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Expanding Roles and Resources: Assessing the Collaboration between Florida Atlantic University Libraries and Taras Oceanographic Foundation
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Arrieta, Diane; Brunnick, Barbara; Plocharczyk, Leah – Public Services Quarterly, 2015
As academic libraries struggle to remain relevant when technological advancements and electronic resources threaten to make them obsolete, libraries are learning to re-invent themselves by molding and adapting staff skills to cultivate innovative outreach programs. The Science Outreach Committee of the John D. MacArthur Campus library at Florida…
Descriptors: Oceanography, Academic Libraries, Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation
Finding the SurPriSe: A Case Study of a Faculty Learning Community
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Michel, Roberta M. – Academic Leadership Journal in Student Research, 2014
This article details a faculty learning community (FLC) that started in 2009 on the campus of a Midwestern University and has evolved into an interdisciplinary research, teaching and social community of practice and learning called SurPriSe. SurPriSe is an acronym that reflects the interest area of the FLC; Sur for surveillance, Pri for privacy,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Institutional Characteristics
Expanding Our Understanding of the Inquiry Process
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Stafford, Tish; Stemple, Jennifer – Library Media Connection, 2011
School librarians know the importance of collaboration. They cannot run effective school library programs unless they work closely with classroom teachers. They have learned that deep collaboration is a fluid process that evolves over time. Only as connections are made and relationships are forged can real instructional progress occur. Yet it…
Descriptors: Cooperation, School Libraries, Library Services, Librarians
Group Decision Making in Higher Education Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process.
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Liberatore, Matthew J.; Nydick, Robert L. – Research in Higher Education, 1997
Examines application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to group decision-making and evaluation situations in higher education. The approach is illustrated by (1) evaluation of academic research papers at Villanova University (Pennsylvania), and (2) a suggested adaptation for the more complex problem of institutionwide strategic planning.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, Decision Making, Group Dynamics
An Off-Campus Retreat for Elementary Teacher Preparation
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Jones, Vern; Wolff, Bernard R. – College Student Journal, 1976
The study was designed to provide an informal, structured, off-campus retreat to enable college students to gain knowledge about one another and themselves as a means of developing improved cooperation with and concern for each other in their college methods classes. Data indicated positive group feelings after the retreat. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Group Dynamics, Group Experience, Higher Education
Nursing Education Research in the South.
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Huggins, Kenneth, Ed. – 1980
This publication presents papers and abstracts of research from a project to stimulate nursing education research in the South. The five papers in section 1 discuss some major developments in nursing education research, including (1) past and future of research in the south, (2) conducting clinical instruction of health science students and…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Curriculum, Educational Research, Faculty Development