Browsing by Subject "undergraduate students"

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    Connect [Winter 2010]
    (University of Minnesota: College of Education and Human Development, 2010-03) University of Minnesota: College of Education and Human Development
    Come together: Collective leadership brings parents to the principal’s office. Steering higher education: Alumni Ngoh-Tiong Tan, Mary Brabeck, David Pearson, Kate Steffens, Rich Wagner, and Thomas Jandris take the helm of top universities. The long view: New Dean Jean Quam plans for the college through 2020 and beyond. Making leaders: Innovative programs help undergraduates forge their own paths. A winding path: Doctoral student Kristi Kremers represents all graduate students. Empowering teachers: Through mentoring and coaching, classroom educators shape schools.
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    A Process Approach to Defining Services for Undergraduates
    (portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010-01) Prescott, Melissa Kalpin; Veldof, Jerilyn R.
    Today's undergraduates approach research with needs and expectations that challenge traditional library services. The foundation for leading an effective response is the ability to assess undergraduate needs and translate these needs into tangible strategic initiatives that contribute to student academic success. This paper describes the systematic process used at the University of Minnesota Libraries that resulted in large-scale undergraduate initiatives. The multiple step process included assessing, analyzing, scoping themes and problems, brainstorming, establishing evaluation criteria, gathering feedback, ranking and prioritizing key initiatives, and obtaining funding. Issues that arose during this process are also discussed.
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    Reaching out, connecting within: Community service participation and sense of belonging among college students
    (Higher Education in Review, 2003-06-03) Soria, Krista; Troisi, Jordan; Stebleton, Michael
    This study examined the relationship between students’ participation in community service and their sense of belonging on campus. Furthermore, the study explored whether the ways in which students become involved in community service yield different associations with their sense of belonging. Using the Student Experience in the Research University survey administered to students at 12 large, public research universities in 2010, it was discovered that general participation in service and becoming involved in service through student organizations, fraternities or sororities, and university departments are positively associated with students’ sense of belonging; finding service opportunities on one’s own is negatively associated with sense of belonging.
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    What Do Students Think and Feel about Research?
    (2023-01) Conerton, Kate; David, Mags; Jones, Kayleen
    How do students understand and feel about the research process? This article uses student writing and drawings to uncover where undergraduate students struggle while completing research assignments for upper-division writing courses. Student-created process maps and responses to reflection questions showed frustration while developing topics, uncertainty while choosing sources, and difficulty finding time to go through a complete process in a single semester. The structure and pacing of research assignments contributed to students’ frustration with and misunderstanding of the research process. These findings point to opportunities for improving student learning through new ways of understanding and structuring student assignments.