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Case study analysis of a college fraternity utilizing alcohol -free housing
No full textThis dissertation draws on the disciplines of cultural anthropology, history, and higher education administration to complete an ethnographic case study analysis of a college fraternity operating under alcohol-free housing policies. Qualitative research methods were used to investigate the primary research question: “How does a college fraternity culture maintain an alcohol-free housing facility?” This study is believed to be the first of its kind in reviewing a critical fraternal case unit operating under alcohol-free housing policies. The study reveals the unique operations and culture of this fraternity chapter as it pertains to the alcohol-free housing policy. Data collection was completed through participant observation of the case unit, document review of organizational archives, and semi-formal interviews conducted with current students and former members. The literature review for this study revealed that alcohol-free housing policies are a growing trend in higher education. The fraternity observed for this study was successful in maintaining its alcohol-free housing policy over time, but not without complications and attacks from the forces of cultural erosion. The study produced several key success factors for the case unit, including: Environmental Factors, Recruitment, Social Alternatives, Brotherhood and Friendship, and Enforcement. These key factors were used to build a conceptual model for success with alcohol-free housing policies
Determining the feasibility of collaborative academic programs: A program development model
No full textThe purpose of this study was to test the utility of a proposed conceptual model for determining the feasibility of collaborative academic programs. Based on a review of three distinct bodies of literature—the scholarship of engagement, higher education feasibility studies, and academic program development—a conceptual model was designed and tested as a decision-making tool for higher education professionals, including both faculty and administrators, who consider the prospects of developing an academic program in partnership with an organization external to the university. The study was framed as a qualitative study that embraced both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Integrating theoretical and practical perspectives, it functioned as an embedded case study that examined multiple subunits or perspectives embedded in the larger, single case, namely, the feasibility of expanding an existing master\u27s degree program at Purdue University via collaboration with external partners. These subunits included input from: faculty; institutional mission; institutional resources; accreditation; governmental oversight; prospective students; prospective program partners; prospective funding partners; current and potential employers; pedagogy; admission projections; and the political environment. The study accordingly produced a variety of results that are discussed on multiple levels. This included the feasibility of expanding the specific program at Purdue University. It also included the context for program expansion, specifically, the current national landscape for K–12 and higher education financial administration. Finally, the results suggested that the conceptual model offers higher education decision-makers an effective, comprehensive instrument for determining the feasibility of collaborative academic programs
The impact of alumni satisfaction with their undergraduate academic experience on alumni *giving and alumni participation
No full textThe hypothesis for this research was the higher the level of academic satisfaction the higher subsequent alumni involvement would be. Alumni involvement was defined as alumni giving and/or alumni participation with their alma mater within the last three years. There were 1,608 alumni from a large state university who participated in the research out of the 3,397 alumni who received invitations to participate resulting in a 47.3 percent response rate. Participants completed a revised edition of the Comprehensive Alumni Assessment Survey via the Internet. The revised CAAS collected data regarding alumni satisfaction with the academic system, demographics, involvement in extracurricular activities, and current involvement as alumni. Data were analyzed in four steps. Step one analyzed alumni satisfaction with the academic system. Step two analyzed demographic and extracurricular data. Step three analyzed alumni responses within age cohorts. The final step was a qualitative analysis of comments made by participating alumni. Findings demonstrated a significant positive relationship between alumni satisfaction with the academic system as undergraduates and current alumni involvement with their alma mater
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Rethinking faculty work : higher education's strategic imperative
No full textThis book is to provide a vision of academic work and workerplaces as expressed in institutional policies and practices that, if adopted, will atract superb faculty who are commited to fulfilling the missions of the colleges and universities where they work
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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