SACS重申小组将于4月6日至8日访问
March 30, 2010
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SACS重申小组将于4月6日至8日访问
VALDOSTA -- Representatives with the Southern Association of
大学 and Schools (SACS) Commission on 大学 will visit
美高梅博彩 April 6-8, as part of the reaffirmation
process, which takes place every ten years. The final reaffirmation
confirmation is anticipated by the SACS Commission on 大学 in
December 2010.
A major aspect of the reaffirmation process involves the
development and implementation of a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP).
Valdosta State selected the QEP “本科 Engagement in
Discipline-Based Inquiry,” which will focus on opportunities for
Faculty and 本科 Student Engagement (FUSE).
“FUSE provides students with focused opportunities for engaging in
faculty research and scholarly activities appropriate to the
discipline,” said Dr. Kristina Cragg, assistant to the president
for Strategic Research and Analysis. “Through an open, competitive
process that valued broad-based involvement in the QEP, a call for
proposals was issued for innovative projects that achieve the QEP
goals and articulate their own student-learning outcomes and
assessments.”
The projects will involve a paradigm shift to reinforce the message
that research is performed in more places than a traditional
laboratory. Working on the premise that not all research is
conducted within a conventional laboratory setting, individual
projects were selected to provide students with opportunities to
conduct research and scholarly activities appropriate to their
selected discipline.
The six projects are varied and include research in the areas of
anti-cancer drugs, military history, nursing and healthcare, child
and adult language analysis, kitchen designs for the elderly, and
social inequalities of Hispanic immigrants along the U.S. and
Mexico border.
“We selected six projects that first and foremost would have the
greatest impact on undergraduate student learning,” said Dr. James
LaPlant, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. “我的
hope is this will become part of the educational fabric of this
institution’s culture and faculty members will routinely consider
projects that will engage the undergraduate student in a positive
research experience.”
LaPlant, who chaired the second phase of the QEP task force, said
the QEP project will open the door for students working towards
acceptance in graduate school.
“A positive undergraduate research experience may open a student’s
thinking to the possibilities of graduate school,” LaPlant said.
“Possibly first generation college students, who never thought
about extending their undergraduate experiences, will discover
during the process of inquiry that they want to pursue a graduate
degree and extend their research opportunities.”
Dr. Karla Hull, interim assistant vice president for Research and
dean of the 研究生 School, is responsible for monitoring the
progress of each project and assisting the project coordinators
with measuring the outcomes that were identified in each
proposal.
“Each project will have its own specific learning outcomes and
methods for measuring results,” Hull said. “The project
coordinators will be responsible for gathering the necessary
baseline data.”
本科 students will gain specific research skills,
especially within their chosen discipline, and the success of each
project will focus on how well each student applies those
skills.
“The projects will give undergraduate students confidence in their
ability to perform higher level quality academic work,” Hull said.
“Students will gain specific research skills and enhance their
analytic thought process for problem solving.”
The SACS reaffirmation team will review Valdosta State’s QEP
project (FUSE) during their on-site visit. The projects are
scheduled to begin in 2011, with funds allocated by the
university’s Planning and Budget Council.
The following six FUSE projects were selected:
1. Cutting Edge Cancer Research with 本科s: 本科
students will work to produce economical and effective medicinal
agents for testing as an anti-cancer pharmaceutical. (Dr. Thomas
Manning, Department of Chemistry)
2. Summer Archival Field Experience in History: 本科
students will learn how to conduct archival research in military
history and have an archival field experience at the U.S. Army
Heritage Education Center. (Dr. John Dunn, Department of
History)
3. Preparing Scholars of Tomorrow to Effectively Analyze Language
Sample Data for Parent-Child Turn Taking: 本科 students
will collect and analyze language samples of child-parent dyads,
learning how to conduct ethical research, review literature,
collect data, and perform analysis of the data. (Drs。 Jade H.
Coston, Ruth H. Stonestreet and Corine C. 我的ers-Jennings,
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders)
4. Evidence-Based Practice Strategies for Nursing and Health Care:
Nursing students will work with nurse researchers in clinical
settings, generating evidence-based clinical questions in
collaboration with nurses and health care professionals involved in
clinical research projects. (Drs。 Maura Schlairet, Anita Hufft and
Melissa Benton, College of Nursing)
5. Discovering Unrealized Generational Differences in Kitchen
Design Preferences between Next-Generation Interior Designers and
Current Resident-Users: Interior design students will research the
differences between kitchen layouts in assisted living residences
designed by interior design students and those designed by
residents, developing research-supported methods for inquiry into
the processes and outcomes of interior design practice. (Jessica
Goldsmith, Department of Art)
6. Investigating Social Inequalities of Hispanic Immigrants through
the U.S.-Mexico Borderland Experience: 本科 students will
engage in qualitative research via ethnographic interviews and
participant observation, examining the social construction of race,
gender, class, and ethnicity and the impact of globalization on the
El Paso-Ciudad Juarez border region. (Dr. Tracy Woodard-Meyers,
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Drs. Kathryn J.
Schmidt and Shani P. Gray, Department of Sociology, Anthropology
and Criminal Justice)
For more information, students should contact their academic
adviser or visit the QEP Web site at www.mgmbetbc.com/qep
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