Provost

As a construct, resilience has been studied by researchers for a number of years. Researchers observed that children and youth could cope and adapt despite being exposed to risk and adversity. Adolescence is especially considered to be a period of vulnerability for most young people as they often participate in high risk behaviors (DeChesnay, 2005; Erikson, 1968). Further, these individuals who are in their early college years are often faced with the developmental challenges of this…

I sat there on the floor. The campus police hovered over us, lecturing us concerning our violation of university housing policy. Merely thirty minutes after my first college drinking experience, I was in trouble. It was only October, and I had only been in college since late August. Uncommon to my character, there I was in a predicament. If placed in a similar situation most would regret it, but not me. Instead, embracing my mistake has helped me develop discipline and mature in more ways than…

One reason is because they are very expensive to build. In his essay, A Roadmap for U.S. Nuclear Innovation, Richard K. Lester, an associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, estimates that new nuclear technology could cost over 10 billion dollars. This is well beyond the reaches of the United States government in the current fiscal state. He suggests leaving this spending…

ondoleezza Rice was born on November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama to John Wesley Rice Jr. and Angelena Rice. Her father, was a Presbyterian minister in Birmingham's Westminster Presbyterian Church, as well as a coach and a guidance counselor in a black public school. Her mother, was a teacher and an avid opera lover, which explains why she named her only child after and Italian expression "con dolcezza" which means "with sweetness." Despite growing up in the segregated south, attending a…

company named Detering developed problems due to the fact he couldn’t let go of the past. He thought about his farm, his wife, and the blossom tree he had which eventually lead him to desert. No one knows if he survived or got caught and shot by a provost. Unlike Detering hunt explains that Paul and the others are not looking back; they are living through the traumatic experi- ence of war. Remarque wrote All Quiet On the Western Front to depict the brutality of war, show the psychological and…

“You are dealing with people’s emotions, but you have to do what’s best for the university,” Schonavec said. “It doesn’t make this easy, and I tried to keep my own personal feelings about guns out of this.” Schovanec also serves as the university Provost and Senior Vice President. Jay Martin, a senior agricultural economics major from Tahoka, Texas, said he thinks campus carry will increase student’s…

Economic Analysis of the Consequences of Corruption I. A Reduction in Investment and Capital Inflows Both Lambsdorff (n.d) and Tanzi (1998) are in agreement that corruption reduces the attractiveness of a nation to investors. Investors in this case should be understood to be both domestic and foreign. To this effect, Lambsdorff (n.d) affirms that corruption increases the risk factors of a nation, which are taken into account in determining the economic viability of a particular country as a…

ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT In 2013, The University of Texas at Austin transitioned admissions, retention, and several student support and enrollment related services in the Provost portfolio from disconnected and loosely associated units to an organized structure with central oversight. Under the leadership of Dr. David Laude, Sr. Vice Provost for Enrollment and Graduation Management, enrollment management at UT organizes the offices of Admissions, Student Financial Services, the Registrar, Student…

Fresno Pacific university is a non-profit Christian university founded by the Mennonite Brethren Church as a post-secondary school in 1944 (Fresno Pacific University, 2016). The school’s current student population is estimated around 3500, and a majority of students are either enrolled as traditional undergraduate, Degree Completion or are in a Graduate program. The paper provides an overview of college design, how the hierarchical structure of communication works within the university and in…

Nazarene University (ONU), I served as an active member of several program review committees charged with evaluating the effectiveness of various degree programs, and led the review of one high profile program. I worked closely with the Associate Provost to revise the academic program review process at Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) to incorporate assessment reports and data in the review process. As Chair of the Liberal and Applied Arts College Council at SFA, I oversaw the college…