Faculty

When I was growing up, school days were little more than tests of endurance. The days seemed endless and the homework impossible to complete. Like many of my classmates, I was the child of immigrant parents who had received only an elementary education. What was it like, I wondered, to have someone who could help with homework and understood the social dynamics of school? But, like my hard-working parents, I also felt certain that I had a mission in life, and that one day I would achieve…

successfully find a place in the world. The faculty at Pitt are some of the most notable and influential in their field. Not only do they instruct their students, but they conduct research with and mentor them as well. This investment into their students’ futures and education is not found in every educational institution. The dedication the faculty and staff of the university have for their students will create an environment designed for student success. The faculty is not the only aspect…

experience with the first study, an examination of mood effects on time perception, led to other research endeavors on topics including student evaluation of faculty, academic integrity, and comparisons of personality profiles of brain injured individuals. The relevance of two of these projects, academic honesty and student evaluation of faculty, led me to present my results at two College Forums. At St. Louis University, I am specifically interested in the research efforts of Harvey Austrin…

Technology has shaped the way people see things all around the world . The new technological advances that have appeared in the past decade have given people more ways of communication, potential for learning experiences, and much more ways to access the World Wide Web. It’s important for schools across the world to take advantage of these new resources and learn as much as they possibly can about them. To influence any kind of change in the way people learn things, one must find a starting…

High Jazz Festival presented by Flesher Hinton Co. on February 16, 2017. The event took place in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder at 7:30 pm. The concert consisted of a student ensemble and then after a short intermission a faculty ensemble. I decided for this report to select the most impactful song from each ensemble and write about their musical components. The student ensemble consisted of: a piano, a bass, drums, a guitar, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, 2 alto saxophones,…

Alverno College is a small liberal arts school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where faculty believes that education means “being able to do what one knows” (Locker & Metkowski, 1993, p. 7). Alverno College is so committed to leadership development that they created a Community Leadership major that focuses on civic engagement and ethical leadership. They incorporate theory and practical experience that focuses on developing ethical leaders for tomorrow! The essential ingredient in Alverno’s approach…

the most ridiculous form of dress code. Dress coding this harshly can promote negative feelings about their bodies, when they already feel bad enough. Making “thumb width” tank-tops mandatory in order to maintain the focus of the male students and faculty is outrageous. Shaming female students for allowing their shoulders or bra straps to show is ridiculous. When did a girl’s shoulder become distracting for boys? On a hot day, I will gladly throw on a tank-top, but I think twice about it…

report violations as they deemed a violation in their respective course was the first offense committed by the student. A request was made to centralize the data collection and encourage each instructor to make a report. The new structure allowed faculty and staff access to a students record which helped them apply appropriate sanctions. Failure to report such violations could lead up to termination. Changing Developed and Implemented a Change Control Process. The purpose of this process was…

The first matter at hand is how the runner is able to perceive the pain. Descartes explains that sensory perception, along with imagination, are modes of the mind. They are not fundamental to him, such that he can conceive of himself without them, but he could not conceive sensory perception and imagination without a mind to contain them. A mind, with intellectual substance, is essential to sensory perception and imagination in the same way that a mode of an extension needs an extension to exist…

work with course developers, instructional designers, and faculty to provide the needed resources. In Fall 2015, I became the liaison to the Liberal Studies department. I will be working with the Liberal Studies students by being embedded in their capstone course and designing a LibGuide for their program. My liaison responsibilities to the Psychological Sciences department ended in August of 2015. I enjoyed working closely with the faculty to meet their library instruction needs and…