State Campus Research Articles

Full‐text articles: faculty perceptions, student use, and citation abuse

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to seek to explore faculty perceptions versus actual student usage of print and online, full‐text articles.Design/methodology/approachSurveys were given to faculty and their students at four Penn State campuses. Both the six‐question instructor survey and the 11‐question student survey related to article retrieval for one particular class assignment.FindingsData gathered from the surveys surprisingly indicated that faculty are overestimating student use of online articles and underestimating their use of print. This study also showed that a majority of students will reject an article that is not available online in full‐text.Research limitations/implicationsIn this study there was a discrepancy between students stating that they knew to cite online sources differently from print sources, and faculty stating that they could tell the percentage of online articles used from their students' bibliographies. In future studies, more of an emphasis would be placed on measuring faculty knowledge of citing online resources.Practical implicationsThis paper could be used to support the continued purchase of print resources. It could also be used to support the need for faculty to keep current on citing new technological formats and instructing their students on the same.Originality/valueThis study was conceived in an attempt to statistically verify not only faculty perceptions of full‐text use, but also librarians' perceptions of faculty and student article practices. While a literature search produced several studies on faculty perceptions of internet usage, few were found that touched specifically on full‐text articles.

‘Stuff from which legends are made’: Jack Trice Stadium and the politics of memory

This paper considers the politics involved in naming Iowa State University's football stadium after Jack Trice, the school's first African American athlete and its only athlete to die from injuries sustained in competition. This decision took place in the mid- to late-1990s, at nearly the same time administrators dedicated another site of memory on Iowa State's campus – Carrie Chapman Catt Hall. Catt, an esteemed alumna of the school, was an important lobbyist for women's rights in the early twentieth century who made several racist, classist and xenophobic remarks in her campaigns. By locating these two memorial efforts within the larger context of racialized relations in the US, this essay argues that the university memorialized Jack Trice in order to assert itself as a racially inclusive space during a moment that threatened to brand the institution deficient when it came to minority students and affairs.

MASS program at penn state

The MASS program--Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters--at Penn State's Mathematics department was founded in 1996. MASS is a unique, innovative, intensive program for select groups of undergraduates recruited every year from around the United States and brought to Penn State's campus for the fall semester. This program provides a unique and mutually reinforcing blend of learning and research activities for its participants.

Whither Academic Freedom?

Academic freedom has become the enemy of the individual professors working in colleges and universities across the United States. Despite its historical (and maybe even essential) roots in the First Amendment, contemporary case law has consistently shown that professors, unlike most members of society, have no rights to free speech on their respective campuses. (Ironically, this is especially true on our State campuses.) Outlined is the dramatic change in the history of the courts from recognizing academic freedom as a construct needed to protect professors from the status quo, to the abuse of academic freedom appropriated to protect the institution from undesirable professorial actions such as politically incorrect speech or research. Klein warns all those in the academy to become familiar with this pernicious 180-degree turn in the use of the academic freedom construct.

Editor's Perspective

Remediation JournalVolume 11, Issue 1 p. 1-3 Aticle Editor's Perspective Ronald J. Scrudato, Ronald J. Scrudato RonaldJ Scrudato has been involved with environmental research since 1969, shortly afler he received his Ph.D. in geoloa. He bas worked on inactive hazardous waste site remediation, and solid waste and leachate management, and bas served as a technical advisor for three Technical Assis- tance Grants. He is currently working in Alaska on the impacts of military site contamination on the environments of St. Lawrence Island He is coinventor of a patented remedial process to degrade gasoline and MTBE in groundwater and with a grant from the New York State Protection Fund is currently working on a project to design and operate CDFs as treatment facilities. For the past 23 years, he bas served as director of the Environmental Research Center at the Oswego State campus of the State University of New York.Search for more papers by this author Ronald J. Scrudato, Ronald J. Scrudato RonaldJ Scrudato has been involved with environmental research since 1969, shortly afler he received his Ph.D. in geoloa. He bas worked on inactive hazardous waste site remediation, and solid waste and leachate management, and bas served as a technical advisor for three Technical Assis- tance Grants. He is currently working in Alaska on the impacts of military site contamination on the environments of St. Lawrence Island He is coinventor of a patented remedial process to degrade gasoline and MTBE in groundwater and with a grant from the New York State Protection Fund is currently working on a project to design and operate CDFs as treatment facilities. For the past 23 years, he bas served as director of the Environmental Research Center at the Oswego State campus of the State University of New York.Search for more papers by this author First published: 11 January 2007 https://doi.org/10.1002/rem.3440110102 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume11, Issue12000Pages 1-3 RelatedInformation

Enhancing NTIS Database Access at a Multi-Campus University

The Pennsylvania State University Libraries and the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) are collaborating on a project to stimulate technical report use at an academic institution. The Libraries have brought on-line the entire NTISbibliographic database on the University-wide LIAS information system and it is available for searching at all 21 Penn State campuses. This paper reviews the project and the level of database and technical report use that occurred during the initial phase of implementation.

State Regulation and Administrative Flexibility at Public Universities.

Have regulatory practices changed in the past decade and does flexibility make a difference in campus effectiveness? This study first measures the academic, personnel, and financial dimensions of state regulation, as well as the changes that have occurred since 1983. Second, this study examines the relationship between state regulation and various state characteristics, and tests the hypothesis that state characteristics have an effect on the level of flexibility granted to university campuses. Third, the research analyzes the relationship between state regulation and campus characteristics, and examines whether the level of campus flexibility is associated with measures of university quality.

Consensus and Contradiction in Textbook Treatments of the Sixties

Working as a free-lance development editor on (nonhistory) textbooks over past five years, I've learned something of how college texts are written, edited, and marketed. (A development editor plays no role in commissioning or shaping general direction of a text but acts as an internal coordinator of reviewing and rewriting process.) Most obviously, they are produced in a completely different fashion than scholarly monographs. Authorship does remain an important factor, however, both because reputation of major scholars helps sell textbooks and because college-division editors have no illusions that these books can be written by computers. But all textbooks are consciously assembled, vetted, and packaged to a considerable extent by people other than titular authors -no surprise to hundreds of professors in every discipline who are routinely invited to review manuscripts for a modest fee. It is this reviewing process, largely an unscientific form of market testing, that indicates central impulse of textbook publishing: valid comparison for any text is immediate competition. There is nothing submerged about these concerns. The most important question in standard questionnaires sent to reviewers is final one, Will you consider adoption of over your present text? To secure a sufficient number of Yes responses to this question, editors who commission textbooks seek to balance originality and familiarity. Does a given manuscript cover same material as its rivals, as well as they do or even better? Does it establish itself as innovative through a new approach that market may or may not warrantin other words, is it a mainstream or a niche book, or can it be both? Most important, does it suit a typical teacher at one standard level of college teaching (elite liberal arts college or major public university, small state campus or religious school, or community college)? I refer to conditions under which textbooks are written because they help explain most obvious fact about them: they tend to be remarkably similar in what is and what is not included; how an incident, person, or occasion is described; and in sequence used to establish relationships among events. In case of what we call the sixties, a category with a personal resonance for most authors, as well as for current political discourse, this conventionality takes on a distinctive

Effect of a year-long primary care clerkship on graduatesʼ selection of family practice residencies

This report compares the selection of family practice residencies from 1981 through 1989 by graduates trained at two campuses of the State University of New York (SUNY)-Health Science Center at Syracuse College of Medicine, at other New York State campuses, and at all U.S. medical schools. One of the SUNY-Syracuse cohorts comprised the students who had completed all their work at the Syracuse campus, while the other comprised those who had spent their third year at the campus in Binghamton, which has a year-long, half-day-a-week primary care clerkship that is not available at the Syracuse campus, which has no primary care clerkship. Comparison of the proportions of the graduates in the two SUNY-Syracuse cohorts who chose family practice residencies, and comparisons of the proportions of graduates from other New York state schools and from all U.S. schools who selected family practice residencies during the same nine-year period, indicate that the proportion of students trained during their third year at the Binghamton campus who selected family practice residencies was significantly greater (21%; p less than .001). Additional investigation is required to determine whether the year-long nature of the required clerkship affects graduates' choices more than does the primary care content of the clerkship.

One state's response to the growing need for campus child care: A New York partnership involving state government, New York City, colleges, universities, and unions

The Governor of New York, the State Legislature, New York City, the unions, the State University of New York (SUNY) and the City University of New York (CUNY) have combined resources to support campus child care as important to the mission of the New York public higher education systems. The State Legislature has appropriated $21,500,094 since 1979 for child care for state employees, of which over $2 million has been allocated to state campuses, and $23,529,200 since 1984 for child care for students at New York public colleges and universities. All of the need is not being met, nor is funding enough to provide stability and security to all campus child care operations. However, even in a difficult budget year, state allocations for campus child care were increased slightly and support is expected to grow.

The Evolution of the Serials Unit at California State University, Fullerton

The Serials Section at the California State University, Fullerton Library is an integral Part of the Department of Technical Services. The current structure of serial operitions is a result of the automation of serial operations and the reorganization of library functions and personnel. To a large extent rising journal prices, state budget decisions and campus personnel policies spurred efforts to reorganize and automate operations. This article discusses the development of the current structure of serial operations at the California State University, Fullerton Library and factors which may contribute to its continuing evolution.

Evaluation of Adirondack Park Highway Signs. Gary F. Gurney, Earl D. McNaught and James E. Bryden. Engineering Research and Development Bureau, New York State Department of Transportation, State Campus, Albany, New York 12232. December 1977. 40p

Evaluation of Adirondack Park Highway Signs. Gary F. Gurney, Earl D. McNaught and James E. Bryden. Engineering Research and Development Bureau, New York State Department of Transportation, State Campus, Albany, New York 12232. December 1977. 40p

The Wisconsin State Insurance Fund and Campus Unrest

The Wisconsin State Insurance Fund and Campus Unrest

Judicial Overkill: The Campus and the Courts

Resort to judicial authority, however, may not in the long run serve the best interests of the university. While the appropriate use of the courts and the application of the laws of the land remain at the heart of the democratic process, sufficient evidence is at hand to suggest that use of an outside arbitrator has already endangered traditional academic autonomy. More important, many administrators believe that legal action will accomplish what they themselves are unable to do, ie.t keep the peace on campus, not realizing the price they have begun to pay for turning to the courts. For the growing number of lawsuits involving colleges and universities has given to the courts a new role of academic decision-making. Consider the ironic pairing of two court cases during the week of the Cambodian invasion. On the afternoon of May 4, the Court of Common Pleas granted the Prosecuting Attorney of Portage County, Ohio, an order indefinitely closing the Kent State campus in the wake of the killing of four students by National Guardsmen. Three days later, a group of students obtained an injunction forcing the University of Miami (Florida) to reopen doors that had been closed in the aftermath of the Kent State deaths. Both orders were granted immediately, without time for careful judicial inquiry. Thus, Kent State remained closed under court mandate while Miami remained open under a similar decree. One would have to know much more about the precise facts and the legal allegations to judge whether either the Ohio or the Florida court erred in issuing its order. But undoubtedly the Kent State authorities would have closed the campus themselves without a

An Improved Gray Squirrel Nest Box for Ecological and Management Studies

improved nest box was developed for use in population and ecological studies of the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). The box is detachable, can be brought to the ground for examination, and has other advantages: it is easy to check, simple to repair, significantly reduces the time required to capture a squirrel, and makes night examinations practical. Only 84.1 percent of the weaned squirrels in the old-style boxes were captured; whereas, 95.6 percent were recovered from boxes of the new design. The hardware cloth bottom permits the insertion of a stick to dislodge the occupants, allows disintegrating nest material to sift out, and facilitates the drying of wet nesting material. Although the box was designed to permit the greatest facility for the capture and examination of squirrels, it appears to be adaptable for management on a large scale since it is inexpensive to construct and easy to maintain. The value of employing nest boxes as an investigational tool in squirrel studies has been recognized for many years, but few systematic attempts to improve the effectiveness of the box itself appear to have been made. The box should attract maximum squirrel use, require little maintenance, exclude predators, facilitate rapid examination, permit capture of all occupants quickly and without injury, be inexpensive and of simple design. The box shown in Fig. 1 has proved quite satisfactory in meeting most of the criteria, and 410 of these boxes are being used in our current studies of the gray squirrel. The present design resulted from the experience gained during three previous studies (Allison 1953, and Harris 1958, unpublished report of C. I. Bunn, 1942, Research in farm game management-gray squirrel phase, for North Carolina Dept. Conserv. and Development, Div. Game and Inland Fisheries) in which 499 boxes were used. Bunn tested 50 boxes of several types. Allison, drawing upon Bunn's experience and that of Brown and Yeager (1945) and Hesselschwerdt (1942), erected 18 boxes of varying sizes and designs on a study area near the North Carolina State campus. The condition of Allison's boxes and their use by gray squirrels were recorded over a 6-year period (November, 1949-November, 1955). During the spring of 1956, Harris, using Allison's most successful design, constructed 400 untreated pine boxes and placed them on two plots of approximately 200 acres each within the William B. Umstead and Reedy Creek State Parks near Raleigh. The boxes were checked quarterly and maintained until May, 1960, when all were taken down except those containing gray squirrel litters. The boxes remaining were removed by September, 1960. Twenty-five boxes which had rotted or been destroyed by wind, falling limbs, or lightning had to be replaced before the end of the 4-year period. Of the remaining 375 boxes, less than 10 percent would have provided shelter for squirrels through another year. As a result of these experiments with different kinds of boxes, it was discovered that a box which was securely fastened to a tree was time-consuming to check and 1 Sponsored by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, P.-R. Project W-44-R, An evaluation of squirrel nest boxes on selected experimental areas, and the National Science Foundation, Grant G-20739, Population phenomena of Sciurus c. carolinensis.

Great lakes district meeting at kellogg center on michigan state campus

Great lakes district meeting at kellogg center on michigan state campus

Research Facilities

Completion of the new Research Building of the Ames Laboratory, operated by Iowa State College through its Institute for Atomic Research, was announced in September by the Atomic Energy Commission. A general research laboratory located on the Iowa State campus on land leased by the government, the building has been under construction for more than three years and has cost approximately two million dollars. The building is a reinforced concrete frame structure with a floor area of 100,000 square feet and has been designed, according to F. H. Spedding, director of the Ames Laboratory, in accordance with the latest approved practices in the construction of research and development laboratories.