.)
Teaching and Learning Physics: A Model for Coordinating Physics Instruction, Outreach, and Research
Author: Finkelstein, Noah D.
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Outreach Programs,Physics,Service Learning,College Science,Science Instruction,Qualitative Research,Mastery Learning,Theory Practice Relationship,Program Effectiveness,Program Implementation,Motivation,Models,Partnerships in Education,School Community Programs,School Community Relationship

This paper describes the development of a new university physics course designed to integrate physics, education, research, and community partnerships. The coordinated system of activities links the new course to local community efforts in pre-college education, university education, university outreach, and research on teaching and learning. As documented both by gains on conceptual surveys and by qualitative analyses of field-notes and audiotapes of class, the course facilitates student learning of physics, as well as student mastery of theories and practices of teaching and learning physics. Simultaneously, the course supports university efforts in community outreach and creates a rich environment for education research. The following narrative describes the motivation, structure, implementation, effectiveness, and potential for extending and sustaining this alternative model for university level science education. (Contains 2 figures and 6 footnotes.)
Students' Evaluation of Tertiary Educational Goals: The Impact of Lecturer and Student Characteristics
Author: Caltabiano, Nerina J.
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Effectiveness,Educational Practices,Student Characteristics,Teacher Characteristics,Student Educational Objectives,Educational Objectives,College Students,Teacher Behavior,Postsecondary Education,Questionnaires,Teacher Student Relationship

This study is concerned with how tertiary students evaluate educational goals within their degree programs. Crooks' (1988) classification of educational practices in terms of short-term and medium-term consequences is used. This study assesses the viability of his classificatory system within a university student sample. The current study extends previous research by considering both lecturer characteristics (e.g., lecturer supportiveness, teaching quality, approachability of lecturing staff and availability of lecturing staff) and student characteristics (e.g., age and student's year level) which may predict how educational practices are evaluated. Evaluation data are provided by 164 volunteer students (31.5% males and 68.5% females). The principal component analysis was able to establish a list of short-term and medium-term goals appropriate for a university student sample. Lecturer supportiveness predicts short-term goals while teaching quality and student's year level predicted medium-term goals. (Contains 4 tables.)
"The Map Is Not the Territory": Stories from the Classroom
Author: Strong-Wilson, Teresa
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Teachers,Teaching Methods,Preservice Teachers,Learning Processes,Teacher Educators,Learning Theories,Higher Education

Gregory Bateson's (1988) enigmatic phrase, "The map is not the territory," carries a provocative message for scholarship on teaching and learning. I explore the implications of Bateson's phrase by way of reflecting on Bateson within the context of my own classroom story, which was based on teaching a literacy course to pre-service teachers. Teaching and learning comprise the "territory" while the curriculum is the "map." The teacher-educator helps the student teacher construct bridges from one realm to the other by way of a process in which both teacher-educator and student teacher are participants. Learning is reconceptualized as about learning about the learning process itself rather than being focused on producing a map.
Collaborative Testing and Test Anxiety
Author: Breedlove, William
Date: 2004-09-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Attitudes,Test Anxiety,Undergraduate Students,Evidence,Cooperation,Cooperative Learning,Classroom Techniques,Introductory Courses,Sociology

Prior research concluded that collaborative learning reduces test anxiety. Examination of the evidence used in that research, however, calls into question those conclusions. The present study used an empirical measure of test anxiety and an experimental design to provide an improved estimate of the effect of collaboration in an evaluative context on test anxiety. The findings show no significant difference in test anxiety between students who collaborate on their exam and students who work alone. The ability to organize information is found to have a significant effect on test anxiety and that effect differs between collaborating students and those working alone. (Contains 4 tables and 3 footnotes.)
A Delicate Balance: Service-Learning in Teacher Education
Author: Ball, Douglas
Date: 2005-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Education,Teacher Educators,Service Learning,Student Projects,School Community Relationship,Reflection

A consortium of teacher education professors worked together in a 3 year project to infuse service-learning into their courses. Although they had participated in the same preparatory workshops, they largely integrated it in ways that appeared to eclipse S-L orthodoxy. To understand their variances we examined the choices and contexts that shaped their "hybrid" projects. Our findings suggest a schema for emergent service-learning in teacher education. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.)
A Brief Career Intervention: Psychology Students' Changed Views of Life beyond a Baccalaureate
Author: Rajecki, D. W.
Date: 2005-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Students,Majors (Students),Psychology,Career Development,Education Work Relationship,Occupational Information,Career Choice,Intervention,Academic Aspiration,Grade Point Average

Most (77%) of a sample of some 300 undergraduate psychology majors indicated plans for a Master's or PhD degree, and most expressed high valuation of a job with a Bachelor's degree. Respondents then received a brief career intervention via a take-home booklet containing information about admission to graduate school, and features of jobs with a baccalaureate. Subsequently, regarding graduate school, 30% of the students reported less interest, 64% indicated reduced estimates of own chances of admission, 49% raised estimates of prerequisite GPA, and 51% lowered estimates of percent applicants accepted. There were suggestions of coherence in changed views: for example, change scores for interest in-, and own chances for graduate school correlated 0.26. Attitudes toward jobs were generally unaffected. We offer our brief psychology career intervention as a general model for research and advising in other non-preprofessional undergraduate programs. (Contains 2 tables.)
Mock Interview Strategy: An Action Research Study of Administrator and Teacher Candidates' Preparation for Interview Field Experience
Author: Harchar, Rayma
Date: 2005-01-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Interviews,Simulation,Skill Development,Action Research,Models,Administrators,Preservice Teachers,Peer Relationship,Research Methodology,Undergraduate Students,Graduate Students,Research Design,Self Efficacy,Field Experience Programs

Schools of graduate and undergraduate education can be of great help to each other. To be an effective interviewer or interviewee, a person must have experience. The perceived self-efficacy of interviewing skills may help in actual interviews. A mock interview strategy is proposed to help administrator and teacher candidates become proficient in the interview process while helping one another. Action Research methods were used as the research design and theoretical framework. Data were gathered from: observation, reflection on practice, narratives and student surveys. A total of 170 surveys were completed. Results indicated that perceived self-efficacy was improved and the experience was worthwhile. Improvements and changes to the strategy were implemented. (Contains 2 tables.)