Campus Initiatives Research Articles

Intercollegiate Athlete as Student Leader

The chapter explores student-athlete campus engagement and challenges faced by athletes that may impede leadership development. The roles of athletic academic advisors, team coaches, and teammates in leadership development are outlined. Current campus initiatives directly related to intercollegiate athlete leadership development are also shared.

Campus sustainability initiatives and performance: do they correlate?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that there are correlations between campus sustainability initiatives and environmental performance, as measured by resource consumption and waste generation performance metrics. Institutions of higher education would like to imply that their campus sustainability initiatives are good proxies for their environmental performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using data reported through the Association for the Advancement in Higher Education’s Sustainability Tracking and Rating System (AASHE STARS) framework, a series of univariate multiple linear regression models were constructed to test for correlations between energy, greenhouse gas (GHG), water and waste performance metrics, and credit points awarded to institutions for various campus sustainability initiatives. Findings – There are very limited correlations between institutional environmental performance and adoption of campus sustainability initiatives, be they targeted operational or coordination and planning best practices, or curricular, co-curricular or research activities. Conversely, there are strong correlations between environmental performance and campus characteristics, namely, institution type and climate zone. Practical implications – Institutional decision makers should not assume that implementing best practices given credit by AASHE STARS will lead to improved environmental performance. Those assessing institutional sustainability should be wary of institutions who cite initiatives to imply a certain level of environmental performance or performance improvement. Originality/value – This is the first paper to use data reported through the AASHE STARS framework to assess correlations between campus initiatives and environmental performance. It extends beyond previous research by considering energy, water and waste performance metrics in addition to GHG emissions, and it considers campus sustainability initiatives in addition to campus characteristics.

Cognitive Social Learners: An Architecture for Modeling Normative Behavior

In many cases, creating long-term solutions to sustainability issues requires not only innovative technology, but also large-scale public adoption of the proposed solutions. Social simulations are a valuable but underutilized tool that can help public policy researchers understand when sustainable practices are likely to make the delicate transition from being an individual choice to becoming a social norm. In this paper, we introduce a new normative multi-agent architecture, Cognitive Social Learners (CSL), that models bottom-up norm emergence through a social learning mechanism, while using BDI (Belief/Desire/Intention) reasoning to handle adoption and compliance. CSL preserves a greater sense of cognitive realism than influence propagation or infectious transmission approaches, enabling the modeling of complex beliefs and contradictory objectives within an agent-based simulation. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of CSL for modeling norm emergence of recycling practices and public participation in a smoke-free campus initiative.

College Counseling Today: Contemporary Students and How Counseling Centers Meet Their Needs

There is evidence that today’s college and university students are struggling with emotional and behavioral health problems at higher rates than in past generations. This article explores the various ways, utilizing a range of models, that college and university counseling centers have mobilized to respond to these challenges. We examine literature about the characteristics and concerns of the current student generation along with what counseling centers are doing to respond to the challenge of student needs. We describe a survey (N = 408) of members of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors (AUCCCD) and American College Counseling Association (ACCA) that elicited the kinds of services, functions, structures, and organizational relationships found in today’s counseling centers. In addition to confirming the core mission of providing counseling and psychotherapy, the survey revealed widespread counseling center collaboration and consultation activities beyond the counseling room. The survey also indicated a variety of administrative and structural arrangements in the way counseling centers are placed on their individual campuses. Finally, we suggest a framework for planning, executing, and evaluating counseling center and campus initiatives.

The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program

Developing partnerships between various library and campus programs or initiatives can be beneficial in today's digital information climate. This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. It also details the workflow used for tasks such as checking into copyright issues, issuing deposit agreements and handling paperwork and correspondences as part of the repository ingest process. The partnership resulted in benefits for the fund program, the repository, and the fund recipients.

Lessons for Sustainability: Perceptions of a Smoke-free Campus Initiative

Lessons for Sustainability: Perceptions of a Smoke-free Campus Initiative

GREEN CAMPUS INITIATIVE: TRANSFORMING LAW IN BOOK INTO LAW IN ACTION

Global warming has become a serious threat to our earth today. To overcome the problems of global warming, various parties should get involved including campus community (students, staff and faculty members). The participation of tertiary education institutions in minimizing global warming is referred to as ‘green campus initiative’ (GCI). This participation is mandated by Law No.32 of 2009 on Environmental Protection and Management. This paper suggests the adoption of GCI and provides a GCI model for Indonesian higher education institutions. This paper also discusses the GCI activities which can be adopted either by small or big campuses in Indonesia. Pemanasan global telah menjadi ancaman serius bagi bumi kita dewasa ini. Untuk mengatasi masalah pemanasan global, berbagai pihak telah terlibat termasuk komunitas kampus (mahasiswa, karyawan dan dosen). Partisipasi perguruan tinggi dalam meminimalkan pemanasan global dinamakan ‘green campus initiative (GCI)’. Partisipasi ini diamanatkan oleh Undang-Undang Nomor 32 Tahun 2009 tentang Perlindungan dan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup. Makalah ini menyarankan penerapan GCI dan memberikan Model GCI untuk perguruan tinggi di Indonesia. Makalah ini juga membahas kegiatan-kegiatan GCI yang dapat digunakan baik oleh kampus kecil maupun besar di Indonesia

Facilitating the Moral Growth of College Students

Contributors to Facilitating the Moral Growth of College Students introduce and apply James Rest’s four component model of moral functioning to diverse student affairs contexts and discuss ways to support collegians’ moral growth. This edited book contains both theoretical and historical overviews of moral development in higher education, as well as diverse and innovative campus initiatives that foster moral growth. Student affairs educators will find the tightly interwoven theoretical and practical discussions beneficial.

The Challenges of Infusing Entrepreneurship within Non-Business Disciplines and Measuring Outcomes

Entrepreneurship has seen rapid growth in the 21 st century. As an academic discipline, entrepreneurship has spread its wings, escaped busi- ness schools and nested within non-business disciplines in academia. The focus of this Entrepreneurship Research Journal Special Issue, Campus Entrepreneurship Education is to trace the development of this occurrence. In this overarching article describing the special issue, we briefly introduce some of the early stimulants of entrepreneurship education. This includes providing histor- ical perspectives on how entrepreneurship became a global phenomenon. The rapid growth is continuing as entrepreneurship education becomes infused in disciplines such as arts, sciences, engineering, humanities, technology and social sciences. We examine how entrepreneurship curricula and campus ecosystems for entrepreneurship education have evolved. We draw from articles selected for this special issue of Entrepreneurship Research Journal to consider why and how this phenomenon is happening. This includes identifying both facilitators and obsta- cles associated with the proliferation of entrepreneurship education. Cross Campus Entrepreneurship prototypes utilized by The Coleman Foundation Faculty Fellows Program, The Kern Engineering Entrepreneurship Network and The Kauffman Campus Initiative are explained. The Fellows Program is presented as a potential testing ground for establishing norms for infusing entrepreneurship across non-business disciplines and assessing effectiveness of such initiatives. The authors of the articles published in this special issue demonstrate that approaches to educating students in multiple majors with entrepreneurship concepts have been themselves entrepreneurial. Universities with cross-campus programs have been creative, innovative and even disruptive. We give particular attention to challenges associated with assessing the effectiveness of the initiatives. It is evident that effective outcomes assessment will be critical in the future to ensure that campus-wide educational efforts do not become diluted and dysfunctional. There are numerous difficulties associated with such assessments, not the least of which may be the time lag that can be expected between instruction and fruition. Nevertheless, experiments in assessments that are already underway are explained. Multiple stakeholders, including government and academic institutions

Successes and Challenges of a Distant Faculty Model

The planning, implementation, and evaluation of a 2-year pilot project for a distant faculty model is presented through the reflections of the distant faculty member and other stakeholders. A school of nursing with a 15-year history of offering distance education graduate programs served as the setting for this project. Overall, the distant faculty model was successful. It is anticipated that new opportunities to explore the distant faculty role will exist as the university expands its current online campus initiatives. This distant faculty model can be adopted by other schools of nursing interested in employing faculty at a distance and provides an opportunity to manage faculty shortage.

Designing games in the classroom: Learning benefits

Designing games in the classroom: Learning benefits

Electronic Media Learning Materials of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India: An Analytical Study.

The establishment of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) in 1985 has been a milestone in the growth of higher education in India. A very special feature of the University is that a composite of several instructional methods in practice are aimed at giving effective support to distance learners. Self-instructional print materials are the mainstay of the courseware. Besides this, at the support centres, the learners attend a few face-to-face counselling sessions and get access to audio-video materials stocked in the library. Gyandarshan and Gyanvani, the educational television and radio channels broadcast programmes with academic content. The curriculum-based audio-video programmes developed by the University are supplementary in nature. This blending of traditional printed self-learning materials with electronic courseware is a conscious decision of the University which is intended to enhance the quality and effectiveness of learning. Over the years, audio and video cassettes have made way for digital compact discs. Resultant development in information and communication technology heralded virtual campus initiatives of IGNOU, conspicuous among them being the creation of eGyanKosh, the digital repository of the learning materials of IGNOU. Nevertheless, majority of the academic programmes are not being provided audio video supports. The paper analyses the application of electronic media in IGNOU’s course delivery platform.

Entrepreneurship Education Comes of Age on Campus: The Challenges and Rewards of Bringing Entrepreneurship to Higher Education

As the Kauffman Campus Initiative reaches its conclusion, we at the Foundation see an opportunity to take a first cut at distilling the lessons learned from the widespread, but variegated, adoption of entrepreneurship education. As part of this effort, we solicited the views of academics and administrators at sixteen institutions with notable entrepreneurship education programs — some of them “Kauffman Campuses,” some not — to discuss common practices and challenges. (Participating people and institutions are listed in appendix I.) In addition to gathering written submissions, we spent a day in four sessions of directed conversation about what is going well and not so well in their worlds. The themes, questions, and choices they discussed, plus the judgments and analysis of Foundation staff and others who were consulted along the way, are distilled here. This paper’s methodology is deliberately qualitative. We make no effort to conduct a statistical census or a comprehensive survey of the field (which would be a formidable undertaking). The goal of this paper is simply to lay groundwork for a discussion of the state of entrepreneurship education as it leaves adolescence, so to speak, and enters its prime. We seek to clarify choices; to reflect on emerging norms and on successes and failures; to provide guidance for new entrants; and, above all, to spark a conversation about the next phase.

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The concept of Green campus has recently become an issue with the fact that universities are classified as energy gluttons. This study clearly defines the meaning of domestic green campus, and explores the operating system of green campus and related associations. Then, it draws implications from the case of Harvard University. For the research, reports and research papers of the University are examined thoroughly, and detailed information were confirmed through visiting to the official home page and emails with authorities. The green campus support institutions of the United States are making efforts to integrate overlapping functions and create a synergy effect through internal interchange and information exchange, and substantive collaboration. Also, it is drawing active participation from students and faculties of American universities by publicizing and raising various methods of funding to manage them. The primary factors of Harvard University`s success are: voluntary participation from all members, the coordinated operation of the administrative division to be the center of the green campus initiative and the cooperation of each department. Other critical factors of Harvard`s success are their fundraising capability, and specialized management institution. The study has significance in that it draws applicable implications on domestic Green campus through in-depth analysis, which surpasses introduction of preceding studies.

How Well Are College Freshmen Meeting Recommendations for Fruits, Vegetables, Whole Grains, Physical Activity, and Sleep?

The Better Eating Starts Today (B.E.S.T.) Project is an intervention to support healthy campus initiatives to prevent obesity among college students. The project is integrated into multiple offerings of a required health and fitness course at Oregon State University running Sep 2012‐Mar 2014. A 24‐item online pre/post survey measures health related behavior changes resulting from the class intervention. This abstract describes self‐reported baseline pre‐survey data from 281 consenting participants recruited from the Fall 2012 enrollment of 1,876. Mean age was 19.2 ± 3.2 years (55% female) and mean Body Mass Index was 23.3 ± 4.7. More than half (52%) of all participants self‐reported meeting at least one or more behavior recommendations 3 days/week including: servings of fruits and vegetables, consuming at least half dietary grains as whole grains; having ≥ 30 minutes of physical activity at moderate/vigorous intensity, or getting adequate sleep. A mean score (0 = very low; 5 = very high) for participant‐perceived ability to achieve/maintain a healthy diet was 3.6; physical activity was 3.7; and to manage stress was 3.5. Post data surveys will be collected in Dec 2012 for pre‐post comparisons, which will include participant self‐analysis of their own healthy diet and activity goal achievement. This research is supported by PacificSource Healthcare.

Connecticut’s Lead By Example Green Campus Initiative

Connecticut’s Lead By Example Green Campus Initiative

Table of Contents

Abstract Cover Story Review major campus initiatives to verify they achieve common goals Take time to see the big picture then break it down to manage multiple initiatives Create a chart to visualize connections among initiatives News Briefing/Resources Emails searched in cheating scandal Audit reveals illegal course fee collection ACE launches association for CAOs Report reveals administrator salaries Database tracks loans for sustainability Professional Development Manage expectations gap between trustees, faculty when you seek a presidential position Showcase your skills to land a presidency Executive Management Give your career a boost with conference plans What Would You Do? How would you address a controversy over guns on campus? Of Counsel Consider creating a bystander intervention program to protect students, your institution Lawsuits & Rulings FACULTY University employee wins 1st round in disability discrimination case DISCRIMINATION Dismissed student wins chance at jury trial ACADEMIC AFFAIRS Appellate court OKs discipline of student who plagiarized DISMISSAL University reconsiders decision to dismiss doctoral student Disability court cases & rulings Focus on Leadership DANIEL L. KAIN, VICE PROVOST FOR ACADEMIC PERSONNEL, NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY Train faculty to promote leadership, good teaching Encourage participation to achieve better results

The Direction to the Entrepreneurship Education Center : Insight from the Kauffman Campus Initiative

The Direction to the Entrepreneurship Education Center : Insight from the Kauffman Campus Initiative

London’s Olympic waterscape: capturing transition

The waterways of London are an essential component of the city, with the River Thames playing a prominent role in the heritage, history and identity of place. The upcoming 2012 Olympics are highlighting the Lea Valley waterways in east London as another important part of London’s waterscape, expanding London’s global presence as a ‘water city’. As part of the Creative Campus Initiative, we undertook a project based on the broad themes of water, London and the Olympics that would give voice to the changes taking place. The result is London’s Olympic Waterscape, a 20-minute film comprising both ‘expert’ interview material discussing broad themes and developments and an embodied record of our engagement with the Olympic area during a brief period in the construction process. The present article is about the journey we took through and around the east London ‘Olympic’ waterways as we attempted to capture this transitional moment on video.

Commitment to the environment and student support for “green” campus initiatives

Past research has demonstrated that commitment to the environment strongly predicts global pro-environmental intentions. This research is the first to examine whether the commitment to the environment model predicts college students’ endorsement of institutional-level changes that may be proposed by university or college administration. Participants were 96 college men and 142 college women who completed questionnaires designed to assess commitment to the environment constructs, willingness to sacrifice for the environment, and support for a series of campus conservation initiatives. A path analysis revealed that the commitment model predicted college students’ endorsement of hypothetical “green” campus initiatives. Specifically, commitment to the environment mediated the paths from satisfaction and investments to hypothetical green campus initiatives. Results suggest that endorsement of green campus initiatives may be better received on campuses by students who recognize their interdependence with the environment, characterized by high commitment to the natural environment.